The issue for Afterlife is going to be can the film please the die-hard fans of the original two films,

Uncomfortable Racial Metaphor VS. Metaphor for Dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima.

If nothing else, episode 2 finally got me to read Robert Morales and Kyle Baker’s brilliant “Truth: Red, White and Black” to get the original Isaiah Bradley story.

I feel like Black Widow is another strong contender for movie best representative of film in the time of COVID.

Exactly. If the door had opened to someone random our reaction would have been “who’s this idiot supposed to be?”. We wouldn’t have thought it was quicksilver even if the show told us. 

This this this this this. The story has Wanda buying hook, line, and sinker that the face she has never seen before standing in front of her with silver hair is her brother. By meta casting someone who has played a different iteration of the character the show also successfully pulled of the trick of getting the…

Casting a third actor would have made Wanda look like an idiot because she would have been fooled but the audience wouldn’t have.

I don’t know what is so hard about this:

* They have the rights to use XCU Pietro/Peter now. Evan Peters was available. Why use some rando when you can actually tap into what is now YOUR library?

* It’s an Easter Egg/wink to people with a sense of humor. It gets some speculation going and we all had fun with theories.

*…

Casting a third person would also have made it immediately clear something was up because IT WASN’T PIETRO!

How was it too clever by half? The whole point was to get the audience in the same headspace as Wanda. Clearly this wasn't her brother...but she (and the audience) wanted it to be.

They deliberately manipulated people with the Peters stuff.

Here’s my take on it. It wouldn’t have worked nearly as well if it was just some random guy, because by casting Peters because it puts the audience in the same position as Wanda. We know it’s not Pietro, but we want to believe that it is. Our desire to believe that it’s him overrides the evidence of our eyes and…

Way back in the dark ages I spent time listening to extracted audio clips of the whispers from Lost, hoping to glean some information about the mysteries that abounded.

To everybody complaining about Monica not getting more development (James), you’re kinda being like someone who comes up to an artist painting in the park, and you really enjoy what they’re doing, but when they finish, you go, “That’s nice, but I really wish you had used more red.”

> But by the finale, it was just another Marvel movie with people fighting in the streets and the sky.

The whole series is just a gift. I’m quite surprised at how angry some people have gotten at the Quicksilver gag. People are pissed! I mean, the X-men are coming. Have faith that Marvel is going to do right by them. In the meantime, enjoy the ride.

It depends on how close this is set to Spider-Man: Far From Home, which would explain why Nick Fury is MIA.

D’arcy knows WAY too much about the private details of Infinity War and other movies, and the only way she could is if sometime during the five years Thor drunkenly showed up at her place and told her EVERYTHING and that’s my headcanon now.

We have gone a full year without any additions to the MCU.  I will take all the WandaVision I can get.

I assume the beekeeper suit was Wanda’s bubble world translating some sort of high-tech hazmat suit into something that makes some sort of sense in the bubble.