Bellagar

This is an honest, spoiler-free review coming from your average fan (not a critic):

I just saw this new marvel film, and I have to say... it's no where near as bad as the critics make it out to be.

Yes there is a lot of dialogue. But it gives the characters a chance to shine and for scenes to breathe.
People call this film dense. I would disagree. Yes there is a fair bit of plot and history told, however I would say that other mcu films have simply much simpler plotlines most of the time.

There are moments when things are just about to become exciting, and then it is interrupted with more dialogue which instantly kills the suspension.

There are a number of plot twists in this film, and some unexpected things happen that I wouldn't have seen coming.

This film has a slow burn, but sometimes that's a good thing. Would I have liked more action? Yes. Was I unhappy with the action we do get? No.

I will admit, going into this film I was expecting a masterpiece, and while I wouldn't quite call it that, its definitely a well-made film, marvel or not.

Oh. And expect to have to do some reading at the very beginning. Kinda reminds me of a classic Star Wars opening crawl.

Are these writers serious? They put J.J.'s life on the line just to stir up more of this love triangle drama. How utterly disrespectful to the character.

"You think that's what I'm doing? Closing myself off to possibilities because I'm waiting for a life with J.J.?"
Except he's not. Has he--and the writers--forgotten about Maeve? And that celebrity woman he kissed in the pool? Yeah, he liked J.J. There's no question about that. But he certainly hasn't been avoiding relationships because of her. He only closed himself off after Maeve's death. If anything, he is closing himself off from J.J. because of Maeve and because of J.J.'s family.

"I don't know how to be in this world if I'm not wishing for a future that's with her."
Okay, stop this crap. This is really how you're going to write the final season? Really? I can accept that Reid has feelings for J.J., but by no means does his life revolve around her. I can't even imagine Reid daydreaming about a future with J.J. I can see him fantasizing about Maeve but not J.J. These writers need to pull this ship back. They had a chance at it in season 1 and tossed it out the window. Now that both J.J. and Reid have moved on with their lives, the writers can't pull this out of nowhere and try to say they're dependent on each other. If Will had died, say, 2 seasons ago or back when he was in that hostage situation, then it'd be a different story. But J.J. is over here confessing to Reid while her husband and children are in route to visit her after she almost died. That's just feels disgusting...

Signed:
SophieFilo16

This movie could be so much better, I am not saying it is a bad one but here is THE one point that made me feel extremely uncomfortable:

This part is going to sound like a pure rant mostly because someone has to explain to me how the hell Darwin's death is within logic? Let me get you see the serious flaw of logic here. Darwin's supernatural power is making him to adapt to anything. He can literally adapt to everything and anything. One time his powers realized that it would be so dangerous to fight with the Hulk so they ended up teleporting him to another country. Another time he became a cosmic ball of energy and then rematerialized as a human being to you know.. not die? And another time he was shot with a gun that was made to kill anything that has a nervous system, and you know what he did, turned into a freaking sponge. He literally touched a goddess of death once and his powers turned him into a death god himself to prevent his death. And after all of these, seeing him die because of a pathetic ball of kinetic energy from Shaw? Seriously guys, am I the only person who sees the flaw here? They killed the mutant whose power is about nothing but SURVIVAL. And Shaw says "Adapt to this"?? well, he should have been able to! I will never get over his death, in my mind he turned into an energy ball and ascended to another existence so he would not have to deal with this nonsense.. okay, rant over.

Thank you for reading my rant.

I was so confused for the first 15 minutes of this episode. I suspected for most of the season that Amalia was either an alien or from the future, so it was nice to have that confirmed, but the origin story left me with more questions than answers. We know that in the future there are two factions at war, but it's not clear what exactly their motivations are aside from one wanting to save the world and the other determined to... keep it shitty and post-apocalyptic, I guess? Also there was so much jargon/made-up lingo that wasn't explained. I have no idea what a Stripe is. I know exposition dumps are not great most of the time, but I feel like we could've used one here.

Once we got back to Victorian times the episode got much better. It was fun to see how Amalia ended up running the orphanage and how she became the posh badass that we've gotten to know over the course of the season.

"I left Penance behind because you said 'Find me'. I left my heart to come talk to you" Did she just... literally call Penance her heart? AND she told her her real name that she protected all this time and didn't even tell her spouses? And this show wants me to believe that their relationship is platonic? Sounds fake but okay.