I posted yesterday about looking forward to some upcoming sequels but not partaking in any of their advertising because sometimes it's fun to go into things blind, especially when you know you'll enjoy them anyway. The Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 trailer dropped today, right about the date I was expecting it to- May release date, Holiday Special lead-in on Disney+, yup yup yup, early December sneak peak season feels just about right. I have no similar peccadillos against spoiling myself on any of this, and it looks like it's going to be, just fine?
Guardians peaked at Volume 2 for me, afterward their being the weakest part of the weakest Avenger joint, Infinity War. (Not sure if that sentence works grammatically, feels like I'm missing a clause or something in there...?, but nonetheless.) Their bits in Love and Thunder were the strongest part of that though?, and Holiday Special was, yeah it was alright, Kevin Bacon should've stayed on as a permanent member of the roster maybe. It feels like the team dynamic has been missing something, which thing potentially be Bacon?
Yeah I'd been going to say something about Mantis, maybe being mis- or under- utilized or, I don't know what, but now there is also Nebula and Kraglin too! and a lack of Gomora after, those, shenanigans! and the dynamic hasn't had a chance to reassert its equilibrium, it feels like, though there's been plenty of in-universe time throughout which we've only seen little glimpses. Whole things passed in between the Avengers movies and individual characters from those got their own little flicks, which made the flow of continuity feel real and expansive into the sequels- this feels a lot more flaky than that, like the li'l cameos going on peeking into the status quo only serve to emphasize the vast gaps there. Iron Man's world felt lived in and real. The Guardians' world, betwixt 2 and 3, felt like a lesser Laurel and Hardy routine.
But there's a whole like 15 second straight chunk in the GotGv3 trailer that feels like the scene in Vol 2 where Peter is remembering the good times and building up his heart to make his arrow fly and there's a vast horizon as they're falling laughing through the sky and you understand more in those five seconds than you'd be able to from a film's worth of expository dialogue and if You Don't Love Me Now You Can Never Love Me Again And I Can STILLLLL HEAR YOU SAYYING YOU WOULD NEVERR BREAK THE CHAIN, and like I said there's more of that just casually in this trailer alone than the glimpse over the horizon that we caught in Vol 2, and it's just so insanely impressive to me. It feels like Volume 3 is going to be a strongman with chains around his biceps, and from those promising flexes found in this trailer he's bending the metal and will be fully able to, if he wants to, break the, um, chain oh okay so that's where the metaphor came from I actually thought I was being kind of clever there.
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