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Ep5 Wanda tries to get them to sleep and her magic fails. At this point she assumes she is controlling this reality, but learns she doesn’t control this part.
Agnes appears on-cue. This is a program that Wanda is in. It’s scripted. She’s not necessarily in control, but in a way, her actions were going to happen that would lead Agnes to come in. Meaning, no matter what she did, it led to this moment. More on this as we go along.
“Do you want me to take that again” as Agnes enters – VERY IMPORTANT. Agnes has some awareness. She thinks Wanda is in charge here. Vision is doing something she didn’t expect. She is deferring to Wanda because she assumes Wanda has created all of this. Wanda hasn’t. So when you see Wanda’s pause and she asks for Agnes to “give it a try”, she’s realizing that Agnes thinks she’s in charge, but she’s also realizing that Agnes is not behind any of this, but is aware of this on some level.
Two things at once: First, Wanda and Vision have a sidebar. Now let me say something. I think Wanda is and has been 100% telling the truth the entire time. She is a reliable narrator. When she says that “Agnes got confused for a moment”, she isn’t being vague. She’s being forthcoming, but also trying not to alarm Vision. She knows he isn’t “following the script”, whatever it is. She isn’t denying there’s a script. She’s just getting it back on script. Second, Vision keeps protesting as Agnes is “casting her lavender spell”, which she needs to finish with some “dark liquor”, a la the Dark Dimension. Tiger references and imagery persist, but there’s not enough to speculate on why yet. She says “for the twins” when it comes to dark liquor. Clearly she is doing something to them.
The kids age up. Because of Agnes. And like Wanda, I think Agnes is also a reliable narrator. I think we are led to believe she is an unreliable narrator, but I believe she is the narrator here. She says “you can’t control them” when it comes to the kids. This is a fact and a warning. She is telling Wanda that she can not control the kids. So as the script plays out, her magic can’t work. The way she says “No matter how hard you try” in regards to control is said in a somewhat hostile way. She isn’t lamenting it. She’s exercising that power over Wanda.
We go to the intro. I am going to talk more about this as it goes on. The paintbrush is imbued with the aether, with the power of the Dark Dimension, a la Malekith. As it imbues Vision with life. The aether is reality, aka the Reality Stone. So when she asked before “is this real?” and Vision goes “yes, my dear”, it’s because of the aether. And the aether is linked with Dormammu’s Dark Dimension from Thor 2. I like intro of “we’re making it up as we go along” not because I think it’s about the script, but it’s about construction. Constructing the reality. We are making the physical objects of reality as we go along. I will talk more about this in regards to the end credits, something really not well-analysed.
We go to Rambeau. She remembers pain and Wanda’s voice in her head. She talks about a hopeless feeling keeping her down; drowning, grief. She is feeling Wanda’s feelings. And for good reason.
We see the x-rays for Rambeau. I mentioned this in a different post, but all of this stuff is predicted on gamma rays. I was hoping someone would figure it out. No one has. These stones have gamma power. X-rays are on a different wavelength. Wanda has the power of the Mind Stone, the Time Stone, Space Stone, and the Reality Stone at play here. I will discuss this more later, but TV is in RGB, Red/Green/Blue, Reality/Time/Space Stones. People wonder how she has these powers of the other stones, but they exist and are being used. For Rambeau, she is “pushed” and “encased” in Wanda’s Mind Stone powered hex, then ejected while “on fire” through RGB, which are the other 3 stones in play. This is how they will explain her powers/being Photon. Because she is filled with the gamma radiation of the Infinity Stones. Keep in mind, x-rays have photonic energy, as do gamma rays. Within lower wavelengths to the x-rays are the wavelengths of broadcasts as well. X-rays are the power of the atom, gamma are the power of the atom’s nuclei. It’s pretty nonsensical to try and use x-rays to x-ray photonic light. She is Photon and this is why. Also worth noting, Rambeau has a very good idea of what happened to her and she is not going to be taken off this case. This is why she refuses to cooperate. The moment she is told the x-ray is blank, she has a good suspicion. She knows exactly how Wanda and Captain Marvel were made and she understands basic physics quite well.
