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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: TV news for June 23-29, 2024
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 20:56:51 -0700
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On 6/29/24 8:25 PM, shawn wrote:

> 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.

She's already set to be in "Thunderbolts*", along with Hannah John-Kamen 
from "Ant-Man 2".

So those kinds of characters are getting a movie.

>> 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...)