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[candycoatedemoboy]

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[edwinas]

BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD! Once you are given this award, you’re supposed to paste it in the ask of 8 people who deserve it. If you break the chain nothing will happen, but it’s sweet to know someone thinks you’re beautiful inside and out!

Awww, thank you. This was super sweet and made me happy when i saw it!

[avengingdefenders]

Got a question about Marvel Future Fights, what and how does one use dimension debris?

Yeah that one confused me too, I had to look it up. :)  Apparently it kicks in as a material you need to have in order to keep upgrading your Gear after it reaches Level 10.

At this point, I don’t even have any heroes with Gear higher than 8, (and it’s getting EXPENSIVE to upgrade those now), so I have no idea when I’ll be using that!

[avengingdefenders]

Do you have any tips for a new marvel future fights player?

YOU’RE GOING TO BE ADDICTED. SO ADDICTED. That’s a hot tip. ;) 

In all honesty, though: If you are willing to invest a little cash in the game up front, that’ll get you going and you won’t have to purchase stuff all the time in order to get the characters you want. Several of them are pretty easily unlocked through completing story levels, once you’ve got a few decent characters under your belt.

I purchased the Jessica Jones package which comes with Jess + a ton of starter material, that was on special for like $20 when JJ premiered as a promotion; the extra goodies allowed me to nab the Netflix Daredevil suit for Matt once I’d unlocked him. 

Buying a character package usually also gives you a good amount of Level 5 Experience Chips, which will let you level up a handful of characters to like Level 25-30 really fast; this is the point at which they start to be come really useful. 

Be sure to play the Daily and Bonus challenges as much as you can to get ISO-8 crystals and more EXP chips; these also help strengthen your character’s fighting power. (You won’t be able to play all of them until your characters reach a certain level; ex. I can’t complete a lot of the bonus levels with bosses that are at like level 45 and above, because my heroes just aren’t strong enough yet.)

WATCH your heroes’ energy levels when you’re playing as a team; if someone’s getting down below 500, don’t let them get knocked out. Switch to another character; your ultimate goal is to complete all levels with 3 stars (i.e. all of your heroes are still standing.)

Also, once you’ve completed levels with 3 stars, you can use clear tickets on those to get more Biometrics w/ out having to actually fight through the level, if you don’t want to. 

And do the Timeline Battles under Arena! They’re lots of fun, good practice, and in some cases earning Honor Tokens through there is the only way to rank up certain characters. (Captain Marvel’s biometrics are only available thru Honor Tokens; Carol’s a favorite of mine so I try to play through my alloted matches often so I can keep ranking her up. :) )  Just be sure to pay attention to the EXP and ranking of the characters you’re fighting against; if they’re too high compared to your heroes, they’ll just unceremoniously kick your ass. LOL

Have fun!

[nyankcsensei]

Now that you've seen Marvel's Daredevil, what do you think of it? Did the cast performed up to your expectations? Were there things that you don't like or would change? Really interested to know what your opinion is :)

I loved it!  It was everything I could have hoped for and more!  I feel that all the cast members did a fantastic job portraying their different characters.  Charlie as Matty was especially amazing.  I know in an interview he said one of the things he struggled with was playing a blind character and having to learn to do things without looking at what he was doing.  I think he did a great job with that.

As for things I didn’t like, I didn’t like that they killed off Ben Urich.  He has so much potential and is a really wonderful character in the comics.  Him and Matt have so much history and chemistry in the comics so it was a shame that they didn’t keep him alive to explore that more.  Maybe they will bring him back.  I also would have changed the way that they described his radar sense.  It seemed to confuse a lot of people into thinking that Matt is sighted, but he’s not.  It would have been cool if they did Samnee’s way of showing the radar sense, I think that would have been perfect.

Besides that I think everything was just done really well.  The production value was really high and it showed.  All around great and I couldn’t be more happy with the way it came out :)

[nyankcsensei]

So happy that Spidey has come home to Marvel! Curious to know, which one would you like to see on the big screen, Miles Morales or Peter Parker?

