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GigaPeon posted:So I looked up SWORD on Wikipedia because I wasn’t sure what it’s deal was, and the part that references Wandavision is kinda spoilery so watch out. Sentient Weapon Observation Response Division. Is that what it always stands for? Not to my knowledge, usually the W stands for World and not Weapon. SWORD deals with extraterrestrial threats mainly.
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GigaPeon posted:So I looked up SWORD on Wikipedia because I wasn’t sure what it’s deal was, and the part that references Wandavision is kinda spoilery so watch out. Sentient Weapon Observation Response Division. Is that what it always stands for? I don’t know when I’m the MCU that was revealed, but in the comics it’s Sentient World Observation Research Division, a division of SHEILD that tracks extraterrestrial threats to Earth. Looks like they’re going in a different direction
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Jan 18, 2021 20:02
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Edmund Lava posted:I don’t know when I’m the MCU that was revealed, but in the comics it’s Sentient World Observation Research Division, a division of SHEILD that tracks extraterrestrial threats to Earth. Looks like they’re going in a different direction Slight correction: They're parallel agencies, like the NSA and CIA, basically. Or used to be. SHIELD is basically gone in the comics right now and SWORD is run by the X-Men.
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Jan 18, 2021 20:32
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it feels to me like SWORD is just being used as a replacement for SHIELD with little regard for the differences between the two in the source material, but we’re only two episodes in and Secret Invasion is coming so we’ll see
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Jan 18, 2021 20:38
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Maybe SWORD is where Nick Fury was at the end of Far From Home. Does SHIELD even exist any more?
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Jan 18, 2021 20:46
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One detail I'm not sure anyone's noticed yet is that the animated intro to episode 2 has six stars form around the moon. Either it's supposed to be a hexagon like the iris out, or the six Infinity Stones, maybe both!
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Jan 18, 2021 20:53
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Just make a new Agents of SWORD spinoff but maintain the entire AoS cast and pretend like nothing happened. Also the beekeeper should be Tony Todd. 
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Jan 18, 2021 21:02
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The_Doctor posted:Maybe SWORD is where Nick Fury was at the end of Far From Home. Does SHIELD even exist any more? SHEILD does from Agents of SHEILD but I doubt they reference it much. The show did its own thing after season two and usually implied Fury was stilled believed to be dead.
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Jan 18, 2021 21:07
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The_Doctor posted:Maybe SWORD is where Nick Fury was at the end of Far From Home. Does SHIELD even exist any more? Short answer? Kinda'. And not just on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Jan 18, 2021 21:11
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 It seems a Spaniard voice actor might have spoilered Evan Peters' role.
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Jan 18, 2021 21:14
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WSAENOTSOCK posted:This is such a loaded question I don't even know where to begin. The skip ahead at the end of Agents implies it's a Thing again with an Academy and a Space Force. But also they've traveled through alternate universes so much and traveled through time that who knows where that's all happening.
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Jan 18, 2021 21:23
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Edmund Lava posted:SHEILD does from Agents of SHEILD but I doubt they reference it much. The show did its own thing after season two and usually implied Fury was stilled believed to be dead. Fury literally shows up to say "I'm not dead" in AoS and saves the day. Fury just puts Coulson in charge, presumably to go form SWORD which is what he is doing in in the post credits of Spiderman Far From Home.
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Jan 18, 2021 21:27
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If we're doing family sitcoms through the decades 50s, 60s, 70s, I wonder what the style of the 00's one will reference. I'm hoping Malcolm in the middle.
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Jan 18, 2021 21:40
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The_Doctor posted:Maybe SWORD is where Nick Fury was at the end of Far From Home. Does SHIELD even exist any more? People have pointed out that that could easily be supposed to be The Peak, which is the SWORD space station from the comics. I do think having Fury be in charge is a missed opportunity as Abigail Brand (his opposite number from SWORD) is a cool character in her own right and would be ripe to give a slightly older actress like a Laura Dern or similar a cool recurring role
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Jan 18, 2021 21:40
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For whatever reason I got Brand vibes from head of the ladies association.
