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6, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 27, and 28 tee hee! 😝💖

Thanks so much, @astarkey!! haha So many asks!! :D

6: What’s your biggest pet peeve when it comes to writing? TSTL characters!! Also like. Drawing out a story for the sake of selling more books when the story could’ve been wrapped up in half the amount of books...? That’s annoying too.

And also the whole concept of Word of God? Where the author/creator explains something confusing or vague because they either couldn’t or didn’t go into detail in the actual story? Not that I hate it necessarily. But like if it’s not included in the actual material, you can’t expect people to take it as canon. imo If this detail was so important to the story, it probably should’ve been IN the story, you feel me? lmao Like take FDTD for example. In season 1 we’re led to believe that Kate is 17. It basically comes from her own mouth. But sometime during the time skip into season 2, it was discovered on the show writer’s twitter that she’s 18 now. How tf were we supposed to know that otherwise??

Another pet peeve I’ve got is messy or vague worldbuilding. Take FDTD for example again. lol The culebras as a species do not have very cut and dry rules. Some of them can withstand sunlight to a degree, while others explode into dust in a few seconds of direct sunlight. They drink blood, but they also eat food? Is it just for enjoyment or sustenance or what?? And they can piss, but is that it for bodily functions?? Do they shit too?? lmfao They literally do not explain anything and it’s so annoying!! :P

10: What’s your favorite trope? Ummm right now it’s domestic fluff and family feels. :P

12: Which trope would you absolutely abolish? LOVE TRIANGLES. Also fridging female characters. This is why I loved the Netflix Daredevil and Punisher series!! They let Karen be important to the story (and not as a source of man pain)!! I know she actually dies in the comics or whatever. idk I don’t read comics. lol

14: Do you have a go-to AU? Umm... not really?? Like for reading it depends on what’s available. lol For writing, I always want to do zombies but I never actually do...? My most common au I’ve written has been like. Domestic fluff. :P

15: What kind of character do you wish you saw portrayed more often? Maybe like normal kid characters that aren’t cool little precocious smartasses? Why does every kid have to be some kind of genius? Maybe they’re just dumbass little kids because they haven’t actually learned anything yet?? lol I just watched Jojo Rabbit and it was so good for this reason, y’all!! And characters who get to be gentle and soft but still have moments of power and fearlessness (and who don’t get mf killed!!).

17: What’s more draining: writing smut, fluff or angst? ANGST OMFG. This is part of the reason why updates for culebra seth have taken me so long, ngl. I JUST WANNA GET TO THE FUN STUFF. lol Smut is still a challenge too though. Haven’t written any in a while...

18: Are you a ‘neatly designed outline’ writer or a ‘fuck it i’ll figure it out as i go’ writer? My outlines are messy af and so much of my stories remain undetermined. But I really try to make an outline and leave a little room for new ideas as I go along. I’m willing to scrap parts of the outline if that means the story works better in the end, even though that can be scary when you’re not sure where it’s going. I have to know the end though or I might lose motivation!!

21: Would you like to write an alternative ending for any of your favorite shows/books/etc? I mean... it’s not my favorite show tbh but I would give fdtd a proper ending. lol It needs one. But in general... no. Not my faves. If a book/show/etc is lucky enough to be considered my fave, that means I see nothing wrong with it and I’m happy with the way it ended. :P Sometimes crappy endings can change your feelings on the rest of an otherwise amazing story, but those don’t end up being my faves.

27: coffee shop AU or florist AU? Everyone does coffee shop aus. For this reason I would like to see more florist aus. Also because DJ was a florist in that show Windfall wasn’t he? lol WHY HAS NO ONE WRITTEN A SETHKATE FLORIST AU? or if they have I totally missed it. Although I definitely wouldn’t say no to more sethkate coffee shop aus.

28: stuck in an elevator AU or camping gone bad AU? haha Well the movie Prospect was basically camping gone bad. :P haha idk. I would be more inclined to read about my faves getting stuck in an elevator I guess.

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aion-rsa · 3 years

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Deadpool 3: The MCU Questions and Connections

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Deadpool is coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While the X-Men Cinematic Universe fizzled out as Disney bought out Fox, it doesn’t take a marketing genius to remember that Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson is a license to print money. Much like JK Simmons reprised his role as J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man: Far From Home, we’re once again going to see Reynolds as Deadpool because if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! And even if he was broken, Deadpool has the innate ability to fix hims—

Sorry, got lost there.

They aren’t just going to reintroduce the character like Jameson, though. We’re getting Deadpool 3 and it’s going to be rated R. This will be a sequel…but in a different continuity than its first two films. Interesting novelty.

