You had to miss those old costumes, right?
Summary
It’s Halloween, and everyone’s dressed up for the evening’s festivities. Vision tells Wanda that he’s patrolling the community via the Neighborhood Watch, which she wasn’t expecting. Pietro insists that he can help her take the boys trick-or-treating. While Pietro helps the boys cause mayhem in the streets, Herb asks Wanda if there’s anything he can fix up for her—and also tells her that Vision is not on duty tonight. Vision is, in fact, moving through the town and finds evidence that things are not all right; as he moves away from the epicenter, he finds people frozen in tableaus, unable to move or speak.
Tommy displays powers for the first time—the ability to speed, like his uncle. As he zips his brother around to get more candy, Pietro commends Wanda on her maintenance of this reality. She admits that she’s not sure how she started doing it, and asks if he believes it’s wrong. Pietro tells her that it’s a sight better than how she used to manipulate people’s minds, so he thinks it’s good. For a brief moment, Wanda sees him shot as he was in death.
Outside the Hex, Monica has a fight with Director Hayward about how he handled the previous altercation with Wanda. Hayward tells her that she’s too sympathetic to people with powers due to her absence during the Snap and her relationship to Carol Danvers. He has Monica, Jimmy, and Darcy dismissed. Jimmy and Monica fight off their escort and Darcy hacks them into Hayward’s files. They can see on the map that Vision is trying to find the barrier, but there’s more information that Darcy wants to get, so she tells Jimmy and Monica to leave without her—but not before informing Monica that her test results show that going through the barrier alters a person’s cells permanently, each time they go through. Darcy seeks out and sends on the hidden info as Jimmy and Monica go meet the contact who was meant to bring them her mobile bunker.
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Vision runs into Agnes on the edge of town and lifts the control on her mind. She tells him that Wanda will never let them go and prevents them from even thinking of leaving the town. She remembers that he’s an Avenger—he has no idea what that is—and asks if she’s dead. When Vision asks why she thinks that, she informs him that he’s dead. As she begins to panic, Vision places Wanda’s control back on Agnes and heads for the town’s barrier. He makes it through with a great deal of effort, begging Hayward to help the people inside, but his body begins to deteriorate. Darcy rushes out to tell them to help him, and is captured.
Billy’s powers suddenly activate, and he can tell his Vision is in trouble. He tells Wanda, who asks him to concentrate and figure out where his father is. He tells her that he sees soldiers, prompting Wanda to expand the Hex’s parameters outward, and absorbing the SWORD base. Hayward manages to escape, but Darcy is handcuffed to a car and also gets absorbed.
Commentary
I’m not saying that this is how you get a bunch of new superheroes, but… this is probably how you get a bunch of new superheroes.
Darcy tells Monica that going through Wanda’s barrier has fundamentally altered her body. We know that Monica is likely to become superpowered due to her role in the comics. But this also means that anyone who gets caught in this barrier is getting altered. Darcy just got caught in the barrier. Is Wanda basically going to be responsible for creating a new generation of super people? It’s looking more and more likely.
Our sitcom parodies have moved into the early aughts, using the frame device from Malcolm in the Middle at the start of the episode. (It also heavily lampoons their credit sequence.) Billy is basically in the Malcolm position here, which makes sense, as he’s had a far more interesting run within the comics—there’s more character to pull from. While it’s understandable that the plot is starting to take over what we’re seeing as an audience, I do wish they had come back to the parody at least once after the episode’s opening, just to keep reasserting that concept and the control being exerted over the town.
We still haven’t gotten any indication of what the sitcom frame device offers to Wanda. If she were keeping it all within one era, that might make a little more sense out of the choice, but she keeps pushing us forward in time. Hopefully there’s a narrative reason for it beyond the “it’s a fun way of building a TV show” conceit? I’d like it if there were an actual reason why she keeps jumping through television history.
We’re dealing with something interesting here, being that X-Men Pietro seems to have MCU Pietro’s memories. There’s a little bit of confusion here over a few details on Wanda’s end, but this definitely isn’t the guy who grew up in American suburbia without Magneto for a dad—he remembers Sokovia, he remembers Wanda messing with people’s minds, he remembers their parents. (Also his attitude and behavior is way more MCU Pietro; he’s cavalier and has a big mouth.) So the question becomes, is Wanda giving him the memories of her dead brother? Or is this another bit of multiverse shenanigans?
