Rolling Marvel Cinematic Universe thread (+ a poll: Classic or Dud?)

I've watched Daredevil and Jessica Jones - the former is moderately entertaining, the latter extremely entertaining.

Agent Carter, Daredevil, and Jessica Jones are all short seasons that are pretty new-viewer friendly and don't require much commitment, and they're all great. SHIELD has only gotten better as it's gone on but demands more time + patience and heavily ties in with the events of at least Cap 2 but has also gotten very good at being its own thing but haters gonna hate so that ship has sailed for lots of people who will probably never know what they're missing (at least until the Inhumans become a thing in the movies and everyone feels compelled to see what they've been sleeping on).

Agent Carter is my favorite show on tv, hands down

yeah i've only seen a couple of episodes of shield, one was the pilot which was eh and the other one was pretty good and had adrianne palicki looking hot as fuck as mockingbird. i might eventually check it out but everytime i think about i think 'actually i should watch alias instead' and then i end up watching basketball instead. agent carter i enjoyed; nothing too special but very solid entertainment (similar to the first cap movie). hayley atwell is something else as well. love the netflix marvel shows so far, the criticisms i've heard are fair enough for sure but w/ the exception of gotg and maybe winter soldier i've enjoyed the netflix shows more than any of the movies.

VG, talk me into giving Agent Carter another shot! I watched the first couple eps and got bored and wandered away...

It's soooooo marvellous

Rewatch Cap 1, with a mind for watching Peggy. Lock in on her steely resolve & excellent choice of lipstick shade, and go from there.

Peggy is like a mega-detective & spy & vigilante. full of spirit & pluck, ingenuity & she can kick all the asses without any help at all. Jarvis is a fun foil to her boldness, and while it takes awhile for the agency guys to not be lame dorks, Sousa turns into a pretty good stick towards the end of S1

And Howard Stark is delightfully rakish :)

IT

IS

THE BEST

just let go of all the marvel shoegaze serious business of agents of shield/daredevil/jessica jones ... agent carter is light & airy & fun

With a pretty steady body count, it's not the Mary Tyler Moore show.

dammit now I want a Mary Tyler Moore Show with a steady body count

lol apparently S1 is also not available on any ~legitimate~ streaming service

;_;

you could surely find it on the t0rrentz tho

Well, you can buy the DVD/Blu-ray set, anyway. I mean, only from Amazon for some reason, but still.

Loving all of these barriers of entry into a medium that's nearing its death throes.

That's weird, season 1 and the new episodes of season 2 are on Netflix here.

It's on Hulu, no?

Hulu, ABC and ON DEMAND have the first three eps of S2 and ~clips~ of S1. Thanks guys!

XFINITY ON DEMAND had it until last week, but like i said the first two eps did not charm me and i wandered off

Amazon apparently has exclusive US rights and I with my Prime Video access I have the privilege of buying from for $2.99 per episode which haha yeah nope

wtf how can one sentence get so mangled lol. I blame repeatedly going back to "fix" helpful corrections from grrr autocorrect

I reeeeeeeeeeeally hope this 'Amazon exclusive!' shit bites everyone involved on the ass. It's one thing to have exclusive streaming rights but another altogether to have exclusive rights to every purchasable form of a particular work.

http://www.hollywood-elsewhere.com/images/column/febmar16/marvelchart.jpg

How is that different from any action/sci-fi movie?

Uh, so a thee-act structure?

Feel like the last Avengers and Thor movies were waaaay more scattered than three acts, felt more comic book event series-paced

wow someone cracked the code

that creative writing 101 class is paying off

That diagram thing is ripped off of Dan Harmon's story cycle and it applies to most storytelling not just marvel stuff, there's a long article somewhere where he goes through it step by step which I found really illuminating. The marvel films are bad because they execute the formula in a way that feels joyless and perfunctory.

Whatever you say, Mozart.

Joseph Campbell came up with it. Dan Harmon's a hack

That graph is in fact taken directly from a Dan Harmon powerpoint. Note that it has exact page numbers for each event.

Yeah, obviously it's based off Campbell's hero's journey. That picture is copied from Harmon's modified version rather than Campbell's original though.

More love for Agent Carter - it's been incredibly entertaining this season. Reminds me of all the super-fun genre shows of the early 00s.

It's like Angel without the retroactively annoying Whedon-iness.

Yeah, that's a pretty good comparison. It pulls off that neat Whedonesque trick of being fun and whimsical but also dark, and it has real characters that the audience cares about. Too bad Hayley Atwell apparently has another show in the pipeline.

With the low number of episodes per season for AC, it shouldn't be impossible for her to be in two different shows, though I guess American TV actors don't normally do that?

Eeesh, that new show sounds dreadful

she could easily do both but agent carter's ratings are apparently much worse this season than last season (and they were pretty bad last season) and the head of abc got fired so it doesn't look likely to come back. it'd be awesome if netflix somehow resurrected it in their marvel fever but i don't think it really has a cult. a shame, as it's a really really fun show. i really can't figure out how more ppl wouldn't want to watch a show where you get to look at hayley atwell kicking ass and wearing great clothes.

how about u wait for for it to be actually cancelled before u bust out the eulogy captain buzzkill

but yeah this season has been fantastic

is agent carter on netflix?

It is in here at least, new episodes every week.

I agree with your entire statement, balls, but I'd even just say: i really can't figure out how more ppl wouldn't want to watch a show where you get to look at hayley atwell kicking ass and wearing great clothes.

fedoras leave a stink wherever they go now

Lol "captain buzzkill".

Last two eps were terrific - the plot was actually exciting. Hayley Atwell gets a lot of the cred, which she deserves, natch, but the direction is pretty great too. Like, better than it needs to be for this sort of show.

Also enjoyed the reverse "you should smile more" and all those bits of business.

i'm super into the way they keep elevating other female characters, like whitney frost is becoming more & more fascinating, and dottie underwood has been really dope the last 2 eps, and even when peggy convinces sousa to bring along the cute receptionist as a backup asskicker ... it's just all great

and i like the howard stark appearances because dominic whasisface is soooo great in that role ugh i love him

he's pretty entertaining but his american accent is fucking atrocious

Interesting to see how he'll do in the Preacher TV adaptation, where his character is supposed to be as Texan as one gets. (At least if it's faithful to the comic.)

He's a pretty limited actor but he's fun as Stark. Jarvis is fun too, which is super surprising as the same guy gave the worst performance in the history of TV on Broadchurch. Presumably not his fault - he's like a different actor here. The only guy letting the show down is the handsome blonde NY police dude who has no presence whatsoever.

Preacher is probably my most anticipated show this year. Really hoping they don't balls it up like they have with Lucifer

I can't imagine any situation in which they make anything with more than a superficial resemblance. I mean preacher embodied with word of god, hitman girlfriend, profane Irish vampire, I can see just about making it, but inbred idiots descendants of Jesus, fragging, armadillo-buggering, not to mention the actual end of the plot.

I read somewhere that Odin Quincanon is going to be one of the major villains of the series, a guy who if you remember turned up in probably the most boring Preacher storyline way way into the run.