Verizon always knew that ESPN would sue, and they’ve always known that ESPN will win. This is not about changing the status quo, it’s about selling customers on the idea that Verizon wants to provide customers the service they want, and it’s not their fault that they can’t.

The Knork. It’s just too goddamned dangerous.

The movie Primer has this nice premise: the time machine has to be switched on from the time you want to travel back to. That makes it impossible to travel back to a time before the machine was invented. Not saying time travel is possible, just suggesting one explanation why we may not have seen time travelers.

The flying car is the most wanted, most never gonna happen idea. Technically possible? Sure. But extremely unsafe and impractical. Most people don't know how to use a turn signal or how to treat a stop sign. The insurance rates alone would keep them out of our hands.

The “spreading out” idea makes a couple of assumptions, not least of which is that interstellar travel is possible. The scale of it is prohibitive at this point, due to the lack of FTL or some other kind of “warp” travel. And while generation ships are a solution, they also might not be viable due to the massive…

Those tiny disks that were meant to replace CD’s. Not gonna happen because we barely even use CD’s now and what we do use is almost entirely digital.

Lightsabers as an offensive weapon.

Here's how I want an all new spider-man to open:
You see a city skyline from the top of a building.

I haven't watched the new Daredevil series yet (stupid limited satellite internet) so I don't know exactly how the character is, but I would love to see a team up between Spider-Man and Daredevil at some point. Especially if something like this would happen during it.

There is a young kid [already] running around New York City in a homemade version of the Spider-Man costume

In this timeline, Ultron killed Uncle Ben.

It kind of looks like Spider-Man is being sent to his room by Tony Stark here...

I guess it depends on the focus. In something like Civil War, having a 15-year-old Spidey works well, but on a Spider-Man-focused film, even without his origin, I fear we'll see more high school stuff than I really care about anymore.

One of the problems I have with a very young Peter Parker is that it's the kind of thing that seems like it would be better explored in the context serial programming. I mean, there's obviously no financial argument in favor of Marvel and Sony coming together on a Daredevil-style Netflix series. But creatively, if…

If they ever do Miles, they should wait until Parker has a few adventures under his belt, and has aged more. Part of what makes Miles Morales work is that he has a previous example to live up to.

More or less the same amount of time as in real life. DD mentions the Chitauri invasion having happened about 2 years ago, so it's a little off from us, but not by a whole lot.

An early 20'ish Spiderman makes more sense. How does he afford all that web fluid? I doubt an allowance will cover it. How does a teenager explain where he goes late at night as he is fighting crime?

Makes sense.