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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
So anyone hoping that despite the TV-MA rating, Daredevil will still have that charm, cleverness, and fun that made the other stuff from the MCU great?
I'm fine with gritty for Daredevil. Which is not to say it cannot have humour, Noir films have a lot of humor in the dry wit of its protagonists and they're usually very gritty, but I like Daredevil as morally conflicted and suffering like a Catholic Lawyer Vigiliante.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Did she need to be redefined, though? What bold new direction could they have taken her?
Also, does the alcoholism need to be brought up if it's not important to the plot? Maybe the writers just weren't interested in exploring that?
Oh God! Natural light!Carol, in her own book, has been daringly redefined as a superhero who doesn't get the shit kicked out of her by life for a change.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers
So...not a superhero in the Marvel universe?
(Okay, yeah, Carol's had it pretty rough.
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edited 24th Mar '15 11:24:34 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!Yea on Ant Man, we'll see on Paul Rudd, since I've never seen any of his movies.
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(Also the new Avengers cover got updated to show Vision and Kid/Sam!Nova)
edited 25th Mar '15 8:01:39 AM by LordofLore
Okay, well... that guy spent entirely too much time on Loki for me to take him seriously.
I mean, really? You're going to complain that Loki's death scene in Thor the Dark World was bad because it didn't have any foreshadowing? Because it seemed real and evoked real emotions? Well, yes, that's what happens when the Not God of Lies who specializes in illusions decides to fake his death. It is going to be convincing. It takes Loki's trickiness to a meta-level, not only did he fool Thor into thinking he'd changed and had died a hero instead of a villain, he tricked the audience.
And from there, the only people he had anything resembling a point about are Coulson and Fury. But even Fury has the excuse of being Nick Fury. With all the people who must be trying to kill him, it's no surprise he has contigencies and ways to avoid it. He's a superspy in a world full of super-people, naturally those means would be extraordinary in scope.
As for Pepper and Groot? No. They were noted to be injecting Pepper with Extremis, which grants regenerative abilities... and we already knew Groot's powers did the same. So, if he let himself be fooled, that's not on Marvel, because those two surviving wasn't exactly out of nowhere.
I don't think knowing that the characters survived takes away anything from their deaths (except Loki, but again, part of the point). I accidentally spoiled myself going into Guardians that Groot was going to fake-die, and I still cried at it. Because it's not just about the characters dying. It's about watching how other people react to it, seeing how much they care about these characters and how they feel about possibly never seeing them again.
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edited 25th Mar '15 8:32:00 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I like 'em, but they seem to go back and forth between 'Marvel is cool' and 'Marvel isn't so great and the whole superhero fad is going to collapse' (which it will... eventually, so you don't get a prize for guessing that) on a semi-regular basis. I know it's different people with different opinions, but it gets a little strange at times.
edited 25th Mar '15 8:37:13 AM by edvedd
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I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.Like I said, I have nothing against them, but I'm never sure how they feel about Marvel exactly.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau Project...you guys realize that Cracked has multiple columnists and writers and nearly all of their articles are opinion pieces, right? "Cracked" doesn't have an opinion on anything; its many writers do, and they are not a hivemind.
edited 25th Mar '15 8:44:39 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Well, it's inferred by all the details we've been able to gather from the trailers.
So she's very different from her comic counterpart. Overall less powerful.
edited 25th Mar '15 9:05:44 AM by edvedd
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I am definitely Yea on Antman, and on Rudd. To my logic, Age Of Ultron is the franchise money-maker to keep things ticking over, Antman is this years shot at a Guardians Of The Galaxy type experimental piece, connected to the main MCU but not yet integral and allowing them to take a few chances they might not have done with a 'headline' Avenger. I personally reckon Rudd's got better dramatic chops than maybe some credit him with, and it will be interesting to see how much of Edgar Wright's influence is still present, if any.
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