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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The Washington Post has a really good article about the possible merger:
It's pointing out something which originally worried me too, but first dismissed as paranoia...but if the WP sees it too, I might not be totally crazy: What if instead of the Murdoch Family ceding their influence over the entertainment business (which, yeah!!!, the less influence their have the better), they are actually wanting an in to Disney so that they can eventually get even more influence.
That is a chilling possibility and I just hope that Disney is too strong to allow this.
Murdoch’s kids are less bad than Rupert Murdoch himself. They don’t have the same ideological obsessions he does. They’re still not great, to be sure, but they aren’t going to suddenly make Disney super-right wing, if only because Disney has a very defined image and brand, and it doesn’t fit at all with being super-right wing.
I don’t even know how anyone would even do that. Bob Iger’s done a good job by mostly ensuring that the executives don’t interfere with the different branches unless they need to. The Murdochs getting in and trying to change everything would probably lead to severe production problems, and most likely would get bogged down in something random. And anyway, the Murdochs don’t seem to have been all that meddlesome with 20th Century Fox.
I guess what I’m saying is that the doomsday scenario people are pointing out might happen, but I don’t think it’s actually all that inevitable.
Yeah, maybe. I mean, I have no illusions concerning Disney, it is a company like all the others (the reason why I keep defending Disney is because I feel that it gets often more flak than it deserves just for being successful, and I would rather rake Disney over the coals for their cheapquels and awful Disney princess marketing than for doing great movies and presenting us with a string of female leads), and it isn't particularly progressive, but I also can't claim that I ever disagree with the values it stands for. It would be awful if that got perverted by the likes of Murdoch and his cronies.
Regarding the Loki discussion, here a deleted scene which makes Loki being at least coerced more clear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m3NpkeTOmk
I admit, I don't understand all of the dialogue, with the sound quality not being the best I am kind of guessing, but I love Loki's sass in the scene.
I saw Homecoming two days ago and...it was nice, Peter was just ok for me and Vulture was ok, kinda above usual marvel villian but not much, at least a step in the right choice.
But in reallity What I like this movie are two thigns: one is to see the world of marvel post avenger, with aliens arm dealers and how crimes benefict for it, finally we see how marvel world deal with it rather than just be there, also I kinda like secondary chararters, they were nice.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"I saw Loki's actions in The Avengers as more of his daddy issues/inferiority complex appearing. Like he tried to commit genocide in the first Thor film just to prove to daddy Odin that he could be a goo ruler and "the better son." He says as much himself.
Well that didn't work out, thanks to Thor. So in Avengers he's essentially going "fine, you think that you're so great. Lets see how you like it when I'm ruling the planet/people that you love so much. That'll prove to you and Odin that I'm awesome." And the "conqueror" posturing is just that, posturing. Heck it's pointed out to him repeatedly in the film itself that he's not good at it (being a ruler or a conqueror).
Also he was clearly terrified of Thanos and if you look at him in his first scene, he looks like he's been through some rough crap. Baggy/sullen eyes, thinner features, messed-up hair, etc. He looks like a drug addict going through withdraw. So he probably felt like he HAD to win this time around.
It doesn't help that in previous years superhero movies used learning the hero's identity for cheap drama. You can tell there's a bit of "well, we're going to kill off the villain anyway, so lets have them find out who the hero is for some easy extra stakes before that happens," repeated over and over with each new movie.
In some cases, it got to the point where they don't even do anything with that knowledge - it's just obligatory that they obtain it. And learning the secret identity thus became an early sign that the villain is going to be killed off, because the writers rarely have any idea what to do with that plot twist after the story is over.
I always compare it to that episode of Superman The Animated Series where they bad guy is about to get executed and literally right before they pull the switch he realizes Clark Kent is Superman. That time was just for "fun" / irony, but I can agree with being burned out on villains learning the hero's identity due to how often it's played serious.
So, if anyone is interested, my post about Malekith is up:
https://swanpride3.wordpress.com/2017/12/11/marvel-musings-malekith/
Needless to say that he didn't do particularly well....
So one huge question floating in people's heads is: "If Disney really does buy Fox, therefore netting the X-Men and F4 characters back to Marvel, how would the inclusion of the X-Men and F4 be explained?"
It might sound a touch harebrained, but some people came up with an idea...
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Without looking, which theory is it? The one in which Professor Xavier made everyone forger? Or the weird time-line merging one?
Fantastic 4 is fairly easy. I mean, considering what is recently going on in the MCU, it would just be logical that there is some worldwide organised Space Project.
I wonder if there is any chance that they switch the nationalities of the F4 around a little bit? The Avengers are way too US-dominated....
-Ahem!-
So apparently, there's a rumor brewing saying Onslaught might appear in X-Men: Dark Phoenix on account of how the film synopsis makes mention of Charles Xavier's "growing ego." From there, people assume that the third act in Dark Phoenix might have a duel between the Phoenix and Onslaught. (If you're curious, you can read more about it here.
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Since Infinity War and Avengers 4 involve the Infinity Gauntlet, and the Gauntlet has the power to bend reality and the original Onslaught story involved all the heroes "dying", people deduce that Marvel Studios can squeeze the Mutants into the MCU by doing a semi-adaptation of Heroes Reborn.
Like I said, harebrained. But still interesting, no?
Not on the current topic, but that new Black Panther story reminded me of something I had been thinking when the next most recent trailer came out. It's this line from Klaw about how El Dorado is real, and people (well Europeans/Westerners specifically) have been looking for it in the wrong place.
I thought it was clever, because it reminded me of this discussion in one of the Johanes Cabal books about the legend of Prester John and how as Europeans became aware of more outside regions and didn't find Prester John's kingdom in any of them, the rumored location of the kingdom kept moving. I hadn't made a connection until now between the El Dorado legend and the Prester John one nor between one or both of them and Wakanda, but Wakanda really is in that tradition.
Speaking of the "Disney buying Fox" thing; look lively, people!
We might hear something final in mere days.
Though the article points out that there'll be some huge scrutiny or something like that, so everyone keep your collective pants on.

Plus "I am burdened with glorious purpose" might be the best line any villain ever uttered.