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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Simu Liu is 32, that's considered old? Oh honey... we got bad news
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Jun 25, 2021 12:29
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Liu being too ugly is such a tired narrative and has been going on for years now. He's not ugly and even if he was, who cares?
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Jun 25, 2021 12:46
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Not every male lead can be Henry Golding
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Jun 25, 2021 12:51
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DaveKap posted:There's been some good points made about what's wrong with this Loki episode and what may or may not have happened but I think I can finally boil down what the core problem of the episode was: A lot of small inconsistencies piled up onto each other into the whole thing feeling completely wrong. Most of these are incredibly dumb nitpicks you don't actually need the answer to.
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Jun 25, 2021 13:51
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Apologies if this is common knowledge or if it's something I'll have answered in the movie, but "10 Rings" is the terrorist organization from the first Iron Man, right? Are they meant to be related in MCU or was it a comic reference they never expected to follow up on?
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Jun 25, 2021 14:19
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Hobo Clown posted:Apologies if this is common knowledge or if it's something I'll have answered in the movie, but "10 Rings" is the terrorist organization from the first Iron Man, right? Are they meant to be related in MCU or was it a comic reference they never expected to follow up on? They were supposed to be a comic reference that were never expected to follow up on. The Ten Rings (in the comics) are magic rings from alien dragons that each give magic powers.
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Jun 25, 2021 14:21
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It's more applicable in Iron Man 3's "The Mandarin" and the little follow-up short featuring him.
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Jun 25, 2021 14:37
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live with fruit posted:Liu being too ugly is such a tired narrative and has been going on for years now. He's not ugly and even if he was, who cares? I mean in the most recent comics he's a hot ~20 year old, my post was more a contrast to that
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Jun 25, 2021 14:40
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mutata posted:It's more applicable in Iron Man 3's "The Mandarin" and the little follow-up short featuring him. They also pop up in Ant-Man.
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Jun 25, 2021 15:27
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Looks like they're getting right everything that Iron Fist got wrong. And if Iron First got anything wrong, it certainly was everything.
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Jun 25, 2021 15:53
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live with fruit posted:They also pop up in Ant-Man. I don't remember that, where was it?
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Soonmot posted:I don't remember that, where was it? One of the terrorist types that were bidding on the shrinking suits had a 10 rings tattoo.
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Jun 25, 2021 16:49
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I think its just 10 Rings has been a scary name for probably centuries due to the Mandarin being the Mandarin. The 10 Rings from Iron Man were either using the name for scare value or directly controlled by him, based on their resources, probably the later. Because the 10 Rings and the Mandarin are scary names that already exist, Killian coops them for his fake terrorists. He probably thinks its a myth or whatnot, so isn't worried about the real Mandarin coming after him. Though as there is a Mandarin, and he's not happy based on Hail To The King short.
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Jun 25, 2021 18:56
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Surely Ben Kingsley makes a cameo to clear up the confusion.
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Jun 25, 2021 19:12
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twistedmentat posted:He's not Happy based on Hail To The King short. That would have been a heck of a twist.
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Jun 25, 2021 19:57
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JazzFlight posted:This show is really just not grabbing me. I dunno if it's just the writing, or the direction and fight choreography as well, but it's just so boring. I feel mostly the same way. This show hasn't grabbed me or made me want to watch to see what comes next. It just seems like spinning its wheels because there's so many mandated episodes to fill. It doesn't help that I'm not the biggest fan of Tom Hiddleston. I feel like he is fine in short bursts, but relying on him to carry this show isn't working for me either.
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Jun 25, 2021 21:02
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I don't think it is quite as good as WandaVision or Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but I still enjoy it very much.
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Jun 25, 2021 21:09
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Arist posted:Most of these are incredibly dumb nitpicks you don't actually need the answer to.
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DaveKap posted:Oh I agree wholeheartedly. The problem isn't that they individually exist, the problem is that there's so many of them all piled up onto one episode. Sure, I get that and I kind of agree. On the other hand, I just finished watching F9: The Fast Saga which had two characters driving/flying a car in space. So gently caress it.
