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[Edited by Fighteer]
Edited by Fighteer on Dec 15th 2022 at 9:55:58 AM
They should do "The Thing wears Pants".
what happens if he popped and didnt clean his butt with no pants
This "reporter" needs a new job.
Somewhere Iron Fist silently weeps.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
Mistakes Were Made
Nah, he's too busy training to join them.
‘My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
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Iron Fist=Z Fighters confirmed?
I wonder how the Iron Fist (as in Rand's signature punch) will look SFX-wise.
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
So they changed the character's gender?
edited 10th Oct '15 2:57:38 PM by AdricDePsycho
Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Uniocular
Neat!
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."
I like that the Jessica Jones series seems committed to actually having multiple women in the cast, as opposed to just deciding Jessica and maybe a friend is enough and being done with it.
*cough*Agent Carter*cough*
edited 10th Oct '15 3:55:51 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Newsarama's review of the first ep:
Mike Colter's Luke Cage is a standout in the pilot, and the entire cast is pitch perfect. The tone of the show is very feminine, and very noir, kind of like a much older, darker Veronica Mars.
Fans will not be disappointed when the show launches in November - 'Rama Rating: 10 out of 10!
edited 10th Oct '15 3:57:28 PM by comicwriter
Tbf, the most of the men take a big back seat to Peggy. But yeah, having more women in the cast is always good.
Also, Carter's length and themes made it harder to include more women. Still, coll to see the direction JJ is going (and I hope Carter goes there as well).
Are we forgetting her first roommate, her landlady, the phone lady with a gun, her nemesis, and the fact that women being kept out of the workplace is a plot point?
The Fastest Man Alive
Here's the problem with including more women in Agent Carter, at least in the first season.
The entire point is that she's the only female agent. It's one of her driving forces as a character. So there can't really be more women on that side of Peggy's life (she could, granted, interact more with female SSR personnel who aren't agents).
So with more women at work out, that leaves the women in her home life, and I think the show does an admirable job there. The reason it seems like it's not very much is because we don't spend that much time there. And spending the majority of our time in the secret agent show watching secret agent business is a good thing, I would say. Skewing too far in the other direction would leave fans unhappy (for proof, see most of the first season of Agents of SHIELD), and also lead to some Unfortunate Implications where the female-focused show is being super domestic.
There is room to grow, for sure, and I expect Season 2 to do that (on a personal note, I hope Angie gets way more to do this year). But for the story Season 1 had to tell, and where Peggy was as a character in it, I think they did the best they could.
The Daredevil teaser. Short and bad quality but still.
@Wack'd
... Did you watch the same show I did? Also that show had a ton of women. Angie, Dottie, the other Black Widows, the landlady, the girl who lost her home, Howard Stark's girlfriends, the various telephone operators (including the kickass lady with a gun under the table). Having more women in plot-relevant roles on the show would either throw off the show's pacing due to its focus on the workplace or require Politically Correct History, which would defeat the entire point of the show's aesop against sexism. Not to mention it'd be, y'know, offensive in and of itself .
edited 10th Oct '15 7:01:09 PM by AlleyOop
Writer, Artist, Ignored
Dottie isn't really important until halfway through the season.
Man, wouldn't it be great if the phone operators got to do stuff? Or, hell—why did Jarvis have to be a dude? Jarvis is a last goddamn name. Make her Edith Jarvis or something.
edited 10th Oct '15 7:13:32 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
They're still giving Dottie the short end of the stick. It's not like there are that many more men of similar importance (Jarvis, Howard, Thompson, Souza, Dooly, and Ivchenko). It's a show with a small core cast in general, during a time when most women were expected to stay home most of the time.
edited 10th Oct '15 7:24:21 PM by AlleyOop
It's implied (and stated in tie-in material) Tony's AI J.A.R.V.I.S (which has a male voice) is based on the original Jarvis, thus he probably wasn't a woman
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
If she has telekinesis, she can kinesis her own self off the ground. I think she was throwing around stuff heavier than her anyway.
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