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Jan 18, 2021 21:58
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massive spider posted:If we're doing family sitcoms through the decades 50s, 60s, 70s, I wonder what the style of the 00's one will reference. I'm hoping Malcolm in the middle. Feige said in a GQ interview they’re doing Modern Family and the Office Gaz-L posted:People have pointed out that that could easily be supposed to be The Peak, which is the SWORD space station from the comics. I do think having Fury be in charge is a missed opportunity as Abigail Brand (his opposite number from SWORD) is a cool character in her own right and would be ripe to give a slightly older actress like a Laura Dern or similar a cool recurring role Crazy haired space boss ladies that piss off nerds would be an interesting direction for Dern’s career and I’d be down for it.
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Jan 18, 2021 22:02
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Klungar posted:For whatever reason I got Brand vibes from head of the ladies association. I'd be fine with Emma Caulfield-Ford in that role, sure. But Brand absolutely wouldn't be confused/scared upon snapping out of things, she'd throatpunch whoever she thought was behind it.
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massive spider posted:If we're doing family sitcoms through the decades 50s, 60s, 70s, I wonder what the style of the 00's one will reference. I'm hoping Malcolm in the middle. UPN's Shasta McNasty
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Jan 18, 2021 22:20
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Desperado Bones posted:
Not really? he did dubbing for him previously, he could just be being reused. Not necessarily for the same role. I know some actors have their go to dub replacements, could just be being done for WandaVision since that’s his most famous dub voice there.
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Jan 18, 2021 22:32
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Can't wait for the era of cameramen shifting their weight from side to side moving their handheld cameras in a figure 8 pattern between quick-zooms into character's faces to accentuate reactions and punclines.
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Jan 18, 2021 22:39
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Teek posted:Not really? he did dubbing for him previously, he could just be being reused. Not necessarily for the same role. I know some actors have their go to dub replacements, could just be being done for WandaVision since that’s his most famous dub voice there. I'm not sure, that's the rumor over twitter, and lots of sites are already running with it the actor allegedly said something like "I'm glad of dubbing Pietro's voice again" Allegedly, as it seems he deleted his tweet ASAP and there's not really way to confirm that. The only screencaps looks so low quality that it might be a fake.
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Jan 18, 2021 23:01
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Edmund Lava posted:Reading some notes about the production it seems the crew did some serious research to get these kinds of sitcom history right. Apparently Dick Van Dyke was consulted on the production of episode one. where are the production notes at
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Jan 18, 2021 23:37
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Its Chocolate posted:where are the production notes at Shouldn’t have used the phrase “production notes” that’s my bad, just reading through some articles. This one talks about consulting Dick Van Dycke, some shooting techniques and practical effects. Fun note: Bethany was painted blue when he appeared as vision in B&W.
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Jan 18, 2021 23:52
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Edmund Lava posted:Shouldn’t have used the phrase “production notes” that’s my bad, just reading through some articles. This one talks about consulting Dick Van Dycke, some shooting techniques and practical effects. Fun note: Bethany was painted blue when he appeared as vision in B&W. Hah I can imagine them looking at B&W footage of him painted red and then immediately incinerating it.
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Jan 19, 2021 00:04
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I'm enjoying getting my mum on board with this series. It started off with do you remember when we watched bewitched and i dream of jeannie when i was a kid. now im having to explain how wanda beat the poo poo out of thanos after he ripped visions (iron mans pal) indestructible head off in that movie we saw
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Jan 19, 2021 02:22
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Gaz-L posted:Vision's daughter from the comics, Viv, is queer for sure, and I'm pretty sure only expressed interest in girls. Nope; in the series where Viv first appears she has a great liking for her study partner at school.
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Jan 19, 2021 02:29
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Figured out how to improve the second episode. https://twitter.com/barelysushi/status/1351330612133711874
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Zoobtro posted:I'm enjoying getting my mum on board with this series. It started off with do you remember when we watched bewitched and i dream of jeannie when i was a kid. now im having to explain how wanda beat the poo poo out of thanos after he ripped visions (iron mans pal) indestructible head off in that movie we saw Disney+ has these 7 minute shorts called Legends that explain who Wanda/Vision are decently.
