I genuinely have no idea what's wrong with some of you.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, February 13, 2021 10:14 AM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
hmm...
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Friday, 19 February 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
It's Friday
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 19 February 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
NB: Episode 7 actually finally DOES have a post-credits thing, so stick around for that.
― Nhex, Friday, 19 February 2021 21:36 (three years ago) link
This sure is one smooth, smartly paced show. Incredible how much information it gives without just giving everything (or anything) away.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 February 2021 22:54 (three years ago) link
Episode 7 actually finally DOES have a post-credits thing
fuckers
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 February 2021 22:58 (three years ago) link
anyway, teyonah parris is really something
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 February 2021 23:06 (three years ago) link
yeah she’s amazing.elizabeth olsen also just incredibly good.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 February 2021 23:12 (three years ago) link
Also really deft the way it doles out stuff for people who have no idea what's going on (or in my case barely, but probably still more than most) as well as for Total Marvel people who know storylines, characters, powers, etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 February 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
there was a bunch of radio and TV soundtrack stuff in the captions this week - is that audible in a 5.1 surround mix, or dropped between the caption script and TX?
― stilt in the wings (sic), Saturday, 20 February 2021 00:31 (three years ago) link
lol, what an end to the episode!
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 February 2021 00:47 (three years ago) link
bettany doing the jim at the office smirk was amusing
Olsen’s julie bowen impression *chef kiss*
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 20 February 2021 00:52 (three years ago) link
I like Vision playing with his non-existent hair.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 February 2021 01:20 (three years ago) link
"what am I talking to YOU for?"
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 February 2021 01:47 (three years ago) link
who (behind the camera) prompted wanda with 'do you think this is what you deserve?'
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:06 (three years ago) link
it sounded like a male voice, but then Agatha's video montage made it look like it was her?
maybe it was....RALPH?
i'm kinda wondering that myself.
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:12 (three years ago) link
definitely a male voice
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:16 (three years ago) link
Dottie showed back up in this ep too. well, briefly appeared in a shot of the town at least.
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:19 (three years ago) link
I still think there's a chance Agatha is being controlled/used by someone else. But still other questions, like did Agatha create the kids/bring Vision back? Did she expand the hex? Why are things going wonky in Wandaland? And I still don't think we've met the engineer, only the soldier delivering what the engineer designed.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:26 (three years ago) link
I dunno, I think we're too close to the end to throw yet another villain in there, unless Dottie is also in on the Hex
my guess: episode 8 will flashback to explain her motivations and how we got to the beginning of Wandavision, episode 9 will be the explosive battle through realities to save the world with special guest cameo(s) by... Doctor Strange? Clea? Jake Gyllenhaal? Patrick Stewart? Dick Van Dyke?? who knows!??
(boy, did I love that ending sequence.)
― Nhex, Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:30 (three years ago) link
Well, this episode did just finally introduce a villain and a superhero, so ... I guess it depends how efficient they are!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:33 (three years ago) link
Dick Van Dyke
holy shit would that be awesome
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:43 (three years ago) link
Agatha seemed really interested in Wanda being able to bring someone back from the dead a few eps ago.
though as far as the kids aging, that may have been Agatha? it only ever happened when she was around.
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:43 (three years ago) link
Like I said, "incredible how much information it gives without just giving everything (or anything) away."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 February 2021 02:51 (three years ago) link
The first ep I've been (modestly) disappointed in
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 20 February 2021 03:35 (three years ago) link
Darcy's "the love the two of you share is real" exactly the kind of corny line that the lower-tier mcu movies are larded with, delivered straight
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 20 February 2021 03:36 (three years ago) link
yeah otm
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 February 2021 03:37 (three years ago) link
and no real explanation for why they thought the space rover could go through the hex without it and rambeau turning into something else, no explanation for why the rover couldn't in the end go through but rambeau could, no explanation for why rambeau's clothes and mind don't change when she goes through
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 20 February 2021 03:37 (three years ago) link
just generally.... not as crispy put together as every other episode up to this point
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 20 February 2021 03:38 (three years ago) link
Rambeau could because she had already been rewritten on a molecular level twice and parts of her got in once again when the rover attempted to breach it. she was the only one who'd been in there twice, so the "change" probably didn't happen because she's now got superpowers (which were completed when she went through the third time, hence the blue eyes). the transformations don't 'work' on her anymore.
Monica panicked and said the Hex was being "rewritten" (or something like that) when someone else optimistically said it was degrading. and stuff kept going haywire inside the hex, especially inside Wanda's house, all episode. the Hex is a very different thing now that she expanded the territory by 8 miles, unstable, not operating the same as it has previously.