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Jun 25, 2021 23:01
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Thanks random internet person for translating the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-sY9qupsT0 Edit: Random fan thoughts: I'll be honest, I would love Sylvie's whole arc (if it makes it past the show) for her to find a new home in New Asgard. Like, both Lokis needs a place where they feel they belong to. Variant Loki seems to be the TVA even if he says otherwise, it would be cool for Sylvie to finally find a place she can consider home. Desperado Bones fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Jun 25, 2021 |
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Jun 25, 2021 23:13
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She'll end up in New York so she can spend time with her mail man boyfriend, Willy Lumpkin
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Jun 25, 2021 23:32
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Oasx posted:I don't think it is quite as good as WandaVision or Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but I still enjoy it very much. Interesting! Wandavision, for me, was mostly terrible except for the tremendous episode 8 (flashbacks to Dick Van Dyke and the Vision scam), which is one of the best hours of television ever. The show as a whole came off more as a gimmick or curiosity, and the first two episodes are a labor to get through. Falcon/Soldier is a mixed bag, because Walker is too weak on his own, but good enough as a foil, and the Flag-Smashers are horribly written and acted. Zemo was decent but ended up being pointless, the villain reveal was dumb and predictable, and the final episode was a ridiculous mess where nothing made sense, and the speeches seemed forced and banal. Loki has been a home run for me, and I could watch these episodes repeatedly, endlessly. Wilson and Hiddleston have amazing chemistry, and Hiddleston's Loki is so loving charismatic, I'd probably just enjoy watching him eat nachos. Different strokes, etc.
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Desperado Bones posted:Random fan thoughts: I'll be honest, I would love Sylvie's whole arc (if it makes it past the show) for her to find a new home in New Asgard. Like, both Lokis needs a place where they feel they belong to. Variant Loki seems to be the TVA even if he says otherwise, it would be cool for Sylvie to finally find a place she can consider home. Plus a Sylvie/Valkyrie pairing would be pretty smoking. And it would probably freak out Thor a little bit. One thought I just had about Sylvie is that without some further revelation, her situation doesn't make sense given the nature and reach of the TVA. Loki being born a girl is enough to disturb the Sacred Timeline - so she'd be reset/deleted. So, she wouldn't exist long enough to be told she was adopted. Unless. Unless perhaps she predates the TVA. Perhaps Sylvie is from a timeline that was destroyed by the Time-keepers in the previous Multi-verse War. There's still holes in that idea (why doesn't the TVA know she's a female Loki?) but it seems a possibility. I admit that I'm really looking forward to next Wed.
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That was my initial though. She grows up fairly happy and then the TVA comes to prune her timeline but somehow she survives long enough to escape.
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Jun 25, 2021 23:49
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Everyone posted:Plus a Sylvie/Valkyrie pairing would be pretty smoking. And it would probably freak out Thor a little bit. lol if both Lokis show up in Thor Love and Thunder for Thor himself to have a what the gently caress reaction a la Spider-man.
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Jun 25, 2021 23:56
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I think all three shows have something really great going on, but could probably have been just 3-4 episodes long and just as good. An awful amount of wheel spinning for stories that are short enough as they are.
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That part did bother me. The first two episodes set her up as this unstoppable force, running rings around both the TVA and Loki, completely outclassing them both physically and mentally. And then this episode, she just spends the whole time jobbing.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:She'll end up in New York so she can spend time with her mail man boyfriend, Willy Lumpkin Certainly explains how she's able to maintain a relationship through time and space. 
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Alchenar posted:I think all three shows have something really great going on, but could probably have been just 3-4 episodes long and just as good. An awful amount of wheel spinning for stories that are short enough as they are. Personally, I think the actual story arcs have been the least memorable and important parts of all 3 series. I want character moments and interactions. The movies are there for tight plot and exposition, the TV series are for characters to get a bit more room to stretch. I want these shows to meander a bit.
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Jun 26, 2021 00:25
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Alchenar posted:I think all three shows have something really great going on, but could probably have been just 3-4 episodes long and just as good. An awful amount of wheel spinning for stories that are short enough as they are. I don't know my dude. At episode 3, Wandavision was still just hinting at the outside world. This series is absolutely blazing in comparison.
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Jun 26, 2021 00:25
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Wandavision episodes were also half as long. If you played them side by side, Loki wouldn't even have left the TVA by the end of the third Wandavision episode.
