Shout out to Sharon (Debra Jo Rupp) for just going along witt the ride.

“There are no new ways?”

I get the vibe this show might introduce a few.

Only the first (tomorrow) and last week are double episodes.

I know I prefer separate threads since during a rewatch it can be more fun to see what people think between episodes.

Well this community is happy to have you once you’re ready.

Weird question, can folks not see the pinned discussion thread?

https://lemmy.world/post/19632914

In short I’ll have threads for each episode.

Re discussion thread, I’ve had one pinned all week, https://lemmy.world/post/19632914

Yes? I’m forming my opinions based on reporting. You’re basing your opinions based on opinions.

Again I’m not saying you’re wrong. Look at the information Snowden revealed. Before the reveal it was conspiracy theory. Now it’s fact.

This reporting isn’t fact, it’s reporting in progress. At the moment it doesn’t find the always listening allegation to be true, but not impossible either.

It’s not trusting Big Tech, it’s understanding that Little Tech can also lie.

Cox Media Group wants to hype up their product and use AI buzzwords. To be seen as reliable they say that they work with Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc.

The report is basically CMG saying they can do X, and everyone else calling bullshit. (And in response CMG clarifying “No, we don’t actually do that” and then also removing the companies they don’t actually work with.)

It isn’t definitively saying they don’t, but also isn’t saying that they do. You can assume the worst if you like, but that doesn’t mean the worst is actually true.

Is it possible this type of spying exists? Yes. Is it possible this is a cover up? Yes. Do we have actual data to support that? No.

Tomorrow an investigation may reveal otherwise, but for now it doesn’t seem to be the case.

This looks messy, but I said the same about the first trailer and that movie turned out ok.

Also, will we get an odd MCU tie-in? Secret Was setup?

I don’t think it brings her back fully. At most we get a similar scene to Wanda seeing herself as the Scarlett Witch. It will confirm she is alive, but finding her will be the next challenge.

I don’t think she was done dirty, the film just failed to explain the Darkhold properly. I think we only get 1 quick line from Strange that it took her over/misguided her.

Luckily they can easily retcon in more details.

In some ways the Board being the same is a good thing, since it means they remember that they can’t try to pull this shit again.

Of course it also means they had (or supported) the stupid idea, so they’ll probably try to pull something similar again.

Really no matter what it means keep an extra eye on Unity. When it comes time to evaluate engines this incident should always show up on the con side.

Black is just playing his character from Tropic Thunder.

I just hope whatever happens comes with a great theme song, like Agatha All Along got.

Conceptually I agree with you. However it was easily my favorite film of the year.

My hope was that Avengers was Shang-Chi focused. While working on Avengers it became too Shang-Chi focused so they said, let’s just make this movie Shang-Chi 2, then we can have a more even Avengers.

Of course with this news…

But maybe they can weave him back in?

I’ll give you the drop in quality, I think the quick churn has resulted in lower quality films and TV shows.

However the multiverse? Alternate universes? Time travel? Despite the name this phase has barely touched on it.

Let’s start with the films,

• Black Widow? No multiverse, just a story that took place in the past.
• Shang-Chi? No multiverse. Maybe a cliffhanger for one, but could just be space stuff.
• Eternals? No multiverse. Just space stuff.
• Spider-Man No Way Home? Full multiverse. People love this film.
• Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness. Full multiverse. Again, people love this film.
• Thor Love and Thunder? No multiverse. Space and gods.
• Black Panther Wakanda Forever? No multiverse.
• Ant-Man Quantumania? Technically not multiverse, but full Kang so I’ll count it. Now we have a film with issues. But also, are we already prepping to ditch Kang at this point? Might explain the issues.
• Guardians Volume 3? Deals with Gamora, a little multiverse. But in general film is well liked, Gamora isn’t ever the issue.
• The Marvels? No multiverse during the film, but ends with a setup for one. People are excited for mutants anyway.
• Deadpool? Full multiverse. Again, loved.

So out of 11 films we have 4 Multiverse films, and apart from Ant-Man we’re all big fans of them. It you want to argue Doctor Strange also has issues, fine, but it still comes out to a decent enough film.

