See, Jesse, I figured that, and I liked that it told a story through hair! Because yeah, I can see Nat not feeling like doing all the playing with color she'd been doing before. Girl is seriously depressed.

Would it take five years to grow out to that length? I've never tracked my hair. I do like the way it looks, especially braided.

Also the scenes of her shooting and punching the bag weren't in the movie, were they? I don't remember them.

In general, I'm dissatisfied with the Soul Stone in both movies. My suspension of disbelief is pretty damn good, but that whole thing is just stupid. What does it even do? Time, Reality, Power, Mind, Space, I'm with you. Soul is just this nebulous thing that only serves to advance the plot by killing off characters.

The girl power moment didn't work for me either. Mostly it just highlighted how little they'd been given to do in the battle up until that point.

I did appreciate Captain Marvel telling everyone "You know I've been keeping the entire REST OF THE FREAKING UNIVERSE TOGETHER while you've all been sitting here worrying about one planet???"

I'm willing to accept that if you go back into your own past, you don't change what's already happened in your own past because SURE WHY NOT. But if 2014 Thanos travels to the future and dies, then who in that timeline was collecting stones leading up to the Snapture in the first place? (Obviously the answer is Because Shut Up That's Why but that's the one timey-wimey bit I can't handwave.)

I really loved Nebula's arc. She's come so far.

I thought the callbacks to previous movies via time-travel shenanigans were really very well done, and a nice endnote to the whole arc. Fanservice at its best.

I suspect it's fundamental to the whole creating life/resurrecting the dead thing. I think the only thing we've seen it do by itself is yank Dr. Strange's astral form out of his body, which thankfully Thanos tried on the one character who knows how to put it right back where it belongs.

Jessica, if I understand correctly by traveling back to 2014 the Avengers already diverged an alternate timeline from their own past. So in that timeline Thanos and a bunch of his minions and soldiers just disappear one day with no one knowing where they went. He's no longer around to collect the gems and kill half the universe there.

Connie, no, it wouldn't take that long, but I was willing to handwave that.

Matt, I think I disagree -- Banner's point to Swinton was that there would just be *one* timeline once they'd put all the stones back (although what that does to Loki I'm not sure). So I'm with Jessica -- if Thanos doesn't collect the stones, they have no reason to go back, etc. Unless Steve somehow undoes the bit where Nebula senses Nebula, but then... Yup. Major problem. I decided not to think about it, but it is a problem.

The five year delay really bugs me. Five years is long enough for people to move on, to rebuild their lives, to see in general that the reduction in resource pressure is not a bad thing. How many spouses remarried, how many jobs were re-filled, how many households were replaced? The only reason I can think for them to wait five years is so Morgan is old enough to be a distinct personality. One year would have been a short enough time that a couple of billion people could be reabsorbed with minimal chaos, and Thor could well be on his way to slovenly decay. And Ronin could still wreak mayhem on lots and lots of people.

But Steve can't move on, so of course let's not consider how it affects the rest of the world. The wars that break out as 2-3 billion people try to refind a place in the world will be horrible. But Steve got to play house with Peggy in a time loop.

Connie, except that it seems like the reduced the resources as well? That part makes no sense to me AT ALL, but they did say "living things," not just sentient beings. Which is ridiculous. But...

Okay, let's see if I can unravel this one thing. Banner told Swinton that the divergent timelines created when they took the stones would collapse when they put the stones back and thus the original timeline would be repaired. She seemed to agree with that, her objection was that she didn't trust them not to fuck it up. (Which, fair.) But they ended up taking the tesseract twice - once when Hulk messed up the heist and Loki took off with it, and once from the army base. Steve presumably returned the tesseract he had to the place he got it, the base, leaving the Loki-tesseract unreturned and the Loki-tesseract timeline presumably intact. WHich gives us a whole new universe to play in, in the upcoming Loki tv series, presumably.

Is no one going to mention Ant-Man saying "Flick me!" and hiking his butt in the air? I almost choked on my popcorn.

They did say that Thanos dusted half of all living things in his Snap. I thought that's why Scott looked out at birds in the trees and smiled and said "I think it worked."

Still, five years is too long. Unless we're supposed to believe that everyone in the world suffered severe depression and could not move on. But that does seem to be what the writers were saying.