LokiDon't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining.Registered Userregular
Nothing wrong with different Marvel properties having different tones, as long as they mesh well when they do team ups.
+10
Inquisitor772 x Penny Arcade Fight Club ChampionA fixed point in space and timeRegistered Userregular
The Daredevil show was literally about to repeat the same problem* that Iron Fist had, where apparently the first four episodes didn't even have Daredevil suiting up.
The Daredevil show was literally about to repeat the same problem* that Iron Fist had, where apparently the first four episodes didn't even have Daredevil suiting up.
*One of many, many problems
Didn't Daredevil not get his suit till late in S1 and was just wearing black cloths and a cloth around his head?
+3
LokiDon't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining.Registered Userregular
The Daredevil show was literally about to repeat the same problem* that Iron Fist had, where apparently the first four episodes didn't even have Daredevil suiting up.
*One of many, many problems
Didn't Daredevil not get his suit till late in S1 and was just wearing black cloths and a cloth around his head?
He still suited up in the makeshift black suit.
Kinda like Stark going through various suits in the first Iron Man. His Mk 1 still counted as suiting up even though it had nothing on his Mk 3 at the end.
Heh, I almost forgot about S3 where he spends the whole season out of the outfit too. I was watching seasons as the DD vs Bullseye fights were decent and accidentally left it on a part that looked like Daredevil was an ENTIRELY different kind of show.
I still feel like the show could've been streamlined quite a bit, but overall the quality was good, so given the alternatives it's a minor complaint.
Streamlined? It felt lean af to me, and they yadda yadda yadda’d over stuff that could have taken entire seasons.
For me, loved the finale, fantastic stuff. I have a lot of questions and I’m not sure exactly what happened, but the general gist was *chefs kiss* A++.
The only major mis-step for me is Loki’s characterisation. I just can’t reconcile the amiable everyman Hiddleston portrayed this season with the magnificent arrogant trickster Loki is. I feel like some of his character traits could have remained to remind us that this is the same character. Loki is not An Ordinary Guy, even depowered, and I felt that was lost a little.
Also Sylvie went absolutely nowhere, they wasted her.
Other than that: LOVED IT
ALRIGHT FINE I GOT AN AVATAR
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+3
LokiDon't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining.Registered Userregular
He played the arrogant trickster a bit at the start of S2 when pushed.
But
I guess in the centuries he was working on the macguffin he matured a bit.
+1
AbsoluteZeroThe new film by Quentin KoopantinoRegistered Userregular
I was under the impression the arrogant trickster thing had largely been an act, something he buried his true self under.
I love a good Groundhog Day loop, and it was fun seeing it from the outside
Especially the lesson that Loki learned amidst e centuries of time engineering that was "don't drop the thingy off the edge"
[Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
+4
SnicketysnickThe Greatest Hype Man inWesterosRegistered Userregular
that last run is the closest thing to MMO raid leading I've seen on a tv show, right down to "now you DO remember when I told you not to do the thing you're about to do right?"
that last run is the closest thing to MMO raid leading I've seen on a tv show, right down to "now you DO remember when I told you not to do the thing you're about to do right?"
Leeroy Jenkins is a Kang variant, it’s so obvious now.
that last run is the closest thing to MMO raid leading I've seen on a tv show, right down to "now you DO remember when I told you not to do the thing you're about to do right?"
If you drop da throughput multiplier, that's a 50 DKP minus because you didn't know WHAT THE **** your were supposed to do!
+3
tzeentchlingDoctor of RocksOaklandRegistered Userregular
I still feel like the show could've been streamlined quite a bit, but overall the quality was good, so given the alternatives it's a minor complaint.
Streamlined? It felt lean af to me, and they yadda yadda yadda’d over stuff that could have taken entire seasons.
For me, loved the finale, fantastic stuff. I have a lot of questions and I’m not sure exactly what happened, but the general gist was *chefs kiss* A++.
The only major mis-step for me is Loki’s characterisation. I just can’t reconcile the amiable everyman Hiddleston portrayed this season with the magnificent arrogant trickster Loki is. I feel like some of his character traits could have remained to remind us that this is the same character. Loki is not An Ordinary Guy, even depowered, and I felt that was lost a little.
Also Sylvie went absolutely nowhere, they wasted her.
Other than that: LOVED IT
He brought out the arrogant trickster in episode 2 when he was chasing after Brad in the main timeline, and a bit again when mind-controlling Brad back in the TVA once the system resets and the magic protection goes down. But I think his motivation this season was generally too single-focused on dealing with Kang and the multiversal timelines to bring it out any more. Arrogance kind of fades when you've seen the literal end of time and the concept of an infinite eternal war that literally mathematically could never be won.
I still feel like the show could've been streamlined quite a bit, but overall the quality was good, so given the alternatives it's a minor complaint.
Streamlined? It felt lean af to me, and they yadda yadda yadda’d over stuff that could have taken entire seasons.
