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Dandesun

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  1. Jen breaking the fourth wall in this ep was so complete she let go of the steering wheel and leaned over the middle console to talk to us. I love that. 'This is so obviously a show that I'm not actually driving this vehicle. I promise the show isn't all about cameos. Or maybe it is. Anyway, back to it!' So light elves are actually from Alfheim -- one of the nine realms (ten if we're still including Heven and the angels but I honestly don't remember if that's still sticking in print canon) -- and Surtur didn't destroy Alfheim at the end of Ragnarok. But, you know, Thor-adjacent shape-shifters, man. And I'm not going to be even remotely upset at Megan Thee Stallion getting her cameo. Now that's two Legendary judges that are part of the MCU. And on the same show at that. Not mad. I don't even KNOW what the deal with Blonski's seven soulmates in their Wickerman white robes and flower crowns. The parole board just blithely accepting that cracks me up. Sure. We have super-powered influencers now. Why not? Then there's Wong who just does as he pleases. Sorcerer Supremes don't need to follow the rules. Magic breaks the rules, that's the whole damn point. Except for some specific rules. You know what, don't ask. It's not for non-magic users. "Hey, you broke a dude out of a high security prison which is totally against the law!" "Yeah, anyway, Wong out!" Also, Dennis is the worst. And now we've got the Wrecking Crew! And some mysterious boss who is clearly after Jen's blood. Trouble is afoot!!
  2. Renee Elise Goldsberry is going to be in She-Hulk: Attorney At Law playing Amelia. She hasn't shown up yet but she was on the red carpet for the premier and she's been in various promos... although as herself not in character that I've seen. Bring it!!
  3. Did they admit to it? That I'm not sure but if I had a nickel for every 80's baseball movie that involved voodoo and needing a live chicken/rooster to lift a curse I'd have ten cents, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice. (Thank you, Phineas and Ferb.)
  4. Well as far as I'm concerned, Steve went and had his dance with Peggy then got Natasha back and then came back and decided to go to art school and is living with Bucky and they are making out and having the sex all. the. time. Also, he was horribly embarrassed by the idea of Rogers: the Musical but he and Bucky went to see it and Steve liked it more than he thought he was because it was so wildly inaccurate. Plus they were all really good singers. Which is a long-winded way of saying: canon never bothered me anyway. As for this show, yes. I quite enjoyed it. It was fun, the rapport between Jen and Bruce was believable to me and, come on, Hulk Fight! Bruce is obviously missing Tony (Science Bros!) and that makes me sad (I can also happily make Tony not dead in my head, too. He had all of the Infinity Stones, there's a lot of room to work with from a fanfic pov.) AND I look forward to more.
  5. Jameela is giving me Alyssa Edwards in these Titania shots and I am here for it.
  6. So Disney+ just went "Dande, go have fun on your birthday. We'll be here when you're done." FINE. I GUESS. WHATEVER.
  7. It's not that huge a leap. If they weren't popular, no one would comment on them. When something is popular and people decide to comment on it, it's very much a hit at those who made the thing popular. It's not that different when commentary about certain books becoming popular becomes a thing. "These people are consuming a product I personally disapprove of therefore they are the reason that True Art is floundering and nothing Important is being said via Real Cinema." Tale as old as time. Frankly, arguments about Art are always a hoot to me because every new thing that catches on is sneered at. Impressionists are Ruining Art. Pop Art isn't Real Art! Rock and Roll is ruining Good Music. Rap is ruining Real Music! That Ghostbusters movie with women in the lead roles has destroyed my childhood! It's just another form of gatekeeping.
  8. Considering that the baby had wings on their ankles... yeah, that was totally Namor.
  9. I am not remotely bothered by the CGI. Maybe I’m just easy that way. This drops on my 50th birthday and I’m ready for it. And I love that they aren’t being coy about breaking the fourth wall.
