For my money they should have cut down the opening arc by an episode or two, cut down the back half by a couple of episodes, and then spent the few spare episodes in between just travelling on the run, trying to get to the present-day Lighthouse. Increased pace in both arcs, a bit of variety in the middle, and a…

Oh, invoking ‘Doublemeat Palace’, that’s pretty harsh.

It depends on the creators, the setup, and the story being told. If you look at something like Community, that was flourishing in seasons with 22+ episodes - in fact, one of the fan favourite episodes of the first season (the chicken fingers ep) was only made to fill out an order upping the series from 22 to 25 eps.…

It’s true that he can’t just appear without some kind of explanation... but that explanation can be pretty brief. The MCU movies have brought back people seemingly dead with little explanation - Bucky is a significant one, but they can even do it without any flashbacks or the like. Coulson could show up in the movies…

I thought there was great romantic chemistry between them... in season 4. There really seemed to be a yearning building up between them. This season, however, it seemed to have dissipated somewhat; there’s been the odd conversation every few episodes that has indicated something special between them, but it’s been a…

Have you even watched this season? The filler episodes have been some of the best episodes the show’s ever done. It’s not the number of episodes that makes for the quality, it’s how they’re used by the writers.

Hmm, I thought the Hulk clip was only at the very end of the film (like, last few scenes, when Fury was briefing him that he’d be just a ‘consultant’), and that was such an early sequence in TIH that even with the overlap still puts IM2 basically before it. Buuuuut it has been at least 6 or 7 years since I last…

I’d like that too, but there’s no way they’ll do that, because it would give too much away about the state of play going into Avengers 4. As much as they’ve tried to treat Infinity War as a standalone affecting the future of the MCU... it really isn’t. It’s part 1, and most of the significant changes definitely are…

Of course, I’d forgotten that bit of placing, good catch. And yeah, they have been actively tying the two strands together over the last couple of episodes - hardly a sign of them distancing the continuities.

I expect the Snap to kick in right in the last few scenes of the S5 finale (after 3 weeks I think they’ll assume there’s not too much spoiling left to be done). If the show is indeed renewed, I still don’t think S6 will be set between IW and A4, simply because that would make it the first MCU media to tackle what…

DAMN that’d be a good idea. Avoiding the Snap (through another monolith? The same monolith, and what initially destroys it?), the surviving members of the team are hurtled back in time to the 1940s. ABC gets to keep Hayley Atwell on their screen, the Agents get to survive without undermining the events of IW, and we…

I don’t get why you (along with others) seem to find it hard to grasp the idea that these media might not take place in exact chronological order with release. Aside from Ant-Man and the Wasp taking place before Infinity War (which you cite as though it were some extraordinary, ridiculous thing to do), the MCU has…

I’m up to ep 5 and it’s definitely a strange viewing experience - it *feels* more like a sitcom now than the original S4 did, but I’m not entirely sure that makes it better. It’ll take a while to judge that I think.

Ah, I did see someone reference that actually. Thanks! Was that as weird as seeing Hale here?

It’s weird seeing General Hale from Agents of SHIELD over here. Is she done with this season of AoS? I can’t remember if she was conclusively written out. Is there anyone else who’s pulled simultaneous duty on AoS and one of the DCCW shows?

I think it’ll be Hank, and it might even be Scott... but I doubt they’d do it to Cassie, as that would just be waaaaaay too dark for the kind of movie it looks to be, and they wouldn’t do it to Hope just as she’s become a lead (and with eyes on Marvel to not screw up/over their female characters). Scott’s had a decent…

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Wait, he improvised it?

I’ve watched the chronological fan re-edit now more times than I’ve watched the Netflix version of season 4. It just works better for the characters and stories at play (there were a few really funny moments wrought from the original structure, but not enough to make up for the imbalance of everything else at play).

Ah, apologies, I thought that was aimed at me.