https://twitter.com/MarvelStudios/status/1307847813443629057?s=19

FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER was supposed to be first, but COVID-19.

Leads directly into DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS.

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I’m ready to get back in the MCU groove. I’m ready to see ANYTHING. And, I’m ready for D+ to ramp up and show & prove on the value side because the one-year Verizon deal is about up and I’ve only watched The Mandalorian.

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Even more so after reading this Guardian interview: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jan/13/weird-is-good-paul-bettany-elizabeth-olsen-superhero-sitcom-wandavision

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but the Vision series from a few years back is fucking amazing.

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If they had straight up adapted that, it would have been nominated for some Oscars b.

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The show itself is very good though, especially if you spent a lot of time confusedly watching Nick @ Nite.


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I'm not intimately familiar with 50's era US television, but from what I can tell they nailed the atmosphere, and the humor ties into the Marvel side of things just enough to prevent the old fashioned jokes from feeling stale.

The parts where reality seeps in are a welcome break from the zaniness and keep you guessing as to what is really going on. Olsen does a terrific job of switching up her performance when the moment calls for it.

Bettany is great too, he reminded me a bit of a less obscene Rick Mayall with his demeanor and appearance in episode 2.

Obviously things will need to start moving along from her on out, since the 50s schtick wouldn't work for a whole season, but these first two episodes are really encouraging.

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I'm loving to see where the illusion is breaking down.

It's kinda hard to accept the comedy when you kinda know literally nothing is real. That choking scene got kinda creepy.

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so i ended up skipping through looking for action, which ever came. maybe i just wasn't in the right mood. i just didn't think the writing or jokes were any good, but I do think the concept is brilliant.

It's a sitcom but with surrealism in it with a very sister undertone.

Obviously everyone is trapped in some kind of mind construct.

Very excited to see this week to week.

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Calling it Lynchian is a bit much but for a Marvel show it’s definitely a satisfying off-kilter start

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If you didn't grow up with Nick at Nite/after-school syndication, I don't know if this hits the mark. I don't know if the references work, or if they hit as hard.

I found it to be fascinating as a sitcom. I don't know if I care about the rest of the interweaving thats happening, but I'm sure I'm enjoy that as well. They never explained the show to me from the beginning, so I came in with no expectation of any action.

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its like they took the 1 weird/surreal/dream/hallucination episode of the season that some shows do (which tend to be provocative and/or over much of the audiences head) and they are making it the premise of an entire season.

it feels like it could be exhausting tryna sniff out the references to make everything make sense.

but its fresh/ambitious and i support that. i do hope it works out in the end.

but the whole sitcom thing does nothing for me.

Couple of decent easter eggs in the first two eps are enough for me. Also Olson and Bettany are doing great with the sitcom hubby and wife trope, K. Hahn as the neighbor is great.

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Being a long time fam of these characters, I didn't expect to jump into a super powered brawl. I assumed this series would be much more subtle in it's storytelling. I think this series is playing the long game, which fits Vision & SW.

That being said, they run the risk of letting it go on for too long. The Netflix Marvel runs had the terrible habit of being about 4 episodes longer than necessary. And I get how people unfamiliar with the characters could be completely lost.

But as of now, I'm definitely intrigued.

Especially since that was one of the more common criticisms leveled against the Marvel stuff on Netflix. Everybody thought it dragged, I'm sure Feige & co. took note.

If the quality remains consistent, I think moving into more recent and recognizable TV eras will do a lot to reel people in. I don't think there's a lot of Marvel fans (or Disney+ subs, even) that have a lot of memories of 50's or 60's TV beyond a few reruns.

Even now it's sitting at a comfortable if not terrific rating of around 7.5 on IMDb and Metacritic, which isn't bad for something that's essentially a big experiment and quite a deviation from what Marvel fans are used to.

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I love it so far. But I can understand all the hate it getting. I thing by ep 4 there will be a shift in tone and focus that will pull everyone in.

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I liked when shit got real when the laugh track stopped. The façade is cracking and Wanda keeps erasing them where she can. I kinda wanna check an Easter egg video but the last one I saw gave way too much info for me.

I’m ready to see my bae Kat Dennings.

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Something's happening.

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You get the feeling this show was a lot of fun to write/make, I bet it'll be cool for the bingers to come to in a couple months and watch how the actors change up their performances, the writers change up the dialogue and the camerawork gets more involved sll in an evening.


You do kinda wish the show was actually funny but oh well.


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>You get the feeling this show was a lot of fun to write/make,
>I bet it'll be cool for the bingers to come to in a couple
>months and watch how the actors change up their performances,
>the writers change up the dialogue and the camerawork gets
>more involved sll in an evening.
>
>
>You do kinda wish the show was actually funny but oh well.
>
>
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in tone.

