It always stung whenever a white classmate would use that word. It was rare, indirect, and usually hard R, but I always was surprised how much it affected me because I was AMAAAAAAZZZZING at ignoring people. I hated how much it would get to me. What hurt was that like, it was a white school but a smaller one, and when…

Why does everyone want the Fox X-Men to be integrated into the MCU? As much as I love some of those films, I really want to see an original MCU driven take, with the same fealty that they’ve brought to the rest of their adaptations.  

exactly! the fans that got worked up by the possibility of the inclusion of mutants into the MCU missed out on an important part of the story. 

It works on multiple levels, literally the only way it didn’t work is when the internet decided to instantly overreact to it and insist on reading meaning into it that wasn’t there. as you note, Darcy immediately lampshaded it, which should have been a clear indication that we didn’t need to run rampant with our…

But Mephisto isn’t even Marvel Satan and he doesn’t need to be the big bad so much as the guy routinely trolling heroes like he does in comics.

Yeah, the idea that the Disney MCU was going to make Literally Marvel Satan the big bad of Phase 4 was ridiculous

Have I never shared my FF Mad Men idea? Marvel is free to use this and all I want is for Paul Bettany to leave a message on my voice mail saying I’m cool.

1960s. Full-on space race. A cocky scientist basically does the Elon Musk thing and gets his best friend to pilot it, his girlfriend to be the science officer and…

Yeah, or at least drop the silly decade gimmick and pull another First Avenger to do a full on 60s piece that actually uses the 60s, then shift them to the future through a portal or something (Honestly though that’s what the FF movie should be).

Short of throwing the bag at Jackman - basically for the same reason they’d never bring back Iron Man or Cap unless Downey and Evans were in - there’s not a lot there that is usable.

Feige must look at them and be like:

“So let me get this straight, you get a hot young director to do a kick-as period piece set in the…

I loved the Peters casting, so glad he was up for it. It’s a great meta-joke for a show that is aping television genres and tropes (hence Darcy’s recasting comment). They even had a homage to Bewitched which recast Darrin. 

But it worked because Peters casting caught both her and the audience off guard.

Casting a third actor would have made Wanda look like an idiot because she would have been fooled but the audience wouldn’t have.

I don’t know what is so hard about this:

* They have the rights to use XCU Pietro/Peter now. Evan Peters was available. Why use some rando when you can actually tap into what is now YOUR library?

* It’s an Easter Egg/wink to people with a sense of humor. It gets some speculation going and we all had fun with theories.

*…

Wanda spent the ENTIRE next episode after Peters showed up pointing out how she wasn’t quite sure it was him and something was off.

Casting a third person would also have made it immediately clear something was up because IT WASN’T PIETRO!

How was it too clever by half? The whole point was to get the audience in the same headspace as Wanda. Clearly this wasn't her brother...but she (and the audience) wanted it to be.

This is where people get “Easter egg” confused with “tease.” And I don’t think it’s the show’s writers’ responsibility to keep the audience from jumping to conclusions.

It was clever casting, and I did enjoy the conceit. The issue is the whole Marvel franchise has always treated each entry like a domino, existing to set up the next step. So they’ve conditioned this overheated response from the audience.

Yeah, I did too.

Same, but outrage gets updoots and reddit is the AV club’s main source.