Last post I mentioned that I was distracting myself from the horrors of the real world outside by marathoning all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in chronological order of events, including the TV series.
Phase One was pretty easy to get through, working through from Captain America: The First Avenger, through Agent Carter, and onto the individual characters' origin stories (including Captain Marvel) building up to the first big Avengers movie.
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| Agents of SHIELD Season One Promo Image |
Then it was onto Agents of SHIELD. Oh lordy had I forgotten how cool that series is. I mean, I watched it all and loved the later series - ranting at people for not watching it from when it started - but rewatching Season One, especially punctuating it with Thor: The Dark World (in between episodes 7 & 8) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (my favourite Marvel movie. It fits between episodes 16 & 17 if you're keeping track), it really hits home how great Agents of SHIELD is. Awesome stuff. Absolutely loved it.
Had that realisation, rewatching it, that the late, great Bill Paxton's character in SHIELD is Garrett from one of my favourite comic series - Elektra: Assassin. Not sure if I twigged that reference first time around. Only shame is they didn't give him the Hawaiian shirts and big shoulder pads, but Paxton is so cool in it.
After Season One of Agents of SHIELD, it was onto a double-bill of Guardians of the Galaxy.
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| Guardians of the Galaxy Promo Image |
I have a distinct memory of going to the press conference and the early screening of the first Guardians movie. I came out of the screening in tears as it was so darn good - that sequence at the beginning with Quill's mother that echoes in the final conflict against Ronan the Accuser does me in every time. It was everything I hoped the Guardians movie could be and more.
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| Photo from the Guardians of the Galaxy press conference, before the cast appeared (July 2014) |
And the press conference was great too (though it was a shame Vin Diesel was a no-show - Debs was so looking forward to being in the same room as Vin).
The first one was always going to be a tough one to match when it came to sequels.
We finished the Guardians double-bill today, and now we're back, firmly footed on Earth, and back in New York for the first season of Daredevil on Netflix. I honestly can't remember if I've watched this twice already, but I do remember loving the Netflix series - especially Daredevil.
For those of you who want to keep up, I'm using the order that DigitalSpy produced a little while ago. If you want to join in, here's the list we've worked through so far...
1 - Captain America: The First Avenger
2 - Agent Carter (Season One)
3 - Agent Carter (Season Two)
4 - Agent Carter (Marvel One-Shot - on Iron Man 3 bluray)
5 - Captain Marvel
6 - Iron Man
7 - Iron Man 2
8 - The Incredible Hulk (on Netflix)
9 - The Consultant (Marvel One-Shot - on the Thor bluray)
10 - A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to Thor's Hammer (Marvel One-Shot - on the Captain America: The First Avenger bluray)
11 - Thor: The Mighty Avenger
12 - Avengers Assemble (the first Avengers movie)
13 - Item 47 (Marvel One-Shot - on the Avengers bluray)
14 - Iron Man 3
15 - All Hail The King (Marvel One-Shot on the Thor: The Dark World bluray)
16 - Agents of SHIELD (Season One, Episodes 1-7)
17 - Thor: The Dark World
18 - Agents of SHIELD (Season One, Episodes 8-16)
19 - Captain America: The Winter Soldier
20 - Agents of SHIELD (Season One, Episodes 17-22)
21 - Guardians of the Galaxy
22 - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
23 - Daredevil (Season One)
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coming next...
24 - Agents of SHIELD (Season Two, Episodes 1-10)
25 - Jessica Jones (Season One)
26 - Agents of SHIELD (Season Two, Episodes 11-19)
27 - Avengers: Age of Ultron
Should keep me out of trouble for a bit...
Stay safe everyone.
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