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I recall how jarring the "chicken" thing was in the theaters
But it only took me a moment to remember that Marty had in fact been impulsive and short-tempered in the first movie, so I gave it a pass (and I still do)
BUT ... xhonzi has a point nonetheless. The "chicken" thing was identified SO SPECIFICALLY in BTTF 2 & 3 that it FELT, at least for a moment, like it had been bolted on
Honestly, I think it would've been better had they taken out the line, "Nobody calls me chicken" and left everything else intact (including Jason Scott Lee making "chicken clucking" sounds with his body-mounted speaker, which was hilarious).
Then Marty would just be reacting the way he did in BTTF 1, and his general impulsiveness and pride could still be his downfall in the alternate 2015.
Same with Ripley and her daughter, BTW. There was no need to "flesh out" that trait; her being motherly to Newt seemed perfectly natural when I saw the original cut in the theater. Seeing the additional "I missed her birthday" scene in the extended edition felt unnecessary and ham-handed to me.
Y'know that never occurred to me in 35 years.
But I don't have a problem assuming Ripley and the marines already had an exfiltration site in mind and were all converging on it.
Otherwise they'd be no smarter than the Call of Duty characters I've played over the years
<blockquote>But we don't know if "Charlie" got away, was never caught. We only know he hadn't been caught when the movie ended.</blockquote>
Good point ... I don't think the final scene was intended to show "Charlie" was still at large (though it did and he is) so much as to show us who "Charlie" actually is in his private life. It adds to the horror.
<blockquote>The final shot of the teaser for the finale shows Dexter in front of what looks like a police mugshot background.........</blockquote>
Definitely a dream sequence, I'd bet money on it.
The pins just show that Matt Caldwell's (likely) dead and that someone with access to Matt's remains is blaming Dexter. It's not enough for an arrest, and a one-hour finale cannot (or at least SHOULD not) spend too much time showing Angela collecting evidence.
I'm just hoping Showtime has allowed the showrunners to make up for the original finale. I kinda feel like they owe it to us.
I predict that none of your predictions will come true
I agree Molly didn't look dead, but she was the freshest corpse. Lily (Kimmy Anne Dunn's character) looked pretty good, too, as the second freshest.
I figure the showrunners had to be sure we'd recognize both Molly and Lily, so they used their respective actresses. Kurt's older victims looked like mannequins in contrast.
<blockquote>(Imagine Angela solving The Bay Harbor Butcher in just a couple of days -- a mystery that the entire Miami Homicide Divison and the FBI Task Force couldn't accomplish in months.)</blockquote>
She didn't do all the legwork (recovering and ID'ing the bodies, figuring out the victims were all killers, etc.). She just looked at everything Miami homicide and the FBI already had, PLUS a few additional bits of info that Miami homicide and the FBI did NOT have: a Miami homicide forensic expert who inexplicably faked his own death has access to ketamine and apparently left injection marks on the throats of two possible victims.
She also has one other advantage: Miami homicide and the FBI think the Bay Harbor Butcher case is solved, Doakes being the killer. She's looking where no one else has bothered for over a decade.
It's not that unreasonable.
<blockquote>I hope Harrison's first kill is not Dexter. He may decide that Dex fits the code.</blockquote>
Dexter definitely fits the code, but I also hope Harrison doesn't kill him. Somehow, I couldn't find that satisfying.
<blockquote>Still, I wonder why Hannah didn't try to contact Dexter when she learned she had terminal pancreatic cancer. That still bugs me </blockquote>
Same here. I suppose Hannah being Hannah, she figured she could “beat” cancer the way she beats everyone else, by killing it. But she seemed way too practical a person for that kind of self-delusion.
Maybe she did sense darkness in Harrison and thought he’d be better off never meeting his serial killer father.
We’ll never know at this point.
I think only Michael died on the freighter
Everyone else got off before the bomb blew, except Jin who managed to survive anyway
During the shot of the employee board, McClane is looking at it; it's behind Gruber.
However, it's not a stretch to guess that Gruber spotted it before turning his back to it and picked out a name in preparation.
Highly unlikely
Han Solo was just a job for Boba Fett, doubt he cares much about him or even Luke one way or the other. They fed him to the Sarlacc in a (relatively) fair fight. End of story.
Plus, Harrison Ford hates Star Wars. He only agreed to "Rise of Skywalker" out of respect for Carrie
Well, he's seen the Empire rule with fear and it failed.
He served a crime lord who ruled with fear and nearly got eaten for his troubles.
So I'll agree he seems to have changed his philosophy somewhat, but maybe he learned something from the Tusken Raiders about respect and mutual benefit.
