Eh. Honestly, she wasn’t very good in the role. I don’t know if she’s a good actress or not, but she didn’t make much of an impression in Captain Marvel.
I suppose this is comic book universe, but not DC comic book logic, where a pilot from WWI can fly a modern fighter jet with no training.
They didn’t age the daughter, but instead used a different actor. Could have done the same with the mother.
We expect girls to look quite different from 12 to adulthood. The haircut is enough.
An adult woman’s look changing that much, to be another person, is more of a deal. Unless you are The Doctor.
Aging the same actor is easy though. Just not worth it. Monica is the future in the franchise, not her mother.
Okay, am I alone in distrusting Acting Director Whatsisface? Like, he’s grounding Monica to keep her from seeing what he’s been up to since Maria died?
Maybe it really was Maria’s protocol and maybe it wasn’t — but I did get distinct “this guy’s no good” vibes from his first scene onward.
Marvel had no problem with Dominic Cooper aging into John Slattery.
Ok so before Vision was killed… twice… Shuri was trying to reconfig him so he could survive without the stone and they could remove it and destroy it. He was not killed BY the stone but by the indelicate removal of the stone.
So when Hulk blipped everyone back, why couldn’t he have also brought Vision back too? “When I snap my fingers, everyone/thing Thanos culled comes back safely. Oh and Vision comes back with his insides aligned so he doesn’t need the stone.” snap
We now he didn’t because of that darkly hilarious video in Far From Home but why not?
But that was the other direction, John Slattery was Howard Stark before Cooper was. Deaging Slattery would have been a lot tougher. Much easier to get a new actor, especially since Stark’s role was pretty minor in IM2, but huge in CA:TFA.
Hulk could only bring back people who were lost in the Snap. That’s why Black Widow and present-day Loki stayed dead, too.
Which doesn’t make sense (and shows I’m thinking about it too much). BW makes sense because she died getting a stone but why not Loki and Vision? You have soul and time. I know it’s comic logic and maybe it’s like… the snapped went to snapped dimension and the dead go to valhalla or whatever, but I wonder if they tried and failed or didn’t even try at all.
I believe the logic is this:
When Thanos snapped, a new timeline was created without ½ of the souls of the Universe. The original timeline still exists, in theory just not reality. When Hulk snapped, reality was moved back to the original timeline. So nothing was “undone”. The dead are still (always have been) dead.
I think you could theoretically use the stones to bring Vision back, but that would take a separate snap. We saw two snaps nearly killed Thanos. A second one would surely kill Hulk.
If Monica Rambeau’s clothes and the skipping rope attachment line can remain real after travelling through the bubble, then so can Vision, potentially.
Took me a little while to piece together the timeline. At the start of the episode they said that Maria died 3 years ago. I suppose that means that when Monica got dusted her mother got released from the hospital, spent two years setting up the new protocol and doing whatever else needed doing and then died sometime later. Why would that doctor have such instant recall of how long ago? Are we to assume she treater here when she died just like she had for that illness? Seems weird.
Sounds like a solid basis for a villain’s origin story, eh?
Remind me on the 2 snaps again? What was the second one?
Some doctors are just that good. I was treated once at about 2AM in a busy metropolitan hospital by a young doctor, who I’m sure had a dozen other patients that night. Four months later, I was at that hospital for a checkup, and I ran into that doctor in the hallway (he was not the specialist I was seeing for the checkup, just someone I happened to encounter) and he addressed me by name. Monica was apparently dusted while visiting her Mom at the hospital - so seeing Monica again probably brought back vivid memories of every aspect of the traumatic day of the Snap.
Hulk had quite a bit on his plate. He’s trying to focus, he’s got what Tony told him rattling around in his head…he’s trying to bring them all back without having people fall out of the sky…and not just on Earth but in the entire universe. Oh and bring back Black Widow. It’s like making a wish real quick with all kinds of stipulations. He might have just forgot Vision.
Spoilered, just in case:
The first Snap destroyed half of all living things in the universe. The second snap reduced the Infinity Stones to atoms, so that they couldn’t be used to undue the first Snap. That set up the Time Heist, where the Avengers went back in time to times/places where they Stones still existed, and they knew their locations.
As to the side-effects, I thought the clear implication was that it was destroying the Stones that nearly killed Thanos, not the snap itself. He didn’t seem to be much affected by the snaps, while mere mortals, even one as powerful as the Hulk, could be killed even by a single snap.
Did the blip also make billions of sewing rooms and home offices blink out of existence or were there a few weeks of awkward conversations with the blipped?
I think that was just a convenient info dump. It seemed pretty clear that the doc was Monica’s mom’s oncologist, so it makes sense that she would treat her when the cancer returned. The instant recall of Monica and her mom amid the chaos of the Blip was a bit of a stretch “realistically”, but it worked for exposition to get the audience and the character on the same page.
Pretty sure the latter. I have a vague memory that we saw someone in one of the post-Blip movies return to find their bedroom turned into an exercise room - Peter Parker maybe?
I’m not an oncologist, but if I had a patient who was the head of a government agency and whose daughter was an astronaut, I’d probably remember them.