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Random thoughts:--LOVE the animation style and quality.--I miss Steve Rogers. However, if Chris Evans is hell bent on personally letting me down, I would not object is Marvel uses the multiverse stuff to make Captain Carter part of the main series to fight alongside Sam.--Hydras base being the Disney castle was great.--When they had the heroine fighting a tentacle monster in a cartoon, I was thinking careful marvel, this isn't hentai.--I really hope folks give this a chance since it is animated.--Waaaaaaay back when, young Chris and his friend were talking about how the shield was lame as compared to Wolvie's claws. Boy were we wrong.
--Im going to say something unpopular, but I am not the biggest Guardians fan. I liked them well enough in the first movie, but they have worn out their welcome with me so this episode didn't resonate as much with me
I feel kind of the same way... I found GotG2 mostly disappointing, and I'm Peter Quill gets on my nerves pretty quickly - but because of that I had the opposite reaction to this episode, I loved it. I was really tickled by T'Challa being so much better at being Star Lord that he completely pre-empted Thanos's whole plan, and turned the Ravagers into ACTUAL guardians of the galaxy. While Peter Quill... worked at DQ. Loved it!
--Where the [multiple very, very bad words, not for polite company] was this kind of cartoon when I was a kid? I demand a refund/do over on my childhood!
I think the Guardians of the Galaxy is very much a 'James Gunn'-esque thing. I'm not a huge fan of most of the comic storylines, but I think Gunn has a very particular way of handling "misfit ensemble cast that is part devious/part good but also with a heart" that I think is incredibly hard for other to nail down. I honestly don't know how much input he had with INFINITY WAR as far as writing dialogue for the characters. Remember, after GotG vol. 1/AGE OF ULTRON Gunn was tasked with overseeing all of the MCU films culminating w/the end of the Infinity saga/Avengers movies. He gave input on a lot of aspects of other movies, but I don't know specifically what/how much and/or what involvement he had with the last two AVENGERS films. While he was fired a few months after INFINITY WAR, and they did tweak a bit of ENDGAME after he was fired, he obviously could have still had a hand in INFINITY WAR. That being said, I'm not a huge Chris Pratt fan: I think he works MUCH better as part of an ensemble (see "Parks and Recreation," ZERO DARK THIRTY) where he doesn't have to carry large chunks of a film as the "jocular goofy guy." I think Pratt carried the load for GotG vol. 2 well in a more dramatic arc revolving his dad, but he did kind of get on my nerves at times during INFINITY WAR. But again, I think Gunn handles those characters better than anyone, which is why NO ONE was willing to take the directing gig of GUARDIANS vol. 3 (I heard a rumor from a "friend of a friend" who said Marvel tweaked the ending of ENDGAME to have Thor fly off with the Guardians in order to hopefully sway Taika Waititi into crafting an 'Asguardians of the Galaxy' Thor/Guards mashup sequel, but Waititi still turned it down).SERIOUSLY! In hindsight, being (mostly) a kid of the 1980's, so many animated series I grew up with were little more than 22 minute commercials, with incredibly mediocre (at best) animation. I dug Transformers, GI Joe, He-man, old school Spider-man, M.A.S.K, and so many other short-lived series that were basically commercials w/crappy production values quickly churned out to sell product. A lot of that stuff is hard to revisit nowadays. Heck, I tried to get my seven year old into "Super Friends" on HBO Max (since they don't seem to have "Teen Titans Go!" streaming), and those 45-minute long episodes felt like hours and hours of garbage! Like, I _LOVED_ that series growing up, and for its time it was what it was. But yeah: my youngest kid, and even my 19 year old, will never fully realize how lucky they are to be kids in these times!When I realize my 19 year old was 6 when I took him to see IRON MAN in theaters opening weekend, I have to just smile at how fortuitous they were to grow up in the Age of Marvel. Heck, ENDGAME and RISE OF SKYWALKER, ending the Skywalker SW saga (supposedly), and the Infinity Saga, came out when they were graduating high school (ENDGAME the summer before, SKYWALKER their senior year)! Kind of a fun, symbolic way of thinking of the 'end of their childhood' being the "end of Stark & Steve Rogers' Avengers run + the end of the Skywalker saga.
I feel kind of the same way... I found GotG2 mostly disappointing, and Peter Quill gets on my nerves pretty quickly - but because of that I had the opposite reaction to this episode, I loved it. I was really tickled by T'Challa being so much better at being Star Lord that he completely pre-empted Thanos's whole plan, and turned the Ravagers into ACTUAL guardians of the galaxy. While Peter Quill... worked at DQ. Loved it!
Ok, who raises the volume on the Marvel fanfare intro at the beginning of each of these episodes? *raises hand*
General remarks x3:--Its a little awkward seeing Black Widow in the show given the current lawsuit. Its like my parents are fighting.--That being said, her speed Indiana Jones punches are cool.--Dood. Retrocasting Ruffalo in Hulk. More awkward. Mom and dad are still fighting...--Hulk went Akira.