Deadpool 3 is the ultimate wild card because we don’t really know how it’s going to really work. Just the idea of Deadpool 3 being part of MCU canon fills the room with elephants. So while we have a long time to wait on this, here are some questions that arise about Deadpool 3.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR CABLE?

We got one Thanos joke in Deadpool 2, but if Cable’s coming back, then expect even more references to Josh Brolin’s other big Marvel role.

Cable’s a tough nut to crack here. On one hand, he was such a major fixture in Deadpool 2 and it felt like a given that he’d be sticking around as Deadpool’s long-suffering gun buddy. He even chooses to stay in the present and save Deadpool because he feels he can fix the future by making a better world.

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But…what future? Cable’s future is null and void at this point. While Deadpool 2 didn’t go into canon connections, Cable’s father hasn’t even been established in the MCU. Not to mention the headaches that come from mixing and matching X-Men-style time travel and how it works in the MCU.

He’s too big a name to just ignore, but he’s also going to be a square peg in a round hole.

WILL X-FORCE BE CONSIDERED THE FIRST MUTANTS OF THE MCU?

Deadpool 3 doesn’t have a release date, but realistically, it can’t be showing up any earlier than 2023. We’re going to have two-to-three years of a stacked Marvel movie release calendar going on before we get to see Colossus and the others again.

Now, they haven’t announced any X-Men movies during that time (yet), but that doesn’t mean that mutants won’t be popping up. We all know that making mutants work as a concept in a superhero universe that’s been around for nearly a decade and a half is something that’s going to need some thought, but if they do figure it out, they could always sprinkle characters into different movies and shows. For instance, it would absolutely make sense for Mystique and/or Rogue to show up in Captain Marvel 2.

There are even rumors out there that a certain tentacled, Soviet mutant will be making his debut in Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Man, did they really go thirteen X-Men movies without giving us Omega Red and his MUTANT DEATH FACTOR?

Then again, there’s also the possibility that X-Force and the like won’t get any real screentime, focusing just on Deadpool, Vanessa, and maybe Dopinder.

WILL THE CONNECTION BE PART OF THE NARRATIVE?

Even from the original screenplay, Deadpool and its sequel were really loose about its connections to the other X-Men movies. Deadpool mentions he doesn’t know which Xavier actor he’d be meeting, established characters are extremely different from their previous appearances (Deadpool included), and even the X-Men’s public status as superheroes isn’t really something you see in the main movies outside of the first act of Dark Phoenix. Good luck figuring out how Wade’s movies tie into X-Men movie canon.

It would be absolutely forgivable if they kept that loose approach with the MCU. The difference is that the MCU is actually coherent. The X-Men movies are a gigantic pile of contradictions and retcons that leave you with a bunch of jigsaw pieces that just don’t fit well. Even when they tried to fix it all with time travel, they still screwed it up immediately after.

Also, why the hell did nobody age between First Class and Dark Phoenix?

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Ahem. So anyway, the MCU has its cracks, but its pride comes from the fact that the movies and some of the higher-profile spinoffs tie together and do it well. You’re more likely to see Deadpool 3 play ball a little more specifically with the world around him.

But how important is this change of scenery? Is it an unexplained alteration that we aren’t meant to question and barely notice or is it going to be part of the storyline? This is a time when we’re already getting WandaVision, Spider-Man 3, and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness so close together and they’re all about exploring and mixing realities. For all we know, Deadpool might even show up in the Doctor Strange 2 post-credits. It would make as much sense as anything.

WHAT BIG NAMES ARE GOING TO GET ROASTED?

Deadpool’s already made references to the MCU here and there, like doing the Hulk lullaby to Juggernaut, fighting on a Helicarrier, being old friends with a guy whose very identity is tied to being from HYDRA, and whatnot. What happens when he goes full ham? Are we going to see Weasel recast with Ed Norton or Terrance Howard?

But really, we have dozens of movies to go on. Lots of stuff to poke fun at. Did he lose Vanessa again due to the Snap and then get her back? Is he unsure whether or not he’s allowed to talk about Venom? Is he going to be meta about the fact that it’s probably for the best that a Ryan Reynolds character didn’t show up until after the Scarlett Johansson character was killed off?

WHAT SMALL NAMES ARE GOING TO GET ROASTED?

Making jokes about Thanos and the Infinity Stones is one thing, but I’m into the obscure jabs. There are rumors going around about certain Netflix Defenders characters popping up in MCU projects, such as Daredevil being in Spider-Man 3. That means I only want Deadpool to dig deeper.

