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'Divination spells?' Seto asked, confused. Protection spells he assumed was a pretty straightforward concept, but he didn't pay enough attention to paranormal nonsense to know what a divination spell might be.

'But how is predicting the future something that can be used against us?' Seto asked, a bit confused why Futata thought protection or future divining spells could be used offensively 'against' them.

((Intentionally misunderstanding/trying to figure out why this is useful. Generally just wants as much information as possible. Basically Seto is just trying to assess what this guy can do in case anything might be useful later.))

'Ah, well that's, comforting,' Seto said, disappointed to have not gotten anything more useful, although he was still unnerved by the idea of divination. Could that potentially mean Hirutani would see them coming? He didn't like the idea of not having the element of surprise, and keeping guards outside wouldn't be useful if they could be seen. Hopefully he wasn't watching that closely, if he was their guy.

'Well Jounouchi, Honda and I should be off then, we will call if we find anything of use, otherwise we will hopefully be back by the end of the day,' Seto announced, keen to get this over with.

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When Seto announced their goodbyes Shizuka hurried over to give Jounouchi a hug before he set off. 'Be careful,' she whispered in his ear.

((Have you seen Guardians?))

The trio finished their goodbyes and left the shrine. Seto had to re-direct Jounouchi who was heading toward the limo toward a shinny silver sports car parked in the other direction. 'I don't want to call a driver back and as the barrier can't be lowered in the limo it seemed easier to have this dropped off,' he explained, climbing into the driver's seat.

((Sorry, ask a question and then get invited to a country estate in Derby for a weekend and poof. My friend said he's dad managed the estate and lived in a cottage on the property. By cottage he really meant they actually lived on the top floor of the estate in a gorgeous flat on gorgeous grounds and omg so jealous, it was lush. But yes, I saw Guardians and I still have to say Winter Soldier is my number 1 Marvel film still, but I think this one comes in second. It was well acted, it was fun and had a decent storyline. It's really hard to contrast the 'comic' offering as there are no real other comic contenders, but I did like that it wasn't just straight comedy and did have depth and emotional investment and developed characters in addition to great banter. Groot was way more fun then I thought he would be. razz ))

Honda raised an eyebrow at how comfortable Jounouchi was Kaiba, just casually climbing into the front of this fancy waste of money with just a casual convenience comment. However, he didn't say a word and just followed his friend into the back of the vehicle. He hoped he'd get the chance to talk to Jounouchi alone at some point, all this time he'd spent wrapped up with Kaiba lately was just too bizarre.

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They got in the car and Seto started driving, he'd have to go back to his mansion first to arrange security as well as to decide how unarmed they wanted to go in. They also of course needed to find Hirutani. He also didn't think this car was the best choice to go cruising in the low class neighborhoods the guy would likely be lurking in. He hadn't specified which car to drop off for him, but this would definitely not have been his first choice. So first they'd have to head back home. Glancing back he figured now would be as good a time as any to start filling their new companion in as well.

'I need to stop by the mansion before we head out. By the way Honda, we aren't visiting Domon we...well, I suppose Jounouchi can explain this next bit better than I,' Seto said, glancing at Jounouchi to let him explain what they were doing in his own way.

((I didn't really pick up anything about religious difference. I mean he said revenge for his father and father's father and honestly after that I can't say I kept listening to him in any depth. So if the argument twisted from revenge against personal persecution to some sort of religious persecution I completely missed that. As so many of these films either go with evil for the sake of evil or the sake of revenge it didn't really come across as any weaker than those. I'd have to watch it again and maybe it's just not knowing the series at all but yea nothing I saw/heard actually was speaking religious/cultural differences at all, and the only motive I had picked up was the revenge one which was fine. I mean sure, revenge isn't a justifiable reason for evil but I can allow a film plot to work on that line.

I'm not into comedy so I definitely went in with very low expectations for this (and was in a bad mood that day to boot) so it did have an advantage there in that I wasn't really that into it. Plus it ended strong and I think that does make a difference. I did enjoy Dark World but I thought the end was pretty weak and disappointing so it's always frustrating to watch a movie that feels like it's getting 'worse' as it progresses. I think this, Avengers and Winter Soldier are the three that work best for me because they build up to a pretty good climax. Iron Man has great looking climaxes but again there is the problem that the films have yet made me care about a single person in them working against it. I've been meaning to re-watch the first Captain America because while I was surprised and rather liked it more than I ever thought I would I'm having a hard time remembering it as a whole. I also think, which is quite sad, but my brain keeps confusing Captain America with Hellboy. It just merges all the red people into one film, stupid brain. So I really need to get details straight and decide how I feel about that one again.

