I'm Not Messing Around, I'm Doing Important Stuff in The Superhero Cinematic Civil War Thread - Part 61

[Pennywise]

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

I didn't know that, but I'm not surprised. It's even funnier that Clone Wars doesn't really fit with the prequels if George was personally involved. Anakin's characterization alone is essentially an entirely different person.

It’s even funnier when you know that around the time George brought Maul back he was planning the Sequels and he wanted Maul to be the main antagonist of that trilogy, which is why he was brought back in the first place.

 

[Still Wynning]

More details from Gunn:
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The moment I read this, I knew he was trolling. Missteps aside, he’s smarter than that.

And we deserve to do every step of it!

Seriously, though, I’m happy for you guys. Pretty excited myself.

Adria Arjona or bust.

(Actually, I’m not super bullish on that and I’m pretty open to whoever they get as long as they’re good, which, considering how on point their casting has been, I’m not too worried.)

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Wise choice.

Even as someone who doesn’t mind the mid-credit and post-credit scenes in the MCU, going in this direction is a smart move. It’s nice to tease things for the future, but you don’t want to go too far and count your chickens before they hatch and set false expectations for something that may never come, like the MCU had been making the mistake of doing up until recently.

As long as they’re placed smartly and not over-relied on, I’m fine with this.

 

[BoredGuy]

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It's a good thing then that he got fired for a minute and GOTG 3 came out after Thor
Taika wiped the slate for him in that regard

As much as I loved Thor in Infinity War, it's still a bummer what the Russos did to him after the beautiful setup in Ragnarok

Accepted his role as king and protector of Asgard-> Thanos kills half the Asgardians before the opening shot, and have Thor say f*** this and bail at the end of Endgame

Not the "God of Hammers", his power is within-> Have Thor immediately go in search of a new weapon and, in Endgame, get Mjolnir back on top of it

Remove his eye -> Give it back

All of his progression was immediately undone in IW/EG

 

[Spider-Fan]

Are Superman tickets on sale? My AMC app isn't selling them yet

 

[Kane52630]

Are Superman tickets on sale? My AMC app isn't selling them yet

You need a Prime account to see them.

 

[Spider-Fan]

You need a Prime account to see them.

Gotcha. For the early thing I take it?

 

[Kane52630]

Gotcha. For the early thing I take it?

Yeah for Tuesday.

DC Comics: Superman

Superman

amazon.com

 

[Lily Adler]

So Flick, last week the FF crashes Fandango, this week the Blue Boy Scout did it.

We're officially at this part:

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LOL

The Green Hornet being part of the DCU would be amazing.

 

[Lily Adler]

You need a Prime account to see them.

 

[chamber-music]

I just pray for three things with MCU X-Men:

1. Storm is darkskinned and epic and NOT Cynthia Errivo or Jodie Turner Smith.

B. Rogue flies around and is sassy and calls people ‘sugah’.

- That Cyclops gets respeck put back on his name.

I’m sorry in advance Sith.

It's Hollywood so you will probably get another biracial actress who can't do a African accent to save her life

Cyclops definitely needs to get some damn respect and Rogue better be a sassy southerner.

 

[Lily Adler]

It's Hollywood so you will probably get another biracial actress who can't do a African accent to save her life

Cyclops definitely needs to get some damn respect and Rogue better be a sassy southerner.

It's Kevin's fault for casting them in Black Panther.

 

[Link]

It’s even funnier when you know that around the time George brought Maul back he was planning the Sequels and he wanted Maul to be the main antagonist of that trilogy, which is why he was brought back in the first place.

I do love Maul. Damn. Main antagonist, though? Interesting choice for an essentially mute henchman

 

[Lily Adler]

I do love Maul. Damn. Main antagonist, though? Interesting choice for an essentially mute henchman

He looked cool, though. Never cared for Count Dooku.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

The internet is too damn funny sometimes:

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You know there is that one person being like, "but she was really good as Wonder Woman. You guys are just being sexist".

 

[Sithborg]

This seems like a larger rabbit hole I could indulge in, but by a quick glance, Traviss has an interesting take on Star Wars. Her thinking seems to be reflected in some Disney Star Wars projects, like The Acolyte and The Last Jedi, particularly contested entries in the franchise.

Absolutely not. Yeah, Acolyte and TLJ were critical of the Jedi to an extent, Traviss HATED the Jedi. I did not read the Commando books, but I did read the Legacy of the Force books. She literally had Luke Skywalker thinking "what would Boba Fett do". And based on how she wrote Caedus, she would be agreeing with SW Theory that "Vader would not allow SA in the Empire". Her total disdain for a key part of Star Wars lead to her weakening what was supposed to be a big villain. The clear writer disagreement between her and Troy Denning was absolutely hilarious. And Aaron Alliston just going, I ain't getting int the middle of this ****.

