And Bewitched.
So far so good. I’m going to keep watching.
I understand this is just a mini-series and not planned as having future seasons. Is that correct?
I think I read Paul Bettany accidentally slipped that it was leading up to a planned feature film.
That was my understanding.
I’ve read a Dr Stange Multiverse one, which suggests magic and/or different dimensions, either of which as solutions would disappoint. They both end up allowing anything ignoring all past events and universe rules because anything can have happened in another timeline/dimension and magic can hand wave almost anything.
Are there clues or something I missed in the credits? It seemed like a shit load of credits (7 minutes) of a 30 minute show.
I don’t think so…i had the same reaction. “It wants me to go to the next episode? Theres five minutes left!”
No, all credits.
On a different subject…she’s never actually been called The Scarlet Witch has she? And another Q i just thought of…was Bettany always set up to be The Vision, or was it something they thought of after he was “Jarvis”
I’m pretty sure there was a rights issue, so they couldn’t use the Scarlet Witch name in the MCU movies.
There’s an interview clip with Bettany talking about getting the call to play Vision in Ultron, so I don’t think it was planned before that.
Here it is: https://youtu.be/Vc9TDjhaYg8
There’s this weird need to credit all of the foreign language voice over actors in Netflix credits that make them interminable unless you let the autostart for the next episode intervene.
It’s Disney + though, and even Netflix doesn’t have 7-8 minutes worth of credits for an under half hour show.
I suffered through them. At the end of episode 1, you see a dude with a remote turn of a TV that was tuned into WV.
Which lends to the theory Wanda is being observed by somebody.
Didn’t see anything at the end of E2.
It was very strange. Mandalorian, a show that looks like a lot bigger production, had 4-5 minutes credits. My kids were very good about subtracting those minutes each week when we saw the new episode’s run-time.
Agatha Harkness has a son named Nicholas Scratch. Agnes has a rabbit named Señor Scratchy.
This is good to read, because I did turn it off because it was way too much of a straight cheesy 50s sitcom. I’ll give episode two a try.
Oh man…Does that mean we’re going to see Salem’s Seven in the MCU?
I don’t know if Agnes is who you think she is or if that is intentional misdirection but Geraldine …
Monica Rambeau | Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki | Fandom
Maybe everyone else already knew this but it is news to me.
Question, as they proceed into their Brady Bunch and next decade shows riffs, do the neighbors stay the same characters with new decade show appropriate behaviors?
I’m completely in the same boat, however I am entirely NOT hooked. I will likely continue watching because both the MCU and Mandalorian have earned a massive amount of faith from me, so I’m not going to cut and run. Yet, that was an utterly painful hour plus of TV. This whole 50s schtick was funny for exactly 3 minutes and that entire “hosting the boss for dinner” sequence was some of the most atrocious TV I have ever watched. I’m aware that it’s intentionally a parody and the badness is sort of the joke, but there’s a reason SNL skits last about 5 minutes max. I was really hoping episode 2 was going to at least parody something else, maybe 60s era TV instead, but it was just more of the same with new characters.
The most painful thought is that I may need to rewatch it at some point simply because I was SO BORED I spent most of the time playing on my phone.
Clearly there’s a bigger mystery going on here, and I’m curious, but they really need to fix the ratio of schlocky send ups to actual comic book stuff pretty damn quickly. This high concept is on the verge of walking off a cliff.
I must not have communicated my feelings properly. I MUST watch, but it’s a full-on hate watch. I want to know WHAT they thought was worth subjecting me to that hour of banality. I now NEED to know why they did that.
I don’t need non-stop action and laser fights, etc. I’m cool with a more cerebral approach when done properly. . . but I can’t help thinking that, with all the floating dishes and other effects, they could have had a cool superhero fight instead.
I don’t see the point of showing the same formulaic unoriginal sitcom satire for more than a scene or two. It conveys nothing. It’s an SNL skit that would be old after 10 minutes.
I think you guys are misinterpreting the point of the sitcom concept. It’s not a parody, it’s a virtual environment Wanda has hidden herself away inside. It seems like you have started watching with a fixed idea of what to expect, and it’s not fulfilling that expectation. I say you give it a chance to unfold at its own pace. It’s only eight episodes, this is not going to be like Lost which collapsed under the weight of its own mysteries. This has a fixed plot and the conclusion will make the rest make sense.
Also it leads into the Doctor Strange 2 movie, so for continuity’s sake, it might be worth sticking around for that.