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Yeah I get such Farscape nostalgia whenever I watch GOTG. It was kind of a relief to find out that wasn’t accidental, and it wasn’t just me. Honestly, I much prefer Farscape (which reminds me, I need to do a rewatch before Prime takes it down).

Officially the second highest opening weekend ever. (Deadline)

#4: 😂🤣😂

Halloween binge watch of Loki. 😂🎃 Seemed appropriate. It’s really late/early, and I’ve been reading reactions/theories for a couple hours now. Still kind of processing it. What do you all think about this theory that the Loki finale and the WandaVision finale were deliberately synced, and that the “threshold” that Kang/HWR mentioned was Wanda becoming the Scarlet Witch? 🧐 A few scattered thoughts: This, for me, was definitively a show to binge-watch. I know not everyone likes watching shows that way, but for me, for this series, it worked. I will agree that this series felt more like direct setup for Phase 4 than the two prior series, not so much in setting up characters (like Scarlet Witch and the new Captain America), but in setting the stage, i.e. the multi-verse. It does leave me wondering what part, if any, Loki and the TVA will play in upcoming movies. I was getting some Doctor Who vibes off and on from the show. I guess all the running and the British accents and the androids. 😂 Not sure if that was intentional or not. I think, after seeing all the Disney+ shows, so far, I would put Loki second behind WandaVision. “What If?” is hard to rank because I loved some episodes and hated others. And FATWS, while I didn’t hate it, overall ended up being a disappointment. Hopefully Hawkeye will be as fun as advertised. The scene where Classic!Loki conjures the powerful illusions, and Loki tells Silvie…”I think we’re more powerful than we know”…. I wondered if that was their way of giving Loki a power-up. I’ve seen a lot of complaints over the years that MCU!Loki is distinctly underpowered compared to Comics!Loki, and I wondered if that was their way of addressing that issue. Which led me to wondering whether we may eventually see a more powerful Loki being worked back into MCU movies. I think Revonna may end up the wild card that we don’t expect. Speaking of “What If?”, that show exists after the multiverse comes back into play here? So the Watcher didn’t exist until the “sacred timeline” unraveled”? What a big ball of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. 🤣

I’m just thinking how they could have structured it. I know they were probably limited by contracts, at the very least, and probably the time constraints of the whole overall Infinity Arc. But what if they’d done CA3 focused on the hunt for Bucky, but in the background you could have the foundations for Civil War being built up. That might require Tony being in the movie, so that might be somewhat of a problem, and would require them ensuring that he didn’t take over the movie. But one of my (many many) problems with CA:CW is that the MCU really never gives the Steve/Tony relationship much depth, and so their big CW “breakup” isn’t that impacting on a personal level. Give that relationship some depth in CA3, keeping the focus on Steve and Sam looking for Bucky of course, while in the background building up Tony dealing with the fallout from Ultron, and maybe an growing anti-Avengers sentiment? Maybe at the end Tony finds out about Bucky killing his parents, leading to him feeling betrayed by Steve, but that’s a private confrontation between Steve and Tony, not a final act knockdown dragout fight with Tony trying to kill Bucky. Then in a post credits scene we see Tony being approached with the Accords. After that, Avengers: Civil War could actually focus on the Accords themselves and actually engage with the issue, allowing each side to make their arguments fairly, something CA:CW never really did. 🤷🏻‍♀️I don’t know, just some idle thoughts.

👆 Totally agreed. I will die on this hill. Whatever a person may think about Wanda and Pietro siding with Ultron, that has nothing to do with Lagos. Wanda was in no way responsible for that - she was just the convenient scapegoat. If she had not been there, people still would have died. It just would have been dozens, maybe hundreds, on the street (along with Steve and whoever else of the team was too close) rather than the people in the upper levels of the building. That anyone died is a tragedy of course, but nobody stops to think that if Wanda wasn’t there it could have been much much worse. Although I will disagree and say that I think this is a rather major flaw in the movie. Wanda isn’t really responsible for what happened, but the movie allows her to be scapegoated for it. Not even Steve really defends her against Ross’s accusations. Until it comes to defending Bucky, Steve is too passive in his objections against the Accords IMO. The writers give him a reason for that by killing off Peggy, but still. I would have liked to have seen him come out stronger against the Accords and against Ross, than them making it all about defending Bucky. (And really, the Hunt for Bucky Barnes should have been a completely separate movie.)

I did initially think Alexei was lying in the prison scene, but then when he asked Natasha later if Cap ever mentioned him, that seemed to indicate that he really does believe he fought Captain America.

I just watched it last night on Disney+, and….yeah. I was uncomfortable with that. More Alexei then Melina, I think, because Melina was a product of the Red Room just like Nat and Yelena were. And I think she did feel remorse over it. Alexei…I got so many mixed signals there. He does care for the girls, I think, in his own strange way, but….that doesn’t make him a good person. I do wonder who the Captain America was that Alexei thinks he fought in the 80s?

