Semper's Stupendous to Infinity and Beyond Everything Marvel Movie/TV Thread (6 Viewers)

[GeauxWhoDats]

So, it just popped into my head that maybe they are casting him as Professor X in future X-Men movies?

I know they are supposed to be re-booting the X-Men in the near future, but none of the details are out. It would make sense is that was to be kept secret. I'd imagine there would be a huge nerd cry if he is cast as Professor X. But, I'm sure he could pull off the role perfectly.

If Pete Holmes isn't cast as Prof X we riot.

 

[DaveXA]

They’re still doing Secret Wars even though everyone thought Secret Invasion sucked? Isn’t Invasion supposed to be the setup for Wars?

I didn't think Secret Invasion sucked. It was just ok as a Marvel/Disney series. I enjoyed a good bit of it and has it's moments. I'm hoping they'll do something good with Secret Wars. We'll see I suppose.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

If Pete Holmes isn't cast as Prof X we riot.

Sebastian Shaw - mind control is the only thing that makes sense

 

[GeauxWhoDats]

I didn't think Secret Invasion sucked. It was just ok as a Marvel/Disney series. I enjoyed a good bit of it and has it's moments. I'm hoping they'll do something good with Secret Wars. We'll see I suppose.

The last episode of Secret Invasion sucked so bad that it was sponsored by Hoover. The last episode was enough to make the rest of the series sucked. It was more egregious than the last 2 seasons of GOT.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I didn't think Secret Invasion sucked. It was just ok as a Marvel/Disney series. I enjoyed a good bit of it and has it's moments. I'm hoping they'll do something good with Secret Wars. We'll see I suppose.

Outside of losing Chadwick, the collision of Secret Invasion and The Marvels is/was the biggest reason for Marvel to pivot and slowdown
Feige wasn’t able to oversee both and both suffered from lack of vision and connectivity

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

The last episode of Secret Invasion sucked so bad that it was sponsored by Hoover. The last episode was enough to make the rest of the series sucked. It was more egregious than the last 2 seasons of GOT.

Gotta agree with this

 

[GeauxWhoDats]

Gotta agree with this

I took a screenshot for historical records.

 

[St. Widge]

Or Dazzler

Actually with the ropes he’s been playing lately a Trask or President Kelly would fit like a glove

I'm not up on all the possible roles from the comic universe. I guess I just see it as time that Esposito stepped into a bigger role than he has been playing and I guess I just like the idea of him as Professor X. Plus, he always seems to play the villain or anti-hero, might be interesting to see him play the good guy.

 

[DaveXA]

The last episode of Secret Invasion sucked so bad that it was sponsored by Hoover. The last episode was enough to make the rest of the series sucked. It was more egregious than the last 2 seasons of GOT.

I don't disagree with the last episode being terrible, but it doesn't ruin the whole series for me, in the same way, the last 2 seasons of GOT doesn't ruin the first 6 seasons for me.

I really liked and enjoyed SI until that last episode, so I'm not gonna say the series was terrible based on one episode, even if it was the last one.

 

[DaveXA]

Outside of losing Chadwick, the collision of Secret Invasion and The Marvels is/was the biggest reason for Marvel to pivot and slowdown
Feige wasn’t able to oversee both and both suffered from lack of vision and connectivity

Chadwick no doubt left a huge impact on the plans for Feige, but the problems they've had post Endgame were much deeper and were well beyond Boseman. Put it this way, post Endgame would still have the same issues even if Chadwick were still around.

And fwiw, I know this has been talked about at length, but the issues are less about lack of vision and connectivity and more because they never really recovered from all of the changes in their staff, directors, and overall drop in production value.

I'm not saying lack of vision and connectivity doesn't have anything to do with it, but there's a lot more to it than that. It's less connectivity and more just doing too much in too short a period of time. The need to slow down and bump up quality has been ongoing for a while now.

 

[Sun Wukong]

So, it just popped into my head that maybe they are casting him as Professor X in future X-Men movies?

I know they are supposed to be re-booting the X-Men in the near future, but none of the details are out. It would make sense is that was to be kept secret. I'd imagine there would be a huge nerd cry if he is cast as Professor X. But, I'm sure he could pull off the role perfectly.

It's possible.

They just announced the writer for X-Men (Michael Lesslie) and still haven't announced a director, so it would be a little odd to be casting already. But they have done that kind of thing before (Mahershala Ali has been waiting for Blade to get out of development he'll for years), so it may be the case.

 

[Sailorsaint]

I'm probably in the minority with this but, I think the whole multiverse thing gave them to much to play with. They aren't constricted to a specific storyline anymore and they think they need to expand instead of adhering to one. Everything fit together in the first phases and even though we weren't sure what was going to happen, we could come close to guessing. They are all over the place now and I really have no interest in what is going to happen next.

 

[Sun Wukong]

I'm probably in the minority with this but, I think the whole multiverse thing gave them to much to play with. They aren't constricted to a specific storyline anymore and they think they need to expand instead of adhering to one. Everything fit together in the first phases and even though we weren't sure what was going to happen, we could come close to guessing. They are all over the place now and I really have no interest in what is going to happen next.

I've never been a huge fan of multiverse stories because I feel like they water down the stories and characters you've been following. They're fun in limited doses but when there's infinite variants of a character running around why am I supposed to care about the original over the others?

 

[St. Widge]

I'm probably in the minority with this but, I think the whole multiverse thing gave them to much to play with. They aren't constricted to a specific storyline anymore and they think they need to expand instead of adhering to one. Everything fit together in the first phases and even though we weren't sure what was going to happen, we could come close to guessing. They are all over the place now and I really have no interest in what is going to happen next.

Not sure you are in the minority, but I agree with you. I think it kind of worked in End Game and Spiderman. And Loki did it the best, but outside of that it has been pretty bad. Part of the problem is that if there is a multiverse, nothing that happens matters because there are universes where everything that happened didn't happen. There are just no real consequences to anything which hurts the drama and the tension IMO. That is unless there is a threat to the entire multiverse like in Loki. And there are no real triumphs because for every win that the heroes get, there are an infinite number of universes where they did not win. I mean, there are an infinite number of universes where Thanos won and if you buy into the concept of multiverses, despite what Dr. Strange said, there are an infinite number of universes where Thanos lost.

Although I think the saturation of content along with a reduction in the quality of writing and story telling are the bigger issues.

 

[DaveXA]

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Although I think the saturation of content along with a reduction in the quality of writing and story telling are the bigger issues.

Exactly this. The multiverse thing as a concept is fine used occasionally, and on its own isn't a bad concept, but relying on it too much to further the story stunts the story telling imo. I loved how it was used in Endgame, and it was fine in Loki. But doing it seemingly every series is a bit much.

They need to scale back a bit and focus on the OG MCU timeline.