I dunno how fair it is to extrapolate details from things outside of the show itself but I feel like they could have established Dottie as a regular townperson many times but opted not to? And yet they still periodically remind about her existence as opposed to Bev or someone else  

On Vanity Fair’s podcast I think very early on the hosts thought it could have been Dick Van Dyke and that evolved into maybe Bryan Cranston.

I’m not sure I expected a coverup per se, just I figured it would be really difficult to get beat by beat accounts of the specific details of the event* to the degree the SWORD team and civilians had. (*Granted I suppose that’s all history.)

If anything Jarvis seems like it’d be relatively well known. If Vision’s a public figure Avenger his origin story would come up, and I assume the AI Siri would have come up in puff pieces about Tony.

That comment seems to imply M hasn’t finished the first season? Granted I think the show worked either way at the time since if the dog really never existed then it shouldn’t have been as big a deal as if someone did that in real life now. Somehow. 

I’m pretty sure it’s midnight on the west coast, granted maybe the service died since there’s been tons of posts about hyping up The Muppet Show for awhile too. (I assume there’s a teeny bit less enthusiasm over the super powered squirrel movie?)

I got into Buffy with the musical and Angel at the tale end of season 3 when everything was deeply incomprehensible without the opportunity to catch reruns, so I sort of felt out an understanding of the lord and characters very piecemeal.

I thought that she had a new status quo that kept her from shooting with others at the end of season 3, the actress came back in season 4 but it was eventually revealed it wasn’t quite the same character in control of her own body, she fell into a “we’ll use this actress later” coma after giving birth, and then she…

Billy was also the kid who played young Luke in The Haunting of Hill House, and I had no idea since he grew out of his cute moppet vaguely speech impediment he had on that show.

This version of Agent Woo seems like he’d also be all about the joint-agency collaboration, so the FBI being muscled out by this fairly undefined organization plausibly ruffles that. 

Debra Jo Rupp was in the credits for the first one and she appeared in the crowd for the second episode but I don’t remember if she nor Emma Caulfield ended up in the main credit billing that time. It seems like those still fluctuate?

That flashback was interesting since it read very 30 Rock et al to me in terms of broad cutaways, I can’t remember if Malcolm in the Middle did that?

I wonder if there’s a chance there’s a montage episode cycling through all the settings and throwing in a couple for multiverse madness and I really hoped The Simpsons might be one of them. I have no idea if the creepy claymation means that is more or less likely to happen. 

On the other hand, Fred was sort of blandly pleasant most of the time so the Illyria thing did give Amy Acker some actual stuff to play off of.

Mulan even had a premiere pre-covid and fairly decent buzz, surprisingly, before it came out. This one seems like it’s in a similar mode of action-heavy adventure that stars a female character and might have appeal to stereotypical boy and girl audiences.

In terms of accessibility tech, I saw on Reddit someone pointed out if you watch the audio description version of the episode they explicitly clarify why anyone would care about the different actor at the end. (Granted saying “Pietro from the X-Men films” or whatever may just be shorthand similar to what seeing…

Yeah there was that or the magically disappearing plank over a chasm and somehow that led directly to the flooding tunnels if I remember correctly— yet if the characters were figuring something out about their environ then it confused me when they came to a conclusion that wasn’t supported by what they/the audiences w…

Yup, it was that one early building. If anything I was surprised that they would lean so heavily into CG effects when they could have cheated so many of the shots, gone for tone over overt spectacle like the first 80-ish% of the first episode, or just relished in its cast talking at each other. I figured this would…

While I didn’t really like every other episode of Lovecraft Country for mostly storytelling reasons, I thought that some of its special effects were incredibly good looking. Even in the off episodes I thought there were some sequences that looked really impressive, maybe one building collapse aside.

I’ve wondered why people kept insisting that Zhang Yimou’s Hero was mainland propaganda since there are so many takeaways that seemed to undermine that premise or at least deeply muddy it.