But more importantly, Pietro is there to offer Wanda a more understanding ear as she slowly becomes more amenable to working through what’s happening around her. Through their conversations, she is finally able to admit that she’s not sure how she started this, or exactly how she’s managing it. But there are some details here that Pietro notices, answering a few questions I had earlier. It looks like Wanda is keeping the children of Westview tucked away most of the time (Pietro assumes they’re sleeping) until a situation like this where she needs more children about to make the reality “work”. It means that up until this point, most of those children were likely not suffering the same psychological stress as their families, but this “episode” would have changed that.
I feel the need to point out something unsettling, which is that Vision is being positioned more heroically in this by virtue of trying to get help and trying to get out. But that’s twice now that we’ve seen him flip Wanda’s behavioral switch off and then on in someone’s mind, and his reasons for reinstating her control seem wooly at best. You could perhaps make an argument that he’s worried about what Wanda would do to them, but it reads more like people making Vision uncomfortable by essentially having panic attacks in front of him. He knows (because Norm told him) that being under her control is essentially torture. He doesn’t have to reinstate them, and frankly, it could be an effective way to fight Wanda’s bubble, just freeing up as many people as he can.
Monica, Jimmy, and Darcy continue to be bright spots in this whole affair, with Hayward getting more odious by the second. The tactic he uses here is oh-so familiar and extremely telling; he’s the one having an emotional reaction to the situation (thinking on the last five years and what superheroes have done to the world), but rather than own up to it, he’s projecting that emotionality onto Monica and suggesting it makes her unfit. Thankfully, Monica already knows who her people are in this operation, so she has options for dealing with the fallout. I do so love that Darcy cannot hide her disdain; she’s never had any patience for mediocre men telling her what to do, so that’s not likely to start now. (Heck, she barely let Jane tell her what to do, and Jane was an actual authority.) We already knew that Monica could handle some goons, but seeing Jimmy knock one of those guys out with a right hook while Darcy looked on in shock was a beautiful thing.
But who is delivering that mobile bunker, though. (Hank Pym? Reed Richards? One of those is definitely more likely than the other…) And how is Wanda possibly going to maintain an area that much larger than the one she’d started with? It’s going to get messy, y’all.
Thoughts and Asides:
- If you didn’t know, or hadn’t guessed, all the costumes we see on Wanda’s family are essentially their “old-school” superhero looks. (Less so for Billy, of course—that’s pretty close to his current look as Wiccan.) It does make Agnes’s costume stand out a little as a witch… given the rumors swirling around her character from day one.
- I would take many more episodes of Uncle Pietro Teaching Kids to Shotgun Soda.
- Uh. That commercial. Aside from giving me terrible flashbacks to a point when the ad world was obsessed with awful claymation (it really happened, kids), this one seems like a more direct warning than any of the previous ads. The fact that the kid wastes away while struggling to get the packaging open on Yo-Magic has to be a warning of some kind. Which brings me back to my earlier question about resources: How are these people being kept alive, and where are all their resources coming from? Because if Wanda can’t make matter from nothing (which she isn’t), then that means they’re going to run out of food, for one. If they’re even allowed to eat at all.
- The films playing in the local movie theater are The Incredibles and The Parent Trap. Both of these titles have referential meta value here, the former being about a family with superpowers, the latter being a story about twins who trick their divorced parents into getting back together. Given how Vision and Wanda are kind of on the outs in this episode, it’s extra appropriate.
- As mentioned before, Tommy and Billy are developing their canonical superpowers. Which should cause no small amount of trouble going forward.
- We still don’t know the big secret Hayward is hiding, which Darcy emailed to Jimmy before getting herself caught. So that’s coming.
- Turning SWORD into a circus is just… a chef’s kiss in magic form. Turn those soldier boys into clowns, Wanda.
Next week we’re fast approaching current media so… get ready for some pastiches that hit a little closer to home.
Emmet Asher-Perrin confesses to never being much of a Malcolm in the Middle fan, but they’d watch Billy’s version in a heartbeat. You can bug them on Twitter, and read more of their work here and elsewhere.
A pretty massive episode…but to be honest each one feels like that at this point! :)
Does anyone else agree that the part where Tommy and Wanda say “kick-ass” is a winking meta reference to the Kick-Ass films, in which Kick-Ass aka Dave Lizewski is played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson (the MCU Quicksilver)?
