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REVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 4 “The Nexus Event”
“The Nexus Event” is one of the most glaring examples of manufactured storytelling I can recall. Plot and character developments are so forced as to be misnomers, with each new point inserted at the whim of the “creatives” because they want the show to be something they know it can’t offic...
Read MoreDisney and Marvel Edit Wandavision Months After Its Release
Lyndon Hall | Jun 28, 2021 | 0
Disney and Marvel’s WandaVision series has been available to watch for several months now, and a Twitter post by yelenabelova_ revealed the company had made some alterations to the final scene of the show. uhh what happened to the wandavision post credits scene pic.twitter.com/Bwgenlbsls &md...
Read MoreREVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 3 “Lamentis”
With “Lamentis,” Loki takes on another of the characteristics of its eponymous trickster and shapeshifts, becoming a buddy cop action-comedy without breaking stride. The story and mythology behind the Time Variance Authority take a backseat (though an important piece of the puzzle does lock into...
Read MoreREVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 2 “The Variant”
The tragedy of “The Variant” may be that a lot of potential viewers won’t check it out after sitting through the glacially-paced “Glorious Purpose.” That would be a shame because, in its second episode, Loki becomes considerably more interesting, hinting at a much smarter story lurking ben...
Read MoreIs Kevin Feige’s Development of the MCU a Myth?
Spike | Jun 10, 2021 | 1
The phrase “Captain Marvel is the most powerful character in the MCU” was a popular Kevin Feige quote from an interview with Vulture to promote that character’s already controversial film. These types of statements are dumb since a character’s diegetic power levels are irrele...
Read MoreREVIEW: Loki – Season 1, Episode 1 “Glorious Purpose”
Loki was supposed to be my reward for sitting through The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. After a series of lectures about race and borders and how terrorists who gleefully kill innocent people are the real heroes, the God of Mischief was set to bring back the fun that had been sucked out of the &hel...
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