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    I think I knew this a month ago and forgot. Man do I prefer to binge these shows with either complex plots or tons of characters, I forget half of everything watching one episode per week.
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    So she knew before she hooked up with Euron?
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    How long ago did he say that? Marvel has been referring to the main continuity's Earth as Earth-616 for at least 15 years, although the number originated back in the 80s. I've never read a story I enjoyed that involved multiverses. Ideally I'd prefer one version of every character...just keeping track of the comic version versus the film version is already more than I'd prefer to keep track of.
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    Should we assume Cersei took the Westeros equivalent of the morning after pill after she got it on with Euron so we definitely know it's Jaime's kid?
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    Wow DID Tyrion know?
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    What's the range of dragonfire? In that episode at the end of season 6 where the three dragons roasted a fleet of ships, they weren't more than a few dozen feet over the ships, so you'd have to assume the range is something like 40 to 80 feet. How does Drogon get that close to the ships in the image below without getting speared by the ships at the edges of the formation?
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    So what, Mysterio is working with Nick Fury? Or was that some kind of ruse? The comic version of the character has no powers, so I'm confused as to exactly how he's helping with these post-snap monsters.
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    "The Wandering Earth" sounds awesome--a future version of Earth's sun is dying, so they try to move Earth to Alpha Centauri. Wonder if it's cheesy by our standards? Never seen a Chinese movie.
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    You're referring to the scene below, but in the books these ballistas have been used for centuries against dragons, so I doubt we should think of them as entirely new.
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    Picked up the 2015 Marvel Legends Allfather complete set and received it over the weekend. I love the Odin and Scarlet Witch figures, the Captain Marvel is OK, but what strikes me the most is just how much improvement Hasbro has made in articulation just within four years. The Thor has AWFUL articulation; his arms and head barely move, and he's scaled WAAAY too big and stands like he's 7' 4" next to most other Legends figures, you can see how Hawkeye only comes up to his shoulder in the pic below. The Iron Fist looks like he has the Pizza Spidey body mold, but he actually doesn't and it's significantly worse than Pizza Spidey. I may end up selling most of them.
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    Wild that almost the entire list is from the last five years. I guess China's economy really has blossomed over the last decade.
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    Does Box Office Mojo have an all-time list by country? I'd particularly like to see the all-time list for China.
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    What do you think Varys has in mind to save those millions of people in Kings Landing he's worried about?
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    As part owner and CEO of Toy Biz and producer of the long-running and popular Marvel Legends line, all Avi knew is that Venom toys sold well, so he forced Raimi to include the character just because of that. Sony pushed the solo film for pretty much the same reason. So glad Feige is making these calls for most things now...Iger just needs to buy Sony Pictures now to get the Spider-world fully into the picture.
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    Unless they furl the sails, then there's only a degree or two of blind spot for each mast that's far too thin for a dragon to hide behind. I just re-watched the scene though and I'm not sure those guns have a 180 degree range; I couldn't tell that it could point straight up. But it's possible it can do that. But since each ship had one, there's a solution for the area right over a ship, too--just spread the ships out. The dragon can't be right over all of them at once.
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    How does that help when those spear guns have a 180 degree range?
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    Nobody's sure because she has no character name in the credits released thus far, but the guess I've seen that makes the most sense based upon what's in the trailer is that she's the personification of the Phoenix force that gives Jean her incredible powers and drives her over the edge.
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    How do you do that?
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    Also on a pace to set the domestic record above Force Awakens and be the first film to bust $1 billion domestic. Through Tuesday it has done $427 million domestically, and by that same day Force Awakens had only done $325 million.
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    It's probably too hard to do in a single film anyway. Introducing the entire Imperial Guard in one film would be quite a lot of characters in one film with no buildup, so there would be no great way to do them justice. That's why ideally you do Dark Phoenix over the course of MANY movies, more akin to the way Marvel just did it with Thanos.
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    Has Martin commented on his feelings about the show possibly stealing the thunder from his book? I'm guessing it will be different, so there's going to be obvious and inevitable comparisons between the HBO show's story points and whatever Martin's will be in that book. But who knows, maybe his Arya single-handedly stops the undead army, too.
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    My main disappointment is that while they're following Claremont's original excellent story more closely than Last Stand did, I see no Lilandra or Imperial Guard member names in the credits so I assume they're leaving out the galactic scale from the comic where she consumed a star, killed all of the inhabitants of planets in that star's system, and Lilandra came to hunt her down, prompting a face-off between the X-Men and the Shi'ar's Imperial Guard. That battle in X-Men 137 culminating with Jean killing herself was really great. I'm hopeful yet skeptical that rewriting that story will be an improvement, but I'm assuming they did it to simplify the cast and special effects budget. Hopefully that's a wrong assumption and the new story will be good.
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    Why? It's the title of the show. Three episodes is a pittance compared to the seasons that preceded it, it'll feel like it's being rushed. Which I don't really get, still not sure why they're not letting this play out over 2 to 5 more seasons, it certainly could using the same pace the show has used all the way up until now. Given just three episodes though the obvious expectation would be that at least half of the contenders to the throne get whacked, not just Cersei. I was also shocked that Littlefinger fell so fast after so many years of complex machinations, so I won't be surprised if he pops back up.
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    I'm unclear on exactly what Mjolnir does in the MCU. In the original comic, Don Blake is a human who finds Mjolnir, and the hammer transforms him into the god Thor, so ALL of the power comes from the hammer. At one point Jane picks up Mjolnir and becomes a female version of Thor herself. In the MCU--and I think also with the Ultimate version of Thor in the comic--Thor is just Thor, he's not also Don Blake except when he poses as him in street clothes. In Ragnarok they make an explicit point of having Odin explain to Thor that Mjolnir just helps him to focus his power as a god, it's not the source of it. So on to Endgame:
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