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Topic subjectRE: Half the season in the books...this is barely holding my attention.
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741521, RE: Half the season in the books...this is barely holding my attention.
Posted by Mgmt, Sun Jun-27-21 12:30 PM
Same here

>The material seems thinner than the other recent Marvel
>stuff. Maybe it's the long winded dialogue but it feels like
>they're trying hard to stretch out a season by using filler.
>
>
>It feels like they maybe had a start and a destination in mind
>but they don't really have a lot of substance to flesh out 6
>hour-long episodes.
>
>A lot of the other players seem like superficial caricatures
>too. Just there to move things along with no real weightiness
>to them. Even the Sylvie/Loki chick just seems kinda one-note
>and basic.
>
>Even Loki himself just seems less interesting, compelling, and
>dynamic than he was in the major films. I feel like the other
>Marvel shows actually enhanced a lot of those characters and
>made me care about people I previously wasn't even eager to
>delve into.
>
>They need to get Owen Wilson back on screen ASAP because, to
>me, he's got the whole cast on his back.
>
>IDK man, there was so much more "meat" to Wandavision and
>Falcon/Winter Soldier.
>
>Hopefully, we start getting a good payoff or two on the back
>9.
>
>Regardless, this shit LOOKS good as hell.