Captain Midnight

One of the earliest YouTuber's whose videos EFAP watched, appearing in the very first episode.

## History

### Episode 1: The Unfair Failure of Solo: A Star Wars Story

Man made video where he talked about how he liked the Solo movie. He called it his favorite Star Wars movie that doesn’t need to exist. He made few good points of how Solo lessens Han Solos character, as he was boxed, making his background concrete and final. Even so, he still like the movie, even though most of the positive points are thin, centering around things like acting and style.

Captain though that the Disney did the movie disservice, because the behind-the-scenes issues and firing directors, which lowered people’s expectations of the movie and Disney scheduling should get 90% blame for the flop, as the movie came too soon after The Last Jedi so people just thought "another one of these? and that's why there wasn't that much hype for it.

Some things he liked:

* The main villain, as his fun to watch, seem to be genuinely nice and cares about people he works with, but is also " psycho that sometimes flies of the handle” and its good contrast that fares him well with other villains in the movies, like Phasma, Tarkin Maul.
* Lando, as character is over the top" in very believable way"(he is nothing like Lando, one of his only character trait is that he likes capes). He sees Lando as someone in tough spot trying to bluff his way out.
* The Acting.
* Qi'ra wasn't "bad exactly" and her being Maul's helper was fun, but there was no background info.

### Episode 7: Why Black Panther Has Marvel’s Best Villain Ever

His second video centered around Killmonger and how he was the best and thought provoking villain in the MCU. Loki is good on his opinion but he is better as minor villain. To him, Killmonger's goals seemed heroic. He was not ready to call Killmonger a “great hero” even though he is immoral and kills his girlfriend at the drop of a hat. From his point of view:

* Killmonger has stuff going on under the surface, (like the rage, like how he shouts and kills people),
* Hs plan is emotionally motivated, unlike the likes of dark elf Malekith (doesn't mention Vulture or Zemo, as that would break his narrative) and Killmonger has shades of grey in him (something that other villains have too).
* He wanted to share the Wakandan technology with the rest of the world
* If the villain and the hero would have done different choices, they could be on the same side. Things would have been different
* Killmonger and Black Panther's final CGI fight is ideological battle of what "Black Panther and Wakanda represents" and Killmonger had positive impact on T'Challa.
* Captain Midnight gives all the credit of making Wakanda more open to Killmonger, even though T'Challa was thinking it before hand.
* All of this was his opinion.

## Episode 31

X-Men Dark Phoenix will never hit theater in his opinion.

It might hit theaters or if not, click-baits with wishy-washy opinion and says you can laugh at him if he is wrong. Captain seemingly doesn’t like to commit, like saying X-Men Apocalypse is “not exactly loved” instead of "bad" or "sucked".

Disney acquire Fox and know that they have to make money with it. The re-shoots money isn’t that big for Disney, so they might not release the movie if they think its better to start from scratch or let go of the movie they don’t have faith in. Disney doesn’t want to taint their IP new so they won't release Dark Phoenix if they think its not good enough and sullies the expectations of X-Men movies.

Kevin Fiegy picked apart plot-holes in Amazing Spider-man, commented how spider-Man needs to be less wishy-washy.

Unlike WatchMojo, he ask “what do you think?” in the end of the video.

## Episode 146: Loki is Exactly What Marvel Needed

He didn't care for WandaVison or The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but Loki got his attention. This happened right at the time when he felt burned out with the MCU and preferred to just make videos of random things like Narnia and Invincible.

He feels that Loki will kickstart new era in MCU.

He didn't like the Black Widow movie.

His main gripe with Loki series is that he wishes there was more of it, as the series was too short to cover everything, a the corner that Loki inhabits could be used to tell lot more stories and TVA is great story engine that he wants to see more of.

HE was on board with the series from the start, as unlike other two marvel TV series, its not hampered down by budget or too TV series like small plot, but is taking "massive swings" and doesn't "limit the consequences".

Stakes are huge and personal, at the same time.

Loki and Female Loki had different reactions to He Who Remains/Kang due to their different experiences, which he thinks made the finale earned. That episode was the one thing that he was the most impressed with.

Calls the exposition dumb in the last episode "a long conversation", which illustrates difference between Loki and Female Loki, which was smart writing, as they are driven apart for their differing views. Female Loki does not trust He Who Remains, but Loki wants to go with it to get more power (which was not his motivation). You may disagree with the female Loki, but her decision is in line with who she is a s a character (an idiot that doesn't think things trough and goes with emotions) and Captain Midnight respect the writing work that went to her making that decision.

