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That was fun! Although I do think they need to explain why Nick didn't call Carol during Loki's attack on NYC.
I wanted more character beats between Carol and Maria. I think that relationship needed as much time as Carol and Nick.
But it was fun! Even if the presence of the refugee Skrull on Mar-Vell's ship didn't make much sense to me...
I have my tickets! I'm taking Ryan to see it tomorrow! He's pretty psyched.
Oh, and the opening MCU animation with all of Stan Lee's cameos instead of the Marvel characters totally made me cry. That was such a nice touch.
Even if the presence of the refugee Skrull on Mar-Vell's ship didn't make much sense to me...
My head cannon is that The Skrulls were on Mar-Vell's ship the entire time. Mar-Vell was transporting Skrull refugees to safety, when they came across C-53 and detected the Tessaract's energy signature. Mar-Vell realized she could use the Tessaract to power an FTL drive, so she went to the surface and either stole the Tessaract, or "borrowed" it from Howard Stark in exchange for helping him invent the quadjet, and he helped her set up her research.
The irony is that if she had realized the Tessaract was the goddamn SPACE STONE, she could have just used it to open a portal instead of trying to invent a FTL drive.
What I wondered is if Mar-Vell had her own Kree interstellar cruiser, couldn't they have just kept going in one direction until they were either too many jumps ahead or too far away from a jump point for the Kree to ever follow that far and look for them?
I liked it fine, but I really wish that montage of Carol getting up had come a half-hour in, instead of a half-hour from the end. I'm all set with origin stories, I guess.
(I feel bad about not liking it more.)
Jesse, that is how I was with Wonder Woman. Not sure when I'll get to the theater for this.
I took Ryan to see Captain Marvel this afternoon. We enjoyed it very much. So did the rest of the audience; in the closing credits scene, where she turns up in the Avengers HQ, the audience broke into applause. Looks like there's a lot of good feeling for the prospect of spending more time with Carol Danvers.
Question for those more in the know than I am: in the comics, do the Skrulls and Kree get presented the way they were in this movie? I only remember hearing about the Skrulls as bad guys.
In the comics, the Kree and Skrulls are both antagonists, but the Skrulls tend to be the worse of the two races. Presenting the Skrulls as sympathetic and the Kree as straight-up genocidal is a switch from the comics. Some comic fans are upset that Marvel is signaling it won't be adapting the "Secret Invasion" storyline from the comics, while other comic fans are relieved.