swanpride
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Btw, I am usually completely pro-Union, but there is a difference between ensuring fair pay and proper working conditions and setting up an own law for your members...
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Yeah, maybe it should have been. But yeah, it is odd that Steve takes the responsibility onto himself in the talk with Wanda, but does little to defend her (or Thor or Bruce for that matter) against Ross. Granted, he is busy actually reading the accords in the scene (something Tony maybe should have done).
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Having grown up when Germany was still the designated Battlefield in the cold war I can relate to not wanting to upset the status quo and being broadly fine with it. Still. The question is how long it will take until China decides to end the pussy-footing around the issue. Until then though, it might be better to not rock the boat, never mind how stupid that is.
Speaking of being German: I am so f... tired of the Holocaust or Nazi analogies (in places where they don't fit, if someone is a f... Nazi, you would be able to call him that). Those people have no idea whatsoever what they are talking about and more often then not, it's a little bit the pot calling the white ceramic vase black...
Those weather reports really go all out...perhaps too much.
Yeah, let those police officers quit. I am f... tired of police officers writing their own rules.
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17 hours ago, Perfect Xero said:
1. The film presents all the reasons that oversight is a good idea so that the film can then turn around and dismiss them. At no point does anyone say, "We need oversight, but a better system." It's just, "the best hands are still our own," as the only alternative.
The point is that the audience is supposed to think about the arguments and come to an own conclusion. Why should the movie just serve an easy answer to a complicated question?
17 hours ago, Perfect Xero said:2. As far as I can tell Zemo's plan was to destroy the Avengers by engineering a fight between Steve and Tony based on Winter Soldier killing Tony's parents. What does Zemo do if Tony never shows up at the Hydra base? Does he show Steve and Bucky the video and offer them popcorn as a cover for his escape?
He takes the video and engineers another opportunity. Remember that the original plan didn't involve framing Bucky at all, the plan was to get the information from this one Hydra guy and only after he didn't talk, plan B to frame Bucky was implemented. If that guy had talked, Zemo would have fetched the video directly and then had thought up a method to use it for full effect.
17 hours ago, Perfect Xero said:3. There's a big difference between wanting someone to be perfect, and that person not trying to straight up murder an innocent man for half of the 3rd act of the film. Then that attempted murder being brushed off and completely ignored afterwards because he was mad that Steve lied isn't interesting.
Tony acts in affect. After he sees live how his mother got killer. If you don't think that it is human to snap, especially considering that at this point Tony has to be extremely tired and battle-wary, and feeling betrayed in more than one sense, oh well.
17 hours ago, Perfect Xero said:4. Wanda is in the US without a Visa or citizenship according to that conversation.
According to the conversation that is not the reason why she gets detained though. If that were a problem, they could have done it months ago. They do it specifically because she hasn't signed the Sokovia Accords (yet). Apparently retiring is not really an option for a "weapon" like her. And while Wanda might feel guilty for Lagos, that wasn't her fault. How many more people would have died if the bomb had exploded on the crowded place?
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Honestly, I don't care what anyone says. Agents of shield will always be canon for me. I would rather just kick out whatever comes new into the MCU out of canon than to give up on it.
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1. Not true. The movie does a really good job laying out the argument for oversight. The main take-away from it is, is, that while oversight in itself is not necessarily a bad idea, the kind of oversight which is proposed is. That you have to design oversight carefully or you replace just one wild card outfit with another one.
2. The very point is that Zemo's plan is flexible. Meaning if plan A doesn't work he goes over to plan B, C and so on. Like, if he had gotten what he wanted from guy one, he would have never bothered with bucky. If the Avengers hadn't turned up, he would have created another opportunity. Aso. Yeah, they cheat a little bit with the timeline towards the end, but this is the kind of stuff I can easily handwave in an otherwise wellwritten story.
3. Tony is highly emotional and snaps in that moment. It's human, because Tony is human. I never understand that attitude of some fans who want Tony to be perfect and try to defend everything he does when the very point of the character is that he is a flawed human being who makes mistakes. If you want to root for a hero with high morals and a nearly perfect track record, you have to be a fan of Cap, or Bucky, or Sam, because they are this kind of hero. Tony isn't supposed to be, and arguably that is what makes the character interesting.
It doesn't MATTER what Wanda has done beforehand, randomly putting her under house arrest because she didn't sign a stupid accord (she didn't even decide against it, she was still trying to make a decision), is a human rights violation. You can't just go around and arrest people because you deemed them to be dangerous. I never understood the mindset that acting like this is in any way okay.
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I like Civil War exactly as it is, my only disappointment is that Bucky never quite got the room he deserved and there was never a scene of Tony encountering Bucky again after the movie.
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Yeah, well, for me Agents of Shield was a huge part why I got so invested in the MCU. A story without the show being featured is worthless in my eyes.
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Silver Surfer? Ghost Rider? Namor?
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Maybe Marvel simply realised that a winter release is risky, because the likelihood of part of Corona lock downs are much more likely than in summer.
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One has to feel for the governor of Idaho...after this he is basically trapped in the state until Mrs. "Gun on Bible" is gone (honestly, am I the only one who isn't just bothered by the fact that she put a bible into an add, being staunchly for a separation of religion and state AND being a Christian who is very much against connecting a religion whose main manage is the lack of violence with weapons of any kind?).
