This was an INTENSE episode. I have so many questions.

In practical terms it is, but it’s Cap’s name up there in the title.

I think what he’s trying to say is that it’s bigger than any solo film for a superhero to date – which is entirely possible as long as they’re squeezing in more guests than we saw in Civil War. Which was a LOT.

This thing is basically a novelisation of Half Life 3 at this point. I’ll believe it when I see it.

I love that song.

Well, yes – there’s a degree of comic-book physics at work there. Smart Hulk would have needed to add the caveat ‘safely’ to his “bring everyone back” wish.

Certainly at the start, when it was ‘monster of the week’ - but like all too many genre-based shows it became mired in its own mythology. I think they redeemed themselves at the end though!

This is excellent stuff. Reminds me why io9 is my first stop every morning. Bit of informed speculation, reminders of Marvel deep cuts I knew, together with some illuminating nuggets from the period when I wan’t buying comics.

I’d be surprised if we saw Darcy Lewis in Love’n’Thunder because it looks like being quite slanted towards the cosmic end of things, and Darcy remains resolutely earthbound.

Cap has the most consistently high-quality trilogy within the wider MCU.

Do we think this might be part of a more general pivot to streaming from Disney / Marvel ? Sure, the end of this pandemic is in sight but all the signs are that we won’t have to wait 100 years for another one…

I liked Disco at the beginning, prunehead Klingons and all, but this latest season has been a dull grind for me. I keep expecting it to get good and it just… doesn’t.

Sometimes the answer is so simple, we don’t see it. Why is the zone around Westview a Hexagon? Because it’s a Hex.

Oh, I am not remotely suggesting that those eps are bad or uninteresting – just that the meta episodes raise questions that this more ‘real’ episode is starting to answer.

Maybe. There could be some other multiversal twist neither of us have considered.

Makes sense.

For me, this was the real beginning of Wandavision.

Yep. And Sleeper, Demolition Man, Idiocracy… it’s a well-used (and still entertaining) trope. Cap seems almost the outlier there because he’s special going into the ice. All the others are rendered special by the ‘sleep.’

What is… just hear me out… what if they’re not ‘small chameleons’ but huge dinosaurs from an as-yet undiscovered microverse?

Jimmy Choo? Agent of S.H.O.E.S?