Thoughts on Troupe Leads.. And Will She-Hulk Become a Defender and NOT an Avenger?.. (TL:DR)

 Hi

Firstly, a little background..

Background

I really have enjoyed She-Hulk.. a couple of times I got worked up and impatient waiting for Daredevil, but once that anticipation was met, I loved that episode. Looking back.. it is what it set out to be.. a comedy.

Acting troupe's have 'leads/captains'.. people who lead and set the tone for the other actors; for the larger MCU it was Iron Man/RJD, for AOS it was/is Coulson/Clark Gregg, for the Defenders it's Matt Murdock/Charlie Cox.

Think of them like a captains of a sports team.

I enjoyed seeing Daredevil/Matt in She Hulk's episodes.. it REALLY felt like a 'Defender's Blessing' on the show and Disney+ in general. But more than that..

The show also draws themes in to view for the audience.. and while I am very far from being a feminist.. 

(I believe in gender equality and third generation feminism is merely female supremacy, unlike second generation feminism which was women righteously fighting for the rights they deserve.. third generation feminism is about women having MORE than men. If people believe in gender equality they fight for men's rights also, which these feminists do not.)

I started to think about how few woman troupe leads the MCU has.

Right now, Marvel has two divisions that can have troupe leads.. I would argue Charlie Cox is the troupe lead for the TV side of things.. but if you wanted to point to someone else.. (cough Clark Gregg cough) I probably wouldn't disagree with you too hotly.. but there is however an open position for the lead troupe actor for the MCU movies..

While Tony and Steve shared this, both are now gone.

I think after watching She Hulk this should go to a woman.. 

Do I have any suggestions?.. many who would fit the bill either have left or have character conflicts..

My first choice would be Gweneth Paltrow as 'Rescue' / Pepper Potts.. it makes a lot of sense to me, equally she was there at the beginning, she is very intelligent and has a suit just like Iron Man, also when a family are grieving they often turn to another family member to fill the role of the one they lost. She has access to both Stark money and Stark tech.

But then again.. Pepper is SO very Anti-Super Suit.. how could that make sense for her character..? 
Even despite this, without a doubt she is my first choice to become troupe lead for the MCU, as the rest lines up to perfectly.

Could this be a character arc for her? She is torn between 'doing the right thing and suiting up' and 'resisting what the power makes her become'? And what of her grieving for Tony.. how could she ever don a suit again?

Questions I don't have the answers for..

Black Widow is gone.

Scarlett Witch.. while still alive is MIA. Elizabeth Olsen has earned the right to be troupe lead.. I don't question that at all, but her story arc is a mess right now, with her being half hero half villain. Perhaps if Ms. Paltrow took the lead for now they could have a joint lead in the future? I don't know.

You could say Brie Larson.. but the fact that she's new and the rumors surrounding her that she hates men.. adopting a brand of 'militant feminism' .. and on top of that she seems unpopular with the rest of the wider MCU cast.. no, I wouldn't put her in the forefront.

I do enjoy the idea that Monica/Spectrum (may) be the opposing voice to Captain Marvel.. and in a small way oppose the views of Brie Larson while giving others who oppose Ms. Larsons views a voice. But again Ms. Parris is too new. Excellent actress though! great in Wandavision and can't wait to see her again.

In conclusion for this section.. I don't have an answer.. not a perfect one anyways.. 

but after all the male captains it should rightly next go to a female.

I didn't want to go too deep in to gender politics.. and besides I'm from Scotland, we have ALWAYS had strong women and it's not a big deal here.. we are also the descendants of the Gaulish Picts who had gender equality (Gauls in Scotland 7000 BC to around 600 AD).. but She Hulk had many of these themes and so kindly, I felt pretty justified.

The Defenders

Is She Hulk really going to join the Defenders??.. I can't help but sqee like a valley gurl.. but really could she?

The Defenders are much darker in tone than She Hulk was.. MUCH darker! I don't see it all fitting together, at least not smoothly. Fourth wall break during a Daredevil episode? erm.. no, that doesn't work for me.

We already have Luke Cage doing the heavy lifting.. wouldn't She Hulk joining the team make him redundant?

I love all the Defenders series.. my favorite being Jessica Jones.. I recently watched it again for the fourth time from start to finish. The Punisher first series and the JJ first series being masterpieces in the art of not just television storytelling; but any storytelling.

I would enjoy She Hulk becoming a Defender instead of an Avenger.. striking out in her own way and not just following her cousin's path.. but I am short on answers on how that would work.

Daredevil/Matt Murdock is the closest we have to Spider-Man..  that Marvel can use without rights woes.. within the MCU, I hope Marvel expands this, but I do worry about them turning him in to a clown version in his upcoming series.

Those are my thoughts.. I hope it made you think also :)

Dava

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I'll take a guess.. stab in the dark..

Julia Louis-Dreyfus will be the lead for the Thunderbolts. The first time the MCU has make a female lead for an ensemble cast of supers.

Kristen Ritter is an excellent actress.. can't wait to see her for a fourth series! Ohw.. I hope Hellcat/Trica does a Dark Defenders.. :D (I mentioned this before in another post)

New To NMS This Month.. a Few Thoughts

 Hi

I'm new to NMS.. so please keep that in mind and be gentle.