While I wouldn’t be against seeing knocks on Runaways or Cloak and Dagger, the real target I’m interested in is Inhumans. Inhumans, the property that Marvel spent years and so much effort trying to overshadow mutants with only to absolutely fall on their face when the movie was changed to a TV series and then flopped in its first season. The kind of project that is supposedly one of those “never bring it up or you will be fired” blunders.

Hey, they put that series on Disney+. Might as well give everyone a reason to check it out.

WHO WILL BE THE VILLAIN?

Deadpool’s rogues gallery hasn’t always been too impressive. During his defining Joe Kelly run, his big bad was T-Ray, but following writers proceeded to phase him out of importance. Even though Ajax was from the Deadpool comics, he was mainly there for one story arc before getting killed off (he did get briefly resurrected after the first movie came out, but even then only had one appearance). Deadpool 2 had Juggernaut and Black Tom, who were more plug-and-play X-Men villains in general who only had a limited connection to Deadpool himself.

Really, if anyone’s going to be the villain in Deadpool 3, it’s Mr. Sinister. Deadpool has dealt with him a few times in the comics and he was, for whatever reason, the main villain in the aggressively mediocre Deadpool video game. Thing is, if Deadpool 3 is the last true gasp of the X-Men Cinematic Universe as it transfers into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, then it’s probably going to be the big villain that they spent several movies building up (X-Men: Apocalypse, Deadpool 2, New Mutants, and technically Logan) only to never have him appear.

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Besides, it’s not like Sinister is above fourth-wall breaking humor. You could loosely base the story on What If #100, a story where Sinister became aware of his fictional nature and tried to break free from its imprisonment.

Why should Deadpool have all the self-aware fun?

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nettlestonenell · 7 years

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2017 Fandom Feels Update

(in no particular order)

Peaky Blinders - I probably don't quite know how to talk about Peaky Blinders. It's a show that both fascinated and repulsed me. It's definitely unforgettable. But I think it also overly takes advantage of the fact it doesn't air on US network television (in the sense that I absolutely believe it is far more graphic far more of the time than it needs to be). Cillian Murphy is mesmerizing, an anti-hero (of which there are just so very many right now) created in the belly of poverty and the tunnels of WWI, he has very few illusions about himself. He's a man who says very little, and as frustrating as that is at times narratively, it works for me. I fall into what tumblr lets me know are the rare ranks of those who really enjoyed the character of Grace (to be specific: S1 Grace). As with many shows that I prize, it made choices and went in directions opposite of what I expected, which always gets my attention if the writers and actors can pull it off, which here they did many times.

TURN - June 17. I have no idea what to expect. S3 seemingly terminated so many at-play plots for the show (Andre, Arnold, Rogers, Simcoe, Hewlett), I found it personally to be the weakest of the 3, but will definitely tune in to S4 and what may come. Frankly, I am disappointed the Arnolds will still be in the mix, because I had hoped that uncomfortable plot had been put to rest last season. Also, I am a little allergic to tumblr's deep fascination with Robert Townsend on the show, who as far as I can see has done little so far in his few scenes other than pout.

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries - I watched S1 of this about a year ago, but found the S2 opener altered in tone and production values and so I walked away for awhile. Recently I watched and enjoyed S2 and S3, but S1 will forever be my special baby. It's the rare show that really is everything tumblr wants to tell you about it. And as far as I'm concerned the genius will-they-won't-they could have gone on forever and a day. It didn't matter. I never genuinely wanted them to in-story. And that's a rare show, where creators know what's just right, and what might be too much. In many ways, this show is Robin Hood-ish. The found family that just also happens to be made up of people whose exact skills you need to accomplish your ends. Maid Marian as Jack Robinson, on Robin's side but not yet ready to fully join the gang. I just love the beats we get with Miss Fisher's gang of unusuals, we know things about them, we understand them. No one's a caricature.

The Musketeers - Let me say first that I never watched ONLY for Athos' and Milady's plot (no matter what my tumblr might convince you). I would have watched this show even without her being included. I went in to S3 hopeful on a number of fronts, and wanting to see something like what S1 had given us. And while I don't think the loss of Capaldi broke the show (no, I don't, I really don't--though of course it was a harsh, harsh blow), and think something internal (after all, the creator/writer WALKED OUT before S3 was finished, which frankly speaks to cracks in the show/network/creatives relationship starting in S2) DID, I watched what I think were three episodes of S3. This was about the time my system and couchtuner stopped getting along. Those three episodes convinced me I didn't need or want to watch the rest, and that retreating into S1 and what I liked of S2 would make me far happier.

