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  • I wonder if Frank and Bullseye would get along.

    Bullseye kept repeating his one good deed phrase, wanting to kill Fisk. Killing the AVTF guys weakens Fisk. But Bullseye didn’t kill the restaurant dog guy. He called it unsanitary, but otherwise left him alone.

    I also wonder if Bullseye would have actually killed his neighbor. It seemed like it was just a false threat for Matt. Would Frank take a false hostage? Probably not.

    We gotta get them all in a room.




  • Better than season 1? Absolutely.

    If you started season 1 then the first episode of that season (and the last, once you get to it) are better parallels to this season.

    I don’t think the show (in season 2) has yet found it’s… Place? Yet. I do think we’re heading there. We’re four episodes in and I like everything I’ve seen, and I want to keep watching, and while there have been a lot of solid character moments… It’s been slow.

    I think if you’re looking for someone to tell you that you need to watch this show right now. I don’t think you do. Based on the trajectory do I expect to be wrong by the finale? Yes. I think it’s coming together, but it’s been slow so far. It’s still behaving like a first season, finding it’s way, while being the second.


  • Much like last season where Kamala Khan was “visiting friends in San Francisco” or whatever I’m willing to say the same for Kate Bishop. She’s training with Clint Barton or whatever.

    However I completely agree that the (New) Avengers should have an opinion. I guess you could argue that Valentina is keeping them busy since she needs to do whatever illegal arms thing is going on, but why?

    Why is Valentina trading in illegal arms? Why is Fisk trading in illegal arms? Even in this episode the Governor brought up with Vanessa. You could do basically whatever you want, why with Fisk? And with Fisk, why deal in illegal arms?

    He’s the mayor of New York. He’s gotten laws changed. People love him. Those that don’t disappear. He runs the city.


  • Honestly just give me a Bullseye show. The intro at the diner was fantastic.

    Also this season is the biggest trailer for Frank Castle I’ve ever seen. Allegedly he isn’t in this season since the actor was filming Spider-Man. However I think Frank has been name dropped in every episode so far. I don’t know what his story is or how it fits into this season, but it feels like this season is building up to “Here is what Frank has been up to”. I don’t know if it’s a standalone or a deep tie in.

    As for Vanessa. I’m guessing if she died we would have known this episode. Since it lingered I’m guessing hospital bound for the rest of the season.

    Hell of an episode, but I don’t really know what we’re heading towards.


  • So certainly there are potential personal advantages to hiring a black director for a film based on the character Black Panther. Ryan Coogler did an excellent job with the first Black Panther film. The second film struggled a bit more, but he also had to tell a nearly impossible story (with the passing of Chadwick Boseman). However the character of Black Panther was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, two white dudes, or to be more specific Jewish-Americans.

    Maybe we say “well that was the 1960s/1970s”. Let’s look at Miles Morales (Spider-Man). Created in 2011 by, Brian Michael Bendis, again another “white dude” or Jewish-American.

    I absolutely don’t want to discount the potential a black director might be able to bring to an X-Men series. However it’s not a strict requirement for the X-Men. X-Men storylines are often a mirror of racism and civil rights movements. If the films completely ignored that, then it will probably not be a good film, or at the least not a good representation of what the X-Men are.

    Going back to the Thunderbolts, no they do not cover social issues that are key to the X-Men. They are both outcasts, but Thunderbolts deals more with the idea of identity, depression, self-worth, themes like that. Certainly X-Men also deal with those themes, but I they are not the same story. You wouldn’t swap X-Men into the Thunderbolts story, at least not without making some specific character changes.

    Thunderbolts tells a good story. I have my complaints, but overall we get a good story. If we can tell a good story with X-Men, then we’re in for a good film.