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 February 2021 03:44 (three years ago) link
the Hex is a very different thing now that she expanded the territory by 8 miles, unstable, not operating the same as it has previously
awfully precise there, hayward
― mookieproof, Saturday, 20 February 2021 03:53 (three years ago) link
Monica panicked and said the Hex was being "rewritten"
Oh maybe I misunderstood the line, I thought they were saying the rover was being torn apart and Rambeau was saying no it (the rover) is being rewritten (i.e. turned into a station wagon)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 20 February 2021 03:56 (three years ago) link
I could see that making sense too. I didn't really worry myself too much about the 'how' behind things, but i definitely assumed Monica got in because now she's kind of a mutant or someone with superpowers. I think the fact that she requested such a hefty rover suggested that they thought it might be difficult to get it through (even though previously they'd gotten things like drones and well, Monica through). probably also to protect against any Wanda attacks, but they seemed prepared for resistance.
btw I can't get that Agatha theme song out of my head
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 February 2021 04:00 (three years ago) link
the other wrinkle is they're no longer broadcasting a signal outside the hex, so even though they were ostensibly shooting a show inside it (a Modern Family knockoff), maybe the fact that there was no signal meant that you didnt' just get 'recast' as soon as you entered it.
ah well. back to Babylon 5!
― if you meh them, shut up (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 February 2021 04:01 (three years ago) link
I interpreted the 2001/fourth wall-shattering scene as Monica holding onto her personality and memories, fighting the Hex trying to shift her back into the sitcom personalities. that's why we hear all the audio from Captain Marvel, as we did when she was blipped back into existence
― Nhex, Saturday, 20 February 2021 04:32 (three years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, February 13, 2021 10:14 AM (six days ago)
― tiwa-nty one savage (voodoo chili), Friday, 19 February 2021 15:44 (yesterday)
Yeah, fair enough, I called this wrong and was a dick about it, sorry. I had too much faith in the show creators. I did a few times consider (and I'm aware there is absolutely no compulsion for anyone to believe me on this) saying "The one thing they could do is end of Episode 7: hahaha it was me all along - Episode 8: flashback to WTF 'me' is - Episode 9: climax" - but I didn't because I just thought it would be a weird and non-MCU thing to do.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 20 February 2021 09:43 (three years ago) link
I think there's also a thing where the nature of sitcoms is that they're a retreat from reality and to an extent* modernity - you don't get military installations in there for theme rather than era reasons. If she'd gone through in a station wagon, she might be fine :)
On a purely technical thing, Modern Family's last episode was last year, but it's now 2023 in the MCU - maybe a less cutting-edge rover might work.
Lost opportunities: Wanda Maximoff, Wanda Maximoff
I mean, it's a romance? The Vision didn't exactly go "Yeah, you're right, now I feel at ease about it all"
*I may be talking out of my hole here as regards the older ones, I admit.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 20 February 2021 09:57 (three years ago) link
"Side effects: more depression"
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Saturday, 20 February 2021 10:36 (three years ago) link
Have I missed mid or post credits scenes on all the episodes prior to this week. Caught this week's one.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 20 February 2021 14:56 (three years ago) link
this is the first i think
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 February 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
When i was a kid Agatha was not evil iirc ... dangerous, but an ally. Did she become more of an outright villain in the comics during the 90s and later?In any case, I’m glad it’s her, great character
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 20 February 2021 15:26 (three years ago) link
So for reference here are the acknowledged character creators chronologically (have fun sic!):
Jimmy Woo - Al Feldstein, Joe Maneely (1956)Scarlet Witch - Jack Kirby, Stan Lee (1964)Quicksilver - Jack Kirby, Stan Lee (1964)Vision - Roy Thomas, John Buscema (1968)Agatha Harkness - Jack Kirby, Stan Lee (1970)Monica Rambeau / Captain Marvel 2 / Photon / Pulsar / Spectrum - Roger Stern, John Romita Jr (1982)Tommy and Billy - Steve Englehart, Richard Howell (1986)S.W.O.R.D. - Joss Whedon, John Cassady (2004)Darcy Lewis - J Michael Straczynski for the first Thor film (2011)
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
This seems to bring us to current times in sitcom land, unless next episode is a Schitt's Creek theme.
― akm, Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
Would be great if suddenly the next episode was set in Westview, New Brunswick.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
I know it won’t happen but I would probably die if the next one was Twin Peaks: The Return themed.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
Who'd be the house band?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
dazzler
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
Better Call Wanda
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Saturday, 20 February 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
That’s funny because reading you guys talk about this show, it does sound like MCU Twin Peaks or something.
― stuck in the version layer (morrisp), Saturday, 20 February 2021 17:10 (three years ago) link
Well out of the gate with the runup to the first episode reviewers were dropping "It's very Lynchian" takes and things which, um, no, but if the first episodes were like anything it was like On the Air, as I half mumbled before.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 20 February 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link