• MisterDeutsch@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It was great to see the portal glow and Billy arriving. “Hello, sir…” not a chance! It’s hug time! I teared up.

    Wanda showed up for a second in the episode, too, right? I wasn’t sure if my eyes played tricks on me.

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    2 days ago

    I really enjoyed the “UltraVision” segment. It was the perfect full circle moment. Plus you love to see Vision try to logic the bad guys into defeat.

    Also glad to see Ultron still exists. I don’t know what story he’ll return for, but I’m ready for it.

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      That was the show at its finest. This show was very uneven, but whenever it was silly I was digging it.

      Also, Billy: “So you’re Scottish now? How come you’re ALWAYS the cool twin.”

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        Eh… I don’t think they mean much.

        Originally, the post-credit scenes were teasers for what was going to come next. Now, they’re really just rumors… like ‘Hey! We pitched Fiege on this! Hope he does something with it!’

        Will any of this happen or matter? Does any of it make sense? Who knows!

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    3 days ago

    So I’m just supposed to believe these microscopic nanites, which are designed to individually implant into humans and act as a digital symbiote, can merge together into a complex solid robot? 😒

    Also I can’t help thinking back to Iron Man 1/2 and how nanite technology of that level would have felt so out-of-place in the world that existed at that time. But now I’m supposed to believe it existed well before those movies took place. Ok.

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      Yeah, you and me both.

      I hate to say it, but 2026 MCU isn’t really for us: it’s for a new generation.

      That’s okay. I still like a lot of it, but I find things easier to enjoy if I accept that I got served, and now they’re on to serving different, presumably younger fans.

      My brother had this rewrite of Iron Man 3 where after spending the whole movie designing unreliable, janky modular armor (a metaphor for his disjointed, insecure mind), in the climax, he calls up a Chinook-style heavy-lift copter with a gantry in it, during his fight with Kilian, and the 37 carries him up just before it gets destroyed and falls apart. And then the gantry starts assembling a suit that is newer, but a throw-back.

      The chopper gets shot down, and is falling, spinning, while the gantry whirs and zips around Tony, and then it crashes.

      And after a beat, Iron Man stands up out of the wreckage, rebirthed anew in Mk. 38.

      Ah. I miss when the tech felt like that.

      Also, humanoid robots have gotten good enough that I wish they used them a bit. Imagine Jocasta as a practical effect! How good would that look?!