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Spoilers Marvel Cinematic Universe spoiler-heavy speculation thread
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I always wonder about this sort of thing. Do the younger family members actors do this for actually want it? When I was a kid, my parents would have been the last thing I wanted to see popping up in something I loved. Frankly, I would have been a bit embarrassed by it.
I can't quite parse this, what was so insulting about Sarandon doing this?
I could see a lot of kids being happy to be able to brag that their relative was in a comic book movie.
I would be happy to see either or both of them in Shang Chi.
As an older guy out of touch with the current comics scene I just can't picture Shang Chi in the house MCU style and not some funky 70s setting.
Yay! Keiko!
(I swear, half my reason for wanting to see Mulan is just for my Rosalind Chao crush. Is that anyone else or just me?)
You know, when I was young, there were only a few prominent Asian-American actors in the film/TV industry, so the same ones got used in everything, and Rosalind Chao was one of those ubiquitous few.
Today, there's a marginally greater number of prominent Asian-American actors in the industry, though not nearly enough, so the same ones still get used in practically everything, and it seems that Rosalind Chao is still one of them.
Today, there's a marginally greater number of prominent Asian-American actors in the industry, though not nearly enough, so the same ones still get used in practically everything, and it seems that Rosalind Chao is still one of them.
It still blows my mind that was her in MASH.
Heck, that was one of the first roles I knew her for. Looking over her filmography, I probably saw her in several bit parts before then but would've noticed her first in her Amazing Spider-Man 2-parter appearance, then her recurring role on Diff'rent Strokes, then Soon-Lee from MASH and AfterMASH (I'm amazed she was in only 2 episodes of the former), then various other things. And, oh, she was even in the Chinatown episode of Beauty and the Beast, which also had Keye Luke and fully eight cast members from Big Trouble in Little China (even repeating the dynamic of good guys Dennis Dun and Victor Wong vs. bad guy James Hong).
Two episodes, true, but the finale was the equivalent of four episodes (although granted she probably doesn't appear in all four quarters). Nonetheless, it does demonstrate the level of impact her appearance had on the show and Klinger in particular.
Five, actually. It ran two and a half hours with commercials. It was originally going to be 90 minutes, then 2 hours, but there was a big fire at the ranch where they shot the camp exteriors, so rather than rebuild the set, they wrote the fire into the episode, which required expanding it even further. I didn't know that was the reason until I looked it up just now, but I've always remembered it was 2 1/2 hours, because that was even longer than the usual TV movie length, extraordinary for the finale of a half-hour sitcom.
But it's ironic to realize that the majority of her appearances as Soon-Lee were in the sequel series AfterMASH that nobody remembers today (though I watched it regularly).
Ah, that's right. I keep forgetting about commercials. I don't think I've watched that episode with commercials in more than 20 years so I forgot about that little bit. 
But far point about AfterMASH. I still haven't watched any of those episodes.
But far point about AfterMASH. I still haven't watched any of those episodes.
When I first saw her on Star Trek it was the first thing I said. That's the woman from MASH!
Ah, that's right. I keep forgetting about commercials. I don't think I've watched that episode with commercials in more than 20 years so I forgot about that little bit.
But far point about AfterMASH. I still haven't watched any of those episodes.
It has been years since I have seen AfterMASH but the premise about dealing with PTSD and the suffering of vets returning to society was ahead of its time.
As an off topic aside relating to M*A*S*H and its spin-offs, I only recently became aware that there was a pilot made featuring Gary Burghoff as Radar entitled W*A*L*T*E*R.
They didn't pick up the show but they aired the pilot, which makes it canon.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W*A*L*T*E*R
I will have to track this down one day.
They didn't pick up the show but they aired the pilot, which makes it canon.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W*A*L*T*E*R
I will have to track this down one day.
^ It's on Youtube if you ever want to see it
It might be weird or disappointing, but that's hardly insulting.
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AfterM*A*S*H* is too. I've been meaning to check out at least one or two episodes on there, but I haven't yet. I'm to young to have watched M*A*S*H* when it originally aired, but I've watched the whole series more times than I can count on channels like FX and MeTV. I've never seen a single episode of AfterM*A*S*H*, but I am curious about it.
They did the same thing in the Simpsons getting Elizabeth Taylor to do one line as Maggie. No one complained.