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Author: Tyler Peterson

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jun 10, 2021

Lowkey Loki: Loki “Glorious Purpose”

“Wait a minute,” you may say, if you’ve been keeping up. “Isn’t this guy dead?” Yes indeed, the opening scene of Avengers: Infinity War saw the godly neck bones of Loki, Tom Hiddleston’s breakout semi-villain, going crack. And because he…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 25, 2021

Black-tain America and the Winning Soldier: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “One World, One People”

Previously: John Walker used the world’s last dose of super-serum to juice himself up to fight bad guys, but then lost his Captain America status for aggravated lack of chill. A shadowy unelected transnational council with its own military and…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 19, 2021

Montage daydream The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “Truth”

Previously: Sam’s sister Sarah still can’t make her fishing boat payments, even though she has twice as many customers now. John Walker injected himself with some stolen super-soldier serum in order to serve more effectively as Captain America, but that…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 10, 2021

Wakanda weak Captain America is this? The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “The Whole World is Watching”

Previously: The leader of the Flag-Smashers, Karli Morgenthau, is an anarcho-Thanosist terrorist with a Game of Thrones accent. Likes: bombs, stealing, being a super-soldier. Dislikes: governments, corporations, people other than her and her friends being super-soldiers. To track her down,…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Apr 3, 2021

The Madripoorian: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “Power Broker”

Previously: Bucky and Sam were trying to remain in the superhero business in the wake of the naming of a new Captain America with unclear loyalties and an even unclearer agenda. He had something to do with the Global Repatriation…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Mar 27, 2021

The old man and the serum: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “The Star-Spangled Man”

Previously on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier: The titular Falcon, Sam Wilson, wanted to help save his sister’s fishing boat, but since being an Avenger doesn’t, strictly speaking, pay (why would anyone work for Tony Stark for…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Mar 20, 2021

Make Captain America great again: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier “New World Order”

A year and a half ago, Disney and Marvel Studios could not have anticipated what a wide-open market they’d have for their new line of streaming miniseries (or maybe they did—muahahaha!). But what they had in mind with these…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Mar 5, 2021

Chaos reigns (in primetime): Wandavision “The Series Finale”

Previously on WandaVision: Agatha pored through Wanda’s memories and deduced that she was the prophesied Scarlet Witch, a thing we’re not quite sure what it is, except that it means you can do magic without a bunch of fancy…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Feb 27, 2021

One witch, two witch, red witch, blue witch: WandaVision “Previously On”

Previously on WandaVision: Vision, fresh from his escape attempt, was running home to talk to Wanda, who was being held captive by newly revealed villain Agatha Harkness, a hipster witch who was into harnessing the hidden forces of the…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Feb 20, 2021

Avengered Development: WandaVision “Breaking the Fourth Wall”

Previously on WandaVision: Everything’s falling apart for Wanda. Her husband just tried to break out of Rerun Land and she had to expand its borders to stop him from disintegrating. Her suddenly American brother has no interest in maintaining…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Feb 12, 2021

I guess you are the boss of me now: WandaVision “All New Halloween Spook-tacular!”

Previously on WandaVision: Vision the Big Red Bot is starting to notice some odd things about the world around him. His house and clothes age at the rate of a decade per day. His kids put on five years…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Feb 6, 2021

Deranging Women: WandaVision “On a Very Special Episode...”

Previously on WandaVision: The town of Westview has been taken over by B-team Avenger Wanda Maximoff, who’s been driven insane by grief. She’s using her reality-warping powers to force everyone in the town to play-act a series of retro-inspired…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Feb 4, 2021

Monica Rambeau: First Blood Part II: WandaVision “We Interrupt This Program”

Previously on WandaVision: Wanda and Vision have lived a clandestine existence in three decades of stereotyped TV fantasies thus far, and in 30 years of marriage are just now getting around to having kids: twin boys, Tommy and Billy.…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Feb 2, 2021

The ‘Bot Couple: WandaVision “Now in Color”

Previously on WandaVision: Despite a few hiccups, the Visions are doing a bang-up job fitting into their anachronistic hometown filled with kooky characters and saccharine life lessons. And to boot, they’re expecting! A single instance of not sleeping in…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jan 30, 2021

Help me, Wanda: WandaVision “Don’t Touch That Dial”

Previously on WandaVision: We learned that sitcoms in the Fifties were cringe, and unfunny, and promoted parochial and backwards attitudes, as opposed to today’s sitcoms, which are cool and hilarious and promote the good and correct attitudes that we’ve…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jan 28, 2021

The Honeymutants: WandaVision “Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience”

I may have mentioned it before, but I’ve never been much of a comics reader. Just never got into them. Knowing this, you may be curious how it is I’ve seen so many comic book movies, including all twenty-however MCU…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Nov 12, 2020

Movie Duel: The Illusionist vs. The Prestige

Our latest installment of Movie Duels takes us back to the hoary years of 2006, when we got two movies about stage magicians in the late nineteenth slash early twentieth centuries. Now, it’s no surprise why magic shows were popular…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Oct 9, 2020

Star Trek: Lower Decks “No Small Parts”

Previously on Star Trek: Lower Decks: Boimler found out that Mariner was Captain Fletcher’s daughter, a secret that both had kept under lock and key. This brings the show dangerously close to having a consequential plot development, and the…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Oct 2, 2020

Star Trek: Lower Decks “Crisis Point”

This week on Star Trek: Lower Decks: Ow, it hurts. Owww, mommy it hurts. Mariner is on a planet with a species of lizard people and a species of rat-like people who are oppressing the lizards and eating them…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Sep 25, 2020

Star Trek: Lower Decks “Veritas”

This week’s cold open is a dang hot one! The setting: K’Tuevon Prime. Our four intrepid lower decks ensigns are pushed inside a circular stone dungeon in a creepy tower. Jagged metal barriers retract from the door frame, preventing them…