Sansa: “Yes, in case you’re wondering, I did consider that the crypts are a terrible place to hide when you’re fighting the undead. That’s why I made sure we packed them with lots of meat shields to distract the zombies so that all the main characters down there could survive.”

That’s not “a little weird”. That would completely upend his life.

I’m not sure how you could differentiate that from a “wow, everything is different and I’m equally freaked out” greeting.

That classmates he recognized were also snapped.

Feige has said that it’s post-Endgame.

Yes, that’s what happened. Though going by the FFH trailer, every student with a speaking part in Homecoming was conveniently snapped.

While I get why some people expect it, the Battle of Winterfell being a complete rout where only 10-12 (all main characters) survive is the sort of total defeat from which the main characters cannot recover, on a narrative level. The Starks simply do not matter at that point.

The Iraq War was a separate event and not “during Carol’s time”.  Iraq started the Gulf War by occupying Kuwait.  The UN coalition threw them out.

I like this moment in concept more than I’m execution, which ties into what I thought was generally an underwhelming arc for Carol in a few ways.

Re: Iraq, I seem to recall that they started that one.

Yes, back in Season 1 (I believe) I looked at a map and figured that based on the geographic references it was either upstate New York or Vermont.

That was a joke.

Mateo not living primarily with Jane is an interesting dynamic to explore since that hasn’t been the case since the baby was born.

Gives them a fun old-timey Deep South energy that has no place in the Pacific Northwest, I guess?

People don’t seem to read the comments before commenting themselves.

Already addressed.  Hawkeye is a supporting character who has never had his own film.

Hawkeye isn’t the lead in his own film, which is what I meant by “MCU protagonist” (that could have been clearer, apologies). His relationship with his kids also doesn’t get remotely the same amount of focus; Cassie has more dialogue in the one scene I mentioned than all of the Barton kids got collectively in their…

If you wanted to spotlight a more serious moment, I would say the conversation between Scott and Cassie where she tells him to go save the day. That relationship is the best part of the movie, and probably the most distinctive feature of Scott’s character in the wider franchise context, as he’s the only MCU…

B- for a major studio blockbuster on the A.V. Club equals A+ elsewhere, heh.

Jaime killing Cersei is the only thing that makes sense from a character perspective.  Cersei’s misdirected suspicion of Tyrion and unwillingness to even consider Jaime is the flaw at the core of her actions.