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Did Europe have anything other than the final countdown?

And Derringer did the Hulk Hogan theme too. That right there is the stuff of legends.

What I meant so say is that I wonder where the storyline progresses from here to get it to Infinity War. This is the first time in a while where there was no hinting towards that at all. This one set up solo films in Spiderman and the Black Panther (not so sure that one can be a solo film at this point). I'd imagine that those two don't do much to push it towards Infinity War either. That'll be saved for Guardians and Thor. And I'm not quite sure on their release date timeline, but Black Panther would probably fall right around where you put Guardians.

Last summer, Jurassic World felt like the sequel that no one really wanted to see made, but it wound up being a huge surprise. I don't see the same happening with Independence Day this year. I just don't get a good feeling from the trailers. And speaking of those, one thing really bugs me about some of the story presented there. So in the 20 years since the first one, the aliens have developed much more advanced technology so that they can re-attack. Why didn't the same thing happen during the even longer period of time between the area 51 crash and the first movie? Yeah, I know, there's no movie without it, but it just seems dumb to me. And I almost never focus on stuff like this.

I was really hoping the punches were thrown in the free sample line. That would be perfect for the typical costco experience.

I've been saying it for years. I want this team to be in a place where they've got converted centers on the wing. We had it back in 2006 and we're getting close now. Injuries happen so when a center or two go down, you can just switch back one of those guys for a few games or even a couple of shifts. When you have that instead of a guy like Jochen Hecht as an emergency center, that's the kind of depth that is going to take you places.

I didn't realize that this was an immediate reaction to Pawtucket announcing a free brady night. This makes it that much more hilarious. Anyone complaining about what either team is doing doesn't understand minor league baseball. I wish I could go as I'm sure there's going to be a ton of craziness that night.

And it was the same place where Worf was rescued by the federation years later

And Tim Murray will do what he thinks is best.

I finally got around to seeing Civil War yesterday. It was well done as usual for them. In my mind that was was what Avengers 2 should have been. I didn't think much of them doing a Black Panther movie, but this one made me look forward to that. It was also a rare case where they actually handled the character overload really well. The airport scene highlighted everyone really well. I just wonder where they go from here. I know Strange is next, but where does the all encompassing story go now?

Long weekends

Maybe I'm blurring the timeline of what came out first, but wasn't that updated klingon look from TNG already used in the movies? I'm picturing Christopher Lloyd in my mind right now.

-Burgers tonight -haircut tomorrow (nothing but the biggest plans for me) -neighborhood party sunday -recovery monday

It kind of struck me today when I heard about this that the ketchup thing seems to be about age and sex. Every ketchup on a hot dog person I know is either a kid or a woman. I'm sure there are some others out there, but I wonder if there's a bit of a dividing line there.

I'm solely behind Nick Bonino. I still have visions of the 2009 frozen four in my head.

Were you hoping for them to kill of Daniel? He may have been the only one on the show who needed to stay alive as long as possible.

I'll give them credit with Chris. He was complete dead weight most of the way, but now he's somewhat interesting.

I have no problem with where they went with those three. Honestly, I've pretty much forgotten about the last few things with Strand because they seem to be mostly in the background. The focus of the episode felt to me like it was mainly on Daniel and that flopped completely. I do like what they did with Madison though, and even Travis. They both are focused on protecting their kid(s), which like I said earlier was something completely forgotten about with Daniel. Hell, even with trying to explain Daniel's backstory, they even failed at that. He shot some random guy floating in a river bank when he was a kid. I don't have a clue what that was.

And all of this happens right while they reach a place where they can relax for a few seconds. It was definitely their safest situation since all hell broke loose, even with the caged in walkers.

Feel free to call it a spoiler just in case anyone cares. Speaking of Mystique, I see that Nightcrawler is in this one. Was there any mentioning of his parents?

That and he was so protective of his daughter the whole time, now he suddenly forgets about her completely. The whole thing makes no sense.

I'm with you on this one. I'm guessing its because of releasing the movie so close to Civil War (which I hope to finally see this week), and maybe even Batman/Superman. It gets lost in the shuffle. It also looks like there's a ton of new characters but still focuses on the least interesting carry over from the first two movies, Mystique. She should not be the lead in any X-Men movie, but they wound up with Lawrence right before her career took off, so they have to run with it. And it's funny that you mention how good McAvoy and Fassbender have been for the roles, because they haven't been used at all in the trailers.

Yeah, they had the announcement a few months back, but I haven't heard anything since. I hope things are moving forward there.

I'm surprised to see two different people saying that Daniel could still be alive. He was straddling the line of fire. He's gone. He "found" his wife and joined her. That whole thing was such a waste. He's the one guy with an interesting enough background that would really work well in this setting, but they threw it away.