Everything bad is totally their fault, everything good is good somehow despite them. It's science. I call it the Kathleen Kennedy Paradox.
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Yep. Disney did good by that show. Then they fired the guy who made it good, so of course I now worry about the quality for future seasons.
Somehow good despite them.
Kennedy doesn't have anything to do with the MCU. Feige is the one in charge of the MCU! .Clearly the shows and movies are only good when they listen to us fans on the internet. Which is how it should be.
I've got to disagree, I love that the show is going to be expanding on Wakanda's history.
Fuck that shit, now is the time to sack up and make these movies more political than ever.
Then it's a good thing Marvel Studios is making them movies and not Disney. Yes technically Marvel is owned by Disney, but the movies are being made by the team from Marvel Studios, not Disney.
As for the new X-Men cast being "youthful" I don't really see that as meaning the dialogue is all going to be in the kind of slang you guys are talking about, there are plenty of movies with younger casts where the characters don't talk like that. I think most of the people making them are experienced enough, and smart enough to know that filling the movie with that kind dialogue is going to do nothing but alienate a large portion of their audience, and will not age well.
Considering the comics are pushing Logan/Storm really hard now, I wouldn't be surprised if the films finally moved past the whole Jean Grey love triangle at last.
What happened to her marriage with T'Challa? (I'm a few years behind in Marvel news.)
I feel like Xavier opening his school will be the end of the next phase of the MCU. The phase after that will be about the mutants now creating the first X-Men official team. I think they might save Wolverine until then as well. Wolverine will mostly not be seen in this first phase. Though maybe they will drop a few teases for his return. We might get X-23 but much like with the female Silver Surfer whose name I can't recall she will be a placeholder for the arrival of Logan just like the SF in "Fantastic Four" is a placeholder for Norrin Radd.
The only reason the triangle existed to begin with was because of Chris Claremont's pettiness and then the 90s cartoons horrible portrayal of Cyclops and Jean.
How do you get "pettiness"? I always felt he was trying to inject some drama into Scott & Jean's rather boring dynamic.
He was angry that the Marvel Bosses interfered with his terrible idea to pair Cyclops up with a random woman who looked like Jean, was coincidentally in an accident the day Jean died and suffered an injury that took away all her memories so she couldn't remember her life before the day Jean died, and acted just like Jean.
So he decided to create a love triangle so that Scott and Jean wouldn't know peace.
Madelyn? Wasn't Jean dead when Scott got together with her? I think Byrne bringing Jean back was what upended the Scotty and Maddy romance
Yes, Madelyn Pryor. Her whole character was ridiculously contrived and shouldn't have existed to begin with.
If Claremont wanted to retire Scott, he should've just had him get back with Lee Forrester and they sail away together.
More likely - "Money is Money, and I have fun on the set working with people I like..."
I haven't read those comics, but I've read about them since I've come across storylines dealing with it's aftermath, and that whole thing sounded kind of bonkers. But yeah, I'm pretty sure Jean was dead at the time he Madelyn, which makes me wonder if at one point she was going to be a reincarnation or clone of Jean or something like that, before they just brought the original Jean back.
Actually I just checked Wikipedia and she is clone of Jean. Was that always the intent or was it a later retcon.
Oh, and the article also said that Claremont's original intent was for Scott to retire and live was Madelyn, and he was pissed when they brought Jean back and made Madelyn a bad guy.
The actual stupidity was in letting a different creative team entirely craft stories that would have such an impact on the X-Men line without coordination.
That hasn't been a thing for over a decade.
After Avengers vs X-Men, which saw Wakanda devastated by a Phoenix powered Namor, T'Challa had the marriage annulled (mutants were persona non grata in Wakanda).
More recently, the Coates run rekindled the romantic relationship between Ororo and T'Challa, but it has since lapsed.
'Ro is currently bedding Logan, and was most recently quite disappointed to learn that she was not, in fact, pregnant with his child.