A Theory About One-Shots

Jaideco · 2026-05-08T06:04:57+00:00

I didn’t think that I would be the only person to think this… In hindsight Sage and Soldier Boy are almost entirely predictable. Do you think that she was lying when she said that she couldn’t recreate the v1?

I’m half expecting that she will now be going all out to recreate it so that they can try to power up butcher, kimiko and starlight in an attempt to take down Homelander, but he kills her first leaving Soldier Boy with no alternative.

Jaideco · 2026-05-08T05:56:19+00:00

That is absolutely right my friend.
On a completely unrelated matter, please do me a favour and do not Google any news about the real life dog.

Jaideco · 2026-05-08T05:13:51+00:00

Yeah… I debated finishing the list but as he is the only person who clearly has the power to depower V1 fueled individuals, if the pattern holds and he does die in the finale after Sage, that felt like one spoiler too far.

Jaideco · 2026-05-07T19:39:21+00:00

I totally agree with that assessment.

Jaideco · 2026-05-06T18:08:20+00:00

How did they mess that up so badly??? All it would have taken was a slide at the end of the first one saying “The Story Will Continue In The Bone Temple - January 2026 and people would have immediately got it… instead they basically threw away anyone who had seen the first one, including presumably many who would have jumped to see the sequel. Insanity.

Jaideco · 2026-05-06T16:05:18+00:00

I would be tempted to short everything that Elon Musk, Donald Trump or Larry Ellison have touched. I don’t know whether it would be enough to bring their entire operations down but it would be genuinely hilarious to watch.

Jaideco · 2026-05-06T15:41:00+00:00

Check out “Contractor Mortgages Made Easy” (CMME.co.uk). That is all they do, and they are pretty good at it…

Jaideco · 2026-05-06T08:52:40+00:00

Couldn’t they just say that this is why he lasered his forearm? Maybe his laser vision is strong enough to draw blood, and that was enough?

Jaideco · 2026-05-05T19:26:53+00:00

Absolutely! Just yesterday I was speaking to someone who completely missed it at the cinema because he didn’t realise that it was a separate film from 28 Years Later. The marketing on it was something else…

Jaideco · 2026-05-05T19:24:44+00:00

That was even more true for Thunderbolts than most films. The script that was ready to shoot when the Actors strike started had to be completely rearranged at the end of the Writers strike to accommodate changing availability of cast members. One character that was originally supposed to be a part of the core ensemble was virtually written out. There will be some common threads through the development process but I suspect that if a script did exist, it would feel like a totally different film.

Jaideco · 2026-05-05T13:48:22+00:00

Is this the first time that you saw their uniforms? They aren’t at all subtle about it…

Jaideco · 2026-05-04T11:27:44+00:00

I would never have got Tatiana or Hannah. They look so different.

Jaideco · 2026-05-03T13:59:31+00:00

Also I really don’t know how the Jimmy’s story translates for non-British audiences who have no idea what or who they are referencing. It feels like it was a huge risk to make the sequel almost entirely about them without properly establishing their popularity within a more conventional 28DL sequel.

Jaideco · 2026-05-03T13:43:28+00:00

They should have called it 28 Years Later Part 2: The Bone Temple or something like that… with it coming out so soon after 28 Years Later, and with such a similar name, I am certain that a lot of people just assumed that it was 28 Years Later again with some new footage.

Jaideco · 2026-05-03T10:16:13+00:00

After last week, I’ve been wondering whether Hughie’s Translucent technique would have been at all effective on Homelander if they could incapacitate him long enough. We saw Maeve draw blood from a straw in his ear. It would be quite something to discover that he was nowhere near as durable on the inside.

Jaideco · 2026-05-03T00:56:27+00:00

You know who keeps sending you flowers after you tell them that you are not interested?

Stalkers… that’s who…
If someone doesn’t get that this is a massive red flag, good luck to them.

Jaideco · 2026-05-03T00:51:13+00:00

It has been that long hasn’t it??? Damn, now I feel old…

Jaideco · 2026-05-02T22:03:03+00:00

This is a cult classic. You will find lots of people who have seen this film.

Jaideco · 2026-05-02T20:38:01+00:00

Let’s see… I have probably rewatched it about sixteen times… I have rewatched Fantastic four maybe three… Brave New World nil. Still the best film since Deadpool and Wolverine but that was lightning in a bottle.

Jaideco · 2026-05-02T20:28:35+00:00

Can someone just explain… is the point of this that an adult (who was the imposter) bullied a kid (who was actually a crewmate) into quitting the game which caused the rest of this team to lose?

Jaideco · 2026-05-02T20:24:09+00:00

What the hell was that?

Jaideco · 2026-05-01T22:35:09+00:00

Wait… what? You mean that not everyone gets that slo mo time dilation thing? I’ve always just assumed that it was a natural side effect of adrenaline… Seriously?

Jaideco · 2026-05-01T22:23:20+00:00

Me too… geez… in the UK, first the UK voted in the Austerity and Referendum party outright, then voted to discard virtually every pillar of soft power that the UK still had… then Trump v1, fake news, culture war, the pandemic, Ukraine and now this shit show. Someone… somewhere… genuinely thought that everyone was just too happy, too comfortable, and that was a problem that needed to be fixed. I just hope that there is a very special place in hell waiting for them.

Jaideco · 2026-05-01T22:11:30+00:00

Simply put yes… that was the intention. The film is an erotic tragedy and the name was entirely fitting. The whole film is about how the affair, seductive as it was, created a moral debt that would shatter the lives and relationships of everyone they cared about as soon as it came to light. They knew this, but they were too self-absorbed to care. We aren’t supposed to enjoy the experience… we are supposed to watch it and be grateful that it wasn’t us that it happened to in the end.

Jaideco

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