Hayward does his briefing. He is quite adamant about painting Wanda as the aggressor here. Woo tries to be more objective, but Hayward is annoyed. He wants Wanda dead. He’s trying to prejudice everyone against her. Now this gets interesting. We take what Hayward and Rambeau say to each other about the situation. But they are wrong and often wrong, just as we are. We shouldn’t believe them. She’s a terrorist. She’s put up her own quarantine. She’s holding these people hostage. This is narrative sleight of hand. None of that is right.
Then he says he received authorization to share the “kidnapping of Vision’s corpse”, which is nonsense. He’s the acting director. He’s using this to prejudice those around him. He says she stole the Vision and resurrected him. But we know he had a will. He wanted to stay dead. We also know from prior episodes that SWORD is “sentient weapons” – she was “rescuing” him from being turned into weapons tech. We take Hayward at his word that she resurrected him, but I find that doubtful. He was resurrected, but it wasn’t she that did it. Nevertheless, Hayward’s obvious motive for wanting her dead is to sell this narrative so that he can cover his ass. He was doing something illegal and unethical with Vision’s corpse. Even Hayward acknowledges the will, yet he’s experimenting on the Vision? If Rambeau’s eyes could kill, he would be dead. He has used classic misdirection to make people think about her lovelorn grief rather than his illegality. By bringing it up, he controls the narrative.
Ok. Very quick. 12:38, you see in the frame the tiger. But, if you look closely, two more things. One is an elephant. I really like this symbolism here. If we look at Dr Strange, Nepal, and Hindu symbolism, the tiger is strength, while the elephant is protection. Among other things. But the fact they framed these two together after Agnes mentioning a tiger isn’t a coincidence.
Yet that’s not even the most important thing.
What you see behind the elephant is the colour spectrum. Let’s go back to the x-ray, gamma ray, radio/tv waves talk. Light and colour spectrum as visible light from lowest to highest goes red, yellow, green, blue, purple. This painting goes the exact opposite. Or, you could say “mirrored”. And as we know, Kaecelius and his followers use the Mirror Dimension as a way to increase their power in conjunction with the Dark Dimension. Why would they leave us this clue, but with the colours of the visible light spectrum inverted?
Now let’s look at the fridge. Here’s how I think Vision helped create the kids. Or perhaps the reality. What were his calculations for? Their genome? Their reality? At the top of the fridge, you have the orange, yellow, and brown painting. At the bottom, you have red, yellow, orange, dark blue, and green.
If you do statistical computing or modelling, you know exactly what this is, don’t you? It’s a heatmap and a colour key. And what do we do with things like MATLAB, R, or S?
You can create graphics, can’t you? Like this reality. You can perform modelling functions, with linear and nonlinear math. How about geometric construction with spatial analysis? Histograms. Which measure…what? Quality. Quality of data. Continuous, quality data. Such as a stream.
Maybe they are mapping a genome?
I don’t know, but as someone who’s done a little statistics, I instantly recognized the colour groupings. The explanation is probably that Vision doing the supercomputing and number crunching is what advances the decades, allows the kids to grow, etc. There’s a reason he works at this job. And if he’s “management material”, perhaps he is potentially the mechanism who exists to facilitate this reality.
They get the dog. Then Vision says he has a feeling someone is going to “pop over” – BOOM! Agnes appears. Vision is becoming connected to the program. Remember, programs are scripts. TV shows are scripted. We used to call them “TV programs”. If he’s a manager of this reality, if he’s controlling it, he’s facilitating it, causing it to happen, aware of it. Something. But Agnes appears with exactly what they all need: a doghouse.
Next thing is that Wanda makes a collar for Sparky right in front of Agnes. This goes to what I said earlier: Wanda figured it out. Agnes is part of this overall program. She knows that whatever she does in front of Agnes is irrelevant as Agnes is mainly there to facilitate the program itself. We are led to believe she has free will, but this “awareness” is part of the script. Her function in the program is to do QA. You remember I mentioned quality in regards to data integrity?
Vision is the project manager. This is hilariously rooted in project management. Agnes is QC/QA for the project. Anyone doing QC/QA has to be able to play the game, but also come up with fixes and feedback on the fly. Wanda is trying to go rogue and Vision is trying to keep her on track, keep her from using her abilities. He asks her “what aren’t you telling me”, which is a trick. She’s not actually hiding anything because she doesn’t fully know. When the kids age up so they can have the dog, this shows what Agnes said, which is that you can’t control the kids. As someone helping to maintain this program, she knows they are unmanageable variables.
