Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-1894786-20161016014021/@comment-29908830-20170307092309

If I may get my thoughts in:

First off, they're not playing the race card by giving us Runaways.

Now to the rest. The fact that Tina Minoru is being recast is definitely troubling. I definitely believe it should be in the MCU, and if so it's probably going to be in as much of a bubble as the Netflix shows (where the characters don't interact like they do in the ABC shows) at the most, though it would be cooler to see some more crossover.

Minoru is particularly troubling since this series shows her as a corporate overlord, far from being a Mystic Arts practitioner. She could be one of those who breaks off like Mordo did, but that's the best thing I can think of. Since she (like Miriam Sharpe actually) was unnamed in the movie, however, they could possibly retcon their way out of it however - the comics do it all the time after all.

Here's some bright news though. Cloak and Dagger (which is obviously in the MCU) was greenlit in April 2016, a full seven months AFTER the huge Marvel Studios reshuffling. Meanwhile, Runaways was ordered that August, plenty of time after the whole Alfre Woodard eyebrow-raiser. It should also be noted that ABC (which, fun fact, is also owned by Disney) has a 30% stake in Hulu, and in addition to funding Cloak and Dagger on Freeform (the former ABC Family) AND THE NETFLIX SHOWS, they are also funding this series - a bonus that Legion doesn't have. Also, actors and actresses are recast all the time, especially the MCU.

If it's not a MCU show, I'll be pissed, but the only reason I won't see it is because I've never been a Hulu fan to begin with, and I already have Netflix and Funimation, in addition to using my college's free HBO GO and Philo services, so I don't want to overload on streaming.