And, like, the episodes are still pretty much standalone. Uatu plucks them out of their worlds, but the only “story” they are actually used to impact is the Ultron Won one. They’re put back into their stories the moment they were taken out, what happens doesn’t affect their worlds, the exception being giving a Widow…

It keeps being said, but LOKI never established this. Loki established that the Infinity Stones don’t work in the TVA. They specifically don’t work in that one place. That’s all that was ever said in the show. Nothing else implies that also don’t work in other dimensions outside of the TVA.

Gamora was from the episode that couldn’t get finished in time because of the pandemic. Obviously, this finale episode was already finished, and it would have been more work to redo this episode and remove her.

I would note that the difference between this and the Simpsons/Disney issue is that Netflix is licensing out Seinfeld from Sony, so Netflix is putting up what Sony gives them. I doubt they had a choice in the matter.

• The interview segments were never my favorite part of Stewart’s Daily Show. This episode’s interview with Denis R. McDonough is awkward, and unfortunately, McDonough, who seems well-meaning, comes off like Martin Short’s shady businessman in a 60 Minutes spoof on Saturday Night Live. That was funny, of course. This…

My assumption was that they just had no power in the specific dimension that He Who Remains created the TVA in.

But I was assured by Hollywood analysts that Shang-Chi had a limited ceiling because of it being an Asian cast. How could they lie to me????

I would love for the people behind the last movies to come back but unless the people who come in next year under Chapek as Iger’s people leave are somehow really into the Muppets and want to get that magic back, I’m not holding my breath for it to happen.

Eh, at this point I’ve just accepted that Disney isn’t really a company that is going to go outside of the stuff they own. Maybe now the 20th Century division is going to do all of that, but anything that’s big branded DISNEY is going to be a known thing.

I’m kinda giving the bad CGI backgrounds a pass, because who knows what the actual shooting situation was, because on top of what needs to be done because of the puppets, there’s the added complication of Covid. All of that stuff could have been shot remotely at the puppeteer’s house or something. It’s definitely a…

Sad that Mary Elizabeth Ellis has reached the ‘Judy Greer typecast in the thankless minor role of the mom’ stage of her career.

Seems like it was more like “Sorry, we’re not going to do a Muppets 3, but you can have this other, big movie sequel.” Because they somehow thought people wanted more Alice when the first one only made money because it was the first big 3D release to come out after Avatar, the only time when 3D was bringing a lot of…

Just from a couple weeks ago

Ugh, the most idiotic thing to fire him.

Not just giving the keys to the Muppets to Stoller, Bobin and McKenzie still baffles me. They made the best Muppet things in decades and then Disney went “well, what if the Big Bang Theory co-creator instead?” and see how that played out. You had people who understood the Muppets! And you cut them out! McKenzie’s…

Look, if Disney isn’t just going to straight up do a new legit Muppet Show, or get Stoller, Bobin and McKenzie back to do more movies, then just doing “Muppets [insert Disney movie/thing here]” is probably the best thing to do with them.

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Just give it to Jennings, jesus, it’s a dumb tweet, still better than Bialik’s victim blaming and hocking junk science (plus being on TBBT, a sin no one can be forgiven of).

This episode mostly feels off to me mainly because it feels like an intentional Part 1. For the previous episodes, generally , we come in some time past the actual What If branching moment and are seeing the outcome of the ripples it caused. Here we see the event and only get the beginning of the ripples. Obviously,…

Not to mention that this episode had to have been in production well before Boseman’s death, making it highly unlikely that T’Challa’s funeral is intentionally here to honor him in that way. It's just a sad coincidence. They said they had stories locked in for animation in like 2018/2019, and Bozeman recorded these…