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Re: Marvel Studios' What If...? (Disney+) - All S2 Eps now out! S3 teased!
« Reply #210 on: January 01, 2024, 07:16:57 PM »
I got about 2 episodes into the Inhumans before tapping out.


I actually enjoyed a lot of what was in Eternals, it was just such a mess as a cohesive whole.   


Ep6 of this season was outstanding, just love the new character and the animation's color schemes were so frikkin cool.


I'll finish the show tomorrow.

Yea. Eternals has a lot of potential and great elements. Just a bad script. Much like a ton of modern marvel movies. At some point this becomes Feige’s fault if he’s letting so many awful scripts get by.
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« Reply #211 on: January 02, 2024, 06:13:43 AM »
Saw Ep. 5, and so far it's fine. I don't see the leap in quality from Season 1 that some have mentioned, but I enjoyed season 1 :corn
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« Reply #212 on: January 02, 2024, 04:49:57 PM »
Why, despite witnessing various instances of Thanos' defeat in multiple episodes of What If, did Doctor Strange originally foresee only one scenario out of 14 million?

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« Reply #213 on: January 02, 2024, 05:43:20 PM »
Why, despite witnessing various instances of Thanos' defeat in multiple episodes of What If, did Doctor Strange originally foresee only one scenario out of 14 million?

You have to begin with that one scenario, and then calculate the multitude of decisions made by the multitude of people from that point forward.
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« Reply #214 on: January 03, 2024, 05:14:30 AM »
Why, despite witnessing various instances of Thanos' defeat in multiple episodes of What If, did Doctor Strange originally foresee only one scenario out of 14 million?

My understanding was that there was one out of 14 million scenarios that Strange saw in that universe with that universe's version of all the characters. The defeats we see in What If are happening in other universes so wouldn't be part of what Strange saw in Infinity War.
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« Reply #215 on: January 03, 2024, 07:23:00 AM »
I got about 2 episodes into the Inhumans before tapping out.


I actually enjoyed a lot of what was in Eternals, it was just such a mess as a cohesive whole.   


Ep6 of this season was outstanding, just love the new character and the animation's color schemes were so frikkin cool.


I'll finish the show tomorrow.

Yea. Eternals has a lot of potential and great elements. Just a bad script. Much like a ton of modern marvel movies. At some point this becomes Feige’s fault if he’s letting so many awful scripts get by.

Gemma Chan's performance is another big issue with that film.

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« Reply #216 on: January 03, 2024, 07:23:28 AM »
Why, despite witnessing various instances of Thanos' defeat in multiple episodes of What If, did Doctor Strange originally foresee only one scenario out of 14 million?

My understanding was that there was one out of 14 million scenarios that Strange saw in that universe with that universe's version of all the characters. The defeats we see in What If are happening in other universes so wouldn't be part of what Strange saw in Infinity War.

This makes sense. Thx

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« Reply #217 on: January 03, 2024, 07:24:36 AM »
I got about 2 episodes into the Inhumans before tapping out.


I actually enjoyed a lot of what was in Eternals, it was just such a mess as a cohesive whole.   


Ep6 of this season was outstanding, just love the new character and the animation's color schemes were so frikkin cool.


I'll finish the show tomorrow.

Yea. Eternals has a lot of potential and great elements. Just a bad script. Much like a ton of modern marvel movies. At some point this becomes Feige’s fault if he’s letting so many awful scripts get by.

Gemma Chan's performance is another big issue with that film.

There's a good number of performance issues. Kumail is great doing his normal thing and Barry was good as well. Everyone else is mostly just playing cold and stoic. Which might work for one of them, but multiple cold and stoic people just becomes really boring after a while. Add the fact that there's no real villain to identify with, it's just bodies doing things.
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« Reply #218 on: January 03, 2024, 07:28:16 AM »
Also seen the first 6 episodes thus far.

