creechuur-36487 Reviews

Echo (2023–2024)

No idea why Marvel made this show

[5/10 · 13 January 2024]

Somewhere in the multiverse there is a universe where Echo was the breakout, fan favorite character of Hawkeye and this show was warranted. Here on Earth 1218 I have no clue why this show exists. Echo is such a bad choice for a lead character they had to totally change her powers just so she wouldn't be exactly like Taskmaster.

The native American theme was great, Fisk was great, but everything else was kind of weak. I think a show about Kahhori, the native American character introduced in What If, would have been far more interesting.

I think this is Marvel/Disney corporate trying to popularize a lesser character like James Gunn did with GotG. It didn't work too well in this case. I gave the show a chance but I'm no more interested in Echo now than I was after Hawkeye.

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part One (2024)

Bad adaptation and mediocre art

[5/10 · 10 January 2024]

I'm not sure what the writers were adapting, but it wasn't the comics I read years ago. I didn't feel a connection to any of the characters besides Barry, the others were glossed over and kind of just there for background and easter eggs. It all went very slow at first and then so fast it was hard to keep up.

Compared to the Bruce Timm glory years of DC animation, this new art style is medicore, mass produced commercial art, devoid of any charm or uniqueness. Bland and boring, and not very well animated either.

Honestly, how many times did we need to see Green Arrow shoot a totally ineffectual arrow and then dodge out of the way of the enemies return fire?

What If...?: What If... The Avengers Assembled in 1602? (2023) Season 2, Episode 8

An insult to the original

[4/10 · 31 December 2023]

Why did they bother setting this in 1602 if they weren't going to even try to adapt the original Neil Gaiman series? Gaiman's 1602 was a smart limited series that remixed characters from the Marvel comics with an historically accurate setting. I doubt the writers of this episode even read the wiki entry for the original 1602 comics, much less glanced at the series itself.

Disney took one of the best What If?-style stories and made a low brow, badly written platform for the central MCU characters. It might as well have been set at a Renaissance faire in Ohio. Series 2 of this show has been pretty bad, but as a fan of Gaiman's 1602 this was gross.

Behind the Attraction (2021– )

Confused about its target audience

[3/10 · 4 September 2021]

The subject matter is for Disney/theme park nerds, but the narration and fast pace of the show makes it seem geared towards kids (or the TikTok crowd as others have said). There are some YouTube channels with far better content.