The first Shang Chi trailer had me hooked. The more I’ve seen it feels almost TOO BIG, or at least too CGI spectacle filled vs martial arts.  Hope I’m wrong, just my take from those trailers.

It looks gorgeous and I like the cast and director, but I still don’t really see a reason to...care? Not a knock at Kirby, but these trailers don’t really tell me why I should root for or be attached to these guys. Deviants feel generic too.

Yeah. The wayward son of a mystical crime boss is cool, but it would be cool to see Lee from Enter the Dragon full secret agent stuff.

Every fight had a weird speed-up/slo-mo edit that felt very  early 2000s post-Matrix.

It’s more dominant, versus being used to enhance practical sets/effects.

I liked the idea of Clint being damaged and going extreme. The full Ronin thing was a bit odd.

I am very excited for this, but hoping it’s closer to pre-Fraction Hawkeye. I don’t need 6 meandering aimless episodes where Clint randomly becomes depressed.

Ooooh. Good casting. He was my second dream pick for Nancy after Keith David before the American Gods show got made.

So deeply excited for this, Villeneuve’s vision and direction had me sold. Not excited about Chalamet and Zendaya though; everything I’ve seen them in they have....not been good.

That was my big issue with the comic (reading it at the time, the big issue was later learning about how horrible Wood is). Cool ideas and ripe material for arcs, but so many plot beats felt like they jumped from A to E without any connective tissue. Little build up or real narrative energy. Just cool ideas.

I’m kind of curious why Killmonger’s in that outfit. Not like it’s standard US military gear.

Clark is just a dork even as himself, which is great. But also, I love how they adjusted nerdy Clark Kent by doing the bumbling awkward dad angle.

I loved this episode, but great point on the Smallville-Fortress stuff. The Reeve filsm did this too and I never understood it. Clark can fly, he surely isn’t spending years alone in solitude.

Which also means the theory (said by either the Russos or the screenwriters) that Steve was with Peggy in an alt timeline and just hopped back to the Prime Timeline not true. Steve went back to the 40s in the Prime Timeline and....erased Peggy’s previous husband? Knew Sharon as a kid? Let all of the evils of the…

Now that would be interesting.

It’s fascinating that JHI said Clark would side with “his” people. Both Snyder’s Superman and this one are focused on exploring the fact that Clark isn’t biologically human, but while Snyder is fundamentally obsessed with Superman as a being of power and how power makes him alienated, this show is eviscerating that…

Glad you made that connection. From the throwdown with kryptonite gas to the spear, this episode (after the last two weeks that seemed like a more subtle refutation of BvS) this one was a giant F you to BvS’s surface level themes.

Excellent. Now release the full MP3 of The Smell’s (well, the band Drones) punk version of “Mr. Parker’s Cul-de-Sac.”

Excellent. Now release the full MP3 of The Smell’s (well, the band Drones) punk version of “Mr. Parker’s Cul-de-Sac.”

I love the cast, I like some of the banter and style, cannot tell if the action is solid. This feels like it will either be fun or trying too hard to be cool.