When Woo brings the coffee cups (he’s totally gonna win Darcy over with this, BTW), notice the design. It’s TV pixels. CRT pixels are square (rectangular, actually), but some displays can use pixels in that shape. The offsetting pixels are like old TVs, but the shape there is something in a newer TV. And of course, newer monitors can also be hexagonal. Furthermore, the colours they chose were not the RGB of a TV, red, blue and white, which is used to represent Vision in the end credits. More on that later.
When Rambeau is asking for the vehicle to get in, she knows. She knows the photons and neutrons. She has already figured it out, which is why she needs that protection to get it. The seismic blasts? What if it’s the opposite? What if she isn’t asking for tantalum to protect herself from seismic blasts? What if she wants it to be able to use it for something.
Another interesting thing about tantalum is that it is similar to niobium. That is named for Niobe, who also happens to be a character in…The Matrix. More on that later.
She also mentions she knows an aerospace engineer who’d be up for the challenge of getting her in there with this “device” she wants to make. People are saying it’s Dr Doom or Reed Richards. Maybe.
Now this is my big one: Darcy says she calls the anomaly “The Hex”. Ryan Arrey was so close today, but he missed it. He made a video WITH SCENES FROM THE MATRIX and still failed to figure it out. I got so frustrated I decided to make this post.
This is The Matrix. It’s not a “hex” it’s a HIVE. Now we can go way into why hives are strong, a perfect shape, etc. This is a hive created for Wanda. She isn’t “mind controlling” these people. They are part of her hive mind. Totally different. All of this hex symbolism, the beekeeper, etc. It’s a hive. Wanda can do the things she is doing (and never could before) because the people in the town are part of a hive collective, no different than how The Matrix constructs reality. She isn’t controlling them, they are the “battery” a la The Matrix. All of the people are absorbing her bad side of the duality, leaving her free to work.
Agnes said it best: you can’t control kids. So any kids in the town, at least so far, would not be controllable. All of these people are absorbing Wanda’s pain, distress, whatever. They amplify her power. Vision manages the operation. We don’t know who Architect is. Wanda is like Neo; she has to choose the red or blue pill. Agnes is more like The Oracle, but not so nice. Agnes is still a human, but also a semi-sentient program. It’s very interesting. Anyway, this is a hive.
Going back to e4, it’s worth noticing when Rambeau goes through, the pixels are hexagonally-arranged. This is cool because it’s something that could be a ball, a globe, a hive, etc.
They say Wanda is wielding an insane amount of power, far beyond anything she’s displayed in the past? Because the hive is housing her power, she’s drawing on the people in the hive for power, Vision is focusing the hive to enhance her power, and she’s able to draw upon the power of different stones which are constructing this hive. I predict that once she is “detached” from all of this, she will either be a walking Infinity Gauntlet or go back to normal. I suspect she is what Dr Strange must stop in the multiverse of madness. I predict this experiment will fail when Vision becomes too aware and no longer does the computational work to keep the thing going. And I think he will likely awaken more people and end up harming the operational functionality of the hive.
Now they get into this argument about Captain Marvel’s powers coming from an Infinity Stone. People have speculated that she has a beef with CM, they are estranged, lovers (eww, gross), she feels abandoned, etc. I disagree. This goes back to the medbay exam: every time someone could find out Rambeau’s secret, she is trying to change the subject. Rambeau either knows or suspects she has powers. It’s only a matter of time before they find her out and she doesn’t want them to work it out by discussing it. That’s all it is.
Onto the Computational Services scene. I find it interesting that a show that is so thorough, detailed, and accurate, would say “surf the internet”. Very surprised no one has said anything. First of all, the c64 computer was released in 1982. This is an 80s episode. In the 80s, “the internet” was a term used to basically describe the tools for internetwork connectivity on the ARPANET. You see, until 1990, it was still called ARPANET. If The Vision is accessing “the Internet” via a dial up modem, it means he knows this isn’t the 1980s and he is trying to get outside digitally. Furthermore, TCP/IP didn’t even exist for the c64 until hobbyists implemented it decades later. He created his own term program and TCP/IP stack so he could dial out to connect to the internet. And there is an “electronic mail” waiting for him…but it wasn’t his. He has intercepted an email from Darcy’s findings send by SWORD.
