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RareAcumen posted:How is Infinity War possibly going to be a climactic battle? Shouldn't the answer to the Thanos problem be 'And then Doctor Strange threw him into the Mirror World'? My guess would be it ends with them collectively losing the battle and Thanos murdering half the universe and then part 2 is the few survivors punking him.
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My prediction is a bunch of really stupid sounding comic book poo poo will happen that makes no sense.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:My prediction is a bunch of really stupid sounding comic book poo poo will happen that makes no sense. The original made a lot of sense, though. He goes all mad with power from the gauntlet and turns himself into a giant incoporeal god-being to fight other gods and then Nebula (played in the movies by Karen Gillan) just yanks the glove off his unconscious former body and uses it herself. It's a good ending. Thanos is dumb. He retires to be a subsistence farmer after the whole debacle.
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Apr 3, 2018 17:25
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That all sounds real stupid.
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yeah he should at least become a dentist, he could make some sweet dough
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Apr 4, 2018 01:54
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food court bailiff posted:Thanos is dumb.  Checks out.
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Apr 4, 2018 02:09
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My only non MCU exposure to Thanos is from the time he teamed up with PTSD Space-Jesus Adam Warlock to fight the Magus an evil Space-Pope who or course turned out to be Adam Warlock from the future having gone insane from everyone he cared about dying fighting Thanos so he traveled back in time to build a powerbase to stop Thanos by any means necessary. Warlock defeats the Magus by traveling to the point in time where he loses all hope and murdering himself. Then a few issues later Warlock just barely manages to defeat Thanos but at a huge cost and then a past-Warlock appears and kills him. 70s comics were fun.
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Len posted:My guess would be it ends with them collectively losing the battle and Thanos murdering half the universe and then part 2 is the few survivors punking him. As contrived as this sounds, I think they might use a death/rebirth of half the universe to suddenly explaing a bunch of X-men/FF-related characters having a home in the MCU, as well as a number of previously killed villains, as a side effect.
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Apr 4, 2018 04:59
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Also recasting actors getting too old/expensive/uninterested.
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Apr 4, 2018 09:11
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Inescapable Duck posted:Also recasting actors getting too old/expensive/uninterested. My favorite recasting was in Stargate Universe where they temporarily brought back Oneill despite the actor being well into the fat+old "gently caress it" phase of life.
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Apr 4, 2018 09:37
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They're going to beat Thanos by shooting a laser at a portal, possibly killing several characters played by actors whose contracts with Marvel are ending.
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Apr 4, 2018 10:28
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JediTalentAgent posted:We have some TV talk lately, and I have something that bugged me about the end of the story arc to Dragon Ball Super (Universe Survival Arc) that bugged me and I'll spoiler a lot of this because it's so new for people haven't seen it, but a refresher from what I understand to the storyline. How the hell are you supposed to combine universes? Do you just mash them together? Some of them are supposed to be divergent pairs with things in pretty much the same space. Does our solar system get a bunch more planets? An extra sun (or two, or three)? You're not thinking the logistics of this through at all.
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sassassin posted:How the hell are you supposed to combine universes? Do you just mash them together? Some of them are supposed to be divergent pairs with things in pretty much the same space. Does our solar system get a bunch more planets? An extra sun (or two, or three)? 
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sassassin posted:How the hell are you supposed to combine universes? Do you just mash them together? Some of them are supposed to be divergent pairs with things in pretty much the same space. Does our solar system get a bunch more planets? An extra sun (or two, or three)? From the logic of the show, I guess 'universes whose numbers are closest to one another and add up to 13 are most similar to one another' but there were enough differences. Specifically, Planet Salad exists in Universe 6 and Planet Earth exists in Universe 7, if I recall. There was a wager at one point where Earth was on the line between the two. Now, with the gimmick going on of Gods of Destruction destroying whole worlds and populations up to that point on a whim, there MIGHT be a such a thing that there has been a gradual whittling down of the universes to begin with, internally. I figured there was a possibility that each of the weaker universes had been depopulated enough that an event like a merging of such universes would bring one universe back up to a 'normal' density or power level of worlds/life.
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The CGI in Stranger Things is awful, but the practical effects are fantastic. Given how much money goes into an episode I figured they could flip a truck for realses.
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It’s especially irritating in a show that contains a scene where a character points out how awesome the practical effects are in John Carpenters The Thing. The bad CGI really took me out of an otherwise excellent period piece.
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Apr 4, 2018 19:51
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If I'm watching a movie on bluray, I don't need a commercial trying to convince me that I should be watching movies on bluray.
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Ego-bot posted:If I'm watching a movie on bluray, I don't need a commercial trying to convince me that I should be watching movies on bluray. Just another reason to try to stick to more serious releases that are aimed more at collectors, like Criterion, Arrow, or collectors edition box sets. They usually don't have any of the annoying adds and they take you straight to the menu. Like, don't buy John Wick on blu ray, wait until JW3 comes out and buy them all in a big set and it probably will be much nicer and have no ads.
