Almost certainly this is the reason. It harks back a bit to the early days of television (as recently homaged by WandaVision) where they were basically filming a stage play, and the blocking and cinematography was designed with that in mind: wide shots with everyone in their own “space” on the stage, everyone staying…

Perfect is the enemy of good. Waiting until the whole thing is in the can means that the showrunners can’t take feedback on board or course-correct for things that were badly received. And I think with the CW’s desire to have several dozen superhero shows all airing at the same time, filming the back half of the…

A couple of seasons ago on The Flash, Nora had continuity-defying magical eyeshadow powers: she would have the makeup on with her mask, it would disappear when she took it off (replaced by a completely different shade of eyeshadow to match her “civillian” look!) and then be back again as soon as she put the mask back…

Team Flash keeps doing this. In the last episode, they just let Eva go back to the Mirrorverse, when she *also* should have been in jail for murder. I’m guessing they either forgot, or thought “her husband was a dick anyway, who cares”...

I’m happy with the sort-of retcon that the Speed Force is still around and it was just its personification that “died”, which destabilized it for a while.

Yep - and Black Lightning have pulled the same trick with Jen, also using Star Labs tech delivered (offscreen) by Barry...

I’m fairly sure she’s killed several people, though, so should Team Flash really be happy that she’s heading back to the Mirrorverse to basically do whatever she wants without any consequences?

Iris herself said her mirror powers were “taken back into the Mirrorverse by Eva”, so don’t worry, there’s no danger of her being able to protect herself from any threats in the future and she can continue to be the eternal damsel for Barry to rescue.

One of my favourite Kang “variants” was the one in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2, voiced by Peter Serafinowicz, who is clearly having an absolute ball voicing both the character in “dramatic” scenes and also a variety of public service announcements that play while you’re wandering around the overworld map.

And what looks like Ronan’s ship from Guardians of the Galaxy, crashed on the plains right before the final confrontation with the cloud. (Could just be any old Kree ship, of course.)

He undoubtedly got paid for it nonetheless, and he’s still the Genie’s main voice actor in video games and other media. I don’t think he’s too bummed out by it.

I have a feeling that addressing the “lack of free will” aspect is going to be one of the central themes of the series, given that this episode repeatedly bashed us around the head with Loki’s speech from The Avengers about how freedom is a lie and that lesser beings desire only to be ruled (etc.) - here Loki is…

For “royalty” I substituted “minor nobility” and it fit a lot better in my mind. He wasn’t a famous or notable person, just well-off and well connected. Nothing really contradicts him being a “family man”. The line in Civil War is “My father lived outside the city, I thought we would be safe there” - he sent his…

Not to mention that he was J’onn J’onzz, the Martian Manhunter, in the Justice League animated series. And has played J’onn’s father in Supergirl for several years now.

He wasn’t revealed to be a Kree/Skrull hybrid until a fair way into the first Young Avengers run. (He didn’t know himself.) At first he just used his shapeshifting powers to mimic a Hulk-like form and the name stuck.

But that would just be consistent with the comics. Whenever anyone needs Reed Richards, he (and the rest of the Fantastic Four) are always “on a mission in deep space”. :)

That’s an incredible conclusion for that article to jump to, based solely on those quotes. For one thing, Feige misdirects in interviews like this habitually. It is very rare for him to actually reveal pertinent information about the storylines of the MCU like this, and especially not things that he knows fans could…

Writers love defying the expectations of the fans, and they tend not to like fans inventing the “official” names for anything in-universe. Not calling it “the snap” when fans had been doing so for a year or more read to me like a deliberate - although not malicious - poke.

One thing I felt was either a miss on the part of the writers, or a clue of some kind: if SWORD are recording everything and analysing the “episodes”, they’ve got to be looking at the commercial breaks too, and the prominent mentions of things like “Strucker”, “Hydra” and their octopus emblem should have raised…

They’re not “all in”. They’ve just answered the “what” - what’s happening, the nature of reality. We still have yet to discover the “why” - why is it happening, who’s behind it all.