Random note that I might have brought up but don't remember because I was drunk and am too embarrassed to listen to it: the place I worked on the 3D conversion, one of my coworkers looked almost exactly like Loki. He got most of the Loki shots in our sequences.

Yeah, after 30+ years of this shit constantly happening you'd think they'd have figured out better city-wide disaster protocols than "run around panicking."

You should see CAPTAIN AMERICA and, somewhat unfortunately, THOR, as the plots of both of them tie fairly directly into the events of AVENGERS. Keep in mind that although AVENGERS doesn't have a number next to its title, it's properly considered the fourth or fifth movie in a series and therefore can't be expected to do too much hand-holding for the uninitiated.

Black Widow had no proper role in IM2, but has a more to do in AVENGERS.

It doesn't work with stuff I already intended to see.

SO THERE

By the way, I'm totally the most pushy person I know about stuff I think others would like/should see. So I'm just a big ol' hypocrite.

/everyone go watch JACKIE BROWN right now

Annual price of CS Production Premium subscription: $600

Price of upgrade from CS5.5: $375

It's a pretty sweet deal if you don't already own the CS products, but I'm just gonna get the upgrade I think. Also what Paul said.

I don't even understand the question. It works like storytelling. Things happen and they cause the next things to happen and the things eventually culminate in a final thing happening and then no more things happen.

EDIT: Well, it's like you said, it comes in drips and drabs through stuff you see in the environment and stuff you hear said to you by other characters, either directly or through recordings. It's cleverly written and much of it takes place in subtext, and at each stage once you've accomplished a goal it drives you toward another goal within the context of a plot.

For the record, I'd like very much for DIF to become a profitable enterprise if it could, but nothing we've talked about trying to do to that end has ever materialized in any meaningful way. But if it meant changing the show purely to kowtow to audience demand I wouldn't be down with that. If a change we want to make anyway could work in our favor where audience share is concerned -- like the shift in format -- then that's a point in the plus column when we're considering it but not a trump card.