Tag: The Avengers
REVIEW: Hawkeye – Episode 4 “Partners, Am I Right?”
Every so often, a show will deliver an episode that, though unintentionally, perfectly encapsulates the series as a whole. “Partners, Am I Right?” is that for Hawkeye, at least so far. It gives the characters a breather after last week’s action-heavy episode, and while a few meaningful moments...
Read MoreREVIEW: Hawkeye – Episode 3 “Echoes”
“Echoes” is the most frustrating kind of episode. On the one hand, it’s easily the best Hawkeye’s been yet and has some excellent character work and a fun action sequence. However, it’s also got the show’s shortcomings in full effect, and the contrast teases what Hawkeye could have and s...
Read MoreREVIEW: Hawkeye – Episode 2 “Hide and Seek”
“Hide and Seek,” the second part of Hawkeye’s premiere twofer, takes one step forward and two steps back. It’s a big improvement in the acting department, but it’s also a meandering drag with a silly sidequest for Clint and plodding melodrama for Kate. And it gives us our first indication ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Hawkeye – Episode 1 “Never Meet Your Heroes”
Hawkeye, Marvel’s latest Diseny+ series aimed at replacing one of their beloved heroes with a new… sorry, I mean expanding their already expansive cinematic universe in new and exciting ways, has dropped. (In doing so, it’s made me break my tradition of avoiding Christmas-related activities ti...
Read MoreSquare-Enix Appropriately Labels Marvel’s Avengers a Disappointment… FINALLY
Square-Enix had to admit something that has been apparent to the players of Marvel’s Avengers since its release: that the game is “disappointing.” In the 2021 annual report, Yosuke Matsuda, the company president and representative director of the game, called it “an ambitious title for us in...
Read MoreMarvel Reshot Finale All-Female Scene Multiple Times to Be Less Pandering
According to a new book by executive producer Trinh Tran, the “all-female” segment of the final battle in Avengers: Endgame went through extensive reshoots because the original was criticized as “pandering.” So, it went from “pandering” to “contrived;” suppose that’s better. The St...
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