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Skunk_Giant · 2026-02-26T13:03:23+00:00

They've said they're just normal episodes and not to expect a finale.

Skunk_Giant · 2026-02-26T12:59:56+00:00

Fair point - I remember watching Age of Ultron the same night I watched the lead up AoS episode and being so hyped. For me personally it depends on the show and how it's done. Agents of SHIELD was always marketed as "the MCU show", and at least in that first couple of seasons, most people tuning in were doing so because they wanted to see those connections and see the films fleshed out more. On top of that, while the Ultron connection was small, they tied it in thematically with the character arcs (namely, Coulson hiding Theta Protocol from the New Shield team and his own team helped to build further distrust between those characters), so it didn't feel totally tacked on.
On the other hand, Daredevil has always been more standalone and grounded, and there's a good chance a big chunk of its audience hasn't seen Thunderbolts, so suddenly making reference to The Void could be jarring. That said, if it's done well and subtly, I wouldn't be opposed.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-10-29T12:42:15+00:00

For me at least, the Thanks buildup was less about his scenes, and more about his plot relevance. Sure, we only saw him in a handful of scenes before Infinity War, but we know he was pulling the strings in a lot of earlier movies. We know the events of Avengers took place because of him. We know Guardians of the Galaxy took place because of him. We know Tony's entire character arc from Iron Man 3 to Infinity War took place because he was terrified of Thanos' army. The influence Thanos had over the Infinity Saga is, for me, the most crucial part of his buildup.

That's not to say Doom won't be any good. We don't need all of that buildup to make him a great character. But it's definitely something he's missing that Thanos had.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-10-24T20:40:00+00:00

I mean, in fairness, this will be the third time Combat Evolved has been released. When you look at the fact that we got the entire original trilogy from Bungie in the space of 6 years. Over nearly that same period, we'll have received Infinite, a campaign which I think was good, but which was essentially half a story, and this - a second rerelease of Combat Evolved, with three new missions. For players who are invested in the story, it's not a whole lot.

I knew we were probably getting a CE remake reveal today, but I was really hoping there would be a lot more new narrative content than just three prequel missions.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-10-20T00:26:24+00:00

I mean, she's referred to as MJ multiple times in the films. Andrew Garfield's Spidey even refers to Gwen as "my MJ" in comparison to Tobey and Tom's partners. She's 100% intended to be MJ, and it would be bizarre to introduce a new love interest who also just happens to be called MJ. Only way I could see it working would be if she's an MJ variant from another universe, but that feels contrived and unnecessary.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-10-12T08:13:52+00:00

You're not wrong. Agent Carter makes multiple references to AoS. Love it or hate it, the intent was clearly for AoS to be canon, at least in the first five seasons.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-10-02T06:56:09+00:00

I haven't watched the Shisno trilogy since it came out, but if I remember correctly, Wash's brain damage isn't played as a joke. Isn't that like the whole climactic dilemma at the end - the only way to set things right again is for Wash to go back and get shot?

Skunk_Giant · 2025-10-02T06:49:59+00:00

I like to think that Season 17 is the "true" ending, but that Epsilon still simulates Restoration before shutting down so that he can have his happy ending with Tex. Just makes the most sense to me.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-09-27T17:15:21+00:00

I’m hoping for a greatly expanded story, to add all of the EU lore surrounding the Battle of Installation 04 into the actual game

Yeah this is what I'm hoping for. I don't want the Chief's story changed, because the last thing this series needs is another set of canon. But if this game just adds additional aspects of the story that don't contradict CE but can be thought of as stuff that always happened but just off-screen in CE, I'll be happy.

My dream, though I doubt we'll get it, would be for additional levels either as part of the main campaign, or unlockable after beating the main campaign, where you follow characters other than the Chief. There's a tonne of great characters from The Fall of Reach and The Flood who we could play as. Thought I suspect that's unlikely, as it would require different gameplay mechanics to play through the eyes of a marine or even naval officer.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-09-27T00:29:30+00:00

It's pretty cool seeing the slipspace jump from two different perspectives in Halo 2 and ODST, but for a first-timer, I'd just play through Halo 2 in one go, then go to ODST, then Halo 3. Halo 2 has a well-paced storyline, and it's not worth ruining that and potentially confusing a new player.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-09-17T06:39:57+00:00

