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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The Star Wars anthologies were a sheer, fucking unnecessary delight and I'll hear no arguments otherwise
Forever liveblogging the Avengers![]()
He was better even in Defenders. Not that much better, but at least they treated his flaws as flaws instead of cool action hero personality traits. I haven't seen the second season of Luke Cage though, so I can't say how it compares.
I don't think Tobias was complaining about the anthology films. The old EU, on the other hand, was terrible about the whole "take one minor joke and blow it completely out of proportion" thing. I know some people disliked how Solo handled the Kessel Run, but the old EU did it worse, and it was one of the better examples of minor jokes or plot points given ridiculous explanations and backstories.
Edited by Discar on Jul 13th 2018 at 4:56:48 AM
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.No, no I was talking about the old legends anthology books
Tales from Jabba's Palace and the Mos Eisley Cantina
Truly we were blessed to know of the five different murder plots against Jabba or about the little Jawa who couldn't
Delightful
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThe hell we don't!
One Strip! One Strip!Danny Rand is pretty cool in Luke Cage S2, yeah. He's only around for one episode but it's probably the best in the season, in large part due to the Power Man & Iron Fist style. His personality is different, but in a way that feels like a natural progression and maturation from his prior outings. I still enjoyed Iron Fist S1, but I am definitely looking more forward to S2 if he retains those developments instead of regressing.
Anyway, I just got back from Ant-Man 2: Wasp Harder (Now With 300% More Tardigrades). It was really good. I don't have much to discuss about it, but (major spoilers) I'm wondering if Ghost and Dr. Foster will show up in Avengers 4, maybe even as Scott's rescue team and unlikely allies. They kinda owe him and the Pym family.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Half of Reddit's userbase just got banned.
Screenrant says the next Spider-Man film will be called Spider Man: Far From Home
. I notice this only after everyone was shooting mock titles left and right some pages ago.
Edited by Soble on Jul 14th 2018 at 5:33:48 AM
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!I've subconsciously ignored everything about the character that wasn't in Civil War or Infinity War ever since the Garfield films joined the Macguire films in the Toilet of Continuity.
My vote was still on Spider-Man Homewrecker.
Edited by Soble on Jul 14th 2018 at 5:50:09 AM
I'M MR. MEESEEKS, LOOK AT ME!
I'm confused, are you saying that Homecoming is Fanon Discontinuity just because the Garfield Spider-Man films are non-canon?
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Jul 14th 2018 at 3:12:15 AM
I agree,whose bright idea was it put that lasagna eating feline into the role of a superhero?
(I couldn't resist it sorry,they have the same name and everything!)
Edited by Ultimatum on Jul 14th 2018 at 10:36:37 AM
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverThing is, there is an interesting story to be told about Spiderman's parents. In the comics (at one time) they were spies working for SHIELD working undercover as HYDRA agents.
Considering the truth about the MCU's SHIELD, there's a very compelling potential story to tell there.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Jul 14th 2018 at 9:33:30 AM
That was INCREDIBLE.
Back to talking about Spider-Man, my idea for a movie focusing on Peter's parents is one loosly based on the 1968 comic focusing on them. Peter decides to do some research on them, and he discovers that they were secret HYDRA agents within SHIELD. Peter decides that he has to clear their names. Throughout the film, there are flashbacks to them in SHIELD just a few years before the events of Iron Man. By the end, Peter discovers that they were loyal SHIELD agents who discovered the HYDRA infestation, worked undercover to learn their plans and almost unmasked them well over a decade before Steve would. It might take a little fine-tuning, but I think this is a solid premise for a film.
Amazing Spider-Man 2 didn't do a very good job of balancing screen-time between its various plots. Other MCU films, including Homecoming, proved that it's totally doable to balance just as many different characters and ideas that Amazing 2 did. I'm sure an MCU film could make a story about Peter's parents work without running into the same problems.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Jul 15th 2018 at 3:56:52 AM
It was, wasn't it?
Maybe we could work Howard's death in there too. Either they confide their suspicions to him and that inspires most of his actions before death (pushing Tony away in order to protect him, maybe purposely riling Hank up to push the other into leaving Shield and thus getting out from Hydra's influence), since we already suspected he found out about the Hydra infiltration and that's one of the reasons he was killed.
Though I'm not sure how prevalent that theory is anymore post Civl War.
One Strip! One Strip!

"And I keep wondering if a Latino Mr. Fantastic is in the cards. As far as representation goes, it’s infinitely preferable to the other option."
Is this some kind of "if you make him black than the SJW's win" thing?
On another topic, my guess for Budapest as always been something along the lines of a flashback told by an Unreliable Expositor in an episode of Ghost in the Shell. Basically, it's about The Major and one of her present team being on opposite sides and hunting each other.
Edited by Hodor2 on Jul 13th 2018 at 6:32:24 AM