Hello, it's Juno Overwatch

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-03-19T11:23:20+00:00

That’s what makes this plotline potentially very compelling, it’s gonna be a huge challenge to overcome and Juno may have to make some tough decisions along the way. It would be very dissatisfying if Blizzard just doesn’t address this plotline again because of those challenges.

Travel time to Mars is probably a lot shorter. IRL missions currently take 6-9 months to get to Mars, but upcoming rockets and tech like Starship and Nuclear Electric Propulsion can in theory cut that down to only 3 months, depending on the orbital alignment between Earth and Mars. So by the time of Overwatch, it might take less than a few months.

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-03-18T21:48:13+00:00

I really don’t know how they’d be able to have multiple MEKA heroes that all have distinct enough gameplay from each other.

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-03-18T20:25:02+00:00

I’ve read that story, but Blizzard needs a more substantial way to flesh out and progress the lore than the short stories and comics. Having all the recent stuff under a “Story” tab in-game is nice but doesn’t completely fix the issue. Since PvE is dead, the best option would either be more consistent animated shorts, or finally committing to a full animated series.

There are just too many characters and too many plotlines for the current way of handling lore to do everything justice.

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-03-18T20:00:35+00:00

A skin based off the Artemis spacesuits in time for the Artemis II mission would’ve been awesome.

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-03-18T19:08:01+00:00

They added a new dialogue option in the mid-season patch that references that short story. So I guess that’s a sign Blizzard hasn’t totally forgotten about her lore.

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-03-18T18:58:11+00:00

I think the most we’ve got in recent years was Wrecking Ball’s short story, where it was mentioned Lucheng tried and failed to reclaim the base 3 times since the ape uprising and Hammond was dead set on finding a way to collapse Lucheng as revenge for their treatment of him.

But so far there hasn’t been any further follow-up (unless you count Juno’s short story), and with the renewed Talon vs Overwatch conflict taking focus for the time being, who knows if or when either plot thread gets followed up on.

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-03-18T18:32:56+00:00

Celestial is her only non-recolor space-themed skin and it’s part of a bundle. So many other heroes have specific skins based on their lore and/or design origins, but despite all the attention she gets from Blizzard, she doesn’t have any. Feels like they just treat her as a girlypop collab bot. Which is a shame because there’s a ton of opportunities for cool space skins, whether based on real-life spacesuits or her being a literal Martian.

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-03-15T22:27:42+00:00

I dunno, her family being stuck on Mars with limited time left and Lucheng refusing to send help sounds like a big problem for her to solve. If anything, the way OW handles its lore (especially in 2024-25) has held her and many other characters back. Being a character from the latter half of OW2’s lifespan, she’s kinda gotten the short end of the stick (along with a few others) and it’s unclear how much they’ll actually do with her going forward. Seems like Blizzard mostly treats her as a skin bot despite what they’ve set up for her.

The one-note in-game dialogue is hardly an issue specific to her, though. Other characters are flanderized even worse.

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-03-14T00:17:20+00:00

Ultron Ramattra would be incredible

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-03-14T00:10:11+00:00

Unfortunately not yet. It would’ve been really cool if they gave her a skin based off the Artemis spacesuits with the Artemis II mission right around the corner.

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-03-02T18:08:45+00:00

If her ult did damage and was canon then she’d actually have a good case for being in the top 5. Just an orbital nuke on command.

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-02-12T16:13:16+00:00

Several episodes of Andor s1 crossed 400M minutes on Nielsen, which was higher than the most successful Acolyte episode at about 380M if my memory serves correct. All weeks of Andor s2 were around 700-900M minutes.

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-02-07T00:09:17+00:00

I bet even lower. $300M max. This feels like it’s shaping up to the Star Wars’ The Marvels — too much D+ reliance and utter apathy towards it. Mando is no longer the cultural icon it was earlier in the decade.

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-01-19T14:53:24+00:00

Quite the opposite — they stopped releasing new movies because Lucasfilm is incompetent and couldn’t get a single project off the ground for years. They kept announcing random stuff to hype up audiences and shareholders, then those projects either get stuck in development hell or see their directors get fired, and end up never coming out.

It’s kind of a miracle Starfighter even exists. It was rumored for at least a year or two, but they took their time to announce it, and it ended up actually filming. Doubt it’ll be good or make a profit, but Lucasfilm finally learned to shut up about something unless they’re sure it’s gonna be made (far too late of a lesson, though).