BBC Robin Hood - Look, it's never going away. (Coincidentally, I did a similar thing with this show's S3 as to Musketeers, and watched two episodes and gave up. In the long run, it's allowed me to continue to love the show and "my" seasons of it without reservation. Knowing when to quit a show really can be key.)

Marvel's Agent Carter - This is a rough one. S2 was appreciably 'off' from both the tone and look of S1 (which I will claim among top 10 TV shows in my viewing lifetime, no doubt), which was disappointing. Peggy's narrative goal was less focussed. The show tended more toward that 'everyone Peggy encounters is super/special' and less toward an environment like that at the Griffith, where we see Peggy, who knows from strange and super, living in a mundane world, among normal people. The ending (particularly the romantic reveal) was rushed, and a huge disservice to the two excellent actors it was given to. I really liked how they didn't redeem Thompson, and want to know what happened to him in the cliffhanger. On the whole, though, a disappointment after a stellar year-one of very tight, extremely stylish storytelling. Yet I'm deeply dismayed it's not available on DVD (only Blu-ray)

Victorian Slum House - I wish the cast had their own confession cams, like they did on 1900 House, because I'd like to know each of them better than the show allows.

Daredevil, Season One - I did not know I watched this for Claire Temple. Look, I'm not a depressive person, yet I struggle with sustained bleakness in fiction. Couple that with hyper-violence (ymmv as to what that means for you), and I don't sleep well. I watched S1. And I can say it was a high quality. I enjoyed the cast. I really liked the Russians. And Madame whatever her name was that disappeared. But I got to a point where I was fast-forwarding every fight scene (and as you know there are a lot). I made it through to the end. But the payout was not (for me) worth the viewer anguish, and S2 and on will never be my flavor of enjoyment. Yet, send me all the Matt/Foggy gifsets.

Jessica Jones - I watched this for Claire Temple. Man, that was NOT a wrong choice. This show was (if possible) better than what even tumblr thought of it. Which is not to say there weren't portions I had to watch on fast-forward, or through my hands. I love that it takes place in the same world as Daredevil, and yet it's depiction of Jessica's section of New York is aesthetically so different than that of Matt's. Also, Malcolm. And Carrie-Anne Moss.

Harrison Ford - With all this Star Wars revival stuff, you know, despite my original deep affection for HF I often find myself feeling grumpy about him, about his talents, about what he meant to me in the 1980s (yes, I was alive in the 1980s, and long out of diapers). And then Netflix gets Working Girl, and I remember again that I forgot, that my personal trifecta of HF roles (Han Solo, Indiana Jones, Witness' John Book) is actually...whatever you call a quartet of charming effortless awesomeness. *Please go watch Working Girl. But don't even watch it for HF. Watch it for Melanie Griffith who proves she is a Grade-A Star.

Arrow - I removed my Season Pass on TiVo. Thing is, the show got caught (it's a common enough problem in long-running shows) constantly dragging Oliver back to having issues we had been shown he'd overcome. (This is so Emma Swan on OUAT, btw) I watched Arrow b/c I loved Oliver. But someone's trapped him in character development limbo, and also reduced his show to The Love Boat (in the sense that it exists now largely to introduce characters that springboard off into their own shows, rather than to move its own plots forward). Also, I have never been a fan of 'everyone in the world AND IN THIS NARRATIVE is super! No room for regular people here!' (see my comments about Agent Carter) Oliver vs. the occasion super villain was okay. Oliver in a world 99% (at least who he comes into contact with) super? No.

the 100 - If there is something in the first seasons of a show that you like, what the show turns into later you will despise. (This goes for nearly every show I can think of, not just this one. Shows change, often around season three. Non-procedural drama shows run out of the story they originally set out to tell and have to redevelop and redefine themselves. Sometimes the show finds itself. Others, it founders. Frankly, this is the subject of a longer post.)

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Oh Finn - Quill’s Scribbles

Believe it or not, I really don’t want to keep talking about Iron Fist. I honestly don’t give two shits either way at the moment. I wasn’t all that interested when I first heard about the show and when I heard about all the criticism it was getting, I just went ‘oh that’s a shame’ and just carried on with my day.

In fact, to my own surprise, I’ve kind of been acting like the voice of reason, trying to tell everybody to step back and get some perspective. I’ve already ranted about how hypocritical the critics are for saying how racist Iron Fist is whilst still pledging their support for Doctor Strange, a movie that’s committed far more heinous acts in its production than Iron Fist has. And I can’t help but give a disapproving stare to those Tumblr users out there who are using the same stick they used to beat Doctor Strange with to beat Iron Fist even though the circumstances for both are drastically different.

