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Cythereal posted:Call it exploitative if you want. Almost nothing these days isn't exploitative, especially in the media. "These days"?  Not to pick on you because I know you didn't mean this, but I do love people who complain about how "this is just exploitatively pandering to groups to make a quick buck" as though Hollywood hasn't done that since... since there was a Hollywood.
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This was probably my favorite show so far. Good poo poo. Kevin Feige and the creative people in charge of these shows and movies have good heads on them. Somehow they aren't the same show/movie with a different skin repeated over and over.
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Diversity is cool but if a line of dialogue is so jarring and awkward that you can actually see through a piece of media and witness a group of writers patting eachother on the back while the sign "Show Don't Tell" withers and crumbles on the writing room wall, I actually felt myself wilt when I heard it. It spoke down to the audience more than anything and that is what I found issue with. It's either for children or its not, and that line was directed at someone under 10. Representation feels a bit half hearted in areas, like if they say that all the Egypgtian language scenes are accurate, why not have accurate subtitles instead of (CHANTING IN EGYPTION). Give me a foreign language MCU film. You can't give Disney and Marvel such awards for representation/diversity when they remove it when it isn't suitable for profit, but I guess thats a bigger argument. I argue for better diversity not less of it, as I'm sure this point will be misconstrued. Finale was 7/10
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I feel like people against that moment are treating it as a much bigger and more distracting thing than it actually was. It was cute, that's all.
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A foreign language MCU film would be super cool. That's a good idea and I would love to see that. I thought the Egyptian superhero scene was fairly well done here though, I thought it flowed well and made sense. Not like the scene in endgame which felt super forced and didn't make sense in the context of what was going on.
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Hot take: It is dumb to ask an Egyptian lady if she's an Egyptian superhero, whilst she;s wearing Egyptian styled dress, fighting in front of the pyramids, the baddies are yelling about Ammit and Khonshu, and Egyptian gods are battling in the sky. That child was clearly an idiot, and Layla should have told her what an idiot she clearly was. Edit: "are you an Egyptian superhero?" "No, i'm loving Irish, can't you tell?"
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Hot take: It is dumb to ask an Egyptian lady if she's an Egyptian superhero, whilst she;s wearing Egyptian styled dress, fighting in front of the pyramids, the baddies are yelling about Ammit and Khonshu, and Egyptian gods are battling in the sky.
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Arist posted:I feel like people against that moment are treating it as a much bigger and more distracting thing than it actually was. It was cute, that's all. 
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Hot take: It is dumb to ask an Egyptian lady if she's an Egyptian superhero, whilst she;s wearing Egyptian styled dress, fighting in front of the pyramids, the baddies are yelling about Ammit and Khonshu, and Egyptian gods are battling in the sky. As cute as the scene was to me, I actually agree with this lol
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Yeah i mean a more naturalistic way of doing it would be having the girl turn to a friend and say 'look! she's an egyptian superhero!' and filming it on her phone or whatever, but also it was a line clearly intended to make middle eastern children feel good about themselves, which isn't exactly out of place in a corporate machine explicitly designed to make children (and manchildren) feel good about themselves
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That was definitely the best MCU TV show so far, and the only one that's really genuinely stuck the landing (Loki and Hawkeye did okay). The only nitpicks I have are that the 3rd episode was weirdly and clumsily put together, and that the post-credits stinger scene should have just been the pre-credits end of the episode because it's really vital to the ending of the show. Does Layla in full costume have a Marvel superhero equivalent? I'm not a big Moon Knight fan. Old Kentucky Shark fucked around with this message at 15:18 on May 5, 2022 |
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She is the Scarlet Scarab. No you should not know who this was before the show. Even Moon Knight is fairly obscure to a lot of people.
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Shang-Chi used a lot of subbed ChineseOld Kentucky Shark posted:Does Layla in full costume have a Marvel superhero equivalent? I'm not a big Moon Knight fan. She's the Scarlet Scarab but a girl now
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https://twitter.com/mohameddiab678/status/1522019765581082624
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Goons will never stop trying to find ways to be cynical about the media they consume endlessly.
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chitoryu12 posted:Goons will never stop trying to find ways to be cynical about the media they consume endlessly. "This character did not appeal to me personally so therefore they were worthless!"
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chitoryu12 posted:Goons will never stop trying to find ways to be cynical about the media they consume endlessly. No reason we can’t be critical about things we enjoy.
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Especially loved the one who got mad cause it appealed to kids. My guy this ain't an arthouse franchise
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Can someone give a quick run down of what Midnight Sons is about and how Moon Knight fits in?
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kazil posted:Can someone give a quick run down of what Midnight Sons is about and how Moon Knight fits in? He doesn't, the guy who wrote the Asylum arc of Moon Knight (the one that the show cribbed from heavily) wanted to bring him in. Moon Knight has traditionally been a Secret Avenger (that's a thing), and for obvious reasons he doesn't work well on a team (being a team himself). The best way of describing Midnight Sons is it was born in the early 90s, has a lot of baggage from that era, and is a sort of Marvel's Weird Tales Superhero Team pastiche. It even had its own branding for a bit (I have one of these comics lying around somewhere) although it didn't last long because quite honestly it's pretty forgettable supernatural cape stuff. It has a rotating cast of members and IIRC the big names it has in it are Blade, Ghost Rider, Doctor Strange, the Punisher (at one point), and, I poo poo you not, Morbius. And also Magick (hey, Magick is a big name if you were reading New Mutants in the late 80s/early 90s! Trust me!) There's obviously some push by Marvel to get it rolling again because Firaxis has the X-Com guy making a Slay-the-Spire-type tactical card game battler using the branding, and now they've mentioned it in regards to this show. Which is good! I want to see Creepy Superhero Teamups, nothing wrong with that!
