Marvel Cinematic Universe

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Loki was a shite Doctor Who at best

Perfect execution, all correct.

Personally I thought WandaVision also fucked up the last episode because of assorted cop-outs and trying too hard to be surprising (whilst failing) but otherwise that's just correct. Also Loki was the best and people saying otherwise are clearly just trying to be edgelords.

Daredevil S3 was indeed good.

Hawkeye seems likely to be solid if they can keep it up, yeah, better overall for me than either WV or Falcon... but that's a big if. We're really going to have some pretty wild ordering arguments in a few years when we have multiple seasons of some of these, She-Hulk, Moon Knight (probably terrible despite lead), Ms Marvel (probably too twee to live), Ironheart (please don't suck!) and so on.

Honestly be unsurprised if we somehow end up with another recast of Spider-Man and this time it's a TV series.

If we're doing this Wanda was by far the best, Loki was good but girl Loki made if feel like Dr Who every time she was on screen and nobody wants that. Fisto and the Amazing Pigeon was ok if a little bland. I enjoyed Aldi Iron Man in it.

Whichever Dare Devil season had the Punisher in was good, as was the Punisher season one. The other Netflix stuff was all pretty bad. Foggy and his potato head is the worst thing to ever happen ever.

That's season 2, the one everyone universally says is a bit rubbish because it has too many ninjas.
I have a bit of a soft spot for Elektra, but yeah, too many ninjas.

It's because she's a KAREN, Mola.

Punisher was done well. Elektra wasn't.

I did a rewatch a year or two ago and I forgot that Punisher is in pretty much the whole of series 2. As is Elektra.

Punisher in prison was excellent.

It was a pretty damn weird decision that they avoided the shit out of that, and especially that they put Rosario Dawson as his love interest, who Mike Colter had less than zero chemistry with.

Seriously that was the least-convincing "Oh yeah we're horny for each other!" I've ever seen on TV, I think. That was a bit of an issue generally with the Netflix-Marvel shows, whoever was casting them was not great at determining chemistry. Sometimes they got it right (Krysten Ritter worked well with both Tenant and Colter), but I think the actual majority of the time they got it wrong, so I suspect the JJ thing was a pure accident.

Also I don't know how they did it but S2 of JJ was genuinely unwatchable to me. Like, I couldn't even make it through one episode. I forced myself through the first two episodes of S2, watching a few minutes at a time, because I felt it had to "get good" eventually, but christ, it wasn't getting good, and thankfully someone at RPS put me out of my misery by telling me it never did.

After the washed up Peter in Spiderverse it could be interesting to see a movie Spiderman dealing with ageing.

(I know we sort of had it with Toby trying to torpedo Mary Jane’s career but who knows how old anyone in those movies was meant to be)

I'm not seeing Rhino...

I really don’t want to see Rhino unless it’s an angry man angry about being stuck in a magic rhino costume.

“I’ll get you for this, Spider-Man!”

Really enjoyed this weeks episode. Felt like a slice taken from a full on proper movie.

I think they take well over a billion dollars per month from Disney Plus subs. You’d hope the shows have high production values. Technically though that car chase was magnificent, because the actors clearly can’t be driving the car, so how they pulled all that shit off and made it look so convincing is, well so hopefully it’s the subject of an on-depth making-of video someday.

The Shang-Chi bus fight was great, but I don’t think it involved remotely such a degree of co-ordination between what was happening in the bus compared to outsde the bus simultaneously.