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I'm not going to scratch Agnes from the list just yet. I still think there's something off about her, even though I think she was also genuine in her "am I dead, because you're dead" moment. Interestingly we didn't see Town Overload Dottie directing the Halloween festivities though.

As always, wow and a hell of a lot to process! I still have very little idea of where this is going to end up, they're really good at explaining somethings and making it even more confusing. So Wanda basically knows this isn't her Pietro and he's "whatever I'm just here to do the irresponsible, charming Uncle Jesse thing". And he's fully aware and telling her she "did the best she could in the scenario" keeping couples together, not brainwashing kids etc. That's why I don't think they're going to completely do the Wanda =the villain in this scenario, no matter how it shakes out. I might be wrong. Pietro was also kind of a dick in this, even if he did really just get yanked there from elsewhere to play the part. Billy and Tommy were cute, especially with the explaining to the camera that Mary Kate and Ashley did A LOT of in their twin shows as well as the cool twin versus dorky twin. And I suppose MITM did it a lot. Great theme tune again and Agnes has been promoted to regular on the show! Snack on Wanda's Magic to stay Alive! That wasn't for Vision or Pietro, something is using Wanda's breakdown for their own purposes. Pretty creepy with the kid unable to open the pot though. Maria's cells are changing and getting powers! In time for CM2. So Anges is dressed as a witch.., Hmm and seemed to be pretty big on the cackling. I thought there was something else behind that moment when she said "all is lost" like she's not just Angie from down the street who got caught up in this but I don't think she was faking her panic about being dead because she knows Vision is. Vision has autonomy and his Vibranium is possibly Hayward's real target but he can't exist outside Westview. I that mind stone "real?" Hayward didn't seem shocked when he said "he really does want out" more going on there possibly and it was insanely callous to watch someone disintegrate even if he's supposed to be dead. Hayward has no feelings for people who are powered. Shades of anti mutant sentiment there. Why were the townspeople stopped when Vision went near them? Hayward's just a dick, Woo was dead right there was no need to be demeaning about his colleagues just because they're throwing out sensible suggestions that don't fit with what he believes. I can certainly understand the Snap nearly brought the world to its knees but actually asking the questions rather than just nuking Wanda is the hard choice because it isn't simple. So Wanda can expand the Hex and stop the people moving but she still doesn't remember how it started or anything concrete. The harder the show pushes "it's all Wanda" in Ep 6 the more I think it's going to be revealed to be something else as well as her even though she's clearly doing a lot of this. I don't think she's actually controlling the residents all the time. And she seemed genuinely confused at certain points about why Herb and others asked her if she wanted to do things differently. She definitely didn't seem angry that many of them are starting to openly walk around like they're actors in her sitcom. She can't be in all their heads. I'll have a lot more thoughts later...

True but Wakanda might be going through its own turmoil post Snap and post T'Challa. And whilst he's certainly welcome there he might feel like he's constantly taking people's charity and feel unmoored with everything that's happened. With Sam, there's a connection and action, even if their relationship is fraught at first and he lacks his own purpose.

So I got around to watching this and I enjoyed it. It probably was the best one so far and I was more interested in the case this week because of Matt Barr even though it's still only a tiny percentage of each episode. I feel like we actually got to see a bit more of the true Cordell Walker this week as his family weren't quite so up his grill about things and he has some measure of closure over Emily's death (for now). However, I know it's Matt Barr and he's hella charismatic but Walker attempting to convince himself he was following intel was a pretty weak thread. I know he was proved right in the end but I was annoyed at half the episode for going "he's definitely guilty but...." That said if he saved one of her sons' lives I can see why Abilene might have a blind spot. Micki's still my favourite. I really enjoy her partner chem with JP and they work well together and like each other, which is a relief, no big man child vs straight laced, uptight "shew" so far. I really enjoyed her an Bonham's brief moment in the barn. It looks like he could use the company this ep as well. James seemed to be less uptight about being by the book this ep, essentially shrugging "it's just Walker and Hoyt" and telling Micki to deal with it. Liam and his fiance were cute with their scene together. Liam was less of a pain this ep but I did wonder if there was some left over apportioning blame in "it's your dad's call not mine". That said I was glad that the family have acknowledged that Cordell has an actual job and isn't on benders every time he can't pick up his kids and he picked up two drunk teens without a big issue. Stella's storyline was heavy handed with both Hoyt and Micki's "friend" Garrison providing the cautionary tale. That said, working off the fine and community service might well provide some storylines channel her pain into something productive and help her understand her dad. Maybe. August continues on his trying to be perfect but also about to explode path, it's leaking out of him now. Great break dancing though. Hmm, Bonham and Abilene are going through a rough patch. It's good if it gives MP something to chew on but also I don't really care that much so far. I like Odette Anabel and I'm glad she has a new gig but I still kind of wonder what the point of Geri is. It still feels a little like someone went "oh, wait we need an age appropriate attractive 30 something to play pseudo love interest to everyone because we're not saddling Micki with that!" They in no way made JP and GP look 16 years younger than they are now. Everyone has access to SPN guys, we know what they looked like. I can provide evidence going back to Rory Gilmore's first crush. But holy irresponsible parenting. You try to make your nest egg by gambling against a known cheater!

