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Harsh but fair.

Reminds me of this gem.

Superficially related, but AMG just announced this mini for Marvel Crisis Protocol, which I will obviously be buying.

The political equivalent of threatening me with a good time.

Didn't know where to put this, but if you want your blood pressure to increase this morning...

Drop the strain.

This movie made no sense and the fights were just okay. I think they hit the right notes with the game references, and with just a little spit and polish it could have been really cool. It was okay.

Everyone that I know that's gone to Galaxy's Edge has talked about how it's not really "for kids" insomuch as it is for people that grew up with Star Wars. I haven't been to Disneyworld the 90's but even then it was clear how much effort they spent on attracting adults and not just kids. Also I dunno that "Disney fan" as an adult identity is weirder than something like... "baseball fan." Motherfuckers spend money, time, energy, and emotional investment managing their fantasy teams. Some people like Splash Mountain. Who cares?

I have some mixed feelings about how they tried to stick the landing, and what they ended up trying to say. The MCU has always had an obvious (or maybe less so, depending on your POV) issue with the projection of predominantly American military power. It's not problematic for Cap to fight Hydra in WWII, they're literal Nazis and they're at literal war. Aside from that, they kinda tried to address this issue with the Sokovia Accords in Civil War, which spilled into Falcon and the Winter Soldier. But that's always been a hard sell for movie watchers; we know these people are always going to do the "right thing" regardless of what side they land on. Hell, Tony is recruiting a teenage boy to fight in Germany, which is surely violating the accords he's fighting his friends to support. So in this show we have the Flag Smashers trying to resist the relocation of the blip diaspora. They drum up support for their cause using social media. They decide to fight back by disrupting a vote. This is all very contemporaneous and potentially interesting. But I dunno man. I get that Sam sympathizes with Karli given his background established in Cap 2 and the early parts of this show. But her group is killing people indiscriminately. They're kidnapping elected officials. And his take is, "imagine how the people you relocate are feeling." Yeah, sure, I get it, but you just had to rescue all of these people from abduction and death, insisting that they not be called terrorists is wild. Especially because for most of the show, he and Bucky have no problem being American military agents abroad, they prioritize the mission SO MUCH that they free Zemo which for Bucky is a huge betrayal of the people that helped him heal. It's weird. I think the vision the show has for a black Captain America and what that means for Sam / other people is very clear. How it wants us to understand Bucky is very clear. Everything else... American power, terrorism, refugees, global politics... this show is a fucking mess. I get that the MCU is like that writ large, but it's rarely been on display to the extent that it is in the last 20 minutes of the finale. Based on the teases we've seen in some of the movies, I think it's safe to say that the next Avengers movie will be Avengers... in... Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace, so some of this will be less relevant. But this show really wants to have its cake and eat it, too, when it comes to how superheroes and America use power.

Yeah, I will say that Mackie and Stan have more to work with than they have in any of the movies and they do good work here.

If you don’t find the leads or their characters interesting, I imagine the series would be a hard sell. It’s a lot of time with them and a somewhat non-compelling villain group.

Lots of questions about the alternate reality Cap went to. I wonder if we’ll get any answers with Phase 4 potentially dabbling in the multiverse / quantum realms.

It’s not clear to me what “physical related” means, or if they assume that any officer who died of COVID got it in the line of duty.

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I have no outrage about Yang, and I think Brianna’s points are valid. That said, he sucks and he obviously cares about NYC mayorship as a stepping stone. So, and @SaysWho?, please note the date and time of this statement, but NYC deserves better.

The less Punisher we get in a h medium, the better.

It’s definitely not for kids, unless you let your kids watch really gory stuff with very bad language. It’s not bombarding you with that constantly, but when it’s gory, it’s very much so, etc.

Second, for sure.

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That one character that got burned to death in Luke Cage was super hard to watch.

Yeah this is true. Capcom has pulled some games from the App Store after some iOS 14 compatibility issues. But there are still some there, and they’re all similar enough that if you really hate one, it’s not likely any will be your cup of tea.

There’s no doubt that if we change the ROE for police officers, or didn’t arm all of them with guns all the time, there would absolutely be situations in which people would be hurt or killed when they wouldn’t have been had the officer had a gun. Pointing those out doesn’t change the fact that police SHOULD have ROE changed and we SHOULD consider that maybe fewer people would die if the police weren’t all equipped with firearms.

I have absolutely no problem becoming a fair weather Jets fan after rooting for them my whole life and watching them snatch defeat from the jaws of victory as many times as I have. The best way to watch the Jets is to not watch them.