Let’s just go over the facts again. Unlike Doctor Strange, Iron Fist hasn’t whitewashed any Asian characters, the writers are attempting to depict Asian culture and they have also expressed an awareness of the many problems with the source material and have vowed to fix it. While yes, it’s disappointing that they didn’t pick an Asian actor for the role, as I seem to have to keep reminding people again and again, they’re not in any way obliged to do so. Iron Fist is canonically white. They could racebend the character if they wanted to, (and to their credit they did audition Asian actors for the role, so they were clearly open minded to the possibility), but if they want to go with the white guy, that’s their prerogative. Now the pressure is on them to make sure the character and the show doesn’t fall into the same traps as the comics.

The only crime Iron Fist has committed is that the writers thought they could have their cake and eat it too. They thought they had the skill and talent to make a show with a white Iron Fist that wasn’t racist and they apparently fucked it up. Would an Asian Iron Fist have solved all the problems? Not necessarily as some of the criticisms include rubbish fight scenes and a dull, plodding storyline. But other criticisms, such as the mighty whitey trope and the show’s lack of a unique identity, would have been addressed simply by racebending the lead.

That was my stance regarding the show. That could very well change if the show’s star, Finn Jones, doesn’t put a sock in it at some point over the next couple of days.

There are two ways to handle criticism. Quietly absorb everything that’s been said and consider bearing them in mind for future projects, or dismiss it all and angrily scream and shout into the void about how nobody can understand your genius. Finn Jones is very much in the latter. He’s been very vocal in his defence of the show, which is understandable to a certain extent. It’s never easy to hear criticism about something you’ve put a lot of hard work and effort into, especially when that criticism is overwhelmingly negative, but Finn Jones’ ‘defence’ displays an ignorant and borderline offensive attitude that I find quite appalling.

He started off with the usual trite defence (usually reserved as the DCEU’s go-to excuse) of that the show was made ‘for the fans.’ One teeny, tiny problem with that. The hardcore fans only represent a tiny portion of the viewership. It’s the casual viewers you have to pull in and if the show is as racially insensitive as some are suggesting, the casual viewers will twig it straight away. Also that’s a bit insulting to the fans, isn’t it? He’s basically implying that the fans should hold it to a lower standard than everyone else and should just be grateful for what they’ve got. David Ayer didn’t get away with that bullshit with Suicide Squad and we’re not falling for it now.

In an interview with the Metro UK, Finn Jones also said that the show wasn’t made for critics, saying that:

“…some of the reviews we saw were seeing the show through a very specific lens, and I think when the fans of the Marvel Netflix world and fans of the comic books view the show through the lens of just wanting to enjoy a superhero show, then they will really enjoy what they see”.

Okay first of all, what the fuck is he talking about? No show is made specifically for critics and of course they’re watching it through a particular lens. They’re critics. That’s what they do. They criticise. He’s basically angry because the critics have done what their job requires them to do. Second, that argument is total bullshit because if the problem is that the critics can’t sit back and enjoy a superhero show, how come they had no problem enjoying Daredevil, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage? What’s so special about Iron Fist that the critics don’t seem to get it? In fact the main criticism of the show is that it’s not special at all. That it’s actually derivative of a lot of better superhero properties out there at the moment. Which seems more likely Finn Jones? That critics can’t seem to wrap their head around a TV show that’s apparently so dull and uninspired that it seems to have borrowed a lot of its ideas from TV Tropes, or that your show is total rubbish?

Then of course there’s been the much publicised Twitter debate between Finn Jones and creative director Asyiqin Haron from Geeks Of Colour. He said that representation was important and that Iron Fist is socially progressive and celebratory of different cultures whilst remaining true to the source material. Haron responded by saying that an Asian Iron Fist would have made an even greater impact, and asked whether Finn Jones was even aware of how problematic a white Iron Fist potentially is. He responded by saying that the show explores those problematic elements and, when pressed further, he did the sensible and mature thing of deleting his Twitter account. Cue an onslaught of online hate accusing Haron of bullying even though all she did was ask some very blunt and pointed questions. She did not resort to foul language or personal attacks and by questioning him actually revealed how ignorant and hypocritical his thoughts on diversity were.

