It’s confirmed that Matthew Macfadyen plays a TVA agent called Mr Paradox in Deadpool 3. In the comics Mr Paradox is a Mobius alias. Ok there’s no way that Mr Paradox is going to be a variant of Mobius that wouldn’t make sense, but the fact that he is similar age to Owen Wilson, and the only confirmed TVA agent in Deadpool 3 he could definitely be Mobius adjacent, a Mobius stand in if you will, he could literally be a Mobius stand in considering that it’s rumoured that they considered Mobius for the movie but it was deemed to soon after the ending of Loki or something, a reference to Mobius isn’t exactly unlikely though, considering he is basically one of the founders of the ‘New TVA’. Seen as we don’t see Mr Paradox in Loki but he seems to have quite an important role at the TVA in Deadpool 3, maybe he has recently got promoted because of Mobius’s retirement/sabbatical, and therefore is a literal replacement for Mobius.
Why am I so obsessed with Mr Paradox being a replacement to Mobius/ Mobius adjacent, I hear you ask? Well all TVA members are now allowed access to information about their lives on the timeline, so what if Wade or someone asks Mr Paradox what he used to do before he was ‘middle management of timelines’ and what if…. No but what if… he says he was a postman… and that he remembers knowing a ‘otherworldly woman’ but he doesn’t know who she was.
This would be soft confirmation that he was the postman that was Sylvie’s lover (because it was weird that they were never bought up again, and I want to know who it is)
Therefore Sylvie being a Loki variant and Mr Paradox being Mobius adjacent (not only would they have the same job at the TVA but they’d also have in common having the most just some guy job before the TVA) would be a subtle hint to MCU fans that Lokius is real and prepare them for Loki and Mobius becoming canon in Avengers: Secret Wars and-
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So, this seems to be the most legit list for Deadpool 3.
Morena Baccarin is confirmed, so is Matthew McFayden as Mr. Paradox (via leaked set pics in combination with a twitter post), the substitute for Mobius.
So far there will be no Mobius in Deadpool 3.
And no Loki.
Last info was if Tom were in it, he would play a variant. If.
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We are headed into our final Drama Shower show of the season. How do you rank the shows we got this season and how are you feeling about the direction of the project?
What is Drama Shower and Why Does It Matter?
Before we get into rating these shows, I want to do a breakdown of what this is. To give you a sense of how big a deal Drama Shower is, fans are regularly updating a Wikipedia page for it with relevant links to follow the project. Also, there is a dedicated MDL page for it.
Drama Shower is a dedicated half-hour programming block on MBS, a Japanese broadcaster that is over 70 years old, in conjunction with Kadokawa, a Japanese publisher and holding group, that plays BL content at 1:30 am on Fridays. The project's main producer is Kaoru Azuma, who is a self-described long-time BL fan. He wants to show that BL can do a variety of stories in genre, and has recently stated that he wants to produce original content through the project as well.
We originally had six shows air through year one: Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss!, Senpai, This Can't Be Love!, Takara-kun to Amagi-kun, Eternal Yesterday, Candy Color Paradox, and Jack o' Frost.
I originally reviewed these shows as overall a mixed bag, but showing great promise. I liked that they got more comfortable with depictions of m/m intimacy over time. I thought Mr. Unlucky was legitimately funny (9), Senpai never found its footing (6), Takara and Amagi mildly squandered their premise (8), Eternal Yesterday was extremely poignant (10), Candy Color Paradox had ambitions that exceeded its talent pool (7), and Jack o' Frost was a really strong finish (9.5).
MBS seemed to enjoy the performance of this project enough to continue it for another year.
For me, I think it's very significant to give BL itself a time slot to see how audiences are responding to BL as a concept compared to the pitch of individual shows. I'm really encouraged by MBS doing this. Even if you don't care about the name MBS, you have interacted with their content, because they are also behind Full Metal Alchemist and Haikyuu! anime adaptations.
Rating Year 2
I actually liked the way year 2 started, even if I'm a bit mixed on the end. I really loved opening with Tokyo in April is... I liked that they had BL trying to be topical. I think the show unfortunately conflates some things it shouldn't, but I loved TIAI and I loved Ren and Ryunosuke's experience being gay men. I liked the changes they made to the source material. This show was dark in a way that it owned, and I really like that. I gave it a 9.
We then moved to My Personal Weatherman, and that went over well for the people who like to see really hot people go at it with each other. I actually enjoyed how much Yoh and Segasaki actively misunderstood each other even as they were speaking to each other. I don't know that they exactly completed their story, and I suspect that there may be a future outing for this show. Despite enjoying it, I think it didn't get all of its pieces together fully and gave it an 8.5.
We then crossed over into uncertain territory with One Room Angel. Despite enjoying a lot of what was going on in this show, I don't actually think it's a romance. It's my understanding that the angel character is a lot younger in the source material, and so they may have been a little shy about how much they did with these characters on screen. I also don't think the storytelling was balanced between the leads. However, because I am susceptible to complex stories about grief, I gave this show an 8.
Now, we have Sahara-sensei to Toki-kun. I hated this show so much. I think it makes the unfortunate mistake of asking me to care about how homophobia and public perceptions impacts people through its flashback drama, but then does nothing with that in the front. It sucked so hard, and I'm really disappointed because I thought this show had some of the most potential, and I thought Toki was one of the most watchable characters Drama Shower had produced. I ended up giving it a 4.
Our next and final show (I think) for this outing is called My Strawberry Film. This one will also be in a high school, but I know little about it, other than we may have a GL plot in it.
So, overall I'd give Drama Shower an 8. I think fans of BL, and especially Japanese BL, should continue to show up and support it. The fact that we have a dedicated programming block is important. The fact that none of these shows has felt like a retread so far is super important. Drama Shower is varied. There is something in here for almost everyone. Drama Shower is the biggest commitment to BL we've had from a distributor other than GMMTV's ongoing BL slate. Taiwan has Vidol doing is four projects, but Drama Shower is the first time I know of that a Japanese distributor has focused on BL in a meaningful, ongoing way. We should stick with it.
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