Now everyone repeats the entire thing. Hive. Hive mind. They are all trying to “authenticate” by cracking it. This breaks the illusion for a moment. What we learn here is they are all nodes in a hivemind working as distributed computers. When the simulation encounters a bump, all processing power is routed to the human nodes to solve the problem.
This next step is key. Vision “absorbs” what he can from the computer, ie the “outside world”. He realizes Norm is an object in a bigger program. So he “downloads” the reality into his hands and “uploads” it into Norm’s mind, while downloading Norm’s OS. Norm breaks free. He is redpilled.
Norm flips out. And he says “you have to stop her” – but don’t assume anything. Let’s park that. Vision, realizing this is not right, “reboots” Norm and reloads his prior operating system.
Let’s talk about “her”, as in “in his head”. Everything about Wanda is in everyone’s heads. The “her” to stop may or may not be Wanda, though. Is Norm a reliable narrator? When they are intentionally vague like this, perk up your ears. It could be that it’s Agnes or someone else that needs to be stopped.
No, perhaps the reason it hurts is because his brain is being overclocked to run this program for Agnes. It could be that he’s like Rambeau and she’s in his head. But Rambeau was more of a Morpheus or Neo; an anomaly the system had to cast out. Norm might be load balancing Wanda’s psychoses, or he might be serving a different role, which is a computational one for Agnes or another person. His statement can mean other things. I think this is a misdirection. I think someone else is controlling the townspeople. Just like when Sharon Davis was saying “stop it” over and over and e1, this was NOT Wanda. She was asking Vision to stop what was being done to her and her husband.
“Sit, Sparky, sit. Good dog.” Sit Ubu, sit. Good dog. Love it.
The twins and Wanda argue about the day being Saturday or Monday. Wanda is genuinely confused. The twins are not. They are right. She isn’t making an excuse or lying. She legitimately believes he had an emergency at the office and had to go in. Which makes sense, because if the twins are also creating life by conjuring dogs and growing up, the program needs some help. Script-wise, he is compelled to go in. Wanda doesn’t know this, she only accepts this.
She says that she and Vision aren’t on the same page, which is temporary. She needs him to adjust the program. She is both voluntarily and involuntarily following a routine. For whatever reason, she knows she has to maintain this, even if she doesn’t fully understand or acknowledge it. The twins ask her about her brother. She is broken out of her loop. She is surprised to remember this. I don’t think it’s just sadness. When she says “he’s far away from here” it’s foreshadowing. XMU QS is her brother as well.
Sparky is an interesting part of the program as well. He alerts to the intrusion of the drone. It’s almost as if he’s like an antivirus software or monitors the firewall, much like the sentient programs of The Matrix. All of the people complain about the jump cuts. That Wanda is taking the drone out of the shot. I don’t believe that. When Rambeau was cast out, we didn’t see what happened until later. The reason we’re not seeing it is because the broadcast shows the finished reality; as viewers we see it in realtime in the hive. I think it glitches because the simulation rewinds so that the shot cannot be fired. The live feed from the drone is transmitted on a wavelength separate from the final output product of the broadcast reality. The simulation had to be changed so that there wasn’t an attempt on her life.
“Well, I’m not the one with the guns, Director.” How does Wanda know that? Because she dealt with him before. We’re going to find that she knew he was doing illegal stuff with Vision’s corpse. And she full well knows Hayward is trying to kill her for one simple reason: to hide the evidence of what he’s done. I don’t think he’s a supe, Mephisto, etc. HYDRA? Perhaps. I think he’s inadvertently made an enemy of Wanda by what he was doing with Vision. She gets snapped back, goes to find out what happened to Vision, and he’s been dissected and weaponized for the past 5 years. He did it. And she can ruin him. He needs her dead at all costs to save his skin. He tries to gaslight again, saying she’s a hostage taker. She neither confirms nor denies that. Whatever they are, she doesn’t see them as hostages.
She also speaks in her regular accent and voice with her regular clothing. This is because she is outside of the program. Outside of the roleplaying. She conforms to the reality inside as much as it conforms to her.
Now this is good. Rambeau has already figured out that Hayward betrayed everyone. Wanda plays it very smart. Hostile towards Rambeau. She’s not going to blow her cover. Rambeau misleads us again. She says Wanda is in control. We believe her, but Wanda gives us nothing. You watch Wanda closely. Rambeau says “telepath”, begging Wanda to read her mind. Wanda does. Rambeau is telling Wanda EVERYTHING that is going on. This is why she says “no one will ever take it from me again” because she now knows what Hayward has done by reading Rambeau’s open mind. Part of this is anger, part is theatre. Why does she take her hex ball at suddenly put it on Hayward at the end instead of Rambeau? Because Rambeau told her everything psionically.
