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Re: Loki (series)
« Reply #30 on: 07 July 2021, 03:01:37 »
I saw the Thanos copter this episode and nearly woke up everyone else in the house laughing.
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« Reply #31 on: 07 July 2021, 04:02:41 »
Quote from: Scotty on 07 July 2021, 03:01:37
I saw the Thanos copter this episode and nearly woke up everyone else in the house laughing.

Haven’t watched the episode yet, but almost can’t believe that of all the things they could have brought from the comics, they chose THAT!?!?!?

(Edit: ok, I must have missed it. Where was it?)

However, I highly recommend watching the Simpsons: the Good, the Bart and the Loki short. Extremely funny!

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« Reply #32 on: 07 July 2021, 06:34:32 »
Quote from: Ruger on 07 July 2021, 04:02:41
(Edit: ok, I must have missed it. Where was it?)

It was just as they were entering the hatch.

Really enjoyed this weeks episode, sets up the finale nicely.
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« Reply #33 on: 07 July 2021, 09:12:31 »
So many little things in that episode. The whole planet was filled with fun tidbits and whatnots.
Like the little person in the jar in the ground as they go down into the bunker. That was Thor - wasn't it? And a version of Mjølnir besides it?
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« Reply #34 on: 07 July 2021, 10:56:09 »
Is that destroyer from anything in particular?
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« Reply #35 on: 07 July 2021, 11:05:02 »
It's  ot terribly significant, historically speaking. She was just a DE doing her job escorting convoys to North Africa and Southern Europe.
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« Reply #36 on: 07 July 2021, 11:06:32 »
Was just wondering if she showed up in any of Marvel's very many WWII comics from back in the day or something.

I forget, what's the hull number?
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« Reply #37 on: 07 July 2021, 11:07:57 »
DE-173. Allegedly it was involved in the mythical Philadelphia Experiment.
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« Reply #38 on: 07 July 2021, 11:13:30 »
Quote from: Sharpnel on 07 July 2021, 11:07:57
DE-173. Allegedly it was involved in the mythical Philadelphia Experiment.

Yeah, it was the USS Eldridge, long famed (well, since 1955) as the ship on which they conducted cloaking device trials (aka, the Philadelphia Experiment) to render ships invisible to the enemy back in 1943.

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« Reply #39 on: 07 July 2021, 11:41:14 »
Quote from: Øystein on 07 July 2021, 09:12:31
So many little things in that episode. The whole planet was filled with fun tidbits and whatnots.
Like the little person in the jar in the ground as they go down into the bunker. That was Thor - wasn't it? And a version of Mjølnir besides it?

Wasn’t that Throg?

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« Reply #40 on: 07 July 2021, 12:21:39 »
There's a Polybius arcade machine behind Old Loki in the hideout too, it's from an 80s urban legend
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Re: Loki (series)
« Reply #41 on: 07 July 2021, 12:23:29 »
You're right, it's Throg. The jar says T-365 which is the issue of Thor the Thunder Frog shows up in.
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« Reply #42 on: 07 July 2021, 12:52:31 »
Quote from: Ruger on 07 July 2021, 11:13:30
Yeah, it was the USS Eldridge, long famed (well, since 1955) as the ship on which they conducted cloaking device trials (aka, the Philadelphia Experiment) to render ships invisible to the enemy back in 1943.

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Yeeeah, may have paused to check the hull number, got lost reading up on the Philadelphia Experiment, gone down a whole rabbit hole of UFO/conspiracy theory reading, and forgot to finish the episode for two hours...  ;D
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« Reply #43 on: 07 July 2021, 13:46:57 »
I’m sad I have to delay this episode a little bit longer. I have the Tour de France and then the Lions tour rugby match to watch before hand. This one sounds exciting tho
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« Reply #44 on: 07 July 2021, 23:15:38 »
I did see a great YouTube theory for Sylvie’s variation. What if in that moment in the flashback, playing with the Valkyrie toy, she made the choice to be a hero? And that was simply way too off the Loki path to be allowed to exist.
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« Reply #45 on: 07 July 2021, 23:46:15 »
Quote from: Øystein on 07 July 2021, 12:23:29
You're right, it's Throg. The jar says T-365 which is the issue of Thor the Thunder Frog shows up in.

Wow, so Chrono Trigger basically does exist.



By the way, is there a known (Marvel) significance to the appearance of the mansion in the midst of the cloud at the end? It looks like a cross between Skyfall and Barad Dur.
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« Reply #46 on: 08 July 2021, 00:31:17 »
Chronopolis?
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« Reply #47 on: 08 July 2021, 08:08:45 »
Have to admit, I think my favourite part of this episode was the rant when Loki is trying to get the others to explain what's going on.

Favourite line: "Which I'm heartbroken to announce I don't even find all that strange!"

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« Reply #48 on: 08 July 2021, 09:01:58 »
I think they settled who the Superior Loki was too, the Alligator.
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« Reply #49 on: 08 July 2021, 09:05:30 »
Quote from: Lorcan Nagle on 07 July 2021, 12:21:39
There's a Polybius arcade machine behind Old Loki in the hideout too, it's from an 80s urban legend

What urban legends that?
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« Reply #50 on: 08 July 2021, 09:07:44 »
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« Reply #51 on: 08 July 2021, 13:18:19 »
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What urban legends that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius_(urban_legend)

Basically people were claiming Polybius was an arcade machine that was trialled in Portland for a few months in 1981 - it allegedly was physically addictive and men in black were seen checking the machines before they vanished.
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« Reply #52 on: 08 July 2021, 13:59:52 »
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« Reply #53 on: 08 July 2021, 16:56:37 »
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This one (I assume) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius_(urban_legend)
For some reason, the forum software refuses to parse the close parenthesis, so the link appears broken.  My attempts to fix it have failed, so the solution is to copy the url (including the close parenthesis) and paste that into your browser.
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« Reply #54 on: 08 July 2021, 17:10:50 »
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For some reason, the forum software refuses to parse the close parenthesis, so the link appears broken.  My attempts to fix it have failed, so the solution is to copy the url (including the close parenthesis) and paste that into your browser.

You need to use BB code to explicitly enclose the entire url. So [ url ] [ / url] or use the hyperlink button on the edit screen. It'll give you this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius_(urban_legend)
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« Reply #55 on: 08 July 2021, 17:37:52 »
I tried throwing the proper URL into a URL tag around some other text, and it gave me a different error.  Probably something very particular in the BB code...
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« Reply #56 on: 08 July 2021, 20:56:15 »
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybius_(urban_legend)

Basically people were claiming Polybius was an arcade machine that was trialled in Portland for a few months in 1981 - it allegedly was physically addictive and men in black were seen checking the machines before they vanished.

So, the prototype/progenitor of Fortnite?

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« Reply #57 on: 09 July 2021, 19:27:42 »
I know we were supposed to be enjoying all the Easter eggs in the debris of the end of time, but I couldn’t get over how great it was that they cast Richard Grant as Classic Loki.
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« Reply #58 on: 09 July 2021, 20:55:57 »
I just discovered this show yesterday. I’ve binged through episode 5. When is episode 6 expected?
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« Reply #59 on: 09 July 2021, 20:57:04 »
Tuesday night at midnight PDT.
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