I am getting more convinced by the week that this series is possibly the best thing Marvel Studios have ever done. It’s an absolutely magnificent way to launch phase 4. (I know it wasn’t intended too but it has worked out well for them). It is certainly setting the bar extremely high for forthcoming MCU Television series. Some shocking moments this week, the creepy ad, the bullet ridden Pietro, Darcy almost dropping the F bomb on Disney +… My theory is whoever the big bad is has brought Pietro in to try to tap into Wanda’s power hence the close questioning of how she had managed to pull this off, but they have been unable to bring the image of Wanda’s Pietro to life as that would be too traumatic for her subconscious to deal with (see the bullet ridden Pietro), so has had to use the image of another Pietro from somewhere else in the Multiverse to get as close as possible to replicating her brother’s likeness, I don’t think now that this actually is Quicksilver from the X-Men, just his likeness that has been borrowed from that universe
I’m glad the plot is finally moving forward, although the end is still unclear. If we weren’t sure this was Monica’s Spectrum origin story, we are now. And maybe Darcy is getting a superhero origin as well. I so want Jimmy and Darcy to get their own show.
Did anyone catch the name of Hayward’s secret file? He has gone full EVIL on us, and at this rate, by the next episode I expect him to be twirling his mustache or whispering “Hail Hydra” in people’s ears.
You know why those commercials you linked were “awful claymation (sic)”? Because the first one is a stop-motion technique called pixilation (those are real kids wearing masks), and the second set is early CGI.
There was definitely significance to the street sign at the intersection out by the barrier that the camera lingered over: Ellis and Rolling Hills? Any thoughts?
@2 It was definitely a reference to that movie, and Evan Peters was in it also (as the friend of the lead character).
Darcy with super powers?
YES, PLEASE.
@8 Oh yeah, that’s right! Mind blown.
@5 Alan Brown I want a Darcy and Woo tv show too. I have a vague idea of them solving crimes that somehow involve astrophysics.
@7 I’m sure there may also be a comic reference, but I think part of it was just to flag that this is the boundary. Wanda gave the kids strict instructions never to go past Ellis Avenue.
Could Ellis Avenue be a tip of the hat to writer Warren Ellis? He wrote a lot of X-Men comics, and a comic called Nextwave that featured a team including a superpowered Monica Rambeau.
Are there any other famous aerospace engineers in Marvel comics, aside from Reed Richards?
@14 Ellis was the name of the president during Iron Man 3 (played by William Sadler). Though that was probably a Warren Ellis reference, so you’re right, just one iteration earlier.
@15 A stretch, but Adam Brashear? The Blue Marvel?
I love the series so far, but it seems like they need to do a lot to tie it together before the season (series?) ends in 3 episodes. Could it be possible that Wanda went to a certain someone who granted her wish to have Vision, and her brother back? And could this granted wish be a curse or “hex?” Does Wanda normally hurt innocent people? Seems like she’s being controlled by someone not so nice. Her bothers “isn’t that what you wanted” comment might bare that out. Just some thoughts
Hm…is Hayward’s action a clue that he might have caused Wanda’s situation, too? A booby trap to protect Vision’s body that interacted with her powers in an unexpected way?
Still say Agnes is deeper in this than we think.
I think The Parent Trap reference is even more literal than that. I think this has been a “trap” to create the twins. Theory Text follow I know this references the Mephisto story, but I don’t think we are dealing with something like that. I think it much more likely that Wanda was captured in her attempt to retrieve Vision’s body, and SWORD created this to control her and use her powers, and it’s designed to be a prison Wanda would want to stay in. Now that she’s given birth, Hayward wants to kill Wanda because he knows exactly what will happen to everyone inside when he kills her, nothing. She can manipulate his construct to create more fulfilling scenarios, but she did not build it, he did, and he can turn it off. He turns it off, and drops this reality around her, he won’t be able to control her. And he definitely won’t get his hands on the Sentient Weapons she created for him.
Theory over
@20: Yeah. I LIKE that. It explains a lot and is parsimonious with the players involved.
@@.-@, It was called Cataract
@19 You and I are thinking alike if you read my whited out text
@3 There was a moment when Pietro used “borscht” casually in a sentence, and Wanda seemed to be a bit off when it happened. Like the stereotypical Eastern European portrayal made her remember that he hadn’t actually proven he was her Pietro.
But is using Evan Peters just a fan Easter Egg, or is it going to matter to the story? I don’t think we have that answer yet.
It’s obvious Hayward has a ton of PTSD from the Blip. This episode made him sympathetic to me.
Quoth Gogogadet: “Does Wanda normally hurt innocent people?”
She was introduced to us as a dupe of Hydra and gave nasty visions to most of the Avengers, which hurt every single one of them. So, um, yes.