Now let’s look at TV,

• WandaVision? Not multiverse. It does tease us as an audience about it and the post credits will eventually lead into the multiverse, but hard to call this one of them. Plus, well loved.
• Falcon & Winter Soldier? No multiverse.
• Loki? Both seasons. Full multiverse. I really enjoyed this. I’ve heard some folks didn’t. Again we’re walking past Kang issues by season 2, so difficult to say if this went as intended.
• What If…? Both seasons. Full multiverse. Again I had fun. Some good episodes. Some weaker episodes. But also a show that exists outside of everything else.
• Hawkeye? No multiverse.
• Moon Knight? No multiverse.
• Ms. Marvel? A little multiverse,a little time travel. The issue here is that the villain/ending is rushed.
• She-Hulk? No multiverse.
• Werewolf by night? Not multiverse.
• Guardians Special? Not multiverse.
• Secret Invasion. Not multiverse. Hopefully someday not canon. Ouch, but the issue isn’t the multiverse.
• Echo? Not multiverse.
• X-men 97? Multiverse and a bunch of stuff. Generally well received.

13 shows, 11 if you want to exclude the specials, back up to 13 if you want to count season 2 of shows.

Less than half however you want to count it. What If… is a variety show, X-Men is a continuation. Loki is the real focus here since it has the Kang story. Ms Marvel is setting up Mutants.

So when we look at it all we have,

1. The Kang Arc, Loki season 1 sets up strongly for, Ant-Man is the first film for it and for some reason (Hint: Kang actor) finishes it, and then Loki season 2 confirms it.
2. Doctor Strange Arc, Spider-Man & Madness get him exploring, with a setup to do more (it’s odd to me we don’t have this next film yet either)
3. And to be generous, the Mutant Arc, which is really just the Ms. Marvel and Marvels setup.

We’ve barely touched on the multiverse. You can call them narrative cop outs, but they haven’t even done it. The issue isn’t the multiverse. The issue is the weak stories.

And we can’t just say that the multiverse doesn’t have good stories. Most of the MCU films that have multiverse in them are really enjoyable. Maybe we’re just tired of the multiverse? Not a chance. You know what film I’m looking forward to the most? Spider-Man Spider-verse! That’s a great story.

However, at this point, it’s clear Marvel is moving on from the Multiverse and into mutants. Honestly , that’s fine and probably for the best. I’m disappointed, not that we’re moving on, but that this era had such a bad run. Luckily the Disney CEO behind it is gone, so hopefully things will improve going forward.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/24/travel/spirit-airlines-6-year-old-wrong-flight/index.html

But also once you’re past security, which as I recall in the film where Kevin gets lost, he could definitely get on the wrong plane. Any sort of on flight check could easily be excused away with a new flight attendant or Kevin being covered by a cost or any other silly reason.

Anything I’m missing?

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle & Jumanji: Next Level could be described the same way, they made ~$900 million & ~$800 million respectively.

I use them as a reference because this looks like Jumanji: A Minecraft Movie.

Sure, Minecraft will have a higher CG budget, but Minecraft also has a HUGE built-in audience. So they’ll be making plenty of money.

But also, those Jumanji movies were fine. You know the Sonic movies? They are silly, but ultimately fine.

Yes but PROVE IT. Define what wrong they did. That’s my point.

Take a look at the recent monopoly trial, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/technology/google-antitrust-ruling.html

They claim that spending $18 billion per year to be the default search engine makes them monopolistic. That’s it? That’s all they got?

So the result will be Google stops paying $18 billion and device/browser manufacturers have to put up a Browser Choice dot EU type option.

Go back 10 years and put that law in place. AFAIK Apple has always defaulted to Google. Samsung probably would have sold out to Bing to be the default (although in this case Bing wouldn’t reach a monopoly, so I guess that’s ok for some reason).

I’m not saying paying to be the default didn’t help, but is that the reason they have 90% of the searches? No.

Did they do some else? Maybe. Someone should prove it and we can have an actual change.