Mobius' turn was surprising, to him at least. He thought that the actor would phone it, not because he has no acting talent, but because it was a "thankless job", on paper at least. Actor couldn't act the role of comic book character, but he did it well. His "affable everyday-man sense of humor" was great and characters melancholy enhances his basic charter arc. Captain saw that Wilson's character revelation (of having normal human life before ) a mile away, but it was done really well because the acting.

Other actors and actresses were great as well. Ravonna Renslayer went from wise to kind to sinister, which showed her acting skills

This series will set up the next 5-10 years of movies in massive scale, while Black Widow sets up the Hawkeye TV show. Then he says that he would not bring this up if Black Widow was good, he does not judge movies quality by how much they set up for the future. But Black Widow was lazy and all the effort was put on Loki.

Kang got him more interested in him than Thanos ever did pre-Infinity War. Some say Kang was too over the top, but he thinks it was right choice, as considering the character, instead of evil overlord he is "a burned out manager" (even thought he is a goofy clown in truth).

He want to see how different the alternate versions of Kang are, thinking they are not similar, but wishes that they have similar "live-wire" performance and hopes its not a "CGI performance". They did it well with Thanos, but they could do more with flesh and blood person

He didn't expect anything special when he started to watch the series, but it turned out to be what the MCU needed at the right moment it needed it: A concrete direction to go after Thanos.

He fears that the multiple timelines takes away the stakes, but he doesent feel that is the case here. The series stands on its own as fun engaging and, at times, a well written show, based around Loki's acting skill.

## Trivia

* Average person goes to movies 5 times a year. EFAP Ep 1
* Doesn’t consider himself as conspiratorial person, like Elvis is dead and the moon landing was faked.
* He saw Solo twice and liked it, thought the acting was good and doesn’t know why people aren’t talking about it. EFAP Ep 1
* He likes the "old-school Star Wars with bounty hunters and space wizards", not the more dark and serious version of the sequels. EFAP Ep 1
* His videos have weird transitions. They use clips from the animated series of the video topics (Black Panther has random clips from Black Panthers appearance in Fantastic Four animated series and Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes).
* Magneto and Killmonger are similar:
	+ Both try to take down the society (like a lot of Marvel villains) one to make the world only mutant and other wants to make it only adults (as an orphan, Killmonger hates children).
	+ had brutal childhood.
	+ Named Erik, but not really as Killmonger's name is N'Jadaka and Magnetos name is Max.
	+ Both have goals that are sympathetic but too brutal for heroes to get on board with them .
* Rags calls him stupid. His not insulting Captain Midnight, just describing him

## Quotes

* *"I wasn't bad exactly" -EFAP 1*
*"Force Awakens felt like it was seriously indented to the past movies, The Last Jedi was deconstruction and serious, while Solo plays it loose with the universe lore while winking at the past movies. Its more of western than the sequels. It might have everything Solo movie should have, but it doesn’t feel like weigh down by beats the Solo movie should have. Story beats feel fun and effortless."EFAP 1*

* *“This doesn’t sound like a story of a villain, a poor orphan going on a adventure to defeat an ancient mythical ruler with weird powers”.*
* *“Telling the story this way leaves out some very important pieces of information, like how our hero has killed countless people and seems to really like it or how his final plan, while admirable in some ways, will lead to the death of thousands if not millions of people and that when you really get down to it, his actions seem to be mostly motivated by deep-seated rage that causes him to lash out in vindictive and cruel ways."*
* *"When you take all this in count it’s hard to consider Killmonger any sort of hero, but writing him of as straight forward villain doesn’t seem right either and that’s part of what makes him the most compelling antagonist in MCU history, in my opinion."*
* *"He doesn’t just give T'Challa conflict to overcome, he also makes him question everything about his family, his position and his country, that makes him not just a fun marvel villain but fantastic complex character in general.”*
* *“Conflict he represent to the rest of the cast goes far beyond “he wants power and is willing to kill to take it”. it makes them confront the sins of the past and question their own priorities because, lets be clear here, what T'Chaka, T'Challas father did to EriK was pretty deeply messed up. Not only did he kill a child’s father, he turned a blind eye to that kids suffering for decades. As the leader of the most technologically advanced people of the world and someone we know has spies everywhere, it doesn’t seem like he ever even once checked in on Erik, If he had he would have seen a incredibly angry and broken person, who was turning into killing machine. He could have done something about that, instead either out of anger or simple shame he looked the other way and allowed a monster to be created in the process. And that makes sense since turning blind eye to suffering seemed to be what he did with the most things happening outside Wakanda.”*