So, it’s What If?

I liked it a lot. It didn’t break much new ground… there’s a lot of Inside Out in it, and people who’ve seen Heaven Can Wait and A Matter of Life and Death will spot some familiar ideas… but it’s got a lot of heart and my WORD the music is well-recorded.

(Oh, also… what does everyone know about Earth-2800? I’m guessing that house number is no accident.)

I think, that while Wanda’s powers are the engine of the Westview illusion, Agnes (in league with Mephisto?) is trying to manipulate it to some evil purpose while S.W.O.R.D operatives are trying to snap her out of it.

Ernest Cline knows all about that.

TAKE ALL THE STARS YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD

Ah, yes - you’re right. Revolution.

I loved it… but I was kind of distracted by how hard this show would be to explain to someone who hadn’t at least seen the main run of MCU movies. Ideally, you need to be familiar with a lot of the comics as well.

Yes! That was certainly my take… and it’s flipped because Vision is like a clockwork man and SW… burns things?

Spoiler thread please! I have thoughts… 

Is Black Widow a prequel? Isn’t it more a midquel? Sidepiece? 

This kind of reminds me of something I’ve seen – was it called The Event? Sort of pseudo-Lost thing that set up an interesting question & then got cancelled without going anywhere near the answer.

Is it not possible that Evans has signed up to do some voice acting on the What If? series and someone has put two and two together and come up with 616?

I’m imagining as a gas giant it would be unlikely to host indigenous life itself but the inhabitants of a rocky moon orbiting it would probably have some wild, unpredictable seasons involving White Walkers, dragons etc.

Yeah… I loved the Netflix shows in general, but thought Iron Fist was the weakest one by a long way. Then – in a post credits sting – it actually showed some real interest before disappearing forever.

Appearing as a guest on Variety’s The Big Ticket podcast, Gal Gadot stated she hopes Wonder Woman 3 provides the character with “a nice closure.”

I’d give it a ‘C.’ Not terrible by any means but just kind of generic.

“A generic YA template is repurposed yet again by an an unscrupulous showrunner.”

My headcanon for that is that Grogu’s species are principally telepathic – which is why Yoda’s speech is always so mangled – and Luke was talking to the little guy through the Force, the way Asohka did.