swanpride
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Yeah, the picture joke was another thing which could have been shortened or even removed altogether. I didn't feel that it was telling me anything about the characters I didn't know already. The time tunnel scene could have been shorter, too.
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I am not sure if you are aware that Chloe Bennet is/used to be a pop idol. She has quite a following in China. It being China it is naturally hard to get precise numbers for the show, but it is popular enough that there are a collection of Chines Coke Commercials featuring Ward and her. Doing those would make zero sense if there weren't an audience to reach.
Yeah, they have started to keep track of the DVR numbers, but they are not part of the live numbers. Hence me saying that AoS usually doubles sometimes nearly triples its live ratings within those three days. Those are the people which watch the show within a week of release. (And I am saying that it makes sense to have it as a weekly streaming show, because part of the excitement of AoS is to wait for the next big surprise, but you can also not miss one single episodes, so to keep people in the loop, it would be good for the show to be easily accessible).
Anyway, the claim that AoS is popular worldwide is based on a study by parrot analytics which screenrant reported on last year. According to that study Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is ranked in the top 0.03 percent of in-demand TV shows worldwide. And that is most likely the reason why Disney insists on keeping it around. It might not do much for ABC, since they are mostly interested in the advertising money they can get off the show, but for the bigger picture it is certainly worth it.-
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In the first season, Trish was my favourite character. And then they went and ruined her. Just to make Jessica look better. It's frustrating to watch.
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I don't even mean the kind of time travel. I was thinking about what this means for Steve. So either he has to sit still and allow Bucky getting tortured for decades, or he changes the timeline which would lead to him replacing Peggy's husband, maybe erasing her future children all the while another version of him is sleeping in the ice.
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Yeah, I HATE to compare Captain Marvel with Wonder Woman because those movies have so little in common (naturally other than the fact that both are female lead comic book movies, but to me it makes way more sense to compare Wonder Woman with The first Avenger), but I also think that Captain Marvel is better due to the fact that it has a theme and executes it fairly well, while Wonder Woman completely undercuts the previously established theme in the third act.
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Well, thinking again, I guess if you are really into early 2000 style superhero movies you might like Venom...it has everything from the bland love interest to the cheesy dialogue to the terrible villain. So if that's what someone likes, said person might like Venom.
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Or maybe they miscalculated the investment the audience would have in the scene of him giving up the shield. But I think the main problem is that they didn't really think about the implications of Steve staying in the past.
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The best episodes were when the writers were still aware that Shawn is a genius who acts like an idiot, not an actual idiot.
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Steve didn't really know that Bucky did it, he just knew that Howard got murdered by Hydra. I always read his "I wanted protect myself" as him telling himself that he didn't tell Tony because he wanted to spare him the knowledge, but in reality, he didn't do it because Tony would have dug deeper and Steve was afraid what he might find. Meaning, a part of Steve suspected and Steve didn't want to know for sure.
In my eyes Bucky is innocent, but honestly, that is neither here nor there, since Tony would have no business murdering anyone even if said person were guilty. But he is acting in affect. I actually think what T'Challa tries to do way worse, because he is out for revenge and unlike Tony he had some time to calm down.
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Nah, I get why they didn't do too much with Cassie. After all, should there be an Ant-man, the Wasp and Stinger in the future, it would be fatal to box in the writers.
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Still one of the best episodes of the show, though. Tense from start to finish.
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It would feel satisfying if I weren't so angry about what they did to Trish and the close relationship those two had. It was easily the strongest point of season 1 having those two women which are so different having this close bound, and they just ruined it for cheap shock value and drama.
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Well, her helping out children could have worked since we know that one of the various things she feels guilty about is related to a children's hospital. I wouldn't have minded to explore that, but this was not the movie to do so because there was already so much going on.
My issue is not that they killed off Natasha. My issue is that they did it without ever providing a proper conclusion to her story and in a movie where her sacrifice would be overshadowed by Tony's. Plus, I feel that her death was so unnecessary. Yes, the rule is a soul for a soul, but technically it isn't clint who is sacrificing her, she is sacrificing herself. The could have easily rewritten the rules to: honest self-sacrifice earns you the stone.
Would have saved running time, too, and provided a better arc, because if the time heist had been a through and through triumph (seemingly), the realisation that it called forward Thanos again would have been way more dramatic.
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Yeah, I hate "this guy is a serial criminal who thinks he can get away with everything but look, he is a good family man" stories. And, yes, it would have been pretty sh... of Malcolm to tell the son for the reasons he wanted to, but as someone who thinks that children are not stupid and deserve to know who their parents are, I actually think that keeping this truth away from him might be even worse. Plus, am I supposed to think that it is a good thing that this child idolizes a criminal?
