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Gavok posted:A note about the first commercial: the toaster very much resembles what Ultron's original form looked like in the comics. Also reminds me of the joke Vision tells Wanda on a flashback on Tom King's miniseries . Do we know if the sitcom eras go to the 2010s? If that's so, then we could be getting 7 episode of sitcoms and 2 of full on "real world" plot
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# ¿ Jan 15, 2021 18:37 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 09:58 |
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Open Source Idiom posted:Speaking as someone who couldn't care less about comics "mythology", and who hasn't seen a Marvel film in about five years (or a single episode of the Dick Van Dyke show, or Bewitched) I think this is perfectly accessible. Yeah; if it was binged I think it could still work, but I feel like the Disney+ model is to do weekly releases so that the shows remain in the conversation for at least 2 months. It worked for The Mandalorian and if this week has been any indication it kind of works for WV too (though it remains to be seen if it works in less mystery heavy shows like What If or Ms Marvel)
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2021 05:40 |
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Yeah. If we had gotten 6 episodes of sitcom plots with a few minutes of actual plot, it would have been too much. If from now on it's just a sitcom style and the plot moving forward then I'm ok with that.
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2021 12:57 |
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Hazo posted:Is there a significance to how Vision had his right lapel carefully untucked throughout the entire episode? I think its significance was to annoy me because I hate when that happens with my shirts. I just wanted to fix his lapel throughout the whole episode.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2021 04:56 |
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BlackIronHeart posted:Am I the only person who thinks Mephisto being the big bad for an entire phase of the MCU seems like wishful thinking? Like, do people really think Disney is going to have literal Satan be in 6 movies and a couple TV shows or whatever? I guess that's why some people think it's actually Nightmare...it's not as if the MCU has made its own versions of characters that resemble little of the comics versions; they could just call the villain a demon, but by using Nightmare they don't have to use a literal Satan.
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# ¿ Jan 23, 2021 21:41 |
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Desperado Bones posted:If it's Pietro and if it's really Evan Peters the actor I will know be more interested in finding out HOW that happened. Does Wanda don't remember her brother? Is Evan's character another agent of SWORD pretending to be Pietro to get information out of her? Maybe Wanda's magic can't actually revive someone, so instead of that she somehow pulls Evan Peters from a different universe (yeah, I know, why would she be able to break the multiverse and not revive a person, but still); I guess bringing back Vision was not such an issue since he is not actually human
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# ¿ Jan 26, 2021 03:36 |
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Gaz-L posted:Y'all are gonna be real sad when they do the sitcom trope of the annoying twin and we get douchey Vision played by Bettany with a lovely moustache. It would be kind of amusing if the Wonder Man teases are just for a dumb joke of Vision playing his douchey actor brother.
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# ¿ Jan 27, 2021 05:16 |
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So the kids are they made out of all the other children of Westview?
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# ¿ Feb 5, 2021 11:17 |
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I thought it was weird when Darcy is calling Hayward a dick and it cuts to him saying "terrorist"; last week I thought he was just a dude in charge, but now I think there's more to him (but nothing supernatural)
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# ¿ Feb 6, 2021 02:16 |
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What about using clothes soap to wash your hands? Asking...for a friend.
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2021 04:02 |
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Desperado Bones posted:But I don't want to!!! Yeah, now that you mention it, no theory about the couple in the ads has said anything about the children;.
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2021 14:23 |
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Comrade Fakename posted:The question is, how far does this go? Because really, the ultimate conclusion to this concept would be a crossover with the DC universe. Considering how unlikely a crossover in the comics is, I guess we could rule out a movie crossover...but maybe one day; I wouldn't rule it out entirely
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# ¿ Feb 7, 2021 16:50 |
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I liked the first look we had on December more than this trailer; it felt OK. I can already see the hot takes about how "standard MCU" this series is, compared to WandaVision. Still, I'm looking forward to it; I feel like there's gonna be more interesting themes that they haven't included in this trailer and I love Zemo, Bucky and Sam, so I'll be optimistic.