I am very happy about it too :)  I would definitely like to see Miles come to the big screen.  Just imagine how awesome it would be to see little black boys and girls dressing up as Miles for halloween!!  I think we have seen enough of Peter for a while.  We have had two different movie series with him as Spider-Man and I really do not want to see his origin story done again.  It is getting old and if Marvel wants to stay ahead of the game, they need to bring in more diversity to the MCU.  Plus, Miles Morales and Sam Wilson interacting.

[blu-b]

Hi! Fellow Evangeline Lilly hater here! Just want to know how you feel about her constant presence at premieres and interviews, and the lack of Aidan and Dean (or the dwarf actors)?

Hey!

I'm going to answer this publicly because I feel there's a lot of things I want to explain / have to say about that topic, okay? :-)

So, first of all, I don't exactly hate her. She's not important enough for me to develop that kind of feelings. I do hate the character Tauriel, part of which is due to her acting, but that's something else and I'll talk about that later. So, no, I don't hate Evangeline as a person. I think she's beautiful, even though she's not exactly my type, but she's a very good-looking woman. She can act reasonably well as she proved in Lost, but I wouldn't classify her as an exceptional talent or as the discovery of the decade. I really tried to like her in the beginning because I felt a bit sad for her for receiving all the Tauriel hate even before DoS was out - yes, that's right, I don't like Tauriel myself, but that's not a reason to send hate Tweets to her actress. So, yeah, I tried to be neutral at first; I watched her in interviews and really tried to like her. Unfortunately, there are several things that keep me from doing so.

What I ultimately don't like about her, and that's a very subjective opinion, are some of her personality traits. Now, I don't know her personally and I don't know very much about her either, so I'm basing this on interviews/appearances I have seen of her. 

She comes across as somehow artifical, I don't know how else to say that. Her behaviour, her whole body language, also what seh says comes across as staged. Like she desperately wants to come across as this super-funny, cool, witty, intelligent and slightly 'crazy' woman. Keira Knightley has the same kind of fake behaviour, for example. When you see her, you just don't believe that this is what she's like, that this is her real personality. You always get the impression that she's playing a role. Of course, most actors play a bit of a role and no one would show 100% of their private side, but in Evangeline's case it's just not a very believable act. She doesn't come across as natural. Everything she says or does feels forced.

Next thing is, she tends to say super stupid things. Which is okay, we all do from time to time. But she doesn't realize it and just gets herself deeper and deeper into it. For instance, there once was an interview with her, Orlando Bloom and Lee Pace. One of the questions was 'What would you ask Tolkien if you could ask him one question?' Lee and Orlando both said something non-committal; Evangeline says that she'd like to know why Tolkien was 'so against women'. Everyone goes like WTF?? She goes on to babble a lot of nonsense about how women weren't valued at the time and that Tolkien was misogynistic and it all just sounds like a whole lot of bullshit. I mean, there's a true core to it all, this discussion about misogyny and the lack of women in his works isn't new, but it just sounds like she picked up one or two phrases somewhere and just parrots them without actually knowing what she's talking about.

Another time she sat between Lee and Orli and went on about how she likes being the only woman on a production because everyone's soooo nice to her then. Lee makes an effort to stare straight ahead and Orlando is suddenly fascinated by his shoes, which he seems to never have seen before....

She also said openly (!) that Lee Pace was her favourite actor from before the Hobbit, but she'd been living with him for 4 weeks already before a friend pointed out that that was him, - that actor from Soldier's Girl, which is your favourite film - and even then she couldn't make the connection between the name Lee Pace and the film and the actual guy. Ugh. Major facepalm. I mean, you don't say such things in public, do you? Unless you want to promote a certain less favourable image of yourself.

Also her constant explanations why the films need a female identification figure for the 10-year old girls....well, it's probably Warner propaganda that she HAS to say, but she totally fails at selling that in a believable way.

In my opinion, she comes across as rather dumb in most interviews, I just can't help that impression; and her constant babbling and tendency to play herself into the foreground pretty much get on my nerves.

It's kind of funny to see how Orlando starts pulling out his mobile in that one interview and just pretends he didn't hear what she said; and Lee tries to save it at first but then turns away, pinching the bridge of his nose^^  Just like the mood seems to drop instantly when she's joins in for a photo or comes into the room (there's a few scenes in the extra material where the boys seem pretty annoyed by her).Lastly, I just think she didn't do a very good job on the Hobbit. It might be the fault of the script or the misconstructed character she had to play, but a good actor can always spice up a shitty role. That's not what she does, however. She either does nothing, just stands there looking scared, or she over-acts, and quite a lot of that. The healing scene is some of the worst acting I have ever seen, and some of the parts with Thranduil are not really better.

I don't say she's talentless, I'm just saying that either she doesn't have enough talent for a film like the Hobbit, or that she did a shitty job for different reasons.

And that's what I put the filmmakers at fault for. IF you're going to create an additional character for film that's based on a book with such a huge fanbase as any of Tolkien's works, you'll have to cast that character in the most sensitive way. I.e. you have to pick someone who, despite the forseeable hate this character is going to get simply because it's not canon, does such a flawless and immaculate job that there's little base for the haters to hate. 

I come from a generation that witnessed the endless debates about Arwen 12 years ago. People hating the character before she made her first appearance on screen, even though Arwen does have more of a justification to be there than Tauriel will ever have. Still, there were people hating her just because - but Liv Tyler did such an amazing performance that blew away even the hardcore Tolkienites and apart from a few very small purist groups, she was widely accepted. Unfortunately, Evangeline didn't manage to do that with Tauriel.

It makes me wonder why a relatively unknown actress with no particularly outstanding talent or features got picked for such an important role. If you look at the other elves, they're perfect for elven standards: tall, beautiful, regal - but there's always something odd about them. Liv Tyler's big eyes and big lips; Hugo Weaving's rather unique beauty; Marton Csokas' rather rough features; Cate Blanchett's long nose and her mischievous eyes; Lee Pace's eyebrows...the only one who fits the standard Hollywood beauty bill to a degree is Orlando. Evangeline on the other hand is too smooth; her face is too much standard Hollywood actress, it's not a face that you remember.

Adding to all those negative facts is the constant promotion she receives from both PJ and the studio, almost as if they wanted to say "What, people don't like our cool character? Here, have an extra dose of her, just because!" Of course she's basking in all that attention, who wouldn't, but it's just another thing that makes her get on my nerves.

She gives a poor performance in the film, she comes across as obnoxious and attention-seeking in interviews and that's the main reason why I don't like her. She's not someone that I feel drawn to or that I'd like to hang out with or get to know better or anything. I honestly wouldn't know what to ask her if I met her at a convention. I don't hate her, but her silly behaviour makes me roll my eyes, and I think she still needs to learn a lot about the business.

Thanks for asking this, I needed to get this out ^^

[jrrtolkiennerd]

Hello! Do you think that the romantic subplot between Tauriel and Kili diminishes the friendship between Legolas and Gimli? If so, why. You know, since you're more of a Tolkien nerd than me...

Greetings!In the books the friendship between Legolas and Gimli is remarkable since they essentially start off very adversarial, but then become friends to the amazement of almost everyone outside the Fellowship.In the film, it still follows essentially the same line, though now as Jackson and co. have invented a romance subplot between an elf and a dwarf it might not seem so singular i.e. remarkable.Personally, I don’t think it diminishes the value of Gimli and Legolas’s friendship in the context of the films as you can see it develop and grow from a natural respect and admiration. As different folk who are thrust together often do, they bond, and more than the dwarf/elf friendship (though that was important to Tolkien) I think the larger point is the setting aside of small differences to recognize larger similarities.