Looks good! Sam and Bucky look like they have really great chemistry together, which isn't surprising. Much more traditional Marvel than WV and it's interesting that in the original plan this would have come out first. I was never really that fussed that Sharon didn't have a bigger part in the movies and beyond glad they didn't have a chance to have her get really romantic with Steve regardless of comics but I'm glad she's here to flesh her out a bit. I hope she's not a love interest.

For me personally, I really liked Both Wanda and Vision and their relationship in the movies and was extremely intrigued by this. When I realised it was a pastiche/homage to sitcoms I wasn't sure I was going to like it but the first two episodes just in the sitcomverse had me hooked. Like Darcy I got weirdly invested very quickly, even though I knew it wasn't real. For a company that faces complaints that all their movies are the same (partly right, partly wrong) this was a bold move to prove they're more than one liners and big explosions. And it is interesting to see a huge company which has a lot of good will from its fanbase use that to do very untraditional things. Sure you could just watch from this or ep 4 and miss nothing of the plot but IMHO, you miss a lot of the experience of seeing these characters in their "perfect" world with an ever present cord of wrongness about it. And I have really enjoyed trying to pick it apart and guess what's going on. All of this is YMMV and some won't like it and some will like it much better once they can binge it all.

We've known for a while that he intended to work out his contract until S7 and then probably call it a day. He said as much when there was a lot of suspicion he might be leaving in previous seasons. I wouldn't call it a definite "DP exits" post but he's always seemed to set working his contract out as a goal. I also wouldn't be surprised if S7 is the end but you never know. What happened with Brandon and Courtney had a lot more going on than just objectively "out of stories" I think. Not necessarily with them personally but in terms of what Klemmer was willing to write for them and now much they were paying them.

It's strange that no one said anything, at that moment. I guess the director was just blasting through anyone's objections and they were more focused on Wanda storming the facility. I can't imagine Vision's will being okay with being taken apart and studied even if he wasn't being made into a weapon -which he absolutely was there, especially when put together with Hayward and Monica's talk in ep 4 about weapons and threats. It was about making Wanda The Other and he wasn't even listening to Monica's actual intel about her mental state. I'd like to say he's worried about the civilians inside but I don't even think because the stunt with the drone could have backfired spectacularly. There have been a couple of previous points were Darcy/Woo have been silent or misunderstood or glossed over something (or had the sitcom edited) because it's not time for that dramatic reveal yet. Like apparently conveniently not seeing Dottie pre her lady's club appearance but seeing Beverly before that or not realising that something was happening with Dottie even though the broadcast was edited. I also don't think Wanda is editing this for "broadcast" but I might be wrong about that.

It's definitely taking me back to those days where a lot of people on TWOP made notes whilst watching, googled quotes and kept track of anything thing that could possibly be symbolism and there would be 10 pages of philosophical discussion that got disproved the next ep. Good times. I'm so glad this is being released weekly even though I want it all NOW! The Infinity Stones were created at the dawn of the universe right? I don't think even Wanda is powerful enough to transfigure one out of a rock. It's possible that someone is using her and Vision to try and reverse engineer one though. Do different universes have their own versions and opening a doorway leads to more? I don't think Marvel will want to recreate the Infinity Saga in P4 but I think they are going to come into play here with the Mind Stone all over that Magic Cabinet in ep 2. If you think about it, what happened with Peter Pietro is the multiversal equivalent of "Geraldine" suddenly popping out of a magic doorway. "For the Children" is going to come back into play as well given it was after chanting that in unison that Wanda got pregnant along with Vision pointing out lack of children this ep.

