Weekly MCU Review for September 16

Another week, and more MCU news!  Not much going on, but Inhumans debuts on TV in under 2 weeks.  Put some ketchup on your eggs, and catch-up on your Marvel news!

Weekly MCU Review for September 9

Another week, and more MCU news!  Still not all that much news to report since Inhumans will not begin on ABC for another few weeks and we still have a couple months until Thor: Ragnarok.  Put some ketchup on your eggs, and catch-up on your Marvel news!

Weekly MCU Review for July 1

Another week, and more MCU news!  Only 1 week until Spider-Man: Homecoming is released!  Put some ketchup on your eggs, and catch-up on your Marvel news!

Weekly MCU Review for April 22

Another week, and more MCU news!  There’s all kinds of news about movies wrapping production and scheduling the start of their production, plus a whole bunch of TV news.  Put some ketchup on your eggs, and catch-up on your Marvel news!

Weekly MCU Review for March 11

Another week, and more MCU news!  We’re only a week away from Iron Fist, Thor: Ragnarok is ramping up its marketing, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is only 2 months away!  Put some ketchup on your eggs, and catch-up on your Marvel news!

Sorry I haven’t posted anything but MCU Reviews for a while.  I’ll try to get a “Too Long; Didn’t Watch” article on Iron Fist published early in the week, and then post expectations for it on Thursday.

Weekly MCU Review for March 4

Another week, and more MCU news!  We got a whole lot of Inhumans news this week, including the entire main cast.  Put some ketchup on your eggs, and catch-up on your Marvel news!

Weekly Not-MCU Review for Christmas Eve Day

Merry Christmas!  There really isn’t a lot of news this week, but Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is still making bank.  Put some ketchup on your eggs, and catch-up on your Star Wars news!

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story REVIEW (SPOILERS)

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the least Star Wars-like Star Wars movie I think I have ever seen.  The emotional weight and tone share much less in common with Star Wars: A New Hope than they do with Saving Private Ryan.  Rather than exude the kind of hopeful optimism you see in every single Star Wars movie (even the darker ones—Empire Strikes Back and Revenge of the Sith—end with a hopeful note and contain all kinds of hope throughout), Rogue One contains very little in the way of hope and optimism for its own main characters.  In fact, of all the Star Wars movies so far, Rogue One is the movie that most closely fits into the category of a tragedy.

I say this not because Rogue One is a bad movie, but because the above actually makes it—after one viewing—perhaps one of my favorite Star Wars movies.  It is not the best by any stretch of the imagination, but all the non-Star Wars elements make it something of a breath of fresh air for someone as steeped in Star Wars lore as I have been.

Weekly MCU Review for 9/24

Another week, and more MCU news!  Not a ton of news this week, but Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. came back, Luke Cage will be out in a week, and Star Wars Rebels is starting again tonight.  Put some ketchup on your eggs, and catch-up on your Marvel news!

Weekly MCU Review for 8/13

Another week, and more MCU news!  Marvel and Netflix have a lot of stuff going on, particularly with Luke Cage only about 6 weeks away.  Put some ketchup on your eggs, and catch-up on your Marvel news!

Weekly MCU Review for 7/23 (SDCC Edition)

Another week, and more MCU news!  San Diego Comic-Con is going on this weekend, so there’s a ton of news coming out of that!  Put some ketchup on your eggs, and catch-up on your Marvel news!

Weekly MCU Review for 7/16

Another week, and more MCU news!  Not a lot of MCU stuff, but some exciting news about Star Wars Rebels this week!  Put some ketchup on your eggs, and catch-up on your Marvel news!

Weekly MCU Review for 4/2

Another week, and more MCU news!  Batman v. Superman is in its second weekend, Star Wars Rebels just finished its second season, and Iron Fist has found its Colleen Wing.  Put some ketchup on your eggs, and catch-up on your Marvel news!

Weekly MCU Review for 12/5

Another week, and more MCU news!  Now that the Captain America: Civil War trailer is out, we're getting a ton of new information about that movie.  Put some ketchup on your eggs, and catch-up on your Marvel news!

Weekly MCU Review for 11/7

Another week, and more MCU news!  Doctor Strange rumors and photos are starting to leak, there was a major reveal on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (which aired its 50^th episode), and a whole slew of other stuff happened.  Put some ketchup on your eggs, and catch-up (*ducks*) on your Marvel news!

Star Wars Rebels: Kanan's Story

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When Disney acquired Lucasfilm and announced that it would be producing a new series of Star Wars sequels and spinoffs, I had some really mixed emotions. On the one hand, I was really excited about seeing more of my favorite sci-fi universe. On the other hand, I was also a little nervous about what they were planning to do with it; after all, the prequels weren’t nearly the same quality as the original trilogy. And on top of that, Disney decided to get rid of the entire extended universe!

Now, I wasn’t quite as upset about that as some Star Wars fans I know, who had dedicated years to collecting and reading all of the EU books. In my opinion, it made sense for Disney to scrap the entire EU so that they could have a clean slate to create their own Star Wars universe instead of having to fit their new movies into a universe which has already been created and spans millennia of Star Wars history. Looking at this in comic book terms, it’s little different from Marvel Studios making changes to the characters and events of the comics when adapting them to the movies.

With that being said, however, I was still disappointed because it meant that so many characters I really like are unlikely to appear in the Star Wars universe any more.

In order for me to really get behind the new Star Wars universe, Disney needed to provide me with new characters in whose stories I can become invested. And even now, a month before Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens in theaters, I can definitely say that they have done so already. In fact, it started last year already, with the first season of Star Wars Rebels. For a series directed primarily at children, Star Wars Rebels is a surprisingly mature series.