Certainly, Din Djarin's knowledge of Tusken customs and respect were critical to their cooperation with Cobb Vanth and the people of Mos Pelgo.
Basically, seems like the show's taking pains to establish a deeper sense of culture and lore than the films were able to show us about Mandalorians, frog-people, even Jawas.
I'm personally finding it fascinating. Having never read any EU novels, I'm wondering how much of this is already "canon" in that "Legends" universe. And I note again how STUPID it was of Kennedy & co. to abandon such a rich source of lore with such a dedicated fanbase.
Thanks for the link
In case it's TLDR for anyone, the video's theory is that Kingpin (along with any and all other Netflix characters) have to be "25% different" from their Netflix versions in order to avoid litigation.
It's a completely arbitrary cutoff, and it's far from precise, but it's apparently a useful rule of thumb regardless.
Meaning: it's useless to argue whether the flowery shirt and super-strength are sufficient to satisfy the 25% minimum; reasonable minds can always differ. But as long as there's SOME difference, there's less incentive to sue.
I'd imagine Hannah would try her best to shield him from violence and death
But we also know, beyond doubt, that murder is her go-to solution for nearly every problem, Elway being the only known exception
No need to show Kingpin still alive - its pretty much certain he is
I was a little unclear about who was scared of whom though
Barton kept worrying that "the big guy" might be involved, and ep. 5 confirms that he meant Kingpin
Yet in the finale, it seems like Kingpin's more worried about Barton's involvement than vice versa (though it's understandable that he might not want the attention of even a single Avenger)
Maybe its just my preconceptions. For all his physical strength, Fisk and his entire gang would be curb-stomped by Rhodes in his armor. So I'd expect confrontations between Fisk and ANY Avenger, even Barton, to be more of a chess match than an MMA brawl. They need to gather evidence and nail Fisk dead to rights LEGALLY, or risk Fisk just playing the victim, invoking the Sokovia Accords and suing the Avengers into poverty.
The moment it becomes a street fight, it loses credibility. There's NO REASON Barton should try to take him on solo (Kate and the LARPers don't count) when Rhodey, Bucky and Sam are likely just a phone call away.
Particularly liked the elevator bit where they're supposedly fighting, yet Yelena gets outright offended when Kate slaps her.
I was OK with the recasting of "Morpheus" as a way to build mystery. We wonder why he is not Fishburne. Then later, we learn it's because sixty years have passed. So Yahya Abdul-Mateen is playing a substitute Morpheus created by ... whom?
I could NOT get behind recasting of Smith.
Apparently, the Wachowskis always planned to re-cast a new Morpheus, but were open to Hugo Weaving's return, as was Weaving himself. They just couldn't make their schedules line up.
Eleanor's not a super-hero. One would expect her "sophisticated computer systems" are still inferior to Yelena's spy-skills, since she IS a superhero.
I also agree that Kingpin's not dead. No way you go through all the effort to (A) secure D'Onofiro and (B) hide D'Onofrio's involvement just to kill off the character.
I'm not a comic fan any longer, but isn't Kingpin significant on the level with Lex Luthor or Dr. Doom? No way Feige EVER kills off a character at that level, at least not in a six-episode TV show.
I'd go with the "lost an eye" rationale. It's suitable payback for arranging the death of Echo/Maya's father.
Ah THAT's why Merv looked like that! This is his San Francisco iteration
BTW, re: "It used to be beautiful but ended 10 years ago." Folks have been saying that about SF since at least the 70s.
It's always been a pretty city from a distance, plagued with ugly stinkiness closer up. That's just SF. I still love the city, like I do NYC, though I'd never LIVE in either place, long term.
In this film, figure it's just the Analyst's shortcut for a Matrix that's sufficiently live-able yet imperfect enough to avoid rejection. The Architect made his version from scratch. NPH just copy-pasted San Francisco.
I took it as preparation - he figured he might get frisked, so he ditched his gun. He also might have to run, so he placed it near an exit but not in plain view.
To see how it might've played out in a John Woo film, check out this clip from "A Better Tomorrow":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CaU1tNtoQ8
TLDR(eview video)? Chow Yun Fat's character places guns in planters along his escape route, so he doesn't have to reload as he retreats.
And I'm too lazy to look it up, but didn't John Wick do something similar in his second film?
Neither I think.
Pym-powers are arbitrary and inconsistent, primarily driven by whatever's either useful or funny
From "Ant-Man and the Wasp," though, seems like shrunken cars trap the occupants inside until the cars grow back to normal.
But the vehicle itself seems to protect the occupants, at least until they run out of shrunken air (which I assume is why the Ant-Man and Wasp suits need helmets)