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Open Source Idiom posted:Not a Marvel fan, I find most of their stuff boring and haven't seen a film since Ultron. Hell, I barely remember that film; a mate had to point out that Wanda had a different accent in that film than she does here. Honestly I think you're going to be disappointed if this is what you're hoping for. It's most definitely a high concept gimmick meant to enhance the superhero story. I wouldn't expect much deeper deconstruction from a marvel show. I'd appreciate that show too but it's definitely not that imo. Thou I really enjoy this (and usually like most Marvel stuff anyway) and find it a pretty entertaining and fun show. I'm definitely hooked to see where it goes.
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Spacebump posted:The second episode is better than the first. Vision's gum plot is just ridiculous The_Doctor posted:Bettany was absolutely channelling Richard E. Grant's Withnail in the talent show scene. I thought Rik Mayall. Also I was delighted to see anya from buffy again. sebmojo fucked around with this message at 09:07 on Jan 19, 2021 |
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sebmojo posted:I thought Rik Mayall. Also I was delighted to see anya from buffy again. Yeah I got strong Rik Mayall vibes too - it's the way his face screws backwards.
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Jan 19, 2021 10:34
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stev posted:Yeah I got strong Rik Mayall vibes too - it's the way his face screws backwards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74zjV9qDSqY
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Jan 19, 2021 10:45
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Also, since there's a chance it'll come up, before Vision was killed by Thanos, Banner and Shuri were in the middle of mapping his brain structure to create a backup since destroying him was a last ditch option. Which Wanda had to do herself and then got to watch that sacrifice be rewound just so Thanos could do it himself. Ohhh thank you for this. I had forgot all about that SalTheBard fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Jan 19, 2021 |
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SalTheBard posted:Ohhh thank you for this. I had forgot all about that Oh yeah I thought that was a dangling plot thread at the time but I'd forgotten
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DuhSal posted:Honestly I think you're going to be disappointed if this is what you're hoping for. It's most definitely a high concept gimmick meant to enhance the superhero story. I wouldn't expect much deeper deconstruction from a marvel show. I'd appreciate that show too but it's definitely not that imo. I would definitely be interested in watching that show too, but yeah, this is still a Marvel Studios superhero series at the end of the day, though I'm sure some people will try to read in deeper commentary than what it can actually support. On a similar note, I also wouldn't recommend the show to people who haven't watched much of the MCU up to this point. I've heard the first two episodes praised for their accessibility, which I guess is true given that they play the sitcom pastiche mostly straight and only hint at how all of this fits into the bigger MCU picture, but it's pretty safe to say that the story is going to go in a direction that's a lot more reliant on preexisting continuity.
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There really isn’t a whole lot to know that isn’t covered by the Wanda Legends short. I’m not even sure much of the Vision one is going to play into it. Other than that you have Monica, whose previous appearance was little more than an Easter egg, and Jimmy Woo, who doesn’t need much explanation. Pretty sure they’ll exposition dump if we end up bringing characters from outside the MCU.
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Jan 19, 2021 15:52
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I know it is all speculation at this point, but giving the clues that have been found this might lead to something. The Russo brothers have said multiple times this is the next event they would want to do. https://www.cbr.com/wandavision-wat...7TrN3lJyPyAYV6I
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badjohny posted:I know it is all speculation at this point, but giving the clues that have been found this might lead to something. The Russo brothers have said multiple times this is the next event they would want to do. I thought the Russo's were done in the MCU now, and the next big villain was all but confirmed to be Kang the Conqueror; with an appearance in Ant-Man and setup to have the Young Avengers, who are tied to his origin if I recall between Wanda's upcoming kids, Kate Bishop Hawkeye, Cassie as a teen in the next Ant-Man etc. Also, I thought that watches were typically set to 10:10 in marketing to make the hands look like a smile rather than for symmetry?
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