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  • It’s definitely what she’s trying to do, she’ll bring up building a “new Avengers team” but it won’t stick, Red Guardian will keep calling the team Thunderbolts instead, and then there won’t be another movie with them before Secret Wars anyway so that team name will be the running gag for 10 minutes. Maybe someone will make a passing throwaway line about those new weird Wallmart Avengers (just like Yelena with John here) and that’s it.






  • It’s well known that Marvel has done a wide variety of genres. The period piece/war movie, the Shakespearean drama, the heist movie, the space opera, the mystic stuff, the ethnic sociology piece, the spy movie - and then there’s the TV shows like Wanda’s literal sitcom, the mental drama in Moon Knight, surviving with general trauma in Hawkeye, a bit of classic horror with Werewolf by night, Agatha is doing pure witch drama, Falcon and WS was an international buddy cop show… Black Widow tried going hard as a super spy thriller (the Soviet style sleeper cell family that breaks up then reunites, the international assassin syndicate), it was just terribly done.

    A lot of these do have their own genre and just happen to feature someone with superpowers. Is Winter Soldier (Cap 2 I mean) not just James Bond with a frisbee and the muscles to hold a helicopter or punch a car? Is Ant-Man 1 really a superhero movie if you take him out of Civil War and Avengers? Sure, there’s some overlap, and it’s never really “pure so-and-so genre” but always in the context of this shared universe. But it’s definitely more varied than some give it credit for.

    It’s only in the latest phases that they don’t know what else to do while still introducing new faces (yes, there’s been a bunch of misses, but some are still working well). Would Blade as a gothic horror romance work? Is too much special effects the problem?





  • Oh Luke was definitely asking her about their birth mother, knowing that it was the same woman. The question here is that Leia didn’t know what he was talking about. Since she gives him an answer about someone who died when Leia was young, maybe she’s just thinking that Bail remarried later.

    Before the prequel trilogy came out, it could have been their birth mother she was talking about, and she just didn’t know that Luke was her brother; but after ep 3 came out, and we see Padme die, we have to assume Leia was adopted by the Organas, but Bail’s wife died when Leia was young and he later remarried, and Leia is thinking about that woman after Padme and before Bail’s new wife, thinking that she is her real mom.

    And yeah, it’s completely possible that Lucas originally intended for Padme to be the one Leia was talking about, but the point is, the movies don’t actually specify if she meant Padme or the middle wife, so it can still be explained.


  • That detail wasn’t in any of the movies so the line in ep 6 still makes sense the way you thought. I’m pretty sure anyone would assume that’s what she meant, since we never hear that she knew she was adopted. Whoever made Bail’s wife die in the explosion of Alderaan is the one who messed up, or Lucas ignored that addition when making episode I.








  • The main canon has been dancing around it for a bit but the theme that Jedi ideals are actually shit has been around for a while, ever since the prequel trilogy showed that their complacency allowed fascism and corruption to rise and spread easily. I thought episode 3 showed the rift pretty well: Jedi don’t like to leave strong force-sensitive kids on their own because they don’t trust random nobodies to raise them “properly” therefore they make a law that they can check up on every single kid being born (but only if they want to and with the parents approval!) and obviously people don’t trust the guvmint surveilling every single planet and kidnapping their kids.

    I’m leaning toward “the Jedi did really do it” because they thought they were up against crazy religious fundies (especially with Joe No Chair apologizing to the point of drinking the poison voluntarily), and I’m looking forward to the real answer, whether it confirms or denies my expectations.