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Everyone posted:Maybe Layla some reruns of the old 70s Isis show and took that as inspiration for her costume. Taweret seems like she'd be cool with whatever costume Layla wants. Just after Layla accepts the avatar position Taweret says something like "I have such a great idea for a costume!  " and I can totally see her as having mentally workshopped this super dope costume for any future avatar, maybe sketched it out sometimes when she was bored waiting for souls, and sure it isn't like, hippo themed, and maybe it doesn't need to have wings and swords, but she likes them and darn it her avatar looks cool.
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May 7, 2022 18:18
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Give me Rogue sucking up Carol's powers as our Marvels villain/plotline or give me loving death
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Bar Ran Dun posted:This season is about our society now and if it can be salvaged.
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Oct 30, 2023 00:18
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Oct 30, 2023 00:19
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Nameless Pete posted:Okay, I've seen it twice on this page now from two different posters and just wanted to jump in and clarify for some goons that the character's name is Miss MINUTES and not Miss Manners. On account of she's a clock. Sure, in your timeline........
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Oct 30, 2023 13:28
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I want to believe they are using the loom explosion for a huge actual reality reset that affects a bunch of the other properties, since so many of the phase five movies are pushed back / delayed anyway. I don't believe it. But I want to. edit: I dressed up today and someone several pages back asked if there were still any superfans in the thread anyway, and I don't know if dressing up as A Capeshit for Halloween makes you a superfan but if so,  LITERALLY A BIRD fucked around with this message at 22:14 on Oct 31, 2023 |
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Oct 31, 2023 17:15
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That's a valid critique, and I don't have any good pictures of me with the Literal Bird because I tried and she hated the wimple  she was all enthusiastic about the picture-taking game but then as she came close to my face she froze in a weird position and just stayed stuck like that, looking very uncomfortable, until she was disinvited from picture time  Thank you for both the compliment and the indulgence  sort of threw things together last minute and was happy with how it came out.Back to discussing television, Werewolf By Night In Color was all right.
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She's a good bird  I thought they used red in particular effectively at times -- his eyes stood out for sure, and also some arcs of blood in the garden fight, all the drama in the cage with the Bloodstone. I did like it overall. The black and white one is just, enormously better, but I don't feel like I wasted my time in having watched the new version once and I think that is a victory 
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Nov 1, 2023 03:03
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Maybe it'd be better on rewatch, but they shat the bed bad with Wanda, setting her up for something cool in Wandavision and then ending where her just fast-forwarding to mass murderer and ends up defeated by some rocks being dumped on her. Remember walking away being just really disappointed with that and the few multiverses they actually go to. I think a lot of this is to do with the fact MoM started filming before even WandaVision wrapped iirc? I remember someone posting some interview where Elizabeth Olsen said she'd have portrayed some things differently if there had been more time between productions. I thought the story they chose to tell about pain and loss turning people into villains was a fine one, and she got a kind of catharsis at the end, but it would have been nice if it felt like she had a happier ending. I have a really soft spot for Scarlet Witch but she is basically trauma personified, her entire character history is a cycle of getting traumatized and handling trauma poorly and getting punished for handling trauma poorly. They could have changed that!* *new X-man comics seem to have done something about this and it makes me happy LITERALLY A BIRD fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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Nov 3, 2023 02:15
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lmao, yeah, fair, agree with all of that.CatstropheWaitress posted:Loki has returned to being fun as poo poo. We got footage of Owen Wilson on a jet ski! this episode is good LITERALLY A BIRD fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Nov 3, 2023 |
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Nov 3, 2023 02:38
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Bar Ran Dun posted:So the bar, Sylvie just wants to live her life and Loki wants to save the TVA. . I mentioned to you in another thread I have been enjoying the weird theology implications of an Asgardian God wearing an ankh but they have given her the ankh earring so consistently now that it's definitely meant as a defining character piece. Obviously it is associated strongly with Egyptian Divinity but it is also at its most basic and in its hieroglyphic form a symbol of life. I was appreciating during that bar conversation just how well wearing the symbol for "life" ties into her desires and motivation. Also is the spaghettification not the threads of time/reality unraveling? I mostly keep thinking of the spaghettifying of Reed Richards in MoM but I think being unraveled or unmade is more what they are going for.
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Zoobtro posted:where did the lap pad go?? spaghettified/unraveled
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poo poo, I don't think I ever consciously knew that about ankh -> cross and that is surprising to me! Thank you for that knowledge, and lmao at Mrs. BRD "new life" definitely fits Sylvie's themes as well.
