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From: shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
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Subject: Re: TV news for June 23-29, 2024
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:25:12 -0400
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On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 19:15:21 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:

>On 6/29/24 6:05 PM, shawn wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:55:07 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 16:26:04 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> On 6/29/24 2:46 PM, Robin Miller wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jeremy Renner Says He Doesn’t Have “Energy” To Play “Challenging” Roles
>>>>>>> After Snow Plow Accident: “I Can’t Just Go Play Make-Believe Right Now”
>>>>>>> (June 25)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://deadline.com/2024/06/jeremy-renner-energy-challenging-roles-snow-plow-accident-1235983221/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yeah - dude will never be the same, no doubt.
>>>>
>>>> Sad, but bad accidents do happen. The good thing is he's already had a
>>>> good career as an action hero so now he can take on more sedate roles.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It’s not like Marvel is making action hero movies anymore anyway. Certainly
>>> not with white men.
>> 
>> True, they do seem to have a focus on women now for their action hero
>> movies. I wonder how that is working out for them.
>> 
>> It's actually not a bad idea if they had good stories/writing and had
>> some compelling actors. So far they've managed to fail on all
>> accounts. I thought they had a great concept with MS MARVEL if they
>> had stuck with the new hero trying to come grips with her powers and
>> how it changes her life. Then the writers feared they wouldn't get a
>> second season to tell their story so they rushed the character
>> development (she went from barely being able to use her powers to
>> doing all sorts of stunts in just the course of a day or two) and
>> pushed the story to Pakistan so they could bring up the
>> Indian/Pakistan history. Oh, and they introduced the coolest character
>> in the leader of the Red Band only to kill him off shortly after we
>> met him.
>> 
>> All of which would have been fine if it had played out over a second
>> season but it was a massive shift in tone and the style of the story
>> telling (lot's of anime/cartoon scenes in the first three episodes
>> that kept it light hearted. That disappeared after those episodes.)
>
>The only new "female action hero" from MCU that I trust/am psyched about 
>is Hailee Steinfeld, and that's just because we know she's good (past 
>performances and all that).
>
>Oh, and I guess Florence Pugh, though she's not exactly a "hero".

I like Florence Pugh in her role in the MCU but I don't see her being
put into the main cast of the MCU at this point. Though she may get
her own movies which is good for her.

>Ms. Marvel might be OK. Maybe.
>
>But I don't like any of the rest, not even Kathryn Newton who is great 
>in other stuff but seems massively miscast and out of her depth here. 
>(Really makes you wonder why the replaced Emma Fuhrmann because it 
>wasn't even a "trade up" in this case...)
>