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Roommate H has a Disney+ subscription; fair game to share it, given that we're in the same household. So I started watching WandaVision and quickly caught up on all six episodes. It is delightfully weird, edging on nightmarish horror. Nothing visceral, thankfully--that's not at all my genre. Anyway, I do recommend it so far, and there are three episodes left in season one.
FYI, Disney+ doesn't release shows as a complete season. One episode per week is what you get with their original shows.
Oh, hey, a link! WandaVision Empathizes With its Characters Better Than Any Other MCU Project. Spoilers through 1.06
Anyway, due to watching WandaVision, I decided I would watch (parts of) Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame for the first time. I had lost interest in the ensemble MCU films a while back, although I knew key spoilers for both films. ( spoilers? ish? )
The tl;dr version of that: while there were a few things I enjoyed in the movies, and I might have liked them well enough if I'd watched them with a live audience in a movie theater, skipping them was a valid choice. And if you're interested in the show and want to know the relevant spoilers, let me know in the comments. Because YOU shouldn't have to watch the bloated endgame that was Endgame if you don't want to.
You could probably watch the show without knowing anything about the MCU movies. The show does and will tie into the films, but it would still be an interesting series without the background knowledge. Just not quite as rich an experience. Elizabeth Olsen is fantastic in the role of Wanda Maximoff--I didn't care about her character at all in the MCU films, but given a leading role and some interesting writing, she really shines.
My current question: ( speculation about Marvel's plans for show and films )
Roommate H doesn't like musicals--in theory. Turns out that she doesn't like modern musicals, and their frantic pacing, singing, and visuals. We watched the Whitney Houston-produced version of Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, and she loved it. So if you have any film recommendations for older musicals, let me know.
I'm still on a romance novel kick, which--no doubt--has everything to do with being in the middle of a pandemic. Stress in real life --> no desire for stressful stories. Ten Things I Hate About the Duke, by Loretta Chase, fit the bill for low-stress fun romance. I... can't recall if I skipped the sex scenes in this one? I tend to do that. Anyway, this novel is an adaptation of the movie Ten Things I Hate About You, which was an adaptation of Shakespear's The Taming of the Shrew. Wisely, the book author designated the duke as the one in need of reformation. I'm quite sure there are MANY anachronistic things in the story; I'm also sure I don't care.
FYI, Disney+ doesn't release shows as a complete season. One episode per week is what you get with their original shows.
Oh, hey, a link! WandaVision Empathizes With its Characters Better Than Any Other MCU Project. Spoilers through 1.06
Anyway, due to watching WandaVision, I decided I would watch (parts of) Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame for the first time. I had lost interest in the ensemble MCU films a while back, although I knew key spoilers for both films. ( spoilers? ish? )
The tl;dr version of that: while there were a few things I enjoyed in the movies, and I might have liked them well enough if I'd watched them with a live audience in a movie theater, skipping them was a valid choice. And if you're interested in the show and want to know the relevant spoilers, let me know in the comments. Because YOU shouldn't have to watch the bloated endgame that was Endgame if you don't want to.
You could probably watch the show without knowing anything about the MCU movies. The show does and will tie into the films, but it would still be an interesting series without the background knowledge. Just not quite as rich an experience. Elizabeth Olsen is fantastic in the role of Wanda Maximoff--I didn't care about her character at all in the MCU films, but given a leading role and some interesting writing, she really shines.
My current question: ( speculation about Marvel's plans for show and films )
Roommate H doesn't like musicals--in theory. Turns out that she doesn't like modern musicals, and their frantic pacing, singing, and visuals. We watched the Whitney Houston-produced version of Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, and she loved it. So if you have any film recommendations for older musicals, let me know.
I'm still on a romance novel kick, which--no doubt--has everything to do with being in the middle of a pandemic. Stress in real life --> no desire for stressful stories. Ten Things I Hate About the Duke, by Loretta Chase, fit the bill for low-stress fun romance. I... can't recall if I skipped the sex scenes in this one? I tend to do that. Anyway, this novel is an adaptation of the movie Ten Things I Hate About You, which was an adaptation of Shakespear's The Taming of the Shrew. Wisely, the book author designated the duke as the one in need of reformation. I'm quite sure there are MANY anachronistic things in the story; I'm also sure I don't care.