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Agreed, yes! Predacons cannot be limited to just a small number of species, no! And what of Dinobot? Is he not Maximal still? I should think so, yes! The voice acting was amazing on that show, and it would be awesome if the original actors came back!

God is this ever true

Just finished episode 2. Female Loki revealed! I think her motives are to destroy the TVA and save Asgard (or at least a version of it). I think she takes issue with them approving the destruction of it, and only one timeline (one truth) that it must be destroyed. I get the impression that's what they hinted at with Loki's reaction to seeing the file on Ragnarok. Our Loki could deal with it, female Loki cannot.

I mean, it's obviously confirming the inverse. Mr. Jokes definitely goes down on it.

It's already more mature looking by a mile in terms of violence, but then again the 2012 TMNT show was "for kids" and it has some of the most fucked up imagery I've ever seen in a kids show (that wasn't from Japan).

Alright that was badass.

It also works because, yeah, the MCU earned it through the 10 years of characterization since the original Thor, and the audience has no problem riding along. I mean this is just a condensed version of the emotions we've already seen him go through over a much longer span of time through the movies, only this time those emotions are processed much more suddenly and violently. They've established he really does love his mother, and seeing her get killed is the first thing in the reel tape that gets to him. Also I loved the moment of him seeing the Infinity Stones. All his effort to escape and steal the Tesseract and continue his quest for world conquest, and... The stones are all just there. All the power of the universe is worthless. Everything he's trying to do is instantly rendered meaningless. How brilliant is their understanding of the character that they can cut him down to a tiny bite-sized cube in just 30 minutes, and it works?

This has trainwreck written all over it.

Yep I liked it.

That sure is a weird Doom reboot.

Another M. Night Shyamalan movie. I've failed many times and no one is giving me millions to make my projects. It's not fair!

The themes of the characters were consistent though. Each one had an arc. But like, if they're going to make Rey a nobody... Stick with the nobody story. Play with the themes of that.

I've always been able to exhale through it pretty well.

Yeah nothing revelatory there. But it's a bit of a head-scratcher how it took doing it the wrong way to figure out that plans are good. Or maybe not strictly that plans are good. Maybe more like...a cogent trajectory is good. IX is pretty universally loathed, but what's funny is how VIII would probably be appreciated more, by more people, if IX had stuck the landing. Instead they prioritized time over quality.

Yes and all those iconic things were apparently established within a few weeks of his life and would henceforth never change until we caught up with him again when he meets Luke! Yeah the first Solo can die in a fire. The last thing it needs is a sequel.

Yeah this is something people started talking about since Chapek was appointed. I'm not entirely surprised that people's suspicions are confirmed. If/when Feige leaves, that's pretty much it.

Agreed, that was absolutely abhorrent. Not a great first impression.

Fair points. And probably the more we see of her story in future shows and films, the more understanding we'll get of the complex underpinnings of her life and current mindset.

You misunderstood. I meant she could have seen Sam as redemption for the people of America that she felt betrayed her, not for her.

Wasn't antagonizing at all. It's more a response to past experience on how my posts are usually received around here. I'm finding I struggle a lot with wild character swings that are explained, but not shown. A good example of a character swing that I think was done well was Hawkeye becoming Ronin, when the movie showed the moment that triggered the change that would happen, and it was powerfully done. This show obviously can't be to the level of polish as the films, but I feel like I have to think about the change Sharon went through in cold logical terms, as opposed to "feeling" it if that makes sense. That disconnect causes the characterization to feel fake, to me.

My genuine opinion is "bait" now. She may have no personal incentive as far as riches or power, but my argument was more she chose money over the right thing. She doesn't see the people that went to bat for her as any sort of redemption, and doesn't seem interested in doing the right thing even for their sake. Is she just bad now? Like, basically irredeemable?

Well, it definitely took risks. Some good social commentary. As for the story though, I'm having a hard time tagging along with some of the ideas. Walker does the obvious thing and stops a truck full of people from falling off the edge. Now everyone's cool with him, after.... Everything. Sharon being the power broker... huh. That's a bit of a jumping the shark moment for me. Apparently Steve Rogers was a poor judge of character when he dated her, but I guess he's not infallible. But she's gone full traitor after everything her aunt fought for? She stole the shield and Falcon's wings to do what she thought was right, and was punished for it. But after a full pardon as promised, she's apparently just in it for the money now. It feels flimsy to me, like an idea done for the shock value. I'm sure ten people here will disagree, so I await the responses.

Dammit and I bought Far From Home on Blu-ray thinking it wouldn't ever come to a streaming service I have.

Oh fuck yeah