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Nov 3, 2023 21:09
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CubanMissile posted:Is Werewolf by Night In Color worth watching or does it kill the atmosphere of the original? I watched it under the assumption it was made for the kind of person that categorically refuses to watch black and white movies / TV shows. It was fine. Watch it if your expectations are low anyway and you don't really care. Otherwise skip it and watch the original again
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Nov 4, 2023 18:03
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Taear posted:I guess I can't imagine a godly alien who hasn't got huge experience of 1980s america just deciding "okay this is fine" and staying there Sometimes if you've had a real lovely life, having one that might seem boring and tiny and mundane to other people ends up being your heart's desire. I don't find that unimaginable at all. Further, I think the fact that she has all the choice and freedom in the universe is part of what empowers her to live that small life that she wanted/wants right now. You are focused on the negative aspects of working a fast food existence because most people who do it in real life do feel trapped in it. Even if you choose not to accept that she was genuinely happy living the life she is shown living, she does have the ability to leave or change it at any time. That's huge. It makes what she is spending her time doing truly a choice, and not a sentence. And also, something that I don't think has been pointed out yet is that, in canon, Lokis want power. Power, glory, worship, all those things are things that the standard Loki seeks and craves. It's a character trait. Sylvie wanting a life that is devoid of any of that is another demonstration of her being an individual, being her own person, regardless of her origin.
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Taear posted:At least move to Sweden Hm I dunno, I feel like there are several ways to justify choosing to stay in Idaho or wherever from the character's perspective. She could exposit to someone that the bright logo colors fundamentally appealed to her, felt like a beacon after a long darkness. She could tell the audience it felt like her beacon, like a place that could be her home. Her reasons would be some kind of lovely compelling prose, I am not a writer. I can think of a bunch of reasons Sylvie the character might choose to put down roots wherever she did but also I don't really care enough to want to watch a scene detailing them so I am fine giving the benefit of the doubt and making them up myself. Also as you say she's unfamiliar with that timeline, she has no reason to think going to Sweden (or wherever) might be the place to be instead of where this dice roll of Fate has landed her. I don't know if it's me making excuses for the writers or you maybe not fully engaging with them
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Jedit posted:Or it could be that she's been a god, and now she just wants the most simple, ordinary life she can find. There's very few things less complex or more mundane than a McJob. I mean yes definitely that idea, that has been covered extensively even prior to my post in agreement up thread. But then Taear objected specifically to her choice of 1980s America. I have liked the glimpses we had into Sylvie's life. She has a community
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Yeah exactly. I can totally see a person being like "here I am, and so here will be my new life." It doesn't seem that mysterious.
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Here is a mediocre cell phone picture, in case nobody does better https://i.imgur.com/PWQOO9B.jpg  LITERALLY A BIRD fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Nov 5, 2023 |
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The Finn posted:Awesome, thank you. The "Who what where when why" one jumps out Jerusalem posted:There's a close-up during the credits too: code: of course
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Taear posted:Whereas I feel like an immortal alien wouldn't. Especially an immortal alien Loki although it's clearly shown us how different to Loki she is. I want to point out first of all that I suspect you read my use of "person" as a synonym for "human," which it was not. Sylvie is a person. You are adamant that it does not make sense for a person like Sylvie to choose and be happy in the life she was living, while several people in the thread have tried to describe the ways that, from their perspectives, her choice does makes sense with the person we know and is believable. I only continue to engage you on this point because it really seemed to bother you / affect your enjoyment of the show and I would have liked to help you enjoy the narrative more! But I think you -- you, personally -- just totally, fundamentally disagree with the choice she made. That's fine, but you aren't demonstrating a willingness to allow personal or narrative concessions or perspective shifts that support Sylvie making this choice that you feel is a bad one. I hope that changes, or at least it begins to bother you less, because being willing to shift perspective to better understand a fictional person is a skill that can be brought to bear in better understanding and connecting with real people too. It's worth engaging in for that reason, imo. LITERALLY A BIRD fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Nov 5, 2023 |
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You also point out repeatedly though she is super fuckin magical. quote:ultimate poverty, since she has no money or support network in this place when she starts and would have to struggle to even get employed since she's effectively an illegal immigrant None of this would be a real problem for her. Anyway, your mind is pretty made up and I got no more arguments left to make. But I think your perspective is narrow, bordering on biased.
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Technowolf posted:The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > MCU TV: CIVIL WAR (OVER MCDONALD'S)
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StrugglingHoneybun posted:I'm gonna be watching the Loki finale on my phone Thursday during the intermission of a 6p The Marvels and an 8:45 The Marvels I hope you have the best time 
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Nov 6, 2023 23:43
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I do not have words for how much I loved Sylvie and Loki both turning directly to the camera and saying "sometimes it's okay to destroy everything, if you use that space to make something better." Perfect. Spot on. Full agree. No notes.
