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Well, it removed the eight defendants named at the time from purchasing chains—Amazon Studios, Walt Disney Studios, and Netflix were arguably never subject to the ruling. Though you're right journalists have talked about the possibility of theater chains being snapped up by Amazon or Netflix.

Based on what? The events of the episodes so far seem to show a consistency in the time outside and inside the Hex.

They're namedropped Ultron a few times so it seems like they could be building to it for sure. Not that I'd expect him to make it out of the show to the movies at all mind you.

Hypothetically at least for when Shuri was surgically extracting the stone for Wanda to destroy. Doesn't account for what happens when Thanos cracks the front of Vision's skull for the thing.

Though since Boomerang, Beetle, Overdrive, Shocker, and Speed Demon are unlikely to be in the movie they'll be missing the most Superior Foes of Spider-Man.

It's funny, I didn't realize until someone pointed it out to me that Hayward would have had no stated reason to expect Wanda to be in Westview, or that she would have made her own Vision construct. When he sent Monica to meet with Jimmy Woo it was to use one of their drones on a missing persons...

Small chains and independents were probably already hosed by trends of market consolidation and the rise of streaming independent of COVID. COVID obviously poured some accelerant on those long-burning fires, but its part of why people like Martin Scorcese were decrying the dominance of comic...

My favorite post-episode theory was that Hayward's Vision will be Ultron's consciousness in Vision's body that Vision will need to put down again.

Movie theaters will stick around I think—small theaters are feeling the squeeze pretty intensely compared to the larger chains, even before the Coronavirus hit. The National Association of Theater Owners has a good set of resources on this stuff when it comes to the United States in particular...

You think Agatha is like the shark in the yogurt commercial?

But she's played by Kathryn Hahn, so we root for her anyway!

I like Critical Role but would agree in that I'm generally not a fan of Matt dictating the reactions of the PC's like he does in dreams or visions. I know they all trust him and prefer it that way but it's not my preferred style since it verges into affecting player agency over their characters'...

That's generally the argument some people have made for fiends like demons, devils, and yugoloths.

Yeah, it was deeply ironic—likely intentionally so—that a massively intelligent and predatory monster like the mind flayers were subject to a massive grift by their leaders.

I have seen Logan's Run—never read the book—and read The Lottery way back in high school. I meant the concept of ritual sacrifice as an analogue not the entire society.