Cox on the first scene between Matt and Frank. I’m surprised to hear that Jon wrote most of it. "What I heard was when they were then looking at the show and editing it and putting it together, that scene made it by one day. And the showed that scene to some of the high-ups at Disney and Marvel and they were like, this is great. This is the show we want to make. Jon [Bernthal] wrote most of that scene as well. So we are very grateful to him for potentially leading us back on track."
Given the source material, it’s going to be a lot. Being a multiverse cameo fest is the very nature of that story. I’ve always seen a Secret Wars film as more of a “can they pull it off” situation. It will be cool when it happens, but I don’t think it will hold up in beyond that. It will be the very definition of “you just had to be there.” You could argue that a competent writer and director could do something new and exciting with it, but we all know that’s not the focus. The hiring of the Russos show this. The focus will be sending off the legacy actors this genre has survived on for the last 20 years. For what it is, I’m fine with it. Let’s get it over with and start anew with a universe that’s finally back together.
Went to a screening last night. Felt like it wrapped up Kang’s story perfectly. Especially after how messy Kang Dynasty was.
Finished Season 5 of AoS and if they hadn't made two more seasons this would have been a pretty satisfying series finale, which I know it was originally intended as. Now that I've seen this season, I don't know why people tie themselves in knots about whether the show works in canon. It feels like it does pretty neatly and even adheres to the rules of time travel laid out in Endgame. They changed their future so they're now a branch reality (or maybe they're the Sacred Timeline and prevented a branch reality) and that's why they can retrieve Fitz without undoing what they did and why Deke didn't vanish. Makes sense to me!