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5 minutes ago, Featherhat said:
I don't think he's a terrible boss yet, in fact he was fine-ish. I think he's a terrible person because it's pretty clear from the pilot and this episode that he knowingly let people die for business reasons. And he smirked when saying Jen was totally right and should have won the case but hahah, he called a mistrial which got her fired. And I that most people would have called a mistrial but he fully acknowledged she should have won in which case he did deliberately let people die.
Jen's new boss, as far as we know, never let people die. His firm represented a person/entity who let people die. Because it's a law firm. Unless I missed something big.
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3 hours ago, Featherhat said:
Ah, Jen, you should have realized taking a job from a corporation who's lawyer said "that depends on what your definition of "knows" (that he was deliberately killing people) is." would have massive ethical compromises!
I still like her supportive paralegal friend and her obviously enjoying the perks of potentially working for evil law firm. I wonder how far her terrible boss is actually going to be a villain as opposed to just an asshole antagonist?
Jennifer wants to be able to eat, wear clothing and not be homeless, so of course she took the job.
It's the job of a defense lawyer to zealously represent their client to the point of freeing someone guilty if possible.
Legal ethics have almost nothing to do with actual ethics.
Her "terrible boss" is the one who hired her after the She-Hulk incident (when no one else would) and then put her in charge of a whole case division in his firm. That doesn't seem to be all that terrible to me.
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11 hours ago, Gimmick Genius said:
Replying to Johntfs's "Fanfic speculation" about Steve Roger's hibernating in Wakanda until they figure out a way to use vibranium to cure old age:
They already have a cure for old age and Smart Hulk knows how to use it! Before Tony came in and perfected the quantum time machine, instead of "Pushing Scott through time, they pushed TIME through SCOTT", making him subsequently a twelve-year-old, an old man, and a baby. All of whom (maybe not the baby) retained Scott's memory and knowledge - and one of whom peed in his suit. What's to stop them from "pushing time through Steve" to make him young and fit again?
Probably Steve telling Bruce, "No, I don't want to risk you turning me into a zygote."
Honestly, I was joking about the Wakanda Freeze idea. Steve was really old at the end of Endgame and it's been a few years and Steve is probably dead by now.
Bringing it back to the actual topic, I liked Jen fishing for superhero gossip/news.
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On 8/22/2022 at 12:44 PM, Dandesun said:
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.
That kind of makes Bucky a cheating bitch because he was clearly trying to date that waitress is Falcon and the Winter Soldier. And there seemed to be a little something brewing between him and Sam's sister as well.
If you must fanfic, how about Steve danced with Peggy and lived a full life with her until she died. He then returned and he's now in Bucky's old suspension chamber in Wakanda until the Wakandans figure out how to use vibranium to cure old age?
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Just discovered this on Prime and just finishing Episode 2 of Season 1. I'm at the part where Jack is having to apologize to S.AR.A.H. for being late to dinner.
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On 8/2/2022 at 1:33 PM, JTMacc99 said:
The kid is really good! They should put him up against Ben for the final battle, just so we can have the other judges cracking up the entire 8 hours at not one, but two guys running around like their hair is on fire and then churning out excellent weapons.
Well, they didn't put him up against Ben, but if they did another "Beat the Unbeaten" with Ben, I could see them bringing in Jesse because "Beat the Unbeaten" would go both ways.
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On 9/11/2020 at 12:52 AM, KimberStormer said:
I thought Badgey got his murderous tendencies from Fletcher. They both had the same kind of (weirdly unstated and unresolved, for Star Trek) daddy issues. I suppose it doesn't make sense if the core was separate from the ship, but on the other hand, what even made the holodeck go awry? I thought during the episode it was because Fletcher had uploaded his weird issues into the ship, but maybe not.
Badgey was an unfinished/still-learning program that got abused by an impatient Rutherford who wanted to show-off for Tendi (who he clearly likes). Abusing a learning machine means that machine will learn to abuse.
But the real deal behind that was to let Jack McBrayer and Noël Wells switch roles a bit as an homage to Wander Over Yonder
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On 6/16/2022 at 12:11 AM, QuantumMechanic said:
Was that a picture of Garak on Mariner’s conspiracy board?
Probably. What would be the point of a Star Trek conspiracy board that failed to include Garak?
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Jesse's kind of fun as the "Ken Jennings" of FiF.
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15 hours ago, Dani said:
No, I didn’t mean fly off to resume what she was doing. I meant that she realized the switch happened and flew off to find Kamala at wherever she was. I saw it as, “oh, shit, I have to get to this child I just switched places with immediately” and she wouldn’t need to go downstairs with the window right there.