I agree, I think Agnes is way more than just an innocent bystander who just happens to be catching on, she's just very.....convenient all the time and it was especially obvious in this episode. There's a reason her picture was up on the cast list wall but she didn't get named, Wanda didn't even seem to know what the hell she was talking about at first. Ralph also continues to get name checked. I also clocked that "she" might end up not being Wanda. That's a pretty standard way for the show to encourage us (and Vision) to make assumptions whilst potentially meaning one of the "The devil's in the details, ladies" "That's not the only place he is" women. Carol was kept off the board in Endgame because she was too damn powerful but that doesn't mean she didn't check up on Maria privately. However I can see them using the feelings of potential abandonment for a storyline in CM2.

I think it's clear since Disney now owns FOX and the X-Men films are on Disney + as "Marvel Legacy Movies" that they intend to use this to create a multiverse. How far it will go outside of Easter Eggs and DS2 is anyone's guess. Yes he clearly wasn't willing to listen to anyone else's opinion once his prejudices against her (and other powered people maybe) were confirmed. I think they have shown so far that whilst Wanda definitely crossed a line so far that the line is a dot to her in her grief, that she doesn't want to kill anyone. Heh, maybe some security camera from the compound were still active in the wreckage or drones/satellites above the battle?

I think it will also end up being significant that Wanda couldn't control the twins either by getting them to sleep with her magic or to stop them from growing. Even though she herself isn't one of the Olsen Twins I couldn't help feeling some of that was a little meta at the beginning.

Yes, Heyward was making it sound like SWORD were the ones doing what Vision wanted and Wanda just stole him to play happy families with a corpse but it's going to be far more than that. I don't blame her for getting mad and rescuing his remains from being dissected and/or used as a Weapon. That was nine days ago, and less than three weeks after the Unsnapture so it's all happening very quickly.

Wow a lot to process. As always. "The urge to run from this feeling is powerful I know" on some level Wanda knows this isn't right and there are rules in life and death. When Wanda stepped outside the Hex I gasped. She is an antagonist to some of this obviously, but nothing in this ep has made me change my mind on something else is helping or manipulating her. I wonder if Norm's "she" might be someone else? I believed Wanda when she said she doesn't know or remember how any of this actually started but now it's here she's trying to hang on to her "perfect" life with her family because everything else has been taken from her. That scene at the end between Vision and Wanda was so fantastic though! I really hope it's not just his corpse trailing around in reality. He's more than just her memories of him clearly. I'm not sure she could actually resurrect him all by herself with the mind stone powers. But I bet you anything SWORD weren't doing anything good with Vision's body and maybe it started as a way to stop them dissecting him and using him to build weapons. Hayward is such a dick. He started othering Wanda from the moment he started talking about her. There's no doubt she's victimizing people but he wouldn't listen to Monica who had personal experience with her pain and grief. It's clear that he saw her as a sentient "weapon" from the start. I choose to believe Monica over him. Darcy is a fan of Monica, aww, I wonder if that's to do with anything that we'll see in CM2 or if she's just this SWORD legend that Darcy has heard of working with them over the years. Or just from watching her on the broadcast maybe. And she's pissed at Carol, was she not there when Maria was dying? Sob. She, Darcy and Woo made a nice little team in this ep, getting things done, asking useful questions and keeping their minds a bit open. Really intrigued when Agnes thought Wanda would automatically rerun the scene, interesting. And I think she did notice everything changing she just didn't comment on it because she's aware to a certain extent of what's going on. She always was though, when she referred to Wanda as "the star of the show" in the 60s. So Computational whatever did play an important part this ep, very creepy chanting in unison and now its the 80s email signals are getting crossed with SWORD. Really not sure of this "recasting" of Pietro" but I knew it was coming and this obviously opens up the door to DS2. LAGOS!

I only remembered it because it had David Anders in it and its the one where Laurel shows off some self defence before getting tazed by him, that obviously was supposed to be BC foreshadowing. Jen's right in her review that this is a very standard yet also very toxic love triangle where Oliver ends up openly manipulating the situation by flirting with Laurel as the Hood (and using her as a human shield!) and also (faux) sympathising with Tommy about Laurel lying about the Hood and telling them to get honest with each other, like two versions of him aren't the part of the problem and neither of them know about it. Sure it was Olicity that ruined everything with their soap opera, romance taking over the show nonsense, this was pure Emmy worthy gritty drama! 😆

