Focus on creating solid standalone franchises before attempting to cross them over?

You don’t reboot a single franchise in the MCU. It’s the whole MCU or none of it.

Probably for the best. I have a feeling I know what would have happened if she’d returned

Well as I said: I’m enjoying it. It’s better than Iron Fist and The Defenders, certainly. And it’s approximately as good as Season 1 of Agents of SHIELD.

I’m not disagreeing with you, but... to what do you refer?

It was called Ragnarok, it was reasonable to expect that people would die

Out of all the answers my question is prompting, this one has the ring of truth to it. Thanks

Uh, Game of Thrones? Sean Bean usually uses a much more understandable neutral accent but in Game of Thrones he uses his natural thick Yorkshire accent and that show is like the biggest show on the planet

I’ve never been to New York but I can still understand context enough to get the gist of “ever noticed its impossible to get a cab in <Neighborhood X>” jokes that sitcoms etc like to do, doesn’t seem unreasonable to think Americans would be able to do the same.

That’s the thing though: the show so far IS sticking quite closely to the source material. They even go full-tilt into the inherent UNLIKEABILITY of the Inhuman Royal Family, including the caste system wherein people who get shitty powers in their Terrigenesis get sent to toil in the mines. Crystal is a spoiled…

Oh, you mean it’s like The Cable Guy? Man, that movie got absolutely savaged when it was released. That’s when I realised I would need to watch movies myself to be sure that they were in fact as bad as people say

I’m actually enjoying the fact that the few episodes get you genuinely rooting for Maximus more than the actual “protagonists”. The Inhuman Royal Family, going by the source material, has always been a bunch of assholes competing to see who can be the assholiest. They’re self-important, incestuous, racist, classist,…

That’s a self-fulfilling prophecy though.

I’ve never understood why Americans feel the need to adapt British/Irish/Australian/Kiwi shows and movies. If the original is in English, just watch the original? We’re able to watch American shows and understand the references, there’s no reason the reverse shouldn’t also hold true.

It’s a good question, and one the internet doesn’t actually know the answer to. In order to know for sure, somebody would need to ask a Feige or a Pascal or a Watts or a Russo etc. I’m sure io9 is up to the challenge

Lol no, you’re forgetting literally ALL THE OTHER STATES AND COUNTRIES ON THE PLANET who haven’t a clue what the state flag of Virginia looks like.

That’s because cops think they have the magical “automatically knowing who’s guilty and who’s innocent” sense that Punisher seems to have. The whole reason cops aren’t allowed to summarily execute criminals they catch is because you need a trial to get to the truth of a situation. Maybe a person didn’t do what it…

The usage by Booth demonstrates that it is a hollow phrase that can be used to justify killing anyone in power that you disagree with.

There was clearly an entire version of the movie where Hela talks with a Yorkshire accent that didn’t get used in the final product

No, she just looks like a normal person instead of a perfect statue.