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A really good, short speech.

Oh, great. 🙄 Now, in addition to being ignorant and belligerent, they are going to be horny as well.

Well, obviously, they totally could have if they were geniuses like Trump. They just weren't smart enough. /s

I see what you did there.

The fact that this might be a viable path to the White House is quite disturbing enough. Thank you.

No cause of death has been given yet, and he had multiple health problems. So, his anti-vaxxer status may not have anything to do with his demise.

Well, yes, they nerfed Mongal considerably from the comic version of her. However, since the DCU is explicitly a different universe than Prime Earth, I don't see that as cheating. The same goes for Javelin thought I am not sure that Green Arrow would have made it through that if you stripped away his plot armor. Actually, there is a thriving market in burner phones in American prisons. They are small, easy to smuggle and there is always some guard who is willing to accept bribes. Heck, at a place like Belle Reve, probably most of the guards would be open to accepting bribes. Though in this case that doesn't really matter, since Amanda Waller obviously wanted to create a distraction for team #2 and to do some house cleaning while she was at it by getting rid of all the members of the team who disobeyed her in the last movie. So, even if Belle Reve was normally good about keeping its prisoners from have cell phones, an exception would have been made in this case.

Javelin seemed to think that the spear was a big deal, and just because we never really got to see him us it does not mean that he was wrong.

The Russo brothers announced that they had acquired the rights to do a Grimjack movie back in 2019, and in 2020 reasserted their intention to make one (link). However, they haven't mentioned it since then. Ever since I first heard about the announcement, I have been assuming that the plan was to get Keanu Reeves to play Grimjack, because, well, d'uh. So, I am wondering if they were unable to get him or maybe he said yes but they have to wait until he finishes other projects. That is of course just complete speculation on my part.

Well, that does explain all the those kids.

My apologies and condolences.

Yes, but you are from Ohio.

Actual good news! South Africa says that it has passed its fourth wave of cases, and counts few added deaths.

I enjoyed NWH and thought it was well done, but I can't say that I enjoyed it any more than Black Widow, Shang-Chi or Eternals. Marvel has been very consistent in it's quality as of late.

I think that is the NSA, but since the CIA has better name recognition you might want to use them instead.

A number of years back, I asked some of my coworkers to name as many Supreme Court justices as they could. Most of them could not name even one.

TMI, Old Man.

Yes, and tools are a subset of objects, and objects are a subset of stuff. Put it that way, people should be free to carry guns, knives and explosives into schools, places of worship and courthouses. After all, people routinely carry stuff into all those places. 😏 This logical fallacy is called the Fallacy of Division. It can be easily avoided by calling things what they are and not that of which they are a subset. So call them firearms, or if you want to include knives and bombs in the discussion use the term weapons. However, unless this is a discussion about anthropology there aren't going to be many situations that it broadening things to the point of calling firearms tools adds anything good to the discussion.

Well, taking a glass half full view of it, a guy who lives down the street from me had a "F*** Joe Biden!" flag and has changed it for a "Let's Go, Brandon!" flag, and I consider it a definite improvement. This is particularly true since the guy's house is across the street from the playground of a public park, and I don't think the parent's of the kids that played there appreciated having to explain to their children why that word that they aren't allowed to say was on a flag next to the president's name. Yep, some people are real classy.

I foresee 31 tragic hunting accidents coming up.

Marvel has made Eternal's supporting character, Karun Patel, his own emoji. This is cool because I and apparently everyone else really liked the character.

I think that Thena has an arc, but it is more related to her illness than the external events of the movie.

Setting aside the superficial stuff and embracing ones essential core is a change even if the core was secretly there all along.

That is a hard question. The characters are asked to make some very tough moral choices and they are all affected by them. But there is the question of which ones are changed by the choices and which just have there true character revealed. Sprite, Sersi, Thena, Ikaris, Druig, and Kingo all have have interesting arcs. However, which are changed versus which are revealed I couldn't say.

I saw Eternals today. Given the clunky nature of the comic book source material, IMHO this is the best adaption that could have been make. It takes the source material seriously and never plays it for camp. The actors are all very good, though given the large cast some characters get bet fleshed out than other. There is humor but never at inappropriate times. The stakes are huge both for the world and the characters personally and they give them the the weight that they are due. Viewers who go in looking for another MCU action comedy are going to be disappointed. But viewers who like comic books and don't feel a need to wink wink nudge nudge the story may enjoy Eternals.