One thing I noticed this episode that I did not see last episode (or maybe I just did not notice) was Lady Thor in the Marvel logo. I am guessing it was added because the Thor: Love and Thunder has just become available on Disney+.
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Okay, that was kinda cute - the Madisynn/Wongers bit was funny, as was Mark Linn-Baker and his shovel. And Maslany continues to shine. But the dating-woes-of-a-single-professional story felt like Donny Blaze’s magic show - the same awkwardly executed tricks that we’ve seen a dozen times before.
I mean, I like light and cute and funny. But I started watching She-Hulk and Ms. Marvel, another lighter story, at the same time, and only one of them had me sneaking off to the bathroom at work to catch 15 minutes or so of the story, and it wasn’t the counselor in green.
So the sling ring, does every novice in Kamar Taj just get one for keeps, even if they’re less than honorably discharged eventually? Doesn’t seem likely, somehow. But then, couldn’t they have gone after Donny Blaze for simple theft? Seems like all he really knew to do was facilitated by the ring, so he’d be reduced to third-rate tricks without it…
Also, some of the little sketches change from episode to episode and riff on the events of that episode. So yes, they are content.
Urgh. I’m pretty sure this is a conversation from my college days. Will not touch the stuff again.
And appears to be holding the heart of either a human or large animal when she first arrives at Wongers’ place. Which is never really referred to again.
You might think a fresh heart in the hands of an inebriated portal victim might be a bit more than a humorous throwaway detail, but Kamar-taj and all the sorcerous goings-on surrounding it are apparently so deeply weird that nothing comes of it. Not even someone having to clean it up.
I think a post-credit scene, by virtue of being a post credit scene adds the context that it’s either going to be a guy saying “It’s me, Blorko” or a short joke that is perpendicular to the plot. I think it would be strange to just have the end of each episode end with a goofy joke, whereas having the post credit scene being a goofy joke feels natural.
I think there’s a sort of cultural expectation that stuff that happens after the credits isn’t necessarily “in continuity” with the rest of the film. We’re used to see that space used for blooper reels, or alternate takes of scenes that were in the movie. Even the “It’s me, Blorko!” stuff that’s meant to set up the next film in the franchise is often lightly retconned by the actual sequel, like Doc Brown taking both Marty and his girlfriend to the future at the end of Back to the Future, only to immediately chloroform her at the start of the second film, because they couldn’t figure out how to use her character in the plot they wanted to tell. Jen twerking in the office in the middle of the episode would have felt like she was being unprofessional. Her twerking in a post credit scene comes across more as just a gag.
You do have that option. It’s labeled with two right-pointing arrows on your remote.
Unless there’s a “skip” button like some streaming services have, I consider having to fast forward through something only marginally less annoying than having to sit through the credits. Really, why make a viewer wait for that content? I don’t know why so many people in this thread are trying to persuade me that I shouldn’t dislike them. I’ve experienced it dozens of times over the past two decades and over that time my dislike for them has only increased with each experience. I dislike them and I would prefer that they stop doing it. My position isn’t going to change because of comments like these.
Sounds good, so please lets drop this sidebar now.
For a thread all about She-Hulk, it’s amazing to me how much discussion so far has been devoted to Captain America and his sex life instead.
And dropped on his fancy rug! That has to be hard to clean up.
Wonger has some great cleaning products. . .they work like. . .they work really well.
If it’s Wong, it’s right!
Loved todays episode, but did it have a post credits scene?
I think the way they used Madisynn and Wong in Episode 4 was great. But I fear that the resulting popularity might motivate them to run that joke into the ground.
I think the showrunners are messing with us as viewers! A specific in ep shout out to watch the post credit scene one week and none the next!
FWIW I did enjoy the ep specific artwork during the credits this time, and do accept them as content.
The ep itself though was only meh.
I liked it. I’m torn between whether I’d prefer an Avongers or Avingers shirt. Would have been cute if any of those had been in evidence during Ms. Marvel’s Avenger-con, but those probably weren’t conceived as early as the Ms. Marvel premier was being filmed.
I thought this was probably the weakest episode so far… still fun and watchable, but nothing really stood out in any way. Nothing really important or exciting or anything happened.
Getting ready to watch now. A little apprehensive because it’s going to feature an area of law I know something about and I really don’t want to be throwing things.