Running MCU thread

Yup. I hope we see more of that in various MCU projects. They should be exploring that more.

Also, that one image of Vision was so good.

 

I am watching with my 12-year old with me having seen about 6 MCU movies and him having seen most of them (Disney+ binging mostly). I have so little idea what’s going on most of the time other than to spot actors from other projects (that’s the dad from Fresh Off the Boat, that’s the pretty brunette from Two Broke Girls).

 

The pretty brunette from Two Broke Girls was in the first two Thor movies.

 

My 8-yr-old the first two and a half episodes: "I don't get this. What is going on."

My 8-year-old the last half of ep 3: "Oh, I think I get it."

Middle of the last episode: "Holy crap! This is awesome!"

 

My son said she wasn’t that good in those but we both thought she was funny here. I like her as an actress.

 

She's got great comedic timing. I haven't seen all of The Dark World, but she was good as a supporting character in the first Thor.
It also helps that her breasts are spectacular.

 

She will be employed by the MCU for a few more movies, I’m guessing.

 

The leaked topless picture of her a few years back was titled Two Big Girls. Which is wrong, but I both clicked and laughed.

 

Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist. And Charlie Bartlet, she did with Robert Downey Jr

great teen movies.

 

WandaVision Fan Video Synchronizes the Blip Scene With Avengers: Endgame

This spoils the start of this past Friday's episode, but I think we are far enough past it now. It wasn't something I expected to see at all in this series, but I thought it was great how they wove in a connection to Endgame. Feige's explanation of it adds some interesting context.

 

The price of weaving these stories together is that some viewers will get lost. Most, but not all, of the movies hold up okay if you haven't seen the others. I certainly wouldn't recommend that someone watch Endgame without at least viewing the previous Avengers movies, and even then they would miss a lot.

The significance of the opening sequence in the fourth episode would be lost on someone who didn't watch Infinity War and Endgame, but it is still pretty cool. Of course, the look of Vision in that one scene would be confusing as hell if you didn't see those movies.

Do we have to know that we saw Monica Rambeau as a child and her mother as characters in Captain Marvel? No, we don't, but it certainly adds some emotion to that opening sequence. Remembering the Jimmy Woo character from Ant-Man and the Wasp doesn't really make a difference, except as an Easter Egg for some viewers to notice.

 

This was probably posted before, but I stumbled upon it again on YouTube today. This is a promo for the first episode of the upcoming What If? animated series. Each story will supposedly be self-contained, with the first one answering what would happen if Peggy Carter had gotten the super-soldier treatment instead of Steve Rogers. One of the cool things about this is they are using the MCU actors, such as Haley Atwell as Peggy Carter. This will be one of the last times we get to hear Chadwick Boseman perform. They had already recorded his voice work for an episode about T'Challa becoming Star-Lord before he died.

Anyway, about 24 seconds in, you hear a male voice saying, "I was promised an army." It is easy to focus on Atwell's response, but I'm fairly certain the male voice is Bradley Whitford, which makes it a nice example of Marvel connecting its various stories whenever possible. Whitford played Agent Flynn, Peggy Carter's superior officer in the relatively-obscure Marvel One-Shot: Peggy Carter in 2013.