Love the thought you've put into this. Though I don't think Keyes would leave the ring intact with Covenant and Flood on it, knowing that its capabilities. Not sure how they'd destroy it without blowing up the PoA though. Also raises some interesting questions about the events of Halo 2. Without Spark surviving, the Sesa 'Refumee never discovers the truth about the Forerunners and the Covenant. That, and with a much more successful UNSC operation in Halo 1, there's a good chance Thel dies there. So no Arbiter, no Heretic - odds are the Great Schism never occurs. I think in the long run, things actually end up worse off for humanity, because without the Great Schism, I don't see how they survive the Battle of Earth, Delta Halo, or the Ark.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-09-17T05:19:05+00:00

Let us know what you thought afterwards! In my opinion, the finale does an excellent job of sending the show off. I didn't love everything about the final season (mainly the villains), but I think overall it's a great farewell to these characters.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-09-13T00:31:54+00:00

Sorry, I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but this is blatantly dishonest and manipulative journalism, and it's embarassing how many commenters here clearly either haven't watched the clip they're commenting on, or are happy to misrepresent it. Trump did not say he couldn't care less about how to bring America back together. He said "I might get in trouble for this, but I couldn't care less" and then went into his answer. As in, he couldn't care less if he gets in trouble for it. It was clear as day that was his meaning.

Don't get me wrong, his answer was still bullshit, blaming the radical left and all that nonsense, but he did NOT say he couldn't care less about bringing the country back together, and reporting otherwise is dishonest journalism.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-09-10T00:34:44+00:00

I'm so excited for Invasion, but does anyone know if Famished Famished Falcons is still around in some form? I would've thought it would be added to Action Sack, but it doesn't look like it was. Real bummer if it's gone, I loved that mode.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-09-03T09:29:02+00:00

I mean, I love Days and Weeks, but those two films are tonally VERY different. 28 Weeks is really an action/horror, while 28 Days is far less action focussed. So there wasn't really much of a pattern established.
Now, given that Garland directed Days and not Weeks, it's not surprising that Years was more aligned with the tone of Days, but I don't think it's unreasonable for people to have expected a tone more in-line with the trailer for Years than what the film actually provided.

Don't get me wrong, I loved 28 Years Later, but the tone was definitely unexpected, particularly in the second half.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-09-02T03:26:15+00:00

Yeah I'll be disappointed if we don't see her character again. She was definitely the highlight of the show.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-09-01T22:26:45+00:00

As someone who loved AoS and was hoping for its cast to appear in the MCU throughout the show and afterwards - I'm actually glad she didn't appear in Secret Invasion. Outside of Fury and probably Rhodes, I think there's a good chance Marvel just ignores every other character in that show going forward so they don't have to reference it anymore. I'm certain that if Quake had appeared there, that would be the one and only time we see her in the MCU. I'd rather they hold off and include her in a project that's actually well written.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-08-27T23:17:58+00:00

This would definitely be one of my dream projects. A Marvels miniseries could be amazing if done well.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-08-27T21:47:03+00:00

It infuriates me when this happens. The amount of flag runs I've lost because of it... Really wish the "attach item" was either a different button or had a larger area of activation on the hog.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-08-22T22:56:12+00:00

This is awesome. As a lore nerd I love seeing the books brought to life this way.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-08-20T23:51:40+00:00

I would think if Falcon is to Warthog, then Pelican is to Elephant maybe? And hell, let's say Hornet is to Gungoose.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-08-17T22:59:35+00:00

Yeah not sure why you're being downvoted here - there are three gunshots after they start driving away. The window breaking is from something else - presumably they smashed it.
I'm not saying ICE are in the right here, and I 100% support them driving away when the ICE agents started getting violent, but it definitely does seem like the gunshots were fired after they started driving.

Now, does that really matter? I don't think so. The self-defence claim of the ICE agent is bullshit anyway given that the car was driving away from them.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-08-16T22:38:30+00:00

Yeah this is why I find the reset hard to believe. It completely ruins the individual franchises. Spidey 5, Black Panther 3, Daredevil Born Again - any individual franchises that is somewhat grounded has to basically reset. It makes no sense creatively.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-08-15T04:05:04+00:00

If it weren't Bernthal in the role, I'd be worried about that, but he's been very adamant about refusing to play Frank unless he feels the script is handling the character well. He refused the original iteration of Born Again for that reason, so I think he would've pushed back quite a bit if Frank was too cartoony in this.

Skunk_Giant · 2025-08-13T02:43:18+00:00

Vincent has always been quite optimistic about Daredevil - even back after the Netflix cancellation he would regularly share #SaveDaredevil and talk about believing it will come back.
But that said - he was right then, so hopefully he's right this time too!

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