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Disney Plus’ first original Marvel Production, WandaVision, proved to be a hit with fans. With the currently Marvel Comics films being put on pause due to the big COVID virus, moving production to a weekly television program seems to make the most sense. Instead of fans gathering to view a movie in a theater, they can view the story in their isolated homes.
What is really nice about the television program is that you really explore the two Avengers characters: Scarlet Witch (Wanda) and the Vision, learning more about the two… something that you couldn’t do in an all-star cast of a typical Avengers film.
At first, seeing WandaVision as old homage to I Love Lucy, Dick Van Dyke Show, etc., was unique and interesting… but it got old real fast. I felt like those show parodies were just stretching out the series… when all I really wanted was to see the real-world story.
For the most part, WandaVision plays out the story very straight-forward, answering the mystery of why Wanda was living her life as a “television show” and introducing our villain of the show. Unfortunately, all the fan theories were way off base, leading to massive disappointments. Theories that didn’t pan out: WandaVision didn’t introduce mutants in the Marvel Universe (even though they casted the same actor to appear as Quicksilver from the X-Men film), Mephisto didn’t appear (even though he was the co-star of The Vision and Scarlet Witch comic book series), and final boss fight wasn’t anywhere near as cool as fans wanted.
Personally speaking, I felt the ending was underwhelming. Characters were introduced and disappeared in the same episode… characters like Darcy Lewis barely appeared in the finale… Monica Rambeau (the other Captain Marvel) was given powers, but felt out of nowhere (obviously they needed her to have powers for the next Captain Marvel film).
As the first in in “Phase Four” of the MCU, I thought it was pretty good (if you dial down your expectations). I am looking forward to Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (which the Scarlet Witch will co-star in), and, of course, the second television show The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
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It seemed forever and a day when we first heard about the Superman & Lois show (announced in 2019). I think last saw Superman (and Lois) in Supergirl… when he left that Earth and disappeared to another Earth. I’m sorry, I don’t have all my Earths sorted out… I just know that in this Superman & Lois earth, it seems like Arrow or Supergirl doesn’t exist on this Earth (I could be wrong, but based on the episodes we’re given, there aren’t any other superheroes on this Earth).
Based on the pilot and second episode, Superman & Lois seems like a decent show, even though it’s plagued by that CW problem of being poorly written and overdramatic. I sometime don’t fault The CW, they have a limited budget and it is what it is… but somehow, the Superman & Lois show looks like they got a lot of production money. The show looks good and cinematic (unlike their other CW shows).
The setup to the show is that Clark Kent and Lois Lane decided to move their family back to Smallville. Apparently, they also have two teenage boys (I must’ve missed something since I don’t think they had children in Supergirl). One boy is a happy all-American popular football kid, while the other is a moody/gothy depression kid. I know I’m not the market for this teenage-storyline, so I personally do not care about these boys.
I’m also not really that interested in Lois Lane’s storyline… which is trying to investigate Morgan Edge, the owner of The Daily Planet, and how he’s trying to exploit Smallville. I felt like the show didn’t paint Edge as an evil monster, in fact, it looks like he’s trying to bring jobs to Smallville and that Loise Lane is in the wrong.
The storyline that I’m most interested in is the mysterious (black) Lex Luthor from another Earth … hellbent on destroying Superman. You understand his motivation for trying to destroy Superman, but if you think about it, it totally doesn’t make any sense. Sure, that other Superman from Lex Luthor’s earth was evil, but clearly, this is not the same Superman.
Like all CW shows, I am originally interested in the first few episodes… but as the show goes on, I am often disappointed in the show. The CW just does not have a good track record for keeping me interested.
Still, Superman & Lois will hold me over, until Netflix’s Jupiter's Legacy (the new Mark Millar show) debut in mid-2021.
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