It is only natural:

a project that fans have asked for for years doesn’t have a single creative direction, but already planted ideas in so many different heads of fans. Expectations are various, everyone wants to see his/her version realized, while the studio struggles to understand what those versions are.

A project no one has asked for does not have any expectations yet. It has a single creative vision by the creator and can’t really disappoint.

Isn’t that basically Kenny on South Park?

I mean, she is a ghost, which is accurate to how she has been portrayed in the comics at a few times in 1985 and 2015

Rio literally tore through a setpiece to get off the road

“Your last name is a vegetable” is a top-tier Agatha line

A bit of cheap writing to suddenly go “Agatha was the one who bound Jenny Kale”, I didn’t like that.

Agatha’s death scene was visually very beautiful - and also, still a better death scene than Voldemort’s (I’m still salty about that over ten years later).

The big cgi fight was way better embedded into the story and spirit of the show this time. Also was nice to see the Westview residents again.

The whole “witches road” being a scam by Agatha feels on-brand, but on a meta level I’m a bit sad that they took a concept from the comics and turned it into that.

I like how Billy realized “I’m a murderer”, and Agatha goes “no you’re not, I would have killed all of them in my basement, you even saved Jen”.

Oh, and a ghost going “are you ignoring me?” is somehow very funny to me ngl

So… at the start of this episode I was like “oh god, please don’t make this a flashback episode”. And then the flashbacks kept going for over 20 minutes. Once again the Marvel writers wrote themselves into a corner by deciding “we need to show this, but it doesn’t fit anywhere so we’ll cram it into the last episode”. Works better than in other shows but still not ideal. The whole episode basically feels like a tag to the finale that was episode 8.

Hm, but imo that is not really shown on screen. We only see Rio telling Agatha at birth “I can give you some time, nothing more” and then show up again to take him when he clearly fell ill.

It fits well within the universe for the witches road to have been Wiccan’s hex/illusion. I feel like it is a bit of a weird decision however to take this concept from the comics - where it is a very real thing - and to turn it into what it was here (as shown in Episode 9).

Looks like Kingpin is physically smaller in Daredevil than he was in Hawkeye & Echo. Interesting.

The Ironheart and Wonderman scenes are not showing much, but Trever Slattory being back is always nice. Getting back into the movie industry after what he did in Iron-Man 3 and his experience in Shang-Shi must be though lol

There was talk about Ralph Boner showing up in Wonderman as well, does anyone know whether this is confirmed?

The waiting list is still very long at this point. Probably don’t expect to get in for like 2 weeks…

Spotify itself takes an even bigger cut

Despite the directing switcheroo it seems like McKenna and Sommers are once again writing the script, so I expect a similar quality to the last three movies. Which is promising.

This is a (micro-)cultural thing. Common for some groups of people, really uncommon for others.

I liked Lilia as a character before this episode, I love her now. Did not expect her to get an episode like this.

Did also not expect such a queer episode. From Agatha’s “you want a straight answer? Ask a straight woman” to Billy’s “I guess I’m the queer-ent”.

Interesting time-tripping parallels to Loki season 2, but done in a very different way and more out-of-comfort-zone for Marvel. I really hope the studio gave Jac Schaeffer creative freedom for the last episode, as opposed to Wandavision.

“We’re not cool, teenager” - “Damn, using his full name” 😂

Yeah, I wonder if anyone was able to get them into the correct order before this episode. Because the fact that “Alice, don’t” goes in front of “try to save Agatha” was quite mind-opening. Really great jobs by the writers that they managed to connect all this cohesively.

IMHO both one of the best episodes of Marvel TV period and the probably the most well-rounded piece of media Marvel has put out since GOTG3.

Implementing mastodon.social instead of proper Mastodon, implementing no other fedi software – this scheduler has much potential/work ahead

Also an interesting idea

Found J.D. Vance’s account

What you see on Bluesky is a lot of people using their own domains for their handles. They are not hosting their own instances though, it’s only their identities. Their connection to the AT protocol still goes through the central Bluesky server.