This is the Way Phase Four

There really should be some way to warn you what you're about to hear that goes above and beyond what can be included here in the description of the episode. Steve is a bit cruel and snotty about having his time wasted. The acting in Moon Knight has been, for the most part, superb. Oscar Isaac does as much with the script as an actor can. Ethan Hawke may not be a favorite actor for Steve, but capable actors were in the main and supporting roles. There's even a surprise appearance of the Phase Four iteration of the Scarlet Scarab, though you wouldn't have known it without social media. Moon Knight's failures came in the script, edit, and planning. When you limit your season to six episodes, faults like those are going to be easier to spot. If you have one story to tell, the exposition is going to feel rushed if it's not poetic and sharp and mindful of the rules the show sets out for itself. In the end, Moon Knight tried to set up a mystery that it couldn't figure out for itself so it figured it could fudge it to the end. It wouldn't have been hard to make it make more sense. It's like someone thought "hey, if we SAY this is about exposing a mental health issue, no one will critique us on the normal storytelling because they'll be afraid (woke)Disney will shame them" and it ruins what could have just been a fun ride. Writing is hard, but the solutions here were obvious, even to an amateur. It's perfectly fine to disagree. It's also possible that you agree, but just don't like the smart-aleck tone Steve takes. Forgive the frustration, if you wouldn't mind. How bad was this episode, in Steve's opinion? It was so bad, he skipped watching any and all content creator takes on YouTube, something he very much looks forward to doing after he finishes recording. He just didn't care enough. You can email the show at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com and find our other media at our new Linktree site: linktr.ee/thewayphasefour. @TheWayPhaseFour is a convenient "handle" for links since it also happens to be our Twitter and IG addresses. If Star Wars is more your (light)speed, find our podcast centered on a galaxy, far, far away called This is the Way Podcast (@ThisistheWayPod) at linktr.ee/ThisistheWayPod. Thanks for listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

This was a rough episode to review and discuss. Was it because of the subject matter? Maybe. Was this an important episode for people to watch who have gone through suffering in childhood? Maybe. Was it an important episode to the character of Marc Spector and for the show Moon Knight? Probably. Was it a well-meaning episode? Yeah. Was it a good penultimate episode in a six episode series. Absolutely not. Episode five was great and terrible at the same time. For the show, it puts a grinding halt on the entire narrative. Marc is in heaven now. Why should we care? Is he NOT in heaven? Well, you should have shown us more at the end to hint that's the case. If the people putting this show together think that pulling a "St. Elsewhere" style reveal at the end or "J.R."