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WandaVision, season 1.
WandaVision, season 1.
Three days to go!
Is anyone else annoyed it’s coming out on a Friday?
Is anyone else annoyed it’s coming out on a Friday?
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Why is that a bad thing?
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I don't mind a Friday except that it comes out on the same day as Agents of SHIELD in the UK.
Is it a weekly release schedule or all in one drop?
Is it a weekly release schedule or all in one drop?
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Two episodes the first day, once a week after that
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Non-X titles: King in Black Thunderbolts #1 by Matthew Rosenberg (1) and Juan Ferreyra (1)
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Well theres only 2 episodes left for AoS, so there won't be much overlap.Spectral Knight wrote: ↑13 Jan 2021, 12:11I don't mind a Friday except that it comes out on the same day as Agents of SHIELD in the UK.
Is it a weekly release schedule or all in one drop?
The weekly schedule probably good fo me, busy at work right now so wouldn't have been able to binge anyway!
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Eugh, I was hoping to binge. I've got so much on my watch-list that having it all on in one would've allowed a deep dive before I get into the shows I got for Christmas (Castle Rock S2, Watchmen) plus American Gods S3.
Is it only two episodes left for AoS? Booo... really enjoying this season so far. Admittedly, it still doesn't match the sheer genius of the Ghost Rider / LMDs / Agents of Hydra 4th season (the unquestionable high point of the show for me) - but every episode has been pretty good, and the time-jumps allow a bit of a tribute to the entire run.
Is it only two episodes left for AoS? Booo... really enjoying this season so far. Admittedly, it still doesn't match the sheer genius of the Ghost Rider / LMDs / Agents of Hydra 4th season (the unquestionable high point of the show for me) - but every episode has been pretty good, and the time-jumps allow a bit of a tribute to the entire run.
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Is this a multi-season show or a one-off event?
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If I had to guess; one-off event. I feel this and WInter Solider and Falcon will be one season shows that bring the characters into new directions for the movies. Loki has rumors for season 2 but Feige himself said there are so many rumors out there right now, some false and some true, so who knows whats the case there.
My money is on She-HUlk, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel and IronHeart being the multi-season shows, while each year we'll get mini-series like Wanda Vision.
My money is on She-HUlk, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel and IronHeart being the multi-season shows, while each year we'll get mini-series like Wanda Vision.
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Depends on how much money it makes.
I’m not sure why Friday irks me. Perhaps because for the past two weeks I’ve been looking forward to watching it tomorrow. But I feel like Thursday is the night they air the good stuff, and Friday gets shows that are close to cancellation. You can probably tell, my ideas about television programming were formed circa 1987-93, and haven’t been updated since TGIF went off the air
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Nu-D wrote: ↑14 Jan 2021, 00:00Depends on how much money it makes.
I’m not sure why Friday irks me. Perhaps because for the past two weeks I’ve been looking forward to watching it tomorrow. But I feel like Thursday is the night they air the good stuff, and Friday gets shows that are close to cancellation. You can probably tell, my ideas about television programming were formed circa 1987-93, and haven’t been updated since TGIF went off the air
Yeah because Netflix almost always drops big shows/movies on Friday’s in time for the weekend like how films used to drop back when we went to theaters.
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Wagers on whether this will debut Agatha Harkness, Master Pandemonium, Bova, Mephisto, Mordred the Mystic, High Evolutionary, Victor Mancha, Cthon, Grim Reaper, Alkhema, or Nathan Fillion as Wonder Man?
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Damn, Nicole Kidman should not be playing Lucy in the I Love Lucy movie, Elizabeth Olsen would kill it! Because she is excuting 60s sitcom vibes perfectly.
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Anya!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I SCREAMED
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Really enjoyed this, and I can’t WAIT for the rest
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Anya is my heart so seeing her again just, ugh made me so happy
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THAT'S who that was! She looked so familiar.
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So, I think there’s a lot of 616 stuff in here I don’t recognize. I know Agnes is Agatha Harkness. Who’s Dottie?