I wouldn’t be surprised is she does interact with Kamala’s family it just hadn’t occurred to me until other people mentioned it.As ridiculous as it might seem, figure right now Carol's best guess could be that her unknown "superfan" somehow brought her to that room. I looked around the scene when Carol arrived (the same way the camera mimicked Carol looking around at all the art) and I didn't see any pictures of Kamala and especially not Kamala with the Bangle.
So Carol's going downstairs to find the fan and/or somebody that can tell her WTF just happened.
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On 7/17/2022 at 8:57 PM, Dani said:
No but that’s not the same since no one knows when Peter looks like and it is literally Carol’s face on Kamala’s walls.
Maybe I’m weird but I just thought Carol was going to fly out the window to wherever she was before the switch rather than talking to Kamala’s family.
People generally aren't coldly logical perception/deduction machines - especially when their kids are missing.
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On 7/14/2022 at 8:58 AM, Sakura12 said:
I would think they'd know who she is since pictures of her are all over Kamala's room.
Even in the MCU if some weirdo stranger breaks into your house (or at least enters without your permission) and they're dressed in a Spider-Man costume, are you really going to immediately assume that this is the real Spider-Man?
It's not going to be a big thing, but figure in the initial moment Kamala's family is going to be "Who the hell are you and where's Kamala?" After that figure that
SpoilerCarol will introduce herself, glow a little to established that "Yep, she's the real Captain Marvel" and eventually get to see pictures/video and Kamala and specifically the bangle. At which Carol will do some version "Oh shit! I was examining something that looked exactly in an old temple in the Voidbeast Swamp on Orion 4 (or whatever). If I'm here and she's there... uh, I need to go get her right now!"
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15 hours ago, Sakura12 said:
I'm wondering when this took place and if Wong and Shang-chi activating the rings at the Shang-chi post credit scene has anything to do with Kamala and Carol switching? We saw the 10 rings when they got the bangle.
Probably not. I think the events of Shang-chi took place weeks/months before the events here. Most likely what happened is that Carol picked up the bangle that was the twin of Kamala's and somehow activated it, causing her and Kamala to switch places in space. It's possible that Carol doesn't fully realize what's happened. All she knows is that she's been teleported to the room of somebody who's really, really into her.
Figure Kamala's family will help Carol understand what happened once they get past the "Where is Kamala and who is this strange, costumed white woman coming out of her room?" bits.
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21 minutes ago, Sakura12 said:
Carol was looking around at all the pictures and posters of her. Kamala wouldn't be doing that. Carol looked worried and ran out, like she kind of knew what happened.
Also, figure that even if Kamala had somehow shape-shifted into Carol she'd likely still be wearing her Ms. Marvel costume and at the very least, she'd be wearing the bangle. Note that Carol was not wearing a bangle. Figure that while it likely won't actually be shown in The Marvels
Spoilerwhat happens next is that Carol goes downstairs to try to find out why she was teleport-yanked into some kid's room. Kamala's family will rapidly establish that Kamala is missing and not picking up her cell-phone (galactic roaming chargers are a stone bitch). Eventually, they'll show Carol a photo/video of Kamala wearing the bangle and Carol will haul ass for where she last was.
She'll probably see Kamala about to get arrested/murdered/eaten and that Kamala does have powers but
before Carol can take Kamala home, Shit Will Ensue per the movie.
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1 hour ago, Quickbeam said:
Watching the “Out to Sea” episode. Any explanation why they only started with 3 contestants? They didn’t say anything that I heard.
Presumably because there was no "handle" round since the "Blacksmith's Knife" was all metal with an integral handle. There's no reason they couldn't have had four contestants and eliminate two at the end of the first round, but they're going to do what they're going to do.
I was glad that Felicia won. She was really cute and fun.
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2 hours ago, Tuggy said:
By the way, the other dimension bleeding out and destroying the other is definitely like the "Incursions" they discussed in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, right?
Probably? Maybe? I don't really know. Though per the end of MoM it seemed like Strange and his new "friend" had a handle on dealing with incursions. Which further adds to the idea that the Djinn's goals are screwed no matter what.
That would be an interesting possible cameo. Dr. Strange shows up along with Captain Marvel.
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1 hour ago, greekmom said:
Great resolution meaning tie up all the storylines.
Sure it introduced Kamala but the storytelling is all over the place. It's all muddled up (lack of better words). They could have kept it tight and told Kamala's story and progressed the storyline but now they are going back to the partition which in my opinion sets Kamala's story behind. Plus the introduction of the Red group then the demise of the Red group was a waste of time (but provided a good chase/fight scene).