-ing us with scenes of Jake Lockley under sedation at the end, then this show was a colossal fraud. Marvel fans don't want or need psychology lessons. Marvel fans want superheros saving the day. If you're going to tell fans of the genre that they'll have to do with it being all in someone's mind, well, you can do that, but don't expect people to watch. Something tells me (woke)Disney will complain anyway. Yeah, that's right, this show is bringing out a political side the host would rather keep hidden. That should tell you enough. Let's just say we're venturing into "Rian Johnson" territory with this show and it has a lot to live up to in it's final minutes, coming on May 4th, 2022. Did you like the episode? Great! You're allowed. That doesn't mean other points of view aren't valid. It's not our glass of water, but maybe your scales found balance on the boat, like some "perfectly level" roulette wheel in the "Princess of the Duat" casino. Music appreciation time! "May Alla Del Sol" from Manuel Bonilla is how Marc Spector first experiences A'aru and "Love and Revenge" by Rayess Bek samples "Saat Saat" as performed by Sabah. We still can't figure out where that song appeared last week, but we're not going back to watch again...unless episode 6 is a "banger" of a finale. Join in on the discussion, if you like. You can email the show at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com and find our other media at our new Linktree site: linktr.ee/thewayphasefour. @TheWayPhaseFour is convenient for links since it also happens to be our Twitter and IG handle. If Star Wars is more your (light)speed, find our podcast centered on a galaxy, far, far away called This is the Way Podcast (@ThisistheWayPod) at linktr.ee/ThisistheWayPod. Thanks for listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Theories galore! Steve wonders aloud a few times in this episode. Is Harrow the secret partner that killed Layla's father...because Layla's father was actually Ammit's avatar or seeking Ammit's treasures? Did Harrow leave Khonshu's service because he stole the cane and was searching for "the little scarab" and Marc's devotion to Khonshu came about after a betrayal? Is Hathor secretly behind all this plotting, actually endowing the cane with power to help release Ammit? IS Tawaret hiding from the Ennead on the funeral boat of the dead or like a hippopotamus just hanging out in the Field of Reeds? One thing we're absolutely sure of is that the hospital is not real. The lanterns are a "dead" giveaway, but then again, so is Steven and Marc having separate bodies, a couple of sarcophagii lying around imprisoning people, a bingo game with nonsensical letter and number combos, a cupcake cart at a sanitarium, sharp objects and stark colors, an office that is a "dead ringer" for the storage room above Harrow's London haunt, and don't forget the talking "hippo" goddess. The "real world" should be abuzz at the discovery of Alexander the Great's hidden tomb, but he was hiding something in his tummy. The goat stuff? It turns out all that was foreshadowing for us because he's "the son of Zeus-Ammon", which is weird, because he was a pretty powerful general. He was a "pharaoh-phile" though and apparently the "voice of Ammit" who betrayed her. Heka was a goddess, too...one of healing. She sure had some nasty priests, but nothing superhero Layla can't fight her way past. All we were missing were tasks written down by Henry Jones Sr. in a diary and a chalice at the end. Instead we got a low budget version of Indy called "Tomb Busters". Join in on the discussion! Let us know if you think Steve is close to solving the mystery or stuck out in the Siwa desert. You can email the show at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com and find our other media at our new Linktree site: linktr.ee/thewayphasefour. @TheWayPhaseFour is convenient for links since it also happens to be our Twitter and IG handle. If Star Wars is of more interest, Steve produces another podcast called "This is the Way Podcast" (@ThisistheWayPod) and you can find links to it at linktr.ee/ThisistheWayPod. Thanks for listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

