The legendary and fearsome Golden Company crossing the sea from the Free Cities of Essos, led by Harry Strickland.

I don’t agree at all that that’s the implication of the article. While I too am open to the possibility, it strikes me, as it did the author, that this stuff all happening in the runup to the primary rather than the general, by conservative outlets, right after he did something that was universally viewed as damaging…

Imagine thinking Gawker was “The Left” tho.

do you remember the very swift and strong pushback from the GOP after he talked about the cocaine orgies? the thought is that because he did that and wasn’t i don’t know sufficiently contrite, that they want him out and are doing this to torpedo his campaign.

besides, do you really think the DNC has the stones to do…

Agreed on the ambition part. Not everything worked, but they swung for the fences with bonkers ideas and didn’t once let the audience wonder how ludicrous it was that Egyptian gods are also real and canon in the MCU. NBD. We have Eternals (also, credit for at least trying something different), Asgardians, aliens, etc.…

This is bait.

That was shot so wonderfully. You’d see them for a second or two, but the focus would shift back to Marc/Steven and Layla fighting Harrow. And, I may not be Egyptian, but that little girl asking Layla if she was an Egyptian superhero and Layla confirming it was so beautiful.

The problem with that logic is that Ammit already killed people, including the avatars of other gods. Harrow killed a lot of people in the name of whatever offenses that might be committed at a later date. It would be both retribution for these killings and preventative, as more would surely happen again if they were…

Total agreement. I also really enjoyed the greater focus on the characters, and the way that the show made their development the main plot. Kaiju-esque fights between gods is a backdrop to Marc and Steven coming to terms with themselves and each other, and that’s kind of classic Marvel comics, when I think about it.

Nope. This was pretty self-contained. There were mentions of other stuff in the periphery (a GRC sign was one I really remember), but no mention of anything else. It was refreshing to see, honestly.

Can we also mention how good Khonshu looks in a business suit? That was great.

Eh I think one quick shot of some magic happening is a little different from one of those “whole climax is trying to turn off the huge blue spotlight” things that are the actual meme.  Most of the “stuff in the sky” from this climax was a giant croc lady fighting a giant bird skeleton, which is certainly novel enough…

I can’t say for certain, but I think Jake is the personality who killed Layla’s father. Remember that Harrow told her that Marc killed her dad and Marc said it was a greedy partner who he tried to shoot before we saw in the flashback Marc putting the gun to his own jaw.

The treatment of the third personality continues to be the most perplexing part of the show for me. I realize I’ve hit this point a lot, but I just can’t make sense of it and the delightful introduction of Jake here just hammered it home. I loved the little tweaks we saw here and Isaac was awesome, but it was also…

The asylum when Marc/Steven were patients was Limbo. The asylum when Harrow was a patient was the real world. The lighting was different, with a yellowish tint in the real world.  I think they just reused the set real quick for the post credits scene for easier filming.

I agree, and here’s my way of phrasing it. “If you’re going to do a CGI-thing, there are worse ways to do it than having a giant vulture god and a giant alligator goddess fight.”

I’ve mentioned this in the comments of the previous episodes, but man I cannot praise enough the work done by Isaac and Hawke in this show. Like those were without a doubt the strongest acting performances in a MCU show so far and are pretty high there for MCU in general. I can see the WandaVision argument, but I feel…

A+ on costuming.

while, i guess i’ll be interested to see how they utilize isaac and the character further, i hope they don’t do it as episodic tv.

I really enjoyed this series, mostly because it was a completely new bunch of characters who never once mentioned the Avengers (at least, I’m pretty sure they didn’t). Plus, turns out Oscar Isaac talking to himself and swapping between Chicago (Brooklyn?) and Dick Van Dyke Cockney accents is really fun.