Pretty much. If you walk into your friend's house - your friend who's supposed to be babysitting your CHILDREN, no less - and not only are your kids suspiciously missing, but there's giant bugs on the walls, wouldn't you be kinda unsettled?
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WandaVision | Paul Bettany is in this | Fridays on Disney+
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Pretty much. If you walk into your friend's house - your friend who's supposed to be babysitting your CHILDREN, no less - and not only are your kids suspiciously missing, but there's giant bugs on the walls, wouldn't you be kinda unsettled?
It's a show where a black man has to wrestle with trying to live up to a mantle that comes with a vast amount of power, identity, respect, and mythos who will be judged harshly if it any point he isn't flawless while the US Government is trying to take it away from him because Cool White Dude Is The Only One Who Can Do It.
Even if it's not the most exciting thing ever, I think that's a good message to put out there and it's important to support black directed efforts in the industry.
Loved the episode. I liked the Darcy/vision scene. Loved watching Wanda as her world is falling apart and she's trying to make sense of it. Monica getting her powers was great. The Agatha 'show' reveal was the star here. Great stuff.
Oh absolutely. I'm just burned out on Marvel right now and I need weird shit like this to keep me interested.
Neat. I didn't know this etymology, but I knew it had to be something like this.
I do? Why are you being so needlessly rude to someone just explaining a bit of uncommon lingo?
Damn, that's a good catch. Density shifting is Vision's game.
I never knew this and it's awesome.
I would LOVE this.
The trailers and such make it look super standard, so I wasn't too hot on it until I had heard about this. This part makes it sound way more interesting.
I kind of like the two kids, they're growing on me(pun not intended). But despite all the air time they've gotten in the latter half of this season, I get the feeling they're going to be replaced by two guys in their early 20's playing 16 year olds lol.
It would be nice to keep them around and actually have them age up into the roles naturally. It would be a nice change from the usual casting of people in their early 20's to play teens. The thing that separated Tom from the others to play Spidey is that he was so much younger when he started. But now he'll be 25 playing maybe a 17 year old when Spidey 3 comes out
It would be nice to keep them around and actually have them age up into the roles naturally. It would be a nice change from the usual casting of people in their early 20's to play teens. The thing that separated Tom from the others to play Spidey is that he was so much younger when he started. But now he'll be 25 playing maybe a 17 year old when Spidey 3 comes out
Maybe its rural bias showing, but that doesn't seem that strange. Though that's probably why didn't pick it up as anything strange. It just seemed normal to me to see such a critter around the house.
Although the commercial wasn't as cool as last week's I think the intro made up for it. It was just nice and creepy.
Yeah I like these kids. Hope they stick around
(I'm going to find out they just got eaten off screen next ep I bet)
Yeah I like these kids. Hope they stick around
(I'm going to find out they just got eaten off screen next ep I bet)
I like your reasoning, and I do think a lot of decisions the writers are making are factoring in the time crunch of each episode. I just personally think that could have been a big emotional moment for Vision. But hey, I'm a lover a drama. Anytime I can get characters to wallow in feelings I usually take it. lol
My issue with Darcy specifically is that, since Darcy doesn't really have much in the way of character development, the little attempt she does make to empathize with Vision ("The love you two have is real...") just fell flat to me. Like, the I watched the scene and I couldn't help but wonder why it should matter to Vision that Darcy is telling him this.
Yo, cicadas are fucking scary.
Should also be noted that Wanda defeated Vision at the Avengers Compound in the Civil War movie by using her powers to warp his density to super high levels.
Is that what happened there? I always assumed that was just good old-fashioned telekinesis.
they were originally doing space exploration before they changed gears after the effects of the snap/blip.
Weird. At about 5:30 into episode 7, while Vision is looking around just after getting up, there's a very obvious shift in hue, like the compositing is suddenly different.
Even so, they could still retcon the numerical designation.
Why the hell does Disney+ never save my subtitle settings? Their help page on it says that changing them in the web browser saves them but I have to turn the captions back on for every single video. Hell, if I exit a video partway through and come back five seconds later, I have to turn them on again!
Due to Wanda's connection to the Mind Stone, she is able to manipulate it and Vision to a degree.
I'm sure we will get that at some point. This isn't Monica's only appearance, after all. Also, I know it isn't what you meant but we do see some of what you want out of Captain Marvel. She went from a child idolizing her "auntie"/childhood hero to becoming jaded over Carol, something we'll learn more about once CM2 releases I'm sure.
I think Marvel intentionally moved away from the Netflix model where the heroes would have it out with the big bad in episode 6, then spend 4 hour long episodes reminiscing about how they got to this point and fleshing out side stories, then rush to an ending in the last few eps.
There probably aren't going to be dimensions to these characters that aren't easily referenced in a subsequent film.
One thing I've been noticing is that the episodes have a lot of moments where they're doing the whole sitcom thing, and people feel that virtually every time they do it is supposed to be this hilarious thing that the show is failing at, even when it clearly isn't going for that.