If you ever see the sky spinning at the speed of light at night, it might be Khonshu to blame. We get appearances from Moon Knight, Mr. Knight, Marc Spector, and Steven Grant in this episode AND a pretty big indication we have yet to meet another of Marc's persona non grata. Spector went on a nice little "treasure hunt" for clues to where Harrow would be digging, but kept coming up short. Khonshu signaled for a meeting of the Ennead "eclipse" style and got a dressing down from the five laziest gods on the planet. Maybe Harrow should just run for office if his run-around answer to "Why are you in the desert?" is so readily accepted by supernatural beings. Mere mortals wouldn't have a chance. In the end, the search for Ammit's ushabti by Arthur was allowed to continue while the creation of Khonshu's ushabti happened right before our eyes. Are we really watching a battle between these lazy gods that just LOOKS like it's between Arthur and Marc? Maybe the Ennead's three triads have been broken and we're seeing some power plays against Osiris and Isis. Those were a lot of ushabti's sitting there in the great chamber. Cross Selim and get chiseled? Maybe Hathor has the hots for one of the gods and our hearts just aren't light enough to be invited to that celestial party. Maybe Arthur is (gasp!) right and releasing Ammit will only be bad for the Ennead. What if Khonshu's quest for justice SHOULD end with his imprisonment? Three episodes remain to clear up questions and for the host of this podcast, a clear connection to the MCU's Phase Four needs to happen or this is just another exercise in wasting time. Music appreciation time! "Batwanes Beek" from Warda gets sampled by DJ Kaboo for "Enta" and it's beat begins and ends the episode for us. We also hear again from Abdel Halim Hafez, this time "Shaghalouny", another of Hathor's love songs, perhaps? "Walima" by Tito Rinesi gives us some street sound and "Salka" from Hassan Shakosh gets some ferry goers dancing on the way to Anton's house party. Join in on the discussion since Steve...well, since he's asking you! You can email the show at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com and find our other media at our new Linktree site: linktr.ee/thewayphasefour. @TheWayPhaseFour is convenient for links since it also happens to be our Twitter and IG handle. If Star Wars is more your (light)speed, find our podcast centered on a galaxy, far, far away called This is the Way Podcast (@ThisistheWayPod) at linktr.ee/ThisistheWayPod. Thanks for listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Marc Spector caused a lot of damage to the museum "loo" and Steven Grant suffers the consequences. He gets "sacked" and seems to have lost his livelihood, his future as a tour guide, and a bit more of his sanity. With few friends to turn to, he looks inward and finds more than he's ready to handle. Just when he "reunites" with his (well, Marc's) long lost wife--Layla from the flip phone contact list--he gets a visit from corrupt cops who take him to Harrow's version of Shangri La. Arthur and Khonshu are formerly acquainted it would seem, but he weighed his options and now chooses to support Ammit. Layla brings a scarab to a summoning fight and she brings out a new personality for Steven--Mr. Knight. In the end, it's Moon Knight's job to protect the innocent at night, so control is back in Marc's hands...until Khonshu decides he's had enough and finds a new fist of vengeance. Music appreciation folk might appreciate the music in episode two with Bauhaus's "quasi-famous" goth hit "Bela Lugosi's Dead", a redux of Dylan's episode one kick-off song and his personal born again anthem "Every Grain of Sand" and we whet our Middle "Eats" appetite with "El Melouk" by Ahmed Saad in the credits. Join in on the discussion since Steve mostly goes it solo. You can email the show at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com and find our other media at our new Linktree site: linktr.ee/thewayphasefour. @TheWayPhaseFour happens to be our Twitter and IG handle. If Star Wars is more your (light)speed, find our podcast centered on a galaxy, far, far away called This is the Way Podcast (@ThisistheWayPod) at linktr.ee/ThisistheWayPod. As always, thanks for listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Move over Batman! Moon Knight is on the... No. No, that definitely doesn't feel right. Marvel Studios brings another entry to the Disney Plus streaming service, for the first time featuring a character that has absolutely no previous ties to Avengers and may never tie in to the MCU. Yes, I know the "Defender" series were moved over, but those existed first on Netflix. Steven Grant is a mild-mannered "gift shop-ist" who seems to just want to stay under the radar and stay awake. In the first entry to the short (and maybe limited) series, he comes to grips with his dissociative identity disorder. His best friends seem to be a fish with one fin that he has already replaced and a gold painted street performer that won't say a word. Donna, Dylan, and JB don't seem to wish him harm (yet), but Ammit's scales are the new trend in tattoos apparently. Arthur Harrow might enjoy an Annie Lennox tune ("Walkin' on Broken Glass") just as much as Bob Dylan. Englebert Humperdinck, Wham!, Nagat and DJ Kaboo (as well as Abdel Halim Hafez's "Khosara") all get sampled before we finally hear that sweet, sweet new theme music. Join in on the discussion by emailing the show at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com and find our other media at our new Linktree site: linktr.ee/thewayphasefour. Hey. @TheWayPhaseFour is our Twitter and IG handle. How about that? If Star Wars is more your speed, find our podcast centered on a galaxy, far, far away called This is the Way Podcast (@ThisistheWayPod). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Wanda is off reading the Darkhold, Vision is nowhere to be found, the Winter Soldier is making amends, The Falcon became Captain America, Loki finds himself in a new timeline, Marvel asked "what if" over and over again, Yelena is our new Black Widow, and Kate Bishop is taking up the bow for Hawkeye. We've come a long way in a year, haven't we? Sure we've also had some fun movies, like Shang Chi and Spider-Man: No Way Home. Another (very important) one is only a few months away (Doctor Strange and the Multi-verse of Madness). What's next for Disney Plus? Well, we're only about a month away from Moon Knight's debut. This is the Way Phase Four Podcast host Steve Loscalzo talks briefly about who Moon Knight is and what we might see when the show starts streaming at the end of March. This doesn't seem like a show that will figure heavy into the "lore" of Phase Four, but the nature of the trailers means it might be a fun weekly watch, working out the mysteries alongside Marc Spector. Or Stevie. Steven? The mummy looking guy? Yes, this preview is a bit earlier than we've had in the past, but it's been quite some time since our last episode, so we wanted to remind you we're still here! While we will wait for No Way Home's discussion podcast until we can stream it (legally), we'll probably wait on Shang-Chi until we see it become important to Phase Four. There won't be an Eternals podcast. We hope you'll be patient with us until March 30th as we cover the newest series (only six episodes long) on what is probably our favorite streaming service. You can send feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Instagram or Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour and we hope you will. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Episode 6 sought to pay off some obscure set ups. Snap trick? Check. Arrow split? Check. Jack's backstory? I mean...does that chat with Armand VII count? Kate isn't handed Clint's bow, but she does seem to be welcomed to the "club" if the Avengers still get together for parties and birthdays and saving the world. It sure doesn't seem that way lately. Yelena doesn't help clip the Kingpin, but at least she doesn't cut down Clint. Maya takes her shot and it sure sounded like an echo after she pulled the trigger on Wilson Fisk. Kazi catches one arrow, but not the one that hurt the most. We find out who's watch that was, Kate's daddy was dirty, Eleanor was the one responsible for Armand's death, and Clint knows how to whistle. Host Steve Loscalzo recaps the episode and laments that the credits don't hold any clues about what comes next. I guess you're jazzed if you like showtunes. There's a little break between Hawkeye and what comes next on the schedule for Marvel Studios on Disney Plus. We do have Shang-Chi and Spider-Man: No Way Home to talk about, but those might have to wait until after our sibling podcast This is the Way gets done with The Book of Boba Fett. You can still write us. Send feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Instagram or Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and find the page on Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Before episode 5 became available, someone said they had heard it was going to "break the internet" and boy, is that phrase used a lot. No, it didn't do any breaking, but it did set up an interesting finale, because a lot has to be resolved in just one short episode. That's what happens when you have lots of reveals with very few pay offs. Host Steve Loscalzo recaps the episode and talks about some of those things we need cleared up. We keep hearing form Laura. Does Echo kill Kazi? What's with the watch? Are the tracksuits comfortable or just functional wardrobe for shakedowns? Marvel Studios now has only one episode and less than an hour (most likely) to wrap up stories for Kate, Clint, Jack, Eleanor, and Yelena. Will that resolution be satisfying and still believable? That's why we keep "tuning in" as it was once said. I mean, if you're trying to tune a TV to watch Disney Plus... Enter our current giveaway because this may be our last episode of the calendar year. If you'd rather only comment on the podcast, send feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Instagram or Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and find the page on Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Sometimes you get them out quick, sometimes barely before next week's episode, and sometimes you finish editing on a Friday, "not so silent" night. We here at This is the Way Phase Four Podcast have two young kids to take care of and they might not enjoy the ins and outs of audio editing programs, but we do our best just the same. Kate thinks she talks Clint out of a jam, but it's more like he "Hawkeye'd" it and the suit and sword are now recovered. It's a pesky watch that might keep Clint in the Big Apple a bit longer. Is it Laura's? Seems like a men's watch to me, but the tech inside it might be what the Barton parents want to keep secret. Don't think we forgot about Yelena Belova. She seems to have found her target and whether Clint likes it or not, he's going to have to answer to Tash's little sis at some point. Maya meanwhile takes an arrow to the shoulder but keeps ticking. I mean, it's not like Kate didn't ask for it, snooping around her apartment. Marvel Studios now has only two episodes left to answer our questions, but maybe this is just supposed to open up more than it answers like the last three live action shows on Disney Plus. Enter our current giveaway(s) before it is too late or simply take part in the podcast by sending feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interacting on Instagram or Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

