[what if] gotta squeeze this one in before i start getting ready to go to my dad's for lunch. i have given myself an hour. we'll see how that goes

Kurt Russell's name is in the credits, I fuckin knew it

Uatu gathering his team at the beginning of course, literally just showing up in the sky and freaking people the fuck out

i hope Nat can manage that mission from the beginning of Winter Soldier on her own. i mean of course she can, it's just a lot of work for one person!

. . . well, Kurt Russell had the one line again, I am wondering if he was supposed to be involved in that episode they didn't have time to finish, but i'm pretty sure he aten't dead and it is very rude to Quill for Uatu to yank T'Challa away at this particular moment. Let people finish their shit, dude!

"Not you, Stark" I am howling, they put him in this scene just so he could be told to fuck off. Not sure which episode this was, though

"Erik Stevens, I am about to save your ass from the uprising, you're welcome."

Thor is a very focused individual. He is BUSY.

I love that Peggy's main response to all this weird shit is "yeah, i've been through weirder, let's do this"

It's an absolute shame there's not more room in the episode for these folks to just be interacting with each other. There's so much potential in that. I personally would enjoy T'Challa needing all of five minutes to talk Erik into giving Wakanda back

"You stole my Soul Stone?" Yikes, I wonder how many times the actor needed to spit that one out

Hah, throwing zombie Wanda at his ass is a great idea, though the fact she doesn't just end his career when he's missing a stone doesn't work well with what they established in Endgame

"I believe the term is BFF." Yeah, Peg, that's - not the energy I'm getting with you and Nat. like at all

Stephen swallows the fucking Soul Stone and Ultron utters my exact thoughts: "Wait, what?"

well, he swallowed something, anyway, i don't know why we're spending seventeen years on this one scene because someone decided to toss the Stone to Gamora instead of handing it over like a civilized being when we could have spent more time on the getting-to-know-yous. This show works best when it's driven by the characters, not the plot.

"It doesn't feel over." T'Challa checked the episode's runtime.

This idea of the Infinity Crusher, though, like - Thanos is just real committed to being a dramatic bitch, isn't he?

so anyway, throwing Zola into a body that has all the Infinity Stones seems like a great idea, no potential issues here

nope, Killmonger has swiped the Stones for himself, I am a huge fan of this development

Zola and Killmonger are now trapped in a pocket dimension with the Stones, and I have never felt sorrier for Erik Stevens than than I do right now. I don't care what he did, man, he doesn't deserve a presumed eternity of that

Stephen's like "yeah i'll babysit, it's fine"

aw, Nat gets to go to a different world that isn't shit, that's nice

Fury is surprisingly chill about it, but fine, maybe this is a world where he has a single iota of trust in the universe

well, that was . . . fine. oh thing after the credits, i forgot to watch for one, brb

that improved the episode somewhat, though I have a lot of grumblings that mainly revolve around why not more people and why these people and no really what universe is Gamora from and i'm a little sad they didn't gratuitously kill Tony one last time

i'm gonna consult tvtropes about Gamora, then it'll be time to hit the shower

ohhhhh she's from the episode that they had to push back to season two, okay, that makes a lot more sense

okay shower bye!

yeah there was supposed to be a 10th episode with Tony and Gamora on Sakaar. that's where that came from

Ah, I didn't know that was what the missing episode was about. I love that booting it back to season two has the side effect of making season one's entire secondary arc be "fuck you personally, Tony Stark." It's so good.

I know it's great

lot of fans are whining about it but I don't care I love it

agreed, it's perfect

As wrong as I was about Stephen swallowing the Mind Stone, how cool would that have been? He spent centuries becoming a powerful eldritch being, he could totally handle it

I think he just swallowed the explosion. but yeah that would've been cool :B

also a little horrifying

Defo both

I mean the only thing I really like about Strange is his crazy eldritch look so