lol at Growing Pains callback.
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 14:20 (three years ago) link
also in the finale, Ralph Macchio was supposed to show up in a cameo and play guitar in a duel with Agatha
More Monica = yay!Monica fighting a demon rabbit = ummmmm…
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link
In the Marvel series WandaVision (Disney+), we see her in bed with the near-omnipotent android, Vision, watching Malcolm In The Middle.
It's on rather than in the bed, he sees her watching and sits down beside her - which sounds like nitpicking, but I really loved that it was at or before the start of their relationship, that this act of kindness was unbound and unbidden (particularly since the relationship in the films seemed a bit "we have to do this because comics")
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 14:37 (three years ago) link
(the quote is from Nhex's Mint Lounge link, which I liked otherwise)
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 14:40 (three years ago) link
to be clear, had they continued the unreal Looney Tunes-vibe of the sitcom realities rather than shifted back into standard MCU, then okay yeah bring on the demon bunny, just don't be surprised if I start yelling "YOU MAY CALL ME... TIM?" at the television
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 14:43 (three years ago) link
ya gotta dream bigger, DJP!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
The last thing we needed in that final episode was another pair of powerful beings fighting one another.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 15:03 (three years ago) link
Watched a handful of season 1 eps of my folks' new Netflix binge, "Kim's Convenience", this weekend. Good-natured Canadian comedy about a Korean family-run convenience store. Generational and cultural laughs. The actor playing the son is charismatic, and took me an episode to recognize that Simu Liu is the actor playing Shang-Chi. Nice to have a separate facet going into what I hope is a great MCU addition.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
oh that's rad, i'm a big fan of Kim's Convenience and I didn't know that dude was gonna be shang-chi. prob explains why he's been "away on business" this season. dude was ripped before the marvel workout plan.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 18:09 (three years ago) link
that review upthread nailed it imoxposts
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
I've been enjoying Charles Pulliam-Moore's takes on the show over the course of the season and, as much as I very much enjoy said season, this perspective I freely accept:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/monica-rambeau-was-wandavisions-real-hero-and-the-show-1846433688
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
yep hard to argue with that
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link
That was really good, thanks. And the article linked to a previous article which helped clear up my own confusion about what (little) I knew about Captain Marvel. Good comment at the bottom, too, with someone hypothesizing that covid might have messed up with the finale the most, which is why much of the last episode featured pairs of people facing off in isolation, due to restrictions.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 21:24 (three years ago) link
agreed, pretty good take
― Nhex, Tuesday, 9 March 2021 22:51 (three years ago) link
I didn't find that piece at all convincing -- it's totally possible that they meant to make Rambeau more central to the series than she was, but I just don't think "Monica Rambeau was WandaVision's real hero" holds up as as regards the show we actually saw. She just wasn't there that much!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
Anyway will watch the making-of deal at some point here but there's always next week! In which...this happens:
Watch a brand-new official clip from Marvel Studios’ The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Start streaming in one week on @DisneyPlus. #FalconAndWinterSoldier pic.twitter.com/lR6yVQSWuP— The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (@falconandwinter) March 12, 2021
As was said in response:
I'm sorry did Bucky read The Hobbit, a children's book, on its first printing of 1500 copies when he was a twenty year old man taking art classes at the Brooklyn YMCA https://t.co/i0YNEnsheU— alexis nedd 🎮 💙 (@alexisthenedd) March 12, 2021
Did James Buchanan Barnes, future assassin of John F. Kennedy, read Tolkein on the subway to his art classes, and show tiny Steve Rogers sketches of hobbits saying "it's you, you're Bilbo"— alexis nedd 🎮 💙 (@alexisthenedd) March 12, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 March 2021 20:16 (three years ago) link
I mean I have an interest in these matters, obv.
I just love that they made a whole TV series based entirely on Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan’s MCU press tours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utHpac5DCIo
― Roz, Saturday, 13 March 2021 03:34 (three years ago) link
upon seeing some comments about how katherine hahn is more interesting as agnes than as agatha: it would’ve been cool if she actually was agnes the whole time, one of the town's people who through some accident gained her free will back and realized what was going on but went along because she loves sitcoms, loved the change and actually enjoyed playing the role of the nosy neighbour.
― scanner darkly, Sunday, 14 March 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link
so Falcon and Winter Soldier then innit
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 19 March 2021 11:48 (three years ago) link
a very solid B- first episode but props for having bucky drink tiger beer
― Roz, Friday, 19 March 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
I had some Spockesque "this is illogical" issues but it's too early to say thumbs up/down.
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Friday, 19 March 2021 18:01 (three years ago) link
The Brube:
And of course, today the FALCON AND WINTER SOLDIER show debuts on Disney+, which I sadly have very mixed feelings about. I’m really happy for Sebastian Stan, who I think is both a great guy and the perfect Bucky/Winter Soldier, and I’m glad to see him getting more screen time finally. Also, Anthony Mackie is amazing as the Falcon, and everyone at Marvel Studios that I’ve ever met (all the way up to Kevin Feige) have been nothing but kind to me… but at the same time, for the most part all Steve Epting and I have gotten for creating the Winter Soldier and his storyline is a “thanks” here or there, and over the years that’s become harder and harder to live with. I’ve even seen higher-ups on the publishing side try to take credit for my work a few times, which was pretty galling (to be clear, I’m NOT talking about Tom Breevort, who was a great editor and really helpful). So yeah, mixed feeling, and maybe it’ll always be like that (but I sure hope not). Work-for-hire work is what it is, and I’m honestly thrilled to have co-created something that’s become such a big part of pop culture – or even pop subculture with all the Bucky-Steve slash fiction – and that run on Cap was one of the happiest times of my career, certainly while doing superhero comics. Also, I have a great life as a writer and much of it is because of Cap and the Winter Soldier bringing so many readers to my other work. But I also can’t deny feeling a bit sick to my stomach sometimes when my inbox fills up with people wanting comments on the show. So… I’m sure I’ll watch it, and you should too if you’re a Marvel movie universe fan, but I’ll probably be waiting a while to check it out myself. So please don’t email me any spoilers, I guess, but go give Sebastian Stan lots of love wherever he is online.
