The trench wasn’t lit from the start because 1) it had a finite amount of fuel, and 2) if they’d lit it from the start, they assumed the wights would just wait for it to go out (having not foreseen the Night King’s whole army ant-like “smother it with the bodies of my minions” strategy).

Indeed, Ealy’s character would seem to fit the adjective better than Quaid’s. Or perhaps “Buppie”, which I think was the “melanated” version of the term tossed around briefly in the early ‘90s.

It was obviously a ripoff of LOTR, but also of Lucas’ own stuff (most obviously the Vader-like General Kael). It was reasonably well-directed, though. Davis, Kilmer, and Whalley were fairly engaging, and Marsh chewed the scenery appropriately. I remember it evoking more of a shrug from me than real negativity.

The Poseidon Adventure flips its ship pretty early, and most of the character development happens as they try to escape, but you’re generally right.

Yeah, I recall that not happening until at least half-way through. Though, like this film, there were a couple pre-quakes to break things up (so to speak) and then a pretty major aftershock for the climax.

I have to think business would be booming for evangelical Christian cults during that 5 year stretch, even if there were some sort of official announcements about what happened. Just how they’d process the “restoration” would be interesting to see...

Are these dishwasher-safe?

Though I’d imagine a house like that in San Francisco costs something like 3x as much as the Barton farm.

Also misdirection (the first lesson at Online Close-Up Magic University). Between the spectacle of Theon’s blaze-of-glory charge at the Night King, and the wights then all being focused on the impending murder of Bran, surely Arya could have rolled up a catapult without being noticed.

Indeed. And we’ve already seen similar “what do we do with this guy?” writers’ conundrums in the MCU with regard to Thor and the Hulk. The solution seems to have been to wrap Thor up in his personal issues (culminating in “Thor Lebowski”) when not operating solo at his own level, and to do the same thing more…

I’m afraid that Captain Marvel’s powers, as established at the end of her movie, effectively make her deus ex machina from here on — they’re going to have to contrive reasons to keep her out of anything but climactic battles, or otherwise temporarily disable her, because in out-classing Iron Man and Thor, she’d…

Well, I guess he might have been fixated on the sufficiency of mineral/non-living resources in particular, but ultimately he’s a fanatic villain — he’s not obliged to be, you know, sane.

The real question to my mind is why it was worth substituting in the first place. Is it at least vaguely sweet to the taste? Does it melt/”caramelize” like sugar would? If neither, why would you need to substitute it for sugar, as opposed to simply using less sugar?

Back in the early ‘80s, due to some sort of BBC strike, several episodes of the Doctor Who serial “Resurrection of the Daleks” were completed without post-production music, sound effects, or special effects. Anything is probably a little jarring to watch without sound, but it’s particularly creepy to see a Dalek roll…

Well, that’s what I was getting at - If Groot was effected in spite of not being an animal, one might assume that it was his sentience that got him dusted. Except that the presumably non-sentient animals/birds were also effected. Therefore I would conclude that all life, including non-sentient plants, was effected.

I’m pretty sure it was at least half of all animal life, because Scott concluded that Hulk’s snap had worked while looking at the bird feeders, and I gather noticed that they were busier than they’d been a few minutes before.

He was also only saying it to himself...

I imagine just a mumbled exchange of “Howsitgoin”s.

My suspicion is that truly huge chunks of solid nickle-iron are exceptionally rare — that most of what we find on Earth (like the Hoba) were originally the “chocolate chips” or “chewy centers” in still larger rubble-pile “cookies”. If that’s true, it’d be good news from a self-defense standpoint, because it would mean…

Comparable or not, it would take a whole lot of crazy to somehow make anyone worse than Cersei.