"She also shows up in a spaceship in the colours of the Aboriginal flag, amid massive fireworks show, because why be subtle when you can be awesome instead."

Additional note: all the spaceships were given names of Australian cars.

That was very fun. But I had no idea that Sam Neill was the actor!

She has a kick-ass murder strut, too.

Just watched Dr. Strange, quite enjoyable.

So, the Eye of Amagatto has an Infinity Stone in it. So there's one, the stone from Loki's scepter is another, another one is stashed with the Nova Corps, is the Tesseract another one? Are there five or four Stones? And which one does which?

My brother and I were trying to hash out the Infinity Stones last night. There are 6, and we've seen 5 so far: (1) the purple one from GotG, (2) Eye of Agamotto, (3) the one from Loki's staff, which Vision currently has, (4) the Tesseract, and (5) the Aether (from Thor: The Dark World).

Presumably the sixth one will show up in Black Panther, although there's an outside chance they won't introduce it until Infinity War.

[This post brought to you by an exceedingly long string of texts between my brother and me, who are so geeky we still can't believe anyone married either of us.]

Yep, those are the Power Stone, the Time Stone, the Mind Stone, the Space Stone, and the Reality Stone, respectively. All that's missing is the Soul Stone.

I'm guessing the one in the Eye is the Time Stone, since Strange can roll back time with it.

I think Loki grabbed the Tesseract, so that they don't have to have a whole "searching the remnants of Asgard for the thing" sequence.

I'm suddenly wondering if Steve's going to have some sort of tie to the Soul Stone, though I'm still annoyed at him.

Connie, I agree -- I think we were supposed to assume that Loki grabbed the Tesseract on the way out of Asgard.

My current rankings, which change often:

• Captain America: Civil War
• The Avengers
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• Iron Man
• Thor: Ragnarok
• Spider-Man: Homecoming
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
• Ant-Man
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• Iron Man 3
• Doctor Strange
• Avengers: Age of Ultron
• The Incredible Hulk
• Thor
• Iron Man 2
• Thor: The Dark World

But really, 1-4 and 5-8 are all pretty much interchangeable with each other.

I super loved Ragnarok. It was hilarious, and had some innovative action scenes, and the emotional beats were there. Tessa Thompson was fantastic, and I'm so thrilled that black girls get such a great cosplay of their own (of course, Black Panther is going to offer an embarrassment of badass black women, which will be even better). I agree that Banner felt just a hair off, which I was trying to handwave because who wouldn't be confused after a couple of years as the Hulk ? I enjoyed Goldblum's performance and the whole 80's video game/pro wrestler aesthetic of that world.

Quibbles: I'd like to see more heroines with a powerful stride (à la Holtzman in Ghostbusters) and less of a sexy model strut as Héla and Valkyrie did here.

I can also pinpoint the exact moment when I tired of Waititi's character, which was fortunately about ten minutes from the end of the movie. It's interesting to read about how that style of humor is firmly rooted in Kiwi and specifically Maori culture, but it doesn't make me like it any more. Unsurprisingly, I did not enjoy "What We Do in the Shadows."

Overall,,minor objections and I can't wait to see it again. The Thor series definitely needed some lightening up, and this served nicely.