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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
He did ask what was going on. Cap was careful he knew what he was getting into and what the consequences were. Unfortunately, Cap was wrong about the threat.
Compare to Pym, who was just like "I'm sending you on a suicide mission. Or I can send you to prison for life. It's your call."
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.Loeb Reveals Why Marvel's TV Superheroes Haven't Appeared in the Movies
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"I can tell you that part of the challenge of doing this sort of thing is that the movies are planned out years in advance of what it is that we are doing," Loeb told /Film. "Television moves at an incredible speed. The other part of the problem is that when you stop and think about it, if I’m shooting a television series and that’s going to go on over a six-month or eight-month period, how am I going to get Mike [Colter] to be able to go be in a movie? I need Mike to be in a television show."
While the properties all take place in the same universe, Loeb says it's logistically difficult to get the TV actors to appear in the films beacuse of their rigorous schedule.
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Quoting the classic Marvel phrase "It's All Connected," Loeb clarified that the properties all link by inhabiting the same world. "As I often get reported by you folks for saying #Its All Connected, our feeling is that the connection isn’t just whether or not somebody is walking into a movie or walking out of a television show," Loeb continued, "It’s connected in the way that the shows come from the same place, that they are real, that they are grounded."
Figure I'd post this. I hope that puts things on this to rest.
edited 30th Jul '16 11:59:13 PM by VeryMelon
There is nothing new about this. It was pointed out ages ago that lining up the movies and the TV shows is difficult (though I still think that it would have been possible to stick some Agents of Shield characters in the background of the Helicarrier if they had really wanted to). The actual discussion is more if "it is all connected" is just lip service when it relates mostly to vague references.
I do think they can actually crossover AOS and the Netflix shows, though. I mean, even though the shows are filmed across the country (AOS is filmed in Los Angeles, I believe, while all the Netflix shows are filmed in New York), they can easily fly a few actors out to New York and film some scenes where Daisy meets Matt Murdock or Coulson meets Jessica Jones and it would be pretty awesome.
This is one of the unfortunate side-effects of trying to say that "everything is connected" in the same universe. The "logistics" get in the way and so, well they don't feel like they're connected really. The films and the TV shows might as well be in separate continuities for how little that they actually feel connected.
Speak for yourself. As long as Ao S is around, I do feel the connective tissue.
Yeah, pretty much. Some of the AoS actors have spoken up about it. Mind, AoS does do a pretty good job of dropping minor connections here and there, but the fact that it's so one-sided is annoying. Sometimes it feels like a well-written fanfic, if that makes sense. You know, the author makes a lot of effort to connect it to the main universe, but the main universe is never going to reciprocate.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.As I understand, it's difficult for the shows to reference each other as well because I don't think the Netflix ones happen in real-time. Aren't they supposed to be right after Avengers 1?
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Loeb's quote in there made sense to me. He said if they do crossovers between the movies and TV shows, they want it to be something substantive and not just a cute little wink nod moment. I think as much as people ask for it, brief cameos or shout outs probably wouldn't satisfy a lot of fans.
The problem then as that anything more than a brief cameo is gonna take up time and storytelling space (as well as manpower) that the people making the movies don't want to have to deal with.
Ao S by now roughly happens when they air, the Netflix shows lag behind, though. Daredevil season 1 was released in 2015, but it was set in summer 2014, Jessica Jones was released in late 2015, but it was set in early 2015 (February most likely), and Daredevil season 2 was released in 2016, but was set in summer to Christmas 2015.

Ironically, while Cap is generally more reliable than bitter old Hank Pym, Hank was right and Cap was wrong. They were both telling the truth as they knew it, Cap just didn't realize he was playing right into the bad guy's hands.
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