I am sorry if you have not heard "Allhu Akbar" spoken in Western fiction other than showing Muslims in bad light. Have you actually found decent programming? I heard it positively in shows like Little Mosque on the Prairie (which ran like 10 years ago!!!), Ramy, Transplant, Zarqa, We are Lady Parts, and Sort Of which are all very positive Muslim fiction shows.
The whole thing about the Djinn is just silly. Should have brought in the Kree which it was hinted at. To me again, is the fact with ALL MCU tv series that they don't progress very well and again, hurriedly tie up loose ends in the last few minutes of the last episode.
Most of it is I don't specifically seek out those shows. I'm mostly in the Marvel/Star Wars/action-adventure groove. Still, I'm 53 years old with probably a good 45+ years of TV watching. And yeah, first time I recall a positive use of "Allahu Akbar."
I'd expect the Kree to show back up in The Marvels movie. Meanwhile, there's no real organic connection of Kamala to the Kree. It's not like she told Brian "It's not the blue girls from Jersey who save the world." Sure, they could have done something with "We want our thingie back." But that can also happen in the movie. Beyond that, think about the Kree strike team from Captain Marvel. Do we really believe that Kamala could handle a force like that as she is now? Probably not.
Sure the Clan Destine Djinn are a theoretical threat to the world (though realistically if they did try to tear down that dimensional barrier, Wong and Dr. Strange would show up to magically bitch-slap the lot of them to the bottom of the Marines Trench), but they're also a threat that Kamala can reasonably defeat as she is now. This season is her Kamala centered around her history and culture in a way that sort of maps onto the original comic character (half "alien" exposed to something of her heritage that awakens her powers). Figure there'll be plenty of time for Kamala to get involved in the wider MCU later.
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20 minutes ago, greekmom said:
Classic Marvel. 2 steps forward in storyline, 1 leap back. Storyline is all over the place. 2 episodes left and there won't be any great resolution.
What would count as a "great resolution" in your opinion?
To me the show is doing what it needed to do: introduce the character of Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel to the MCU (and the adorable young actress Iman Vellani to the rest of the world). It's doing it in a fun, interesting way that's giving some much needed positive exposure to Islam as a religion, Muslims as other decent human beings and Pakistani culture. None of those three things have been super-common in Western entertainment for the past 20+ years.
The previous episode of this show has pretty much been the only time I've heard the phrase "Allahu Akbar" spoken on a Western fiction program by someone other than a terrorist.
Could the pacing of things been better? Sure. Are the Djinn great antagonists? Not really (though I'm glad Ms. Marvel didn't end up fighting some kind of super-powered extremist Muslim terrorist or some crap). But if those are the main flaws (and they seem to be) then I say the show's been doing a really good job.
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On 6/20/2022 at 8:49 AM, SnarkShark said:
I'm not so sure it IS their intention, which is why in an otherwise good show I'm worried about this aspect. Admittedly they change things from the comics, but I don't recall Damage Control being heavies there. Then again, they weren't law enforcement there either. They were (literally) a construction company. The comic books with them were actually comedies.
Also, isn't it ironic that the guy, Cleary, threatened May Parker with child endangerment charges but his subordinate has someone shoot something at a different child designed to make her fall on pavement from a great height? So are we supposed to conclude they're hypocrites, not just heavyhanded?
I'm trying to figure out if this is a deliberate parallel to Gen. Ross, Director Hayward, etc. and thus yet another statement about how the government can't be trusted to control this stuff, or if we're seeing actions that the writers see as just routine law enforcement stuff (rightly or wrongly--they could still be implying its heavyhanded). Is there an active intention for Damage Control to be heavies, or are they just supposed to be a stumbling block for Kamala and stuff like questioning a minor or shooting something at a minor is going to be glossed over as story filler? We shall see, I guess.
With Damage Control you have several things going on at once. First, Kamala Khan isn't Peter Parker. She's not a white kid from Queens who became an Avenger and Tony Stark's surrogate son. She's an unknown brown person with weird (AKA threatening) powers. So when pursuing her, the DC agent weren't firing at a "child." They were firing at a target, trying to take her down with overwhelming (but basically non-lethal) force and hoping she wouldn't turn out to be willing and able to disintegrate the lot of them if that didn't work. So there's the "militarized police" aspect to Damage Control. Which seems likely to backfire on them when they inevitably do encounter someone both powerful and hostile.
Prior to that we had the mosque visit with the camera focused on the (jack?)boots that the Damage Control agents did not bother to remove. So right there you have a combination of aggression and indifference toward the people from whom they'd like to gather information. And then they exacerbated the situation with the attitude of "Don't you want to be one of the "good" Muslims?" Five'll get you twenty that if someone on the show hasn't personally experienced that situation, they're close to somebody who did.
