Wild stuff. this episode was enjoyable. I liked the quieter parts more than the action climax. I still mentally stumble as to whether Kate is supposed to be under 21 or 21-22-ish right now? I’m thinking about the dacquiri mixes. I’m sure she’d be drinking them even if she wasn’t 21, but I was thinking if she was 19,…

I did check out the episode on the MCU wiki and yes, the police officer who retrieved the arrows is credited as “Wendy Conrad / Bombshelll”. In the comics, she’s a mercenary who tried to kill Hawkeye.

It could just be that Laura knows a second language because she’s a reasonably intelligent normal person (who has good reasons to want to be able to speak a language with her husband that her kids don’t know), and knows tradecraft terms because her husband and her dead friend were both government assassins who trust…

“Never one of the over-the-top hype machines....”

He has vibes of probably being a prick in real life, but he has such a great line delivery and world-weariness as Hawkeye that he’s one of my favorite Avengers, despite the jokes about him being a useless guy with a bow and arrow and no powers. And his “you’re an Avenger” speech is the top moment in Age of Ultron.

If anything, I would say that Thanos was half-right.

You must have missed Falcon and the Winter Soldier explaining why.

You make good points in your Amy vs. Emily match-up assessment, but I think Emily has a chance to even the score if she’s able to figure out that Amy’s one big weakness is falling through ice.

I’ll be spending the rest of the day living off the thrill of seeing Emily Dickinson square off against Amy March in a rooftop brawl.

Rock Band Jeremy Renner is only a little shameful, but the Jeremy Renner App available on iPhone and Android is a real downer. I had him on a level with Fred Armisen, who does things that I like, but I hear is a real jerk. But I’m enjoying the hell out of him in this series and it’s not like I have to download his…

Cardellini knows German and trade tradecraft terms, so they are suggesting she’s ex-something... Widow... Mockingbird... something.

They also need to come up with some pretty convicing argument as to why Yelena could seriously believe Clint is responsible for Natasha’s death (with all that she’ll clearly going to change her mind midway next episode, as a rough estimate).

I would’ve preferred seeing Laura do some sleuthing of her own to Kate’s banter with the LARPers, myself. 

Is Echo supposed to be an enhanced human? She seems to be carrying out a lot of feats that are beyond the norm.

As a larger story sidenote, there were two aspects of Clint’s reaction to Yelena and declaring that she was a Widow assassin that made absolutely no sense to me. First in the Black Widow movie, didn’t they establish that Natasha thought that she and Clint had destroyed the Red Room? So wouldn’t Clint have then also…

Halfway through the episode I was thinking that they are really running out of time to bring out Yelena and there she was. Just seeing her face at the end made my heart swoon as she is all that is good in this world.

It wasn’t until Clint refused to answer Eleanor’s question about whether or not he has kids that I remembered his family is supposed to be a massive secret he hid from even his close colleagues. Weird that he was just openly wandering around New York City with his kids in the premiere then...

(A little late but in case anyone is interested) Tonight Guillermo del Toro and Kim Morgan will be guest hosting/presenting three films on Turner Classic Movies starting at 8PM EST, including the first adaptation of Nightmare Alley (the other two films are Too Late For Tears and Where the Sidewalk Ends).

If anything, I’m glad you and others were able to enjoy the previous episodes for what they were, even if this finale brought it crashing down. I try to be as optimistic as I can with this stuff, but from the first episode I could feel the finale looming over the whole series. I was just thinking it would wrap it up…

Whittaker’s performance while interrogating The Grand Serpent was edgy and fantastic. Her contempt for him was such a great contrast with her usual busy-and-breezy way of talking. That was one of my favorite scenes and had me wishing that he had somehow been the Big Bad instead of the Ravagers (although I liked their…