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CBM: X-Men '97; Deadpool and Wolverine trailer

By the way, Arrow Season 3 comes to Netflix the day of the Season 4 premiere. So much for catching up before the season starts.

Cool Jessica Jones teaser.
 
ImTheCaptain said:
wife and i are re-watching the X-Files right now but only the myth-arc episodes

the show is pretty depressing when you only watch mulder lose to the shadow gov. over and over and over

but we did watch the one with Giovanni Ribisi and Jack Black last night; that was a fun surprise
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Vince Gilligan found Cranston by casting him as a one off character for X-Files.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751106/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_66
 
Good start to AOS Season 3. Nice to see they didn't waste time getting to the main villain.
 
Did AoS just show a scene of Marvel vs. Capcom?
 
I was pretty mixed on last night's episode. Certain parts of it (the open with Skye/Mack rescuing the metal melting bro; Fitz in Morocco; Simmons at the end) were really, really cool. But then there were some superlong exposition dumps (like Coulson and Skye's first conversation) which just felt like the characters were telling each other things they should have already known. The fight between Lash and Skye/Lincoln was really underwhelming, too. Wish they could have done more than have those two just stand with their arms out.

There are an impressive amount of moving pieces here, and enough to resolve that we should never really have to deal the doldrums of S1 again. Just off the top of my head, we have ATCU/US Gov intervention, Lash, Lincoln/Skye/Mack recruiting, Ward reconstructing HYDRA, May off to god knows where, and Simmons on another friggin' planet. That's a lot of stuff!

I do think the show as a whole feels more confident than it ever has before; it seems to know the story it wants to tell and the way it wants to tell it, which is a welcome development for an AoS season opener. And really, my complaints here are things that are probably going to be unique to this episode, which existed mostly to catch people up and set things up for this season's arc. Just not sure it made for great TV last night.
 
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Agents of SHIELD Season 3 premiere Tues at 9

Good take. I felt like it could have used another hour to actually get the ball rolling after re-establishing things.

I was really glad they didn't tease ATCU and/or Lash and string it out. Getting that going was more important than catching up with May or Ward.

I keep seeing that the movie and TV side are separate but we have the President from IM3 and this show is tackling the Inhumans and HYDRA for the foreseeable future. Those are two big parts of the MCU. I'm really not sure what the Inhumans film will cover with respect to this plot.
 
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DeacHead said:
An odd thing just happened after I watched the last episode of Gotham... I found myself involved and when it was over, I actually thought "Nooo, it can't be over now!" which is a first for the show.

I don't know if this was simply lightning in a bottle, but I'm back in.
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morrison2951 said:
In as well. The Joker storyline must have done it for me.
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hate to admit it but that might have been the best episode of the show. admittedly the bar was set pretty low but it was solid episode. the show often feels like "something" is just missing. this one had that intangible. focusing on the joker may have been it. he is doing a pretty good job.

ended last year out of rotation. this season i accidentally had a little time to catch it and i'll give it another shot. it's on a short leash so if the old problems show up i won't get much leeway.


and minor spoiler for ph they are hinting that thomas wayne was looking into corruption and bad stuff in gotham before his death. sounds like your season one story is the prequel. (not that they are making one).
 
Honestly, Gotham could make up some ground if they pulled an Arrow and went back and forth between pre-Wayne murder and current time. I could get excited about that. Draw parallels between the son and father and have the finale end at the night of the Wayne murder and when Bruce decides to become Batman. Show that as Batman, Bruce is continuing his parents' legacy.
 
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So the Blue Villian, is he a blue skinned Kree or an Inhuman?
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I still think it's Blanka (except for the coloring)

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New Jessica Jones teaser
 
Vaguely interesting quotes from Feige on Doctor Strange:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/feige-confirms-doctor-strange-will-be-an-origin-story

For some reason people sometimes talked about how we’re not doing an origin story, we’re bored of origin stories. I think people are bored of origin stories they’ve seen before or origin stories that are overly familiar. Doctor Strange has one of the best, most classic, most unique origin stories of any hero we have, so why wouldn’t we do that? That was sort of always the plan. How you tell that origin, perhaps there are ways to twist it or play with that, but for the most part, it’s a gift when the comics have something with such clarity of story and of character. That doesn’t always happen in the comics, and when it does, you use it.
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They're going to do a Doctor Strange origin story because it hadn't been told on the big screen before, just like they did with GOTG and Ant-Man. They won't be doing a Spider-Man origin story because it's unnecessary.
 
PhDeac said:
They're going to do a Doctor Strange origin story because it hadn't been told on the big screen before, just like they did with GOTG and Ant-Man. They won't be doing a Spider-Man origin story because it's unnecessary.
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get an origin story of sorts for dr strange. i trust they will find a way to make it an original take on the idea. ant man was a pretty original take since becoming ant man was, almost, secondary to the heist genre. gotg was different because they just threw you into the action and had a few moments to talk about a character's origin then jumped right back to the main story. emphasis on the origin of the group vs origin of the individuals.
 
The Guardians of the Galaxy animated series shorts actually include origin stories for Groot and Rocket.



 
PhDeac said:
They're going to do a Doctor Strange origin story because it hadn't been told on the big screen before, just like they did with GOTG and Ant-Man. They won't be doing a Spider-Man origin story because it's unnecessary.
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Er. GoTG wasn't really an origin story, and Ant-Man being an origin story was maligned by both critics and mainstream audiences. Doctor Strange's origin is sort of thematically similar to Iron Man's, so I would have understood them skimming past it.

I'm personally okay with going into his origin, but it seems silly to assume it was a no-brainer.
 
These two Marvel tidbits are on the surprising side to me:

Damage Control is in development. I don't know how many hurdles there are from "pilot ordered" to an actual airing of the show, but it is part of the process. It's a comedy. Ben Karlin (exec producer) has solid comedy bona fides so I'm cautiously optimistic at this point.

More surprising - Thor: Ragnarok looks to have its director. I do like the work I've seen from this guy but all I've seen have been comedies and I wouldn't expect Ragnarok to be comedic or even light in tone, we're talking about the destruction of an entire pantheon after all. Personally I'm not taking this as either "good" or "bad" news, just a tad surprising.
 
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