—Keith R.A. DeCandido
Yeah, I’m kinda still wondering what is going on with Pietro – who summoned/sent him, who he is, if he is actually ‘X-Men Peter’ or if it was just supposed to be kind of a fun nod, or what….doesn’t Wanda at one point mention that Pietro remembers things differently? It could be just a joke between siblings, but maybe his memories aren’t as authentic as they seem.
The intro (and vibe of the commercial) brought back so many memories, ha. I didn’t watch Malcom in the Middle (I was a little too old by then) but it definitely had that Disney/Nickeloden kid-focused sitcom vibe.
Honestly, I kind of wish they’d gone a little more nuanced with Hayward, but ah well.
And I still want to know where Billy and Tommy actually came from. If she can’t create matter, then…where? How did she get pregnant if Vision is still just a corpse (and could a live Vision have impregnated her in the first place)?
@22 I think you gave a more coherent explanation.
But I’m guessing Hayward is MUCH more focussed on Vision and Wanda is a means to an end to regaining a sentient weapon.
I’m thinking Pietro might be a “plant” by Hayward. The question is, did he get his powers because Wanda thought he should have them, or did Hayward need to send someone with the same powerset, so he sent X-Men Peter? I think that Quicksilver and Pietro could easily be 2 different characters, and I would LOVE for both of them to come back.
As for Agnes, there are a lot of weird things about her. In Episode 4, if you look in the background, she’s the only person in the Hex that SWORD has not gotten a positive ID on. Specifically, hers is the only poster with no driver’s license. But then, in this episode, she’s the only person in the entire town who we’ve seen operate a vehicle. Seriously, there have been no cars, and all of a sudden she’s in one, with her headlights pointed at the barrier.
So I was starting to formulate my own theories after the last episode, but the behavior of Pietro in this episode sort of sidelines them. So with the whole multiverse thing that we thought was happening at the end of last time, I started thinking about who could transport characters–X-Men characters in particular–across dimensions and who also would want to force those characters to act out a tv show and broadcast the signal so it could be watched. Well, that led me to think of Mojo, naturally. And that would be interesting to see how they would handle a live-action Mojo. But then today I was thinking about how someone commented (either on here or on a youtube reaction) about how there’s a little bit of a Dark Phoenix vibe going on with Wanda, so then I started thinking that maybe Mastermind was somehow involved and that was what was supplementing Wanda’s ability to control people, or maybe also what was causing HER to do this.
But now I’m second guessing whether this is really a multiverse or if it’s going to be MCU-contained, but on the other hand, that could be just a standard misdirect that mystery shows employ to keep you guessing who the secret villain really is.
But with Hayward tracking Vision, that tied in a little bit to my other theory. It made me wonder if the Computational Services building (or whatever it was called) where Vision worked was more than just a sitcom element. When he was asking what they do in the first episode, it was played off as a joke about how you never really understood what the generic office jobs were in some of those old shows, but the answer was something like processing input and output. It made me wonder if the how thing were somehow tied to Vision and using his body to process something. Though Hayward seemed interested in the recovery of the corpse.
More misdirects with Agnes as well and having her dressed as a witch…I had been commenting early on that the Bewitched episode seemed to be lacking an Endora character; well, it kind of made sense that they wouldn’t have Wanda’s mother come on, but we did have a neighbor character in Agnes. Well, the name of the actress who played Endora on Bewitched? AGNES.
I think one of my burning questions though is, what happened to the fabric of the universe and the essence of what the Infinity Stones were when Thanos destroyed them? Weren’t they supposed to have been created at the beginning of time and somehow hold all the universe together? The Ancient One seemed very concerned with their timeline being opened up to threats or disaster with them gone. And at this point, they’ve been destroyed in the current timeline for five years. Could this be a way that the fabric of the universe falls apart and the multiverse comes together? Could Wanda’s increase in power be because now she is the focal point for all the energy of the Mind Stone?
I think one of my burning questions though is, what happened to the fabric of the universe and the essence of what the Infinity Stones were when Thanos destroyed them? Weren’t they supposed to have been created at the beginning of time and somehow hold all the universe together? The Ancient One seemed very concerned with their timeline being opened up to threats or disaster with them gone. And at this point, they’ve been destroyed in the current timeline for five years. Could this be a way that the fabric of the universe falls apart and the multiverse comes together? Could Wanda’s increase in power be because now she is the focal point for all the energy of the Mind Stone?
