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I confess I did not foresee Monica getting powers from the get-go. I mean, maybe once they mentioned her cells or her labs being weird, but before that, nope.
Ah, well, no, understandable-- that's a read-all-the-Marvel-comics-already thing.
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Istvan:
I am against those complicated fan theories, and I am also against the way the show is actually doing most things.
How do you feel about the finale? (curious) Does it change the way you felt about the show one way or another?
Made me like the whole thing even less.
I will admit, though, that this short article I read this morning made me look at things slightly differently, namely with more pity:
https://www.thewrap.com/wandav...-worst-mcu-villains/
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I kept wondering if GRRM would feel relieved by somebody else taking the reins for 'ending' the thing, like pressure off, he can just do whatever he wants. And I don't necessarily think the show needed the books to be complete to do a good job once it had become its own beast. Unfortunately, it just... did not do a good job, story/writing-wise.
SHOULDN'T have needed them to be complete to do a good job going beyond where GRRM stopped.
Turns out, though, that they did need them to be complete to do a good job going beyond where GRRM stopped.
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Istvan:
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Parks and Rec. (grin)
Tried watching the very first episode, hated it, will never go back.
Oh man. It's one of my favourite comfort shows, but I started--as most people will tell you, I think--with the second season and went from there. The first season has a completely different tone from the latter ones. If you like Brooklyn 99 or The Office or The Good Place, I'd suggest giving it another go sometime. But I get it if that's just not your genre of sitcom.
1. I grasp that there are shows where people should not watch the first X number of seasons, because the shows in question don't get it together until point Y. I, however, was not stopped from watching at S1E1, and now-- so much for that!
2. The Office: I have not watched The Office, and do not ever want to do so.
3. The Good Place: Tempting to me, but a beloved family member does not ever want to try watching it, and I don't wish to try it alone.
4. I... like... SOME of Brooklyn 9-9. It's a mixed bag that increasingly just falls apart and they seemed to just forget how to write it correctly and it got harder and harder to watch. Great cast (except for Terry Crews), great characters (including the character played by Terry Crews), writing got worse and worse.
My advice to people curious about B 9-9 would be: Jump in on S1E1, and then keep going and enjoy seasons 1 and as much as you can of 2. But beware, for Bad Episodes start
really coming in hard and fast in Season 3, and I would recommend stopping and bailing out on any episode that smells bad (you can usually tell the bad ones right away-- they often involve "Frustration Comedy" or "Funny Humiliation" plots, or characters who just seem to be starting to act out of character)... I would recommend stopping at the end of S3E8, where Terry Crews' character and his wife have a third child-- that one's almost a return to the quality of the old days, or close enough to make you say "ah, someone remembers when this show was still good, and why, even though they're having a bit of trouble still doing it."
It's where I stopped.
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Marvel doesn't seem very great to women adjacent to power
Yeah
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Dang, but Paul Bettany is so charming.
Agree
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But I was annoyed by the 'we're family so we'll always be family' rot. I remember it sticking out to me particularly. What about people who need to escape their families, Disney? What about people whose parents are abusive or siblings are abusive and have decided to separate themselves from those toxic influences? Disney, man.
Agree (with you about that)
I strongly disliked the finale. Here is a small list of reasons:
1. Darcy was in it for like 4 seconds
2. We did not find the top hat and bunny and give them to Jimmy
3. "thank you for choosing me to be your mom?" What? Huh?
4. Why the hell did White Vision just yeet himself out of there and not come back
5. Who was the FBI informant that got Jimmy involved in this in the first place?
6. Boner joke. I suggested it was a big mistake to cast Peters because of how mad it's made the fans not to follow through at all. Beloved Family Member correctly said that that wasn't a big mistake at all (he was quite fun in the Halloween Spooktacular after all); that the mistake was the Boner joke, signifying "tricked you, suckers, ha ha, you're loser fanboys"
7. So does Ralph have to have Agnes live with him the rest of his life now? are they magic-married now or what
8. I knew a week (and two days) ago that Wanda would use copies of those runes to turn Agatha's magic off
9. I kept saying "So now obviously Wanda will shrink the Hex to just her one block of neighborhood, or maybe just her house and yard"
kept saying it
kept saying it
then i was like "wait wth why get rid of it entirely--you have kids now!"
If Darcy showed up and showed Wanda an iPad and said "I'm so sorry ma'am but look, you're gonna destroy reality if you keep this thing going another couple days" THEN OKAY FINE
but i mean what the heck
So... Beloved Family Member said: "An unsatisfying marriage between How America Uses Family Sitcoms To Explore Heartbreak In A Pleasantville Way -and- Multi-Part Infomercial For Other Marvel Projects"
(Me: "like the unsatisfying marriage between Agnes and Ralph, amiright? ah? ah? waka-waka!")
And-- that figurative marriage was always expected. The fact that that marriage was expected did not cushion the blow of that marriage of two things being unsatisfying
1 2 and 3 were not a Marvel Infomercial, and that was good as far as it went.
And then it was fine that 4 was, because what they were doing in 1 2 and 3 wasn't enough on its own.
Then 5 and 6 seemed to be doing it right (well, enough), joining the two together.
Then 7 8 and 9... did not do it right.
Got into this as a warm-up for Loki's show, and now we have less-than-zero faith that they'll handle that right. Will not try.
("You have
less-than-zero faith?" Yes. The opposite of faith. BAD faith. Faith that they'll mess it up.)