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  1. fantastic_four
    I've got what may be a radical suggestion. If you don't want fans to feel disappointed about possible story points you dropped multiple hints for during the course of the show--sometimes more than a dozen or two hints in some cases--I recommend not dropping those hints if you never intended to take them anywhere. But hopefully the last episode will be phenomenal that's not how I end up feeling this weekend. So...yea. That's how I feel now...misled. INTENTIONALLY misled. A ton of possibilities dangled like a carrot in front of a race horse. I thought it was a mystery show, but nope, no mystery, just IMPLIED mystery. Schaeffer had me thinking I was chasing a complex story, but nope, it was just Wanda...because she can do ANYTHING!
  2. fantastic_four
    One thing we can't necessarily assume is that just because Agatha referred to the Scarlet Witch being referenced in the Darkhold that the book she had in her basement that Wanda ended up with was the Darkhold. Agatha could have knowledge of what's in the Darkhold without actually possessing it.
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    The headpiece is fantastic though.
  4. fantastic_four
    I generally like it better, but I'm not sure how I feel about the half cape. For now I'm disappointed they didn't go full cape. I generally like the way Agatha Harkness looks over Wanda's new costume.
  5. fantastic_four
    I guess we're left to assume it was some random person placed in Westview for some isolated crime...maybe a drug dealer who flipped on their distributor. So how did Wanda wipe the memories of everyone associated with that witness?
  6. fantastic_four
    Covid began as a society-halting phenomenon last March, so why not just keep the same order but delayed by exactly one year? I get them wanting to release Eternals and Shang-Chi later--and I don't get why they wouldn't want to release Black Widow later, too, since I'm not sitting in a theater for two hours with a mask in May--but I don't get releasing Falcon and Winter Soldier after Wandavision, or not moving Doctor Strange up.
  7. fantastic_four
    If that closure exists in Multiverse of Madness I'll have wondered...why didn't they release this show in November or December of this year so that it butts up closer to Doctor Strange 2? Now all I have to go on is unfilled story points for more than a year.
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    I guess that's what we're left to conclude with what's visible on the surface. And how is she displaying this incredible level of seemingly-omniscient power never shown before in the MCU and comics?
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    I'm not sure it is. More often than not people assume things are holes that actually aren't, so I'm not ready to go there yet. The easy explanation for this not being a hole is that she already had her powers before the show. One more thing about going in and out of the hex altering you...when Wanda started dispelling the hex in this episode, but then re-expanded it when she saw Vision and the twins dying...whoever exited the hex, then re-entered it--are they all mutates now, too, since they entered, exited, and re-entered?
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    One thing I'm COMPLETELY confused on is when Monica Rambeau got her powers. When they took that x-ray of her that turned out white indicating something was wrong her immediate reaction was to say "no, we're done here" when they wanted to take another one. That told me she might already know she had powers so that's why she refused another x-ray. As the show went on they kept making a big deal of her going in and out of the hex and that's perhaps what caused her powers...so I've been unsure the whole time which it would end up being. She isn't the first person to enter and leave the hex...so are they on the road to getting powers, too? Woo, Darcy, Heyward and his whole team, and EVERYONE in Westview--are they mutates now, Monica is just further along because she went in twice? So what was added in this episode is that she jumped in front of those bullets...and didn't seem surprised she didn't die. And she was completely unfazed and flip with the twins about their "nice tricks." This entire scene SCREAMED she already knew she had powers, which as far as I can tell she shouldn't have known up to that point if she got them from the hex. So did she already have powers going into the show or not? The show half-indicated she did and half-indicated she didn't.
  11. fantastic_four
    Just bought my plane tickets...WHO'S WITH ME!?!?!
  12. fantastic_four
    Disobeying orders, misappropriation of government resources... I am sure that there are a number of things that he did. Whose orders would he have disobeyed? He's the leader of SWORD, so who, the President? And how did he misappropriate resources? He's the head of a weapons organization, and he did a bunch of stuff to appropriate a weapon in Vision, and he also tried to save the people of Westview. I know they were setting him up as the bad guy, but he seemed borderline immoral, but only controversially so because there's an angle where you can justify their actions in the same way you can do with many leaders. I can't think of anything the FBI would arrest him for.