What’s the significance of the August 23 date in real life? Is that from 616, or is it the date AoU was released (Wanda met Vision?)
Do we recognize the symbol on the notebook, helicopter and bee keeper?
Who’s this Anya y’all are talking about?
What’s the significance of the name Geraldine?
And wasn’t Strucker the Hydra agent in The Winter Soldier?
When Bethany says “well that really gummed up my works, didn’t it,” he is totally channeling David Tennant’s Doctor Who.
What’s the significance of the August 23 date in real life? Is that from 616, or is it the date AoU was released (Wanda met Vision?)
Do we recognize the symbol on the notebook, helicopter and bee keeper?
Who’s this Anya y’all are talking about?
What’s the significance of the name Geraldine?
And wasn’t Strucker the Hydra agent in The Winter Soldier?
When Bethany says “well that really gummed up my works, didn’t it,” he is totally channeling David Tennant’s Doctor Who.
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Nu-D wrote: ↑15 Jan 2021, 14:32So, I think there’s a lot of 616 stuff in here I don’t recognize. I know Agnes is Agatha Harkness. Who’s Dottie?
What’s the significance of the August 23 date in real life? Is that from 616, or is it the date AoU was released (Wanda met Vision?)
Do we recognize the symbol on the notebook, helicopter and bee keeper?
Who’s this Anya y’all are talking about?
What’s the significance of the name Geraldine?
And wasn’t Strucker the Hydra agent in The Winter Soldier?
When Bethany says “well that really gummed up my works, didn’t it,” he is totally channeling David Tennant’s Doctor Who.
Dottie is as far as we know, just a character. However she DOES share a name with the Red Room agent we saw in Agent Carter.
August 23rd... no idea. I think they maybe just picked a date at random or it’s something that’s going to come up in a later episode. Potentially the date of Quicksilver’s death, given the “SAVE HIM” vibe.
I think the symbol matches the stuff we’ve seen from set photos that’s theorised to be the SWORD logo— but let’s get real, the beekeeper outfit most closely resembles the uniforms of AIM, who I believe are yet to appear in the MCU.
Dottie was played by the actor Emma Caulfield who was the best thing about Buffy the Vampire Slayer from season 4 onwards, where she played a character called Anya.
“Geraldine” is played by the actor we know is the MCU’s grown up Monica Rambeau, previously seen as a child in Captain Marvel. The pause before giving her name implies it is NOT her real name, and again, we know that actor is playing auntie Monica going forward.
Yes, Baron Strucker was the guy at the start of Age of Ultron who experimented on the twins with the infinity stone
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The logo is most centrally SWORD but the beekeeper does invoke AIM which a watered down version was in Iron Man 3...but if the Mandarin can get reinvented for Shang Chi, then AIM can get an upgrade!
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Is 616 Vision still made from the spare parts of the WW2 Human Torch, or was that retconned? Think we’ll see any fan service from Vision’s 616 back story, or is this really going to be all Wanda?
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Well Vision’s original body still was made from the body of the original Human Torch sorta...(fwiw this isn’t a new retcon but one from the pre-Bendis Avengers in Busiek’s Avengers Forever)...
But Vision was destroyed in Avengers Disassembled and was rebuilt more or less by Tony Stark. So his origin remains intact (even that his brain waves were based on Wonder Man’s)...
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I have a foggy memory of the WCA story by Byrne retconning the Torch into Vision’s backstory, and then out again. Or the reverse. Or something. It was in the same run as Vision’s white phase, and the Master Pandemonium story. I’m still baffled how Disassembled was written 15+ years after Wanda’s kids were disappeared. Seems like a long time to let that story sit fallow.
Anyhow...
