Bring Back the Marvel One-Shot Recently I rewatched Wonder…
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Bring Back the Marvel One-Shot
Recently I rewatched Wonder Man. Easily the best TV show Marvel has released since Loki S2. But when I got to the excellent "Doorman" episode something occurred to me: this episode would have been a fantastic One-Shot!
The Marvel One-Shots were always favorites of mine. They were usually smaller moments of life directly tied to the larger events in the MCU, with a focus on brevity and levity. In 2014, Marvel released All Hail the King: a One-Shot focusing on ex-Mandarin, Trevor Slattery. Instead of being a light, encapsulated story, it continued Trevor's journey and reintroduced the audience to the Ten Rings.
After AHtK, I was hoping Marvel would utilize the format in a similar way: introduce other characters or concepts. But, instead, it mostly disappeared.
I'm also a big fan of the 1 hour Special Presentations (another format that could an effective way to world build), but some stories can be told within a shorter runtime. A 15 minute One-Shot about the Dora Milage. A 10 minute One-Shot featuring Howard the Duck. Use One-Shots to show what some of the surviving heroes did during The Blip.
And that brings me back to "Doorman". At 30 minutes, it's a little lengthy but the episode has all the of the right elements for a One-Shot: a singular story about the effect super-powered people were having on different facets of everyday life.
The episode is one of the best of the series, but also feels slightly abrupt. As much as I loved it, I wanted to get back to Simon & Trevor. If "Doorman" had dropped separately as a One-Shot a week before the series premiered, it could have functioned as an introduction to Simon and Hollywood of Earth-616. Then viewers would arrive at Simon's story already immersed in the industry's relationship with superheroes.
Here's to hoping that Marvel will utilize their streaming capabilities to present fun, solid, short subject features.
#video #movies
Recently I rewatched Wonder Man. Easily the best TV show Marvel has released since Loki S2. But when I got to the excellent "Doorman" episode something occurred to me: this episode would have been a fantastic One-Shot!
The Marvel One-Shots were always favorites of mine. They were usually smaller moments of life directly tied to the larger events in the MCU, with a focus on brevity and levity. In 2014, Marvel released All Hail the King: a One-Shot focusing on ex-Mandarin, Trevor Slattery. Instead of being a light, encapsulated story, it continued Trevor's journey and reintroduced the audience to the Ten Rings.
After AHtK, I was hoping Marvel would utilize the format in a similar way: introduce other characters or concepts. But, instead, it mostly disappeared.
I'm also a big fan of the 1 hour Special Presentations (another format that could an effective way to world build), but some stories can be told within a shorter runtime. A 15 minute One-Shot about the Dora Milage. A 10 minute One-Shot featuring Howard the Duck. Use One-Shots to show what some of the surviving heroes did during The Blip.
And that brings me back to "Doorman". At 30 minutes, it's a little lengthy but the episode has all the of the right elements for a One-Shot: a singular story about the effect super-powered people were having on different facets of everyday life.
The episode is one of the best of the series, but also feels slightly abrupt. As much as I loved it, I wanted to get back to Simon & Trevor. If "Doorman" had dropped separately as a One-Shot a week before the series premiered, it could have functioned as an introduction to Simon and Hollywood of Earth-616. Then viewers would arrive at Simon's story already immersed in the industry's relationship with superheroes.
Here's to hoping that Marvel will utilize their streaming capabilities to present fun, solid, short subject features.
#video #movies
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