The main time travel quibble I have is Gamora and Nebula. Yes, I mean, that's one way for them to get Gamora back, and Nebula too, after a fashion...but then you lose all the character development they went through. And yup, my guess is that Thor is part of the Guardians now.
In a way, it makes sense, what with Asgard destroyed and Thor being a non-Terran like the Guardians. But really, I think it was done because a lot of people liked Ragnarok who disliked the other two movies, and Ragnarok was basically the Thorverse remixed as Guardians, so it makes sense from a marketing standpoint. And Helmsworth does seem to enjoy doing comedy. But I loved my Shakespearean and Dark World Thor, so it's a bit of a disappointment for me.
If nothing else, I imagine Nebula will be able to keep most (if not all) of those alpha males in check. But I take your point. (If only they could somehow resurrect Yondu and add him to the mix. Yondu-Thor interactions would be hysterical.)
I'm kind of glad for Cap and his happily ever after, but does that mean 'Civil War' doesn't happen (which could be a good thing) or... how does it work? I heard that the Russos said Cap went to another branch of the multiverse to be with Peggy, but that begs the question as to what happened to the original Cap in that branch. To say nothing of the fact that it seems a bit out of character for Cap, for all the reasons we keep going over.
Which brings me to gush about the fact that Hawkeye was in the film at all. I have a thing for minor characters. (Although I can see his devolution into a psychotic assassin going after the world's mobsters in retaliation for losing his family ... would the comeback from this dark place been so easy ... again really? Apparently he's getting his own show on Disney, so you'll potentially be seeing quite a lot of him! And I guess his psychotic assassin devolution is a nod to the Hawkeye Ronin comics, which I have not read and thus totally did not pick up on.
The Antman and Wasp films are fun, but I still prefer almost all the other movies to them. The first Thor, however, is fabulous. It suffers a bit for being too subtle for its own good--Branagh was having a bit of a laugh at audiences who go into "just a superhero movie" and see exactly as little as they expect. But watch it closely and you will be rewarded. :D
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Date: 2019-05-01 12:12 am (UTC)In a way, it makes sense, what with Asgard destroyed and Thor being a non-Terran like the Guardians. But really, I think it was done because a lot of people liked Ragnarok who disliked the other two movies, and Ragnarok was basically the Thorverse remixed as Guardians, so it makes sense from a marketing standpoint. And Helmsworth does seem to enjoy doing comedy. But I loved my Shakespearean and Dark World Thor, so it's a bit of a disappointment for me.
If nothing else, I imagine Nebula will be able to keep most (if not all) of those alpha males in check. But I take your point. (If only they could somehow resurrect Yondu and add him to the mix. Yondu-Thor interactions would be hysterical.)
I'm kind of glad for Cap and his happily ever after, but does that mean 'Civil War' doesn't happen (which could be a good thing) or... how does it work?
I heard that the Russos said Cap went to another branch of the multiverse to be with Peggy, but that begs the question as to what happened to the original Cap in that branch. To say nothing of the fact that it seems a bit out of character for Cap, for all the reasons we keep going over.
Which brings me to gush about the fact that Hawkeye was in the film at all. I have a thing for minor characters. (Although I can see his devolution into a psychotic assassin going after the world's mobsters in retaliation for losing his family ... would the comeback from this dark place been so easy ... again really?
Apparently he's getting his own show on Disney, so you'll potentially be seeing quite a lot of him! And I guess his psychotic assassin devolution is a nod to the Hawkeye Ronin comics, which I have not read and thus totally did not pick up on.
The Antman and Wasp films are fun, but I still prefer almost all the other movies to them. The first Thor, however, is fabulous. It suffers a bit for being too subtle for its own good--Branagh was having a bit of a laugh at audiences who go into "just a superhero movie" and see exactly as little as they expect. But watch it closely and you will be rewarded. :D