Oh, the cop moment was so awesome. The SO turned to me and said, you knew that was coming, but it was still perfect and great.
I like the way the leadership plays out. But yes, I don't want a self-sacrificial leader! I want a leader who knows how to bring his people all home safe!
So what do we think about the
Nick Fury cards manipulation? I kinda didn't understand narratively why that went down the way it did. Was Cap'n really being problematically unresponsive to the fannishness? Did they have to have the totem of the physical thing just to galvanize them? It's just that his death should already have been impactful, so I don't really understand Fury's motivation in falsifying to up the game.
I might be making more of the moment than I should.
About Natasha-Natalya, it can be regional. My MiL is named Natalia, and H's uncle was Wolodimir. They're both from what used to be part of Ukraine, is now Poland. In Russia proper they would be named Natasha and Vladimir.
OK, I tried to pay attention to Loki's motivation this time (mostly I was just all enthralled again, though I did catch the scene with the motorcycle mirror reflection and realized I didn't notice it the first time because I was just watching the action and that it was seen in reflection was entirely transparent to me) and it seems to me that his motivation was just that he'd made a deal with The Other (or whoever that is talking in the very beginning) to deliver the Tesseract and he'd get the Earth to, I suppose, rule. And I don't think he'd put much thought into what ruling the Earth would mean, just that ruling Asgard was out so maybe ruling Earth would be an acceptable substitute.
Huh. I thought that Natalya was a diminutive of Natasha.
Pretty sure from my two years in an FSR that Natalya is the proper name and Natasha is the nickname. Sasha is a nickname for Alexander/Alexandra, Andrusha is a nickname for Andrei, etc.
Wow. Battleship has worse numbers than John Carter. I did actually expect it to do depressingly well, although not be a success. God forbid this be a lesson to have a concept in mind, not just a title, when you get funding.
Poor Taylor Kitsch.
Hmm. I think he'll do okay, actually. He's both attractive and competent, and he's still got a lot of good will from Friday Night Lights. Worse comes to worst, he goes back to television, like Scott Porter & Connie Britton have done.
That's true. But starring in two big bombs in the same summer is a tough break.
Wow. Battleship has worse numbers than John Carter.
Wow. I'm surprised. It looked like fun, anyway, even if it was stupid fun. I bet it suffered from "I'd rather see The Avengers again" syndrome.
