Agreed. The speculation is half the fun.
Some of the critics who received the third episode claimed that a certain name that hasn’t being bought up in a long time in the MCU is what begins the overall plot in earnest. If Wanda saw the same ads we did, it wouldn’t be Strucker or Stark. Who or what else does that leave? The obvious answer is Quicksilver, but it could also be Ultron or Zemo, to bring up other significant names to them that haven’t been mentioned in a while.
There wasn't much room for him to do much. Usually, comics-wise, characters like Vision and other B-list Avengers shine in the week to week non-event stuff in Avengers comics (or, the soap opera portions of the comic, if we're being honest). But the way the movies shook out you had Avengers 1 being the big initial team-up origin story, and Avengers 3 and 4 being the summer event crossover. That meant all the regular week-to-week, comic-to-comic Avengers stuff had to be done in Age of Ultron. And Whedon tried to fit it all in. That movie introduced one of the Avengers more personal foes (Ultron), introduced three B-list Avengers (Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and Vision), did some romance stuff with the characters he had sole control over (Black Widow and Banner), killed off another character he had control over (Quicksilver), revealed a big secret about one character (Hawkeye has a family!?) and ended it all with a lineup change. He used practically every tool in an Avengers comic writer's toolkit for creating a costumed soap opera. It was a lot but he did it. But once the franchise got past that movie, there wasn't enough room for everyone to do something.
Love is for souls, not bodies.
I'm happy for the slow burn and a healthy dose of pure Wanda and Vision. Getting to settle in and explore these characters/relationships was always why I was onboard for the show and Lizzie and Paul are doing a great job. TBH I think most of the the complaints will subside with this weeks episode, people have just been starved for MCU content that they want the big reveals now. Keeping in mind that F&tWS was supposed to premiere before WV and likely would have been flashier fare. Regardless, happy with the show so far and excited to see how the story continues to unfold.
I don't know how people could still think that when the promotion of the show was like completely focused on the sitcom thing... They showed SO MUCH from the 50's-70's period and made sure to mention the whole sitcom concept in like every single interview or article or whatever.
Me too. I think many are unused to plotting techniques; bait and switch or similar. My wife thought it was boring, but she only likes cooking contest show or ghost hunters. Episodic / serial story telling is not meant to be some easily formated (door # whatever). I think for those who watched and are not hung on 'immediacy' the last episode had more clear forboding and foreshadowing.
I know the source material like the back of my hand, but I'm being surprised and love it.
~ Oberon ~
Comic-book reading Witch and Pagan since 1970
I came for Kate, I stayed for Bette Love Fantastic Four, Namor, Batwoman, Dr.Strange.... i love them all
Movies are not TV shows. TV shows fall into a category, like comic books, of being serialized literature or stories. So everything is not slam bang all the time.
Serialized literature/shows, tends to depend more on character development and relationships. (think soap operas and you got it). So while this may seem to not serve 'superheroes' I'm never surprised by all the soap opera conventions that are in regular comic books.
So pacing is of course important. Another thing that came to my mind is that the first show was said to be filmed before a live audience, but that would imply that some necessary editing occured to make the show more seamless on broadcast. So some of that could contribute to how the pacing works or seems.
~ Oberon ~
Comic-book reading Witch and Pagan since 1970
I came for Kate, I stayed for Bette Love Fantastic Four, Namor, Batwoman, Dr.Strange.... i love them all
There may be all kinds of reasons why some won't find it their cup of tea. My wife can only watch baking/cooking contests and shows that have just one format, basically a game show. So anything that involves remembering, or getting a nuance, just don't work for her. No, she doesn't need ketcjup; she is far to bland for that even.
So it is mostly worthless to try to interest her in watching with me. But a good 40 years ago, we devoured the source materials as comics. We loved the Wanda and Vision story, but along the way, she left comics behind and I did not.
~ Oberon ~
Comic-book reading Witch and Pagan since 1970
I came for Kate, I stayed for Bette Love Fantastic Four, Namor, Batwoman, Dr.Strange.... i love them all
Do you think wanda created this fantasy world because she was responible for her actions in captan America civil war
Probably a mix of all the traumas she's been through.
You'll notice that the first two fake commercials are based on terrible things that happened to her: the "Stark Toaster" is the Stark missile that killed her parents, and the "Strucker watch" refers to her time as a HYDRA lab experiment. As the show progresses I expect we'll see commercials based on other things that have ruined her life.