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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 8680307" data-attributes="member: 58416">I wanted to take a moment to say that I'm not specifically picking on Captain Marvel. I was asked about my comments toward that particular film, so I elaborated. It's certainly not horrible, but I do believe that aspects of it are an example of trending toward things which I don't particularly like in some of the newer films. There were aspects of the film which were enjoyable, but the bad was particularly highlighted by what I perceive to be a rush to shoehorn the character into other movies where she didn't really fit. I don't want to derail the thread further, so I'll just sum up my final thoughts on Captain Marvel by saying that the presentation of the character in the movie combined with some of the PR around the film didn't help the reception of the character."Hey, here's this group of characters we've spent years getting you to love as you've gone on this epic journey. But! Forget all of that because here's this brand new character who has kewler flashier powers which make their entire struggle* stupid... heck, she could beat Thanos all by herself, so she doesn't even need personality or story. You're going to love her, and -if you don't- well, that's because you're not a real fan (and you probably hate women -despite the fact that you liked all of the other female characters). Also, you think Nick Fury is cool? Well, he loses his eye to a cat just to prove that he sucks compared to this new character too. Sure, it's an alien cat with an extradimensional stomach, but we'll never bring that up again."(*I disliked Legolas being in the Hobbit films for similar reasons. You have an entire story around the struggle of the dwarves, but then you have a bullet-time elf breezing through everything.)I know that some of this is common in comic books, but that doesn't make it good/right. I liked that early MCU was a little more selective about which characters were involved and tried to pay at least some attention to how things connected together. I'll add that I'm not at all excited about the Skrulls being introduced more because I anticipate shape-shifting being over-used to explain how/why certain things fit together. "No, see, it wasn't actually that person. It just looked like that person."</blockquote>

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