the idea of someone telling their kids “I don’t love you, I never wanted to be a parent, I’m leaving you with your other parent and you’ll never see me again,” is the single most heartbreaking thing I can think of from the kid’s POV.

Recasting Smith was going to be a hard sell no matter who they got. My issue with him is that he just kinda...didn’t need to be in the movie? He could have been cut and it wouldn’t have changed anything.

Yup. Whatever you think about the logic of the movie (and generally speaking, I liked it!), it 100% shows its work.

Yeah. I mean, I’ve never been a comics guy so I don’t know much about Fisk, but on the one hand you have Daredevil and the other, you have Into the Spider-verse, in which he kills Spider-man with a single punch!

There wasn’t a lot of subtlety in Eleanor’s speech about consequences right before she was arrested.

I a little bit wonder if they initially only planned the bit for the scene in that first episode and then decided to flesh it out for a post-credits things without rewriting/reshooting what they’d already done.

I think in their logic if Clint had known that Natasha had found Yelena and that they had liberated the Red Room, he would have sought out Yelena to tell her what happened with Natasha. Which is a reasonable point of view.

Liking Kate’s all well and fine, but Yelena is explicitly trying to kill somebody Kate cares about, and by the time she’s getting off the elevator, that plan already involves rapelling down the side of the building. How sure is she supposed to be that Kate’s just going to let that happen?

Eleanor’s initial reaction to the video’s fine—she’s in elite black hat corporate security after all.

Ok, but what about the watch itself is supposed to identify Laura more than the Ronin gear would identify Clint?

The problem there is that what we see of Kazi’s behavior is pretty consistent and it’s Maya who misread the situation. But everything that led her to do so is in the background, either cut for time or the MCU’s sexlessness or saved for the spinoff.

Well, that could just be the difference between being your 20s and your 30s? Not that I think it needs to be realistically explained.

This isn’t a complaint, but a fair question to ask is why a character whose signature weapon immobilizes people without really harming them would not simply have left Kate writhing on the elevator floor. The MCU’s always been about starting from the story beats and working backward.

“I’m all for womens’ rights but since abusive men aren’t necessarily a womens’ rights issue, I just wanted to mention that I’m not only in this for the misandry before we really get to it.”

If she doesn’t know what happened

Not impossible, but the thing about the explanation to Maya is the more Clint knew at the time he was helping Kingpin cement control of the gang, the worse it scans in terms of the MCU’s usual morality—the parallel here will be that Yelena decides not to kill Clint bc it’d be on behalf of villains, and thus she’s no…

No, I mean there’s no reason for Clint to trace the informant back to Kingpin after hitting the shop unless he had misgivings about it, hence talking about being used/manipulated.

If Yelena knew that Eleanor had hired her, why was it necessary for her to trail Eleanor to determine that that was the woman behind her hiring?

I’m not sure how credible it is in terms of inworld timing, but it’s what we’re led to think. Right after Kate leaves the penthouse, Eleanor leaves a voicemail requesting an urgent callback from an unidentified person. It’s possible she called Val, or Fisk or some other go-between, but I don’t think we’ve seen…

The wording’s actually pretty consistent—Val says that Clint is responsible for Natasha’s death, and Yelena tells Kate that he got her killed.