Jones eventually returned to Twitter and released the following statement:

“There is a huge benefit to engage and help shape conversations on social media, especially when it comes to giving a voice to social matters. My original intention was to amplify a speech made by Riz Ahmed at the House of Commons. It was a very articulate and important speech on representation that I wholly agreed with. After posting I was inundated by people accusing me of not being allowed to share his voice based on an assumption that our show is going to play into the problems of racial inequality on screen. I engaged politely, diplomatically and attempted to bridge the divide. I’m currently in the middle of filming and I need to stay focused on bringing to life this character without judgment, so I decided to remove myself from twitter for the time being.

I am very proud of the work everyone has done on this series and I’m excited for people to see how we’ve adapted the story. We have gone to great lengths to represent a diverse cast with an intelligent, socially progressive storyline. I hope people can watch the show before making judgments. In times, as divisive as these, we need to stay unified, compassionate and understanding in our differences.”

Yes. He just wanted to engage and help shape conversations on social media and was attempting to bridge the divide… only to then cut the conversation off entirely and thus strengthen the divide further because he couldn’t handle somebody questioning his progressive brilliance.

As the criticism continued, Jones started to become more and more vocal to the point where he even started to lose his cool. In an interview with Vulture, Jones claimed that people needed to ‘chill the fuck out’. How he doesn’t understand how people can be frustrated at something when they haven’t seen the product yet (ignoring the fact that the critics have already seen the product, hence the frustration), that Iron Fist is one of the most diverse shows he’s ever worked on and he doesn’t understand why it’s being picked on (again ignoring the fact that if he took the time to actually read the criticism instead of bitching like an infant, he’ll have realised that the critics have actually explained what the problems are on numerous occasions). When the interviewer attempted to move on from the subject, Jones said:

“C'mon, let’s get angry at the real fucking injustices in the world, yeah? The real problems in the world. Not just in television. There’s some real shit happening in the world right now that people need to get angry about. Let’s get angry about that. Not just a TV show that hasn’t even aired yet, you know?”

Ah that old chestnut. Look just because you don’t care about Asian representation in the media doesn’t mean we shouldn’t. For someone who claims to want to give voice to social matters, you certainly seem to spend a lot of time dismissing social matters the moment they’re voiced.

And just when you thought Finn Jones couldn’t sink any lower, in an interview with the RadioTimes, this happened:

“I’m playing a white American billionaire superhero, at a time when the white American billionaire archetype is public enemy number one, especially in the US. We filmed the show way before Trump’s election, and I think it’s very interesting to see how that perception, now that Trump’s in power, how it makes it very difficult to root for someone coming from white privilege, when that archetype is public enemy number one.”

Oh yeah. You’re reading this correctly. Apparently the reason why people don’t like Iron Fist is because of Donald Trump.

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Well this is a first. I never thought I’d be defending Donald Trump. As tempting as it is, you can’t blame him for all your problems sweetheart. Aside from the fact that nobody has expressed similar thoughts in response to Batman or Iron Man or even Arrow, and that the cry for an Asian Iron Fist started long before President Drumpf was elected, nobody has said nor has ever said that the white billionaire or even white people in general are ‘public enemy number one’. People are just understandably frustrated because it’s 2017 and they’re still having to fight tooth and nail for representation in the media. Yes Iron Fist is canonically white, but this could have been an opportunity to dispense with the white billionaire archetype altogether and have our first mainstream Asian superhero. That’s an opportunity you’ve robbed them of Finn Jones and it’s something you seem to be medically incapable of wrapping your head around. Regardless of our individual views on Trump, if you’ve gotten so desperate to defend your show that you’re blaming the President of the United States, you need a fucking time out.

Finn Jones is clearly in a state of rather aggressive denial, pointing the finger at everyone but the people responsible for this shitshow, namely the filmmakers. See up until now, I was prepared to extend an olive branch to Iron Fist. They seemed to have honest intentions and all it would have taken to get people back on their side was a simple apology a few months down the line and a promise to take the criticism onboard and fix the issues for Season 2 (assuming Season 2 is even going to happen after all of this). Instead Finn Jones is let off the leash and his delusional ramblings are at serious risk of damaging the show further. I’ve noticed that Marvel and the showrunner have kept deathly quiet about all of this. What am I supposed to read into that? Is Finn Jones’ pathetic excuses just the opinions of one ignorant prick or are they indicative of the entire BTS crew?

The more vocal Finn Jones gets, the more ignorant he’s shown to be and the more it hurts the show he’s trying to defend. He’s basically digging his own grave and pulling Iron Fist down on top of him. People like myself who were prepared to show sympathy are now starting to get turned off because if the lead star is this fucking deluded and clueless about the issues surrounding this show, maybe what the critics are saying have some weight to them after all.

So for your own sake, as well as the sake of Iron Fist and the fans that you claim to respect, do us all a favour Finn Jones.

