One of the guys at Buzzfeed had an interesting explanation that sort of tracks with Zenkitty's handwave: when the Omega died, the day didn't reset, the entire world reset to its last "save point" (to continue the video game metaphor), which was before Cruise began resetting. But even that still makes no goddamn sense because the Omega is still dead on the same day that it was killed.

Yeah, the only way to make it work at all is to say that the Omega existed outside of time, "above" all the resets, and because its death occurred BEFORE Cage made his last reset, in that last reset it had to be dead. So the company wasn't really there killing it while Cage slept. Instead, at the moment of Cage's last reset, the Omega was dead and thus it had to cease to exist within the reset. Which now that I think on it further, I believe that's the "right" explanation, because remember, on the newscast, when the General was telling people what had happened, he said something like "there was an unexplained huge discharge of energy". The blast that killed the Omega was in fact an normal, totally explainable blast of explosives. If that's what the people had seen in the reset world, they would have said, Whoa, somebody blew something up under the Louvre! not What was that bizarre sourceless discharge of energy?! So now I think that the bizarre discharge of energy was the Omega suddenly ceasing to exist in the new timeline.

25 years ago today Tim Burton's Batman was released.

Raise your hand if you feel OLD.

eek.

All that means is, now Michael Keaton is good to play Old Bruce in a Batman Beyond movie!

Capsule reviews for Before Midnight, Blue Jasmine, Short Term 12; Synecdoche, New York; In a World..., Now You See Me, Fruitvale Station, You're Next, Monsters University, A Good Day to Die Hard, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, The Way Way Back, and The Spectacular Now !

Raise your hand if you feel OLD.

Raises hand

I saw it a midnight show. I can't even conceive of a midnight show these days. Well...Avengers excepted.

That actually makes me feel slightly younger, because I thought I was older when it came out.

(sticking tongue out at -t)

Actually, isn't the sticking point about the ending of Edge of Tomorrow the same sticking point about all the resets in the movie up until that point? Like, why does Cage reset to coming out of taser-coma? In which case, it can be argued that the reset is offset to accomadate time to fix the problem, and that offset varies on the power of the source? The alpha (or whatever, I'm forgetting the movie terms now) is a huge asset, and reset, but the omega is even bigger, so the reset is bigger?

What bugged me is that either Emma Blunt's character fell in love awfully fast, or they didn't really compensate for the fact that her character didn't grow like Cruise's did. It felt like a lot of her interactions were informed by what she'd done with Cage in previous instances. It was actually kind of hard to tell with the quick advancement of where we were in the Choose Your Own Adventure timeline. (If I'd been playing that game, I'd been super annoyed and quit long before getting to the helicopter and switched to Spider Solitaire.

Mockingjay teaser: President Snow's Panem Address - "Together as One" (4K) - YouTube

SPOILERY if you haven't read the books. (Anyone here seen the movies but not read the books?)

It's creepy. I like it.

eta: Ah. It's already all over FB. Plus the FB image gives away the spoiler.