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Parkingtigers posted:In my recent first watch of The Dark World, Loki showed some of his telekinesis powers when he trashed his cell after learning of the death of his mother. All the discussion about him catching that tower... I mean it was a higher level of TK ability than he'd shown on screen before, but it wasn't a new ability by any means just a more pumped up version of one he was already shown to have. Yeah, that's the only scene where he uses telekinesis across the movies, and now I understand why some people where saying that he had gotten that ability back for the show. Guess he always could do feats like that but didn't have a reason for it before? Now I'm trying to remember/find out where did people got he also has levitation in the MCU.
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Jun 28, 2021 02:19
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Being real aside from the illusion projection the MCU was poo poo about establishing his powerset if they suddenly want us to go with his telekinesis.
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Jun 28, 2021 02:33
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Oh, they were. There are a lot of inconsistencies between every movie, I'm blaming that at first they wanted the franchise to be grounded more in realism , and have less magical stuff (the whole "they use advanced technology!" thing). But it's good they eventually dropped that. Hope they use the show to establish what the character can really do, like with Wandavision. Just embrace the crazy super powers.
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Jun 28, 2021 02:47
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Guys he is actually also a Jedi. Enchanting is just being really good at the Jedi mind trick.
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Jun 28, 2021 03:17
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Jun 28, 2021 03:23
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Starting S3 of Mando by showing Luke walking away with Grogu and then turning into Loki would make everyone lose their collective minds.
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Jun 28, 2021 04:36
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Resisting the urge to do that is gonna get harder and harder for Disney once both franchises hit diminishing returns.
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Jun 28, 2021 04:50
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Flintstones always gotta meet the Jetsons eventually.
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Jun 28, 2021 04:53
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I'm a TurboNerd, so I justify Loki's inconsistent powers through the prism of the older The Marvel Universe Roleplaying Game, which had Loki listed as having the skill "God-Like Powers: 7". Which is "Mastery of Magic" on steroids...and that's already a "gently caress you, DM, I do what I want" skill.
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Jun 28, 2021 04:53
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The MCU is not a place in which "consistency of abilities" occurs. This goes back to the "Tony Stark can fall 100 stories and survive but a big punch will knock him out" kind of thing. Abilities are gained and lost as the script needs them, it's just how things are. And this is coming from the guy who listed 20 nitpicks about the last episode.
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Jun 28, 2021 05:40
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mind the walrus posted:Resisting the urge to do that is gonna get harder and harder for Disney once both franchises hit diminishing returns. There's already a Star Trek/X-Men crossover in comics, so they'd just be following what came before. Amalgam or the Avengers/Justice League crossover will have to wait until Disney buys Warner Brothers.
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Jun 28, 2021 06:43
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So far the marvel TV series remind me a lot of comic books which is that "issue to issue" consistency can swing wildly and they are real hit or miss. The movies, being relatively self contained and with longer production, seemed to have just a slightly higher baseline quality. After enjoying Loki's first 2 episodes I went and checked out WandaVision & Winter soldier and binged them over 2 days and woof. The visual quality is strong on the shows but the scripts for Winter Soldier needed like 3 re-writes to tighten it up. WandaVision ending in a classic fly around with lasers fight was pretty boring and I had issue with the entire premise since I dislike Vision & wanda.
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Jun 28, 2021 06:44
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Jet Jaguar posted:There's already a Star Trek/X-Men crossover in comics, so they'd just be following what came before. You're not wrong though, they'll do a Star Wars crossover the instant Disney decide they want to defibrillate one or both of the mega-franchises. I wonder if it'll be before or after Feige steps down. Hell if they use time travel and actually commit to the "long time ago" bit it could actually work. quote:Amalgam or the Avengers/Justice League crossover will have to wait until Disney buys Warner Brothers.