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>in tone.

Yeah the Hooded Justice portions.

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>Yeah the Hooded Justice portions.

Also the neighbor transporting etc, a lot of Regina King "wtf" moments in this ep.

>in tone.

Feels like Bewitched with a tiny touch of X Files LOL

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
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I thought they'd take more time to show the cracks slowly appearing but I think I'm glad that they switched over to a more recognizable MCU setting in order to move the plot along. I wonder how they're going to handle the two realities from here on out.

It's nice to see Jimmy Woo return as well, and I'm looking forward to Monica Rambeau's character arc, even if I know jack shit about her role in the comics. She's supposed to become a superhero too, right?

Also, what happened to bee keeper dude? Did he get expelled just like Rambeau?

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So is the sole reason that Wanda creating all that so she can be with Vision even though he is dead in the real world? Are the children real? Lots of questions. LOL. Obviously there must be more to it than that.

out of Wanda’s reality she still had all of her “Geraldine” wardrobe and hair - which means that it’s possible for things in Wanda’s Westview to survive back in the real world. So does that mean her kids will end up being real once this is resolved? Possibly...

I liked it and the opening was good, it was a great take on what happened to people during the blip. Spiderman did it for laughs but this one gave you a sense of confusions people dealt with.

I think the episode is doing a good job of explaining part of what's going on. Which I think it needed to do to keep viewers. I've see a lot people talking about trying to figure it all out and it was moving slow. Now we're starting to see how Wanda is actually doing this. .

The intro of Monica Rambeau and S.W.O.R.D. was great. The gave a nod to both the film Capitan Marvel legacy and Comic reality version of the organization.

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"Love is never any better than the lover" Toni Morrison (The Bluest Eye)

but as stand alone episodes, the first two were pretty boring. i haven't watched the third or fourth because the first two didn't hold my interest. might just wait until all episodes are out and the full story is told.

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.

..quietly becoming one of the best written/directed shows on any platform.

Now that the world has adjusted, we'll see just how far/deep this rabbit hole of a show decides to go.


*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

I grew up without cable so those were the shows you could catch on one of the 4 broadcast stations our tv got.


So I wonder if that's why I had a higher tolerance for the throwback format. I was surprised to read people found it boring.

In general it seems like the whole show is premised around that one Twilight Zone episode which is the ultimate nod to old tv.

Maybe the audience is too young to appreciate all that.


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I wondered how they’d go back to the sitcom format while still pushing the story outside the hex along- well they did an outstanding job of just that.


















And the ending????? The multiverse is here. At this point, I’m anticipating that we end up getting something huge like Professor X played by Patrick Stewart, or Ian as Magneto.

I seen some stuff about how this is gonna tie into the next Dr. Strange movie

Fuck Marvel came to play this time. Can't wait to see how this affects everything moving forward. This has to be what kicks off the next slate of movies.

I'm pretty sure I have an idea on where this is all going and what Feige might be doing to bring all the Marvel properties together since the merger with Fox.

On another note, this cast is great. Just all around great acting by everyone involved. This might be my favorite episode of the series so far.

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>On another note, this cast is great. Just all around great
>acting by everyone involved. This might be my favorite episode
>of the series so far.

Paul Bettany BROUGHT it in this episode. All of the slow realization of what's going on, escalating to actual anger at Wanda when she tried to roll the credits on him, etc.

Also what is SWORD doing? They showed the scene of Wanda taking Visions corpse back from them - but it looked like they were experimenting on his body. The director mentioned in the last episode that SWORD had moved from focusing on space to AI, nanotech, robotics, and sentient weapons. Are they trying to develop weapons based on Vision's technology? Is the reason he's pushing to go hard at Wanda as the villain just because he needs to get Vision's body back to continue their research?

>Also what is SWORD doing? They showed the scene of Wanda
>taking Visions corpse back from them - but it looked like they
>were experimenting on his body. The director mentioned in the
>last episode that SWORD had moved from focusing on space to
>AI, nanotech, robotics, and sentient weapons. Are they trying
>to develop weapons based on Vision's technology? Is the reason
>he's pushing to go hard at Wanda as the villain just because
>he needs to get Vision's body back to continue their
>research?

He was torn apart in that lab. I'm guessing they want to reverse engineer that tech, especially since it's STARK Tech. Maybe apply it to other stuff. I think he's going to be the true villain of it all and we're just watching Wanda go nuts, trying to apply her own type of therapy over the loss of Vision. I'm trying to figure out how they acquired his body since we last see it in Wakanda during Infinity War.

But back to Olson and Bettany, that end credits scene was so damn good. I"ve always been a huge fan of Bettany and I'm glad he got to show off his talents with this episode.

