“’Hello babyyyyy’ Steve whispers with menace into the Big Bopper’s ears, before jumping out the plane door and landing safely on the ground. After confirming the demise of the passengers on the plane, he walks swiftly to a nearby pay phone and dials. “Hello, operator, could you connect me to the residence of Don…
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the first question they need to answer is why didn’t they just ask Thanos to wish for twice the resources?
Oh, I think he totally abandoned the timeline, but went off to create a new one. There is no way he leaves Bucky in Russia. There is no way he lets Alexander Pierce and HYDRA rise to power (much less watch Peggy go to work every day clueless about what is happening)
He can’t fix that stuff without totally disrupting…
They went from half the world instantly dissolving to having time or resources for: 1) Having high school girls’ basketball games 2) Gas for Tony’s car 3) Peanut Butter for Nat’s sandwich 4) Therapy 5) Beer for Thor.
Somehow, they didn’t blow each other up. (Which is why I cut Heyward, Walker, Lemar and a few others…
They spent 5 years rebuilding a society. At least some of them deserve the mansion.
The only reviewer complaint I can vibe with is that the series felt overstuffed, that yes, it “bit off more than it could chew” thematically, and how many total characters were running, punching, flying, talking, head-tilting, or leaping across the screen at any given time. In that sense, WandaVision was a much more…
to Shankia,
Steve WAS the husband of Peggy. He didn’t abandon the time line. He had the full knowledge of how history went after he was thawed out and judged the world went just fine in the end (well good enough not to tamper with) and so he stayed with Peggy knowing that a younger version would be thawed out in 2014.…
I always had a big problem with the term “Blip” as if nothing that happened in that 5 year period mattered. Children were born, loved ones died, great art was created, atrocities were committed yet all of this is wiped aside in favor of a “return to normal”
Folks who did great things in that 5 years would have every…
I mean if you’re going to be reductive like that basically every other hero in the MCU falls under that umbrella. Tony is walking disaster in every film he’s in who creates all of the problems he then has to fix, and his final act is the creation of a weapon system that combines the worst aspects of Project Insight…
I think these are all fair critiques. I really enjoy commenters like you who get really granular when it comes to critiques of the show.
Favorite MCU movie. Though Thor: Ragnorak is almost neck and neck with it. And I’d say that Black Panther is the best MCU movie overall (with obviously the best soundtrack).
Sarah is RIGHT THERE at the end. But I know you’re talking about her so moving on. I’m positive that Black Widow is going to end with someone taking up her mantle (if not Natasha herself in some kind of clone business). Hawkeye, which introduces Kate Bishop, the other Hawkeye, just wrapped production and I'm pretty…
Reviews like this dominate the aggregate. Little thought to filmmaking rules of construction: show and tell, and the ideas matter more than the execution. This grade is outrageously generous to me.
Valkyrie and Monica Rambeau and the Dora Milaje and Captain Marvel...I think the next Thor might surprise you too.
Feel like it could go both ways at this point.
Thanks for the compliment, I appreciate you reading. Second, I agree on your points, especially about Karli. I really like seeing your viewpoint, and that’s part of the reason why I love writing for AV Club — so many smart people! — but I’m also somewhat surprised in terms of what people expected from this show. Or…
Yeah, I also am very much the type of person to cry at TV when the dialogue hits close to home. I think that’s exactly why I was crying...it’s also why sometimes I tear up when Biden talks...I have a lot of problems with him, but man, at least he’s a human.
Firstly, Sulagna, great reviewing throughout. Even when I disagreed with your takes, I appreciated that they were well thought out and made sense.
I think this was a good example of when being off-the-nose would be detrimental. Prior to this series, I don’t think anyone in the MCU ever mentioned that Sam was Black. As viewers we understood that both Anthony Mackie and Sam Wilson are Black. But it never came up in conversation! Not even from the two characters…
After four plus years of “on the nose” from the now Former Occupant of the White House, I think a few “on the nose” speeches like Sam’s are fully justified.