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Subj: Re: Questions like this are one of the reasons we are here... Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 at 09:13:27 am EDT (Viewed 284 times) | Reply Subj: Questions like this are one of the reasons we are here... Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 at 10:01:01 am EDT (Viewed 340 times) | ||||||
I thought that it suffered from "too many cooks," and at a number of points in the main miniseries it's rather clear that the numerous writers weren't as well-coordinated as they should have been, especially since some major plot points seem to happen entirely off-panel and others (like the Iron Fist/Phoenix connection) go essentially nowhere. Worst of all, the apparent (based on interviews and such) intention to show that it took Wanda and Hope *and* Spider-Man's training to get the Phoenix to do what was right was hopelessly garbled in the execution to the point that there's no real "The Avengers may have a point" idea in it for most readers. BG, you've taken the opposite from it, and I also tend to think a lot of readers gloss over how poor a job Cyclops (well, Cyclops's script) does justifying his certainty that the thing that's destroyed intelligent life on like, a half-a-dozen planets on its way to Earth is really just coming here to help out. But a lot of the story seems to be the Avengers being militarized oafs and everyone choosing "let's fight" over "let's talk" whether that makes sense or not. It's an alright story, the fights are generally good stuff, and the material for Magik and Spider-Man hits home with me. However,it also finished my lingering affection for Cyclops as a character, proved to me that Bendis is terrible at writing Captain America, and dug Wolverine even deeper into the nonsensical and arbitrary characterization that result when you shove the guy into as many starring roles as possible in as many books as possible. And nothing has ever made me like Hope, who has never managed to become anything more than a plot device with an irritatingly stock "angry teenager" personality tacked on as an afterthought. - Omar Karindu "For your information, I don't have an ego. My Facebook photo is a landscape." | |||||||
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