Yes. Comic book issues would map to short 10-20 minute streaming eps. I’m looking forward to Scarlett Witch and Loki, though I guess they’ll be normal in length? It would be a great place to experiment instead of just yucking it up for YooToob.
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How come nobody tries to slice off Thanos’s hand? Why all the punchy stuff?
Like sure it’s PG-13, but Thor lost his eye in a PG-13 movie.
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You and HISHE are on the same wavelength.
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Mushmouthioniollionoire (or whatever New Meowmeow is called) hit square in Malthus’s Champion’s chest with the force of lightning power? And Thor still had to give it a shove.
What do you bet, “You should’ve gone for the head,” is going to haunt that fucker for about nine-thousandths of a second.
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Also, they could just let it fall as a squishy mass of rags like when Valkyrie Gatling-gunned that crowd of people (ne’erdowells! refugees! the unwanted! like you! like Thor! like us!).
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Watching the end credits now… I remember people saying they got emotional in the theatre at the end. I’ve been through too many comic book story arcs for that.
It was well acted, but the writing and editing were weird. The humour and even a lot of the poignant bits seemed awkward. It almost would have been better as just relentless action and loss.
Except for Spider-Man, but that’s because he’s Spider-Man.
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Finally finished. It’s worth watching. Decent research. Covers a lot of ground in going through the long history of how we got here.
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They had a bear of a time inflicting a small cut on Thanos. Might explain why they didn’t get all choppy on him. I suppose Dr. Strange could’ve considering Wong cut off the arm of Thanos’ stooge in NYC?
The pacing of the film assumes you’ve seen all the previous movies, so no main characters require backstory or introduction. It’s also similar to the pacing for the previous two Avenger movies. Might be Joss Whedon’s fault?
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I don’t know. I think that Whedon did a pretty good job of re-introducing the characters and their relationships to each other in each of the two Avengers movies he helmed. The story is richer if you know what all of the references being dropped are referring to, but it still stands alone pretty well.
On the other hand, Infinity War just plain doesn’t make sense if you don’t get what’s being referenced.
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For me, it was more like exciting! tragic! funny! exciting! and so on, but without linkages or flow between them. It was a series of well-acted and well-choreographed scenes, instead of a coherent story.
One review I read questioned the editing. Might have been that.
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American Gods is wavering between being utterly forgettable and irking me with bad decisions like killing off Mad Sweeney, even though I saw it coming from a mile away.
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I read the book. It did not make me want to see the series.
A bunch of creepy human-sacrifice shit with no real point to any of it 
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The series is supposed to be very different from the book, and it’s still problematic even though the first season had a lot of (thus far) unfulfilled promise.
I want to like it, because Gaiman… but the second season makes it really difficult.
Although I gotta tell ya, Orlando Jones as Mr Nancy’s soliloquies are fucking amazing.
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i have not seen any of the tv series at all, but the one thing that endeared me to the book was the idea that the oldest cities and tourist traps in america happen because they are nexus points of old-god worshipping energy. i freaking love that idea so much, i am half-inclined to believe it’s true. i barely remember the human sacrifice part of it at all, actually. i mean, gods kill mortals all the time.
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I slogged through the book. Was not impressed.
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The series is much better than the book. And I never say that.
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Damn, the book must really suck then; even the first season was ‘just okay,’ although it had much potential.
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The book is often annoying. The way he blends various mythologies and cultures is dense and overly mysterious. Not that the show isn’t, but it plays better on video. The screenwriting and especially the dialog is a lot easier to follow.
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I just can’t buy it that Shadow, a supposed long-time hustler and conman, would be so easily manipulated by Wednesday’s neverending bullshit.
I love the way Ricky Whittle looks in the role, but damn if Shadow Moon doesn’t come off as a huge dumbass with no agency whatsoever.
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