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2021 01:49 |
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Djarum posted:Ike Perlmutter is a legendary assfuck. No one I have ever known that has interacted with the guy has ever had a nice thing to say about him. He basically schemed to take over Marvel. Disney never wanted anything to do with him and tried to push him out for years. His involvement with the scandal with Trump and the Department of Veterans Affairs gave them the cover to effectively push him out. Had no idea this is what happened...still, Cheadle has done such a good job with War Machine (and seems to actually be a cool dude) that it's kind of weird that this is an awful decision that turned out to be right.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2021 05:42 |
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Optimus_Rhyme posted:Whats a good wandavision podcast? Vanity Fair's Still Watching is pretty good; since it's VF, it usually has a section with interview with people involved in the show. I also like MarvelVision by the Comic Book Club guys.
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# ¿ Feb 12, 2021 10:35 |
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I kind of agree that MitM is an odd choice for the 90s (since I also relate it more to the early 2000s), but I also think that the more iconic 90s sitcoms wouldn't fit the series. Married With Children is pretty iconic, but it would be too jarring if the neighborhood watch turned into proto-MRAs or if the series focused on down on his luck Pietro moving in with richer relatives like The Nanny or The Fresh Prince, it just wouldn't fit.
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# ¿ Feb 13, 2021 00:12 |
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Ravel posted:The aerospace engineer could be one of the existing secondary characters who have changed career. Kat Dennings' character didn't have a physics background the last time we saw her. Yeah; I'm leaning closer to the engineer being Talos, since this would tie to Far From Home (specially the post-credits scene) and the Secret Invasion show (since it could work as a "remember this guy? he is gonna be important!"). Though if they go with "actor who has been in sitcoms" like Dennings and Park, I could see Laurence Fishbourne back as Bill Foster; Foster is a scientist and Fishbourne has been on Black-ish for a while. The only other "male scientist who could have studied aerospatial engineering since we last saw him" I can think of is Selvig, but he would have been mentioned by Darcy, not Monica.
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# ¿ Feb 13, 2021 18:51 |
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Solvency posted:My son pointed out that one of the kids is wearing a Minecraft Creeper hat which makes no sense in the timeline though. I think the overall timeline of the decades has been messed up intentionally; there's a Oz The Great and the Powerful on the movie theather on the 70s episode so I feel that though the episodes try to imitate the aesthethic of the era and its sitcoms, it's not as if they are actually set in the past and thus the easter eggs can be modern.
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# ¿ Feb 13, 2021 19:23 |
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Gaz-L posted:I wouldn't be shocked if 9 is a 'feature length' episode, so 50 minutes or so, to match with the first week being a double bill. I'd kind of like it; with DS2 being about the multiverse, I feel like Mordo's heel turn and his quest to drain magic of others at the end of DS seems like a secondary threat, but if his quest is somewhat related to the threat of DS2, this series would be a good choice to connect them.
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2021 01:32 |
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Yeah; I kind of want the twins to still be around, both because Billy and Tommy are great characters in the comics and to see them around with Wanda would be a cool change to their dynamic (since they have had just a few moments together in the comics), and we would avoid the whole "Wanda goes even crazier after losing her kids". Also, there has to be a reason we have barely seen scenes from the "Modern Family" episode, I'm guessing they are keeping the older versions of the twins under wraps (though I fear that if they are played by randos, then they are goners).
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2021 16:37 |
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Supercar Gautier posted:As far as making Wakanda/BP films without Boseman, I feel like making Shuri the lead is far and away the obvious choice by way of popularity and the tech-genius hook, whether or not the character actually takes on the BP mantle. We'll see if the actor goes further down the Carano hole, though. If anything, the whole Carano deal shows that if things get too heavy, Disney can get rid of someone that brings too much problems for them, and in Wright's case, though she is a good actress (far better than Carano), I think being anti vaxx in these times can be harmful to her career in the long run, so I think she won't double down on that stuff.