Last thing, I'm trying to figure out Kathryn Hahn's character in all of this. She obviously knows that this is fake based on her asking Wanda if she should re-run her lines. They showed in the last ep she's a resident of the town, but she's not under the Hex like the rest of the townsfolk.


Oh and that openning was 80's as fuck, I could see references to like 4 different shows from the 80's. I'm even curious if they had Olson and Bettany sing that into song.

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Wouldn’t be surprised to find out it was actually them.

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Definitely gonna watch this one again.

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I agree that they handled going back and forth from the sitcom greatly. Probably part of why I really enjoyed this episode the most even before the mind blowing parts.

I'm definitely excited to see where this goes. I'm kind of worried about what the answer will be for why there are no kids in Westville.

The cameo might not end up being the obvious but I think if it's not actually him they still end up opening the door to the multiverse by the end of the show. Going to make too many people angry if they tease it then come back with a different explanation lol

My theory, so that version of Quicksilver in the xmen was taking place in the 80's, and everything that comes into Wanda's show matches the time period, so I think between the 80s time period and multiverse they will use that to explain why this version of him is there. Not a full intro of the xmen and mutants into the MCU yet, but just a wink and nod that they can return to at another time. Or I could be totally off base lol.

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everyone is reading whatever they want to see into this, and who knows, it could all blip away in the first five minutes
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Also I called the hightop fade

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Another great episode. They are killing me with the cliffhangers - gonna be tough waiting for next week.

i dont want to risk spoilers so i watched it as soon as i woke up lol last one i read a headline about a special cameo. i didnt click, didnt see who it was but ruined the surprise of a big cameo happening lol

this episode didnt really have moments that could be spoiled. some big developments that are setting up some reveals in later episodes.

i was kinda disappointed there wasnt really the 90s nostalgia i was looking for. seemed like it was more focused on late 90s. still definitely want to see where this goes.




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i wonder if the hex works like terrigenesis from agents of shield. with so many people getting swallowed into it i wonder if some will come out with abilities. we all expect monica will but will others too?

what is up with "pietro"? theyre obviously indicating hes a spy but would that mean it is pietro but hes not on her side? i was thinking maybe its a skrull or mystique but can they also get his abilities?

is vision moving out? how much of him is left?

agnes was just acting right?

I think once it's confirmed that she's a villain that scene will totally show that she's pretending on rewatch.

During the intro, she has "Naughty" written on the back of her pants. Plus, she's the only one who says that it's Wanda who's controlling everyone. The guy last episode just said "She."

And something is definitely up with Pietro as well. I thought at first he might have been the guy who SWORD sent into the Hex, but I'm guess he might be one of the villains as well.

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the rest of the townspeople, so she was definitely overacting after Vision undid his mind thing and she drove off like everything was fine.

I think Pietro is Mephisto.

I think Hayward is a Skrull.

I think Agnes is working with Pietro/Mephisto but since things started going left, he had to show up.

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i say there are definitely convincing clues for all those. i kind of feel like theyre making hayward seem like a villain to throw us off. maybe thats just his personality. i would bet more that he is a villain of sorts though.

pietro having powers is throwing me off. is she just imagining that or how can someone replicate his powers?

emergency awesome is saying hes just a regular dude that wanda has acting as pietro. again, is she that powerful that she can make him have powers? if so, is she really making vision do everything as well? i guess at least in the hex she could have that much control.

when he showed up we all thought that meant multiverse and fox xmen are now part of the mcu. with this episode it seems like theyre saying its a fake out. they could be doing the good old double fake out though lol. i figured that it wouldnt be as simple as him showing up last week meaning multiverse but i do still think they will bring it in before the show is over.

either way they have set up so many possibilities so im definitely excited to see what things end up being.

random thought.
if disney never bought fox could they had hired evan peters in this role?

a skrull or someone who is actually the mastermind. I think he’s just a shady SWORD director who was doing experiments on Vision’s corpse to try to create new weaponized AI based on that technology. I think his actions in the series have just been about trying to get Vision’s body back, and that he doesn’t actually know any more about the hex than what we see at face value. He’s blaming Wanda since she took Vision’s body, and he wants it back.

I definitely think Agnes could be more of the actual main villain. Some of the craziest stuff that’s happened has been when she was around. Wanda herself may be turning into an antagonist, but I think she genuinely doesn’t know how all this started which would indicate that someone else set it into motion. Pietro is the mystery to me - he could be either a red herring who won’t even really show up again, or he could be the one behind all of this - Mephisto or some other big bad.

