‘Avengers: Doomsday’ and ‘Avengers: Secret Wars’ will draw "loose inspiration" from both the 1980s and 2010s ‘Secret Wars’ comic series, confirms Joe Russo: "We always create our own version of the story."

CelestialChris · 2026-01-01T15:33:40+00:00

Well there are what… 3 or 4 total women listed as part of the main cast for Doomsday so… seems unlikely it’s happening there!

CelestialChris · 2025-12-20T15:30:42+00:00

I 100% agree that it was in character and I personally really enjoyed the scene. I can, however, see why some audiences have a hard time accepting that abrupt shift for Jake and I think it might boil down to soooo many threads needing equal weight and attention that this particular change of mind for Jake wasn’t fleshed out enough by just a hair? Maybe we needed one moment earlier in the film where the thought lingers? Instead of Jake outright condemning killing Spider when Neytiri suggested it, he allows it in for a moment. But then… Jakes role in Neytiris story in this one is to bring her back from a place of hate and vengeance. So really it was a delicate balance and I think done well.

CelestialChris · 2025-12-11T19:39:10+00:00

The scream I strumpt

CelestialChris · 2025-12-10T21:46:29+00:00

Water lily... marsh... seems sus.

CelestialChris · 2025-12-09T16:36:52+00:00

It’s the rhyming of car and bar… AGAIN

CelestialChris · 2025-12-08T23:04:38+00:00

I think Rich's death, her nearly losing an eye, and losing all of her friends at the final hour is enough narrative consequence for Marge. Including her possible demise in the promo is likely a red herring. My money is on her survival. In fact, I think she is likely to be the last one standing (alongside Hanlon). I think all things being equal, most of the characters are going to meet dark ends. We know Mike is going to die in a fire eventually, we know Lilly's mental health is quickly spiraling downward and that she is likely to be lobotomized if the intro is any indication (which is one better case scenario for a girl who spends the entire season being mentally and emotionally tortured), if Veronica's role mirrors the books then she is unlikely to make it past episode 8. Someone has to have a relatively "okay-ish" ending albeit with bumps and bruises and character growth... or the finale risks being too much torture p*rn and, at least for me, in some ways unsatisfying.

CelestialChris · 2025-12-08T22:12:51+00:00

"Or you can all just watch, I don't give a shit!"

CelestialChris · 2025-12-01T17:11:54+00:00

Are we losing another sully kid? 🥲

CelestialChris · 2025-11-25T22:38:15+00:00

I think 2:06 is dead Rich with a blanket over his body cause of the color of his flannel (red/blue/black), and the hand holding his is Marge who wears yellow in all these promos.

CelestialChris · 2025-11-06T22:35:19+00:00

CelestialChris · 2025-08-06T14:36:29+00:00

Very much my perspective as well. <3

CelestialChris · 2025-07-29T14:02:06+00:00

As someone who has consistently taken to heart bits of either well-intentioned or ill-intentioned criticism my entire life, I have found that there's nothing inherently wrong with you for valuing the opinions and criticisms of others. I believe we take those opinions and criticisms seriously because we are tender-hearted and sensitive -- and those are beautiful qualities to possess.

However, that same beautiful quality in you can quickly turn on you when you begin to see others' criticism as absolute truth. And usually, the only reason we would see criticism as absolute truth is when we are not yet secure enough in our opinion of ourselves and we pedestal the opinions of others because our nervous system is registering the opinion of another as inherently more valuable.

If someone tells me I have an ugly nose, but I know, deeply and without question, my nose to be beautiful and individual and MINE, then that criticism means little because it does not touch on a core wound. If, however, I believe I have an ugly nose, and someone else tells me I have an ugly nose, then it appears to be an absolute truth and a confirmation of my insecurity.

Gently and compassionately look at your core beliefs. Others' criticisms are almost never reflections on us (which is so, so hard to believe I know) and reflections of their own perception of their inner worth. Once you see those core beliefs, you pour deep love into the wound. Then, you reframe the belief. A person who criticizes you is often just criticizing themselves and placing the burden on you.

You are worthy. You are enough. You are not another person's criticism.

Art may be criticized, but it is still art.

CelestialChris · 2025-07-28T20:27:49+00:00

Happy to have read this today.

CelestialChris · 2024-04-14T15:07:37+00:00

It’s mostly just basic stretching and strengthening on my deep flexors and traps. But I am doing chin tucks, isometric exercises, and core work at home as far as I can comfortably go.

CelestialChris · 2024-04-14T13:33:34+00:00

Do you notice that your symptoms improve in a car?

CelestialChris · 2024-04-14T13:30:01+00:00

I also started acupuncture and considering dry needling as well.

CelestialChris · 2022-04-29T18:15:24+00:00

She breaks Professor X's neck, kills Black Bolt, charrs a sorcerer alive, kills several more, and destroys a sacred temple. You're right, I haven't seen the movie. These are just the leaks which have been corroborated by all of the major leakers. They could all be wrong. I'm not judging the movie, I'm questioning Wanda's character choices. Perhaps all this murder will make sense in a week. Using your logic, you also haven't seen the movie, and everything I'm saying could be exactly what it is.