  10. That AMA... I just love her. I LOVE HER! And I love her repeatedly pointing out that Kamala was originally intended to be a mutant. I'm so happy.
  11. Which... to be honest... isn't the most inaccurate description of Zeus. Horny, indeed. I mean, Red from Overly Sarcastic wasn't wrong when she suggested he should be God of One Night Stands. You better fucking believe I sang that out loud at the theater. Scandalized a child in front of me but I'm not fucking sorry.
  12. There seemed to be that little bit of Animated X-Men theme music when Bruno said 'mutation.' I am 100% down with this because Kamala should have been a mutant all along, that's something so many seemed to agree on when she debuted, but because of Perlmutter and his push to make Inhumans the new mutants... she wound up a result of Black Bolt's Terrigen bomb. Ugh. Whatever. Comparing and contrasting to the comics is always a bit of a slippery slope but I really liked the nods to the source material. The action taking place at the school because, yes, when shit went down during the Incursion Event (don't worry about it) Kamala, who had already established herself as the local hero, steered everyone to the school as the emergency community center. I also liked that Kamala's mother found out first because that's how it was established in the comics and she was understanding and even thankful because 'if you're sneaking out to help people who are suffering, then I thank God that I have raised a righteous child.' However, I really really love that Kamala's parents were so integral to her superhero name and identity here where they weren't quite in comics. The story about Kamala's name does come from the comics -- although it focused more on the "perfect" definition and was part of her father telling her she was perfect the way she was and didn't need to change herself for anyone or anything. Zoe stepping up took a little longer in comics but Kamala's friend group did catch on as to what she was up to so when she finally confessed to them in what was supposed to be a dramatic sleep over party reveal they were all like 'yeah DUH we figured it out months ago... we were just waiting for you to tell us.' Bruno she told almost immediately so he wasn't part of that particular reveal. Anyway, I really did love the nods but this was it's own thing and I think it was great. I also think that Carol at the end was Carol having been transported/traded places with Kamala and, look, I was already excited about The Marvels -- Carol!! Monica!! Kamala!! so this just fed that excitement. I found it emotional on a lot of levels. I loved Kamala proving herself, caring so much about protecting that she does so even to people who are after her. I loved that she dropped trying to make excuses and just told Nakia that she messed up and she was sorry. I love her ridiculous hat. And I love that Jersey City loves her. It's as it should be. I really did enjoy this series so much.
  13. I am never not tickled to hear Bale speak in his native accent. I'm so not used to hearing it in his roles. So when I saw him in the premier videos and he sounds like a guy who hangs out at the pub all the time I just giggle.
  14. The 2000s really isn't the issue, though. Marvel's bankruptcy and the selling off of it's more lucrative properties happened in the 90s. And in the 90's you had to look at the previous decades' trends, too. X-Men #1, that biggest selling issue with the various covers that was the pinnacle of the 'collectables' market, hit the shelves in 1991. X-Men 1-3 was the last Chris Claremont story (well, at the time.) Claremont kicked off the 80s with the Dark Phoenix story which was HUGE. It was the story that put the X-men on the map and that was the culmination of over two years of storytelling in monthly comics. After that, you had Days of Future Past, the Brood Saga, Mutant Massacre, Fall of the Mutants, Inferno... and you had one guy that held the reins of the storytelling so you had long plot seeds that took their tiiiiiime. The 2nd go round with the Brood is fucking nuts. There's this one page in an issue where Havok and Polaris get run off the road in the desert... FOURTEEN ISSUES LATER they go back to that and explain what's been going on with that little plothole since and it's