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Ego-bot posted:If I'm watching a movie on bluray, I don't need a commercial trying to convince me that I should be watching movies on bluray. Discs from Redbox usually have about 15 trailers you have skip one at a time before you even get to the main menu. If it cost anymore than $1.50, I would just pirate it. And yes I WOULD DOWNLOAD A CAR
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Twitch posted:They're going to beat Thanos by shooting a laser at a portal, possibly killing several characters played by actors whose contracts with Marvel are ending. You're probably right. Lasers and punching are how strength is measured, most of the time.
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Armacham posted:And yes I WOULD DOWNLOAD A CAR Irrationally irritating because yeah who loving wouldn't? gently caress, I'd download a shitton of awesome stuff if I could
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Apr 5, 2018 02:58
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In an episode of Bones, Bones formally bows to a Japanese person and she just, she doesn’t, the etiquette and her form and even attitude is all wrong, it’s like she didn’t even do a cursory amount of research
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oldpainless posted:In an episode of Bones, Bones formally bows to a Japanese person and she just, she doesn’t, the etiquette and her form and even attitude is all wrong, it’s like she didn’t even do a cursory amount of research Konichiwowza
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oldpainless posted:In an episode of Bones, Bones formally bows to a Japanese person and she just, she doesn’t, the etiquette and her form and even attitude is all wrong, it’s like she didn’t even do a cursory amount of research That show is real dumb but isn't her whole character "autistic but not really"?
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Inzombiac posted:That show is real dumb but isn't her whole character "autistic but not really"? Yeah. The living are not her concern, hence Boreanaz
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This is also a character who interrupted a sermon at a funeral with an angry atheist screed. I don't think being a good or polite person is her forte.
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Terrible Opinions posted:This is also a character who interrupted a sermon at a funeral with an angry atheist screed. I don't think being a good or polite person is her forte. There was also the best episode where they have it from the corpses POV and suddenly Brennan starts believing in magic or someshit since she's talking to this particular skull, but not the 30,000 she saw before this one. Between the FBI solving every local murder in all of DC and having the greatest magical computer next to the batcomputer that show was massivly stupid even for a police procedural. As a matter of fact, any police procedural featuring that kind of murder count should have a goddamn superhero involved since any major city with the gotham-esqe body counts these shows depict would need a superhero in order to clean up the streets and more importantly, make these shows more realistic. Its a lot easier to believe in super-tech that is freely available to law enforcement if there is a dude who can throw a car dealing with gang violence and murders.
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Bones is actually a low key direct sequel to Angel and all the murders are because of vampires.
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The Bones doctor actually looks down on people that don't have post grad degrees.
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Biplane posted:Bones is actually a low key direct sequel to Angel and all the murders are because of vampires. I hope Charisma Carpenter shows up for the series finale then and does some kind of Star Trek Enterprise/St. Elsewhere/Newhart autism spectravaganza
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oldpainless posted:In an episode of Bones, Bones formally bows to a Japanese person and she just, she doesn’t, the etiquette and her form and even attitude is all wrong, it’s like she didn’t even do a cursory amount of research More like Oldsonkeiless.
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Bones had 246 episodes across 12 years. Even if several people die per episode that's probably not that many murders per year.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Bones had 246 episodes across 12 years. Even if several people die per episode that's probably not that many murders per year. Plus it's D.C., 246 murders is about their annual average.
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Apr 5, 2018 13:05
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260 homicides in the D.C. region in 2017. Unless Bones is dealing with genocide in every episode, I'd say they have a more than adequate supply of murders for their 20ish episodes a year.
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I thought the Bones team only handles specialized cases? They don't really care about a normal homicide. I'm pretty sure they have bodies/remains shipped in from all over the country.
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Supernatural will be hitting episode 300 next year. I'm surprised there's anyone left in America who doesn't know about monsters.
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Psych might be the worst about this. I did some quick looking, and Santa Barbara's murder rate is, on average, 2-3. Since their populations is right around 100,000, the city gets pretty much 2 or 3 murders a year. Yet there's at least 1, often like 2-3, murders per episode. Even if you remove the ones that take place outside of the city, that still puts the murder-rate in the Psych-verse like 10 times what it really is. Probably on par with a city like DC or Detroit.
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Midsomer Murders and such have enough murders to depopulate their entire setting, I'm sure.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Midsomer Murders and such have enough murders to depopulate their entire setting, I'm sure. I've never met anyone from Midsomer, so this checks out.
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New York in the Law & Order shows seems to be the center of every political and social movement along with all their seedy underbellies. Actually that's probably mostly true.
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