Oso planning to go pro
She-Hulk was pleasant. A breezy 40 minutes setting up the rest.
While I appreciate the She-Hulk nods to the old John Byrne fourth wall breaking in the finale, it was a bit much for me. The show had its highs and lows. I liked the humor and different tone, but the facial CGI for Jen wasn't great and as much as I liked Maslany and the guest of the week approach, it was probably the weakest MCU TV outing so far. Particularly disappointing on the heels of Ms Marvel, which I felt was the best.That said, Werewolf by Night was fantastic. They absolutely killed it. Just the right mix of horror, camp, gore, humor, and all with a Marvel touch. If you haven't watched it, definitely do. It's really good.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Interestingly, I didn't love Ms. Marvel. It was fine but a good superhero show is driven by the quality of its villain and neither the Clandestines nor Damage Control really did it for me. She-Hulk didn't have a strong villain either but it's not really a superhero show.
Watched Thor love and thunder as well.Eh
First episode of Secret Invasion was good. Slow burn show, but stakes are raised high by the end.
Reviews have been brutal
Seem to be doing okay?https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/secret_invasion
Marvel is in an absolute freefall post endgame/Spidey.
Shang Chi, No Way Home, Wakanda Forever, and Guardians 3 were all awesome. Widow & Eternals I wasn't as high on, but Love & Thunder, Multiverse of Madness, & Quantumania were all good. Not great, but good, and better than much of the IM/Thor Phase 1-2 offerings.On the TV side, WandaVision, Loki, Hawkeye, and Moon Knight were all great. Falcon & She-Hulk I understand the mixed reviews on, but Ms Marvel is still the best thing they've done on the TV side (next level brilliant, IMO).Not everything will be Infinity War in scope. Where I think they've come up short is the lack of a new team-up. The reason Phase 1 & 2 were awesome wasn't because all the movies were great, they weren't. It's because they built to Avengers & Ultron. If we had a small scale Avengers one-off, maybe Dr Strange leading a team of Captain America, Ant-Man, Shang Chi, Shuri, Kamala Khan, and Sersi against Dormammu or a similar big bad, it would up the stakes the way Loki and Ultron did. Doing all smaller scale pieces until we get to Secret Wars is just too long to wait, even with some great proprieties sprinkled in.Edit: They could even split those to create multiple medium stakes movies. New Avengers with Captain America, Strange, Sersi, Shuri, Shang Chi, and Ant-Man. Young Avengers with Spider-Man, Hawkeye, Skaar, Wiccan, Speed, Stature, Patriot, and Ms Marvel. Then the Winter Soldier led Thunderbolts team. The problem is the stories are too isolated.