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[Cadence]

Binged it last week. Me and the other half enjoyed it, and she was particularly disappointed at the end that that was it. (Am thinking it is in my top few MCU TV shows - after Hawkeye, and somewhere in with Wanda-Vision and first Loki).

There was a brief time decades ago where Wonder Man was my favorite comic super hero (with memories of his bromance with the Beast and his struggles to be an actor and adventures in Hollywood). Before that there was too much self doubt and after that he just kind of meandered and I wasn't a fan of the trianglishness of him-Wanda-Vision.

The TV show didn't have his business/science side, his connection with Zemo, his connection with Vision/Ultron, his having been dead, his evil super-villain brother*, etc... But it nailed the bromance and trying to be an actor.

And to be fair, in the comics, Wonder Man was usually disappointing in a fight.

* I really kept waiting for his brother to betray him!

 

[Ryujin]

Binged it last week. Me and the other half enjoyed it, and she was particularly disappointed at the end that that was it. (Am thinking it is in my top few MCU TV shows - after Hawkeye, and somewhere in with Wanda-Vision and first Loki).

There was a brief time decades ago where Wonder Man was my favorite comic super hero (with memories of his bromance with the Beast and his struggles to be an actor and adventures in Hollywood). Before that there was too much self doubt and after that he just kind of meandered and I wasn't a fan of the trianglishness of him-Wanda-Vision.

The TV show didn't have his business/science side, his connection with Zemo, his connection with Vision/Ultron, his having been dead, his evil super-villain brother*, etc... But it nailed the bromance and trying to be an actor.

And to be fair, in the comics, Wonder Man was usually disappointing in a fight.

* I really kept waiting for his brother to betray him!

I vaguely remember the jet pack from the comics resulting in comic relief, during fights.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I really kept waiting for his brother to betray him

Subverted!

 

[chuckdee]

I'm the exact opposite. I'm so glad there wasn't much action. Marvel-style action bores me senseless these days.

Yeah, I think this was always going to be a struggle. I like both and the fact that they lean into both in their programming is a good thing to me, variety being the spice of life and all.

 

[chuckdee]

If it's any consolation, I also found the first ten minutes or so hard to watch, but loved the series as a whole. And it wasn't that the first episode was badly made, rather it was that seeing Simon William's being so much the cause of his own misfortune made me cringe enough to want it to stop. I think that's almost the point of that sequence.

I think that's exactly the point of that part. They wanted to make an arc for it, and all that beginning was to show were he was. His girlfriend said he was a self-absorbed dick. And I think that's a fair assessment, and what that beginning was to show. It's ok to be passionate about your craft, but at some point, you have to be professional and realize you're working in a collaborative environment your passion has to be tempered to work well with others. And I think that was a big reason his career hadn't taken off until then - which his agent alluded to. He was talented, but had garnered the reputation of being hard to work with. That is the kiss of death for a career.

 

[chuckdee]

Yes, there are room for different stories in the MCU, but, for me at least, if the same story can be told in the real world with the bare minimum of the things that are part of the genre, why did it need to be part of the genre?

It didn't need to be part of the genre. I think the best Marvel media are the ones that transcend the genre. Ant-Man is a heist movie wrapped up in MCU trappings. Winter Soldier is a spy thriller wrapped up in MCU trappings. It just didn't descend to the normal CGI punch fest at the end, and I for one, am happy with that change. They showed his power level without having to lean on some big fight scene.

And in the end, they did show his power level in a very smart way, and the level of control he'd achieved, while subverting expectations for doing the same. It more than satisfied my requirements for a superhero show.

 

[Ryujin]

It didn't need to be part of the genre. I think the best Marvel media are the ones that transcend the genre. Ant-Man is a heist movie wrapped up in MCU trappings. Winter Soldier is a spy thriller wrapped up in MCU trappings. It just didn't descend to the normal CGI punch fest at the end, and I for one, am happy with that change. They showed his power level without having to lean on some big fight scene.

And in the end, they did show his power level in a very smart way, and the level of control he'd achieved, while subverting expectations for doing the same. It more than satisfied my requirements for a superhero show.

Yeah, I can really do without so many homages to Michael Bey that so many of these shows and movies wind up being. This is the sort of small stakes stuff that we get so little of in favour of massive budget blockbusters. I loved it.