It’s cool because when Wanda re-enters, it’s through a green portal. Time. The show has to be fixed. That’s why we get a commercial break. The mess being made that they didn’t mean to wasn’t Lagos, Nigeria. It was interrupting the show. The main impetus as to why I think Vision is a part of the program is “husbands can use it, too”. It’s what opened my eyes to this. Because he has to maintain the program to make it all work as well.
They get back and there’s a mess. The Sparky program is missing. The mailman says that Wanda will find him, because on some level he knows she also “cleans up the mess”, as It were.
This is where it really goes off the rails. I don’t think Agnes killed the dog. I don’t think Agnes had anything to do with it. I think it was probably something to do with the drone and it happened offscreen. I think the program had to find a way for the dog to be plausibly dead. I think Agnes is genuinely shocked and she is filling a role to try and keep to the script.
I love this line: “You can fix anything, mom. Fix the dead.”
Just stop and think about it. What if it’s them actually telling her a capability rather than a request. This is a command. She is genuinely perplexed at them saying this. Not because she is letting them down, but because she is realizing that she actually has this power. That she could bring Vision or anyone else back to life. Agnes is shocked. Again, she is a 100% honest actor. She didn’t know that Wanda had been enabled to do this.
Watch the kids. “Bring him back, mom.” They are insistent. “Can you bring him back?” is asking for capacity to do something. It’s implied. This is explicit: “Bring him back.” “You can fix anything.” “Fix the dead.” She can fix this reality, she can fix Vision’s death, anything. They fully understand her capabilities even though she does not. During that entire scene, she’s starting to figure it out and it’s shocking her as to why she’s there. She declines for the same reason Mordo warns Strange: she understands not to mess with reality.
Let’s take a time out. There are a few things from the Doctor Strange film we need to address.
The scene where Strange is caught red-handed with the Eye of Agamotto by Mordo. Mordo tells him “Temporal manipulations can create branches in time. Unstable dimensional openings! Spatial paradoxes! Time loops!
This is how Quicksilver appeared. Dimensional openings. Mordo is telling you that the Time Stone, being used incorrectly, ends up with the power of the Space Stone, inadvertently. When the show is glitching, it’s because it’s a paradox. Sparky is a program. Sparky crashed. Sparky died. He got an “unexpected error” as a security program.
“You weren’t manipulating the space-time continuum; you were wrecking it!” The Space Stone and Time Stone form a continuum. This how Quicksilver appeared: the Time Stone made the TV show in the relevant time period to X-Men: Armageddon. This was 1983. We know with the c64 it was 1982. The Space Stone is what allows people to transport. And the aether gives a conduit to the Dark Dimension. Feige had this mapped out all the way back to Thor 2. This isn’t Quicksilver from Dark Phoenix, either. 90’s come next week.
“Dormammu dwells in the Dark Dimension, beyond time.” I think this is interesting because they are inferring how the stones work together. The Space and Time stones work together, but the Reality Stone can change how they work in a new way.
“Complicated? The Dark Dimension is volatile, dangerous. What if it overtook her? She taught us it was forbidden, while she drew on its power to steal centuries of life.” If Agnes is Agatha Harkness, this is how she’s hundreds of years old. I just thought that was cool. Nice explanation. Things are going sideways in Westview because of the Dark Dimension as well.
This is the “big crime” and it’s consequences: “Just as you gave Kaecilius powers from your dimension, I’ve brought a little power from mine. This is time: endless looped time.” I said before, Space-Time Stones are linked. Before this line, Strange says “No, this is real.” because he’s brought some reality to the Dark Dimension. I think that by adding time to Dormammu and the Dark Dimension, Strange “cross the streams” as it were. I think this is why we are able to see the powers of the other stones without them being there because the Dark Dimension has now been “polluted” by them. We are seeing powers from the stones without the stones existing right now. How?
