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I expect that in the future we will see the events of Loki contextualize some of the other things that happen during the Multiversal War arc. Like, those movies should explain enough in their own run time. But if you have actually seen Loki things will have more depth. At least that is the hope...

Tentatively over. Until they ink a deal I do not think Brie Larson can just shoot out there and start promoting The Marvels tomorrow.

The Variety review is in and it is not good.

Seems like a fair point. You only get to be addressed as Dr. when using your legal name. Though I suppose Mr. Freeze could make the point that in pronunciation, if not writing, his legal name and his villain name are the same. I also wonder whether calling them Dr. Quinzel and Dr. Isley would...

Supposedly pre-sales in South Korea, where The Marvels opens on the 8th instead of the 10th, are 50% of Quantumania and 45% of Volume 3. I wonder whether their review embargo will lift tomorrow.

I do not think we can go further on speculating how or in favour of whose narrative that the movie would change. Just that it certainly has the potential of being a nuclear-grade wrench thrown into Marvel's plan.

In light of current events that can only be mentioned obliquely I wonder whether Captain America: Brave New World will get changed again, either in content or release, due to the inclusion of Sabra. I would hope that the plan for the first Sam Wilson Captain America film was for it to be of the...

Hopefully this will be the last one then. The "closing the circle" aspect is the only aspect I am really interested in at this point.

I would probably freeze with indecision and sheer rage that someone was committing that level of chronocide and take virtually nothing that would help me survive Winter in, like with Ryujin, Southern Ontario. Though I live closer to the Lake than he apparently does so I might have a better...

I have not seen a movie in theatre since the pandemic began, and I do not really want to get back into the habit of seeing Marvel movies in theatre. But I had hoped to see the Marvels for equity reasons. But if it turns out to be actually terrible I may not bother because it may not be in...

Only until we get our hands on the aliens pre-contact fiction about aliens. Then it will just be reasonably embarrassing.

Well that was pretty brutal. I do not think I had heard about Victoria Alonso being fired. I was so used to seeing her name because it made me think of Hector Elizondo (whose name I had originally misremembered as Hector Alonso). Bringing back Iron-Man would be a massive mistake though. The same...

I watched until the end of the first phase of the credits, yeah. I think it would be pretty boring if the Citadel at the End of Time were just in some ordinary black hole. It might be more interesting if it were "inside" the Big Bang. Which would make it the End of Time, just not the end...

In a few days we should be seeing whether Avenger is, in fact, fit to be a leader in the Avengers. If she is not that will be a huge sign that the Marvel plan for Phase B (4,5,6) was just not that good. I imagine one way she should do that is to show how she leads the Marvels. On the other hand...

There must be significant stories where the aliens are heterogeneous too. Some are amicable, some are hostile, some are inexplicable, even within the same species. Aliens, like us, would likely have different subcultures amongst them. I think Star Trek is slowly getting better at this aspect of...

Exactly this. Part of it would be exploring that depending on the form of contact, I would favour communications, it would end up being a nothingburger for a lot of people unless there were practical implications in consumer and industrial products. Of course, for other people they would...

This is tangentially related to the "Are Superhero Films Dying?" thread, though I did not think of it while reading that. The question, as the title suggest, is are we due for some prestige-tier alien content that mashes together some Arrival-level theorizing with grounded, serialized narratives...

Maybe I am forgetting some titles but I think we may be at the point where it would be worth trying some more actual genre and setting crossing superhero movies, maybe even with original characters if necessary. Like an actual Western, but with superheroes! Or an actual slasher film, but with...

Googols.