SHUT THE FUCK UP!

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2017-18 TV Season Recap, Part One

Previous TV Season Recaps – (2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17) 2017-18 TV Season Recap - Part 2 (South Park, Roseanne, Evil Genius, Orville, Riverdale)

Greetings and welcome to my annual TV season recap! Enjoy as I ramble on about nearly a dozen of the TV shows I attempted to keep up with throughout the television year. Please check out the links above for past installments of my TV recaps. I am splitting this year’s installment into two parts for now. Part one here will feature my breakdowns of the six shows based on comic books I followed while part two will feature everything else! In a few months like last year I will add a bonus part covering three or four more shows I plan to binge throughout the summer. Enough with the intro, let us get onto the year of television that was 2017-18. Gotham – I have no idea where to begin on the fourth season of Gotham. Like I mentioned in past annual recaps, since season two Gotham went kind of bonkers and dove deep bringing in a wide array of vintage Batman villains. A lot of them you may have seen from prior cartoons and films, while many others are getting their on-screen debut in Gotham. Plenty of past recurring villains return along with some new ones to keep me on my toes for each episode. The primary villains this season after Gordon and Harvey put away early filler head villain ‘The Pyg’ in a enjoyable several episode arc early in the season are Ra’s al Ghul and the Jerome/Jeremiah brothers that many of us know better as The Joker, even though the show does not officially label them as such. Gordon’s old love interests Barb and Lee both get some sadistic twists this season with Barb getting some unexpected powers as she clashes with Ra’s and Lee becoming a crime lord of sorts when she teams up with The Riddler and becomes known as the ‘Queen of the Narrows.’

I will nitpick a little bit because season three ended with a tease of Bruce donning his first set of the classic caped crusader costume as he sought out vigilante justice. The fourth season quickly backtracks away from that within a couple episodes as Bruce realizes he is in over his head after some early failures and he winds up going on a depressing party binge for several episodes and betraying the love-able Alfred to go out and party before finally coming to his senses. That said I am amazed at how Gotham managed to juggle its mammoth ensemble cast with almost something to do for every character this season. On almost any other show I would be irate for the lame explanations for characters cheating death and constantly coming back. I can get on board with the unbelievable returns in Gotham due to how off the rails the show has become by this point. Only way a person stays dead in Gotham is via bazooka. I was disheartened to see FOX announce that Bruce Wayne’s version of Smallville will come to an end with this fall’s fifth season being the last, and being only a half season at that. At least that gives the writers several episodes to wrap up this insanely awesome Batman project. Grade: A- Arrow – Season six of The Arrow means it is time to rejoice since there are no longer any more flashback periphery story arcs. Since Oliver is now the mayor of Star City, that means there are numerous enemies constantly trying to frame him and remove him from office, and while they are at it continue the laughable annual trend of trying to expose Oliver as the Green Arrow. The season gets a little messy with the core of Team Arrow splitting up for more than half the season and constantly being at odds with each other while the primary antagonists have some surprising twists of their own. I will give my supporting character MVP this season to Quentin Lance as the only one who stood loyal to Oliver through thick and thin this season while nearly the rest of the entire cast was at odds with Olly at one point or another this season.

That is saying a ton too as Quentin has his own season-spanning arc where he encounters another Earth’s version of his daughter, Laurel and never gives up on her despite her sinister ways and it seems like a laughably lost cause from the get go, but Quentin’s resilience and perseverance paid off after many weeks of effort in a way I was not anticipating. Arrow featured a dramatic season finale which will surely have profound changes for the series going into next season. There were a few missteps during the course of this season, but it managed to find its footing by the end and got me back on board again. Grade: B+ The Flash – I hate to see this trend, but the fourth season of The Flash continues the downward trajectory of the series after an underwhelming third season. The problem here is with the season-spanning villain Clifford DeVoe, aka, The Thinker. Thinker is after the unique energy force from a group of metas that got their powers on a mysterious explosion on a bus. So the whole season sees Team Flash try to track down each ‘bus meta’ one-by-one, but only consistently fail to protect them and see them fall victim to having their life force harvested by The Thinker. Most of these battles that play out are depressing to watch to see the Flash regularly disposed of with ease. One of the bus metas, Ralph, winds up joining Team Flash, but his forced humor is cringe-inducing and his run on the show went far longer than it had any right to be. The only reason this managed to stay above the ‘D’ range is because the series continues one of its positive trends of a great Christmas party scene and an awesome wedding between Barry and Iris that was at the core of a fun four-part crossover event with all four CW DC shows. Grade:C-

