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Post by MadCaddy on Sept 14, 2021 9:49:39 GMT
Going back to the What if…? Zombies episode, it’s been such a long time since I wanted some sort of official Marvel Zombie content but I hoped it would have been some one off episode. I’ve been a big fan of the marvel zombie comic books for years and always thought they would make a great series if done correctly. I think the only thing they took from the series was when Vision was using black panther as a food source (Zombie Hank Pym was in visions place though).
I know zombies have been done to death and more but I think they would do well with a well thought out R rated zombie series. But it would be tough to use the comics as the xmen and fantastic four feature a lot
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Post by aubergine on Sept 15, 2021 0:02:30 GMT
I guess it would be pretty hard to escape zombie Reed Richards.
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Post by Derblington on Sept 15, 2021 7:53:22 GMT
What If...? was the worst one this week for me. Just wasn't really a concept I needed addressing, and it ends pretty abruptly.
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Post by simple on Sept 15, 2021 8:14:40 GMT
Same, its right down there for me too.
This and the third are my bottom ones.
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Post by gray on Sept 15, 2021 14:05:05 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2021 14:07:07 GMT
Am I the only one who likes long films then?
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Post by Tonka (🐑,🪤) on Sept 15, 2021 14:24:18 GMT
The problem isn't the length of films. I LOVE a really long film as long as it's good.
The MCU are sorely lacking good films though. It's comics with no stakes. OMG big baddie will destroy the entire MULTIVERSE. How. Will. This. End?
We all know how it will end. We're just there to watch the pretty animations.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Sept 15, 2021 14:24:28 GMT
I heard Hitler liked them too
Long films, that is. Dunno if he would have liked Marvel films.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 15, 2021 14:39:00 GMT
The problem isn't the length of films. I LOVE a really long film as long as it's good. The MCU are sorely lacking good films though. It's comics with no stakes. OMG big baddie will destroy the entire MULTIVERSE. How. Will. This. End? We all know how it will end. We're just there to watch the pretty animations. Yes we know you don't like these films. You don't have to watch them |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Sept 15, 2021 15:15:24 GMT
My dearest wish is for Sam Raimi to use multiverse shenanigans to bring Bruce Campbell into the MCU.
Bruce Campbell as Spiderman.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2021 17:35:16 GMT
I agree with Just wasn't really a concept I needed addressing, for this weeks episode but not the worst one
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Post by simple on Sept 15, 2021 18:29:01 GMT
Do we think that the series will pull some of these threads together for a season finale or that it’ll be anthology till the end?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2021 18:43:25 GMT
anthology
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Post by Saul1138 on Sept 15, 2021 19:56:16 GMT
Do we think that the series will pull some of these threads together for a season finale or that it’ll be anthology till the end? They are going to use it to introduce the Fantastic Four, but one of them will turn out to be Mephisto. |
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Post by KD on Sept 15, 2021 20:53:09 GMT
I thought it was introducing a new team, Guardians of the Multiverse, judging by previous adverts and trailers, no idea where it goes.
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Post by 😎 on Sept 15, 2021 21:00:08 GMT
Wonder if Don Cheadle will be up for another Emmy for his two lines in the latest What If.
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Post by britesparc on Sept 16, 2021 8:53:13 GMT
Everyone on Twitter was raving about this episode but I thought it was actually one of the weaker ones. Much as I love Killmonger it was really just going through the motions of him still being a big old baddie again.
I think my current ranking of the eps (off the top of my head) would be:
Dr Strange
T'Challa the Star-Lord
Captain Carter
Zombies
Killmonger
[REDACTED] Kills the Marvel Universe
...but for me there's a pretty big cut-off between the first three, which are all great, and the second three, which are all so-so.
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Post by simple on Sept 16, 2021 9:46:26 GMT
I’d agree with that order exactly.
Although the drop off from Strange to the rest is pretty big for me too
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Post by Derblington on Sept 16, 2021 9:46:35 GMT
The problem in this one for me is that it doesn't really change anything - 90% follows exactly how the movies took place with a few key details changed to no real affect. [REDACTED] Kills the Marvel Universe and Captain carter have similar issues, in that we're basically watching the scenes from movies in animated form, but at least they changed a bit more (and in the case of Carter I thought it was just quite fun in the same way The First Avenger was).
