Mal: Yeah, well, just be careful. We cheated Badger out of good money to buy that frippery, and you're supposed to make me look respectable. Kaylee: Yes, sir, Captain Tightpants.

'Shindig'


Marvel Universe: Infinite Chrises

Discussion of all Marvel Cinematic Universe related movies and TV shows, including, but not limited to, the Avengers, Captain America, Agent Carter, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Daredevil, Spider-Man, Ant-Man, etc., etc., etc. ad-infinitum.

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DavidS - Nov 12, 2020 6:32:41 pm PST #3096 of 3942
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Side note: I've never seen the end of Endgame.

Matilda and I went to see it in the theater and the projector broke down with ten minutes remaining. So no funerals, no Steve sent back in time to Peggy.

We did get four free tickets to other movies out of it.


Emily - Nov 13, 2020 2:31:10 pm PST #3097 of 3942
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

But you saw them beat Thanos, right? (Spoilers?) Cause, yeah, you're good. I found the time with Peggy lovely when I saw it, but in retrospect it lost its loveliness as I considered the implications.


Miracleman - Nov 14, 2020 5:06:36 am PST #3098 of 3942
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020

but in retrospect it lost its loveliness as I considered the implications.

If you're talking the whole "Steve just let 9/11 happen" thing I have my fingers in my ears and LALALALALALALAICAN'THEARYOU!!

I'm going with the Alternate Timeline theory that the movie sets up. Steve went and gave back all the Stones but one... probably the Time Stone. Then he lives this great life with Peggy where they ran SHIELD and saved Bucky and, hell, maybe even hauled his double's ass out of the ice and it was SUPER AWESOME. And after Peggy died he put on the Quantum Suit, dropped the Time Stone with Bald Tilda Swinton, and went to sit on a bench and wait for Sam.


Emily - Nov 14, 2020 11:49:54 am PST #3099 of 3942
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

Oh gosh no, 9/11 hadn't occurred to me. Oh, if we're thinking tragic events... where would you start? Let alone stop? The main problem is I have to figure out how the hell timelines work. If he can show up in this one, then he can't have changed very much - which means he DIDN'T save Bucky, or prevent Hydra from whatever. He just um... went back to Peggy and then hid for seventy years? Or else he's hopping timelines, which okay but... Well. It makes me run in circles trying to figure it out.


Consuela - Nov 14, 2020 11:58:43 am PST #3100 of 3942
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Oh, if we're thinking tragic events... where would you start? Let alone stop?

9/11, Rwandan Genocide, Rohinga genocide, the famines in China caused by Mao's policies (memfault on the name), Vietnam war, Ebola outbreaks, Syrian civil war... I mean, there's a LOT.

I would rather Steve didn't go back in time because either he lets all that shit happen and he's not Steve Rogers, or he dies trying to stop them (and fails anyway).


Gris - Nov 14, 2020 4:16:25 pm PST #3101 of 3942
Hey. New board.

Timey wimey hijinks never go well in anything more serious than dr who


dcp - Nov 14, 2020 4:39:05 pm PST #3102 of 3942
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye

Old tagline:

"I hate temporal anomalies." ⬧ Miles O'Brien, DS9


Emily - Nov 14, 2020 5:01:04 pm PST #3103 of 3942
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

I don't even mind all that - I really don't see how he can "fix" history, even if he wanted to - but I also don't buy the "we never saw Agent Carter's husband" story; he's overwriting her children.

Actually, to be clear, I am torn. I get that there's some lovely symmetry to it, and I really did feel warm and gooey when I saw it in theaters. It just gets worse the longer I think about it.


Steph L. - Nov 14, 2020 5:16:26 pm PST #3104 of 3942
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

Actually, to be clear, I am torn. I get that there's some lovely symmetry to it, and I really did feel warm and gooey when I saw it in theaters. It just gets worse the longer I think about it.

Agreed on both counts.


sj - Nov 14, 2020 7:10:39 pm PST #3105 of 3942
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

The writers have said they feel the children were always Caps kids.