u/BardicLasher

The One Ring and Gandalf appear at a the Jean Grey School in upstate New York. Every X-Man ever is there, because Dazzler is doing a show.

Gandalf explains what the ring is, and that it can only be destroyed by being thrown into Mount Saint Helens in Washington. There's enough psychics that nobody doubts that he believes he's telling the truth.

What's the best team of X-Men to send on this mission? Who will act as ringbearer? They may drive, but they're between Blackbirds at the moment. Special transportation counts as said transporter being in possession of the ring (so Magik portals are probably a bad idea.)

Red Skull is working for Sauron and Hydra will act as his agents. Red Skull is willing to break the bank to hire mercenaries.

I know nobody else here watches network TV anymore, but the heroes of NCIS were just strongly implied to have done a murder in tonight's episode, and I don't even mean in the "oh, they overstepped their bounds as law enforcement officers."

Spoiler alert, though I doubt anyone who watches NCIS doesn't just watch it when it's on, a few episodes back, a major character on the show was killed. The guy who killed him was also killed, and that guy's boss, in charge of the actual conspiracy and all that, got arrested. Tonight's episode was about trying to ensure said guy actually gets convicted while he's trying to make a deal with the government. Well, the guy gets his deal, and then he immediately gets murdered in a way that it clearly implies that two of the protagonists did it. (One of which didn't actually appear in that episode despite the strong implication that he'd come in from out of town to do it.)

I'm willing to roll my eyes at copaganda when the characters go farther than they should to catch a criminal, or shoot faster than they should, or that one time a guy was abusing his dog and one of the heroes just started beating the shit out of him no questions asked, but this was just straight up, pre-meditated murder in direct opposition to law and order, because justice wasn't being done. That's not even copaganda, that's just making your law enforcement heroes into vigilantes.

Next episode is the season finale, and if this isn't strongly addressed, I think I might finally be done with this show. They've done some shit over the past 23 years, but "murder a guy that the government has decided to work with" is definitely a new one. Because it doesn't MATTER if he has it coming, and in fact we've had plenty of episodes where they make it very clear that just because someone has it coming doesn't mean you're allowed to just murder them. And frankly, they've let people who have done worse live, they're just super upset because a guy who worked for him killed someone close to them.