I liked Zombies mostly because it shows a very different set-up for the world and characters, so it's something different and that has it's own value. The better ones, like Dr. Strange, do the same. I like the stuff that's different from what we already know.
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Post by britesparc on Sept 16, 2021 10:19:49 GMT
Yes, that's a good point. I know that the eps having cliffhangers seems to be a deliberate choice, but I thought the setup at the end of the "Kills the Avengers" episode - with (spoilers!) Fury attempting to fight back against an invading Asgard - was way more interesting than the contents of the episode itself.
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Post by aubergine on Sept 16, 2021 12:43:26 GMT
The episodes ending on cliffhangers or unresolved is a homage to the comics themselves. I used to enjoy What If and had a bunch of them. Because the outcomes absolutely don’t matter, the writers had carte blanch to kill everyone off, destroy the world, and leave things at an interesting point, as if maybe there’s a glimmer of hope - or, covnersely, when there’s an otherwise victorious ending, set the stage for it to all turn to shit. For example, in “What if the Avengers lost Atlantis Attacks?” (A big cross-over event in the 80s) a giant snake god enslaves and eats most of the earth, but gets defeated in the end. But then, all the female Avengers he’d enslaved have his snakey rape babies and they eat everyone else then take off to other universes to eat everyone there too. I think the Watcher says in the last label “and your reality could be next!” I almost expected the ending of Dr Strange to be exactly that.
In other cases, that ending when a few remaining heroes mouth their determination to turn things around would be the ending. Each issue was a fast moving cliff’s notes version of a storyline that would otherwise have spread over months or years.
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Post by Onny on Sept 16, 2021 15:59:24 GMT
I thought the latest one was pretty weak too. I like Killmonger but it felt like they didn’t really go anywhere with it - and some of the story beats didn’t make much sense. For example - where was Shield in all this? The rest of the avengers should still show up as their existence doesn’t depend on Iron Man. And where was the battle of NY? Loki at least should have turned up.
Why did Killmonger pretend that the robots still attacked? If he could control them, why not say so and still become the hero of Wakanda? How come we had no ramifications of him becoming Black Panther - he took the serum and wore the suit and..?
At the end, Shuri is having a secret chat with Pepper as she find the truth. So go to the king of Wakanda with it! Why go to Pepper? I think ultimately for me the story & impact of “What If Tony Stark wasn’t redeemed” feels much more interesting than “What If Killmonger literally outsmarts everyone”. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2021 18:01:32 GMT
I would say
Dr Strange
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What If... the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes
Captain Carter one
Zombies
Killmonger ep
T'Challa Star-Lord (shouldn't he be called the star prince?)
after the Dr strange one, all of them have large issues that could of been fixed
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Post by 😎 on Sept 16, 2021 18:49:15 GMT
Neckbeard boycott of Dune incoming:  |
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Post by dfunked on Sept 16, 2021 20:09:28 GMT
Well he's not wrong...
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Post by simple on Sept 16, 2021 21:11:25 GMT
I’ve seen them all and enjoy them plenty but he does have a point there
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Post by drhickman1983 on Sept 16, 2021 21:25:56 GMT
I like the MCU, on the whole, but there's definitely a generic streak through most of them.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Sept 17, 2021 13:19:52 GMT
I'd like someone to point to anyone else who's managed to do 24(?) movies in a row without (really) producing any duds, and with most of them being at least good.
I mean, most franchises can't even manage 2 or 3 movies before it all goes to hell.
The certain genericness comes largely from the basic concept... they're hero action movies, how many action movies don't basically boil down to 'hero stops bad guy at the end'?
They have at least *tried* to differentiate them, with things like Winter Soldier going for a Cold War Thriller, and GotG going for a comedy, etc...
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Post by Tonka (🐑,🪤) on Sept 17, 2021 13:56:10 GMT
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Post by Jambowayoh on Sept 17, 2021 14:25:01 GMT
The same Ethan Hawke who's also starring in a Marvel TV show?
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