I don't think you're going to miss anything in The Marvels if you haven't seen SI, or anything else that's planned for upcoming Marvel stuff, either. Like I said, it's mostly so pointless, I bet a two-minute conversation on-screen would cover the concepts just fine. :P
The Loki trailer DID look good. I enjoyed season 1 of Loki but I didn't love it the way I expected to, and I can't quite articulate why -- but I will definitely be there for season 2. And I am properly excited about The Marvels later this year, which looks awesome.
I enjoyed it a lot, even though it wasn't perfect. Mostly I think it had pacing problems; the challenge of slow reveals on different information in the TVA, plus explaining the whole multiverse mess of Kang, left a looooot of exposition too late in the game. But I had so much fun as it went along, that I mostly didn't care.
Someone said it was like a very long Doctor Who episode, so if you are sick of Doctor Who, I can see that being a challenge to liking it too. It did involve a lot of running and some tangents and dead-ends for the sake of explosions. :D Plus, some people found the whole Loki-and-Sylvie situation to be... questionable? Iffy? Weird? Unresolved? Vague? Which, yeah, but by the end I was okay with that.
My biggest problem was the way it made the whole question of the Infinity Stones and Thanos seem to be dismissible, keeping so many of them in a little drawer like tchotckes. I was still too raw from Infinity War and losing so many characters to be okay with that. But overall, I loved it. Your mileage may of course vary (kilometerage? ).
But miles and miles better than the hanging questions and unresolved issues of Secret Invastion, man. Gah!
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Date: 2023-08-01 04:22 pm (UTC)I don't think you're going to miss anything in The Marvels if you haven't seen SI, or anything else that's planned for upcoming Marvel stuff, either. Like I said, it's mostly so pointless, I bet a two-minute conversation on-screen would cover the concepts just fine. :P
The Loki trailer DID look good. I enjoyed season 1 of Loki but I didn't love it the way I expected to, and I can't quite articulate why -- but I will definitely be there for season 2. And I am properly excited about The Marvels later this year, which looks awesome.
I enjoyed it a lot, even though it wasn't perfect. Mostly I think it had pacing problems; the challenge of slow reveals on different information in the TVA, plus explaining the whole multiverse mess of Kang, left a looooot of exposition too late in the game. But I had so much fun as it went along, that I mostly didn't care.
Someone said it was like a very long Doctor Who episode, so if you are sick of Doctor Who, I can see that being a challenge to liking it too. It did involve a lot of running and some tangents and dead-ends for the sake of explosions. :D Plus, some people found the whole Loki-and-Sylvie situation to be... questionable? Iffy? Weird? Unresolved? Vague? Which, yeah, but by the end I was okay with that.
My biggest problem was the way it made the whole question of the Infinity Stones and Thanos seem to be dismissible, keeping so many of them in a little drawer like tchotckes. I was still too raw from Infinity War and losing so many characters to be okay with that. But overall, I loved it. Your mileage may of course vary (kilometerage? ).
But miles and miles better than the hanging questions and unresolved issues of Secret Invastion, man. Gah!