Tallegeda Nights (amazon)
Goddamn, this is a stupid movie. Truly, inspirationally dumb.
I’m either getting deaf in my dotage, or those alabaman accents call for closed captioning.
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That movie is fucking funny.
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Wait. Wait wait wait.
In 1942, the Tesseract was hidden in Norway. The Red Skull found it, used it, and eventually it wound up at the bottom of the ocean.
Howard Stark found it while he was searching for Captain America. He’d already started doing research on it.
But by the 1990s, Stark was dead, assassinated by the Winter Solider, and Mar-Vel had the Tesseract.
How did she get it?
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I smell another movie being made!
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So, I have finally seen the first episode of The Prisoner.
It was more interesting and less trippy than I had imagined. On the whole the story was interesting, although why they stuck two escape attempts in one episode I can’t guess.
It was fun to see how many of the supporting cast I recognized, but wasn’t exactly sure where I had seen them before. I would imagine Number 6 felt much the same way.
Should I see more, or does the show suffer from what I call “Irving Allen Syndrome?” That’s where the first episode of a series uses up all the good ideas, and the rest of the series just treads water.
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It gets weirder and more interesting as it goes along. The first episode is basically a gentle introduction to the concept. It evolves too, as #6’s relation to the Village changes over the course of the show.
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Intriguing.
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I think it was just to emphasise that seriously, it’s really hard to get off this island, as fey as it may look.
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It was like if Kafka wrote “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” but much more colorful.
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I’d go with that.
One thing I learned when I actually read Kafka instead of just listening to people name-check his work is that it’s really funny.
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I don’t expect much from basic-cable paranormal-investigator shows
but seriously, we might as well be watching teenagers strung out on meth running around with a GoPro
“Look at that van! It wasn’t parked there a minute ago!”
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Wendy Lawson (Mar-Vell’s human alias) was working at Project Pegasus on her experimental engine.
Project Pegasus was, as of the first Avengers movie, where they were shown to be storing the Tesseract.
How she got it isn’t so much an issue. How they didn’t figure out it was missing in the six years between Mar-Vell’s death and the events of Captain Marvel is a bit harder to explain.
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Little bit more than that – she owned it. SHIELD took over the same facilities later, presumably to salvage as much of Mar-Vel’s work as possible.
It doesn’t seem to have ever been a Stark facility though, that we’ve been shown yet. So there’s still a gap there.
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Yeah, but not that difficult to explain.
“Hey, SHIELD, the USAF has this super-cool plane design they want to power with the Tesseract thing that you haven’t been able to make heads or tails of.”
“Cool. Just don’t lose it. For six years. Without ever noticing.”
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As a former service member, this is plausible.
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How she got it isn’t so much an issue. How they didn’t figure out it was missing in the six years between Mar-Vell’s death and the events of Captain Marvel is a bit harder to explain.
I think the line literally was, “They’re covering up a billion-dollar mistake”. Though in truth it would have been worse. Imagine the shitstorm among the Hydra sleeper cells.
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This is a clip from a super-prop film, and I hate to say it but it’s timely as all fucking hell; just substitute “Trump Administration” for “German Occupation”.
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Where on earth is that from?
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And there’s this:
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