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. Enter our current giveaway before it is too late or simply take part in the podcast by sending feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interacting on Instagram or Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

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). Enter our current giveaway before it is too late! You can also take part in the podcast by sending feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interacting on Instagram or Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

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? You can send feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Instagram or Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour and don't forget about our giveaway for November which will be announced in December! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

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. The podcast continues weekly as shows become available to stream, but it may be a few days before our episode discussions come out. It is a holiday we would like to celebrate as well and we don't have guys in tracksuits tracking us down. We hope you'll be patient with us as we cover the newest series (only six episodes, though) on what is probably our favorite streaming service. You can send feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Instagram or Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour but you can also enter our November (and October rolled into one) giveaway and we discuss some of the details in today's discussion. Please enter now! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

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. The October giveaway was rolled into November and you can still enter and win both. Our thanks to Cufflinks.com for the listener code of THEWAY15 which is active to the end of the year and takes 15% off your items at check out. Interact with us on Instagram and Twitter or by emailing us (thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com). Our Facebook page (facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour) is there for you to interact as well. Still to come are discussions on Shang-Chi and the upcoming Disney Plus series Hawkeye! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

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? There is one other business item to discuss and that's the October giveaway and how all entries are being rolled into one for November. Our thanks to Cufflinks.com for the listener code of THEWAY15 which is active to the end of the year and takes 15% off your items at check out. Interact with us on Instagram and Twitter or by emailing us (thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com). Our Facebook page (facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour) is there for you to interact as well. Still to come in November are discussions on Black Widow and Shang-Chi and the upcoming Disney Plus series Hawkeye! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

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. Disagree? That's absolutely okay and we don't mind hearing from you about it. What if we just ask that you listen to our podcasts and then let us know what you think about the show, our podcast, or both? The October giveaway is discussed a little more, but entering involves a Twitter follow (@TheWayPhaseFour) and our email address (thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com). Our Facebook page (facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour) is there for you to interact as well and we hope to have an Instagram set up soon. We hope you'll show our sponsor appreciation for supporting us by visiting their site and checking out the thousands of excellent accessories at Cufflinks.com! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

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. What if we just ask that you listen to our podcasts and then let us know what you think about the show? There is information inside this podcast about our October giveaway. It involves a Twitter follow (@TheWayPhaseFour) and our email address (thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com). Not involved in the giveaway but still important (to us) is our Facebook page (facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour). We hope you'll show our sponsor appreciation for supporting us by visiting their site and checking out the thousands of excellent accessories at Cufflinks.com! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

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... Well, what if you watch the show with us, listen to our podcasts, and let us know what you think? You can also enter this podcast's first giveaway. Steps to enter are outlined inside the episode, but it involves a Twitter follow (@TheWayPhaseFour) and our email address (thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com). Don't forget we have a Facebook page, too, (facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour). Help us grow our brand by checking out the thousands of excellent accessories at our biggest sponsor and maybe your entry will be chosen for something Marvel-ous from Cufflinks.com! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

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. Please send your feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact with the community on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour because we want to know what you think! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Journey Into Mystery was thought provoking and the most fun with these kinds of shows seems to come from seeing how close one can get with predictions of what happens next. Host Steve Loscalzo has been theorizing for weeks about what it all means, but sums up his guess at the end of today's episode. Time travel is a tricky business for writers. There is a lot you have to get your audience to go along with because truly explaining it is impossible. What you then have to do is set up leaps of faith and hope people get the "timing" of your jumps right. Too easy and it isn't fun to follow. Too hard and too many people give up before the end. Kudos to Marvel Studios for picking people who, through five episodes at least, have come up with the right balance. We see get visual and dialogue call backs to past episodes and other Marvel properties. If you dig deep enough, you find lessons on faith, love, trust, and hope. There's just one episode left to find out what we can about the TVA, multiverses, and the master of time as we now know it. Please send your feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact with the community on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour and join us when Episode 6 is released! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Episode 4 was better than Episode 3, but the details on how all this time manipulation are affecting things in the universe have been scarce. Sure we know somewhere out there the Avengers eventually get the job done, but at some point Scott Lang goes drifting through the quantum realm and Thanos successfully snaps half of existence into...oblivion? We're not sure when, where, or how we happen to be and the what and why of the TVA seem to be thin threads, but at least we like the who of this show...and they're no Doctors...the strange or Gallifreyan kinds. We resolve Lamentis, but still don't know why little Sylvie ran afoul of the time cops or how she really managed to avoid recapture when she escaped. Ravonna Renslayer looks like a villain right now and Loki sure does love himself, doesn't he? Heck, his love of self might just crack open chaos. Episode five is next and it looks like we'll meet even more Loki variants. We doubt he'll like them more than Sylvie. You can send feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour and, please, do because we'd love to hear from you. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Halfway through the season and we get a Loki/Sylvie team up episode. It wasn't our favorite. Yeah, sure, we called a major plot point, but we get the feeling a lot of other people already did. We did get quite a few reusable soundbites from this episode and a couple major plot points and a few things that might get a call back later in the series, but this was a short, not terribly sweet installment of what may end up becoming required watching in order to understand the future of the MCU. Or not. Which would mean that everything happening in this show ends up being unimportant and having no impact on Phase Four. We'll remain optimistic, which is more than we can say for Sylvie and Loki at the end of this one, right? Episode four is next, putting us in the second half of the arc. There's still time to make your voice heard...well, hear your words read on the podcast, I guess. You can send feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour and, please, do! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

