Reading and (mosty) watching roundup: The Expanse (finally), Owl House, What If...
I've been slacking on my reading lately, partly because said reading wasn't gripping me, partly because I've been watching TV and scrolling Yuletide-related posts instead, but I did finish one (1) book, and should post about the other media consumptions stuff, too, so :P
42. James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse book 1) -- Huh. I've been ( Read more... )
42. James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse book 1) -- Huh. I've been ( Read more... )
Second, I'd like to get more specific about how my being a comic book fan first affected my viewing of 3 and 5:
Episode 3 (Avengers that weren't) ... Hank Pym as the hidden villain is neat, but him offing the Avengers to make Fury hurt was neither terribly believable to me nor terribly interesting.
I loved Hank Pym being that insane because to me it's the closest any part of the MCU has come to portraying Hank Pym as being capable of being that homicidally batshit insane. I've never been fond of Tony Stark, but I will always resent the MCU making Ultron his bad idea rather than Hank Pym's. In the comic books, Hank Pym can be every bit that fucked up, and I loved seeing the MCU show at least one homicidally insane Hank Pym.
Episode 5 (zombies) -- eh, I just don't care for ( ... )
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I've picked up enough about comics fandom by osmosis/reading fic with 616/other comics canon by my favorite MCU authors that I was not surprised to see a much darker version of Hank Pym, and I've heard about Marvel zombies from YouTube I think, but of course just knowing about a thing and being a fan of it leads to different levels of appreciation. Glad to see that it looks like a lot of episodes really worked for you!
(Also, lol, I kind of love that "zom-com" is a thing. Not MY thing, by a thing -- that's still kind of awesome.
Ooh, and I either did not realize or had forgotten that you are also a B5 fan -- cool! :D
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I thought I remembered you like to get a comic book fan's take on MCU things. It's why I jumped in with how I've been taking MCU What If....
...of course just knowing about a thing and being a fan of it leads to different levels of appreciation.
Exactly! I understand how episodes 3 and 5 didn't work for you like they did for me. I just wanted to share how my being a comic book fan made a difference.
Glad to see that it looks like a lot of episodes really worked for you!Yeah, I'm surprised how strongly I reacted to 3 and 4 especially. I mean I can be somewhat detached watching MCU stuff because it isn't the comics. I didn't much care for the first episode, even after I realized why that version of Bucky felt so weird. I mainly enjoyed the second because I thought it was a great tribute to Chadwick Boseman. Three and four really got me in the feels. Clint/Hawkeye and Stephen/Doctor Strange have been favorites of mine since I was a kid. I think, even though ( ... )
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(For example, I did not realize Stephen had a canonical love interest who wasn't Christine.)
re: your B5 facts -- awesome! I love Garibaldi -- he is my favorite human character (Londo and G'Kar are my favorites overall) -- and of course I love Marcus Cole, too, but I feel like that almost goes without saying.
The White Star is really lovely! I also love the look of the Vorlon ships -- they're so organic-looking!
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Oooh yeah, I mean I understand the MCU not introducing her when it treated Dormammu and the Dark Dimension the way it did in Stephen's first movie, but Clea was introduced in 1964, and Stephen and she finally got married in 1999. I'd be just as annoyed by the MCU's ignoring her as I am by the MCU's crap treatment of Sharon Carter if I didn't understand how they've been trying to make "magic" more science-fictiony than, you know, just magic. Clea is from the Dark Dimension and sometimes its ruler.
re: your B5 facts -- awesome!
Sounds like we enjoyed the same elements of the original series. ;-)
...Londo and G'Kar are my favorites overall...
Nothing like that "old married couple" back and forth.
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Nothing like that "old married couple" back and forth.
Yep! I love their individual arcs a lot, and the way they complement each other.
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