I really liked episodes 1 & 2, but I have a feeling this is going to get a LOT better. The problem with the current format is that you admire the craftsmanship in re-creating the classic sitcoms for about 3 minutes, and then you remember how dull the Dick Van Dyke show is to modern viewers. The only thing that kept my interest was seeing how the gags would be Marvel-ized, and the Easter eggs and the sparse, tantalizing hints as to what’s really going on. I found myself browsing the web during the magic show because, well, that gag’s been done before, fifty years ago. Yuck, yuck.
But notably, the cracks in the sitcom facade are more regular in the second episode than the first, and I expect we’ll see even more in the third. I think that a lot of care and attention was put into the first two episodes, and they were excellently executed. Once the show starts to go, if they can keep up this level of craftsmanship and performance, it’s going to be excellent AND fun to watch. In fact, I suspect in hindsight these episodes will be even better once we have the context.
I’ve come around on Paul Bethany. The Vision character in the films doesn’t give him a lot of range to work with, so I’ve found his performance uncompelling. But here he brings charm and grace. He has great chemistry with Olsen, who’s a charmer in her own right. I’ve been a fan of hers since AoU, and I love seeing her get a chance to really breathe in this show.
Katherine Hahn, as always, is perfect, particularly in the first episode.
Here’s my current theory. Not really spoilers, but I’ll tag it anyhow:
Anyhow...
I really liked episodes 1 & 2, but I have a feeling this is going to get a LOT better. The problem with the current format is that you admire the craftsmanship in re-creating the classic sitcoms for about 3 minutes, and then you remember how dull the Dick Van Dyke show is to modern viewers. The only thing that kept my interest was seeing how the gags would be Marvel-ized, and the Easter eggs and the sparse, tantalizing hints as to what’s really going on. I found myself browsing the web during the magic show because, well, that gag’s been done before, fifty years ago. Yuck, yuck.
But notably, the cracks in the sitcom facade are more regular in the second episode than the first, and I expect we’ll see even more in the third. I think that a lot of care and attention was put into the first two episodes, and they were excellently executed. Once the show starts to go, if they can keep up this level of craftsmanship and performance, it’s going to be excellent AND fun to watch. In fact, I suspect in hindsight these episodes will be even better once we have the context.
I’ve come around on Paul Bethany. The Vision character in the films doesn’t give him a lot of range to work with, so I’ve found his performance uncompelling. But here he brings charm and grace. He has great chemistry with Olsen, who’s a charmer in her own right. I’ve been a fan of hers since AoU, and I love seeing her get a chance to really breathe in this show.
Katherine Hahn, as always, is perfect, particularly in the first episode.
Here’s my current theory. Not really spoilers, but I’ll tag it anyhow:
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This was just the right amount of bonkers. Looking forward to see where this goes.
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Okay, so theory:
I'm with NuD. Agnes = Agatha Hawkness, She's working for Hydra, who have kidnapped Wanda and her using her powers to create this world...to probably get Wanda to remake the world in Hydra's image. I mean, I'm literally spitballing. Not sure how SWORD fits into this, but they do(obviously). Maybe they've broken into the feed and are trying to get in, but when they do(like in Monica's case, with her being Geraldine) they lose their identity? I saw the Hydra logo on Vision's hat(or I thought I did) so I think its Sword vs Hydra here.
So since we're going by decade
If I had to guess, ep 3 ends with
I'm so interested in where this will go, because yes this is only the beginning and it will only get better from here(well, hopefully).
I'm with NuD. Agnes = Agatha Hawkness, She's working for Hydra, who have kidnapped Wanda and her using her powers to create this world...to probably get Wanda to remake the world in Hydra's image. I mean, I'm literally spitballing. Not sure how SWORD fits into this, but they do(obviously). Maybe they've broken into the feed and are trying to get in, but when they do(like in Monica's case, with her being Geraldine) they lose their identity? I saw the Hydra logo on Vision's hat(or I thought I did) so I think its Sword vs Hydra here.
So since we're going by decade
- Spoiler: show
If I had to guess, ep 3 ends with
- Spoiler: show
I'm so interested in where this will go, because yes this is only the beginning and it will only get better from here(well, hopefully).
- Spoiler: show