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The band Spanish Love Songs.

No one shot the Boeing CEO yet.

No, mainly because I travel for Christmas as Christmas decorations are rather bulky to store.

The MCU did great with Guardians of the Galaxy, which were C tier at best.

Not really. Most of the earlier movie Batman villains were rather over the top villains that may have an axe to grind but were depicted as more outright evil.

The Riddler in the The Batman honestly comes across as more of a hero in the first two acts of The Batman based on who he is targeting. All of the Riddler’s victims are causing massive harm to Gotham and the city’s political system seems unable to really address it. This includes Bruce Wayne’s complicity in the corruption of the city by being a derilect chair of the charity that is supposed to be improving the city.

If you end the movie when Batman and the Riddler are in the jail cell, you would be hard pressed to identify the Riddler as a villain; he is just a kind of vigilante that Batman is. It isn’t until the Riddler attacks Gotham as a whole when the Riddler actually becomes a villain.

That was the first two thirds of The Batman.

The MCU should have ended a little after Endgame. The MCU Earth is now fundamentally different than current Earth to the point where it is harder to write resonant stories in that Earth.

That the MCU had to reach into the idea of multiverses is a symptom that the plot baggage of the MCU is now a drag on the franchise.

Leaving without a trace.

24°C. I like being warm.

Both Uhura and McCoy display shocking incompetence in their jobs. As a comms officer, Uhura should know basic Klingon, something that has been retconned in later iterations of comms officers. McCoy should have the medical knowledge to treat Klingons the same way he should be able to treat a lot of other aliens on Enterprise.

Scott and Chekov are slumming it on the Enterprise. Scott has been shown to be a great engineering marketing, so it doesn’t make sense that he is still chief engineer on the Enterprise. Maybe Starfleet still doesn’t trust Scott after Scott disabled the Excelsior, but Scott should be doing something bigger. Chekov was a first officer on another ship before coming back to the Enterprise as second officer. Chekov should be a captain by now.

Spock is going some high admiralty shit in this movie while being a captain, since he can’t get promoted over Kirk. At this point, Spock should have transitioned to being an ambassador as part of this movie.

Kirk is really washed up career wise in this movie. He’s only bring drug along because of Spock. He also is set up as a patsy for the bad admirals. It shows how low his star has fallen when he was used as a pawn rather than be an active participant in the politics of what is going on.

My tag is on my front windshield.

County names on the license plate is only a thing in some southern states. All other states just show the state.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country really does a lot of the original cast dirty.

The cast and special effects were great. If the writers trusted the premise that this was going to be a straight origin story without temporal cold war bullshit, the series would have been a lot better.

The Romulans as the big bad for the series was there the whole time.

That take is hot as an Andorian winter, pink skin.

Most countries we would label as communist didn’t form as Marx expected. Marx expected relatively advanced nations to revolt and claim control over capital. Instead, most Communist revolutions occurred in generally despotic and less developed countries.

When times are good, the government can use the material improvement of people’s lives as a reason to be in power. However, if times stop being good, the government becomes more overtly autocratic to maintain control.

C.

I’m going to fund and build a ton of mass transit projects.

Yeah, but the question is on who verifies that they follow the law.

The discussion is about checks and balances. So what kind of checks and balances would be there?