When you plan on telling a story in only six episodes, you don't really have time for fluff. Sure you can reuse the set for multiple scenes and ask your actors to do the heavy lifting of expository, but if that doesn't work...well, Netflix can probably tell you about a few of those. No, this is Disney Plus--Marvel Studios, actually--so you get your Bonnie Tyler song in the fight sequence, sure, but you also get three men and two different women each playing their own version of an "Enchantress" in the back of a Roxxmart SuperCenter. We thought we couldn't wait to see episode two, but The Variant was that mix of answering lingering questions from the previous episode and presenting us with new information to speculate that we've grown to love. Next up is episode three which means the end of the episode will be the halfway point of the season. You can send feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour and we hope you will! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Loki's time has come...or has time has come for Loki? Six episodes of the newest Marvel Studios show on Disney Plus have begun streaming on Wednesdays. From mid-June to July 2021 we'll check to see how Loki and the Time Variance Authority are getting along. The god of mischief brought his glorious purpose to the first episode and we have a good idea about what to expect. We hear about the Time Keepers, the sacred timeline, Loki and his crime time...crime against time? time crime? Whatever, listen to Miss Minutes explain it all if you need to. Just don't forget to take a ticket. Things are set up nicely and we can't wait for episode two. Loki may be the most important Marvel Studios show yet for no other reason than it's going to set up what we know about time and the multiverses that Doctor Strange and Ant-man and the Wasp and, well, everyone else are up against. We resisted the urge to dissect the episode scene-by-scene and word-for-word. There are so many directions the show can go, it feels like a Wonkavator. We will continue the podcast weekly as shows become available to stream. You can send feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour and we hope you will! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Wanda and Vision split up, The Falcon became Captain America, and now the god of mischief gets his turn on the Disney Plus streaming service. Loki debuts June 9th, 2021 and This is the Way Phase Four's Steve Loscalzo talks briefly about what he expects to see. The podcast continues weekly as shows are available to stream. You can send feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour and we hope you will! Loki should be a six episode season with the final episode scheduled after Black Widow's theatrical release. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

You can be both critical of a thing and enjoy it. You can find faults and still find the good. Disney's first (and only?) season of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier comes to a close with episode six and Disney was quite alright preaching to the viewers, even if they were part of the choir. When that social commentary makes sense "in-universe" the show does double-duty in entertaining and setting examples. Where the plot support is weak or lacking outright, the flaws glare and Disney doubles down. One World, One People may sound like a hokey 80s Earth Day slogan...and...well... The Flag Smashers get their comeuppance and Zemo's plans come to fruition from prison. Isaiah Bradley finally has a spot in the Smithsonian and Bucky graduates from therapy. Sharon Carter manages to both bring honor and dishonor to her last name, but the host isn't convinced she really is Aunt Peggy's niece. The GRC gets scolded on TV, we're rid of Karli, and Batroc gets beat by a bullet after having battled two different Captain America's with his bare hands. Adieu, Georges. Our podcast will continue with more news, reviews, and more after a brief break. Let us know what you'd like to see before we pick back up with Loki coverage and other content that continues the Marvel Studios Multiverse. Send feedback via email (thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com) or interact on Twitter (@TheWayPhaseFour) or Facebook (facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour). This is the Way we do Phase Four! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

