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You should give 'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier' another watch

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I've been rewatching all the MCU projects directly relevant to "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," which means, last on the list, was "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" (TFATWS). I'll be honest, going into this rewatch list, I was least excited to revisit TFATWS, despite having only seen it through once before. When I first watched it in spring of 2021, there were a couple negative impressions I took away with me that kept me from enjoying the project as a whole: Sam gets way more development than Bucky, despite sharing the show title. Sharon's arc is a bummer, and ruins a character we'd spent two movies learning to like and trust. Sam's big speech at the end misses the mark. I took just three days to watch all six episodes this time, and I really enjoyed myself this time, and after watching it, I've come to terms with two of these three negative impressions, and even feel that the show does a really nice job with each of them. First, some con...
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'Book of Boba Fett' was bad

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Immediately after watching the season finale of "Book of Boba Fett" on Disney+, I took to Twitter to scream into the void. Suffice it to say, I was largely displeased with the experience. I don't have anything new to say about it on the negative side, but I will add some thoughts about what I liked about at the end. I just wanted to collect my thread here in one place, so here it goes. Alright guys, you know me, you know I love #StarWars but I cannot force myself to pretend the finale of #BookofBobaFett was good. We can get better than this. We just did for 2 episodes. Let’s get into it. Needless to say, SPOILER ALERT 1/7 — Ben Axelson (@BenAxelson) February 10, 2022 Been taking issue with Boba’s math all season and it’s peak stupid here. I feel like this dude operates on sheet bravado and nerve. Which is maybe cool for an unrealistic main character but, look, run the numbers again. They lost this fight. 2/7 — Ben Axelson (@BenAxelson) February 10, 2022 There’s n...
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Why did I start the Backlog?

I consume comic book, sci fi, superhero and video game movies, games, TV shows and other media pretty avidly. As I've gotten older, it has become harder and harder to keep up with every thread of all the fictional worlds I would like to. Whether that's because I have a kid and a full-time job and a home to keep or because there's just so much of this stuff out there now, at some point I accepted the fact that I would always be running behind on most of it. So I started keeping a simple list, a backlog of all the things I would like to watch or play or read, so that I could always keep track of what I hadn't gotten to yet, and what to get into next. The second piece is that I often get to the end of a piece of content and have a whole jumble of thoughts that I want to express. My friend group is extremely tolerant of my endless rambling geeky musings via text and IM, but once they're sent and read, they're lost to the ether. As June put it, "you need a j...
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Injustice 2 notes

Injustice 2 tickles the exact spot I want tickled with this type of game, and WHY MARVEL WHY CAN'T YOU MAKE ONE JUST LIKE IT? But I digress. I finished the campaign on medium in around 5 hours I'd estimate. It's really quick, but you're basically watching a 5-hour movie where you're personally responsible for winning all the fights, so 5 hours is a nice, merciful runtime here. Injustice 2 feels like such a clean fighter. My experience in the genre is pretty limited to MK, Injustice and Smash Bros, with MK tending to be my favorite, but this game feels even cleaner than MK11. It's so nice that I'm really tempted to keep playing it, dive into the towers and grind for a while, but that's not the exercise as we know. The story here manages to excite me even more than the actual DCEU, just as it did in the first one. It's not perfect. The Act 2 pivot where Batman releases Superman (right after Blue Beetle and Firestorm just worked so hard to keep Wond...
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