GNARLY. Cap, Iron Man, FF... look, I'm not saying there weren't good storylines. Armor Wars was in the 80s. Cap turned into a werewolf!! (Granted, not a great story, it's one you look back on and simultaneously go 'whaaat?' and 'that was weirdly awesome.') Actually, Were!Cap was in the 90s. He fought Cable and X-Force that was a thing. I started reading Cap in the 90s actually when Mark Waid took over (post Were!Cap) and I loved it but that was also specifically focusing on the things that made Cap who he was and very much NOT going for what comics were obsessed with in the 90s (all the Image! stuff from the creative exodus... yikes.) When I say that Iron Man, Cap, Thor and the rest of the Avengers were B-list I'm not being mean. They were not valuable property despite the ideas of 'well Cap's recognizable and these guys are on the Avengers' -- the AVENGERS weren't A-list! That's just the way it was! Thor and Cap didn't get revitalized by Straczynski and Brubaker until THIS century. You also had the Ultimates which, though not to my taste, did make people sit up and take notice. I mean, the Ultimates really felt like being edgy for edgy's sake... let's make Hulk a cannibal! Let's make Wanda and Pietro actual incestuous lovers! Let's make Cap a right wing icon with his jingoism! And don't even get me started on Civil War. The point I'm making is that from the 80s well into when Marvel had to licensed off it's assets to other studios there was a REASON that Iron Man, Captain America, Black Widow, etc weren't bought up. They weren't valuable. Even Hulk was bought by Universal for the rights to a stand alone. Remember the 2003 Hulk movie? Ang Lee directed it? Eric Bana starred... that was a Universal picture. What Marvel and Feige did with what they were left with is what's incredible. They still had awesome characters and, what's more, they had more storylines to pull from, like Brubaker's Cap which heavily HEAVILY influenced Winter Soldier. (Sidenote: y'all, when I heard that they had resurrected Bucky in the comics I asked out loud 'who's next, Uncle Ben?' Death is rarely permanent for comic characters -- and hey the current X-Men have a whole major point about resurrection -- but Uncle Ben and Bucky seemed to be the ones that it was understood would never come back.) Anyway, the value of the properties really isn't hyperbole. What was valuable was snapped up and Marvel/Disney made an empire with what was left. So much so, that they were able to get X-Men and Fantastic Four back under their control. So, yes, I remain very interested and excited for what they might do with those properties.
  15. I felt like those were more typical teenager lies. "Oh, I hurt myself doing something I oughtn't so... I fell off my bike." "Oh, I want to go to this party. It's not a party, it's a casual get together!" I think that's fairly normal low stakes stuff that doesn't require a hell of a lot of duplicity to really pull off. But I was also quite the gifted liar as a kid. My parents were lucky I wasn't the type to get into serious trouble.
  16. No one denies that Wolverine is popular. He's just not the end all and be all. Current X-comics have done away with the Wolverine has to be in all of them idea though. Is he well represented? Yes, yes he is. He does have his solo, he was recently the focus of the X Lives/X Deaths of Wolverine, he's part of X-Force. Krakoa-era X-Men remains wildly fascinating and exciting to me and a lot of that is the different focii and story arcs that they're doing. And that's the real strength of the X-men, the amount of characters and stories they can do that don't hinge on three dudes (Charles, Erik and Logan.) Hell, comics have brought Destiny back which might have been the only thing that made movie!Mystique remotely tolerable to me (doubtful actually,) The MCU has gained a lot of leeway with me, though. They took a slew of B list characters and made the fuckin' MCU. I think they can do a lot with the X-Men and I look forward to seeing what they try. I would actually very much like to see the movies do right by Scott. I'd like to see Storm be allowed to shine. If they took on Rogue would they be true to her origin story via Carol? There is SO MUCH to work with and the X-Men are notoriously soap opera-y in the best way possible. I want to see it!!
  17. Dandesun

