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The important thing is that these brave boys in blue got home safely at the end of the day. EDIT - also I hope that whatever sound was cut is the only thing these fucking officers hear playing in their heads in any otherwise peaceful moment for the rest of their lives. And I hope every 2A supporting, "need my guns to protect myself and my home" ball fondler never knows a good night's sleep until they get rid of their shit.

"You need to be smart to do a coup, I know because I have done one," is like telling on yourself, while scoring an own goal, having kicked the ball with a foot that you just shot a gaping wound into.

I suppose it was more grounded when the creature from an alternate dimension was immune to conventional weapons like Lucas’s slingshot and it needed to be killed by the psychic child of an MKUltra patient using her superpowers.

Season 1 was grounded only if we’re grading on the curviest of curves.

Right on. It’s not a complaint; the AI and hosts on this show have always boiled down to magic. Just poking it with a stick and making sure I’m not missing anything .

So you're saying we're part of the powerhouse of the cell of the universe

@Greatoneshere Right, but Rehoboam existed in the real world and was drawing its data from it. To @legend's point I don't think that's especially "real" but whatever. I don't get how host AI's in the Sublime are accounting for events that happen outside of itself. At the time the hosts went into it at the end of Season 2, presumably the hosts that Bernard killed in this episode didn't even exist. How does the Sublime know about them? How is it accounting for stuff that's happening outside of it? Is it supposedly brute forcing... everything?

I don’t think it’s possible to have a show about kids going through puberty / high school that takes place over literal years and have the tone stay the same. I don’t even know that it’s something that should be strived for or attempted, honestly.

The extra time with him and threading the needle with the timing of his passing like this are both gifts.

I dunno how much sense it makes that Bernard can spend a simulated 7000 years or whatever in robot heaven and come back able to predict IRL events that it seems he couldn't possibly have known about / the Sublime couldn't have accounted for? Did I miss something?

Even if she doesn't stay blind and ends up "fine," what happened to Max is fucking horrifying. The main characters having plot armor is fine, the threats to them are still very real even if they don't die.

Invincible is really good. Super curious to see where they end up going with it; as I said in the thread we had on it, a lot of stuff in the show hits way harder than it did in print. I dunno that a straight adaptation would work. As far as The Boys goes... I just don't know how they keep it going for more than a season at this point. I guess they could permanently power up the team but it really feels like a decent amount of the team wouldn't be up for it. And I'm really interested to see if they give Homelander a reason to not just find and murder The Boys? I guess Neuman could find it useful to have them around? Between that Starlight scene and her tossing her costume, I think they intended her to level up permanently, or at least give her a way to do that. The team needs SOMETHING to stop Homelander from just yeeting the team into the ocean or deep space

Someone explain to me why on earth cops need flashbangs.

Really sorry to hear that, Wade. I know you got some "bonus" time with him and that you made the most of it.

The stuff they did in the prison directly affected the Upside Down and Vecna in this season. If they didn't kill the demogorgons and deal with the particles, Vecna wouldn't have been weakened enough for Eleven to do what she did.

I don't know that the endgame was ever that COVID becomes endemic with 6X the mean national daily death rate compared to the flu?

Counterpoint… the heritage foundation has a website

The Deep is a note note punching bag; he fucks fish. It wasn't super funny to begin with and it's been been beaten into the ground over three seasons. Him murdering the VP is silly because Homelander could do have done that himself without The Deep having to take Amtrak from NYC to DC.

Nothing about The Deep has ever been interesting, his usefulness to the narrative peaked in the pilot. Homelander had him drown the VP in a swimming pool like Deep can teleport from body of water to body of water or something, it makes absolutely no sense.

Thought it was super fun, but I'm a Taika mark so adjust your expectations accordingly. While I don't blame Portman for wanting to hop back on the train after Ragnarok, an awful lot of this movie is predicated on buying into a relationship we haven't seen on screen since Thor: The Dark World and I don't feel like they had great chemistry since the original Thor and that came out 11 years ago. I also wonder if there's a bunch of Tessa Thompson stuff on the cutting room floor, as she feels somewhat underutilized here. But what we do get is fun. Bale is predictably great, Hemsworth really has the lovable, caring goofball side of Thor dialed in very well, and to the extent that they let Portman flex her chops, she does well also. There's a bunch of stuff that looks visually interesting, so between this and Strange 2, hopefully the movies can breathe a bit more in terms of look and color palette.

Yeah I'm not the most excited about where that thread is likely going to end up.