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Pretty much. It kind of felt like the movie wasted time at stuff I actually didn't really care about - like the taco scene, I mean, it was funny, but they could have just as well skipped it and cut immediately to Hulk and Co visiting Thor, there was no need to see Nebula and Rhodey arriving to understand what "getting the team together" means.
Like, the best scene of the whole movie is maybe Tony and Nebula playing finger football. It is such a simple scene, but it means so much. Just the thought that this was most likely the first time in her life that Nebula actually won at anything, and that she was encouraged all the way to get there breaks my heart. I rather had more of that and less of pointless forthnight jokes which will be dated soon anyway.
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Back when the show first aired I positively hated Sara. She felt like she was shoehorned into the plot more often than not. Alex always worked when she turned up, with Sara I was always wondering why she was even there. I have softened a little bit towards the character since then, but frankly, the episodes with her are among my least favourite by far. I liked Neal with literally every single other female character in the show better, and there were quite a few.
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I am really getting annoyed by now….stop torturing Fitzsimmons!!!! Enok better helps them to escape!!!! Next episode!!!!
I guess Sarge thinks that he is doing a good thing but I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that there is more to the story than even he knows.
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Huh, I actually thought that the story in the comic wasn't that popular?
And yes, Tony tried to kill Bucky. In a moment of extreme emotional turmoil. Pushing a character to his limits is what makes writing great.
But speaking of this, I fell also betrayed because we never got to see Tony encountering Bucky again.
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I mean, it would have been fine with the coin toss and leaving it open. But Neal effectively running again, just to have a cheap "Peter thinks he died moment" I didn't buy anyway...yeah, terrible decision.
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I don't think that anything which happened in Civil War ruined the character at all. If anything it rescued him from stagnation by introducing his relationship to Peter. RDJ has done some of his best work in the franchise in Civil War and Infinity War.
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I am not saying that having a lot of episodes makes a show automatically better, I am saying that it is way more difficult to keep a show interesting over a longer time than doing it for a limited numbers of episodes. Agent Carter for example had an amazing first season, but the second season is a mess of setting up stuff for the future which we will now never seen happening. That AoS is managing to still going strong after so many years is impressive.
I am also aware that the show has been constantly shortly before cancellation and some higher up at Disney keeps rescuing it. Do you know why? ABC wants to cut the show because its life numbers are at this point nothing to talk about. Disney wants to keep it because its streaming number double, sometimes even triple within the first three days after release. Last year there was a study which showed that worldwide, AoS isn't just the most watched comic book show, it is one of the most watched show overall (granted, that is partly due to the Chinese market loving it due to Chloe Bennet).
AoS is in a way a typical streaming show with weekly release. And it has a dedicated fanbase. While the live numbers of all shows have been falling due to the rise of streaming, AoS numbers have started this season pretty stable.
Regarding how they deal with Infinity War: I am waiting and see. I am sure they have a plan. They always have.
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I wouldn't recommend it. I tried thinking "okay, it will be bad, but at least it will be entertainable bad", but it isn't even that. It bored me so much I gave up half-away through.
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Regarding the virgin discussion...yeah, I actually do think a lot of people still would have cared back then. Because it was the royals. The royals are supposed to be better than anyone else. Though the issue with Camilla was less that she wasn't a virgin and way more that she was a divorcee. Must have been like a deja-vu.
Around 10 years later, a lot would have been different. Well, the divorcee thing not, but the virgin thing.
But I think that they picked Diana not despite her being so young but exactly because she was so young. Young enough to be formed into whatever they wanted her to be. In the beginning she was most likely easy to please, living in some sort of fairy tale dream. She couldn't know that she was fated to be part of an re-enactment of Sissi.
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Well, I am pretty p... off. I was already pretty angry about what they did to Trish in the second season but I thought "okay, they might fix it in the third season". But nope, they doubled down. It feels like the show is constantly tearing down Trish to make Jessica look better. I know that Jessica Jones is supposed to be inspired by film noir and that this kind of prevents any kind of happy end, but it is possible to overdo it.
Plus, it kind of felt like Trish got portrayed as some kind of villain just because she was unhappy with the notion of being forced into a role her mother chose for her.
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S03.E13: AKA Everything
in Jessica Jones [V]
It came to the cost of something which was worth way more than having a "tragic" arc, which was the idea that two woman who are different have actually very similar goals when it boils down to it. Plus, the could have made Trish recognizing the downsides of being a "hero" without turning her into a completely unlikeable shrew.
And once you put it in a bigger context, Trish's story has a very gross aftertaste. I mean, the thing they established about her in season 1 is that she spend her whole life trying to escape the image her mother had built around her and, by extension, the expectation society has towards a woman. The way her story ended it comes off as if the show is now saying that she was wrong to even try.