Greetings from Long Franchises

I had a quiet Friday morning getting laundry and paperwork done in gorgeous weather, then in the afternoon we went to see Thunderbolts*, which I enjoyed a lot. It has a good sense of humor, particularly the dynamic between Yelena and Alexei, which really makes the movie -- Pugh and Harbour are perfect together, a really nice balance of embarrassing dad jokes and the fact that when it comes to planning, she's the adult. I wish we got a little more character development for Ghost, whom we don't know more about than we did in the Ant-Man movies, but I was happy to have her here, and the fact that John Walker really wants Bucky Barnes to like him in spite of everything is delightful. The ending gets a little heavy-handed in Marvel comic style but the post-credits scene are really fun. 

We stopped at QFC to get food to bring to the house concert tomorrow and to grab some things for dinner and next week. Then we came home and watched the last four episodes of House, whose larger arc I've known about since before I started watching the show. I expected to be more emotional about them than I was, partly because I've read the theories about whether the last scenes are House's dying fantasy, Wilson's dying fantasy, straightforwardly true, or part of an elaborate ruse in which Wilson's cancer is in remission from the chemo and House knew the only way they could be happy together was a complete break from the hospital so he lied. I'm agnostic on which of these is the most House-Wilson (or the most Holmes-Watson)! The lovely PNW Witches' Market on the Kirkland waterfront: