H is for Heroes (#AtoZChallenge)

Hello WORLD!! Smokkee here, naturally. Heroes is actually too broad a summary for this post. I'm not touching on any of the comic books-to-movies/TV shows DC are currently putting out and I'm not addressing the return of the NBC TV show of the same name.

I really wanted to post this post as my M post as 'M is for MCU' for the A to Z blogging Challenge but I just couldn't wait. I'm too excited! I'm glad it's Thursday but I'm really looking forward to this upcoming Friday.
It's been a somewhat long week but that's not why I'm excited, well, not entirely. Tomorrow, Netflix debuts it's Daredevil series set in Marvel's Cinematic Universe or MCU for short. Thankfully, we're less than 24 hours away now. I was excited about this when I first heard about it, but the more info I hear about it, the more I can't wait.

I'd love to see how Daredevil will connect to it's other MCU properties like Agent Carter and Marvel's Agents of SHIELD even though a little bit of info has leaked about the Agents of SHIELD and Daredevil connection already.  And I'm wondering if this article on how Daredevil will change the MCU is as accurate as this article touching on the same topic regarding how Agent Carter changed the MCU was. Plus we know this is only the beginning of the MCU on Netflix. Hereos for Hire teammates Iron Fist and Luke Cage (aka Power Man), and Jessica Jones (aka Mrs Luke Cage in the comic books) are all slated to have Netflix shows in the near future so if Daredevil works half as well as expected, we may see more MCU shows soon. I've read an article about a show based on the Punisher, who has yet to be done right in his previous cinematic portrayals. Ghost Rider too; even though I feel Nicholas Cage was surprisingly adequate as Johnny Blaze I'd sure like to see a version of this character that's closer to it's comic book counterpart.



With that said, even as good as I expected DD to be, I doubt it'll become my new favorite MCU show. Agents Of Shield already has that title on lock and today, news just broke that this show will be getting a spinoff! It's the first show that had the MCU brand on it and while it might have started off sluggish, it sure knew how to pick up speed big time. I was interested in how they would bring Agent Phil Coulson back into the MCU since he was killed in The Avengers (I should have said spoiler alert but let's be honest: who hasn't seen The Avengers at this point? Find me somebody. Go ahead. I'll wait.) and this show thrived off of that mystery at first but the pacing was a turn off to most people.

Skye becomes Inhuman-ly powerful.

Which was a shame because those who stayed loyal to this show were rewarded with a great reason to rewatch the first season because apparently we'd missed a ton of obvious clues as far as where the show was heading. The second film in the Captain America film series, The Winter Soldier, was released in conjunction with this TV show midway through season 1 and it changed the whole dynamic of the show big time since (I won't spoil it for the people who have not seen CA: TWS but if you really want to know, click this link right here).

Since that moment, the rest of season 1 and the entirety of season 2 so far has had it's foot to the pedal in terms of action and developments. I can't think of any moment from a network TV show that was as huge as the one from season 2 featuring Agent Skye breaking out of a cocoon. Her transformation marks the first appearance of the Inhumans in the MCU. To make that tidbit even more interesting, besides a possibility that the spin off might be focused on the Inhumans, we KNOW for sure that the Inhumans have a MCU feature film due out as well and if this article is to be believed, this may happen sooner than expected. 





I've got one more post I wanted to post for my H post so I'm gonna cut this short right here. I jsut wonder if The Avengers: Age of Ultron will have a scene as powerful as the one up above. If not, I hope that Hulk Vs Iron Man is at least as entertaining as the best fight scene in the whole series so far..

On second thought, maybe I'm more excited about tomorrow because it puts me one day closer to 05/01/15. I'm ready for Ultron and I'm sure I'm not alone.

Later WORLD.

Smokkee Singleton