Like this episode is a good example. Some were criticizing Wanda talking to the camera as not being funny compared to stuff like The Office or Modern Family. But like, it clearly isn't supposed to be? She's depressed af, and recent events have just tired her out. Like sometimes it's kinda obvious that here and there less effort is being put into the jokes and the sitcom setting of the week itself because Wanda herself is getting increasingly distracted from what was originally this place she created for herself where everything was initially perfect. Or that one episode where they used the laugh track a bunch of times, even though it didn't fit. Not because it actually wanted us viewers to laugh, but because it helped make things more unsettling the way it just kept going. I guess it's super meta in a sense.
I mean of course, humor is subjective, some people haven't liked the humor since the very beginning, but it's interesting to view how increasingly muddled things have become, where it's become harder to tell what in the show is actually solely meant to make us laugh.
Yeah, I also think there's something else going on. Glad I don't know about comic stuff, this show is giving me surprises I wasn't expecting :P
They've been doing this in other episodes as well, as a hint of format changing from "our" WandaVision into "Wanda's" WandaVision. I would have loved for them to go all out with that, specially with the 90s/00s sitcom, they should've gone with 4:3, but it still works as it is.
ohhhh right
that was the one thing that was bothering me was like the tv format shouldnt exist if the signal is no longer being broadcast but now it makes sense. hayward wouldn't give a shit about the format changing.
because it literally changes nothing about the episode, and like yourself figured out it was probably a very technical lingo.
no need to come to say to people "Accchually they aren't making a shout out to capcom"
it may be it may not, who cares.
i appareciate people explaining what it was, but no need to shit on people believing it was a capcom shout out
I thought Sparky got blown up by the drone missile. It was Palpatine, ah, Agnes the whole time.
She go her energy powers this time, which probably let her shrug off the Hex energy.
looks like she has changed into something that isn't affected by Wandas magic. Spectrum powers are a go!
Interesting! Thanks
Can't wait to what her powers can do
I'm sure it's already posted, but this episode had an extra scene mid-credits. I'm not sure if this is the first one to do that, I've watched a few other through the credits and there was nothing.
This episode is the first to do a post credits scene. So you haven't missed anything.
Just read the Marvel wiki and save some time!
Monica Rambeau (Earth-616)
Demonstrating light and energy manipulation at a young age, Monica Rambeau hid and suppressed those abilities until she was bombarded with extra-dimensional energy emitted by a stolen device. Rambeau, now a harbor patrol officer, then discovered an ability to convert her body mass into any form...
marvel.fandom.com
Cicadas or crickets singing/chirping are seen as a sign of silence. The kids should have been making noise somewhere but they weren't
Was the same for me, I assumed it was because I wasn't the main account holder (I'm piggybacking off of my cousin's). Download the app, change your settings on a video on there, it should save and carry over to desktop.
If credits are part of that six hours, we likely have two more 40 minute episodes if I'm remembering how the math was crunched earlier in this thread.
I am the main account holder, so that's not it. I'll give the app thing a try later though, thank you.
Y'all think this series takes the comic book reader/non-comic book reader divide to a new level? Like, Agatha, Nexus, Mephisto, Darkhold, Spectrum, Monica being an aunt, some character or other being a fly/cicada...I have zero context for any of that besides what I saw in this episode and read over the last few pages of this thread.
What's great is that the show still 100% works for me, anyway. I absorb the excitement for this or that concept being introduced through osmosis, and in some cases the twists hit harder because the absence of context. And it seems to work for comic book readers just as well. This is something the MCU has been doing all along, but how this show in particular has gone about hitting that sweet spot has been impressive.
What's great is that the show still 100% works for me, anyway. I absorb the excitement for this or that concept being introduced through osmosis, and in some cases the twists hit harder because the absence of context. And it seems to work for comic book readers just as well. This is something the MCU has been doing all along, but how this show in particular has gone about hitting that sweet spot has been impressive.
Interesting! I'm always curious how people who think "what's an Agatha Harkness or Nexus" think. None of my family or friends have watched the latest ep yet.
Don't read comics, and I probably won't ever make a real effort to do so
But basically comic book fans getting hype gets me hype lol. I feel like that's how it is for a lot of people. Also cultural osmosis does just enough that I can be hip to certain things, like all this potential Mephisto foreshadowing for example
I thought the whole bit with the moon rover just made the super secret engineer and Monica look either incompetent or foolish. Hey look at this super tech! "Did we get your specs right", we know anything that goes into the hex changes but let's try anyways.
I'd rather just had Monica approach the hex, put her hand on it, notice she is changing/has powers and then just say "I can do this" and go through 🤷🏽♂️.
Other than that I enjoyed the episode.
I'd rather just had Monica approach the hex, put her hand on it, notice she is changing/has powers and then just say "I can do this" and go through 🤷🏽♂️.
Other than that I enjoyed the episode.
Yeah it added nothing really for me. Didn't even look that cool.