I'm sure it's just because I'm not target audience, but it just seemed to be a total blast in the ADHD; everything was constantly happening all at once, in many colours and languages (in the classic trope fashion; a full sentence of English and a then random "oh no we forgot they're foreign" word slapped on the end, beta). There just wasn't time to take in a thing that had happened and think about it, for even a second.Then I'd suggest accidentally watching the last episode and skipping to the final scene and just happen to stumble upon the end credit scene.
I just watched The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special and I loved it. Who knew that Pom Klementieff and Dave Bautista would make such a great comedy duo? And thanks to James Gunn and The Old ‘97s, I have a new favorite Christmas song. The show also does something clever in getting a lot of exposition out of the way so it doesn’t need to be explained in GotG3. It was nice to get Yondu back, even if it was in a flashback. I thought the musical numbers and the animated scenes were a clever nod to the original Star Wars Holiday Special.Oh, Mantis is naughty.
The music was pretty good. Not too schmaltzy. There was a bit of sentiment in the plot but it came across to me as earned rather than shoehorned in. I haven't watched the Star Wars special but by reputation, it seems to be the opposite of what Gunn seemed to be trying to achieve here. It made a pretty good swansong to his Marvel career and judging by Black Adam he already seems to be making improvements to DC's movies (although he still has a long way to go).
