Ryujin
Legend
To quote Robocop, "Ramset."
They don't generally worry about real world physics all that much.
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They don't generally worry about real world physics all that much.
Older Beholder
Hero
I often see complaints that there are too many Marvel movies.
Personally I don’t think they are making enough, I would have been happy if we’d already had a Yelena solo trilogy by this point.
Looking forward to this.
Personally I don’t think they are making enough, I would have been happy if we’d already had a Yelena solo trilogy by this point.
Looking forward to this.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
I agree, Id still love to see a Yelena-Kate Bishop buddy up travel show
trappedslider
Legend
and red guardian/winter solider but it looks like we'll get that when the next season of What If dropsI agree, Id still love to see a Yelena-Kate Bishop buddy up travel show
Paul Farquhar
Legend
Why does Red Guardian remark on how big America is? Isn’t Russia bigger?!
Yeah, I mean it's true that America is big. Just Texas is bigger European country other than Russia. But Russia is even bigger.
Trailer looked fun overall. I'm glad to see that Yelena seems to be the main character, because she's great.
I almost agree. I don't think we need more movies – we need more TV shows. And I mean proper TV shows: 20+ episodes per season with multiple seasons. What Marvel comics do best is soap: serialized individual stories with stuff going on that builds up over time.
Wolfram stout
Hero
What I really like is how they did the last few years of Agents of SHIELD. 22 episodes can be hard to write for a focused ark (I think the Flash suffered from writers trying to draw out storylines). SHIELD would break up a 20ish episode season into 3 nearly distinct stories (one would bleed into the next then into the next). It kept the soap aspect without beating the audience over the head with a single big bad for a whole season.
I tend to agree, though I would de-emphasize the arc aspect. Look at the first half of Buffy or, for that matter, Claremont-era X-Men. For the most part, each episode is its own thing, but there are things going on there that feed into the overall narrative – both plot-wise and character development-wise.
For example, take the Buffy episode Halloween (season 2, episode 6). The A-plot is fairly simple: a new costume shop opens in town just in time for Halloween, with very competitive prices, so many people buy their costumes there. But it turns out the proprietor is a chaos sorcerer, who has enchanted his costumes so that they will actually turn their wearers into what the costume is. So Xander turns into a soldier, Willow turns into a ghost (but retains her self-awareness), and Buffy into a pre-French revolution noblewoman. Hijinks ensue, Spike tries to take advantage of the situation, but the spell is eventually broken and everyone returns to normal. So on the immediate level, this is a one-and-done episode.
But at the same time, this is the introduction of Ethan Rayne, an old "friend" of Giles. And we learn that Giles has a bit of a shady history – Rayne calls him "Ripper". And the thing that breaks the spell is when Giles beats Rayne up until he is told how to reverse the spell. This reveals new aspects of Giles's character as well as introduce a recurring character from Giles's past. And another factor that will later get a callback is that apparently Xander retains memories of his soldier self, which will be used to great effect in a later episode this season. But these are all background things that take a while to come to fruition and will later lead to "Hey, it's that guy again!" rather than plots that continue directly into the next episode.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
I have to say, I miss "problem of the week" series.
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