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Because then it's a concrete, immutable, fact and anyone who disagrees is flawed. The reciprocal of this in comedy is claphter. When people clap or laugh becau
by miiiiiike 4y ago
Because then it's a concrete, immutable, fact and anyone who disagrees is flawed.
The reciprocal of this in comedy is claphter. When people clap or laugh because they hear something they agree with, whether it's funny or not. Usually not.
People say things like "It's/They're not funny" if they don't agree with the person, sentiment, message a lot now.. Which, doesn't work. My favorite thing to do is give comedians, any comedian, at least 5 minutes after the end of their first joke to see if they can make me laugh. There are comics out there who really rubbed me the wrong way at first but had me laughing before time ran out. Can't make me laugh in 5 minutes, your special is over. If I'm giggling before then I'm watching the whole hour, don't care who you are.
I'm not really digging Rings of Power but She-Hulk is the current "show that is bad™" that I really like. I was a huge Marvel kid but I've been sick of the MCU since about Iron Man 3. [0] She-Hulk gets the comedy structure right (the show runner wrote for a bunch of Adult Swim shows and Silicon Valley) and doesn't feel like it was written exclusively for ten-year-olds. Feels like they'll get their footing by season 2.
I've been reading a lot of articles saying things like "the men are unrealistic in She-Hulk." But, I've heard guys say some of the lines from She-Hulk verbatim. The dialog can be an exaggeration.. But it's not that inaccurate. I'm guessing parts of the scripts were transcribed more than written.
The best part about She-Hulk is that you have people who are good at what they do but are still pathetic playing off pathetic people who aren't good at what they do. It's funny.
[0]: And yet, I still watch every single one of them. WHY? I don't know, hope? Hawkweye was pretty good. And, that's from a guy who would say "Shut up Hawkeye" to his girlfriend every time Jeremy Renner opened his mouth.
- tunesmith 4y agoI thought Ms. Marvel was really good, and compared especially well to Moon Knight, at least in terms of how they represented their respective cultural influences. It's pretty rare that I'll watch a show like a Marvel show and actually learn some stuff that I didn't even know I didn't know (Pakistani history, the partition, etc). With Moon Knight it felt like anti-learning, like I felt like if I wasn't careful it would make me more ignorant.
- mcv 4y agoMs. Marvel hasn't really connected for me. Maybe I should give it another try. Moon Knight was brilliant, though. I've heard of people who considered it a waste of Oscar Isaac's talent, but I think his talent shines wonderfully in it. Certainly better than it did in Star Wars.
- miiiiiike 4y agoPoe looked the most Star Wars a Star Wars character could look. He and Boyega would have been perfect if the writers had been interested in developing their characters.
- mcv 4y agoWell, that exactly. The first half of TFA was perfect, and then it went rapidly downhill. After the intro, Poe was barely in the movie he was supposed to be one of the three leading characters in.
- mcv 4y ago> She-Hulk is the current "show that is bad™" Is She-Hulk bad? I think it's pretty good. It's very different because it's very light-hearted and seems to be staying that way (unlike Wandavision, for example). I think it does what it does very well, but you have to judge it for what it is, and not by the standard of other MCU shows, because it's completely different.
- miiiiiike 4y agoI think it’s great too. It’s just a show that people are complaining about non-stop on YouTube, Reddit, and Twitter.