For me, loved the finale, fantastic stuff. I have a lot of questions and I’m not sure exactly what happened, but the general gist was *chefs kiss* A++.
The only major mis-step for me is Loki’s characterisation. I just can’t reconcile the amiable everyman Hiddleston portrayed this season with the magnificent arrogant trickster Loki is. I feel like some of his character traits could have remained to remind us that this is the same character. Loki is not An Ordinary Guy, even depowered, and I felt that was lost a little.
Also Sylvie went absolutely nowhere, they wasted her.
Other than that: LOVED IT
I feel like this was handled by about half of season one. Both demonstrating to us that this is not the post-Avengers 1 Loki we have gotten used to, and in dedicating significant screentime to his change in mood as a result of Mobius deliberately deprogramming (reprogramming?) him. He spent an indeterminate amount of time having Sif beat the magnificence right out of him.
This is why I can also sympathize with the issues of "this Loki". Post Endgame Loki, had he somehow came back, I can buy instantly he'd be acting like this. Fresh off the Hulk-Pain-Train Loki from Avengers? The cheat to get him from there to here is kind of unsatisfying, but I'm not going to get hung up on it. I wish they found a better way of pulling it off, that's all.
"The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
The show does speed run through it to get back to the point in Loki’s character arc they want to tell their story in a way that is fairly unsatisfying. They do take time to show him all the pivotal moments of the arc the Sacred Timeline Loki went through, sending the dark elves to kill his mother inadvertently and being so effortlessly killed by Thanos (who I’m pretty sure Avengers 1 Loki fully thought himself capable of betraying and usurping). He eventually comes to the realisation of his flaws within the Sif time loop, even spells it out himself that he uses people and how selfish he has been. They do definitely send as much time as they reasonably could trying to earn the change in his character, but it’s understandable that it feels rather rushed to leap through 10 years of character progression so quickly.
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LokiDon't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining.Registered Userregular
that last run is the closest thing to MMO raid leading I've seen on a tv show, right down to "now you DO remember when I told you not to do the thing you're about to do right?"
If you drop da throughput multiplier, that's a 50 DKP minus because you didn't know WHAT THE **** your were supposed to do!
Agreed with others here: 10/10, no notes. Like, there's just so much that makes it perfect as an episode, a season finale and a series finale. I already loved the show so much that I was afraid they were going to fumble the landing because it would be one hell of a landing to stick, and they not only stuck it, I'm still in awe about how fucking well they stuck.
I watched (out of habit) for a post credits tease, and there was none. Which, I should be mad at, and yet I'm just still in awe that they had the confidence to end it where it ended and leave it at that.
The only sad thing for me is that, at least narratively, it would make no sense to see Loki any further. Yes, you can concoct reasons to have him show up, but his story is complete, there's no reason for him to show up again, and that just makes me sad because I want more.
"Let's take a look at the scores! The girls are at the square root of Pi, while the boys are still at a crudely drawn picture of a duck. Clearly, it's anybody's game!"
+2
LokiDon't pee in my mouth and tell me it's raining.Registered Userregular
The only sad thing for me is that, at least narratively, it would make no sense to see Loki any further. Yes, you can concoct reasons to have him show up, but his story is complete, there's no reason for him to show up again, and that just makes me sad because I want more.
With Hemsworth stepping back from acting and how his story ended in L&T, I’d be happy if they left both as done.
They’ve gotten better endings than some characters.
I think Love & Thunder could have done a better job with Thor, and Hulk resolving his issues offscreen between the two Infinity War films was pretty cheap, but I thought the Black Widow heroic sacrifice in Endgame was fitting for the character and an emotional moment for the audience.
If you mean her Phase 4 movie was terrible then 100% agreed, besides Guardians 3 and Spiderman 3 there have been a lot of issues with Marvel in the last wave of movies.
+1
Ninja Snarl PMy helmet is my burden.Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered Userregular
Widow dying in Endgame with that particular situation matches the character. If there is anybody who simply would not let Clint's family be without Clint, it would be Natasha.
The problem is that she simply should not have died there. Natasha had been bigger and bigger pieces of movies about other heroes but the Snap had her really stepping up and leading. Character-wise, she deserved to lead up the Avengers following Endgame. Not to mention it was weird that the movie dedicates like fifteen minutes to Stark being dead and Natasha gets like a two-minute recap that yup, she's dead, move on with the movie.
It just didn't sit right that Natasha had been with the franchise for almost the entire run up to that point and was the one that got ripped off for any kind of happy ending.
Widow dying in Endgame with that particular situation matches the character. If there is anybody who simply would not let Clint's family be without Clint, it would be Natasha.
The problem is that she simply should not have died there. Natasha had been bigger and bigger pieces of movies about other heroes but the Snap had her really stepping up and leading. Character-wise, she deserved to lead up the Avengers following Endgame. Not to mention it was weird that the movie dedicates like fifteen minutes to Stark being dead and Natasha gets like a two-minute recap that yup, she's dead, move on with the movie.
