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Noir Nebula was meh… but Star Lad episode was good and the Happy Xmas episode was Great.

Star Lord episode was good. Nice to see them utilizing so many characters with that premise.

New one.

Features Korg. So you know what you’re getting into.


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It is however pretty damned cool!

Yeah, E4 is my favorite so far. It's almost ike a remix of Ragnarok, one of my favorite MCU movies. The Star Lord episode was also great. Wasn't too keen on the Happy Hogan episode, I feel like that one should have been called what if Hulk blood saved Christmas instead.

 Ahtman wrote:
I don't buy the "it couldn't be made today". You see that about a lot of movies and yet every few years you get a movie that will inevitably be described as "that couldn't be made today". It wasn't like blackface was socially acceptable when Tropic Thunder came out but now it is seen as wrong. It was bad then and it was a movie making fun of it. Just because some people have trouble distinguishing mocking racism and actual racism is no reason not mock racism.

Me neither. People said the same thing about Blazing Saddle. Mel Brooks' response was always something along the lines of "we couldn't really make it back then either but we made it anyway".
Seems about right, tbh.

Today's episode was... OK. My big problem with Cpt Carter is that they keep inserting her into Steve's stories as if 'wouldn't it be cool if Cap were a woman?' is a good enough idea to squeeze an interesting story out of, but it just isn't. It would be so easy to do it too.

Like... she's British, maybe do something with that. We've already seen them touch on the Partition in the Ms. Marvel show, there's like a whole episode of Khamala's family talking about the chaos that followed the end of British rule. Do something there. Have Cpt Carter fight a villain borne out of an event like that. It would be so easy to do, and that kind of anti-imperialist theme fits right into Disney's wheelhouse. They love injecting politics into whatever they can.

Just... do something - anything - with the character where you can't just swap her out for Steve and tell the same story.

I am the Watcher. I see all, I know alWhat The Hell Is This?!

Today’s episode was pretty cool! MCU’s first original character, apparently.


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It does take some narrative and style cues from Prey though.

But, given Prey kicks more shades of ass than there are shades in the Citadel and Vallejo paint ranges put together, taking into account every paint each range has or ever will release? That’s absolutely no bad thing!

Another very solid entry today.

It does take some narrative and style cues from Prey though.

Might be a location difference, but that was pretty rote standard Native American tropes to me. I was honestly surprised at the cultural consultation note, because it was so very standardized.

With the addition of the comic problem of supers vs normals always feels like untouchable bullying despite how obviously mustache twirling evil the normals are.

Another fun one this morning.

Think I’m preferring this season over the first. But they’ve both proven very enjoyable.

Interested to see what strange supreme is up to. He's pulling some crap i suspect he shouldn't be.

Should find out in tomorrow’s offering I reckon.

1602 felt interesting up until the end.

Then I realized she didn't matter at all- the people there already had both the mcguffin and the mystery box, so could have fixed everything on their own a lot sooner than they did.

Not a bad finale. I prefer season one’s myself, this one was a bit too busy. Think we’ll see that Hulk’s story in the already announced season 3 or was that someone I should have already recognized?

Solid finale. Of the 9 episodes we got, I didn't care for 3 of them and I think that's a pretty good track record. The Ragnarok remix was probably my favorite episode, with 1602 and Quill rounding out my top 3 for this season.

Loki saying 'bless' was hilarious.

Meh. The season didn't really need a finale in any way, and this was just throwing literally everything at the wall in a way that felt absurdly unnecessary.

The one and done nature of the comics allowed for more interesting stories than just stepping stones for a 'bigger' narrative (that's ultimately just as curtailed by the seasonal structure)

Another name is being rumored as possibly taking the place of Jonathan Majors as Kang in the MCU and IMHO it's a good one...


... and that is Colman Domingo, who's spent the last 8 years playing Victor Strand on Fear the Walking Dead. Honestly if they do recast, I can't think of anyone better at the moment.

Got to say, my favorite What Ifs are the ones with Darcy. Then the other lighter episodes.

I could have done without the serious and end of the world stuff. Except noir Nebula. She needs to be serious. And grumpy. And seriously grumpy. So that was great.

Season two felt pretty weak in its second half to me.

Voss wrote:
1602 felt interesting up until the end.

Then I realized she didn't matter at all- the people there already had both the mcguffin and the mystery box, so could have fixed everything on their own a lot sooner than they did.

Captain Carter felt especially pointless in that episode. Of all the people you could bring in to solve a world-ending mystery, they go with the one whose primary skill is punching stuff...

Echo is supposed to be starting on the 9th January, btw.

You say "starting". Others say "being unceremoniously dumped in January because they know it's trash".

 Ghaz wrote:
... and that is Colman Domingo, who's spent the last 8 years playing Victor Strand on Fear the Walking Dead. Honestly if they do recast, I can't think of anyone better at the moment.

