Let me get off that big green thing.
I really had to appreciate the chutzpah of Pitch Meeting accusing Marvel of repeating themselves.
I really liked episode 3. It’s nice to see Jen leaning into the public-ness of being She-Hulk, I expect this will lead to the series being more fun, like her series are in the comics.
I wonder if the Asgardian weapons the Wrecking Crew has in the series connect to Runa the shape-shifter.
I think I don’t like the fourth wall breaking. I know the comic book did it too but I find it distracting and it breaks my suspension of disbelief too much.
Thank you. I’ve been catching up on this thread and reading some of these comments while thinking to myself, “I can’t possibly be the only person who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the CGI, can I?”
Anyway, sorry to everybody who isn’t enjoying this show as much as I am: I’m loving this! Three episodes in, and it’s exactly what I was hoping this show would be. Can’t wait for Episode 4!
Low-key though it’s been, I think Tim Roth has been the standout performance so far.
Episode 3 is the first episode that I didn’t think “wow, this writing and dialogue sucks” all the way through. There were still some clunkers, but maybe things are getting better.
I still think many of the jokes are too corny. I don’t mind fourth-wall breaking in general, but I don’t like it when it’s badly written. In this episode, I thought the “guest star of the week” aside just wasn’t funny. It makes me wonder whether they are using lines straight out of the comic book that would have been fresh and funny at that time and in that context but are just stale now.
In particular, I think Tatiana Maslany is fine, but she is given some of the worst written lines.
The fourth wall break while driving tickled me.
Also, Blonsky taking his shoes off before expanding was a nice callback.
I liked that they were Crocs.
Tim Roth is always great. Maybe prison has changed him over the past 15 years, but this hippy-dippy Blonsky seems very different from the intense British Commando from the Hulk film.
I also thought the She-Hulk lawyer scenes were especially bad CGI. Like the suit didn’t move right and gave her a Gumby effect.
His ability to maintain absolute control over Abomination implies that his talk about meditation and inner peace wasn’t just for the parole board.
Yeah, 1940s or not, people still fucked.
I would imagine that a young and inexperienced Steve Rogers would have been seduced by at least one USO groupie (much in the same way he shared a kiss with Loraine (Natalie Dormer)). But Steve being Steve, probably wouldn’t really be into just sleeping with lots of women he didn’t care about just because he could.
My favorite bit–
Parole Board Member: So, Mr. Wong, you’ve just confessed to committing a serious crime…
Wong: Welp, gotta go. Bye!
My second favorite bit–
Jen: I would kill for you, Megan Thee Stallion!
Megan Thee Stallion: Dial it back.
The Wrecking Crew are even more incompetent here than they are in the comics, and that’s saying something.
In mine opinion, shows and movies that focus on CGI tend to not put much effort into other aspects. That’s not necessarily a problem if the spectacle is the point. I don’t think it’s the point of the Marvel shows (maybe some of the movies).
I’m loving the show. I loved the poking at social media.
After watching the show, I did some googling. I had expected Megan Thee Stallion was another superhero. Apparently not. :doh:
I am continually astonished that Hollywood productions are unable to portray realistic TV news reporters, anchors, and commentators. Those scenes make me cringe because they are so transparently fake. They have absolutely no verisimilitude.
This show is intentionally in a self-aware, comic-book style. These are comic-book reporters, lawyers, etc. Verisimilitude is outside the gamut.
First of all, I don’t look for realism. I look for verisimilitude. When I read a comic book, I can in my mind make them sound like reasonably appropriate reporters. But somehow the actors can’t ever sound anything like a reporter.
(I corrected “realism” to “verisimilitude” while you were replying.)
You have a point for other productions, but they’re intending to have caricatures in this one. And no problem if that’s not working for you in it. But I don’t think it’s fair to knock them for something that’s not what they’re attempting.
“Did you guys mug a Chitauri construction worker?”
" … yes."
And I agree. The CGI on the lawyer suit was the worst so far. This from someone who hasn’t minded the hit-or-miss nature of the beast to this point.
This is not just a criticism of this particular show. This is something that Hollywood productions routinely fail at. This show–regardless of what you are asserting regarding the genre–doesn’t vary at all in terms of the character of its depiction. It fails in the same way that every other show or movie fails.