It just didn't sit right that Natasha had been with the franchise for almost the entire run up to that point and was the one that got ripped off for any kind of happy ending.
I could have lived with almost everything EXCEPT the disparity in the Stark/Natasha bits. She LITERALLY held the Avengers together for 5 years post blip without much in the way of hope while Stark fucked off and had a kid (and unlike a lot of the day to day folks, was rich enough he could ride out the following years in comfort). She deserved better from her friends.
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*One of many, many problems
Crime rates skyrocket because they can't stop fucking
Shit, I wouldn't.
Gritty is fine if done right. It's going to be weird going from She-Hulk Daredevil to gritty Daredevil though in the same universe.
Daredevil, She-Hulk, and Jessica Jones, you mean.
They need a PI.
He was barely in She Hulk, so I don't exactly need that short appearance to dictate the tone of his solo outing.
Didn't Daredevil not get his suit till late in S1 and was just wearing black cloths and a cloth around his head?
He still suited up in the makeshift black suit.
Kinda like Stark going through various suits in the first Iron Man. His Mk 1 still counted as suiting up even though it had nothing on his Mk 3 at the end.
Streamlined? It felt lean af to me, and they yadda yadda yadda’d over stuff that could have taken entire seasons.
For me, loved the finale, fantastic stuff. I have a lot of questions and I’m not sure exactly what happened, but the general gist was *chefs kiss* A++.
The only major mis-step for me is Loki’s characterisation. I just can’t reconcile the amiable everyman Hiddleston portrayed this season with the magnificent arrogant trickster Loki is. I feel like some of his character traits could have remained to remind us that this is the same character. Loki is not An Ordinary Guy, even depowered, and I felt that was lost a little.
Also Sylvie went absolutely nowhere, they wasted her.
Other than that: LOVED IT
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But
Especially the lesson that Loki learned amidst e centuries of time engineering that was "don't drop the thingy off the edge"
Leeroy Jenkins is a Kang variant, it’s so obvious now.
If you drop da throughput multiplier, that's a 50 DKP minus because you didn't know WHAT THE **** your were supposed to do!
He brought out the arrogant trickster in episode 2 when he was chasing after Brad in the main timeline, and a bit again when mind-controlling Brad back in the TVA once the system resets and the magic protection goes down. But I think his motivation this season was generally too single-focused on dealing with Kang and the multiversal timelines to bring it out any more. Arrogance kind of fades when you've seen the literal end of time and the concept of an infinite eternal war that literally mathematically could never be won.
I feel like this was handled by about half of season one. Both demonstrating to us that this is not the post-Avengers 1 Loki we have gotten used to, and in dedicating significant screentime to his change in mood as a result of Mobius deliberately deprogramming (reprogramming?) him. He spent an indeterminate amount of time having Sif beat the magnificence right out of him.
I haven’t watched that in so fucking long.
Wait it’s been fourteen years?
Agreed with others here: 10/10, no notes. Like, there's just so much that makes it perfect as an episode, a season finale and a series finale. I already loved the show so much that I was afraid they were going to fumble the landing because it would be one hell of a landing to stick, and they not only stuck it, I'm still in awe about how fucking well they stuck.
I watched (out of habit) for a post credits tease, and there was none. Which, I should be mad at, and yet I'm just still in awe that they had the confidence to end it where it ended and leave it at that.
The only sad thing for me is that, at least narratively, it would make no sense to see Loki any further. Yes, you can concoct reasons to have him show up, but his story is complete, there's no reason for him to show up again, and that just makes me sad because I want more.
With Hemsworth stepping back from acting and how his story ended in L&T, I’d be happy if they left both as done.
They’ve gotten better endings than some characters.
If you mean her Phase 4 movie was terrible then 100% agreed, besides Guardians 3 and Spiderman 3 there have been a lot of issues with Marvel in the last wave of movies.
The problem is that she simply should not have died there. Natasha had been bigger and bigger pieces of movies about other heroes but the Snap had her really stepping up and leading. Character-wise, she deserved to lead up the Avengers following Endgame. Not to mention it was weird that the movie dedicates like fifteen minutes to Stark being dead and Natasha gets like a two-minute recap that yup, she's dead, move on with the movie.
It just didn't sit right that Natasha had been with the franchise for almost the entire run up to that point and was the one that got ripped off for any kind of happy ending.
I could have lived with almost everything EXCEPT the disparity in the Stark/Natasha bits. She LITERALLY held the Avengers together for 5 years post blip without much in the way of hope while Stark fucked off and had a kid (and unlike a lot of the day to day folks, was rich enough he could ride out the following years in comfort). She deserved better from her friends.
Also was that
Ben Hur, goddamnit.
God I weep for the future...
I think we're allowed to update our references at some point
Thank god for this post though, because my brain damn near short circuited for a moment.
...Oh thank you, it actually ain't.