The Russos actually kinda addressed this and I’d been wondering it too:
“Thanos actually says he reduced the Stones to atoms – which means that the Stones still exist on “an atomic level.” You can’t touch them, you can’t use them, but they’re still out there. Somewhere.”
So they’re technically intact, just inaccessible to everyone — which frankly was the right move for writing them out of the MCU moving forward (something the comics can’t do because the Stones need to endure for future writers).
But anyway, I’ve been wondering if the events of Infinity War and Endgame weakened the multiversal fabric too. I still think the MCU’s next long-term game plan is an eventual adaptation of Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers run — or specifically his own, heh, endgame Secret Wars and the collapse of the Multiverse.
I just seems like the natural long-term follow-up to Thanos: A threat that’s even greater, but one they can’t fight with punches. And it’d be fitting if Thanos and his legacy was the catalyst for that.
@28 As someone else pointed out, it looks like her car has CT plates.
Dunno what that means, but interesting, nonetheless….
They did, in a way, when Pietro launched into the Very Special Episode dialogue while they were sitting in the town square. He was feeding her cues straight out of a 90s sitcom. The difference was he was talking about the reality of what was happening using a sitcom frame, continuing the line-blurring they began last week. It’s no longer sitcoms overlaid on a mysterious reality, it’s a blend of the two. Very creepy, and it made me conscious of how tropey the spy games outside the hex were, as though the show has begun calling attention to its own show-ness.
I’d like Pietro to be the real deal (or some version of it), but he never proved he was her brother. He remembers things differently (Wanda could blame that on their sitcom world, but I’m betting trick-or-treating didn’t happen in many eastern European countries). He refuses to give her confirming information when she asks for it and makes one reference that sounds really off with the borscht.
He then presses Wanda for details of how she’s doing this while claiming to understand and soothing her conscience, telling her she’s doing the best she can morally with the situation.
Also, in a story that may have Marvel’s version of the devil in it, he calls her children “demon spawn” and says the town is “charming as hell.” Taken literally, those have disturbing implications about his background and what he knows.
As for Agnes:
The woman with no driver’s license is driving. It’s the first time we’ve seen her do it and it’s on a night when no one else is driving. Nothing suspicious there.
We suspect her real name isn’t Agnes. Everyone seems to have had a name change except Wanda and Vision. But, she never corrects Vision when he repeatedly calls her by name. She also doesn’t question why one of the Avengers would know her name.
She says they can’t even think about leaving yet she was driving for the border when Vision found her. Her in character claim is that she got lost–got lost and went to the one place Wands supposedly wants no one to go on the one night when Vision is looking at the borders, trying to find out what’s going on.
She’s the first one in town to accuse Wanda by name. The last person Vision brought out of the trance (or whatever we should call it) only said “she” was doing this to them.
Agnes brings up the possibility of help outside the town as well as making it clear they’re trapped within its borders. This leads directly to Vision leaving and almost dying. Was that her intention? This also led to Wanda expanding the borders. Could Agnes have wanted that?
And let’s not even start on something eating “Yo Magic,” while the person “Yo Magic” belongs to can’t get to it and wastes away and dies (on an island, like the one where Wanda was once imprisoned, cough cough).
The woman with no driver’s license is driving. It’s the first time we’ve seen her do it and it’s on a night when no one else is driving. Nothing suspicious there.
She’s driving a car with CT plates. So maybe she has a CT license….but isn’t she a long time resident of the town? Which is still odd. Something to unravel.
The more I think about it/rewatch it, I can’t help but wonder if Agnes was there for a reason (perhaps to manipulate Vision). She still seems to know too much and have a little too much agency. (ETA: ah, Elynne above laid it out MUCH better, lol)
Likewise, Pietro seems to know a little too much. How would he know about Vision dying, etc? It definitely seems like he’s trying to get information. There’s also something a little off about how he’s trying to convince her that what she is doing is okay.
Off topic: The ‘show within a show’ parts really are SO good – I feel like they could easily somewhat skimp on those parts, but in and of themselves they just feel so well done. The child actors are perfect, and even that stupid ‘Mexican wrestler’ exchange is just so on point for that brand of 90s’ “racy” humor. I hope we get at least one more show within a show…I was thinking it would be cool if they embraced the horror and went with a Stranger Things type of vibe..except that in and of itself is already an 80s show. I wonder if they’ll move into a less family oriented sitcom.
Hayward is clearly suffering from PTSD
Regarding the CT plates. Perhaps sometimes a plate is just a plate.
