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Post by Admin on Aug 5, 2021 22:22:07 GMT -6
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Post by vitugglan on Aug 6, 2021 5:47:25 GMT -6
I like the Peggy Carter character but you're right, an anthology shouldn't have one main character. I suppose it's an anchor they cling to.
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Post by vitugglan on Aug 19, 2021 6:09:21 GMT -6
Okay, so I've seen the first two What Ifs. First, the whole 'you're lucky to be in the room' doesn't jibe with what I recall about the decade and a half after that so I'm guessing it was the same in the 1940s. Women weren't included, not because they would be lucky to be in the room, but because, and a lot of people meant this kindly, they weren't as strong as a man. Their strengths lay elsewhere. Go play to your strengths, little lady. (They did this with guys, too - don't try to cook, young sir, it's clearly out of your wheelhouse, and so on.) Plus, they were trying to win a war against what turned out to be a madman going even crazier, so why ignore a present right on their doorstep? That's one thing that got me about the first CPT America when they used him for stage shows to sell bonds instead of figuring out a way to use his super strength for the war effort. All that overly expounded, they had the Howling Commandos! They had the HOWLING COMMANDOS! I liked young and skinny Steve, I liked Howard Stark in this - lol, being pulled into action with the giant (hentai?  ) Tentacle Monster - Lol! But. THEY HAD THE HOWLING COMMANDOS! And my favorite, DumDum Dugan, had lines! <3 <3 <3 The next was, what if T'Challa became Star Lord instead of Peter Quill? I could believe a young boy being enamored of going into space and not thinking about Mom and Dad worrying at home - I did see Flight of the Navigator, after all - but what was it about that change that got Yondu and company to start saving planets instead of just stealing for the money? I can't see what would have made that change. I also can't see how Thanos suddenly became all nicey-nicey, and where was Nebula? I was pleased with the Collector's fate, and it was funny to see Howard the Duck interacting with T'Challa. BTW, this was Chadwick Boseman's last role, doing the voice for the character, and the episode was dedicated to him. Overall, the animation is above par. I like the 2D look that suddenly, briefly, turns CGI and then reverts again. I understand that these episides are telescoped versions of the movies - CPT America, the First Avenger for the Peggy Carter episode and Guardians of the Galaxy for the T'Challa episode so the action has to be over the top and unbelievable since they're cramming a couple of hours into a quarter of the time. Face it, the minute they included my Howling Commandos they totally won me over (except for the points mentioned above - they definitely got me thinking kindly of them with that.) |
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Post by Admin on Aug 21, 2021 13:18:47 GMT -6
Yeah! Dum-Dum Dugan is my third favorite Commando behind Steve and Bucky (and not gonna 'pologize for that!).
Love how Dugan is just so willing to adjust his life view from "dames don't...." (Carter kicks the Hydra goon into next month) ".... okay" and later they have Rogers coming as back up with the Hydra Stomper and its "dames... and a armored Buick. OK!"
Which is rather akin to his attitude in the deleted scene of CA:TFA where they first see the Hydra tank open fire and vaporize the target. "That's.... new!"
We both know that T'Challa can pretty much debate and diplomacy the legs off a bull... and then teach it to fly. (OK, bit of an exaggeration there, but you get the drift! lol). It's been explained that diplomacy and leadership are his "superpower" (and I get the feeling that it could be so since the Vibranium radiation results in mutations -- and was supposedly one of the early reasons that Sam Wilson as the Falcon could communicate with birds in the comic-verse). Plus, I also suspect that "the Heart Shaped Herb" having changed T'Chakah would have boosted the lad's DNA since he was conceived after his father was King. I noted that the scamp seemed to be running a bit faster than most people and throwing his spear father than would be expected for a lad his age. They started out as basically bad guys until T'Challa "taught them how to fly" (and Thanos not to kill everything... or half of everything... even though we know he still thinks its a good idea since "it isn't genocide since its random"). As for where is Nebula, that woman refering to T'Challa as "Cha-Cha" was Nebula.
And managing a Dairy Queen, while not as cool as Guarding the Galaxy, isn't that bad a life. Looking at you, Peter Quill.
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Post by vitugglan on Aug 21, 2021 17:07:48 GMT -6
Yeah, I watched a couple of reviews (one positive, the other negative) about the second episode and both were saying the Cha-Cha girl was Nebula so I'll rephrase that to, Where's Gamora?
When I was reading the Howling Commandos there was no Steve and no Bucky, just the usual band of random districts across the US. I never got into the SGT Rock comics from DC. Don't know why, they just didn't grab me like the HCs. Plus, Dum Dum's a redhead, so he's just about perfect.
I still don't see a ten-year-old boy convincing Yondu and company to change that much. He's ten and he'd be influenced by his environment. He'd be more likely to drift into conman territory with his diplomacy and all, not change the people who are raising him, IMO. Interesting thought about possibly enhancing his DNA due to the herb. That would make sense, and if his father or another ancestor was conceived after the herb being ingested, that would only ramp it up a little more.
Funny that Peter Quill was managing a DQ. One of the reviewers said it was the same one where his parents met. Also, that Peter might be more succeptible to Ego's manipulations, causing big problems since he wasn't hardened by life with Yondu and Co.
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Post by Admin on Aug 29, 2021 16:51:40 GMT -6
Considering that T'Challa is about 30 when his episode opens, he could have easily learned his craft in that first decade and it seems that the group have only been doing the "steal from the powerful, give to the powerless" thing for around a decade. And, since Yondu could never really say no to the kid, as Yondu leads, the rest of them follow. This would also mean that Thanos was shown the error of his ways before he and the Black Order invaded and "cleansed" Gamora's home-world and he "adopted" her. So, hopefully she grew up with her family and has a good life, not realizing just how close they came to calamity.
And, Nebula is a lot less cybernetic.
The Bible mentions something about training a child a certain way prior to (I think six or eight) and they are less likely to depart from that. And, no, don't remember which book, chapter or verse that is.
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Post by vitugglan on Aug 31, 2021 6:20:59 GMT -6
(from memory) Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. No age given. 1st Timothy, I think, but I'll check... (DuckDuckGo) Nope, Proverbs 22:6. www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2022:6&version=KJV One of my mother's favorite verses. She quoted it at me ad nauseum whenever we'd argue about what I should and shouldn't do. I still disagree about T'Challa converting the whole instead of the whole converting T'Challa. Yondu might not be able to deny him anything, but I could totally see Yondu making plausible excuses to T'Challa about how the universe has wronged them and it's only their due to take what should already have been theirs. His crew would totally have supported this and reinforced it. After I posted, I figured that Gamora would never have been adopted for reasons stated. The brain doesn't kick in too quickly at times. |
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) Tentacle Monster - Lol! But. THEY HAD THE HOWLING COMMANDOS! And my favorite, DumDum Dugan, had lines! <3 <3 <3