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Nov 11, 2023 18:56
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Loki: trickster god, leading expert in several sciences with centuries of training by the best minds in the multiverse, god of all time. Quite the resume. True G.O.A.T. I also truly loved that he immediately buckled down for centuries of learning because circumstances demanded it. He had to and he could so he did. Perfect, and the willingness to do things the hard way instead of giving up and loving off is another character growth illustration. The "Centuries later." title screen was flawless dramatic comedy
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Nov 11, 2023 19:01
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Bar Ran Dun posted:But he also doesn’t destroy everything. He prevents the destruction of the TVA. That also not being the ending of everything, is also part of apocalyptic thought. I would argue however that the TVA as it has previously existed was destroyed. As people have been discussing, it had a specific purpose which has now been dismantled and repurposed and is fundamentally different -- all the way down to magic being usable on TVA grounds now, which had not previously been the case. The previous identity of the TVA was destroyed and a new identity was allowed to grow in its place. New life, BRD!
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Cage Kicker posted:I’m disappointed in all this spaghetti talk. The whole show is about a loom and everything comes apart like cloth unweaving itself. I liked that it all looked distinctly more thread-like in the climatic and ending scenes. It also looked more expensive, which I expect is the practical reason it didn't look that good all season, but I will accept a narrative reason of all the previous time strands depicted having been overprocessed by Kang/the Loom's interference. There is a whole different texture and heft of an organic unprocessed timeline
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Gavok posted:KangDog!
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Bar Ran Dun posted:So thinking about Loki more… Eiba posted:it's supposing that the fundamental nature of the universe is narrative. I vibe with all this Elendil004 posted:Saw the Marvels last night, only group in the theater but frankly it was a solid as hell movie. Short, funny, moved itself along and didn't try and do too much but still built some on the characters. this too dingo with a joint posted:Movie sucked, so I'm all for that. not this though, first Dr. Strange is great, what the hell 
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Parkingtigers posted:You know, having them start in the '60s and then timeslip to the present could be a great motivation for Doom. Sokovia being in a state of civil war and in such a mess because he wasn't there to hold it together would be a great reason for him to become the welcomed returning hero to Make Latveria Great Again. When you think of everything that ever happened to the country, Doom could legitimately feel that none of it would have happened if he had been there to stop it, not the civil war, not the Ultron stuff, not Thanos, and blaming Reed for him not being there would be a far greater motivation than just mere jealousy. 
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SimplyCosmic posted:So, yeah, MoM could have used a bit more of a transition, but WandaVision could have also used a little more acknowledgment of how Wanda was messed up before the start and certainly was compromised and corrupted before she ran off into the woods with the Darkhold. My perspective is colored by knowing the MCU Scarlet Witch's story is just the most recent in a long series of emotional disasters inflicted on the character called the Scarlet Witch (narrative multiverse indeed) but I feel like WandaVision maybe underemphasized all that past trauma because in this case the narrative did in fact expect the audience to have done homework / had background. Losing Billy and Tommy was just the most recent loss after losing her husband, losing her husband again, losing her brother, losing her parents, losing her home, being abandoned by her support network, being demonized by the public, all the child soldiering, you know, the usual for her but quite a lot for most people to take without a villain turn and/or nervous breakdown. The compounding trauma is the narrative foundation of the show, and then the show provides the foundation for Multiverse of Madness to exist / continue the Scarlet Witch narrative cycle of trauma-induced villainy and its consequences. LITERALLY A BIRD fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Feb 22, 2024 |
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Marsupial Ape posted:Before I do my weird mythic imagery observation, I just gotta say this is some great poo poo. I'm 43, the X-Men cartoon was a big part of my child hood, and they are somehow just nailing it. All this and you don't observe the way Jubilee literally resurrects her consort in the premonitory half of the episode?!
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💯 In all sincerity I think a lot of writers lately are tapping into the idea of mythotheological narrative as expressions of reality. I picked up the The Trial of Magneto (no, his other trial) collection last year and the majority of the story turned out to be Scarlet Witch going through a Goddess cycle and uniting her three aspects of self to spiritually evolve and heal with even less subtlety than is usually involved with her narrative cycles (I loved it). edit:  
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Marsupial Ape posted:I’m just glad I’m not the only one that sees this stuff. I’ve read most of Marija Gimbutas’ English work and I just see these very old motifs and symbols everywhere, now. I’m not 100% with her on all her admitted conjecture about Neolithic matriarchal societies in Old Europe, but I’m with her on her art and symbol interpretation. I’m not just talking out my butt when I do these critiques, but I do worry that I my own recency bias colors what I think I see. I've actually been interpreting it far more charitably than that, maybe I'm more an idealist than I realize I think maybe a lot of these writers are people who have connected with similar ideas and perceive them as true and get excited about it and want to tell everyone who doesn't know; so being creative types, they began to develop these truths in all the stories they tell with their work. And in superhero-style storytelling in particular an outlet is available to tell stories similar to and inspired by stories in mythological realities, because we have this world where the extraordinary happens, where magic is real, where Gods are reborn and that's just the facts of life, no need for additional suspension of disbelief.of course you're right that a lot of people seem to be all realizing this at once LITERALLY A BIRD fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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Marsupial Ape posted:[...] Wings and flight are the ultimate form of agency. ... hey, yeah!!! e: and thank you for the link, this book looks dope
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