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  On 12/5/2021 at 8:28 AM, Mr. Vee said:

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This Kate has grown on me. I do miss the whole vibe from the comics about what a loser Clint is, though. Of course they had 50 years of him in continuity before noticing that unlike the MCU which went a whole other direction.

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As to the hidden contents: agreed.  The in-story name alone confirms it.  That said El Aguila was a very interesting guess, and Marvel has already had characters that are created by flip-flopping comic details around.  I'd not put it past them to create a hybrid character.

 

I like Kate, let me be clear on that up front.  But I don't like mouth-running characters, nor hyper-impulsive characters whom the writers let bend the universe to their solitary will to accomplish what they want.  Kate has both of these traits in measure.  I want to see growth on her part.  Let some of that caution, quietness, and world-weariness that Clint holds settle upon her.  It need not, and should not, be the full burden.  Just enough to get her to quiet down and think before leaping.  In exchange, her youthful enthusiasm can rub off on Clint, restoring some of his zest that he lost due to repeated emotional traumas.

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Kate is pretty much comics Kate minus her young avengers seasoning.

 

So I think they did her pretty well.

 

She kind of has to do double duty quips though, since MCU Clint isnt quipy which differs from his main continuity counterpart.

 

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  On 12/5/2021 at 9:26 PM, Haijinx said:

She kind of has to do double duty quips though, since MCU Clint isnt quipy which differs from his main continuity counterpart.

 

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Ironic since MCU Clint has one of the best quips in the MCU with his "no one would know" comments regarding Quicksilver's peskiness.

 

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Nice featurette showed up on Insta and YouTube about how they cast Maya/Echo:

 

Spoilery stuff ahead:

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  On 12/6/2021 at 11:22 PM, Techwright said:

MCU Clint isnt quipy which differs from his main continuity counterpart.

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True enough, since deadpan humour and an array of pained/hangdog facial expressions suits Renner down to the ground.

 

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So, new Hawkeye ep dropped today:

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Episode 4 had a moment that felt very real for me . . . an odd experience, given the rest of the content.  The original lived experience was already kind of surreal, honestly, so seeing it play out on the screen like that gave me a very uncomfortable sense of nostalgia.

I am now emotionally invested in this series.

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  On 12/9/2021 at 5:41 PM, ZacKing said:

The Black Widow movie was a stinker IMO.

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One thing this series gets right, that the Widow movie flubbed, is how beat up Clint gets even when he wins. By contrast, Natasha survived some ridiculous action scenes with barely a scratch. It made them feel less weighty.

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  On 12/9/2021 at 10:12 PM, Ulysses Dare said:

One thing this series gets right, that the Widow movie flubbed, is how beat up Clint gets even when he wins. By contrast, Natasha survived some ridiculous action scenes with barely a scratch. It made them feel less weighty.

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I suspect they're going for the Die Hard effect, but yes.  Clint has always been knocked for being the human in the Avengers (really? for being human?), but its exactly his humanity (injury, fear, depression, despair, desperate hope, family man) that makes him perhaps the most relatable Avenger.  He's the "everyman".  He's been through so much that I'm almost willing him to retire at the end of this, and enjoy his well-earned family life.

 

  On 12/8/2021 at 3:30 PM, ThaOGDreamWeaver said:

So, new Hawkeye ep dropped today:

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Now THAT is an interesting thought...

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  On 12/9/2021 at 5:41 PM, ZacKing said:

I agree and that's a good thing.  The Black Widow movie was a stinker IMO.

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I think it was fine but not great.  I mostly enjoyed it but have no reason to watch it again.  And it did not feel like an epic climax to her movie career.  It felt like a by the numbers action movie made to pad out a series.

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The Black Widow movie was... okay. On a par with recent Bond movies, No Time To Die aside (and no decent villains in any of 'em, dammit.)

And Flo Pugh kind of knocked everyone else offscreen.

 

But it didn't bring closure to Nat's story, or the pain that losing someone you're close to leaves behind - explored gently in Ep4.

Also, we may not have to get closure: another Nat (alter-Nat?) might take her place, as in the What If? series.

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Welp, things just got real.

If you need a little more detail than that...

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1 it's Christmas.

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Good episode!

 

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Sooo...about that Rolex...any ideas?

 

My thoughts:

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Watch

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Hiring

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  On 12/15/2021 at 11:59 PM, ArchVileTerror said:

Goddamnit, @ThaOGDreamWeaver!   I thought it was going to be an actual appearance, with dialogue and motion!  Not just some fuzzy photo on a cellphone.

Phooey.

(In all seriousness; very interested to see the next episode now!)

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ahhhaaaahhaa. Mine is an evil laugh.

But yes, definitely him, and did a small squee/air punch when VdO's name came up in the (very nifty Saul Bass-inspired) credit animations.

 

Speaking of Hitchcock...

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  On 12/18/2021 at 1:03 AM, DougGraves said:

Watch

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Your watch theory comment #2 is interesting.  I don't believe I've seen that from anyone else previously, but it would be fun to see that explored.

 

  On 12/18/2021 at 8:59 AM, ThaOGDreamWeaver said:

Speaking of Hitchcock...

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One thing the MCU does really, really, really well is planning ahead and putting in connections between planned series.  Really making it a connected universe instead of just characters that sometimes run into one another.  Much  better than the comics did.

 

So it is quite possible that analyzing Hawkeye without factoring in all of the upcoming stuff, possibly a decade of upcoming stuff, won't come to the right conclusions.

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Episode 6 dropped, and did you see those words on Disney +? 

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Not "Series Finale".  One can always hope.

 

Well, I'll get in the spoilery chat, but this was one fantastic Christmas...er...wrap! 

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Interesting Watch theory (from the perspective of a non-comic person), as after watching the last ep, that seems to fit.

 

As for the last villain,

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  On 12/24/2021 at 1:53 AM, Mr. Vee said:

I liked how the lighting 

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I'd actually not noticed that.  Went back just now to see for myself.  Very nice. 

 

One other thing I should have commented on before: what was found in the tree...

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