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# ¿ Feb 14, 2021 21:51 |
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Just saw a huge list of big and medium names that have worked with Bettany before and turns out he hasn't worked with Patrick Stewart or Michael Fassbender. Still I don't think they are gonna appear on this series.
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# ¿ Feb 19, 2021 02:50 |
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The Saddest Rhino posted:yeah i absolutely couldn't stand the vision/scarlet witch plot in Infinity War, I vastly prefer the Wandavision versions where the actors are allowed to do more interesting and comedic stuff and not just "we are in love and sad" all the gd time I remember how indifferent I was about Wanda and Vision's plot in IW and now I feel so invested in them (though I'm sure they are not gonna get a happy ending), and that's because both the performance of both actor and the way their relationship has been handled here. I can't think of any example of caring about a couple because of developments after the death of one them.
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2021 03:55 |
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Sivart13 posted:It's certainly done a good job of keeping my attention over the last 6 weeks, compared to the movies that are mostly gone from my head after a week. I feel the same; the episodic nature of a TV series has many advantages, but I'd like to see how it works on FATWS, since that one seems like the most "MCU" of this first batch of series. If it works, then I think the episodic take on MCU properties could work for smaller stuff and leave the bigger things for the films.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2021 02:19 |
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BurritoJustice posted:What if the cameo actor that Paul Bettany has "wanted to work with his entire life", has "...many scenes together" and had "fireworks of chemistry" with was Paul Bettany as a second Vision built by Hayward If all the build up was for him acting againts himself, then I would actually love it. I couldn't get mad at him for that
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# ¿ Feb 24, 2021 04:13 |
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BurritoJustice posted:I almost cried when Vision said "Wanda" in a really comforting tone after she created the Hex. Hayward strangeness aside, the episode was very touching and emotionally consistent. That scene got me too; I wasn't surprised by it, but it carried a lot of emotional weight.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2021 10:56 |
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Ignis posted:Fun anachronism from this week's episode: Wanda was born in 89 and her parents died when she was 10, so that flashback would presumably happen in 99, before those editions of Bewitched S1 (June 2005) and Malcolm S1 (2002) were made. I figure it's just a production goof and not actual foreshadowing to things, fwiw I want to think that DVD technology developed a lot faster in the MCU and that Frankie Muniz is at least 5 years older so that Malcolm in the Middle actually premiered in the late 90s
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# ¿ Feb 27, 2021 02:55 |
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Loss being CAD's enduring legacy will always be funny to me.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2021 02:20 |
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Cross-Section posted:MCU TV: What is loss, if not a meme persevering? Yes. I didn't expect WV backlash to grow so much in just this weekend, and based on people like (perhaps too much) a single line. I feel like a big part of Film Twitter has met a few very intense MCU fans and pretends that they are all like that.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2021 03:29 |
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Barry Convex posted:well, on top of asking fans to wait five years or more for the actors playing LGBT characters to age up, in a franchise starved for LGBT representation, you're not getting a gay Wiccan/Hulkling romance on screen with a 14-year-old actor playing Billy, at least not in any form that most fans of that pairing in the comics would be happy with I share your fears; people who are too into Marvel stuff say that the kids who play Billy and Tommy might have filmed DS2 so I fear that Marvel is gonna try to keep those characters too young for a while so they can avoid mentioning that they are gay/bi by just making them too young to have significant romantic plots. I still hope that's not the case, but this is Disney we are talking about.
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# ¿ Mar 3, 2021 06:00 |
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So did COVID impact the episode? When Darcy just dissapeared from the series, I wondered if there were any issues with the filming or something like that since it's weird she just had a small shot and nothing else
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2021 10:47 |
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Just read Vulture's recap about the finale and I like the idea of love at the end of the world as one the themes of the series, specially given our current circunstances...but I can't think I've read a more dismissive and "I'm too good for this poo poo" recap before; I know the dude doesn't care for MCU stuff but it feels like he actively disliked writing it (except for the brief moments of actual honesty). I'm glad I didn't preorder his Stan Lee biography.