So as we look at the dog here, dead, we’re left to wonder if she has the power to fix this, and if she does, dare she mess with reality to fix it? At this point, she’s starting to understand that she’s like Neo and can bend some of the rules of her reality. Just going back to the “fix the dead” command, she knows what Mordo knows. Why? We’re not sure yet. I suspect it will be revealed in DSMoM. When she’s explaining the rules in life to the kids, she is teaching them not to use their powers to mess with reality or break natural laws. This is a lesson.
When you look at Agnes, there’s a look of concern about death being reversed or them ageing up. When she is firm with the kids, Agnes is relieved. She isn’t just sad for the kids, she is scared. She is scared of what Wanda might have done to her, or worse, what the kids might have done. You can view it as her being afraid to disappoint them, or just being afraid. When she apologises so them, she is hoping they don’t punish her. It’s also worth questioning if their look at each other was to age themselves up, or to punish Agnes or even bring Sparky back to life. Wanda isn’t a reliable narrator, either. We assume this was their intent because it’s what she said. Agnes just doesn’t know what any of them can do.
Vision talks about Norm. “I spoke to him free of your oversight.” Watch Wanda here. She’s laughing because she’s figured it out. She wants to get Vision back on track. When they deviate from the script, bad things happen. People choke. Sparky dies. Whatever. When Vision says “you can’t control me way you control them”, suddenly the credits roll. She says “can’t I?” Because she’s figuring out she can.
He asks about The Maximoff Anomaly. She doesn’t know. They are saying so much here. We’re supposed to believe Vision. That this is created by her subconscious. That she’s just now becoming aware of it. It’s true she’s becoming aware that it’s created by her, but it isn’t intentional. She is just trying to stay on the script.
He says Norm can’t reach his family because Wanda won’t let him reach them. She says she doesn’t know what he’s talking about. She is telling the truth. Norm is programmed. She isn’t running the hive program.
“This, all of this is for us. So let me handle it.” Line of the show so far. Everyone has gotten this completely, absolutely wrong. It’s “for us” as in someone created it for them, not for their benefit. It’s like breaking into a building and the alarm goes off. You go “what are those sirens?” and I say “those are for us.” We did something to cause that. When she says “let me handle it”, she isn’t saying “let me please have this”, she is saying “I can’t tell you what’s going on without compromising my fight here.”
This is right out of Dr Strange in Infinity War. She can’t tell them what will happen or it won’t happen. She can’t tell them what they’re in, because it will blow it up. She’s only just learning what it is and she knows she needs to keep a lid on it. Vision accuses her of lying so we believe she’s lying. She isn’t lying. She’s saying to let her handle it.
Vision then says that he’s scared and can’t remember his life before Westview. That’s because this is the 1980s. He can’t remember his life because he didn’t exist yet.
“You are my husband. You are Tommy and Billy’s father.” She is trying to instill in him the role he needs to play, not to define something he isn’t.
He then asks why there are no other children is Westview. It doesn’t mean there aren’t. It only means he doesn’t see them. She says “Do you really think that I’m controlling everything? This is the truth. She is trying to find out what his role is, especially with free will. “Walking their dogs, mowing their lawns, getting them to their dentist appointments on time.” All things a computer would do in The Matrix
“I don’t know how any of this started in the first place.” This again is the truth. She doesn’t know. But she is very wary of screwing it up too hard. And Vision says “what she’s doing here is wrong”, and as soon as there’s going to be a breakthrough…what should appear?
XMU Quicksilver. Right on cue. As the script demands. This is, after all, a TV show.
She says she didn’t do it. And like the credits rolling, she’s telling the truth. She can read the lines, but she can’t write or direct the episode.
When we see her see Pietro, it isn’t a “oh my God, it’s you”, it’s an “oh my God, this is you, from another reality in the multiverse. This is her figuring out the nature of The Matrix.
Darcy is lying. She didn’t recast Pietro. Do not believe the narrators. Do believe Wanda is happy to see Pietro. And she can read his mind and knows that it’s her Pietro, the XMU Pietro…she is understanding the nature of this simulation, the multiverse, etc. That look on her face is her putting it all together.
