It was cruel to announce that film during the Super Bowl when I had to work the next morning.

Buffy, Firefly, Alien and Predator have been dead or nearly-dead franchises for a long time.  The latest Alien was considered pretty awful, and who knows whether the Predator reboot will be any good.

They've been talking about the end of The Simpsons for at least a decade.  I thought I read a year or two back that the talent had signed their final contracts, and planned to wind down.  I don't think the Disney purchase is going to impact the future of The Simpsons in any negative way.  If anything, they'll throw more money at it to preserve the brand.

Theaters make way more money off quality Disney films, where they're selling out screenings and tons of popcorn, than they do mediocre X-Men films that die after two weeks.  I doubt any theater chain is complaining about Star Wars hitting today.  I was looking at the mid-day screenings Friday are nearly entirely sold out at my favorite theater (assigned seats, so you can see exactly how many are open).  And it's sold out completely for many screenings through the weekend.  A bump from Apocalypse box office to Ragnarok box office across the X-Franchise would be a windfall for theaters.

I'm most annoyed by the fact that Rick's daughter looks like she's 3 years old now, while Maggie doesn't even have a hint of a baby bump.

Overall it was a decent finale.  I wish they'd shown the Saviors escaping instead of just telling us it happened.  Would have been more interesting.  Big surprise with Carl.  Is that something that happened in the comics?

Ezekiel had to give himself up to lock the doors behind his people.  It was a good moment, IMO.

And what a colossally bad way to get Oceanside on their side...

So yeah - I'm gonna say that last stone has to be in Wakanda.  Possibly the source of Wakanda's advanced tech.  No real reason for Thanos to invade the place otherwise.  Unless that's where they take Vision to hide him after Dr. Strange gets his stone jacked in NYC.

It doesn't seem very efficient that Thanos would grab the Nova stone and the Cosmic Cube and NOT visit the Collector before heading to Earth to gather the other 3...  but it looks like he only has 2 when he first fights Stark.

So are we guessing the mystery infinity stone is in Wakanda then?

I forget where the red one went after Thor 2.

Weekend actuals are in for JL:  $93,842,239    

That's lower than even their lowest estimates.  It must have bombed Sunday.

...is it possible that the Amazons are wearing different designs because the movie is set fifty years later?   

They wore the same exact outfits for 2000 years in Wonder Woman.  I doubt the brief introduction of Chris Pine in 1917 prompted them to update their fashion choices.   

I think it's a waste of time to try to come up with a coherent, plot-driven reason they're wearing leather bikinis now.  Zack Snyder likes chicks in skimpy outfits.  That's the reason the outfits changed.

Rotten Tomatoes, which is partially owned by Warner Bros., is holding off linking reviews until Thursday even though the review embargo ended this morning.