They're probably not former HYDRA agents because, honestly, I think HYDRA agents would be smarter than that. Damage Control is likely a bunch of ex-cops/ex-federal law enforcement folks who've been given a lot of ill-defined authority, a big budget and a bunch of toys (that they likely stole from Stark Industries). Right now because they really don't know any better, they're falling back on "flash-the-badge" intimidation, the fact that they likely have oversight that's murky at best and (what they hope is) overwhelming force in any kind of confrontation. They'll abuse a lot of rights, scare a bunch of people and ultimately run into someone (Dr. Doom, Magneto) who'll just eat them.
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9 hours ago, Lassus said:
I hope people continue to like this. I read the comics, gave them to my tweeners niece, and thought the first two episodes were incredible, some of the best I've seen. I don't mind the power change either.
The last two, however, are really losing me. They are in my opinion squandering their greatest asset - Iman Vellani - in favor of more more more and more. The Noor, the Djinn, the grandmother, the Clandestine, the Red Knives, and now time travel? The intimacy and locality of the story was a massive strength but if you were going to do this much info dump and setup it should have been 8 or 10 episodes, not just 6.
And this very odd new dimension for the MCU should almost certainly fit in elsewhere and later, but the setup is just kind of weak. And, also, seems weirdly stolen from Mieville's The City & the City.
I very much like the show, but I wish it was moving differently. More Kamala, more powers, less - waves arms - all this, at least without proper introduction. And the chase scene was boring.
I LOVE THE SHOW I'M NOT A HATER. I'm not angry I'm just.... disappointed.
I think one problem that Marvel is having is grasping the difference between a TV show and a movie. You can't really cut a movie into six parts and call it a TV series. Well, obviously you can and they did and that's part of the problem. But this episode as maybe 5 of 8 or 7 of 10 would likely have worked better. As for the big stakes, screw it. I'm completely fine with seeing this particular brown girl from Jersey actually save the world.
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I think one key bits about the Djinn's heel turn was Kamren's mom saying something like "We're out of time." She covered it with "We need to go home." but there might be more to it than simple eager. I mean at the start of the show they had Kamala and the Bangle right there among them at close quarters. They could have just grabbed/forced her then. Instead they tried to persuade her and let her go.
I think something changed. Maybe the Djinn have other enemies that are after them and they need to get back home to be safe from whatever is hunting them.
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On 6/21/2022 at 7:33 PM, Morrigan2575 said:
I'll be honest the trailer turned me off. It just seemed geared for a younger audience so I decided to pass.
I might watch it later but, right now I've got Stranger Things, Kenobi and The Boys to get through. Oh and then Sandman starts in August...very busy summer.
As someone who has watched every episode of every MCU Disney+ show so far, Ms Marvel is the best of them. Every other series has had a kind of "saggy middle" around episodes 2-4. Unless something drastically changes (and I don't think it will) nothing like that has happened here. The acting, directing, cinematography, editing, fight choreography, dance choreography... all of it has been top-notch.
I've had to stop watching Obi-Wan Kenobi for now because this show made that one look so cheap, shoddy and amateurish by comparison.
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1 hour ago, greekmom said:
Uhhhhh what!??!
Loki was 6 episodes. Falcon/Winter was 6 episodes. Wandavision was a whopping 9 episodes! Most of them had some end credit scene pretty much after each episode.
Well, I guess I missed a bunch of extra content because the only times I recall end credits scenes were in the very last episodes of each series. To my knowledge Ms. Marvel is the only MCU Disney+ series to feature an end credits scene in its first episode.
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22 hours ago, ProudMary said:
In the camera pull back, during the 1942 scene in India where the bangle is taken from the blue arm (assumption: Kree,) we see the symbol of the 10 Rings in the dirt. I went back 30 seconds to make sure I saw what I thought I saw! The Mandarin is involved. Killing Kree?
Why not? Per Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
SpoilerXu Wenwu had been warring and conquering (secretly or not) for a 1000 years or so. Most of the few Kree we've seen have been arrogant assholes. If some of them showed up and started some shit with him (especially if they went after his Rings), it's easily plausible that Wenwu murked them. And then put that symbol there because heads stuck up on pikes don't last as long for the purposes of your "If you screw with me I will kill every last mother's child among you" warnings.
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S03.E01: Grounded
in Star Trek: Lower Decks
Show was good. Mariner still seems to be a person who fails to realize that she's in Starfleet and not some shady asshole military in a different sci-fi universe. I liked the thirsty farm gals and Boimler being oblivious to them. Kudos to them getting James Cromwell as holo Zephram Cochrane.