Firstly.. NMS has taken over my gaming life over the last 3 weeks with 175h of play, I'm about half-way through the main story.. I think.

NMS is a new favorite of mine and I have much high praise for the game in general. With that thought.. I also have some passionate criticism; in the hope that the Dev's listen to my voice.. which is equally as valid any other in a sea of voices a successful game with passionate players brings.

To be clear.. I think the game is *excellent*. I have my moments of malaise.. but that is true of many epic games.

I'm a generational gamer.. I left consoles in 2011 with the death of the 360 with my 30 games, moved to PC and had over a hundred games in the first year.. and never looked back. Being a generational gamer also means I play exclusively on PC with a gamepad.. playing with keyboard and mouse feels 'unnatural' to me.

So enough praise.. as a new player I also have some criticisms..

Exocraft

On PC with a pad.. the crafts don't operate in a way I would expect. I edited the buttons with Steam but still it is *very* weird.. I expected GTA but got a throwback to the early 2000s PC gaming. The controls for gamepad on PC don't make sense. And the Exosuit.. I expect it to work like Power Armor in Fallout.. but no. It controls like I'm riding a toaster with arms.

The Nautilus was better as we have full directional control underwater.. but still could use improvement.

Customization of Starships

As yet we have no 'mechanic's garage'.. to respray, redesign interiors, redesign exteriors..

We spend half (?) our time inside our ships.. it should rightly be a comfortable space for us to explore the universe.. with panels in the correct position.. correct being a matter of taste and so we should have the ability to visit a mechanic and have them installed where we want them.

Even internal cabins and being able to walk about inside your ship I think would be cool.

External features to our tastes.

Respray is apparently a long time coming.. as I gather the community desires this badly.. and as a new player I noticed it after 20h as the sore thumb it was.

The community is correct; repraying needs addressed. And the other ideas here are simple additions of my own desire.

Story

A few days ago I had the ending of the game revealed to me.. to be honest it didn't bother me. In the topic of spoilers.. I say 5 years minor and major 'spoiler lock' and a decade on major spoilers locked down. But this (and I won't spoil it for others) didn't bother me as I said.

I would like to see 'in universe'.. the 'Boundary Failure' machines leading to common galaxies.. such as the home galaxies of Korvax, Gek and Vy'keen.. each Traveller home galaxy.. as well as Human.

The 'quest' to find Earth fascinates me..

Imagine it like.. Post-Game Plus.. any sight of a traveller in say.. the Gek or Vy'keen home galaxy would be treated with upmost prejudice.. ultra hard combat mode. Freighters and frigates trying to kill you and stop you getting to their homeworld.

If you are one of those races... then you would be fine. But trying to reach Earth would be much much harder.

Each 'Boundary Failure' Machine leading to a specific galaxy.. and only *that* galaxy. Meaning you would have to go in to other peoples systems .. and once the ones to the Milky Way/Andromeda/Triangulum the person who's world that is.. can charge limited tax on usage*.. which leads me nicely to the next part..

While I'm not 100% finished the main storyline.. I have thoughts on an in-game backstory.. if yous will kindly indulge me..

Our 'races' have negotiated licences for Travellers.. each type of licence entitles races to do certain things.. but that doesn't matter to us, as we have the top licence.. I was asked in game if I was 'Baron' of this system.. which I was, so I said 'yes'.

A 'Baron Licence' meaning we own Star systems and planets... the other NPCs we meet have mining and exploration licences.. this is why they are there already. A Trading Licence for NPCs on the space station.

This explains why there are other lifeforms there.. but we are the first to 'discover' the system.

The NPCs don't have a 'Baron Licence'.. they have lesser licences.

To be clear.. I'm not suggesting we can have lesser licences or a system of licences.. only NPCs have them for the purpose of story.

When you are 'Baron' of a system.. you get taxes.. of which the Space Station takes 95% for 'operational costs'. The 'Stock Market' scanner could fill this purpose of paying you your dues.

Sentinels respect the Baron of a system.. and so after 24 hours all debits and crimes done within your own systems are wiped. But if you commit crimes in another Baron's system.. you either need forgiveness from the Baron of that system or you will be forever hounded by the sentinels in all that Baron's systems.

I see 'in universe' the sentinels .. as the police.. and I am happy for them to police my systems for me. (I know I know spoilers etc but even despite that.. )

The ability to build up trust with the sentinels (which I have been doing with the AI already and I think it's starting to work)..

The ability to create my own sentinels with my own colours would be cool too .. a workshop that I feed with components and it manufactures them, but instead of Atlas ones, our own with directives that WE give them.

We gather the all the things we need to create their ships etc..

I have more thoughts.. but that's enough for now :) Thanks for reading this rather long post, I hope you enjoyed.

Lost in space

Dava-naut

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Ohw this feels SO GOOD! glad to get this off my chest been thinking about it for weeks!

I also keep thinking what would The Outer Worlds meets No Man's Sky look like? :D

taxation: like the user gets 5% so say the cost to enter the boundary failure is 100,000 units then for each person who pays this the Baron of the system gets 5000 and the rest goes to upgrading the system.. meaning better and better classes of ships locally.. and better and better goods.

Can charge in multiples of 10,000 units up to a max of 100,000.

But also for resources.. 5% of everything another user takes from your system is converted in to units and given to you. copper gold tritium any resource.

5% of everything another user spends in your system you get back.