And a quick glance at what she has been up to, and posting, well, its good riddance.

 

[Sithborg]

As things become more and more clear about the state of the Disney Empire, and their willingness to be collaborators, I think Kennedy getting Andor out with what it was, deserves eternal respect.

 

[Drizzle]

Okay, at the risk of sounding like a hater, I have to say that I'm not too hot about Clone Wars. I'm on season 4, and it's just SO self-serious, but also clearly a children's program at the same time. Also, I simply can't get past the idea that Ahsoka is supposed to be Anakin's padawan in the canon. It's just so nonsensical in context with the prequels. Supplemental material doesn't have to be canonized for reasons exactly like this. I guess I'm extra salty since Filoni keeps dragging this **** into recent Star Wars, and there's a lot more to come.

I watched The Clone Wars shortly before The Force Awakens came out and I figured I might as well catch up on the new Disney canon. I had watched the 2008 movie that kickstarted it in theaters and it really got off on the wrong foot because that movie is pretty bad and IMO close to the bottom of worst Star Wars media out of the movies and shows. It was for that reason that I didn't really give the show a chance when it first aired, since I felt like Star Wars had basically run its course at the time with Revenge of the Sith having been released three years prior. Luckily it did get better after the movie but there were certain arcs I thought were significantly better than others. I did really enjoy the final season. Overall I think it's okay but the original Tartakovsky Clone Wars is the one that holds a special place in my heart. It wasn't heavy on plot but it sure had style.

I think the whole news cycle of "__________ movie's ticket sales break sites" is a load of baloney. These tickets sites just don't have the usage needs to put resources into handling that initial wave of heavy traffic of super fandoms. Like yeah, no **** a computer that usually only handles 30 requests a day is going to have issues handling 300 requests in 10 minutes.

You can count on one hand the amount of times where ticketing sites crashing was actually newsworthy: The Force Awakens, Endgame, No Way Home, and maybe The Last Jedi and Infinity War but I don't remember having much difficulty getting tickets for the latter two. It took well over an hour waiting for Fandango to stop crashing for The Force Awakens tickets. That one was maybe the first time that had happened for those sites, at least to that degree. I'm still amazed over six years later how I somehow managed to score Endgame tickets before all hell broke loose with the servers.

 

[Link]

I watched The Clone Wars shortly before The Force Awakens came out and I figured I might as well catch up on the new Disney canon. I had watched the 2008 movie that kickstarted it in theaters and it really got off on the wrong foot because that movie is pretty bad and IMO close to the bottom of worst Star Wars media out of the movies and shows. It was for that reason that I didn't really give the show a chance when it first aired, since I felt like Star Wars had basically run its course at the time with Revenge of the Sith having been released three years prior. Luckily it did get better after the movie but there were certain arcs I thought were significantly better than others. I did really enjoy the final season. Overall I think it's okay but the original Tartakovsky Clone Wars is the one that holds a special place in my heart. It wasn't heavy on plot but it sure had style.

Absolutely, that movie is the worst of it by far. Dreadful. There are episodes and arcs that I do enjoy, like Blue Shadow Virus, which gets far simply by how campy it is, or the arc with the Mortis gods. That felt really fresh. But moments like that are kind of getting lost with all the battle-heavy episodes that often feel unnecessarily low stakes or the countless episodes that are retreading dull details from the prequels to death. I also like Ventress a lot, but she's not in it enough. I'm going to finish the show, but I do hope there are improvements ahead.

 

[Flint Marko]

I don't know if I'll be able to see FF in theaters opening weekend due to a wedding which really bums me out, and even Superman is dubious if we can't get a babysitter.

Thoughts and prayers appreciated

 

[Lily Adler]

You know there is that one person being like, "but she was really good as Wonder Woman. You guys are just being sexist".

 

[Lily Adler]

Worst live action Disney remake villain? Jafar and Evil Queen are definite contenders.

 

[Drizzle]

Worst live action Disney remake villain? Jafar and Evil Queen are definite contenders.

I haven't seen Snow White yet but it's gotta be Gadot, right? Jafar was just boring.

 

[flickchick85]

Pedro Pascal, Peace Ambassador.

 

[Lily Adler]

Pedro Pascal, Peace Ambassador.

He also saw David's photos.