The first one was fantastic. Loved the dark noir vibe and the originality of it.
I actually thought the 2nd one was a lot of fun. The old school avengers were cool and it had a good heart behind it.
The 3rd one with Happy saving Christmas was good, fun, silly, and a nice holiday novelty episode. Plus the more Sam Rockwell, the better.
4th one was fine. Not bad. Not great. Just typical Marvel fun but done well.
5th one was good too. Nice switch of the Winter Soldier story line. Not amazing, but good.
6th was fantastic. Loved the almost complete lack of English. The new approach. New characters. Very smart choices.
Will watch the last three this week. Excited for the 1602 episode, though I'm not sure how good it'll be without mutants or Spider-Man and Daredevil who had big roles in the comic.
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« Reply #219 on: January 03, 2024, 07:34:23 AM »
I got about 2 episodes into the Inhumans before tapping out.


I actually enjoyed a lot of what was in Eternals, it was just such a mess as a cohesive whole.   


Ep6 of this season was outstanding, just love the new character and the animation's color schemes were so frikkin cool.


I'll finish the show tomorrow.

Yea. Eternals has a lot of potential and great elements. Just a bad script. Much like a ton of modern marvel movies. At some point this becomes Feige’s fault if he’s letting so many awful scripts get by.

Gemma Chan's performance is another big issue with that film.

There's a good number of performance issues. Kumail is great doing his normal thing and Barry was good as well. Everyone else is mostly just playing cold and stoic. Which might work for one of them, but multiple cold and stoic people just becomes really boring after a while. Add the fact that there's no real villain to identify with, it's just bodies doing things.

Yeah.  I mean I hate to diss a female actress in this age where that seems the norm, but I really struggled with Chan purely for her performance - I think she's supposed to be the main character (by the end of the film anyway) but I just found her performance so wooden and bland a complete charisma vacuum - and I agree some of the other aren't great either, but I found her the worst.  Along with Ray Winstone in Black Widow and Michael Douglas in Ant-Man 3 (he just looks completely confused) maybe for worst MCU performance?

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« Reply #220 on: January 04, 2024, 12:20:52 AM »
I dunno, I thought Chan was excellent in Humans. I think the performance issue you're talking about - considering it was spread across the cast - is more to do with the directing, which was more focused on the big ideas (which many didn't think landed well either) than the character relationships.

I like Eternals just fine but I can understand the feeling that some of the characters seemed wooden.

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« Reply #221 on: January 04, 2024, 07:01:23 AM »
Yeah, I think I enjoyed Eternals more than most. I remember my initial issue with the movie was the cinematography, it felt like they every shot lasted no more than 3 seconds before moving to a different angle.

Anyways, saw Ep. 6 yesterday, and that was pretty good.
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« Reply #222 on: January 04, 2024, 07:06:34 AM »
I enjoyed the Eternals and I found it a brilliant take on the material at hand. The only disappointment - for lack of a better word - is that, coming relatively late to the game, I feel it slightly fails to be the big foundational mythos to the MU it could have been.

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« Reply #223 on: January 04, 2024, 10:10:04 AM »
That's pretty much how I feel about Eternals.  If we're involving Celestials and the very nature of the planet Earth and our place in the universe, it should have been a huge deal.  Instead, it was more "Hmm, a giant being sortuv erupting or hatching from our planet like it's a giant egg.  Huh.  Oh well, I wonder what's for lunch."

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« Reply #224 on: January 08, 2024, 09:45:59 AM »
Finally finished this.  It fell about as flat as season 1 did.  Glad it's over.
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« Reply #225 on: January 08, 2024, 10:40:16 AM »
Finally finished up the season.  Overall, I liked it a lot, much more than season 1.

Episode 6 was fantastic.
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« Reply #226 on: January 08, 2024, 10:42:33 AM »
Watched the 1602 episode.

It was fun. Sadly had almost nothing in common with the comic version but it was okay. Ending was a bit dumb but eh. Hopefully will finish it up tonight.

I think a few flaws of this show is not enough going into unexpected, different directions (cause when they do, it’s great) to follow the more traditional Marvel mold. And focusing too much on the same few characters or alts of them.
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« Reply #227 on: January 22, 2024, 02:44:27 PM »
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