Awards and Marvel.

[rogueslayer452]

++ Aubrey Plaza was the host again for the Film Independent Spirit Awards, and her opening monologue was fantastic. I mean, everything about her is fantastic regardless, but I love her hosting ability. She proves to be entertaining and hilarious even when it's out of her comfort zone. I would say the second most entertaining aspect of this event was the Gay Man's Choir segment, which was absolutely hilarious and so perfect.

++ The Oscars was a thing that happened, and I don't care much for it except for learning that Parasite swept the awards and Taika Waititi winning, both making history. So happy for both.

++ If there's ever an article that describes my feelings about the death of Marvel television, it is this one right here. It highlights the precise reasons why I feel so bitter and devastated and angry by all of it, and I'm glad that the sentiment is shared by others and that there are actually articles being written about how much of a travesty it is. Basically, what made Marvel television so important and worthwhile was that it actually took creative risks, it wasn't afraid to do something different and challenging and to push the envelope a little bit. From tackling difficult and serious subject matters to having inclusion of varying degrees, Marvel television was able to do this spanning across many different networks and services. The MCU has never been that, mostly because the film industry is not that forward-thinking. Even now with the planned MCU-based shows, while it's too early to judge, it's still underneath Disney which is very controlling and very strict with maintaining its "family friendly" content for its streaming service by playing it safe.

The reason I loved Marvel television was because it wasn't the MCU. It existed in the same universe, but it did its own thing, had its own stories to explore and to go in a direction that wasn't entirely beholden to the MCU/Disney formula. Now that is gone in favor of the corporate franchise machine, and it fucking blows. It didn't even have to be like this, we could've had the best of both worlds with Marvel shows on Hulu while MCU shows on Disney+. But nope, couldn't have that.

(I know I'm a broken record at this point, but it's something I don't think I'll ever get over. It all started when Netflix cancelled their Marvel lineup and it just spiraled from there.)

Comments

[haebin.livejournal.com]

I didn't watch the Oscars but I was interested in the outcome. I am happy that Joaquin Phoenix won, but sad that Adam Driver didn't. ^^
Until yet I didn't watch Parasite but I heard a lot of good things about it. So glad that the movie got the Oscar. So well deserved.

[perpetual.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, Aubrey Plaza! I don't usually watch anything awards-show related but this was totally worth it.

[silverusagi]

RIP Marvel TV. Weirdly, the one I'm saddest about is The Punisher, because I got way more interested in that than I thought I would. But Jessica Jones definitely deserved more. I got kind of bored with Daredevil by the end...

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

I think the only Marvel show that is getting a proper ending is Agents of SHIELD, which will be having its seventh and final season this year.

I'm more upset about the other shows that didn't get the time they deserved to fully flesh out their stories. Cloak & Dagger and Runaways really hurts the most personally because I felt like they were heading into some interesting and amazing directions, and it sucks that they won't be able to. With the Netflix Marvel shows, it sucks that they didn't even end the way they wanted to. Granted, I don't think their scheduling of the shows worked out as well as they intended (I mean, it took four years for Jessica Jones to have its second season after the first premiered, it shouldn't have taken that long), and having these shows basically not get their endings that they deserved, to wrap things up properly, was definitely not good. I mean, Netflix is horrible when it comes to that anyway, but still. I'm just going to be forever mad about how all of this went down. We're definitely losing something amazing with all these different shows and what they provided.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

I love anything she does, really. She manages to make something dull into something entertaining, and I love it. :)

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

I haven't yet seen Parasite either, however I have heard amazing things about it from those who have. It's nice seeing an international film win these awards at the Oscars, including winning for Best Picture. I know that this might just be the Academy pulling the "look we're very diverse see???" card they sometimes do, but regardless seeing Bong Joon-ho look so utterly delighted when holding the award was incredibly sweet. :)

[violateraindrop]

The only movie I watched that won an Oscar is Toy Story 4 and I thought it was not as good as the previous movies. I haven't seen any of the other animated movies, but I can't believe that it truly was the best of the bunch. It probably just won because it's Pixar :/

I thought that Agent Carter and AoS (at least at first) were pretty close to the MCU in terms of style and following the rules of the MCU. I don't understand why they canceled the Hulu shows when they own it now anyway. Disney+ doesn't even have Marvel shows yet. And I'm tired of thinking about the Netflix shows because I don't want to get mad about it again.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

I know that Agents of SHIELD was underneath contract to coincide with the MCU when it premiered (it's why the first season didn't start picking up until the HYDRA reveal), and both Agent Carter and AOS have borrowed characters from the MCU (Peggy Carter, Sif, Maria Hill, Nick Fury), so they would have to be pretty close in that regard. Otherwise though, the other shows didn't have to follow with those rules and guidelines to stay connected with the MCU outside of making references.

I'm still so confused when it comes to Hulu, because I thought that would've at least been a safe bet since Disney does own it anyway, and there were plans on having more Marvel shows premiere on the service in the future. It just seems like Kevin Feige just wants all Marvel to be MCU-related and nothing else, and thus wiped everything else out entirely to focus on that. Which is extremely unfair and it makes me so angry.

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

I've been catching up on Criminal Minds and Aubrey Plaza reappeared and she's just fantastic! I have enjoyed her in everything I've watched her in.

I'm with you entirely on the Oscars.

I wasn't a fan of all of the Marvel TV shows but I really enjoyed some and I love the idea of the expanding universe that all tied together. It was such a great creative project and it's crap that it's just going away.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

I saw a gifset of her on CM recently and she looked like she was having so much fun with the role she was in. :)

Many of the Marvel shows existed in their own stories, doing their own thing, while being interconnected in some way. It might not have seemed like it, but there was always a reference or so in a number of them (Cloak & Dagger made a reference to characters from the Netflix Marvel shows, for example). To lose this kind of creativity, of showing the different characters of the Marvel universe without it being immediately linked to the MCU, is such a damn travesty. I hate whoever thought this was a good idea, I hate how Disney bought Marvel and it's turned into this war of property. I just, ugh. It really didn't have to be like this. But greed will always get the best of people, especially big corporations. *sigh*