Legends of Tomorrow – Legends of Tomorrow was the surprise hit of the DC Arrow-verse this year. Its first two seasons were decent with their fair share of highs and lows, but ultimately suffered with a huge cast that stretched episodes thin to cram everyone in. The team on Legends got it right for season three by dialing back the cast a little (which means some heartbreaking moments this season) and somehow achieving the impossible by making Steel marginally less of a dope and even having an episode he excelled in what was my favorite episode of the season with its take on the classic film, Groundhog’s Day. CW must have had a serious makeover to the writer staff this season because at first I grimaced when they added the insufferable Wally West from Flash to the Legends team halfway through the season, but his personality surprisingly meshed well with the team and he blended right in! Sarah Lance is also coming into her own now as the group leader, and the intentionally campy-yet-amazing Damien Darhk and his daughter are the perfect season-long foils for the legends. A throwaway gag in a midseason episode in the form of a cuddly stuffed animal called, Beebo, returns in a memorable way for a surprisingly awesome season finale! Having its season not as padded out and several episodes shorter compared to the other CW DC shows also significantly helps. Grade: A- Jessica Jones – The second season of JJ on Netflix was a surprise step down from its unforgettable debut season. It is still one of the stronger Marvel Netflix series, and a big step up from Defenders and Iron Fist. The second season starts out strong with Jess meeting some new neighborhood characters setting up the season and the affable Malcom stepping up his role as Jessica’s assistant. After a few episodes things start to gradually unravel though with Trish relapsing and her arc slowly evolving from curious to cringe-worthy by the end of the season. Jeri’s periphery arc is also frustratingly inconclusive and vague and seems to be there for more shock than substance. The season shapes up midway through when Jones reconnects with figures from her past that the show does not paint in a bright light. Jessica Jones does not seem to care to drive home the destination point of this season and I could not help but feel the undertones from the cast this season in their body language read something like, “you are not going to particularly care how this season wraps up, it is just going to be there.” And that is exactly what happened, with the show doubling down on new characters this season that are not fun to root for or against and are essentially a nonfactor by the end of the season.

One last nagging point I have to touch on is Jess is her usual badass self most of this season threatening to rip people’s spines out for not divulging her info. However, at a couple crisis points this season she uncharacteristically gets pouty when it comes time to walk past the metaphorical ‘line’ she bemoans “I’m not a killer” before offing some painfully stereotypical antagonizing prison guard in one of the low points of the season. The second season feels like a wash by the end to wipeout all the good momentum established in the first half, including an awesome prequel episode set several years before the first season that wound up as one of the season’s few saving graces combined with a few other strong early episodes to prevent this from hitting the C range. Grade: B- The Punisher - If you know me, I am a huge Punisher mark, so this summary is admittedly a bit biased. Season two of Daredevil was a great introduction of the character, but Punisher’s own self-titled Netflix exclusive series dives deep into his psyche. As expected, a lot about his origin is constantly referenced throughout for the impetus for him going on his crusade. The PMC group Punisher squares off against is a formidable foe for Frank to go to war with, and I also thought the producers managed to walk that fine line for a secondary villain this season who is a middle east veteran suffering from PTSD who gradually loses before taking matters into his own hands. Rest assured there is plenty of action in each episode, and easily more than any of the other Marvel Netflix series.

They still sprinkle in a good back story for some breathing room, and Franks does not waste a word of his intentional limited dialogue as every word he speaks means business. The person Frank interacts with for his tech-backup is a good sidekick, but not worthy of the Micro name as the Netflix version veers off in some significant ways than how he was portrayed in the comics, but they capture the core of Micro’s role providing tech support for Frank. Micro’s family played a little more into the overall plot than I thought they would, but by the end of the season I thought they all earned their spot on the show and I was invested in their arc. As a die-hard Punisher fan this is a near-flawless portrayal of him, and this debut season easily surpasses all prior on-screen representations of him and I loving the tease for the villain they have in store for Frank in season two. Grade: A Past TV/Web Series Blogs 2013-14 TV Season Recap 2014-15 TV Season Recap 2015-16 TV Season Recap 2016-17 TV Season Recap Adventures of Briscoe County Jr: The Complete Series Angry Videogame Nerd Volumes 7-9 Mortal Kombat: Legacy - Season 1 OJ: Made in America: 30 for 30 RedvsBlue - Seasons 1-13 Roseanne – Seasons 1-9 Seinfeld Final Season Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle Superheroes: Pioneers of Television The Vietnam War: A Ken Burns series X-Men – The Animated Series: Volumes 4-5

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