Post by ayanami on Sept 30, 2017 21:50:03 GMT
Instead of writing a full-fledged review, I'll gather some bullet points regarding the first two episodes.
- Is it bad that I'm thoroughly rooting for Maximus? Sure, his methods are questionable, but his goal of freeing the Attilans is more than justified.
- Attilan's society sucks and most Inhumans there seem to be a bunch of racist f*cktards. Hence my point above.
- Five cop cars show up for a shoplifter? Seriously?
- You'd think that even a king would understand the concept of currency.
- The clowns in the wardrobe department deserve to be fired and never work in that field again. Same goes for the set designers. As a matter of fact, I'm currently re-watching a twenty years old kids show that can best be summed up as "Power Rangers in the middle ages" and even they had better sets and costumes!
- Actually, add the stunt choreographers to that list. The "action scenes" (yes, I'm using quotation marks here, because I have trouble calling them that) are the most atrocious thing in any Marvel property ever!
- Given their frequent use of their smart watches, you'd think that Black Bolt and Medusa would have learned Morse code by now. Or maybe just a simple "one tap for 'yes', twice for 'no'" or something.
- Was Black Bold actually surprised by that one guy taking pictures of him with his smart phone? Seriously, where has that guy been, on the moon?
- Could that scientist chick be any more cliché? I'm having "Not Another Teen Movie" flackbacks right now: "No, not Janey Briggs! She's got glasses. And a ponytail." - Well, good thing the scientist doesn't have paint on her overall. Phew!! Then she really would have been hopeless!
- Speaking of the scientist. Sure, this is a universe where Iron Man exists, The Vision, The Hulk, Thor, Asgard, the Chitauri, etc., but there's NO WAY that something travelled from the moon to earth, right?!? Especially not from the same area where our robots keep getting mysteriously destroyed. Now that's just insane. Better suspend whoever came up with this theory!
Yeah, sorry, this might have worked in some random sci-fi movie (and even here it would be a terrible cliché), but in the MCU it's just ridiculous.
- Nice to see AoS acknowledged FOR ONCE btw.
- The intro scene was horribly lame imo. Hot chick running scared... weird green dude shows up... "Hey, we're the same." - "Whaaat? No way, you're green!" - "Doesn't matter, still the same." - "Okay, so what are we?" - "Inhumans." - "Hmm, sounds weird, but I'll bite." - "Don't worry, I can bring you to a place where we're all like you, all Inhumans." - "For real? I thought Afterlife had been destroyed!" - "No, not to those posers! I'll take you to the real deal! The rock city of Attilan. It's on the moon!*
Well, that's how I remember it. More or less. Either way, I thought it was a weird way of introducing the concept. They should have started right on the moon, maybe with some conversation and then the revelation that we're on the moon, with earth in the sky. Or something. At least fix the boring dialogue, for god's sake!
- Is it bad that I'm thoroughly rooting for Maximus? Sure, his methods are questionable, but his goal of freeing the Attilans is more than justified.
- Attilan's society sucks and most Inhumans there seem to be a bunch of racist f*cktards. Hence my point above.
- Five cop cars show up for a shoplifter? Seriously?
- You'd think that even a king would understand the concept of currency.
- The clowns in the wardrobe department deserve to be fired and never work in that field again. Same goes for the set designers. As a matter of fact, I'm currently re-watching a twenty years old kids show that can best be summed up as "Power Rangers in the middle ages" and even they had better sets and costumes!
- Actually, add the stunt choreographers to that list. The "action scenes" (yes, I'm using quotation marks here, because I have trouble calling them that) are the most atrocious thing in any Marvel property ever!
- Given their frequent use of their smart watches, you'd think that Black Bolt and Medusa would have learned Morse code by now. Or maybe just a simple "one tap for 'yes', twice for 'no'" or something.
- Was Black Bold actually surprised by that one guy taking pictures of him with his smart phone? Seriously, where has that guy been, on the moon?
- Could that scientist chick be any more cliché? I'm having "Not Another Teen Movie" flackbacks right now: "No, not Janey Briggs! She's got glasses. And a ponytail." - Well, good thing the scientist doesn't have paint on her overall. Phew!! Then she really would have been hopeless!
- Speaking of the scientist. Sure, this is a universe where Iron Man exists, The Vision, The Hulk, Thor, Asgard, the Chitauri, etc., but there's NO WAY that something travelled from the moon to earth, right?!? Especially not from the same area where our robots keep getting mysteriously destroyed. Now that's just insane. Better suspend whoever came up with this theory!
Yeah, sorry, this might have worked in some random sci-fi movie (and even here it would be a terrible cliché), but in the MCU it's just ridiculous.- Nice to see AoS acknowledged FOR ONCE btw.
- The intro scene was horribly lame imo. Hot chick running scared... weird green dude shows up... "Hey, we're the same." - "Whaaat? No way, you're green!" - "Doesn't matter, still the same." - "Okay, so what are we?" - "Inhumans." - "Hmm, sounds weird, but I'll bite." - "Don't worry, I can bring you to a place where we're all like you, all Inhumans." - "For real? I thought Afterlife had been destroyed!" - "No, not to those posers! I'll take you to the real deal! The rock city of Attilan. It's on the moon!*
Terms and conditions may apply. Which means if we don't deem your mutation cool enough, you'll spend the rest of your days working in the mines. But, hey, at least you won't get to become a SHIELD asset or something![spoilers]"
Well, that's how I remember it. More or less.
Either way, I thought it was a weird way of introducing the concept. They should have started right on the moon, maybe with some conversation and then the revelation that we're on the moon, with earth in the sky. Or something. At least fix the boring dialogue, for god's sake!
I'll be spending next weekend with some family I like and trying to avoid any remotely controversial conversations with others that I spend the rest of the year avoiding 