Sir Heartbreaker

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When the lights dimmed, the theater attendant running the projector shouted “LET’S F**KING GO!!” My theater responded with loud cheers of anticipation, and these cheers only grew louder throughout the film. This is the best Deadpool, this is the best Wolverine, THIS is MARVEL!!

I remain confused why people want to hate this movie so much that they turn nitpicks into full blown criticisms. “Are we going to talk about the moral implications of Steve being in some random dude’s body?” “Doesn’t a near world ending event disrupt the canon?” For God sakes, Superman: The Movie and Tim Burton’s Batman both had issues that make the ones in this film look like a day at the beach, but nobody cares. Why? Because they’re nitpicks and there’s nothing wrong with suspending disbelief as long as the story itself is quality and enjoyable. So I’m really not certain why we all just changed our minds when it comes to this film. It’s an enjoyable, fun superhero movie that even gets emotional towards the end, whilst spreading a beautiful message about humanity. The only legitimate criticism I have is that Cheetah did feel rather shoe horned in, but it wasn’t enough to ruin the movie. Absolutely loved it, for anyone scared to watch it after hearing how bad it is, just watch it for yourself and form your own opinion.

If you thought Edgerunners tugged at your heartstrings, let me just say that this expansion manages to do so with even more vigor, thanks in no small part to you yourself being a character in the story and your decisions determining the outcome. Now, as much as I love, and I do mean LOVE both the base game's campaign and Edgerunners' story, even those monoliths of storytelling pale in comparison to what Phantom Liberty accomplishes. This is CD Projekt Red's Mona Lisa of narratives within this universe, I'd even go as far as to say their Mona Lisa of narratives within ANY of their universes. This expansion is art in it's purest form and I SINCERELY hope skeptics give it it's flowers.

Spoilers for the final season ahead: The overall pacing of this season was strange, and it felt overstuffed and uncertain of which new storylines it wanted to create, while also failing to properly conclude storylines that came before. The finale is perhaps the best example of this; I felt as if I hadn't seen Otis and Maeve together romantically enough for it to justify the show ending with them parting ways. Had there been more time spent showing them together romantically, there would have been more incentive for me to feel the intended bittersweet emotions the ending was going for. But as there wasn't, I instead felt cheated, as if the four total seasons of their connection was a complete waste of time. I'm not of the belief that showing too little of them romantically in and of itself is what ruined the show, but if that's the direction you choose to go, then a simple "happy ending" in which they stay together is the only instance in which any of their development feels worth it. TLDR: Otis and Maeve should most definitely have stayed together in the finale, and how the writers failed to see that truly astonishes me.

After a slow but steady start, the previous 3 episodes were an absolute masterclass of dramatic television writing. And then the last episode comes along, and, as was the case with Game of Thrones, displays how a terrible finale can ruin an entire show. I've never been more confused as to what exactly the writers were thinking when writing a finale. And I've come to the conclusion that they simply weren't thinking at all. "Why continue to write with excellence when there's another project on the horizon that we're hoping to get fans hooked? We'll just make no attempt to write a decent finale, get our paycheck, and move on." All in all, the MCU as a whole has been on a slow decline in quality story telling over the last three years, but this works as the ultimate culmination of a studio putting quantity over quality.