@36 – yeah, honestly, I wish the show went a little more into what Hayward’s own issues are because in some sense we’re supposed to empathize with Wanda and maybe even give her a little bit of a pass because of her trauma (although obviously the show is having her interrogate this a bit) and it’s hard to say if she’ll ever be held accountable (although it also remains to be seen how much of it was her doing – she does appear to have at least SOME agency here though)…whereas from Hayward’s perspective he’s obviously got his own shit going on. But instead he’s just kind of the typical jerkass low-key sexist asshole. (And I’m not so much denying that he IS, as the show portrays him, but just that I feel like it could have been a little more interesting.)
@35
I think the next spoof is 2010’s Modern Family and then The Office.
I am now imagining the next Thor movie having a Darcy with superpowers…(plus Jane lifting Mjolnir). I suddenly really really want to watch that :D
Okay, here’s a funny thing I noticed – there’s a stock kid laughter effect used right before Pietro asks Wanda where she’s hiding all the kids. But it was driving me nuts because I knew I’d heard it before in a very specific scenario that was a little more ingrained in my mind than just being a generic sound effect.
I was falling asleep last night when I finally realized what it was: In The Phantom Menace, there’s the same laughter (or something VERY similar) heard when Anakin’s slave friends come to see his progress on the podracer.
I’m sure it’s just a matter of a stock sound library, but of course…the kids are slaves. COINCIDENCE???? (haha, j/k…or am I???)
Kinda hoping Hawkeye shows up at some point to talk Wanda down. He has a nice film history of being decent big-brother figure to her.
I kind of wondered if the episodes move forward in time for their spoofs because it’s a sign that Wanda is starting to process things? Not that older shows didn’t cover some heavy issues, but a lot of times they just last an episode and are gone. Nowadays, particularly since tv series don’t have to be on network television, some shows cover incredibly traumatic issues and can make a whole series out of just that. So maybe in the coming episodes Wanda will have more ability to truly process her pain and the pain she’s causing?
And I know this is really unlikely, but Vision’s brain was getting copied over in Wakanda when the Snap happened. Wouldn’t it be fun if somehow that copy of him was involved? Perhaps the machines kept running in Shuri’s lab while she was gone and were able to complete him with what there was before Thanos got him? And that’s why there are some memory gaps and such. Maybe he’s part of it all, wanting a happy life with Wanda. ;) Particularly if some version of his consciousness was stuck in an immobile machine for five years?
@29 I’ve been having similar thoughts about the infinity stones but these events are much closer to something you would see with the reality stone than the mind stone, perhaps all the stones are trying to reform by using her as an anchor. She is manipulating space, minds, reality, time, souls… Most of what she is doing is outside the purview of the mind stone and her previously known powers.
Or perhaps in destroying the stones Thanos unwittingly released the seal on some magical being or force from the dawn of time that is now manipulating Wanda
@45,
Or perhaps in destroying the stones Thanos unwittingly released the seal on some magical being or force from the dawn of time that is now manipulating Wanda.
Which would tie back into the ending of Doctor Strange. Wong did say word of the Ancient One’s death would spread throughout the Multiverse and that Earth was vulnerable to mystical attack. And the 2012 Ancient One in Endgame made it clear removing the Time Stone would leave the Masters and Earth without their greatest weapon against said darkness.
But there’s also that big loose end from the first Guardians: The Cosmic Entities that forged the six singularities into what became the Stones. How’re they gonna react to what happened with Thanos?
I don’t think the MCU is going back to the Infinity Stones well; been there, done that and without the insatiable need for new stories each month, they don’t need to revisit them. They’re good for fan fiction, but I think they have more than enough ideas to play with (since it takes so much time to produce live action shows) than to recycle those concepts.
I think everything we need to know has already been shown to us. (Which is why I think Hayward has a larger hand in this than previously thought).
Finally got to watch this one. It can be chalked up to the producers’ credit that I completely forgot Disney+ doesn’t have commercials and my brain tried to ignore the YoMagic commercial. It seemed so normal to my mind, felt familiar in a way the ‘older’ commercials didn’t. So weird.
This show is doing a great job exploring grief. Loving it!
@45, @46, I think we’re going to get more about cosmic entities with The Eternals, whenever that finally gets released. Plus there’s still the dangling thread of Adam Warlock getting created at the end of Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and his comics story ties into the Infinity Stones, so I suspect he’ll get involved somewhere down the line in the “what happens to the universe without the stones and the cosmic beings who made them?” questions.