So hold the phone, is the show saying all you need for Carol Danvers powers is to copy her DNA, not get blasted by an Infinity Stone? I guess you could but it seems lazy, like that should not be sufficient for any and all superpowers.

A billion sounds pretty reasonable for breaking all those laws of physics. So was this just to explain how he could travel or will this feature in the ending?

Or, you know, showing how those measures are all overcome would be INTERESTING in a spy thriller!

I mean Captain Marvel would make sense, but....I don't expect it to make sense.

So whether Talos is dead or not, how does Fury “win” this? Is he gonna pull the helicarrier out of mothballs and drop it on Gravik? Is he going to make an impassioned speech that will turn the tide? Is some overpowered special guest star gonna show up? Are the communist space ants going to show up and save the day?…

A spy thriller with a coat of MCU paint is a perfectly cromulent form of entertainment. In theory, this is not good.

Yeah that's the sorta laziness that permeates the show.

It was pretty clunky. It would have been a bit more interesting had it actually been informed by the fact that this world had an alien invasion come out of the hole in the sky, a literal God visiting schoolkids in Australia, the Sokovia Accords, Luke Cage and all that. I don’t really know what that would do the debate…

From what we know of Hammer, their prototype probably didn’t work.

I had to go check the source episode...Shades says they’re “based on” a Hammer prototype. So...we’re both right?

I’m pretty sure Hammer didn’t make the Judas bullets, otherwise the NYPD would have dealt with Hammer directly. Obviously Diamondback sold a lot of Hammer stuff, and they made the punch-powered super-suit, but the alien bullets came from Russia or the like according to the test video, maybe one of the remnants of…