I thought heroes ran toward problems, not away from them? That's probably not a fair way to assess John Walker's mental state at the beginning of the episode, but his mental state at the end? I feel confident in saying he's a few cards shy of a full deck. Bucky, meanwhile, is getting better without organized therapy, though he does have a pretty experienced Sam Wilson helping out. Zemo gets a spot on a Raft, Sharon uses her "anytime minutes" to re-hire a french merc, and Karli overreacts...again. Will Falcon fly again? Will Sam like his gift from Bucky and his friends in Wakanda? Will Bucky make peace? Will Sharon end up a villain? Do we get more of Julia Louis-Dreyfus? We will continue to quickly recap episodes here and discuss what we think is happening in the show and how it will fit into the Marvel Studios Multiverse. Send feedback via email (thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com) or interact on Twitter (@TheWayPhaseFour) or Facebook (facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour). This is the Way we do Phase Four! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

If the world wasn't watching, they're probably talking now about what happened in season 1, episode 4 of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Karli Morgenthau took her villainous turn last week and now we have John Walker sullying the stars and stripes with blood. Steve Rogers showed mercy. Walker shows none. Zemo smashes vials. Hoskins might be done. Ayo showed her softer side to Bucky six years back, but now she's all business and beats up...everyone. Do not mess with the Dora Milaje. Sam is hoping no one messes with his family. Zemo didn't want to so he made like a mutant ninja turtle of the teenage variety and took to the sewers. This was after he gave Steve Rogers a compliment, bribed kids with candy and nursery rhymes, and got to smash 11 vials of super serum before getting knocked out cold by a disc of vibranium. Poor Sharon is still waiting for that pardon in Madripoor. We will continue to quickly recap episodes here and discuss what we think is happening in the show and how it will fit into the Marvel Studios Multiverse. Send feedback via email (thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com) or interact on Twitter (@TheWayPhaseFour) or Facebook (facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour). This is the Way we do Phase Four! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

The Power Broker makes an appearance...well, no, he doesn't. It's still the title of the first episode in April. John Walker continues to disappoint us (the viewers) and falls behind in the search for a big splashy win. Karli Morgenthau visits her "Mama" and the three musketeers (Falcon, Winter Soldier, and Zemo) visit the 'poor (Madripoor, that is). The season (and probably series) is halfway done and there are still a few questions, but less and less time to make the reveals. We get a Wakandan connection at the very end, but how many loose ends are going to stay loose if we keep introducing new threads? We will continue to quickly recap episodes here and discuss what we think is happening in the show and how it will fit into the Marvel Studios Multiverse. Send feedback via email (thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com) or interact on Twitter (@TheWayPhaseFour) or Facebook (facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour). This is the Way we do Phase Four! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

The second episode of the Sam and Bucky road show has arrived! March 26th, 2021 brought us The Star-spangled Man on Disney Plus where John Walker made his debut as a Captain America, but we see quickly that the title is less important than the man wearing the suit. We find out that Karli Morgenthau has run afoul of "the Power Broker" and Helmut Zemo has been in the pokey since Civil War. Sharon Carter might be making her appearance soon, simply because she got a name drop...well, so did Bruce Banner and Tony Stark but I don't think they're showing up in this show. The US has a lot of work to do in race relations, but we just don't think Disney should be handling the social commentary. Isaiah Bradley did not deserve what happened to him and there isn't much people can do to make it up to him now. Bucky lets himself get taken to jail, because let's face it, those handcuffs don't stand a chance against his super strength or vibranium arm. The super serum is on a plane with the Flag Smashers destined for a devastating plan and The Falcon joins The Winter Soldier and Dr. Raynor for the weirdest marriage therapy we've seen on Disney Plus...and we just got done with WandaVision! We will quickly recap episodes and discuss what we think is happening in the show and how it will fit into the Marvel Studios Multiverse. Send feedback via email (thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com) or interact on Twitter (@TheWayPhaseFour) or Facebook (facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes are back after being dusted by Thanos, but it's a brand new world to them and there seems to be a new order to it. New World Order is the title for the first installment of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier and it became available on Disney Plus on March 19th, 2021. Join host Steve Loscalzo for a short discussion on the first episode of adventures of Sam and Bucky as they figure out their place in the post-Blip and seemingly (at least for the time being) a post-Avengers world. Sam doesn't feel worthy and Bucky seems lost. Rhodey and Dr. Raynor, Unique and Yori, Leah and Sarah and the kids...a little bit of action off the top and then a lot of setting up the rest of the way. You've got to start somewhere, but it seems there are only 6 episodes to tell this story. We will gently recap episodes and discuss what we think is going on and how it will fit into the Marvel Studios Multiverse and you can send feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour ...we hope you will! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Wanda and Vision may have split up, but there's a new dynamic duo coming together on Disney Plus. The Falcon and The Winter Soldier debuts March 19th, 2021 and This is the Way Phase Four put together a preview. Join host Steve Loscalzo for a short discussion on what to expect from the show next week. The podcast continues weekly and you can send feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour and we hope you will! "FWS" should run 6 weeks, which takes us into April before we need to get ready for the next entry in the Marvel Studios line-up, releasing in June. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

