@notmikefrollo It's Quicksilver from the X-Men movie universe. This is the first real sign of actual X-Men/mutants in the official MCU. Most of us Marvel geeks are pretty damn hyped about that.
@thunderztormdk I have seen two X-Men movies and if I had known I was expected to know everything about Marvel before going into this show I never would have started it in the first place.
@notmikefrollo As with EVERY Marvel TV-show and movie, they get better when you understand the references and hints. Why is this a problem now, and not 15 years ago when they started doing it?
Also, what part of the plot didn't you understand. Her brother is back, but it's not the brother she, or anyone else, knows. That's the plot point. The fact that the X-Men movie fans knows his backstory is at this point not relevant to the TV-shows plot at all.
@thunderztormdk The way it was shot it set up a HUGE reveal for who this guy is, like he's some famous actor or some character we've seen a bunch before. And then it was...some guy I didn't recognize. So then there's a joke about recasting him and I think, so he's just...another actor. Okay, I guess the other guy wasn't available? That's fine, I guess. But weird that it was shot like some big reveal. And then I have to go on line and read what other people thought just to know that it actually WAS a big reveal. That's bad storytelling to me, whether or not I understood what was literally happening in the plot of the show.
And believe me, this has ALWAYS been a problem for me with these movies. I resigned myself a long time ago to the fact that I was going to have to slog through the MCU movies I wasn't interested in, just to understand what was happening in the ones I DID like, and now it turns out....oops! I was ALSO supposed to watch these OTHER movies too!
@notmikefrollo Tbh that's always been Marvel's thing though. Way back in the early 60s, they started connecting their comic books in a way so you'd only get the FULL picture of the universe if you read ALL of them. If you ONLY read Spider-Man, you'll miss a lot of Spider-Man plot threads and storylines based on his guest appearances in all the other comics, for example.
@thunderztormdk And that's why I never read Marvel comics. Every time I would try as a kid I would be so confused. I pretty much stuck to my Archie comics. Last month I read Tom King's Vision which I thought did a pretty good job telling a story that had lots of lore and continuity with other comics, but in a way that was pretty accessible to someone like me who was unfamiliar with all of it. Look, references are fun, and extended continuity can be fun, but when it starts to feel like homework, when it feels like I HAVE to read/watch everything or else I won't get the FULL story, that's when I lose interest. Hard.
@notmikefrollo The guy is Pietro, Wanda's brother. But instead of the actor we have seen in Age of Ultron this is the actor from the X-Men series.
Shout by Mike FrolloBlockedParent2021-02-05T18:50:04Z
This episode's sitcom parody was maybe the most accurate yet (except that they just gave up and shot it in widescreen) but whenever it cuts back to the "real world" the show just loses all steam for me. I love Randall Park and Kat Dennings in those roles, but those scenes are filled with such clunky, expository dialogue they're just not enjoyable. I didn't understand why people were so excited about that ending at all because I didn't recognize that guy. Maybe I'm crazy, but I kinda feel like you shouldn't have to google actors' past work to understand plot points of a TV show!