A good ending. Not perfect, as has been pointed out, but I enjoyed it. I was impressed at how they were able to gather up threads from all the prior episodes, and pull them all together. (Although unfortunately, them having to push the Gamora/Tony episode to next season did end up creating a bigger hole in the overall narrative than I expected.) There are some obvious plot holes, such as, why not Carol? But overall, I thought it worked well. I especially enjoyed the Peggy/Natasha friendship aspect. Loved that - definitely a major highlight. Although….I’m sorry to disagree on Lake Bell. I think she does a great job, but she doesn’t sound anything like ScarJo to me, and it’s a constant distraction. The other major highlight (of the whole season really) has been getting to hear Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa one last time. 😢 So, just to summarize how the threads from each prior episode were continued or wrapped up in this one: Episode 1: Captain Carter’s universe, probably still the closest to the MCU. Peggy is BFFs with Natasha, and just (probably) discovered Steve in the Hydra Stomper armor. To be continued next season? Episode 2: T’Challa rescued Peter and defeated Ego, so that universe is still one of the best off, apparently. Episodes 3 & 8: Natasha, as the lone survivor of episode 8’s universe, gets sent to the universe from episode 3, where she gets to kick Loki’s ass. I like it. The downside is that Clint is still dead in this universe, but…to be honest, her Clint is still dead either way, so maybe this is better. Maybe in this universe, she and Carol can be friends? Episode 4: The Doctor Strange from this episode destroyed his own universe, but helped to save the multi-verse, and will apparently be earning some measure of redemption by guarding Zola and Killmonger in the pocket dimension. To be continued? Episode 5: Zombie-world. I’m guessing this means the Peter and T’Challa of that episode did not succeed (which we already pretty much guessed), so this is one of three universes not to get a happy-ish ending. But I suppose zombie!Wanda did at least serve as a temporary distraction for Ultron. (Probably my least-favorite episode of the season, but then, I hate zombies.) Episode 6: When I heard Killmonger was going to be in this episode, I thought it meant that Pepper and Shuri failed in their mission. But no, they did not. Good for them. Killmonger may not be brought to Wakandan justice, but he’s trapped in an eternal battle with Zola, so… karma? Episode 7: Party Thor gets to go home to a date with his Jane. Party on? 😄 Missing episode: Gamora and Tony. Pushed to season two. Since this episode was apparently supposed to help set up this season’s finale, I will be curious to see whether it gets reworked at all to fit into the season two narrative. I think it was overall a fairly successful season, although it did get pretty bleak in the middle, and I hope they lighten up on that a bit next season. For me, I think it helps a bit in retrospect to have them all tied together at the end, so that they’re not entirely stand-alone stories.

Ah ok, this must be the Tony on Sakaar episode that was mentioned in the Reddit spoilers. I was wondering what happened with that.

Well, yes, that’s still in December….just barely. 😂

True.

Arguably, yes. I would personally put at least IM2 below it. Not saying I would want a Director’s Cut (no), but I am curious now what those plot points were.

I got to see this Saturday night, and really enjoyed it. We got a late showing, and the theater was practically empty. But it was fun, and now I’m looking forward to it coming to Disney+ so I can rewatch it. Not sure it would make it into my Top 5 favorite MCU movies, but it would definitely be in the Top 10.

So far, except for switching episodes 5 & 7, this has been completely accurate. Looks like it. But including Killmonger? I guess that means Shuri and Pepper failed to take him down? ☹️

That was a welcome breath of silliness after the last few episodes. I enjoyed that. I might have a few quibbles with it, but overall a lot of fun. I honestly can’t take it too seriously when it has scenes like Surtur drunkenly flirting with Lady Liberty. 😂 And the names on the countries!! The Captain Marvel vs Thor brawl was hilarious. As was everyone being scared of Frigga (rightfully). And I liked that Jane, even while getting starry-eyed over Thor, didn’t hesitate to call his mother on him. Interesting ending….Vision/Ultron with the Infinity Stones? Hmmm.

Yeah that’s pretty much what I thought. I also liked Queen Ramonda being the badass general - that was a side of her we didn’t get to see in the movie.

Yep pretty much. 😕 I hadn’t read the comics, so I just thought “alternate universes! Fun!” Yeah not so much. I liked the idea of Captain Carter but too much of it was a retread of CA:TFA. The T’Challa as Starlord episode has been the only one so far that I genuinely enjoyed (even with that “uh oh” ending). But yeah, everything since then has been a major downer.

I’m not really enjoying it either, and I was looking forward to it. I think it’s just not what I expected. I was expecting alternate universes but I wasn’t quite expecting them to be so dark and hopeless.

I did watch it, and just IMO, you didn’t miss anything. 😕

Ugh. Well that’s one I will be giving a hard pass.

That could be. I checked out of The Flash so long ago that I don’t even really keep track of what’s going on from afar anymore (same for Supergirl).

Not saying I’m not looking forward to this, because I am (and I hope it actually does turn out to be as fun as it looks, unlike FatWS), but am I the only one seeing Michael Jackson in this particular freeze frame? Yeah I don’t even know. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

OH! Right! Duh. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Yeah that’s about how I expected it to go. Although I didn’t expect Vampire Diaries to beat The Flash. I guess there’s more of a fanbase still around for that show than I thought.