It was always going to be him from what she said, even if she didn't name him. I was a fan of hers at the time and it was awful how she completely changed her look and "allegedly" (at the time) dropped all her friends and wouldn't (couldn't) hear a word against him. I'm glad she feels able to fully name him now. It was such a change from Jamie Bell and all her other rumoured relationships until then. I don't think just being Marilyn Manson - his public image - is enough to make him a likely abuser, there are plenty of people who cultivate that image for attention or who live a weird life style privately who are very loving and kind but he himself admitted to being abusive and controlling to her (although he didn't term it that) many years ago. Also if he was into some very specific sex acts or even a Master/slave 24/7 thing then it would be fine if he was safe, sane and 100% consensual with a partner who was 100% into that and had everything pre agreed and discussed. But that very clearly wasn't the case, he was just a vile abuser here who wanted to control her life and make her terrified of him. I remember the first time I came across him as a kid in the Bowling for Columbine documentary where I thought he talked a lot of sense and came across level headed and thoughtful (to me). Shame he wasn't actually like that IRL. This was her original testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm2_JCNWTus

I don't think they'll make Liam Evil but I do think they'll make/keep him complicated like everything else in Walker's life. I do think he knows a lot more about Emily's murder than he's letting on but he might be trying to protect his brother from getting involved in something too big or dangerous for him to handle and has a high chance of him also being murdered. With the custody I think that was awful. They were safe and cared for and plenty of people are raised by family members without needing legal custody, Liam was called by the school every time something happened etc. They were in the best place what would or should have even changed so drastically if Liam was their legal Dad? I think he resents being thrust into the parent role and also likes it and resents Cordell for coming back and "automatically" displacing him . I think he secretly liked it that his brother was screwing something up maybe. Complicated dynamics. As much as the kids should be everyone's priority it seems like the family constantly forget Cordell's own grief (and job) and act like he went on a 11-3 month bender. Looking back at the casting announcements Liam was supposed to be a conservative DA and we haven't seen anything of that so far and in fact more of the opposite, so I wonder if they tweaked the character a bit. I'm sure he and his fiance's Austin vs New York argument will go on for a bit.

It's interesting. I don't really think the name recognition/IP really helped with the demo the CW usually goes for or Jared's fanbase in general. They might as well have just called it "Ranger" or Carter, Texas Ranger" or something. However, when they first started shopping it around I think they were hoping another network might pick it up, in which case the brand recognition would have been a key factor and thy had presumably paid a lot for it. But it ended up at the CW with a straight to series pick up that it wouldn't have got anywhere else. It's definitely not the only remake/reboot to be wildly different to the original e.g. BSG or less successfully the short lived Bionic Woman from 2007 or recently Utopia. Even things like the US vs UK Office ended up pretty different despite the same setting and in the first season the same scripts.

Surely after the Snapture happened the Avengers would explain about Thanos? There's no reason not to, especially if they can say the killed him and also blame him for the BoNY as well as Loki. If they didn't explain what happened then there would only be even more wild conspiracy theories and terror. We hear the smash but we don't see Dottie's injury. It cuts out all of Dottie's reaction, the red blood and everything and goes straight to "pop quiz, Wanda!" It could be Wanda but we've seen when Wanda "rewrites the script" and she didn't here, she let that play out. I think it could be something else that's also editing the "broadcast". They can do both. Tony's the antagonist of CW but we see his reasons and his own grief explored. There are still a lot of people who think he was wrong but see his POV and visa versa with Cap. I'm not sure she's being fully controlled but encouraged or manipulated in her grief by someone else for their own malevolent ends probably. Darcy changing majors makes sense to me. She met, made friends with and fought against actual aliens from another dimension/realm. Twice. She had contacts up the wazoo both with SHIELD/SWORD and Jane/Selvig and may have been helping Jane win her Nobel Prize. Even if you ignore everything else that's happened on Earth since then, it's more than enough for a clever, motivated person to change careers or be offered job opportunities. Until we hear otherwise I'm going to assume she wasn't Snapped and she carried on Jane's work but it works even if she was Snapped.

