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Disney’s Hawkeye Gives The Archer His Due

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Though they’ve only aired two episodes so far the Hawkeye series which aired this weekend on Disney+ is already a tremendous love letter to its source material. Over the course of the dozen or so years, the MCU has been around Hawkeye has been kind of a running joke among the other Avengers. He has no powers to speak of and tends to be the most reserved. This doesn’t make him the most interesting subject for a TV series.

This is why the series smartly chose to focus on Hawkeye’s comic book protégé Kate Bishop. Like most of the female counterparts of the core Avengers, she’s not just the female equivalent of the character. Kate Bishop, in the comics at least, is a fully formed person with her own life and motivations. She had a life before Hawkeye came on the scene and that life will continue once he’s gone. The same can be said for the upcoming She-Hulk series. These are far from one-dimensional characters.

WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD! From the opening moments of the show, it’s clear the showrunners want to tie Bishop to The Avengers and they give her fantastic motivation. By making her a young child in the middle of the Battle of New York she not only has the need to protect her family but she’s seen firsthand what these heroes can do. It is no wonder the event changes the course of her life.

Grown-up Kate Bishop is played by Hailee Steinfeld and she’s a perfect fit for her comic book counterpart. Thankfully the show knows what the best Hawkeye stories are and draws heavily from them. If you haven’t already go out and read the “Hawkeye: My Life As A Weapon” series by David Aja. It’s one of the best graphic novels of the last decade with Hawkeye and Kate Bishop from and center. The show pulls some of the best elements from that run and makes them canon.

Unfortunately, not all of it works. With the need for a villain (any villain), the show has chosen to give Kate a new stepfather and instantly paints him as an evil mastermind. With so many villains out there to pull from this seems like low-hanging fruit. Her stepfather, played by Tony Dalton, feels like he’s going to evilly twirl his mustache and hatch a plan against our heroes at any moment. My instincts tell me this is just a red herring, but time will tell.

With only the first two episodes out it would be unfair to judge the series as a whole. There’s a lot of potential and if nothing else this will set Kate Bishop up to be in more series (like the Young Avengers) and really let her grow.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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