I dunno. I loved Family Ties as a kid *so* much, and even if they mocked Skippy or Mallory, I don’t think any character was ever nasty to each other. You never really got that in family sitcoms until Married With Children...  If anything it WAS much more prevalent in 70s sitcoms (the Norman Lear shows, etc) than in…

“My biggest problem with the show, honestly, is that whoever that person is, I wish they were a better sitcom writer. In general the parodies just aren’t clever, and tough to sit through.”

With a few exceptions, I gotta agree.  Sure, they have the visuals down, but for the most part I would think the writers could…

X men evolution sure nailed his dickishness.

I really hope Vision doesn't make it out of this. They really need to make death matter more in this world. 

She’s in the heads of everyone in Westview. I figure she’s just pulling the details from their memories.

Yeah, from the “real world” perspective, it’s been 3 weeks since everyone un-blipped. And we can’t trust any chronological information from inside of Westview, because Wanda manipulates it.

they never would have been in that situation if Thor hadn’t been on Earth.

That’s not how you read it, because, not being an AV Club writer, you aren’t required by house dogma to think nothing but 100% adulatory thoughts about Captain Marvel in every instance, even when an onscreen character is visibly pissed at her. :P

I hope you are right and the MCU is smart enough not to do that. Marvel comics, on the other hand, has done this sorta shit lots of times. Angers scorned woman goes crazy is not an uncommon story trope in Marvel from the 60s to even the 2000s

I think after last week we might’ve given up on the 4:3 thing, especially if they’re gonna keep jumping in and out of the Hex, it’d be jarring to keep shifting the ratio.

Look the whole show’s conceit is artistic license to put Marvel characters in a fun new milieu. But I’d be a lot more willing to give it the benefit of the doubt regarding them just being there to be there if the show itself weren’t telling me to take everything so damn literally. After the first few episodes I was…

Listen, it’s first and foremost an artistic license on the creators’ part. As you say, nobody remembers a show along with the commercials that aired during it, regardless of when they watched them. On top of that, we don’t even know what those commercials mean, or if they’re even part of Wanda’s broadcast (if I’m not…

The widescreen this week was a little unexpected. I assume it’s mostly because this was the first episode that rapidly jumps back and forth between “inside” and “outside” the sitcom world, and it’s foreshadowed a bit at the end of last week when we see the letterboxing change in the last scene between Wanda and Monica.

I still say Dormamu. Rewatched Doctor Strange after this episode and Dormy’s whole thing is eternal life, the multiverse, and beating death.

This is one of those situations where just about everybody who could have stood up for Wanda is off the table: Steve is old; Stark and Hawkeye are dead; and if SWORD ended up with Vision’s body, it’s not hard to imagine Fury cutting a deal with the Wakandans to acquire it while leaving Wanda out of the loop “for her…

Nah. Those commercials (especially the absorbent paper towel one in this episode) were exactly the same style of those that were produced here in Italy at the time, and the same is true of every European country, including the Eastern Bloc. Do Americans really believe to have sole monopoly on everything related to…

I also believe Wanda when she said she didn’t summon the knock on their door at the end.

But the second time it happened, Wanda didn’t bother to rewind. And when Vision asked her about using magic in front of Agnes, she didn’t care if they got figured out anymore.

Both times Agnes broke character happened in front of the Vision and mostly seemed to serve to fill him with doubts. I guess she could just be a plot device, but it would make sense if she were being used as a tool to wake the Vision from the delusion and make it even more likely Wanda will snap.

Nah I agree with Zwing: there is something very specific about how the sitcom world is created that has nothing to do with what we guys of the continent saw on TV. Mostly when you talk about the late 90s.