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Well, Matt IS a really good lawyer - but they really should have spent a LITTLE more time on a court scene, if only to have posed some critical questions. "So, the suggestion is that this 17-year-old boy - a personal friend and confidant of Tony Stark, to whom he bequeathed the most powerful weapon of mass destruction ever created - is in fact a criminal mastermind? A criminal mastermind who spends his days swinging through the city, saving people from muggings and potentially deadly accidents? Who risked his life several times during the Thanos war, and was in fact among the Disappeared? Whereas Mysterio was a super-hero - although he has now been positively identified as Quentin Beck, a former Stark Industries employee with an expertise in hologram technology and, if this employee record I hold is correct, a history of mental issues? His own associates describe him as a violent and domineering personality, displaying qualities of a paranoid psychopath, not to mention a habitual liar. Your honor, I move to throw this case out, because frankly, it's an embarrassment." Anyway, they probably did arrest some members of his gang, but it would have been nice to have SOMEONE squeal.

Watched it. It was good. 'No Way Home' is about 60 million bucks away from surpassing Black Widow, Shang Chi and Eternals's combined box office. Let's hope Marvel takes the hint.

Merry Christmas, guys.

The only dramatically sound end for me would have to involve: - Humanity's freedom from its destiny - Archanfel getting closure (and dying) - Confronting the Creators and either defeating them or convincing them humanity is worth sparing - Guyot finally being destroyed - Sho being freed from the Guyver (using the Remover) - Agito getting peace of his own... probably as 'Lord Protector' of the world, as the only remaining Guyver

It's okay, I found a good cam cap and will be watching it tonight

I CAN'T go and see it, because my country just entered a new lockdown. And after I secured a ticket for monday afternoon!

Maybe they are in it - but not as Spider-Man. I mean, in 'Spider-verse' different Peters had different outcomes. Imagine if Andrew plays a Peter who became Venom, instead. Or if Toby plays a Peter Parker who retired from superhero stuff and is happily married with Mary Jane (that way you can even have a teenage Spider-Girl - their daughter May). Interestingly this just made me realize they can totally introduce Miles Morales if they want.

I read the full synopsis on Wikipedia and it doesn't seem that bad to me. I wonder what the problem is.

I think Marvel is panicking. I heard the other day they even only started on 'Eternals' because DC planned on doing a 'New Gods' movie (A horrible idea in and of itself) and they wanted a Kirby movie out, as well. DC canned it, though, maybe because their DCEU as a whole is kind of a disaster so they didn't want to risk it; and now Marvel was stuck with a movie that did not really fit in with their established movie universe, with an entirely new cast of characters that, in fact, did seem to pander to prevailing public opinion - or whatever they perceived it to be - and, well, they did their best, but you can't make gold out of straw. In the context of pandering, though: I notice they made Ajak - briefly played by Salma Hayek, although Ajak was male in the comic - the leader of the Eternals, while the Eternals' ruler in the comics, Zuras, was nowhere to be seen or even mentioned. Too much masculine authority, I guess

Hmmm

Long, boring and pretentious? I don't know, I haven't seen it yet. Unbelievably, the critics' rating has dropped below 50%, although the audience reviews seem more positive. But that is to be expected this early.

Their own mini-superhero universe? It could work. Spider-Man has a rich little corner of the Marvel universe.

I dunno. I might go and see it just for the cosmic visuals. It's at 52% now.

Welp. Up until now there were only two MCU movies that were not 'Certified Fresh', namely 'The Incredible Hulk' at 67% and 'Thor: The dark world' at 66%. This is the first one to go rotten and it's not even out yet. Ed.: It's actually at 56 now. It's coming out in two days. What even is going on?

It doesn't seem to take itself too seriously, it's small-scale, it's Christmas... So far I like it.

Ohhh boyyy

Impressive they had the nerve to call him 'Black Adam'. But how will this work? Nobody can defeat Khem-Adam except Captain Marvel or Shazam himself.

Same here. I started in on the first episode but it was a little cringy. So I'll wait to swallow it all in one go, like a sort of weird movie

Welp. Apparently Mephisto is at it again.

The Eternals were not originally meant to be part of the Marvel universe. They were folded in later and nobody really knows what to do with them mostly because they are so powerful they break the game.

Jason Aaron is a blight. I already said it but it bears repeating.

They finally made the Abomination interesting again after decades of abuse.

Jason Aaron is like an inverse King Midas: everything he touches turns to trash. The Eternals are typically depicted as about as powerful as normal Asgardians, although they also have superpowers. Thor and Odin are well above average, though, but that is because Odin is a Skyfather who was merged with his two brothers, and Thor's mother is an Elder God. The Elder Gods were the first beings created by the Demiurge, the sentient life force of Earth itself - ethereal titans of immense primal power. Almost all of them became corrupt and turned on each other, and were ultimately destroyed by Demogorge, the monstrous battle-form of Atum, the Sun God. After he had consumed all the corrupted gods, he expelled their raw god-stuff which blanketed the Earth until it was stirred into life again when the first thinking beings filled it with their dreams, hopes, aspirations, ideals and fears; then, from it were born the gods and devils we know. Marvel comics used to be pretty great.

Um...

Well, in the comics, it's like this: about 800,000 years ago, the Earth was visited by giant cosmic gods that we call the Celestials. They took the ancestors of humanity - Homo erectus, at the time - and transformed some of them through genetic engineering. The first group, however, turned out to be genetically unstable, so that each individual was unique, and over time cullings were deemed necessary to dispose of those who were too monstrous. They ended up living in vast cities underground. These beings are known as the Deviants. The second group were pretty much perfect. They were beautiful, intelligent and gifted, and the Celestials made them part of the 'system', that is to say, the Earth, so that the would be immortal; even if they did die, they would be reformed almost instantly in 'the machine'. These beings would serve the Celestials and guard the planet. They went to live on mountaintops and high plateaus. They were known as the Eternals. The third group was seemingly unchanged. They continued to evolve naturally until they had become Homo sapiens, and are known as Humans. However, the Celestials had in fact made changes to the effect that humans can develop super-powers. This is why super-powered people exist at all. This has been Marvel canon for some time now. The mystery was the why of all of this. The maxi-series 'Earth X' tried to explain it: the Celestials reproduce by implanting an embryo of their own kind inside a planet and letting it develop for millions of years as it feeds on the planet's life force. In order to protect the embryo, the Celestials empower the local population to defend it, like a planetary immune system against alien invaders and natural disasters. Earth is one of the few planets that has managed to deflect even Galactus, the Devourer of Worlds; in 'Earth X' it is stated he does not so much feed on planets , or the life force of planets, as he hunts down and consumes developing Celestial embryos. The movie will likely go its own way, though.