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kazil posted:Can someone give a quick run down of what Midnight Sons is about and how Moon Knight fits in? Unrelated super heroes band together to fight a Supernatural threat. Moon Knight fights a lot of supernatural things, and he's a good punch man, plus he can fist fight ghosts, which is a pretty rare skill set.
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That's true. Warren Ellis made Moon Knight a definitive ghost puncher.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:There's obviously some push by Marvel to get it rolling again because Firaxis has the X-Com guy making a Slay-the-Spire-type tactical card game battler using the branding, and now they've mentioned it in regards to this show. Which is good! I want to see Creepy Superhero Teamups, nothing wrong with that! They've also appeared in the tabletop tactics game Marvel launched a year or two ago, with a roster at present of Blade, Black Cat, Doctor Strange, Doctor Voodoo, Ghost Rider, Iron Fist, Wong, and Moon Knight.
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I hope they don't do a Morbius tie in with the MCU because I refuse to watch anything with real life cult leader, sexually abusive psychopathic "method actor", and generally lovely musician Jared Leto.
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Jared Leto always looks as though he's just been told he's under arrest for suspicion of murder.
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Cythereal posted:They've also appeared in the tabletop tactics game Marvel launched a year or two ago, with a roster at present of Blade, Black Cat, Doctor Strange, Doctor Voodoo, Ghost Rider, Iron Fist, Wong, and Moon Knight. I like that Wong is just like "Super hero identity? Moniker? gently caress it, I'ma just punch these fuckers as myself, so everyone can see how cool I am".
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Cythereal posted:They've also appeared in the tabletop tactics game Marvel launched a year or two ago, with a roster at present of Blade, Black Cat, Doctor Strange, Doctor Voodoo, Ghost Rider, Iron Fist, Wong, and Moon Knight. Hmmm that's interesting. Are there any newer comics with Moon Knight in the 'Suns? I might have to check them out.
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She was even posted about on the r/curlyhair subreddit - some hope for us with thick, coarse curly hair, hehe.
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Infinitum posted:She is the Scarlet Scarab. No you should not know who this was before the show. Even Moon Knight is fairly obscure to a lot of people. I'm wonder if the moment she picks the scarab up from Mark's body is supposed to be a reference to that as well as a way for her to track Emmet's team
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Moon Knight was good, Isaac in particular did a great job, but I felt it was lacking an episode of two to actually show Moon Knight. I would rate the MCU shows : 1. Wandavision 2. Falcon and the Winter Soldier 3. Hawkeye 4. What If 5. Moon Knight 6. Loki.
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Oasx posted:Moon Knight was good, Isaac in particular did a great job, but I felt it was lacking an episode of two to actually show Moon Knight. I would have to say my list is the exact opposite. I have to follow up on this: do you like pickles?
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Oasx posted:Moon Knight was good, Isaac in particular did a great job, but I felt it was lacking an episode of two to actually show Moon Knight. I thought episodes 2 and 3, the ones with the most Moon Knight, were actually the weakest.
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Anita Dickinme posted:I would have to say my list is the exact opposite. I have to follow up on this: do you like pickles? My list is pretty close, but not exactly, the opposite and I do NOT like pickles. Hope this data point helps your upcoming PhD thesis on the subject.
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I would enjoy a potential Doctor Strange / Moon Knight / Blade / Ghost Rider team up in the future if such a thing would happen.
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Bleck posted:Jared Leto always looks as though he's just been told he's under arrest for suspicion of murder. That's because he's always at risk of being told he's under arrest for suspicion of child molestation. https://twitter.com/GreatCheshire/status/1509264391488876546
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Anita Dickinme posted:I would have to say my list is the exact opposite. I have to follow up on this: do you like pickles? Hate Pickles 1. Loki. 2. Moon Knight 3. Hawkeye 4. Falcon and the Winter Soldier 5. Wandavision 6. What If
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Love pickes. 1) Morbius 2) Morbius 3) Morbuis 4) Morbuis 5) Morbuis 6) Morbuis
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Pickles are great and my list goes: 1. Hawkeye, 2. WandaVision, 3. Loki, 4. Moon Knight, 5. Falcon & Winter Soldier, 6. What If. This list ended up being very different than what I hoped going into all of these shows. What If was a huge disappointment for me. Moon Knight would’ve been higher if they had leaned into “what is reality?” earlier in the show but episodes 2-3 and most of 4 were a whole lot of nothing for me. I’m still surprised how much I ended up liking Hawkeye. It might be my fondness for Christmastime or Hailey Stanfield and Florence Pugh knocking it out of the park, but it’s the only one of the shows so far that I’ve considered rewatching.
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Pickles own. 1. Loki 2. Wandavision 3. Moon Knight 4. Hawkeye 5. Falcon and the Winter Soldier 6. What If? 3 & 4 are pretty much interchangeable, but the rankings are otherwise very clear to me
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