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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
"Who are you?"
"The stone the builder refused."
Luke Cage (the show) has such unbelievably hammy, comic-book-y lines yet it makes them really awesome instead of silly.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!They crashed on a brick wall with Diamondback in the first season (whose hamminess turned him into even more of a joke), but with Bushmaster they seemed to finally get a proper Large Ham foe.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."Colleen and Danny were both very enjoyable in their respective appearances, and I figured the latter being so may have surprised people who hated IF's 1st season, though considering he's being handled by not-Scott Buck this time, probably not.
Self-serious autistic trans gal who loves rock/metal and animation with all her heart. (she/her)I can see the MCU choosing to reboot Luke Cage and Iron Fist as a proper "Heroes for Hire" show, actually. It's one of the easiest routes to follow because Netflix deliberately avoided it (since they only really crossed over as proto-Heroes for Hire once in LC season 2) and chose to build the characters largely separately and the fact Iron Fist got such a scathing reception makes him prime target for a "let's do this right" reboot.
Daredevil and Jessica Jones are the ones I have a harder time picturing what the MCU would do. the Daredevil show we had was basically the most perfect adaptation of the character you could ask for and there's really not much else to do with him that wouldn't be highly controversial and a risky gamble (such as adapting DD's lighter and base-breaking material with the Waid days) or a (possibly far lesser) retread of the Netflix show. JJ is much the same, and unlike DD, she doesn't even have much else to draw from since her comics history is far smaller.
Heroes for Hire are the ones where the MCU can most easily strike gold by doing something the fans wanted to see and Netflix didn't do. It helps both LC and IF have material the netflix series more or less avoided (namely, their more light-hearted and high fantasy material).
Edited by Gaon on Jun 24th 2019 at 10:46:49 AM
"All you Fascists bound to lose."You know, I kinda wish every Netflix MCU season had included a scene where the villain monologues a fable in the backseat of a police van before escaping. Bushmaster basically did the same thing Kingpin did in Daredevil season 1 XD. That scene still always made me laugh. Kingpin talks like no one in the audience would've heard of the GOOD SAMARITAN before.
Kaze ni Nare!G Ninja: Glad you ended up liking Bushmaster^^ Again, he's one of these rare cases where I genuinely found myself Rooting for the Empire without seeing it as a bad thing.
I don't even see Bushmaster as altogether antagonistic. His aims aren't really all that different to the hero's own, but his methods and the limits he will go to are what cause conflict.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."So this is pretty much a me problem and it's something endemic to the character Luke Cage, so there's no real solution for it.
Luke being unbreakable kinda takes something from a lot of his fights. When a character shows battle damage, it's a nice visual shorthand that gets across that they were up against a worthy foe. Someone who could actually hurt them. Luke physically can't show that he's been hurt. Unless it's something like the concussion Bushmaster gave him in their first fight. So even though he has three fights against Bushmaster, all of which include Bush getting proper hits in that aren't no sold, it's kinda infuriating to see Luke walk them off with no ill effects whatsoever.
Kaze ni Nare!What really made laugh wasn't Kingpin's good samaritan speech in the first season, it was how he went on another speech in season 3 and his car was likewise attacked right in the middle of it, again.
Basically if you're in a car with Fisk and he starts monologuing, just get out of the car and run.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."So I do this kind of thing for fun: what a hypothetical X-Men TV show would look like.
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Really, if any villain starts monologuing in a low register, especially if it's to do with their motives, and ESPECIALLY if they seem to be in your power, start paying REAL close attention to the walls, and the doors. And to whatever their hands are doing.
Edited by GNinja on Jun 25th 2019 at 3:30:53 PM
Kaze ni Nare!No, no, see, you've got Angel, Beast, and Iceman in your main cast. Nothing against those characters, but if you're trying to use them regularly on a TV shows budget, you're gonna run into trouble with how difficult/expensive their powers are to depict.
Iceman you can maybe get away with, if you use his full covered-in-ice form sparingly (ditto for his ice slides) and mainly just have him shoot blasts of cold out of his hands. But creating Angel's wings (whether with prop wings or CGI) in a way that doesn't look horribly fake is gonna be expensive. And with Beast, even if you don't have him blue and hairy, his schtick is still that he moves and climbs in ways no human could, which would be very difficult (and, again, expensive) to portray with a human actor.
I'm not even so sure about having Cyclops in a hypothetical X-Men TV show. While his powers aren't that expensive, you'd need an actor who can convey emotion well despite half his face being hidden, and who isn't going to object to doing all his scenes with half his face hidden.
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You should really watch Doom Patrol (2019). Things that I thought would have been impossible, they did and did perfectly. And the X-Men show would have less episodes (13), therefore a higher budget for each episode.
Edited by alliterator on Jun 25th 2019 at 8:37:50 AM

You know how Taika Waititi cited Flash Gordon as an influence when doing Thor: Ragnarok?
Guess who Disney decided was best to handle
a Flash Gordon film they inherited from Fox?
"The devil's got all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns. Fuck that." - Liam Gallagher