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Perhaps Wanda will bring Ultron back to life.

I thought episode 4 was great, the suspense all built on the first three episodes. There is a genuine feeling of tension when you see Wanda's new reality being threatened. 

I thought episode 4 was great, the suspense all built on the first three episodes. There is a genuine feeling of tension when you see Wanda's new reality being threatened. 

I thought episode 4 was great, the suspense all built on the first three episodes. There is a genuine feeling of tension when you see Wanda's new reality being threatened. 

Watched the first episode tonight and loved it - one of the best things I've seen in a long time. Hilarious but also quite dark.

How many arguments people get into on the internet about a movie.

Until Marvel makes a real turd, I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt. They’ve earned it.
This movie will not save the industry (no movie could), but I bet it will very watchable.

Some theories I have (that will probably all be proven wrong but meh)
1. Agnes is NOT Agatha Harkness...that is bucking the trend which seems all to obvious (her connection to Scarlet Witch, the names Agatha Harkness, etc) but I wanna be different gosh darn it! I do think she is the big baddie in disguise though!
2. Grim Reaper will not appear. If he does, it will be within an episode or so and nothing more.
3. Scarlet Witch will lose her twins (how I do not know but likely at the hands of whoever is trying to infiltrate her "reality") and she will use her powers to create a new reality where mutants are real and always have been (hence, we now get the X-Men into the MCU) and we continue onwards in the movies and films as a part of her new reality. 
Regardless, I am enjoying the easter eggs. I am enjoying the mystery because for die hard fans, it is a mystery. I can see this not appealing to lesser fans but at the very least, it pays attention to detail with each episode and is taking an approach that is very different yet has been executed extremely well so far. I think the pay off will be huge and even if it lets you down somewhat, the series for most seems to be continuing to keep people talking and guessing and analyzing and overanalyzing. Which means it might not be a series you can replicate or continue beyond a season (definitely not in the same style) but at least you can milk it the way they have been right now. And as a gluttonous Marvel fan, I am loving it.

It's ridiculous, isn't it? They want £15 or so for Tenent when I can get the DVD for £10.

Picked this up from Bottleneck. 
 
 

Finally viewed both episodes back-to-back last night.
I'll preface by saying I wanted to hate this, wanted to complain about everything.  However I was pleasantly surprised and I'll even go so far as to praise Marvel for bucking the superhero 'TV' trend.  The show, on the surface, is a gamble and I was in the "I hate this before I've even see it" group.  The first episode was just 'fine' (found myself bored a couple times) so I was still on the fence if I would invest the time going forward.  The second episode was fantastic, absolutely great, and now I'm hooked.
Kudos (again) to Marvel for doing something so creative and different; opposed to the boilerplate boombangboommichaelbayexplosionsvillanssuperheroes.  This show works but it is the definition of a slow burn, of which I can't wait till it's a bonfire.
4.8/5

It will all be worth it when they do Married With Children.

It will all be worth it when they do Married With Children.

Watched the first two episodes tonight with the wife and we enjoyed them.
Being in the UK, my knowledge of old US sitcoms, at least watching them, is limited but I liked how the homage was well done - but I've always hated canned laughter so that was annoying.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the bee person at the end of episode two and how it relates to 1960s Marvel comics history.

I would be incredibly bored with this show if they had gone the villain of the week approach.  I'm glad they are trying something different.

Exactly.
The sheer audacity of Marvel having the confidence to produce a slow-burn mystery series featuring Wanda & Vision as a 1950s sitcom couple is mind-blowing.
Meanwhile, DC's over here trying to figure out how to do a solo Flash feature film and reboot Superman.
I truly don't understand how we've not had two solid Flash films already, with a third on the way. He's a *far* better character than Thor or Ant-Man.

If the audience demands superhero beat em ups, Marvel made about 25 features of em. 

The complaints don't seem to be that the show fails its premise but rather the premise fails the show.
I don't respect the complaints. The premise, like the show which executes on it, is terrific.

Caulfield seems too old to be Clea, for me. But she's a great actor so I hope she stick around.

I watched Endgame maybe 3 weeks ago again, pausing the movie and taking quick breaks after each "Act".  As it worked out, each act was right around 1 hour.
Granted, the first act wasn't very superhero-y.  You spend a little time wrapping up the events from the days just after the snap, then you spend most of Act 1 in the 5 Years Later era.  It wasn't the most exciting bit of the movie, but it does a nice job of showing what the characters have been up to in the last 5 years and sets up the plot for the rest of the movie.  Pretty standard for act 1 in the traditional 3-act structure.  There is certainly some stuff to be cut from here, but I doubt you could cut a lot.  
Act 2 was the "Time Heist".  I wouldn't be a fan of seeing most of this stuff go.  All of the New York stuff was great.  The Rocket/Thor combo made Asgard fun and Thor got a great character moment with Frigga.  War Machine/Nebula on Morag was a little dry, but necessary to move the Thanos portion of the plot along.  Hawkeye and Black Widow get their sendoff moment on Vormir, and then Cap/Tony go back to the base in New Jersey, mostly for Tony to have his big moment with his father.  I'm not sure what I'd cut here.
Act 3 was basically everything post-heist and it really moved.  I'm not sure what you could cut that would improve the movie.
Conceivably, I could see Endgame possibly getting down to around 2.5 hours by cutting mostly stuff from the first act, but I think the movie would be worse for it.  I'm not a fan of long movies.  It's got to be really engaging to keep my interest much past the 2 hour mark.  That said, I've seen Endgame 6 or 7 times and I've never felt that it dragged despite being over 3 hours in length.  
If you're cutting 90 minutes of Endgame, which parts are you taking out?

I've loved it so far - and agree, 2nd episode was stronger than the first.
But as a comics fan it's clear to me that it's House of M-based, *of course* Wanda is nuts, and this is just her way of dealing with Vision - and Pietro's - deaths.
Also - to your point, more than a few folks on Twitter Saturday morning were theorizing this would point to a reverse-House of M scenario...
Where instead of saying "No more mutants" she might just say "Mutants" -- thus introducing them into the MCU.

Brilliant! Very happy with this.  

Interesting take.  I'll pick out one piece that I don't agree with...cutting the two movies down into a single film.  
Any Marvel fan knew roughly how this would play out: half of the cast would be snapped out of existence only to be brought back by the end of the story.  By leaving the initial snap as a cliffhanger at the end of the first movie, it gives the event more weight.  This is especially true considering Infinity War didn't get the traditional "Hollywood Ending" that most other action movies get.  It left people a little uneasy and I'd say it caused the general public to get even more invested in seeing the remaining heroes try to save the day by the end of Endgame.  
I'd say splitting the story into 2 movies helped to raise the stakes and make Endgame an even bigger payoff.  The events of The Snap would have felt hollow if it were crammed into the middle of a movie and then resolved by the end.  Spreading it out over a year was definitely a good call as far as I'm concerned.