Okay rest of the episode. I still love Micki she’s awesome and she and Trey seem great together, having fun and actually communicating with each other like adults who like and respect each other. Can they please stay the mostly happy, mostly drama free secondary couple? Pretty please. Sigh, unlikely. I like that she’s very matter of fact that her job is her main focus and she can’t screw it up, especially because she’s a WOC but it doesn’t take over her entire character or storylines, just informs it. She and Walker seem to work well together and have nice partner chemistry and just get on with working together despite their differences. Chief, I get that you want to run a by the book Ranger department and that’s a good thing but you’re making me hella suspicious there as well. This show wants me to believe you are hiding all of the things. I think Liam does have resentment about his brother and how he handled things after the death AND resents the fact that he isn’t playing Uncle Dad any more, interesting mix. Maybe it’s just my pavlovian reaction to Keegan Allen in anything but I do think he’s involved in the cover up of what really happened to Emily, even if it turns out to be for the “right” family reasons. Is three months (or even 11 months) when you know a parent is undercover on an assignment really enough time to try and get legal custody of your brother’s children? Especially when they’re in a stable, family environment that would stay the same anyway? It’s not like that would make it easier if it turned out Walker died. Walker could certainly have handled things a LOT better when Emily died but I did feel sorry for him when everyone was lining up to hammer him over the head with everything. At some point that just becomes unhelpful and like they actually want him to be the screw up to fit the narrative in their heads. Stella was a bit of a brat but she has her reasons for it and she’s also confronting and being angry the adult world in the ways she’s openly being treated differently at school compared to Isabella. I did like the texting, that was cute and the broken stone, very on the nose but it worked. August seems like he’s just going to explode one day, even though he’s trying his hardest not to. Bonham got the grumpy Dad with a heart of gold storyline this week, it worked. Mitch Pileggi made the most of his scenes though and he and JP came across as believably father and son. I assume those were their actual kids in the video footage at the end? And lastly I see they still have the golden filter over everything.

I was watching Avengers today and Widow who doesn't have powers or a special suit ends the battle with a small cut on her lip, despite taking a beating. In some movies Tony goes through a lot without the suit on. The Iron Man suits have also been incredibly damaged and he's been fine. I really get where you're coming from but whilst Monica's report will mobilize SWORD against her, it won't be because she paralysed her. I hope Banner put them all somewhere safe. That bothered me in Endgame. Imagine coming back only to instantly die horribly because the plane you were on is no longer in the air or a building has been built/demolished. And that's not even to deal with the anguish of those who's loved ones died because of the Snap but only 2nd hand (like their pilot was snapped and their plane crashed or their surgeon was snapped and they bled out). I guess the Harts were renamed so they could participate in the wacky hijinks of misunderstood name abbreviation. I'm not sure she's assigning people their names, they just get bland and sitcom appropriate names when they "join". She didn't know Geraldine was Monica at first. And Ahbilash would be less likely than Norm in a 50s suburban sitcom setting.

If she is even unknowingly trapping people and "casting" them in the sitcom and if the radiation levels are growing then she does have to be stopped, but some how I don't think SWORDs approach (guns, tanks and focus on her as a "Sentient Weapon") will be the answer, which is where Hayward will come in as the "asshole" commander. I do think there is someone else at work as well but we're going to get a an episode or two of Get Wanda and maybe even Wanda V Vision before others are revealed.

Forget Impressed, I'd be gobsmacked and nominate them for awards really. Everything was too tidily tied up and sorted out this week. No way this is the show that subverts the trope lets its pre series murder of a wife/parent/child just be some random tragedy. Especially not when they specifically set it so close to the border and had her trying to help people crossing. That spells conspiracy that will take over the show ala Castle, Bones, The Mentalist etc. But it lets them have him try to heal a bit and get lighter before cliffhanger time.

People in this franchise literally fall through sky portal, get thrown through walls, off buildings, are in space without any life support, beat each other up with powers/equipment etc and survive with nothing but an aesthetically pleasing scratch. Unless you're Rhodey and are the CW sacrifical lamb. Granted most of them have suits on at the time but I doubt she'll have any lasting damage.

Yes, that's it, glad I'm not just imagining it. I've done soon googling but I can't find it at this late stage. Doesn't really matter, I just thought it was interesting what we all do and don't chose to take as gospel. Some won't believe a word out of MGs mouth about why Olicity started but will take that "we truly didn't know who's in the grave until episode 16/17 (right before they called KC to tell her)" and not hearing the evidence for "but we had a pretty good idea who we planned to be in the grave at least and had a back up just in case." And of course, I've also picked and chosen what I believe from BTS as well but I try to evaluate it based on some sort of quantifiable metric. Re: The idea that 2049 Oliver was supposed to be the one Sara had met before but had lost his marbles. That DEFINETLY didn't come across like that. It ended up looking like Sara and Ray had been wrong and they hadn't gone to that parallel earth before because that Oliver seemed sane enough for a lonely, anguished guy and just desperate to tell a Sara that he hadn't even seen on the Amazo how sorry he was. Whereas the other Oliver was the same up until S4 (baring pre Flashpoint JJ) and just diverged afterwards.