Running MCU thread

Sparky isn't real. That episode ended too soon.

BTW, there is a Marvel-style tag at the end. I've been watching for them, but this is the first I've seen.

 

Yup. That was the first one in the series.

 

I disagree, but that can wait until Monday.

 

I really like the pacing of the episodic series. It more resembles the comic format than a 2 hr 30 min movie.

Lots of good geeky stuff for a comic nerd like me, having begun collecting comics in the late 80s. It appears they have enough momentum to finish the first season strongly.

 

My sister-in-law said Internet folks have been calling the ending from the latest episode for weeks. I still enjoyed it. My teen daughter just about jumped through her skin. She was blown away.

 

So the Space Stone is rediscovered on Earth in 1942ish and Thanos doesn’t know. In 1945 it’s with SHIELD/ Hydra until

Mar Vel starts experimenting with it in the late 1970, and 80’s. It creates Captain Marvel. And Thanos doesn’t know about it.

even though it’s his life’s work to find the stones.

Thanos finally finds out where the Space Stone is and gives the Soul Stone to Loki to find the Space Stone. Loki has both Stones. And he doesn’t use them both? In this Universe, no one had both stones at the same time. Loki isn’t so stupid as to not know what the stones are. It appears common knowledge among the connected people in the MCU. And Asgardian would certainly know about it.

Thanos waits too long to find the Space Zone and gives possession of the only stone he possess to Loki?

 

One big question in all of that is, when was Thanos born and when did he come of age relative to Earth time? I don't know if it was ever explicitly stated whether he is hundreds of years old like the Asgardians, or if he's much younger like Tony Stark and the Avengers.

It's also plausible that, for all of his pillaging and slaughter, Thanos wanted to fly under the radar as a cosmic-level threat. He figured it was better to nail down all of the stones' locations before trying to snatch them.
As we saw in Infinity War, no one saw his desire for the stones as a huge threat. Lots of people wanted them and a few had one of them. That was nothing new. It wasn't until he snagged three or four stones in a matter of hours that everyone realized how dire the situation was, and by then it was almost too late to stop him.

As for Loki's possession of the Mind and Space stones ... did anyone other than Thanos know that the Tesseract was actually the Space Stone, rather than just a very powerful object of a different kind? When Thanos crushes the Tesseract in Infinity War to reveal the Space Stone inside, it was treated like a big reveal.

 

Spoiler: Spoiler

So, if not for the Agnes reveal this week, would the leads have remained in the Dick van Dyke world forever? I took the time barreling forward to the present as Wanda’s subconscious realizing that she has to come to grips with Vision’s death

 

I didn't watch right away and then people started panning the first few episodes so that delayed it even further for me. But man, once I started I thought everything was so good.

My wife hadn't watched yet and I wanted to rewatch to see things I'd missed and we did it all in one sitting last night and I liked those first few even more. And man, that first episode especially is very funny. I think people were caught off guard by the format but think it's very clever and well done.

 

I knew about the format going in. I didn't think the first couple of episodes were as funny as some others did, but I trusted in where they were going and have been rewarded. Now I just hope they can keep it going and stick the landing.

The real joy in the series for me is how much my daughter is into it. She goes digging through theories online and we talk about them. We have been doing that with MCU stuff for a while, but more than ever with WandaVision. That sort of thing is priceless for the father of a daughter no matter how old she is, but I think even more so with a 17-year-old who is going away to college in the fall.

 

WandaVision Episode 7 Commercial Explained: What Is Nexus?

 

The elevator scene in Winter Soldier, a top 3 moment in MCU history.