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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
She just gets to slip off because Protagonist-Centered Morality. It's not quite as egregious as no one invoking eminent domain on Stark or taking him to task for any of the dozens of illegal things he does, but it's close, and she doesn't even have his slim excuse of being a powerful and popular billionaire (as unlikely as it is to fly in reality with his level of blatantness).
edited 30th Jun '17 3:15:08 AM by MonsieurThenardier
"It is very easy to be kind; the difficulty lies in being just."If memory serves, the reception of AOS' trailers was very positive, the backlash was related to the low quality of the first two-thirds of season 1. It's hardly an unfair judgment based on a trailer only
As for Agent Carter, I distinctly remember people being excited about the fifties' atmosphere. Hell, without even caring about story or acting, any scene from Agent Carter looked a hundred times better than the glimpses we got of Inhumans.
No, sorry, especially when put next to the other three Netflix shows, you can't use Iron Fist to shill Marvel TV as a whole. And I think that after that trailer, it would be wise to avoid drawing any comparison between Inhumans and Game of Thrones. GOT also works because, aside from the court intrigue and actor performances, the setting is jaw-droppingly gorgeous, the costumes are amazing and the action scenes often feel epic.
Holy shit. You're both children and you both suck. CAN we shut the fuck up already?
My various fanfics.Movie bob gives his idea of how he'd have integrated Spider-Man into the MCU.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tJ6FlVq054&t=48s
Pointless jabs at the ASM and DCEU aside, it isn't a bad video. Not sure I'd have done it but it does sound like a somewhat good idea.
I... Know he exists.
Anyway, at the very least Wanda can, in universe, be justified to not be in prison because, hey! "So you got your powers from a magic mind control stick HYDRA was using, and then that stick made a robot that you also worked for until the stick turned into a different robot that you worked with. We can make a very compelling case for not guilty by way of mind control and god damn I can not believe I got a law degree for this."
Which could also be argued against that she and Pietro acted out of desperation, wanting some form of control over their lives after everything was taken from them and, presumably, having suffered some sort of negative psychological effects from the whole pinned next to a bomb thing and whatever experiments HYDRA did to them.
My various fanfics.She chose to do it, he says. But I ask you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, where is the evidence? There hasn't been a single shred of evidence, only speculation that my client, a young orphan girl traumatized by war, willingly joined a terrorist organization that has well-known access to brainwashing techniques and mind control powers. The "Faustus method" and the effects of the Loki scepeter are well-documented beyond what the scope of this trial can even fathom, so I ask you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, what do the facts tell you?
The facts—-
(looks startled)
....Foggy take this one for me, my grandmother's cat is on fire and I left the stove on. Also, ninjas.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Avengers had Thor vs Iron Man, Age of Ultron had Hulk vs Iron Man, Civil War had Cap vs Iron Man
Who will Tony piss off and fight next?
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYeah I was actually talking about the time she accidentally threw a bomb into the side of a skyscraper.
Which only went off because of an illegal(and very poorly thought out) anti terrorism op she was a part of. Also "Well she might be able to wiggle out of it n court" isn't a great defence of the character.
All of our most recurring arguments are getting stale.
Well, have gotten. A long time ago.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYeah. The sets alone in GOT are fucking gorgeous. Attilan in the trailer looks like it was shot in a parking garage.
You are describing a pretty average terrorist here. "Out of desperation", "wanting control over their lives", "everything was taken from them", "negative psychological effects".
The guys from the Charlie Hebdo attacks lived an absurdly miserable life before turning to terrorism. Also, like the Maximoffs, they were siblings.
The terrorist set it off to kill Cap and they wouldn't have had the bioweapon if they had warned the lab about the imminent theft and had them switch it out for a dummy.
Or just bought along the super powered android who wield an item of cosmic power and the guy with the Iron Man suit so they could take the terrorists out faster.
Or tailed them until they were away from civilians. Or heck, wait until they're in the air then shoot them down.

Oh, no, not another "Wanda is evil discussion".
To clarify something, I won't mind criticism of the trailer but I am not sure if the criticism is really fair. It's okay. And maybe being okay is not enough, but it sounds interesting, and I have seen fandoms getting all apeshit over similar trailers because they were primed to get excited about a show. In this case I think that the feelings towards Scott Bucks (or the fact that this isn't a Netflix but an ABC show, or people being defensive of the Mutants, or just a delight to have something about Marvel to criticize) leads to the trailer getting more flak that it deserves. It has some nice visuals which will be amazing on an Imax screen, Maximus sounds like an interesting villain of the "he kind of has a point" variety, I actually think that the teleporting effect is kind of neat (more complicated that the characters just vanishing, but not ridiculously overstated either), and the scene with Black Bolt getting beaten up and setting off an explosion because a sound escapes him has me intrigued. I never really considered how hard it must be to keep silent, no matter what, if you are actually able to talk. (Hence I also don't buy into the "he should be more powerful" notion. Why? He can already destroy the world with a scream, isn't that enough?). I feel some trepidation concerning the notion that the show might end up mostly set on earth and initially, I expected the world of the Inhumans to be more colourful, but then it does look "moony" and it does play into Maximus point.
All in all, yeah, don't mind being critical about it, but let's not act as if this is one of the worst trailers ever. I have seen much worse and at least in my case it does its job.