The Fangirly Diary of a Geek Girl: O Captain! My Captain!

THURSDAY

The Avengers (or part of them) in the wild wild west! Yep, this AU comic is called 1872 and we get Steve Rogers as the sheriff (of course!), Tony Stark as the saloon rascal, and Bruce Banner… as the new guy in town I think? Here’s an interview with writer Gerry Duggan, who pitched the idea himself while they were making plans for Secret Wars~

So many of these characters have such strong personalities built in that it’s largely a matter of filtering the details through the scope of 1870s America. That isn’t to say that they’re all just like their modern counterparts, but the reader should be able to spot who’s who right away. I’ve put a lot of thought into the clothing and hair and what they say about each character. Throwing in nods to familiar color schemes certainly helps too, but we’re trying to keep that subtle.

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And now for a full scope of Disney news! Starting with the MCU, of course~

Joss Whedon talked to SFX about Avengers: Age of Ultron, specially about action scenes! OMG, I want to see those action scenes!

There are some hardcore action sequences in this but what’s really grand is how the characters play through those. It’s always got to be about the people. Not just the smaller moments, where they’re talking alone, but the way they’re interacting during the action is really exciting for me. I’m a people person unless I’m in an actual room with people.

And of course he talked about the Vision, praising Paul Bettany’s performance~

He’s artificial life and he’s not caught up in the in-house bickering and the pain and self-doubt. He shows up and he’s very certain. But we’re not certain what he’s certain of! And Paul’s great, because he’s so gentle, so compelling, but at the same time you’re like ‘He’s nice but… what if murdered me?’

Interesting casting news for Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast! Besides our lovely Emma Watson as Belle, we have Luke Evans as Gaston, and Dan Stevens will posibly play Beast! I like those actors just fine but, why the hell are they so much older than Emma!

So, Toy Story 4 ain’t going to be a direct sequel to Toy Story 3 and thus the trilogy can live on in our memories as just that. Toy Story 4 will still happen tho, and the story could be a romantic comedy. Yeah, I don’t know what’s up with that either.

It is not a continuation of the end of the story of Toy Story 3.Temporarily it is, but it will be a love story. It will be a romantic comedy. It will not put much focus on the interaction between the characters and children. I think it will be a very good movie.

Pitching Spanish Buzz and Jesse! Or maybe they find Bo Peep and rekindles her romance with Woody!

FRIDAY

Surprise, surprise! Jeremy Renner will also be in Captain America: Civil War, which should already be called an Avengers movie! Everybody is in Captain America: Civil War! What happend to my “Captain America: Up all night to get Bucky” movie?!

And now we finish the week with TV series news!

Here’s the first look of Supergirl’s costume for the CBS series! And… I feel very “meh” about it. Don’t hate it, but don’t love it either. Guess I could wait until I see Melissa Benoist in action to fully judge the costume. At least it’s not horrible and it looks comfortable enough.

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Seems Jada Pinkett-Smith won’t be back as Fish Mooney for Gotham Season 2.

I don’t think so, no. I signed for a year, and the year is up. But, there are some great things coming ahead on ‘Gotham’ — believe you me, there’s a lot of good stuff coming.

While she will be missed, I certainly won’t miss how her storyline is dragging outside Gotham itself. I do hope she gets a grand finale!

Let’s talk some more about Agent Carter! Which I still miss, deeply. Are we getting second season? We don’t know yet. Boo! But showrunner Tara Butters talked about what she wanted to acchieve with the series~

It’s hard, because we’re in this weird time frame that there’s not that many characters.[…] Obviously, Doctor Faustus really wasn’t of our time frame, but it was something within conversations with Marvel Studios that they were willing to [adjust] — ‘Oh, well, it’s still Captain America-centric and we could move it back and we could play with and still actually tie-in to the Winter Soldier program.’ Hopefully, if we did our jobs properly, when you do see Cap 3 or other things in the Marvel Universe, some of the character stuff is going to be laid out a little bit more with Howard and Peggy and [Jarvis], who live on in other ways in the storylines.

Finally, we have the date for Hannibal Season 4 premiere! Mark down  June 4 on your calendars!

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And that it’s for the week. Before I go, I want to wish Happy Birthday to Jack Davenport (1), Ron Howard (1), Javier Bardem (1), Lupita Nyong’o (1), Bryce Dallas Howard (2) and Daniel Craig (2).

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mirella

YAM Magazine geek resident. Cloud Cuckoolander. Seldom web developer. Graphic designer.

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