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Jun 28, 2021 07:03
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Soonmot posted:Can someone actually say what change is? In the original upload, that camera in that shot had really janky movement because it was based on sped-up helicopter or drone footage. They updated the episode with a version that had a stabilized and re-sped camera, but it also included a QC error where a rotoshape or something was left on the frame (the blob doesn't track with the camera or change shape, so it's just an artifact from the composite). I can see how it slipped through, because everyone would just be looking at the camera to make sure it's smooth, but wouldn't be paying that much attention to the rest of the frame.
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Jun 28, 2021 07:15
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You’re right. They need never do the Avengers/JLA crossover since they already took the best panel in the whole thing and gave it to Steve Rogers. There’s clearly an audience for horrible crossovers somewhere, all the Batman/Predator/Robocop/Aliens stuff sure was a thing for a while. Maybe they were wringing the last dollar out of the hardcore collectors.
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Jun 28, 2021 07:15
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Speed Demon was the best amalgam character 
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Jun 28, 2021 07:23
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I just caught up with all 3 episodes of this and I dunno what the consensus is but I really don't like it. I felt like I was watching a silly Dr. Who knockoff, which is probably completely intentional, but it's just not for me.
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Jun 28, 2021 07:59
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I'm not super sold on Loki yet either. The actors are fine but I'm not exactly loving the rest of it
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Jun 28, 2021 09:57
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Xander B Coolridge posted:I felt like I was watching a silly Dr. Who knockoff, which is probably completely intentional, but it's just not for me. That can't be right, because I actually like LOKI.
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Jun 28, 2021 09:58
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Loki is Dr Who if Dr Who was just about The Master. Even has gender flipping baked in.
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Jun 28, 2021 10:30
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Robot Style posted:In the original upload, that camera in that shot had really janky movement because it was based on sped-up helicopter or drone footage. They updated the episode with a version that had a stabilized and re-sped camera, but it also included a QC error where a rotoshape or something was left on the frame (the blob doesn't track with the camera or change shape, so it's just an artifact from the composite). I can see how it slipped through, because everyone would just be looking at the camera to make sure it's smooth, but wouldn't be paying that much attention to the rest of the frame. It kinda looks like a floating trianglish shape.
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Jun 28, 2021 14:19
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Is it just me or are long steadicam takes getting really old now and progressively less impressive with every use of them? e: Also I'm now wondering just how much of this series is going to end up being Sylvie invading Loki's mind. I'm currently guessing everything from the point that she tried and failed to use her charm touch on him. stev fucked around with this message at 14:37 on Jun 28, 2021 |
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Jun 28, 2021 14:19
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Marvel put out a mid-season trailer for Loki. Hilariously enough though, there appears to be less upcoming content in it than remains in the original trailers. Despite being 2 and a half minutes long, almost all of it is from the episodes already released. So either someone made a boo-boo in the editing, or the remaining episodes are pretty heavy on content they don't want to spoil at all by the looks of things.
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Jun 28, 2021 14:50
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tsob posted:Marvel put out a mid-season trailer for Loki. Hilariously enough though, there appears to be less upcoming content in it than remains in the original trailers. Despite being 2 and a half minutes long, almost all of it is from the episodes already released. So either someone made a boo-boo in the editing, or the remaining episodes are pretty heavy on content they don't want to spoil at all by the looks of things. They probably dont wanna spoil.l a lot. That's fine. btw I liked Loki because it Is a lovely.doctor Who season and I loved doctor who. Bring me more dumb time travel!
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Jun 28, 2021 15:08
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They could've just called it a recap.
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Jun 28, 2021 15:40
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Good. I am exhausted by the sheer number of 30-60 second spots they churn out for each of these series. I watch whatever first one comes out and then just let the next twenty float on by, but they still clog up my youbers algorithm.
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Jun 28, 2021 15:49
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Desperado Bones posted:Loki's green screen is amazing in comparison with certain scenes in Thor Ragnarok I wouldn't be surprised if they were using the Volume from Mandalorian for this.
