1. His use of language and idioms. Stranger Things included some clear anachronisms but was mostly faithful to its time frame. If Quill is an Earth kid who's lived 30 years in space, he'd be more invested in his host culture than in the Earth that he hasn't seen in decades. Or at least his memory of Earth would be very skewed.
2. Really? Didn't see that, and it's not on the Wiki page. All they had to do was take 2 seconds to mention it on-screen & the problem is solved.
3. Sure, and I get that Marvel is riffing on the "raccoons are clever" shtick, but I don't buy that he's more clever than everyone who's ever been in the prison.
4. Right, but that makes the whole enterprise look stupid. If Quill & Company can bust out in minutes and Ronan & Friends can destroy the place in seconds, then everyone who's ever served time in that prison is dumb enough to be a Republican president.
5. Sorry, don't buy it.
6. Definitely don't buy it. Terrible song.
7. LOL
8. Definitely right about making new pads. Also a good point about the rubber. IIRC I didn't have a single pair of Walkman-grade headphones that lasted more than about three months during the 80s or 90s.
9. That's a fair argument, though it runs into tricky territory re: the Ship of Theseus. How much of the device can the sentimental Quill replace before it's not the device anymore?
10. I don't mind his appearance but rather the way he's animated into the scene. The MCU is so careful with Hulk, for instance, (and even Rocket) that anything less convincing in a CGI character is a real problem.
11. Gamora is stated outright to have participated in genocide, and I don't believe that the accusation is denied anywhere onscreen.
12. Ok, but it's poor storytelling to hang a major plot issue on a deleted scene that way. Maybe Thanos looks like a cartoon because a deleted scene reveals that he comes from The Cartoon Universe?
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