I’d never heard/read that! I like it.

Well, he’s commandeering Hodor to creep on her at the end, so I think it’s a little less subtle than all that.

Big time!

It’s more the former. I was pretty okay with his Thing. I don’t feel like the childhood stuff is played grimdark so much as it’s just attempting to explain why he would be into any of Reed’s shit (since he’s not a super genius wunderkind).

I saw it for free, went in pretty skeptical and prepared for the worst, and was moderately pleasantly surprised. They definitely stick in lots of nerdy little winks to the comics, and I felt like they made an attempt to have more characterization than the terrible previous version...but the big climax and wrap up felt…

That’s why their face is so grim when they do.

No, it’s because I didn’t have any coffee and was extremely cranky and also because I think we forget now how much we used to have to remember before computers and smart phones so none of the references seemed like any kind of stretch. I used to know dozens of phone numbers, now it’s a handful because I have all my…

Cool, dude. I think your deep fixation and insistence on this is kind of all the evidence I need that you maybe don’t know as much about kids as you think you do. That’s not an insult or an accusation that you’re lying, I just think your narrow viewpoint is pretty obviously close-minded. But just as a thought for the…

No, no, MY point is that as a 9 year old, those would have been references I would make and understand. I get that you don’t think you would have, and that your kid doesn’t/wouldn’t, but I definitely would.

Jesus, yes, I was aware and could have made jokes about all of the pop culture that he did, speaking as a Quill-aged human. Some people are into pop culture! Some are not!

I’m thinking there might be several changes - the holdovers from the demo that got leaked to drum up fan support might be tweaked or re-done, and I’m thinking that there might be some adlibbing changes, too. I mean, it would be very Deadpool, but I’m not sure if they’ll keep a Green Lantern shout out for their actual,…

Yes but you understand that they wrote, shot, and edited a scene explicitly correcting the character who calls them male, who is also a villain. I don’t care what they’re named, the movie goes out of its way to reinforce the standard canon of “all park dinosaurs are female.”

If the newest movie didn’t care, they probably wouldn’t have the villain refer to a raptor as male and be immediately corrected. They wouldn’t have made a point of having all of the star dinosaurs be referred to using female pronouns.

Hm. I definitely see what you’re saying, and maybe I’m just less informed. That being said, I think there’s some wiggle room (at least as long as one doesn’t know enough about artificial neural networks) so this might be more of a glass-half-full-or-empty question. At the end of the day, frantic mis-guided pattern…

Well, it is a kind of inception, since they kick it off with a subject. Photo of clouds, subject of animals, now the software is looking for and seeing animals.

You’re right about more nets, but you keep doubling down on the idea that if people just pay attention, they won’t get hit by insanely fast projectiles. It’s a fluke if anyone’s reaction time actually gets them out of the way - I’m annoyed when people just wander around a game being assholes or looking at their…

Good call - a Perfectly Punchable fall guy for everyone who doesn’t like keeping track of time paradoxes, re-sets, and deviations ;)

Yes! I keep waiting for some truly ridiculous time travel in the MCU, and what better pretext than the Time Stone!

Kang as Iron Lad: yes, please, times a million. What are universe smashing reboots for if not to bring more of that gloriousness?

I think perhaps you did not recognize them, as they are often placed unobtrusively in a basket below other merchandise, usually near the counter, and look like individually bagged plain rolls.