Hayward is like the stereotypical general the use in a lot of sci-fi/action movies (e.g. Donald Sutherland in Outbreak): Wants to weaponize new technology/disease to help U.S. military supremacy. SWORD is supposed to be the proactive brother to SHIELD. He might be motivated by the perception of a real threat (Skrull presence on Earth, the Kree, fear of the appearance of another Thanos-level entity), but I don't he has an agenda beyond that.

Only thing that's preventing me to think Pietro is someone like Mephisto is that he was asking Wanda how she got her powers. Like, he doesn't know himself and he's trying to find. Which leads me to beieve that Agnes is a gender-swapped Mephisto, if anything.

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got them Malcom in the Middle vibes with this episode. And just the genius of how they shoot each episode to look like a show from that era. As much as I love the spoilers and it's connection to the next phase of the MCU...I'm just enjoying this as a series itself.

Now on to the MCU connections and etc... I can't wait to see what happens next, they keep teeing up these reveals. Shout out to Randall Park getting down as Jimmy Woo.

So, I'm curious to see where this is going to go now. I think all the rumors on the net maybe wrong after this one.

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I wonder if they may do something like an extra long last episode

(from what I found, the source is feige originally saying how many hours the show would be vs. what has aired, if there's more detailed info available lmk)

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But yeah It would make more sense for just the finale.

cant wait for these final 3 episodes.

not that the first two episodes were bad but i just didnt get it. im glad they didnt take much longer to start revealing what was happening.

in a way i think my initial reactions to each episode are exactly what marvel was intending lol

as a whole i have enjoyed it. i have definitely had moments and episodes i enjoyed more than others. i think my interest on where theyre going with it just keeps growing. i plan to rewatch it all when its over.

>in a way i think my initial reactions to each episode are
>exactly what marvel was intending lol

The characters in-universe (outside of the hex) were just as confused as we were, to the point that they were asking the same questions as the audience. Which is the other reason this REALLY worked as a TV series vs. a movie. Having the audience have to wait another week while asking those questions was an important component of the feeling they wanted us to have when things start being revealed. If it had been done in a movie, or even a TV show dropped all at once to binge, that space wouldn’t have been there and it would feel much more like typical MCU.

Not that “typical MCU” was bad, but post Endgame they needed something different from the regular formula.

I think if this wasn't MCU related, many people would have dropped off never to return after those first two episodes. I'm kinda curious how something like the Mandolorian would have fared if they had waited longer to introduce Baby Yoda, for example.

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this level of risk. Mandalorian premiered a month or so before Rise of Skywalker, and post Last Jedi and Solo the fan base was all over the place. Mandalorian and Grogu definitely united that fan base and brought in to a of casual fans at the same time. It's interesting to think about how the reception would have been without Baby Yoda/Grogu. I remember some reviews of that first episode (which only have him in at the very end) saying that it seemed foo fan film/fan service heavy. (Those same reviewers went on to LOVE the show.)

That being said, I think WandaVision proves that it’s okay for Disney to take some risks on these shows to an extent. It’s on their own platform, and if a show takes a bit to get going, at worst you’ll have some fans thinking this one isn’t for them, but when they hear about how things have evolved, they can check back in and binge to get up to speed.

I went back to it ONLY bcause its marvel. First two episodes were just weird and I was like WTF is going on with this? WHY?

November 8th, 2005 The greatest night in the history of GD!

So many things!

-Kat Dennings crush increased this week.
-The “Modern Family” style was hilarious.
-I thought the lead SWORD guy got sucked into the hex, but I guess not.
-Loved Monica’s transformation.
-Agatha’s reveal song was acceptably cheesy. Gotta hear her bad guy monologue reasoning.
-End credits!

I love the fuck out of this show.

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this show man

fuck

this is some good shit

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Lot of good stuff this last episode. Now were' coming towards the end of all of it and finding out who the mastermind is.

>-Kat Dennings crush increased this week.
Agreed, she was already on the team but this week upped it. Also Kathryn Hahn....I'm leaving it in.

>-The “Modern Family” style was hilarious.

Did a great job with the Modern Family style, I wonder if they got some of that crew to consult or shoot those scenes.

>-I thought the lead SWORD guy got sucked into the hex, but I
>guess not.
Nah, it was the strong man that was Hayward muscle that got sucked in.
>-Loved Monica’s transformation.

>-Agatha’s reveal song was acceptably cheesy. Gotta hear her
>bad guy monologue reasoning.
they gave it a real the Monsters opening with the theme song.

>-End credits!
So is that Pietro real or was that Agatha controlling him as her muscle?

>I love the fuck out of this show.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, NO ONE SHOULD EVER DOUBT FEIGE!! This show is amazing, giving I can understand the complaints about not feeling the first couple of episodes. They are hard to get into if you didn't grow up watching those shows, but other than that, we got one of the best Disney + originals out there.

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