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Everyone posted:Plus a Sylvie/Valkyrie pairing would be pretty smoking. And it would probably freak out Thor a little bit. Hint, Loki is Genderfluid on his TVA file. Sylvie was born a frost giant (and those appear to be mono-gendered as a species) also she specifically says do not call me Loki anymore, she likely has the same start as all Loki’s do, found by Odyn, disguised as a male Asgardian, brought back and raised as his son. Then the variance is telling Loki about being a Frost Giant early, which leads to the TVA, and Loki manages to escape and over the centuries of fleeing realises that she is a woman named Sylvie, not the male Loki of Asgard. Lord_Magmar fucked around with this message at 03:25 on Jun 26, 2021 |
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Jun 26, 2021 03:20
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Lord_Magmar posted:Hint, Loki is Genderfluid on his TVA file. Sylvie was born a frost giant (and those appear to be mono-gendered as a species) also she specifically says do not call me Loki anymore, she likely has the same start as all Loki’s do, found by Odyn, disguised as a male Asgardian, brought back and raised as his son. Then the variance is telling Loki about being a Frost Giant early, which leads to the TVA, and Loki manages to escape and over the centuries of fleeing realises that she is a woman named Sylvie, not the male Loki of Asgard. You might be a bit wrong... kinda big spoilers regarding this A scene on an interview I posted shows a child Sylvie being brought in to the TVA. As a little girl in Asgardian clothes. So yeah, it seems she got adopted by Odin but at certain moment in her childhood she realized she liked being a girl. We won't really know the TVA's reasons why she was arrested until next episode it seems.
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Desperado Bones posted:You might be a bit wrong... kinda big spoilers regarding this A scene on an interview I posted shows a child Sylvie being brought in to the TVA. As a little girl in Asgardian clothes. So yeah, it seems she got adopted by Odin but at certain moment in her childhood she realized she liked being a girl. We won't really know the TVA's reasons why she was arrested until next episode it seems. As much as it kind of sucks, Sylvie was almost certainly arrested for being/identifying as a little girl. Whatever their gender-fluidity, the Sacred Timeline Loki needed to present as male and be Thor's rear end in a top hat brother not his rear end in a top hat sister (that's Hel's role) .
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Everyone posted:As much as it kind of sucks, Sylvie was almost certainly arrested for being/identifying as a little girl. Whatever their gender-fluidity, the Sacred Timeline Loki needed to present as male and be Thor's rear end in a top hat brother not his rear end in a top hat sister (that's Hel's role) . They also needed to have spent a part of their life jealous of Thor, and feeling the lesser prince/princess, finding out what they really were later on adulthood, etc,etc. And because Sylvie was told she was adopted earlier than expected, she probably was set to have a nicer life. And that's a no-no for the TVA. God, the magic lizards are such assholes.
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Was disappointed they didn't ride a space jet ski to get away. Thumbs down.
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Everyone posted:As much as it kind of sucks, Sylvie was almost certainly arrested for being/identifying as a little girl. Whatever their gender-fluidity, the Sacred Timeline Loki needed to present as male and be Thor's rear end in a top hat brother not his rear end in a top hat sister (that's Hel's role) . If this is actually what they go with, there's gonna be some hard wailing and gnashing of teeth and it's absolutely going to eclipse whatever quality the show actually has.
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Jun 26, 2021 14:06
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mind the walrus posted:If this is actually what they go with, there's gonna be some hard wailing and gnashing of teeth and it's absolutely going to eclipse whatever quality the show actually has. Why? It shows the TVA to be close-minded assholes who are certainly not the "Timeline heroes" they present themselves to be and who deserve every bit of the murderous "mischief" that Sylvie has been inflicting on them. Though in this case the TVA wouldn't be acting out of simple-minded bigotry but from their monomania to preserve the "Sacred Timeline." If a Natasha Romanoff had been Nathan and been on the path to be the Black Widower, they'd have pruned him. Ditto Wanda as Wayne Maximoff as the Scarlet Warlock or whatever. Everyone fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Jun 26, 2021 |
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mind the walrus posted:If this is actually what they go with, there's gonna be some hard wailing and gnashing of teeth and it's absolutely going to eclipse whatever quality the show actually has. Only if the TVA is presented as good guys. But, they're not. Transfolks actually are systemically oppressed so this makes it a more compassionate, genuine allegory, if anything. Unless you mean gnashing of teeth from the bigots who don't believe discrimination exists, a la boat financing, in which case sure but also at some point you gotta stop worrying about offending rear end in a top hat internet chuds.
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