It's been a while since I've chronicled my daughter and I and our battles with Marvel and DC. Since then we have started watching The Flash together and I watch The Arrow by myself. We both enjoy The Flash and I enjoy The Arrow as well. Sadly, Batman has fallen by the wayside. She has outgrown him and no longer wants to watch his movies or his TV shows or cartoons. I kinda miss the guy. We both like the new Aquaman. She doesn't know the Aquaman of my childhood from the Justice League cartoon where he was one of the lamest characters there. Only the Wonder Twins could outdo him. Ond of them would turn into a water object like a pail of water and the other would transform into some kind of dumb useless animal. No, DC made a wise character move and hired the sexiest actor they could find to play the part, Jason Momoa, who also had a real sense of comic timing that helped make up for his lack of experience. I believe he'll get better the more he acts as he has a natural instinct for it. I will say I'm looking forward to the Flash movie if they can ever get it together.
But as much as I have a soft spot in my heart for Batman I refuse to watch the latest incarnation of it. I can only go through the beginning of Batman so many times. I am dying to see the Birds of Prey movie with Margo Robbie as Harley Quinn and Black Canary and Huntress. I do wish Lady Gaga would change her mind about playing Huntress, though. She would be perfect. I'm also looking forward to the James Gunn written Suicide Squad. My daughter is looking forward to these movies too, but right now she is most looking forward to Shazam! I'm not sure what to make of Shazam! When I was a kid he was one of the many superheroes shows that were on TV and he was also the lamest. So I'm a little apprehensive about watching the movie based on a lame superhero. I hope I'm proved wrong and that it's great.
But enough about DC because while I watch Arrow and Gotham and Flash and am looking forward to a couple of their movies, at heart I'm a Marvel girl. I watch Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Gifted, Cloak and Dagger TV shows. And while Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Daredevil and I believe Jessica Jones have all been canceled I don't know that this is the end of the shows. For one thing, Daredevil was the second highest rated show on Netflix when they canceled it. The writers of the show had already written season four so it came as a huge surprise when they found out the show was canceled. They plan on shopping the show elsewhere and I know of one place that would probably take it and that place would be the new Disney channel which is airing shows that I can't wait to see such as a Scarlet Witch show and a Loki show. Cloak and Dagger have just started its second season and I can't wait to watch it on HULU. The Gifted has just finished its third and perhaps best season about the mutant underground.
We saw Black Panther twice and the Avengers movie twice and we both loved the Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse movie. Her favorite character was Mile while mine was of course Gwen. We thought the Antman and Wasp movie wasn't too bad. I also can't wait to see the Phoenix movie which I've been dying to see ever since I heard about it oh, so many years ago. And now it is upon us. Also, of course, we can't wait to see Avengers Endgame and Spider-Man Far From Home. Though for me Toby McGuire is the true Spider-Man, Tom Holland is not bad as the webhead. I'm also dying to see the Black Widow movie and the Dr. Strange movie coming out next year. Those are two of my favorite characters in the MCU. I'm also intrigued by the movie The Eternals which would have a gay superhero in it a first in superhero movie history. On the TV show Supergirl there is a transgender superhero named Dreamer and the Canary is bisexual. These barriers seem so much easier to break on TV than on the big screen for some reason.
Anyhow, my daughter has pretty much come back over to the Marvel side. When they started advertising Captain Marvel I was like we're going to see this movie if I have to drag her to it. But she surprised me by asking to take her to see it. And being really excited about the movie. Which for her is odd in that she hates movies about women superheroes. But she seemed to love this one as did I, though Thor is still her favorite Marvel character. I have my Marvel girl back and that's all a mother can ask for.