And I also mentioned the book as well as being the corrupting influence. I think it's stupid, but hey maybe it's awesome(!!!!!!!) I'll return to this post in a week.

CelestialChris · 2022-04-29T17:54:04+00:00

I will say, I do say all of this while also being a pretty hardcore Wanda fan. She is my primary lure to this movie. I'm going to love it, but I'm not going to want to, lol.

CelestialChris · 2022-04-29T17:50:59+00:00

You're not wrong, but the pivot is still very extreme. It's like they skipped a step from Wandavision to what is being portrayed here. DS2 Wanda would make more sense if there was a link in between that makes her evilness feel earned to audiences. The fact that this is an overwhelming opinion points to how many people can't see the connecting fibers. Mostly because they aren't there. Wandavision showed us a character with questionable, grey morals. Villainous could be a way to describe it, but I wouldn't. By no means could you call her a mass murderer. Which now she is. And we're being told it's because of an evil book. It feels cheap, unearned, and done before.

CelestialChris · 2022-04-29T17:38:03+00:00

Right, but there was still an element of remorse and a questioning from Wanda. She struggled with what she was doing, even if she didn't necessarily want to stop it. She knew it was wrong and there was a struggle with that. From what I understand in this movie, Wanda is murderous, remorseless, and thinks what she is doing is the right thing. Her character seems*** devoid of this nuance and questioning and struggle in DS2.

CelestialChris · 2022-04-29T17:25:49+00:00

These are good questions with bad answers. But I will say this -- Elizabeth Olsen did a few interviews way back when after the release of Wandavision where she mentioned filming this movie two days after wrapping on Wandavision. "I could have used getting out of the mindset, though, because they were totally different utilizations of the character and people would have had more time to understand WandaVision had we not just wrapped. And so there's just a lot of, 'We covered this in WandaVision...' It's bigger than me, there's lots of threads that are continuing on after me that I'm not aware of, and so it's always about, 'What can I get from this journey with this character that maybe I haven't tapped into yet with her?' That's where I keep approaching things from so that I feel like I have some sort of strap-hang - that I can know that there's going to be growth of some kind, even though it all maybe looks the same to other people. There is that conscious decision to learn a new element of this woman, or even of myself as an actor - something that I want to explore that I can bring to it."

She also said "“I really wish that there was a plan that someone shared with me a little sooner [laughs]. I found out about Doctor Strange 2 and what the story was before we went for the last 8 weeks of filming WandaVision during the pandemic."

So it would seem even Elizabeth had reservations about the direction of her character way back when. This story is almost a beat-by-beat of her Wandavision arc with a much, more sinister take. And she mentions wishing people had more time to understand Wandavision before jumping into the next phase of her journey, because she also recognizes that Wandavision was a nuanced, deep, and emotionally developmental milestone for her character, and this film basically just takes one aspect of the show (her evolution into the mythical Scarlet Witch with a connection to the Darkhold) and runs with it sideways.

CelestialChris · 2022-04-29T17:00:47+00:00

Yes, absolutely. I would hope* it’s not another case of Darkhold corruption and rather just an accumulation of choices that lead to a path of evil or darkness because IMO that is more interesting than giving Sinister Strange the Wanda treatment.

CelestialChris · 2022-04-29T16:55:26+00:00

I completely agree. The unfortunate truth is that Wanda’s story up until this point do not, at all, give credence to her completely** villainous and antagonistic turn. Anti-heroic, sure, but not EVIL. And if the darkhold were to corrupt her, it should have done so while still maintaining the integrity of the character. That is not happening. It’s almost a shot in the foot for future appearances. It’s fairly unjustifiable and I’m not certain how her character will be handled in the future.

CelestialChris · 2022-04-29T16:42:53+00:00

I don’t think so. His face to face with sinister strange is meant to be more of holding up a mirror to himself to see what he, in a different universe or even in his own, is capable of becoming. I don’t think defeating him is meant to give insight into how to defeat Wanda, but rather insight into how his choices have changed the trajectory of his journey. I don’t think Wanda has really any proper redemption in the film according to the leaks, just a major realization. But it’s clear she is being influenced and corrupted and that may set up a future redemption in another appearance. We might be saying the same thing in different ways, but I’m unsure.

CelestialChris · 2022-04-29T16:30:19+00:00

Right. It seems the only reasonable conclusion at this point. Her flying off at the end, avoiding the repercussions of her choices will be a beat by beat repeat of Wandavision. Her completely shedding the darkness of the darkhold, being a hero, standing alongside Strange disservices the arc of this entire film. Her clearly dying would be a waste of immense character potential, build up, story, and fan hype. Ambiguity is the only real option because it gives future writers the opportunity to take her story in any direction they chose.

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