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    OK...so it sounds like that IS the Darkhold, and they changed its appearance from Agents of SHIELD for some unknown reason. Sounds like at the very end she hears one of the twins...now we just have to wait 1+ years for Multiverse of Madness to find out why, I guess? NOW I'm wondering why they didn't wait to release this closer to that film as originally planned... Where did the new Vision go? What was Heyward arrested for, what crime? And is Wanda now a criminal on the run? How did a random actor living in Westview have Quicksilver's powers? Agatha gave them to him somehow I guess? The Vision versus Vision fight was the highlight. His head beams used to come from the Mind stone, so with that gone I guess they reverted to them being heat beams like in the comics...but with no particular explanation for how that new system got put in.
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    The Fox film derivation of the name felt organic...Xavier didn't name them, the students did because they were Xavier's team. I thought the X came from his name long before the Fox films though. I saw the "extra-men" comment in the first issue but assumed Stan had a double-meaning in mind. When did the X-gene name first appear? I never heard it until the 1990s, and I had been reading the book for a decade before that.
  15. fantastic_four
    There's a gaping hole the size of the Grand Canyon's worth of difference. I used to think JoeCollector and RMA were bad about doing this, but since the ignore function doesn't affect quoted text I know from this thread and half a dozen others there's a new forum champion.
  16. fantastic_four
    I'll never understand why people post repeatedly in threads about movies, comics, or shows they hate. Oh, wait, nevermind...we all know exactly why they do it.
  17. fantastic_four
    I've got what may be a radical suggestion. If you don't want fans to feel disappointed about possible story points you dropped multiple hints for during the course of the show--sometimes more than a dozen or two hints in some cases--I recommend not dropping those hints if you never intended to take them anywhere. But hopefully the last episode will be phenomenal that's not how I end up feeling this weekend.
  18. fantastic_four
    If we take it at face value--how did she fit sounds stages with audience seats in houses that they don't fit into, how did she get everyone to play along with being on the show, and why would she do it at all?
  19. fantastic_four
    Melissa McCarthy as Hela is 100% Taika Waititi goofball humor. My guess would be it's the same kind of play they were having at the beginning of Ragnarok where Brad Pitt was playing Thor and Matt Damon was playing Loki.
  20. fantastic_four
    If they don't clear up how and why Wandavision is being broadcast in the last episode I'm taking the trip to the Marvel Studios headquarters in Burbank and starting a riot.
  21. fantastic_four
    I still need a bit more detail than I've seen in the MCU to get a decent feel for how I'll be forming my first relationship with an android. The comics had a bit more background on filling this chasm...but not enough.
  22. fantastic_four
    sure, you're born with the witch gene. whereas it seems dr. strange's magic can be learned. What I was then getting to was I thought -- in this version of the "universe" -- being a mutant was extremely rare or unheard of. As opposed to prior to 1963 in the comics universe. No matter what century you introduce mutants--20th, 19th, or 3000 BC--if you're going to link mutants to evolution there needs to be an explanation for the incredible change in DNA. Kirby's was the Celestials, and it works just as well for the MCU as it does for the comics.
  23. fantastic_four
    Have you ever thought of a career as a war crimes defense lawyer? So you support the death penalty for usage of magic from the Dark Dimension, then?
  24. fantastic_four
    It's not a ret-con; the evidence is all there on-screen in Age of Ultron. They just couldn't explicitly say she was born with her powers because the contract with Fox wouldn't let them say she was a mutant, so Feige was limited to only being able to imply it. The only way to pick up on the implication was if you were already familiar with the Celestials having engineered the X-gene from the comics stories. We're highly likely to get that back story introduced into the MCU when the Eternals film is released. And Agatha saying that Wanda was probably born with her magical affinities doesn't necessarily make her a mutant. In the comics she's not a mutant, she's a mutate; she and Pietro were granted their powers by High Evolutionary shortly after they were born. That way to tell the story could still fit into what we know about her from the MCU, too, but I doubt they will tell it that way. My bet is that they end up making her as much of a mutant as any of the other X-Men, sharing their same dormant X-gene engineered millions of years ago by the Celestials that only gets developed now.
  25. fantastic_four
    The biggest problem I see with the new schedule is Multiverse of Madness was supposed to release immediately after Wandavision, but now it's scheduled for March 2022 which is over a year from now. If Wandavision is somewhat of a tease for that movie why did they move them so far apart? Putting out Falcon and Winter Soldier and/or Loki before Wandavision makes more sense, but then again I don't know what additional links those two have to other works, so I dunno. Maybe there was supposed to be a tease for Multiverse of Madness they will move from the end of Wandavision to one of the other works...