2014年10月30日 星期四

What will happen in Marvel Cinematic Universe

I am going to write something about how I think the stories will develop in the Marvel Cinematic Universe phase 3, after the big announcement yesterday. I am typing in English because I want to hear what the English speaking Marvel Cinematic Universe fans have to say.

First, I think most of the Avengers survive Age of Ultron. After all they (Cap, Stark and Thor) have sequel movies to do so they must survive. Except maybe Hawkeye. In the trailer for Age of Ultron, you can see Bruce Banner visibly disturbed. He is clearly horrified, probably by something the Hulk did.

Hawkeye

I think the Hulk killed Hawkeye in their snow chase scenes, he also likely did it under influence from Ultron or Scarlet Witch. Joss Whedon has said an avenger will die in Avengers 2. Hawkeye dies in Avengers 2 was already rumoured until Jeremy Renner said his character would survive and may even have a role in Captain America 3, but I think he was just trying to put a stop to the leaks.


Nobody runs around in snow half-naked. Bruce Banner clearly has just Hulked out. By his facial expression and body language it is clear the Hulk has just done something horrible. The only other character we saw running in the snow was Hawkeye. My conclusion: the Hulk killed Hawkeye.

Another issue is Loki's Scepter. It has been confirmed by Kevin Feige as another Infinity Stone. It is on earth and I assume someone will either offer it to Thanos after Avengers 2 or Thanos will come and get it himself in Avengers 3 or before.

Loki's scepter

Captain America 3 will involve Steve Rogers, Tony Stark and Black Panther. I think this story is not too relevant to Avengers 3 or Thanos.

Robert Downey Jr, Chadwick Boseman and Chris Evans.

I think Thanos is going to be quite prominent in most of the movies in phase 3. It was announced that Thanos will be the main villain in Avengers 3 and he will have all the Infinity Stones by then. He will therefore have to start collecting them in the upcoming films, leading up to Infinity War.

 

Thanos will probably attack Asgard in order to claim the Infinity Gauntlet and the Tesseract in Thor: Ragnarok. Both items are on Asgard as far as we know.

The Orb

Thanos will then probably go after the Orb on Xandar which is under protection by the Nova Corps in Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

But the Aether's location is not known after Guardians of the Galaxy shows that Knowwhere, where it was supposedly kept, was blown up, so that will need to be resolved in one of the upcoming movies. Some people say The Collector still has it. We just have to wait and see.

The Aether. Where is it?

Finally, two more Infinite Stones are still to be revealed. One of them maybe found in Doctor Strange and I think either the Inhumans or Captain Marvel will locate the other. Both Tesseract and Aether were on earth. After all not all the Infinite Stones can be on earth right?




2014年10月27日 星期一

新加坡4日3夜-第四天

今天早上我們在酒店吃早餐,這裡的早餐都頗為豐富,包括白粥、燒賣、豆沙包、香腸、茄汁焗豆、薯仔、沙律、粟米片、西瓜、香蕉、麵包、多士、各種咖啡等等。我們每天早餐都可以吃得很好。


附近的另外一間酒店,ibis hotel。


有三部電梯。


每層都有很多房間


早餐的餐廳叫Big Bite Cafe



由Bras Basar地鐵站坐地鐵去Bayfront,參觀今次行程最後一個景點,Gardens by the Bay。這是外母指定一定要來參觀的景點,因為她有一個朋友說這裡很漂亮。





Gardens by the Bay的Supertree。


其實都是樹型的建設,外面種有植物讓它們慢慢生長上去。


其中兩棵Supertree有橋樑連接,登上要收費S$5。


回看Marina Bay Sands。



當中最大最高的一棵Supertree,頂層是餐廳。


看完Supertree我們就去了溫室。溫室有兩個,一個是Flower Dome另外一個是Cloud Forest。本地人可以選擇只去一個,但是遊客一定要購買兩個溫室的套票。本地人買套票也便宜一些,只需要S$20。遊客要S$28。我和太太都是付本地人價錢。


先去Flower Dome。






之後我們進入了Cloud Forest。這裡真的是令人嘆為觀止。建議你先去Flower Dome再來這裡,先看Cloud Forest會對Flower Dome感到很失望。


入門馬上見到一個壯觀的瀑布。







乘電梯上六樓開始走下來。





這個溫室真的是超越你想像


午餐我們也在這裡的餐廳解決,先來新加坡式咖啡和奶茶。


Mee Siam


Mee Rebus


印尼炒飯。


之後我們再經由Supertree及Marina Bay Sands前往地鐵站。


返回酒店之後就召了的士往機場。


Check-in之後當然要去Bengawan Solo繼續血拚。


我們的航班,16:05由新加坡返回香港。回到香港是晚上8時左右。


新加坡4日3夜-第三天

今天我們前往新開設的河川生態園(River Safari)。它跟新加坡動物園和Night Safari同樣位於Seletar Reservoir。我們在酒店吃完早餐之後乘搭地鐵至Ang Mo Kio站,要再轉138號巴士前往。

可能因為今天是公眾假期,前往該區的遊人都比較多,所以巴士也不用等太久。我們在10時10分左右抵達。之後要直接前往坐Amazon River Quest,因為我聽網上的意見訂了10:30的船。但是後來明白其實10:30的booking是由10:30至11:00都有效的,所以並不需要太心急。

Amazon River Quest和River Safari Cruise是園內的兩個付費設施。兩者都是收S$5。Amazon River Quest比較像在主題公園內的遊戲,並不刺激但是都有高度限制。主要就是坐在一艘小艇上,看看沿途的小動物。偶爾會向下府衝,但是其實都是很溫和的。






River Safari Cruise更加簡單,只是坐一艘像是街渡般的小艇,出去Seletar水塘繞個圈,15分鐘便回來。遊客可以看到動物園內的長頸鹿、大象等等,但是實在不是甚麼大不了的事。我覺得這個cruise應該包括在入場費之內。







河川生態園主要是介紹河裡的淡水生物,尤其是鱷魚和其他大型魚類。不過總括來說,淡水魚都是被海水魚醜陋。但是香港沒有類似的展館,所以還是相當有趣的。

河川生態園最重要和最受歡迎的展覽品是兩頭中國借給新加坡的大熊貓嘉嘉和凱凱。不過我覺得,大熊貓見過一次之後,其他的都是差不多。



小熊貓(Red Panda)也有。




大熊貓今天都算相當活躍。



湄公河魚缸。



湄公河鯰魚



American Paddlefish。


Alligator Gar,之前新聞報導說香港水塘也有發現。

不計大熊貓在內,個人覺得園內最好看的是這個Amazon Flooded Forest。




有難得一見的海牛(manatee)。


我們午餐準備回去Ang Mo Kio才吃。因此買了兩個大熊貓紅豆包來充飢。

在準備離開的時候,太太見到了她的同事和家人一起來玩。當時已經下很大雨,不過我們告訴他們整個園區都是有上蓋的,不用擔心。


在Ang Mo Kio我吃了這碗S$3.5的叻沙,好多螄蚶啊!香港真的沒有這種美味。

下午我們回酒店休息了一陣,然後外父母又去賭場。我們則去了Orchard購物然後跟太太的朋友在Dhoby Ghaut吃晚飯。