I am kind of surprised that OAN can get away with outright lying about a democratic process and not so settled calling for violence. I know that the US is kind of crazy in their definition of free speech, but how is that legal? In any way?
I wonder how much of the monitoring outside of the US and Canada happens in the EU alone, since the German government got on Facebooks case quite a while ago, and the EU has taken an interest, too. I am ready to bet that they don't do any monitoring for the majority of the world.The idea that Biden is in any way socialist is just laughable.
Sadly I have one of those in the family too...I am not looking anymore.
I take offense to the MCU joke. I don't appreciate someone dissing my choice of media.
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5 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:
I still don’t forgive them for the zombie episode…unless next season has them finally give Sharon a good story that doesn’t involve her being evil, zombified, or blown up
Or the fridging episode or the fact that they turned Peggy into female Steve instead of actually understanding her character or how they constantly side-lined Carol....
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I have to give it to the writers: The idea to connect all those different realities they offered up this way was pretty much genius. Only the Gamora and Tony moment really, really confused me, I was wondering if I had somehow missed an episode.
Sadly, there are still some things which bothered me, mainly that the problems I had with the original episodes were carried into this one. No, this is NOT Peggy. Peggy wouldn't put away her shield because of some taunts, that is something Steve would do, but Peggy is a "take the next stapler" kind of gal. She has no problem whatsoever to fight dirty, and she doesn't feel the need to proof herself this way. I am still bothered how Quill has been treated (though props for at least putting him beside T'Challa in the end).
On the other hand, some problems were solved...for starters the overly bleak endings got somewhat fixed, and the stories don't feel quite as unfinished anymore.
At the same time though...this episode suffered under a lot of the same problems as the last one. Characters acting atypical for the sake of the plot (Fury would never accept a second Natasha that easily in any universe, the fact that Natasha will soon learn that Clint died in that universe too doesn't exactly make the decision to put her there THAT happy and how exactly did Dr. Strange turn from being angry with the watcher to consider him a friend????), missed opportunities (you have T'Challa and Killmonger on one team and didn't allow for some Cousin-Interaction? I mean, not that it meant that considering that this T'Challa doesn't even know this Killmonger, but still....), the feeling that the writers just discarded some characters (honestly, you do a "guardians of the Multi-Verse" thing and Carol isn't even considered?????) and that the story could have needed a little bit more time.
The big plus was that finally they allowed the female characters some room and made the story mainly about them. Took them long enough.
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In Germany it is on Disney Plus, too.
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I keep forgetting that the show is on Netflix in the US...maybe that is part of the reason why it is currently treated so badly by Disney?
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Just to get this right: Are people who are living outside of the "nice autumn" areas actually travelling to Michigan aso in order to look (because I would get that), or are people living in those areas doing special tours instead of just, well, enjoying nature no matter what time of the year?
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That is a pile of nonsense...if you have to chose between keeping your job and voting, most people will choose their sh... job.
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1 hour ago, ahisma said:
It’s tourism to an area that has beautiful fall foliage.
This is a thing in the US? Weird...it's called "looking out the window" over here in Germany. Or going on a "Herbstspaziergang" (autumn walk) if you wanted to go into nature....I agree, that name has to go. It's really not fitting for the beauty which fall can be.
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Huh, he was mentioning the latest mess Brexit caused after all...a week late, so I didn't expect it. But I guess that gave them time to find the funniest clip about it...
You know, after our elections ended up a set-up in which we will most likely end up with a three party parliament, there was a lot in the english speaking press portraying this as some big problem, and especially the british one was going on and on about a supposed "hung" parliament. But considering that our parties will sit together, come to an agreement and then draw up a coalition contract which will basically prevent this kind of haggling with the fates of the people...yeah, I think we are good. Didn't they claim that the advantage of first past the post is that there is a clear majority for someone? I honestly don't see it....
What the hell is leaf peeping?
Why am I not surprised that a story about dangerous chemicals ended up being a story about said dangerous chemicals being in the environment?
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Peter never had the protections the other Avengers had. And he is a teen.
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So I guess we get Hawkeye this Christmas and the Holiday special the next one and after that...maybe an animated one? Just for fun?
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Well, I look forward to the part which deals with the fallout of people knowing who Spider-man is...I just fear that I will care about everything else so much less. Especially since I am not even a particular fan of the original trilogy. What we got in the MCU is so much better.
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But frankly, if the best way to defeat Thanos was just cutting him apart by surprise...there would have been so many options to do so in the main timeline.
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Well, I guess there was a point to the end of the last episode after all...
In a way I kind of enjoyed this episode. While it was depressing, it wasn't bleak and I guess I would have really loved it if it had come after a bunch of more diverse episodes, where some had a good and some had a not so good ending. It also didn't suffer from the tonal shifts the other episodes. This way they kept to the matter at hand and allowed the dramatic scenes to breath. It was also interesting how they tied the story into previous episodes (though, for the record, that doesn't make the fridging episode in any way better).
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Avengers: Endgame (2019)
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My issue with the scene was always more that it is a truly poor replacement for having actual female representation. It is one of the various reasons I still think that Carol should have gone to Voromir...because this way they could have portrayed a friendship between her and Natasha. But I actually do think that it needs to be there to "normalize" the notion of having only female heroes on screen.