But yes, in whole the fact that the Guardians line worked is what made it really work for me. I mean I feel a series needs a great villain (I think it's the only reason I don't hate Batman as he usually has a good villain running around somewhere - unlike the rest of DC which usually ends up quite underwhelming, the little I've seen of it - Tom made me watch Green Lantern the other day, I think to punish me, ugh it was SO BORING). However, I feel a series also shouldn't let the villain overshadow the hero (the general Batman problem). They all came together well, it didn't seem forced yet the convenience also didn't feel trite. They developed and they were fun. I didn't hate any of them, in fact I even liked all of them where I expected at most to maybe have one character at least maybe be worth following to handle the rest. That said, I don't know that I have a favourite character and I haven't decided if that's a problem for me yet.

Although the end scene, ugh! Fine I get it's little moment thing but it was so dull and I almost missed the last train of the night for that? Ugh! Though the per-credits end scene with Groot, that was sooooo adorable.))

Honda stared at Jounouchi for a few moments after his quick spiel, not entirely sure how to process what he was told. Finally, he handled the situation the only way he could, by collapsing into a fit of hysterical laughter.

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Seto frowned a bit, wondering if bringing Honda was going to be a good idea after all, since the man was clearly insane.

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Honda tried to calm down while Jounouchi clearly began to panic, and he assumed Kaiba wasn’t finding this reaction any more comforting. ‘Sorry guys,’ he said, trying to catch his breath, ‘I think I snapped a bit there, that, that’s…wow. That’s just way too much to just pack into two sentences buddy, but yea. Hirutani, fights, awesome. Well, sounds better than a trip to talk about a dusty old book.’

((Yea I need to re-watch Captain America; it was the first of the Marvel franchise I watched so I’ve really never been able to fairly compare it. Well at least I don’t feel stupid for completely missing some important plot element. I guess the way I understood the movie the villain works well, certainly not the weakest motive, whereas I guess if it was a religious/cultural war you didn’t have enough background to support that. I guess I went with what he said first (revenge) and then just didn’t really process any statements that didn’t fit into that as potentially something else entirely. Maybe the movie felt the same, we don’t have enough background to support our argument so let’s just stick in some revenge nonsense as a good general fall back and hopefully people won’t pick up the motivation is weak. The villain did look good though, and general planet destroying is a good threat even if the motive behind it isn’t great.

That was our argument for watching the Green Lantern (we’d already watched Honest Trailer and Cinema Sins versions), but unfortunately the problem isn’t just that it’s bad it’s that it’s really really boring with absolutely zero character development. Seriously, Jane and Thor are the most well rounded couple of all time in comparison. I mean you see clips like one of the lanterns making a joke about ‘can I train them or can I train them’ and actually the training montage takes up what, 20-30 minutes of lifespan (2 minutes of movie)? So no, no you can’t, and you have no development in this movie character to make that sort of jokey comment. Even Hal isn’t really developed. It’s just a collection of not well connected scenes between characters the movie doesn’t even try to make you care about and just assumes you do/will

I thought if I was going to like anyone it would probably be Star-Lord and I never expected to like Drax or Groot at all, so most of the characters were quite a pleasant surprise for me. I did like Rocket, but he probably does come in last place for me if I can rank them. He has some great moments but overall I think I like everyone else more. Groot’s end scene was fantastic and if that had been the last thing – even if it wasn’t plot revealing in any way like some of the other bits – I think I would have been perfectly happy sitting through credits for that. I mean especially after hearing that they hadn’t let the end scene screen at premieres I really went in expecting something from this end scene so it was just doubly disappointing.

Hehe, cute, I think we've learned Marvel characters mostly just drop dead of starvation. Also, if you haven't seen, thought you'd like this: http://m.tickld.com/x/the-difference-between-dc-and-marvel-this-is-priceless