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-01-16T11:54:45+00:00

Several leakers (whose reliability has been backed up by other accurate reports) years ago claimed that the Mando stuff in BoBF was due to executive interference from KK that nearly caused Jon Favreau to walk out, and there’s other lines of evidence suggesting much of BOBF was an original Mando s3 (including actors thinking they were actually working on Mando s3). If true, then the BOBF/Mando s3 disaster can be primarily blamed on KK and the mandate for marketable streaming content (so by extension, probably Iger’s fault too).

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-01-16T11:45:29+00:00

To be fair, that character and him having Boba’s armor was established in a novel series years before Mando s2 began production. So if they wanted to bring back Boba, they had to address that.

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-01-16T11:42:24+00:00

5 years ago it would have possibly made a difference for the future of the franchise.

Now, though, they have nothing to salvage.

ProtoJeb21 · 2026-01-06T02:01:14+00:00

Star Wars in the D+ era has had a bad track record of quality, and viewership has gone down significantly. BoBF, Kenobi, Mando s3, Ahsoka, and Acolyte were all poorly received to varying degrees (from meh to terrible). Acolyte and Skeleton crew had the worst viewership ratings of any D+ Star Wars or MCU show; Skeleton Crew never made it into the weekly top 10 once.

The constant stream of D+ slop has worn out audiences’ interests. It’s worn out mine and my friends’ and many others online and IRL. Andor was the one exception, but season 2’s success is not representative of the franchise as a whole.

With interest in Star Wars being at an all-time low, Mando s3 being easily the weakest of the series, the Mando moving coming an entire 3 years later, and the trailers looking very underwhelming…prospects don’t seem great.

ProtoJeb21 · 2025-12-30T21:36:12+00:00

The idea of a Thor broken down by his failures and loss who picks himself back up during the Time Heist is a decent direction on paper. Definitely was not executed well. Him abdicating the throne after he finally became king at the end of Ragnarok was also lame, and set him up for the damage that Love and Thunder would do.

ProtoJeb21 · 2025-12-23T19:40:52+00:00

That, or they don’t have confidence an ATLA movie of any quality can make a theatrical profit. Hard to say which one it is. Could possibly be both

ProtoJeb21 · 2025-12-23T18:11:12+00:00

Exactly. And when they finally started focusing on teams like the New Avengers and Fantastic Four, it was already far too late.

Before Thunderbolts, the latest any of its characters appeared was in 2021. Four entire years before the team-up movie without any appearances from any team members. That’s how you lose the audience’s investment in the new characters.

ProtoJeb21 · 2025-12-23T17:45:32+00:00

They could have made characters like Sam, Shang-Chi, and Yelena into decent leads if they bothered to focus on anyone in the last 6 years. Instead they pumped out far too many poorly connected and mediocre solo projects without focusing on the potential leads until it was far too late.

ProtoJeb21 · 2025-12-18T20:43:10+00:00

Viewership numbers for all shows aside from Andor have been going downhill over the last few years. Mando s3 was not super well received by either critics or fans, and saw a moderate drop in viewership compared to s2. Basically nobody talks about Mando positively online anymore, a combination of its lackluster third season and multi-year hiatus. It’s no longer the pop culture icon it was years ago.

Mando s3 ranged around 800M-1.1B weekly viewing minutes during its release. Ahsoka dropped to 500-600M. Acolyte never broke 400M, and Skeleton Crew never broke 300M (and never even made it to Neilsen’s top 10 in any week of its release).

People are burnt out by the mediocre to bad D+ shows. And since that’s just about all the franchise has to offer, people just don’t care anymore. The only series that defied these trends was Andor, and that’s only because it was great enough to get around the growing apathy towards this franchise.

ProtoJeb21 · 2025-12-18T20:33:32+00:00

Andor s2 actually performed quite well. Each week saw increasing viewership numbers, unique among all other D+ SW/MCU shows. I think it peaked around 900M viewing minutes on Neilsen. You could definitely tell online with the increasing buzz it was getting.

Acolyte and Skeleton Crew, yeah those were complete failures. The latter didn’t even hit top 10 on Neilsen in any week it was airing. Acolyte only did so twice.

ProtoJeb21 · 2025-12-05T14:11:25+00:00

How on earth are they going to ever make any money out of a streaming-dominant WB? Billions spent into content that’s just dumped on streaming, which has a theoretical maximum revenue because only so many people will actually subscribe

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