I am writing this (or have been for a week) after knowing the e6 spoilers. Don’t read this paragraph if you don’t know what happens tonight. I had guessed that this Pietro is BOTH her Pietro and the XMU version. When she gets teary-eyed, she can feel it’s her Pietro. But it’s also XMU, which is why he says “who’s the popsicle” because XMU Pietro has no knowledge of The Vision. There are prime version of beings who exist across multiverses. Her Pietro is the gateway to the XMU Pietro. It’s how they’re going to link everyone together. I predict there is an equivalent Wolverine, Magneto, whatever, and they will be MERGED somehow. They aren’t going to “bring them over” per se. It’s that these people always existed in both universes (or all of them) and these “multiverses of madness” bring aspects of these people to the MCU. It’s why we’ll have a Spiderverse. We won’t have Tobey’s Doc Ock, the Doc Ock of the MCU will be merged with the Maguireverse Doc Ock. People will cross over, some will be changed, merged, etc. They aren’t going to have everyone from the XMU walk into the MCU, but they are going to have things from the XMU “awaken” the equivalent in the MCU, where possible.
Finally, the end credits: the pixels are a tesseract, structures built of pixels
Red, green, and blue pixels. Red is anything constructed, green is the Time Stone, blue is the Space Stone. As Vision’s stone falls, it’s RGB, which is his old stone. The new one for him now is red. It changes colours as it falls. There is a marriage of red and blue. Everything is blown away, then reassembled and “married” into red and blue. Aether works with Dark Matter due to Malekith. It changes reality, darkly. Possible Agents Of SHIELD link. But probably Dark Dimension, aka “Hell”, ruled by Dormammu. Remember Strange Violated the laws of “everything” which has consequences. We are seeing them now. The Ancient One drew power from there, so it works on our plane. Someone was able to change reality from the Dark Dimension without the aether. This opening will also be how they work in Ghost Rider, aka Spirit of Vengeance. AOS is probably canon, this is how Ghost Rider can come back, and Morgan Le Fay may also be the one behind Westview. Remember: the Dark Dimension is beyond time. The stones exist in different times as well. The stones may also be eternal.
submitted by At the end of 2019 I made my first New Year's Resolution ever for 2020: I would buy no new video games, and only play those that I had amassed in my backlog (which contained roughly 2,100 unplayed games (I know)). And to make it extra interesting, I gave myself the goal of playing one game a day, or 366 games in 2020 and writing a short review of each one.
As you can see from the title of this post, I didn't quite make it to one game a day, but I did make it to 288 games, which is more than I've ever played in a year, beating my long standing 2014 record of 228 games played. 2020 was hard enough in other ways that I'm going to call that a success, and the best part was I'm more excited about playing through the rest of my library than I ever have been.
That said, here are my top 10 favorite games I played for the first time in 2020, which I guarantee will be at least 80% different from any similar lists you've read on this subreddit (full ranked list in comments):
10. Panzer Bandit (Fill-in-Cafe, 1997) An PS1 anime beat-'em-up that plays like a single player fighting game (which makes sense given the developer made fighting game Asuka 120%). Just like Asuka, Panzer Bandit has a fantastic sense of impact to your hits, and is all about freedom of movement and building huge combos. It's like the training mode of a fighting game fleshed out into a full experience. Physical copies are pretty pricey, but it's available to download on the Japanese PS3 store.
9. Mahou Daisakusen (aka Sorcer Striker) (Raizing, 1993) A fantasy-themed vertically scrolling shooter from the wizards who would go onto make Battle Garegga a few years later. It has everything I look for in a scrolling shooter: it’s short, and has interesting bosses, a great soundtrack, and beautiful art. I played the PS4 port in M2's ShotTriggers line, which has quickly become my favorite series of games when I want to treat myself with a luxurious good time.
8. Suzuki Bakuhatsu (Sol, 2000) A puzzle game about defusing bombs that appear inside of normal objects the day-to-day life of a young Japanese woman. Suzuki Bakuhatsu has more character and style than games with 100 times its budget. Suzuki Bakuhatsu is what we talk about when we talk about weird Japanese video games, by which I mean it is an experience that: *Runs with its absurd premise *Has excellent presentation *Is focused more on the possibilities of interesting gameplay than making sense These kinds of video games are the kinds of video games that keep me interested in the medium.
7. Doom II (Id Software, 1994) I don’t think I have much to say about Doom II that hasn’t been said, this is more of just filling a hole in my gaming history knowledge (I only played the original Doom a few years back and loved it). Doom II is basically just more Doom, though the levels skewed a little harder and less enjoyable on average, there were still some real bright spots (everyone talks about Barrels o Fun, but I’m over here gushing over Dead Simple).