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Jun 28, 2021 15:56
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Polaron posted:I wouldn't be surprised if they were using the Volume from Mandalorian for this. I would think they will try to use that whenever they can. Having all your work done in camera just makes your production pipeline sooooo much simpler, even aside from the ease of acting with the final environment visible to you.
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Jun 28, 2021 16:16
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tsob posted:Marvel put out a mid-season trailer for Loki. Protip the ship that drops? It's the USS Eldridge which was allegedly part of the Philadelphia Experiment
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Jun 28, 2021 16:23
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tsob posted:Marvel put out a mid-season trailer for Loki. Hilariously enough though, there appears to be less upcoming content in it than remains in the original trailers. Despite being 2 and a half minutes long, almost all of it is from the episodes already released. So either someone made a boo-boo in the editing, or the remaining episodes are pretty heavy on content they don't want to spoil at all by the looks of things.
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tsob posted:Marvel put out a mid-season trailer for Loki. Hilariously enough though, there appears to be less upcoming content in it than remains in the original trailers. Despite being 2 and a half minutes long, almost all of it is from the episodes already released. So either someone made a boo-boo in the editing, or the remaining episodes are pretty heavy on content they don't want to spoil at all by the looks of things. Given that this was almost the exact same case with the mid-season trailer for Bad Batch released last week, I'm betting it's intentional.
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Jun 28, 2021 17:35
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Cross-Section posted:Given that this was almost the exact same case with the mid-season trailer for Bad Batch released last week, I'm betting it's intentional. Bad Batch/Loki crossover, you say?
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Jun 28, 2021 19:40
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Nitrousoxide posted:I would think they will try to use that whenever they can. Having all your work done in camera just makes your production pipeline sooooo much simpler, even aside from the ease of acting with the final environment visible to you. It's kind of amazing how we've circled back to rear-projection, in a way 
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Jun 28, 2021 19:46
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Polaron posted:It's kind of amazing how we've circled back to rear-projection, in a way The Wizard of Oz really was way ahead of its time.
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Jun 28, 2021 20:59
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MiddleOne posted:The Wizard of Oz really was way ahead of its time. It being the internet and all it's hard to read sarcasm, but it really, really was.
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Jun 28, 2021 21:09
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A.o.D. posted:It being the internet and all it's hard to read sarcasm, but it really, really was. It had very creative uses of rear projection.
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Jun 28, 2021 21:17
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Infinitum posted:Protip the ship that drops? It's the USS Eldridge which was allegedly part of the Philadelphia Experiment Yeah, I was super excited seeing that. It’s one of my favourite weird things. 
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Jun 28, 2021 23:30
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It does seem to be done better here than in The Mandalorian though. I made the mistake of watching a behind the scenes video for Mando and once they pointed out how those wrap around rear projection screens worked I wasn't able to not see it in the finished episodes. Now I'm not someone who gets super worked up at seeing the joins in special effects, but my brain was going full "that's Chappie" everytime I saw it.
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Parkingtigers posted:It does seem to be done better here than in The Mandalorian though. I made the mistake of watching a behind the scenes video for Mando and once they pointed out how those wrap around rear projection screens worked I wasn't able to not see it in the finished episodes. Now I'm not someone who gets super worked up at seeing the joins in special effects, but my brain was going full "that's Chappie" everytime I saw it. Yeah, the magic dies a little lol But I try not to mind it. In the case of Loki, they've been using sets for several scenes. How much is real stuff, how much is CGI? I have no idea! But it looks so good. I'm also falling in love with the music for the trailers and I'm wondering is those are ever gonna be released. Regarding the mid-season trailer: We are finally gonna see what's up with the Time Lizards, I'll be surprised if it's this next episode. Seems Loki and Sylvie do make it to the elevator. By the way, if the end credits are spoiling us a bit, I'm guessing is Mobius' the hand we see pushing the buttons and getting a big "Access Denied". And it's killing me knowing what lead Loki to the president Loki outfit.
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