Just popping in to vote that F/WS should be the short form, going forward.

Sharon as Power Broker is still an unresolved plot-line. Not only did she do all those things, but she also kept threatening the lives of the Flag Smashers and then met in person to try to bring them back on-side after planting an (expensive) agent in their midst that she ended up killing.

I agree, it’s hard to pull of genre-mixing, at least in such a narrow window. Not all flavors blend, and the story-structures of a mystery differ from an adventure.

I think this could have done with 2 extra episodes. The Flag Smasher felt very underdeveloped to me, an episode’s worth of time (spread out over 7/8 episodes) would have made them stand out more to me.

Karli didn’t need to be Killmonger - well the problem is she *wasn’t* — Killmonger was much more fleshed out, he was *right* that Wakanda should share its wealth, his motives were pretty easy to understand. Karli had potential that was squandered somewhat messily and we never got to know much about her. 

Absolutely. She’s still had less than an hour of screen time all told, there’s just no way to judge what her actual motivations are at this point.

While I admire that they’re trying to tell one story, simply, and not wheel-spin, I actually think one or two more episodes would have done this one good. More on what Sharon had been up to the whole time, more on the FlagSmashers’ motive/end goal, a little more character time.

They clearly want her to be the next generation of Perfect Paragon of Justice that Peggy Carter came across as, but Sharon has grown up in a completely different world than her great-aunt did. What Peggy though of SHIELD’s Hydra infiltration, we never got to see, but Sharon lived it.

Farscape sits comfortably in my all-time TV top five. 

I think the show struggled when it veered away from straight adventure and into mystery, though. It’s a regular problem with serial dramas when they feel like they have to carefully ration out critical, high order information over multiple shows so that viewers don’t really understand until the end.

Yeah there wasn’t a single Netflix Marvel show that wouldn’t have been better for losing at least 1 or 2 episodes.

I too loved Scropius

He reminded me frequently of one of my all-time favourite villains, Farscape’s Scorpius, so that’s a tick in the “pro” side of the ledger.

Everything Sam & Bucky was great. All the “America will never accept a black Cap” stuff was bracingly good, touching on relatable real-world issues with a depth and impact rarely broached by the MCU. The bank scene, the cops pulling up when Sam and Bucky argue in the street, the down-home stuff with Sarah, all the Isai…

Exactly!  Not to mention that it was during the time period when SHIELD was totally an arm of Hydra.  Anyone who thinks they know MCU Sharon’s character and motivations are either working off of the comic character or inserting what they want her to be.

Indeed, if we’re being honest about Sharon’s origin story, she was introduced as a SHIELD agent who was living next door to Steve Rogers and lying to him about nearly everything. 

“both Zemo and Sharon Carter became completely different people for the sake of plot and an obvious twist.”

They went from half the world instantly dissolving to having time or resources for: 1) Having high school girls’ basketball games 2) Gas for Tony’s car 3) Peanut Butter for Nat’s sandwich 4) Therapy 5) Beer for Thor.

Somehow, they didn’t blow each other up. (Which is why I cut Heyward, Walker, Lemar and a few others…

They spent 5 years rebuilding a society. At least some of them deserve the mansion.

I always had a big problem with the term “Blip” as if nothing that happened in that 5 year period mattered. Children were born, loved ones died, great art was created, atrocities were committed yet all of this is wiped aside in favor of a “return to normal”
Folks who did great things in that 5 years would have every…