    NHL Thread

    They fucking did it. Did I get emotional when Landy handed the cup to EJ? Yes, yes I did. It all made me emotional but that's nothing compared to my sister who is just beside herself after waiting 21 years to see her boys back on top.
  18. There are so many X characters to focus on. Storm, for one, has been as integral to the X-men as Wolverine. She's been the leader since the 70s. She fucking rules over Mars currently (Arakko for the current-comics minded) and there are a slew of storylines they could use to focus on her. Storm is wildly important and popular. Do not try to do the fucking Dark Phoenix storyline again. Especially since they pretty much did it with Wanda in Multiverse of Madness. You know why there are such strong feelings about Wanda there? Because we got to know her through the course of many movies and her own miniseries to delve deeply into her character and what she has been going through. You know, that thing they never bothered to do with Jean before going Dark Phoenix with her. (Never not salty.) With the X-men, it should be 'how can we tell the story of mutants in the MCU' and not 'how can we get Wolverine in here asap?' I'm beyond fine with a break from the Canucklehead.
  19. Dandesun

    Disney Films

    I mean, they were made by a FAIRY Godmother. The fae in such tales were not to be trifled with and could very definitely make slippers of glass that could fit to one pair of feet only and ever.
  20. I would agree with Jay from pReview'd that I'm more a King of New Jersey fan than the Prince. THAT BEING SAID, I love, love, love that Brown Jovi exists in the MCU. To be honest, the little nods they give to music here and there have always been delightful. Luis' grandmother's jukebox being full of nothing but Morrisey for example.
  21. I'd love to see them get an actual short, hairy Canadian to play Wolverine for a change but that's just me. Although given where Logan is at these days comic-wise it would make a lot of sense for him to be played by a man who is well known to make a wide variety of sexes and gender spectrum thirsty af. Although, truthfully, I could stand a break from Wolverine though I don't expect them to actually do that when they get around to bringing the X-Men into the MCU.
  22. Dandesun

    Disney Films

    "original fairy tale" is kind of like "original myth" there are so many versions from different regions that were often passed down verbally before ever getting written down and then having different tellers of tale put a spin of their own on it that it's difficult to say what's original. Yes, there are version where the sisters cut off parts of their feet in order to fit the shoe. Apparently there wasn't anything specified that the foot had to naturally fit without alterations of any kind. The foot thing in Cinderella is a lot like the pea thing in Princess and the Pea where it's like 'okay this arbitrary thing is a thing that denotes a particular desirable 'otherness'' -- especially where women in fairy tales are concerned, you know? I'm trying to remember how common it is that Cinderella does have the other slipper in various versions of the tale. It's all well and good to have dainty feet but having the other slipper, made of glass, in a time where glass was most likely for the wealthy and certainly not glass footwear... and presumably, Cinderella lived in a different part of the kingdom than where that cobbler had elves making his shoes every night (don't recall them making them out of glass either) so having the other one in her actual possession is very much proof that she's the One the prince is searching for.
  23. Dandesun

    NHL Thread

    That was... something. I really hope Burky is okay and Nichushkin is killing it during the playoff. I love the depth this team has. I'm not counting the Bolts out yet but even the first two losses to the Rangers last round weren't this brutal. The Avs put a fucking clinic on tonight. #FindAWay
  24. Dandesun

    NHL Thread

    My sister has been an Avs fan since the 90s. All through the rivalry with the Red Wings. She's seven years younger than me so there she is in high school and then fresh out just loving this team. And she never stopped. She's been living with me for the past 8 years and the Avs have remained a staple. Now, for me, it's fun to root against my brother's team. It's not as fun to root against my sister's team. So I've been absorbed into the Avs fandom. We went to see them about five years ago when they SUCKED. We were on the glass and watched them lose to the Flames at home and it was just... hoo boy. Dark times. But since then I've been watching Sakic rebuild this team... I was watching when Makar made his debut... I've watched that top line develop into something deadly and the defense turn into something amazing. Is one of our cats named Burky? (He's our beautiful dumb boy and we love him. Hockey version and feline version.) So even though I came to the party in later years I still feel like I've earned the right to be a fan since I've gone through some shitty shitty years of watching this team be terrible. And then watching them start to gel and become dangerous and then this past season... they've developed real grit. The 'Find A Way' slogan this year is real, they have and I believe in them. I love these guys.
  25. Given that Kamala Khan was created as a direct result of a Pakistani-American editor at Marvel sharing anecdotes of how she grew up in America, yes, the premise was trying to tell a super hero story while also conveying the experience as a child of immigrants from what they considered to be an authentic place. The people who created the character lived those experiences and shared them through Kamala. So Kamala's relationship with her family, her friends, her mosque, her community, her school... are all a part of that. The comparisons of Kamala and Peter Parker are there for a reason, they are relatable characters that focused just as much on their personal foibles and overcoming them as much as fighting villains. Kamala doesn't have the tragedy Peter does but her determination to step up once she had the capacity to do so in a big way, and her perseverance when she failed, are aspirational.
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