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2021 01:41 |
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mind the walrus posted:I wasn't ignoring that Wanda's Vision isn't "the" Vision and neither is Cataract, but that doesn't mean there won't be love. It'll just be more like a really awkward meeting with an ex you didn't get good closure with, and finding out that you have two kids. It's just also not gonna be like the Tom King story where White Vision flat-out dumps Wanda "I am not your husband and I don't love you" because that White Vision is more robot, while this Cataract is clearly a weird mesh of stuff. I mostly agree with this. Marvel might tease us, but we are the ones going overboard with theories. There's a huge gap between "oh, hey it's that actress from Buffy" to "Dottie must be this really obscure character because why else an actress like her would be chose for this series"; I agree mostly on the complaints about Ralph (maybe instead of Agatha having a picnic we should have gotten her checking Ralph's headshot as a casting director choosing him to play Pietro), but even then, going from "Fox's Quicksilver" to "Mephisto or Nightmare" is a huge stretch and not a mystery to be solved.
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2021 04:58 |
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Lawlicaust posted:The boner joke is even a reused boner joke that the director got from his time on Growing Pains. He named Ralph after a character from Growing Pains as another old tv reference. Same, the more time passes since the finale those "odd" choices feel better for me and the clear issues with making a TV show during a pandemic hit harder.
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# ¿ Mar 9, 2021 14:09 |
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I have a wild prediction that the show will be entertaining, maybe hint at some deeper story beats but ultimately play it safe because it's a very popular IP and Disney won't take major risks. This applies to every MCU and Star Wars show; being part of Disney is both a blessing and a curse.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2021 22:29 |
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Snackmar posted:Yeah, it'd be nice to see more of their relationship on screen instead of just implied, assuming they can maybe do some flashback stuff? Sam definitely deserved more screentime before this. I recently reread the No Escape arc, where Zemo basically tries to play audience surrogate and questions why is Bucky the new Captain America, besides being Steve's old sidekick. It's pretty good and I think that that part of Brubaker's run tries to make the argument that actually Bucky is not a great choice as Captain America, he has too much baggage, too many issues, and though he deserves a path of redemption, being Cap is probably not the best way.
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2021 03:51 |
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With Mandalorian I did a watchparty with 2 other friends; we would watch the episode as we ate breakfast (and lunch, for the one of us who was in the UK) and we may do it again for Bad Batch. For WandaVision I used to watch early as well, but by the end of the season I would automatically wake up at 5AM and watch the episode; now with FATWS I've been waking up at 4AM. I'm kind of glad I will be able to sleep a bit more until Loki premieres.
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2021 03:26 |
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achillesforever6 posted:God being a leftist can suck when I just want to enjoy my superhero media and then everyone I follow has to treat it like this is the most toxic imperialist propaganda that is poisoning our culture to be more and more neolib and fash. I would say the actual answer to that is the 1000000000 cop shows that have been on TV non stop since the 80s Same. I remember people trying to start poo poo before the series started because of the Flag-Smashers ("Disney is trying to portray anarchism negatively!"); they were poorly written but they weren't bad because of "politics", just bad writing. No joke I saw a tweet about the show portraying the cops as heroes...by just showing cops doing their job; a show doesn't need to be ACAB all day, sometimes cops do regular stuff.
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# ¿ Apr 24, 2021 00:32 |
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Why is Tom King in the Special Thanks in this episode? As far as I recall, his only Marvel work was Vision.
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# ¿ Jul 8, 2021 03:19 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 09:58 |
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LionArcher posted:Lol at wandvision getting nominated in the same category as queens gambit. I liked WandaVision a lot, but I can't imagine it beating Underground Railroad or I May Destroy You in any category.
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# ¿ Jul 14, 2021 01:54 |