swanpride

Exactly because they get no merch money it makes more sense to renew the deal. Venom did well, but MCU movies are box office gold for sure. I suspect that Far from Home will ride on the wave of endgame and could possible pass the billion mark. Why should they give that up if they can have their cake and eat it too? I mean, they won't get merch money either way. In fact, there is absolutely nothing they have to give up other than the right to use Tom Holland in non-MCU movies.

The season was just...meh. And I think the biggest problem was the judging. I mean, the line-up itself was pretty boring, there weren't many queens which stood out, but as if that wasn't bad enough, they also removed the ones which very kind of enjoyable pretty early in order to keep "drama queens" like Rajah and Silky. Rajah should have never survived the lip sync against Scarlett and Silky should have been in the bottom multiple times. I wonder if Ru felt like an idiot when she realized that Silky was terrible at lip syncs so late in the game that she couldn't really remove her without making the last episode boring. We could have figured out that way earlier in the season. Didn't help that it was clear that Yvie would be the winner the moment she explained her condition. Not to be mean, she deserved the win, but the winner is always a queen who brings something "special" to the table or offers a good story and Yvie was both.

I didn't like it. I felt that Neal deserved to be truly free after all what happened, and playing dead isn't really freedom. Plus, I didn't really like the last season in general. I mean, it started so great with the kidnapping and then it was solved in one episode. The last heist was great, though.

I got a little bit the impression that the moment the Russos and Marcus and McFeely got Tony to play with, they just didn't care about Steve and his entourage anymore. It's the only explanation I have why everything they do with Tony in Endgame feels so right and the perfect conclusion to his story, while everything related to Steve feels like they have forgotten what they themselves wrote about him. I adore Peggy and the lost love to her has always been an important element of Steve's story because she presented what could have been. But to me she was never the most important part of his story, Bucky was. In the first movie Steve becomes Captain America because he disobeys orders and rescues Bucky. In the second movie he has to fight Bucky. In the third movie he has to fight with Tony in order to protect Bucky. It was always about Bucky, and I don't mean that even in a romantic sense. His movies have always been about friendship. When Infinity War ended, him having to watch Bucky vanish AGAIN broke my heart. And then Endgame happens and he doesn't even MENTION Bucky the whole movie and then just vanishes in the past, leaving Bucky on his own. Just..wth?

To this day I am angry that they didn't go with the other ending they had considered. In this one, Neal was free and was throwing a coin to decide if he should go straight or not, and then the show would have ended before the coin had fallen. It would have been perfect.

Wait...the deal with Sony expires this year? I thought it was for three Spider-Man movies plus the Avengers appearances? In any case, though, I doubt that Sony will end it. The franchise was in a downward spiral before the deal. Now they get MCU box office money, and Into the Spider-verse as well as Venom has shown that they can play around with other characters they have and make good money off them on top of it, even if they don't use Peter Parker. After all, there are other Spider-Men. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if they do a Spider-Gwen live action movie, soon.

Brie isn't the problem. Imho the movie has an editing issue...meaning, it cuts away from scenes so fast, that it is very easy to miss her nuanced acting. It really does her a disservice. My other big criticism of the movie is the use of music. Honestly, why not add a badass sound with a con air style guitar riff? This is supposed to be the 1990s, right? And if you want to use songs, pick something which actually means something to Carol. But technical issues aside, I love this movie. To be fair, it is the kind of movie one has to think about a while to realize how brilliant it is. Thematically, it is really, really strong. And I like Carol as a character. She is stubborn, a little bit arrogant (which I love because female characters are so rarely allowed to be arrogant on screen unless they are the villain), she is an absolute speed junkie, she is an idealist (remember, her main goal in live was always to do something "which matters"), she has a really dry humour, she is cheeky and I just love her little smirk. She is also good with kids. I can't wait to see more of her.

Oh, believe me, Johnson isn't particularly popular either. In his short time as foreign minister he has done his best to insult as many countries as possible. Especially "famous" is the Prosecco incident. And in the case of the UK, the people who protesting Trump are largely the same people who are also opposing Brexit. But they don't really have a say in what the Tories are doing. Regarding Schalfly: She is proof that the system is pretty effective, considering that there are so many woman who insist on their own oppression. Not that they will ever see it that way.

I would go so far to say that AoS is the strongest Superhero show out there. Just think about it. The show has over 100 episodes and is now in its sixth season. Is there ANY other Comic book show which has managed to stay consistently strong for so long? Which didn't get stale after season three at the lastest? Which wouldn't have started to recycle old plots by now? It is exactly the fact that the show constantly reinvents itself that keeps it fresh and interesting. Which is why it is by now the longest running Marvel show by quite a margin. And so far it hasn't delivered one bad season. Even the first one, which started weak, provided a really exciting arc in the second half. Most of the problems it had were early instalment jitters anyway. They needed to built the world of AoS so that we would know what was lost when The Winter Soldier hit.