So yeah, mixed feeling, and maybe it’ll always be like that (but I sure hope not). Work-for-hire work is what it is, and I’m honestly thrilled to have co-created something that’s become such a big part of pop culture – or even pop subculture with all the Bucky-Steve slash fiction – and that run on Cap was one of the happiest times of my career, certainly while doing superhero comics. Also, I have a great life as a writer and much of it is because of Cap and the Winter Soldier bringing so many readers to my other work. But I also can’t deny feeling a bit sick to my stomach sometimes when my inbox fills up with people wanting comments on the show.
So… I’m sure I’ll watch it, and you should too if you’re a Marvel movie universe fan, but I’ll probably be waiting a while to check it out myself. So please don’t email me any spoilers, I guess, but go give Sebastian Stan lots of love wherever he is online.
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Friday, 19 March 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
:/.sic i just want to say i really appreciate your commitment to creators.
if anything, brubaker's being too humble. he didn't just create the winter soldier and his storyline; he more or less saved captain america for the modern era and he deserves more.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 19 March 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
it should be noted for those few noncomic geek MCU fans among us that Ed Brubaker is the comic writer who rebooted Captain America in the 2000's and created the winter soldier out of bucky
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 March 2021 22:27 (three years ago) link
And my former roommate tbh
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Friday, 19 March 2021 23:03 (three years ago) link
I...think I knew that. Why did I know that?
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 March 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link
The mighty vine at the mighty rock iirc
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Friday, 19 March 2021 23:09 (three years ago) link
I thought this first episode was pretty good! At least, I enjoyed it and look forward to it, well, going forward.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 March 2021 01:12 (three years ago) link
I enjoyed this a lot
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Saturday, 20 March 2021 02:31 (three years ago) link
the first teaser trailer was ~so~ lame i had abandoned all hopeglad to see the positve reviews! hopefully will watch tonight
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 March 2021 02:33 (three years ago) link
The last scene is real real good. got me like marvin martian levels of angry.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 20 March 2021 05:28 (three years ago) link
completely separately, we kinda knew this from that one scene way back in civil war, but sebastian stan is a pretty good comic actor!
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 20 March 2021 05:30 (three years ago) link
yeah he has great timing i enjoyed this -lotta scene setting etc so not like, exciting but i will def keep watching also battleship as a drinking game <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 March 2021 05:33 (three years ago) link
personally love how sebastian stan is the biggest star to come out of gossip girl, carter baizen supremacy
― Roz, Saturday, 20 March 2021 05:59 (three years ago) link
i only know wyatt russell from lodge 49 so his casting in THAT role seems v counterintuitive but i’m looking forward to seeing what he does with it
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 20 March 2021 08:29 (three years ago) link
Lol when the Battleship game happened I immediately said “THAT IS GENIUS” and was sad I didn’t have a time machine to go back to college to implement it
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Saturday, 20 March 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link
i've only seen Wyatt in Overlord so... he fit well
― Nhex, Sunday, 21 March 2021 04:22 (three years ago) link
I chuckled at the moment when Sam and his sister were arguing after the bank and then just grab food deliveries from their truck.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 21 March 2021 05:07 (three years ago) link
i haven't check this thread in a while as i hadn't finished wandavision yet but saw this:
lol at Growing Pains callback
I had no idea until recent imdb-ing that matt shakman was a child actor on just the ten of us which was a spinoff of growing pains.
― joygoat, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 13:27 (three years ago) link
As someone burning through a full Captain America read-through right now, tuning into the first episode of Falcon and the Winter Soldier gave me whiplash. In the comics, Sam is a social worker who has a great relationship with a bird. On TV he murders 10 people for the US gov't— Jacob deNobel (@Jacob_deNobel) March 24, 2021
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 18:53 (three years ago) link
So Disney just gave up and announced Black Widow for Disney+ (+ extra $) on July 9, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
i was pretty underwhelmed by the first episode of F+WS but it was definitely a show where I started saying "killed him. killed him too. okay, that guy is dead. he's DEFINITELY dead"
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 19:18 (three years ago) link
xpost - guessing they can't keep waiting forever, given how they are trying to fit things into a larger storyline with this phase. I mean, it's probably less critical given the timeframe, but they can't sit on it forever.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 19:19 (three years ago) link
Yeah, gotta say, Sam's casual body count rack-up in that first ep didn't sit particularly well with me, either.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link
Some of you never watched 80's action movies and it shows.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
have been reading mentions of Falcon and the Winter Soldier on the internet in the last week and thinking to myself "why are people talking about "the falcon and the snowman"?
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link
I've watched (and still watch, and love) a buttload of '80s action movies. Marvel heroes aren't supposed to be Reagan-era sociopaths, tho.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
Sam Wilson should not be Marion Cobretti with wings, is what I'm saying here.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link