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 LunarSol wrote:
The MCU's success has largely hinged on being faithful to the spirit of the source material, but rarely the letter. There's also a lot of clear workshoping in comics to see what floats. The Black Order was introduced almost immediately upon revealing Thanos as the big bad in Avengers 1 for example.

We've also had a Celstial as a major character in the MCU (Ego).

One theory I've seen tossed around is that the Eternals are going to somehow be tied to the 10 rings of the Mandarin. I'd also not be surprised if they build towards the most recent Secret Wars as the overarching story.

Ego is very likely not a celestial at all. Ego is not a reliable narrator. If you trust his word then by his own account he suddenly existed and then was alone until he made an avatar and went about looking for life on other planets. I.E. he's never actually met a celestial to compare himself to one. But Ego is EXACTLY the kind of being to call himself a celestial and take all the credit (god hood) that comes with the title.

Celestials are not brains encased in planetary matter. They have skulls. I.E. Knowhere is built inside the skull of a celestial. They also have basic humanoid shapes and wear complex suits of armor that fully encase their forms. See GotG Vol 1.

Anyone else find it odd that Ego is a character in the Marvel-verse, but I don't think they have a character called id?

I give you Id, the Selfish Moon. Brother to Ego, the Living Planet.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Id_(Selfish_Moon)_(Earth-616)

Well I'm caught up.

It was... OK. Fun at times but once the whole show became about young versions of characters I'd forgotten it was a bit lack luster. But a satisfying happy ending for the team.

Now I want to read about Deke, Super Spy Rock God of Earth 199999-A.

Glad they ended with SHIELD being established and flying around in an aircraft carrier like they should be. I never liked the SHIELD on the run premise which they did 2 or 3 times. SHIELD should be all about an army of high tech experts providing he plot glue for superheroes.

Voss wrote:

I'm not terribly surprised they changed it, but it was so tied to what (admittedly little) I knew of Eternals... eh. There were a lot of reasons I gave up on comics. Hand-wave retcons was certainly on the list.

I suspect whatever we know of the Eternals, like the Guardians, is likely to change. There's not much to know and I suspect there's a lot of desire to adapt it specifically because that leaves a lot of room to adapt it into something unique going forward.

MCU Celestials appear to be a lot less rigidly defined than their comic counterparts. We've seen the big space armor, but Ego was basically whatever he wanted to be. I suspect they'll lean heavily into that, with the space armor being more of an Easter egg form they can take, but not something they're locked into. I'd also expect it to allow them to adapt audience expectations before introducing Galactus in a more recognizable form.

Ego isn't reliable, but I don't think they'd pull a "he wasn't really a Celestial" in the MCU. There's just not a great reason to back track on that when the whole point is that he can take whatever form he chooses.

for no apparent reason i watched 3 seasons of this. its a pure waste of time. its like marvel has let the apprentices work on this as a training exercise or something !

Season 3 does have one of the best episodes the series has ever done (4722 Hours), but yeah, it's still not great.

It's when they started doing the story "pods" in Season 4 that the show finally got its gak together.

I really liked the post-Winter Soldier Hydra episodes, but yeah it stalled after that until they got away from the films and started doing their own things.

I liked season 4 okay, but completely lost interest during the destroyed Earth of the future stuff.

It’s definitely a bit patchy, but I can respect it being somewhat experimental.

Bit of a thread revival, but for those in the UK the last (very last) episode of Agents went on Disney+ today. Nice close to the series.

Yes, I recently finished the last season as well. It was a pretty solid ending.

I think Agent Sosa was criminally under-used. Question: was he actually in the Agent Carter series? I have never seen that at all.

Also, I read that it was suppose to end at the end of Season 5, and Season 6 and 7 are pretty much "surprise"!

Sosa was a main dude in Carter, yes.

Saw a rumor it might be revived on Disney+

Meanwhile is SWORD the new SHIELD for the MCU? In the comics the idea was SHIELD for Earth, SWORD for space, and ARMOR for the multiverse. Each with an increasingly absurd and strained acronym.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Saw a rumor it might be revived on Disney+

Meanwhile is SWORD the new SHIELD for the MCU? In the comics the idea was SHIELD for Earth, SWORD for space, and ARMOR for the multiverse. Each with an increasingly absurd and strained acronym.

Sword appears to still deal with space stuff, but now also has jurisdiction over super powered people maybe as an extension of the sokovia accords? Sentient Weapon is a way to say super powered people right?

 Lance845 wrote:

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Saw a rumor it might be revived on Disney+

Meanwhile is SWORD the new SHIELD for the MCU? In the comics the idea was SHIELD for Earth, SWORD for space, and ARMOR for the multiverse. Each with an increasingly absurd and strained acronym.

Sword appears to still deal with space stuff, but now also has jurisdiction over super powered people maybe as an extension of the sokovia accords? Sentient Weapon is a way to say super powered people right?

I actually assumed they were talking more about AIs honestly. When Monica is being rebriefed they specifically mention that they're not in the business of creating them, which could be super soldiers I guess, but sounds more like robots and the like to me.