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we just got emails, we're on track to get our first round of vaccines through our city on thursday!

I read an article about the episode a little bit ago that has me wondering. When Agnes and Herb are trying to tell Vision about what's going on, doesn't that take place while Wanda is fuming with Geraldine in the house? Maybe she sort of lost concentration in keeping the illusion alive, and that's why Herb and Agnes were finally able to try and say something to Vision.

I strongly advise anyone wanting to enjoy next week's ep to avoid social media about AoT because I'm seeing manga folks going out of their way to spoil some stuff because no one's allowed to have fun and enjoy things I guess

My dad called literally minutes after we saw the email and once I excitedly told him the news his attitude suddenly shifted from what it's been ("welllllllll I just wanna wait and see I don't want to be in the first rounds just to seeeeeeee" type shit) to "oh wow that's great I sure wish I was getting mine that soon" so maybe this will make him seek his way to getting his. He talked about how Alabama as a state is incompetent and is ranked dead last in getting the vaccine distributed, and all that is true but he absolutely qualifies and if he actually starts making inquiries he'll get on track to get his. MIL got her second dose last week, grandparents in law will get their 2nd one soon, so I'm basically same boat... a LITTLE bit of relaxation. Just a lil. I ain't gonna unclench until 2nd shots are done and the take hold period has passed, but it's a damn nice sight to glimpse a lil bit of light at the end of the tunnel.

Yeah, there were a couple times I was expecting it to set up for SWORD (especially when they all woke up in space for that one season finale) but then the story turned a completely different direction. Think the closest it got was a cheeky pseudo-reference (one of the characters jokingly asking that if they're SHIELD, is there a division called SPEAR or something like that). Looking it up, it appears they WANTED to use SWORD in Agents of SHIELD, but Marvel shut the idea down. They're also mentioned in a deleted scene from the first Thor movie I guess. Seems a little dickish they shut the idea down for Agents of SHIELD considering it was supposed to be a sub-division of SHIELD AND Joss Whedon created it. XD Regardless, if we're finally getting SWORD, we better get Abigail Brand too.

I never finished the last season, but I don't think SWORD has officially been in anything outside of comics before this show.

I'm sad the Bewitched aesthetics are gone already, but I do like the new setup. Wonder if it'll jump ahead some more and give us a "Friends" esque sitcom before series end. The big question is - does Wanda will Tommy and Billy into being in the "real" life? (Is this setting her up as a potential villain? :O). I'm so excited. Can anyone let me know what we know of SWORD from Agents of Shield or whatever? I have less than zero desire to go revisit that show.

Oh man these episodes of Attack on Titan Literally been waiting years to see this stuff animated! Next week though

I don't think all of the town people are SWORD agents. I think some of the more prominent characters probably are though. I think the basics of what are going on is relatively clear, but I wouldn't call what they're doing "drip feeding" the story. It might feel that way to an extent with fore knowledge of the character from the comics, but anyone I've talked to that doesn't know all of that stuff is pretty entrenched in the mystery. From the standpoint of the story itself, we don't know the first thing about SWORD and have just started to get strong context clues with this last episode. It flows well stylistically too. Aside from that, it feels like the REAL mystery here is Vision. The way people have started interacting with him, it's like they're trying to appeal to him to notice that something is wrong as Wanda is clearly a willing participant. Though it seems like the people on the outside may not be aware of that fact. The two neighbors seemed intent on cluing Vision in that she wasn't supposed to be there, and they seemed frightened of the fact that she was with Wanda. If they are agents, they must know that appealing to her is fruitless, but Geraldine's approach seems to indicate that those on the outside are unaware of this (though not for much longer based on the episodes end). Conversely, it's possible this was all intentional and SWORD is (or at least originally was) helping Wanda as a means to revive Vision. Shuri was in the process of copying his data over so they could get rid of the Mind stone but it was interrupted. Perhaps what's happening here is they're attempting to "complete" the process by instilling a set of memories into the empty spaces of what they were able to copy. He's clearly self aware of what he is, but beyond that his memories of events seem to be absent and even when he starts to realize something is off, it never extends to true memories of what had happened (counter to Geraldine mentioning Ultron when she was starting to remember). Either way, Wanda may have had ulterior motive, or her compromised mental state led to the process going awry and now SWORD is attempting to intervene to save the people trapped in her delusion.

Definitely agree that the neighbors and townsfolk are SWORD agents. But then why would they be worried about Geraldine being "new in town with no family/home/etc." And after she got booted out what we now see is a HUGE forcefield that Wanda created. (I was imagining it being her in a room locked up and sedated-ish) the soldiers surround her with guns. So is she a double agent? Or is there something else we aren't seeing? I still think Wanda is doing this willingly. She seems very determined to ignore the bigger issues like when Vision pointed out there might be something wrong with her and when she was remembering her brother. Including the lullaby. SWORD might be monitoring things to make sure whatever is going on in "her town" doesn't effect the rest of reality and the world on a bigger scale?