Recent content by Gryphos

On the subject of resurrecting the dead characters, I'm convinced that everyone who died 'normally', not by the finger-snap (so, Loki, Gamora, Vision) will stay dead. As for the dustified people, I think they'll be brought back, but at the cost of the lives of a couple of the remaining Avengers...

I found it to be (in a good way) one of the most draining film-going experiences of my life, constantly putting me on edge and never allowing a chance to fully relax. I think that Thanos was definitely the star of the show; I wasn't expecting the film to go as deep as it did into what makes him...

I do really like the idea of exploring the post-werewolf psychological baggage. Like Yora said, you could conceptualise the turning as giving into primal, Id-like, bestial instinct. In which case, the period after such an incident could be a period of the exact opposite, a punishment by the...

I'm just saying, Wakanda's questionable traditions played a direct role in Killmonger taking over, and for the film to so determinedly skirt around this fact is … odd. Again, I should reiterate, I think the film's fantastic. It just has this weird, massive blind spot where T'challa's throne sits.

Yeah, I don't doubt T'challa and previous kings have been lovely people who serve and protect their people, but literally the entire plot of the film is that Killmonger uses the system to completely lawfully seize power, unopposed by the royal bodyguard (it's even stated that they are loyal to...

Black Panther is getting a lot of hype, with many people calling it the best Marvel film to date. I saw it recently, and while it will take some more thought for me to rank it among the other Marvel films (and I'm not particularly into numerical scores/ranking anyway), I will say that it was...

If the death-stare works by emitting some kind of deathray from the basilisk's eyes – a deathray which I suppose only works if it enters into the victim's eyes – then what happens if the basilisk is tripping out and hallucinating?

But as far as depictions of the basilisk go, it only kills if it looks you in the eye. If it looks at your back, nothing happens. That implies that the effect also relies at least in part on your perception of the basilisk, and that's what leads to all these cool questions.

I've recently found myself asking a bunch of questions regarding the specifics of basilisks and their death-stare ability. Some of them I think are quite fun to think about. First off, the assumption I'm working with is that the death-stare is a two-way process: it's not just a case of the...

In essence I agree. It would have been much better had A New Hope done more to establish Luke's ability as a pilot. Though, him drawing a connection between piloting a fighter and his past experience with speeders and shooting critters, while farfetched, is still better than how Rey's combat...

That's perhaps my biggest problem with the new trilogy. Like, I get the idea of wanting the struggle between light and dark to be cyclical, but you still need to justify the physical method by which that happens. The original trilogy ends with the Empire being destroyed and presumably the...

I just realised something else dodgy, that Luke, who fought to redeem Darth Vader, the second most evil person in the galaxy, considered killing Ben Solo upon sensing darkness in him. I mean, he doesn't go through with it, but even getting as far as drawing his lightsaber seems to me like a...

So I have a lot of conflicting opinions on TLJ. Visually it's stunning, with some moments that literally left me gaping, like when Admiral Holdo ripped through the First Order fleet, or the gorgeous framing of Kylo's face-off with Luke. I enjoyed the comedy a lot, and I feel it helps keep the...

Well, as student wisdom holds, lightweights party best, since they don't have to put in as much effort drinking to get hammered. Therefore, I can see halflings, with their conventionally assigned propensity for hedonistic pleasures, having comparatively quite low alcohol tolerance.

I'm like 5 episodes into Ancient Magus' Bride, and it's pretty cool. I love the worldbuilding, the use of celtic myths etc. The character designs are all great (except Titania, whose design is pretty cringe-worthy for obvious reasons). One thing is irking me, though...