I just hope that whatever they do, that they do recast. They've already made one terrible mistake not recasting a character. It'd be a shame to repeat that mistake and lose out on yet another great character.

And the MCU is on life support. They need to complete the drive with Kang, not just toss him to the side as if he were no big deal and then spend the next phase and a half developing a completely different Big Bad. That'd be like getting to the Third Down and then deciding the next best thing your team can do is abandon the field and go and play ice hockey instead.

Looks like Echo starts tomorrow, 10 Jan.

Kingpin is in it, so it can’t be all bad. Other than that? I’m currently entirely agnostic.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
You say "starting". Others say "being unceremoniously dumped in January because they know it's trash".

 Ghaz wrote:
... and that is Colman Domingo, who's spent the last 8 years playing Victor Strand on Fear the Walking Dead. Honestly if they do recast, I can't think of anyone better at the moment.

I just hope that whatever they do, that they do recast. They've already made one terrible mistake not recasting a character. It'd be a shame to repeat that mistake and lose out on yet another great character.

And the MCU is on life support. They need to complete the drive with Kang, not just toss him to the side as if he were no big deal and then spend the next phase and a half developing a completely different Big Bad. That'd be like getting to the Third Down and then deciding the next best thing your team can do is abandon the field and go and play ice hockey instead.

TBH I've not got any particular interest in hearing what certain doomsayer youtube cbn's have to say. The Marvel stuff is all visual wallpaper - always was, always will be and the same goes for the DC stuff. I have it on when I paint. I don't care if I miss bits, because they don't matter anyway - they're just going to retcon something away in the next lot.

 chromedog wrote:
... certain doomsayer youtube cbn's have to say.

You don't need Youtube to see the dire state the MCU is in.

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 chromedog wrote:
... certain doomsayer youtube cbn's have to say.

You don't need Youtube to see the dire state the MCU is in.

To deny the dire state of the MCU and SW is to deny reality itself. Not sure what a cbn is, but the general movie watching, D+ subscribing, and merchandise buying normies have largely checked out of both franchises and the diehard fans are more interested in commiserating with each other than supporting the franchises. It's objectively provable that the majority of the audience has left. You can look at movie grosses, as well as the piles of unsold merch at discount stores. Neckbeards and normies are aligned in not being interested in supporting the latest offerings from either franchise. The main difference is neckbeards are angry and normies are apathetic.

Not just those two franchises, either. Star Wars, Mission Impossible, Fast and Furious, Pixar, Dreamworks, all dying. The streaming wars (and the pandemic, and the economy, and the new breed of CEOs) left very few surviving evergreen IPs.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Looks like Echo starts tomorrow, 10 Jan.

Kingpin is in it, so it can’t be all bad. Other than that? I’m currently entirely agnostic.

It’s out tonight, the 9th.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Not just those two franchises, either. Star Wars, Mission Impossible, Fast and Furious, Pixar, Dreamworks, all dying. The streaming wars (and the pandemic, and the economy, and the new breed of CEOs) left very few surviving evergreen IPs.

Mission Impossible was up against a weird cultural phenomena (Barbenheimer) so didn't do that well financially, but unlike all the others mentioned the vast majority that saw the picture seemed to be incredibly positive about. Thye others may be slipping but MI still seems to be making well crafted event driven films. Marvel, SW, F&F, and even Pixar seem to be having trouble on that front.

 AduroT wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Looks like Echo starts tomorrow, 10 Jan.

Kingpin is in it, so it can’t be all bad. Other than that? I’m currently entirely agnostic.

It’s out tonight, the 9th.

Got to keep in mind people's location. We Europeans live in the future, and Disney+ shows localized release dates. It's the 10th here when it's still the 9th in Murica.

What's it been, less than half a year since Disney shifted their release times? Still a bit new that stuff goes up on a US Tuesday evening when it's already Wednesday in Europe.

 Ahtman wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Not just those two franchises, either. Star Wars, Mission Impossible, Fast and Furious, Pixar, Dreamworks, all dying. The streaming wars (and the pandemic, and the economy, and the new breed of CEOs) left very few surviving evergreen IPs.

Mission Impossible was up against a weird cultural phenomena (Barbenheimer) so didn't do that well financially, but unlike all the others mentioned the vast majority that saw the picture seemed to be incredibly positive about. Thye others may be slipping but MI still seems to be making well crafted event driven films. Marvel, SW, F&F, and even Pixar seem to be having trouble on that front.

Fast and Furious might have had its own, distinct problems. It's only half a movie and dialed back the outrageous nonsense (a bit). It might have struggled to meet expectations even if moviegoers had overall been more generous last year.

Everyone I know who saw Marvels thought it was a good, fun movie.