JonnyLaw

I like this choice, if true:

I think I’m on the 4th episode of the current season, and it’s fine. So far I like the first season more, but I do like the kinda random team-ups in the first few eps.

I saw something on Twitter that I assume was a joke that Marvel was in talks with Ryan Gosling for an “undisclosed role” that people were presuming was Kang.

This reminds me of taking my daughter to the first Spider-Verse and her just being completely captivated, wanting to know who everyone was. One of my favorite movie-going experiences. I’m mildly amused by this response to the trailer because a) California and Texas being united is obviously one of the hooks for the trailer, and b) it isn’t actually set in “the real world,” but people are getting hung up on this as if it was. Adding to the conversation about pre-COVID movies, I’m pretty sure the last one I saw in theaters before the shutdown was Frozen 2 (twice). The first one I saw after was Multiverse of Madness.

I’ll put this here instead of rebumping the Secret Invasion thread, but my daughter has been doing her yearly rewatched of the D+ Christmas movie Noelle, and I just now got that Jake in that movie was Kingsley Ben Adir.

Same. I mean, I’m pretty sure the show will be bad/tenuously related to the rest of the MCU, but I’ll be amused.

That reminds me, when Carol and Monica were discussing how Monica got powers, it felt like a perfect moment for an editors’ box saying “As seen in WandaVision ep. 7” or whichever ep it was.

That’s probably a safe bet. It’s definitely a fun movie, but it’s nothing that you need to go out of your way to see unless you’re a big fan of the Ms. Marvel show.

Wow, I’m pretty sure I disagree with almost every part of that review, but the part I think I disagree with most is needing to see Secret Invasion. There’s essentially no mention of anything from that show, and arguably the Skrull situation in the movie almost entirely contradicts the situation from Secret Invasion.

I assume he plays a role of some sort in the next Avengers movies given his role setting those up here.

This was a fun movie. I haven’t thought over the plot much, but it felt comic booky, mostly in a good way. They didn’t try to get too specific in explaining the whys/hows of the plot, which I thought helped. The run time was a good thing. Since this is the Marvels thread, I don’t think I need a spoiler box to say @Contentious Cwas spot on with the Captain Marvel sequel plot with Ms. Marvel tone. FWIW, my 9 yr old, who’s only seen Ms Marvel and the Captain Marvel movie as far as the MCU goes, said it’s the best movie she’s ever seen. It may also be the first time watching a comic movie that she didn’t ever ask “who is that” or “what are they doing,” so she was able to keep up with things. As for the spoilers, I think I was more excited for the last scene than the post-credit scene, but both were unexpected.

Not to get too speculative, but that final trailer, it’s tag line, the fact the Marvels drops the same day as the Loki S2 finale, and those leaks/reports that Marvel is looking to bring back the original Avengers could be lining up for some surprise big reveal.

The fact that Marvel has been as successful as it has been, while managing to pull a huge, interconnected universe while still giving directors/writers an apparently large degree of free reign is pretty impressive. They’ve got a cold streak after their first huge payoff, but they’ve also hit that Star Wars point where different people want and expect different things from it. Overall, I’m just amused by people complaining about everything being interconnected, when that’s just comics after a certain point.

I’m pretty sure this isn’t the first time they’ve said you don’t need to watch other stuff to know what’s going on in a movie/show. Kinda like when they say it about comics, it’s usually bullshit.

I feel like I’m the past, there’s sometimes been synergy between the shows and movies when things have dropped at the same time, but not so much this time.

The other part of that Variety article is a kinda, but not really spoiler for the season finale of Loki in that

Re: the MCU article, I’d be fine with High Evolutionary being revealed as a Kang variant and recast Iwuji as Kang. I think their overall problem is the perfect storm of the pandemic hitting and delaying everything at a time when they were hitting a reset with new franchises for Phase IV, forcing them to go without the bigger franchises/interconnected stores for a while.

Same. I’ve already got our tickets. This will be the first MCU movie my daughter gets to see in theaters, and she’s super excited after watching Ms. Marvel and then Captain Marvel.

Halfway through, I realized the episode almost felt like a season finale.

I didn’t like this week’s as much as this first two, but that’s probably due to less Loki/Mobius banter more than anything.

Thoughts on Loki so far? It seems like it’s being set up for Loki and Sylvie’s arrogance in believing their way(s) is the best ends up leading to either He Who Remains returning or the Multiversal War. Sylvie arrogantly tried to punish Renslayer without realizing she has not just a temp pad, but Miss Minutes. On the other hand, it feels like Loki is making an obvious mistake in bringing Timely to the TVA, especially since he said the only thing he’s missing from achieving his visions is sufficient technology.

I don’t know if this is intentional as part of what “time-slipping” will turn out to be, if it’s connected to the TVA, or just a continuity error, but it’s an interesting 1st for MCU time shenanigans that people who travel to the past are able to change their timeline’s future instead of it just creating a new variant branch.

Disney+ finales always leave dangling threads setting up the next show or movie. It’s frustrating, but expected at this point. It kind of reminds me of when the WWE Network had their free preview months and the end of the PPVs in those months were always teasers/cliffhangers for Raw. I liked this season fine, but catching up on this thread, I’m surprised I’m in the minority in thinking that dickhead in Hera’s hearing was an obvious Imperial working to undermine the New Republic.

I’ll be slightly amused/depressed when the Filoni movie “underperforms” at the box office because it’s going to be more niche than what people claim the MCU, but it’s going to be right up my alley so I can’t wait.

I was tempted to drop it, but then I remembered I got it as part of my Verizon package and for some reason hadn’t switched over that, so I did.