6. Esp Ra.De. Psi (Cave, 1998) Another vertically scrolling shooter in M2’s ShotTriggers line, another luxurious port of an arcade game never rereleased until now. Esp Ra.De. Psi (hate the name, love the game) has you controlling a psychic child in an Akira-flavored bullet-heck futurescape. While the themes and music are not as vibrant as Mahou Daisakusen, the actual gameplay is delicious, and has a nice stick-shift friction to changing your shot/speed types. The best parts are the encounters that have you fighting against other psychics, which are some of my favorite boss battles in any of the games I’ve played. The dynamic attacks make it really feel like a battle between 2 telekinetics.
5. Pyre (Supergiant Games, 2017) I frequently see people posting about how they just fell in love with Supergiant’s earlier games Bastion and Transistor, and while I enjoyed both, neither really hit that sweet spot for me (Transistor was #21 on this list, I liked it a lot more than Bastion). So Pyre kind of surprised me in how much it blew me away. I expected to love the gameplay (and I do, it’s classic Supergiant), but the worldbuilding was what really drew me in. No other game I played this year had me as enraptured with the stakes of its story and world like Pyre, and to back it up with such a rock solid fantasy sports game was just the icing on the cake. I’ll get around to Hades at some point, but I’ll be surprised if it bumps of Pyre as my favorite Supergiant title.
4. Flywrench (Messhof, 2017) I love challenging games with deceptively simple controls, and Flywrench nails this so well. EVERYTHING about this game feels, looks, and sounds tuned and purposeful. The aesthetic is both minimal and lo-fi, while still maintaining a unique look. And crucially, the feeling of controlling the game is a god darn triumph. Flapping with the X button, spinning with the square button, selecting a level, even moving left and right has a beautiful depth to it. Probably my favorite thing about Flywrench is the pace of the game, which moves at an incredible clip. Each level only lasts about 10 seconds at the most, which I love. I find myself subconsciously holding my breath during a level and then exhaling if I succeed. Character movement is some of the fastest I've seen in an action game like this; I think it might actually be faster than Super Hexagon. I'm terrified to even look up a speedrun of Flywrench because I think it would give me a heart attack.
3. Wattam (Funomena, 2019) The latest game by the creator of Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy, Keita Takahashi. Takahashi’s games have typically featured actions that are mindlessly fun at a basic level: rolling, stretching, growing. But instead of focus on a single or small handful of mechanics, Wattam finds its joy in giving you as many fun actions as it can think of. Characters can climb on top of each other to form huge stacks, or hold hands and spin in a circle, and even basic video game things like removing headwear are turned into fun physics-based actions. The characters all have child-like voices, so it can kind of feel like taking care of a bunch of babies, but it also has a "everybody is the same and loves to play" message that is hard to not appreciate, especially in this day and age. Wattam was also one of only two out of the 289 games that made me cry.
2. Outer Wilds (Mobius Games, 2019) My wife and I tag-teamed Outer Wilds and had an absolute blast. Another recent game that has been talked about to death here and elsewhere, but for good reason, so I’ll just touch on something I appreciated. Probably my favorite thing about Outer Wilds is how it is absolutely an action game in addition to being an adventure game. The whole game world runs on a (semi-) realistic physics simulation that is a joy to blast around in. Mastering the controls of your ship is a big undertaking, but by the time you have completed the game, you feel like a veteran astronaut. When outside your ship, you have a spacesuit with jetpack, and the jetpack physics are to die for. The universe is built to encourage a lot of daring jetpack jumps, and they never stopped feeling exhilarating, even 10+ hours in.
1. The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors (Natsume, 2019) a kind of remake / sequel to the 1994 Super Nintendo game The Ninja Warriors, which is itself a hugely improved remake / sequel to Taito's arcade original (also called The Ninja Warriors). Not that conceptually dissimilar to Panzer Bandit (game # 10), The Ninja Saviors feels like a hybrid between a fighting game and a beat-em-up, but the controls are done with a beautifully succinct 2 buttons. The amount of awesome-feeling moves that the developers are able to extract from such a limited control scheme made The Ninja Saviors by far my most played game of 2020. So far I’ve managed to do a 1 credit clear with 3 of the 5 characters. If, like me, you enjoy slow action games like Castlevania Rondo of Blood, you owe it to yourself to check this one out.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go watch a movie or read a book or something.
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