We're not shy about our affinity for @ScreenCrush viewing after our podcast completion, so this week we're going to have to fit it in quickly before the next episode becomes available! We certainly would like to thank Mr. Arey for his kind response to our Twitter reply to another podcast that was looking for coupon codes. The incoming tide raises all ships, but we're a row boat compared to Ryan's schooner. He showed deference when he could have flexed.

Kate and Clint escape a pre-Echo Maya Lopez and the rest of the tracksuits, take a short break for breakfast, then get right back into danger. Will that gym locker come into play in the finale? Will butterscotch make a comeback as a candy for millenials? Is Kate style over substance? Are any of these topics even in this podcast discussion?

Spoiler alert...no.

Marvel Studios now has only three episodes to tie this package up with a neat bow. We should find out very fast if Jack is up to no good, unless Detective Caudle has some amazing timing and shows up at Eleanor's door instead of Bishop Security.

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Last week we were told to Never Meet Your Heroes, but Kate did. This week, it was Hide and Seek, except Clint let himself get "killed" in medieval combat and later captured and Kate wouldn't stay out of harm's way if you paid her. Well, she is sort of a spoiled rich kid.

This week Steve wonders (aloud) if maybe Jack isn't the good guy and Eleanor and Armand are the ones who are/were the real dangers to Kate and New York City. Yeah, we know the Tracksuit Mafia is out there, but didn't we just see these guys are kind of inept? Who is that in the red lights? It sure ain't Roxanne (It's Echo, we know).

Marvel Studios has just four episodes left to pass the bow--er, baton--from Barton to Bishop. New episodes are released on Disney Plus each Wednesday until they're all gone (December 22nd, unless they double up in one week again).

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For a show about Hawkeye, he's sure isn't featured in his own show. Oh, we know--Kate Bishop is taking over. Clint Barton is going to be just fine with that, we think.

Marvel's latest streaming star of the Disney Plus service will have just 6 episodes and two of them dropped on the same day, the day before Thanksgiving. Why does it take so long for us to get discussions out? Like Clint, we're trying to make it through the holidays here.

We will continue coverage through the short season and start with learning about what made Kate great, why she's such a fan of Clint's, why he happens to be in New York when Kate needs him most, and what's with the dog, bro?

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Wanda and Vision split up, The Falcon became Captain America, the god of mischief got his time to shine, and Marvel asked "what if" over and over again. Good 'ol Clint Barton doesn't have his Budapest buddy to hang around with anymore, so with the debut of the Hawkeye series on November 24th, 2021 we'll see who may be taking up his mantle. He's a family man now, you know.

This is the Way Phase Four's Steve Loscalzo talks briefly about what he expects to see and what we already know from the trailers and clips Marvel has made available. You do need a Disney Plus subscription to watch episodes each Wednesday, but at least Thanksgiving travelers have two episodes to watch at once, with episodes one and two dropping the same day this podcast becomes available.

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It's our Phase Four podcast movie discussion and review, though the theatrical release for Black Widow came in the summer. We originally planned on watching and reviewing immediately after it became available without a premium charge on Disney Plus back in October (6th) of 2021, but like Natasha, we were on the move for awhile. Now it's time to talk about what we saw and what we thought about what we saw.

Host Steve Loscalzo discusses the successes and the short-comings and points out a few weak spots that didn't end up costing the movie its heart, which he argues is a "found family" coming together to help each other right wrongs done to each of them despite their service to what they believed was a greater good. Romanoff met her end in Endgame, but the character of Black Widow is brought new life by Belova...Yelena Belova.

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Still to come are discussions on Shang-Chi and the upcoming Disney Plus series Hawkeye!

This is a first for our Phase Four podcast with a movie trailer discussion for the upcoming Marvel Studios movie Spider-Man: No Way Home. A little while back there was a three minute long "teaser" trailer that showed quite a bit, but more secrets have been revealed and it's time to talk.

Host Steve Loscalzo goes through the trailer and speculates responsibly on the "visitors" of which Stephen Strange speaks. Is someone in this movie a Skrull like Talos at the end of Far From Home? Is Peter Parker the only version of Spider-Man coming to visit? Are the villains really villainous or is Peter the problem?

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Still to come in November are discussions on Black Widow and Shang-Chi and the upcoming Disney Plus series Hawkeye!

Host Steve Loscalzo isn't shy about sharing his opinions about the first season of the Disney Plus Marvel series What If...? and he still found it enjoyable at times. Whether that bodes well for a possible second season of the show remains to be seen.

The creators of this show opted to tie them all together toward the end, but it might have been better if they left them as vignettes. Episode 7 is another character episode with Thor, but then Ultron and The Watcher take center stage. It seems there may have also been a missing episode in there, but there is evidence on the internet that suggest they will tell Gamora's story in season two...which seems odd if her story was told here in the season one finale. Plot connectivity is a messy business that Kevin Feige seems to oversee well for the MCU, but here, in at least this animated show specifically, it's just a big mess.

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Marvel's What If...? series is a wonderfully animated look at the multiverse, but the story-telling in the first couple episodes wasn't up to the standards set by the MCU. Our humble opinion is that things get better in the middle third of the first season...at least a little bit.

What If...? still has the problem that most, if not all of the episodes would never take place because of what's set up in Loki with the Time Variance Authority (unless we're supposed to understand that it doesn't exist in these other universes). That explanation doesn't feel as satisfying because telling a good story would mean we wouldn't care about the little things. Episodes 4 through 6 show us an "evil" Doctor Strange, a zombie apocalypse, and a cunning Killmonger.

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What if Marvel made an animated show for the adult MCU audience with visuals so stunning that the story didn't matter? When they do, please tell us.

We loved WandaVision even if Emmy voters didn't. It provided us weeks of deep dives and thrilling mystery.

The Falcon and The Winter Soldier was a shorter, more politically charged buddy cop show, but the lasting implications on the MCU were felt this summer at the end of a phase four movie.

Loki may have been the most fun we've had and he (and Sylvie, of course) one-upped Sam and Bucky by introducing the MCU Phase Four main villain.

That's why What If...? falls a little flat to us, at least in the first few episodes. Nothing happening here escapes the universe and affects the sacred timeline. That doesn't mean it doesn't have any enjoyable experiences for the audience, but it's not as lasting, not as engrossing, and not as exciting as the live action shows. The animation is amazing, but the stories...

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You probably know that feeling when you think something is going to happen and you're excited for it, but then something different happens and you're even more excited because you didn't dare to hope for something greater. It never gets old.

Kind of like the man behind the curtain at the TVA, right? Never gets old. He sure does like to repeat himself, doesn't he? The surprise won't be a surprise for long, but there's a villain waiting at the End of Time and maybe more than one. Have Sylvie and Loki gone too far? Is Ravonna going to get away with all her lies? Will Hunter B-15 get her life back? Does Mobius get to ride a jet ski? Not all endings are happy and not all solutions are easy. Sometimes it takes the threat of all out war in the multiverse to get things done.

We very much enjoyed the first season of Loki and are glad to hear there will be more adventures to watch in the future. We hope you enjoyed our coverage and will be back when the next Marvel show streams on Disney Plus, an anthology called "What If" that launches on August 11th.

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