The show title is The Series Finale and it seems like this may really be the end for the show in this incarnation. Vision gets a new lease on life with his new look and his old memories. Billy and Tommy disappear off-screen, but maybe they're not all gone? Family is forever, according to Wanda. Monica gets called up...way up. Darcy helps Jimmy Woo pin charges on Tyler Hayward by pinning him in a truck. Agatha reveals herself to be the one "snackin' on Yo Magic" and we meet Ralph but none of the X-men. The townsfolk get their lives back, but unfortunately they remember what happened in the hex. Oh, and did you hear that? It's Wanda's theme music and it isn't very heroic. She may be a superhero and not a villain, but that doesn't mean she's all good. Maybe a cup of tea and some astral projection will cut through the chaos. OUR show will continue and you can send feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour and please do! Look for more episodes of This is the Way Phase Four when The Falcon and the Winter Soldier debuts in mid-March of 2021. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

WandaVision is in re-runs already? No, it's just Agatha doing research for a podcast she's planning on releasing about chaos magic. She's a purple girl while Wanda dabbles in redder shades and yellows, but mostly scarlet. Agatha treats her neighbors' children like dogs at the end of this one and don't forget about her admission about Sparky at the end of last week's show. This show can be hard to watch for people who sympathize with the losses that we see Wanda go through, but we get a truly magnificent line reading from Paul Bettany which might just bring forth tears of healing. "What is grief, if not love persevering." Emmy-worthy stuff in this one, folks. Well done, writing staff! Join the show by sending feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour but beware of spoilers. Though it looks like the "WandaVision" phase of Marvel Studios' Phase Four is officially over, there's more to come in the entertainment universe on Disney Plus. Look for more episodes of This is the Way Phase Four when The Falcon and the Winter Soldier debuts in mid-March of 2021. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Whoa, whoa, whoa...I thought it was "Wanda...it's all Wanda." Monica may need to hear the new theme song and rethink her exclamatory statement after her "hexpulsion" a few episodes back. She could always snoop around now that she appears to have super sight, right? Uncle Pietro could help since he's been excommunicated from the Maximoff family. Agnes just isn't herself this episode. I mean Wanda. Well, Wanda isn't herself either and for a little bit, neither is Darcy and Captain Rambeau will never be the same. Jimmy Woo is still his friendly self, though. Vision, meanwhile, is one step closer to being his old self and by that I mean the self that was before the snap, since he now has a little more information about the world before Westview. Hayward? Still trying to collect something that doesn't belong to him. The hex? Bigger and better. Nexus? Only take it if your doctor says you're ready to move on with your life. Those side effects, tho... Do you have questions like does Steve take longer writing the show notes or these podcast descriptions? Want to talk with him about it? Want to know what he thinks about fried pickles? Join the show by sending feedback via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and Facebook at facebook.com/TheWayPhaseFour but beware of spoilers. Our basement crypt isn't big enough to hold secrets. We are still in the "WandaVision" phase of Phase Four as the Marvel Entertainment Universe continues. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Uncle P is here! Is he here to snack on someone's magic? Is someone else here, swimming just beneath the surface of the hexagonal anomaly that is Westview? Does the director have more than one dimension or is he just on trend as the poster bad guy? Is Wanda secretly reading comic books from another dimension or do Sokovian fortune tellers really dress like that? Is Vision trapped or is there a way out of Westview without disintegrating? Can we get back to the "Agnes is in on it" bandwagon or is her plight the same as the others? Do you have questions like these and want to talk about it with someone who won't judge your fandom? Send feedback in to Steve via email at thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact with the podcast on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour but bring your A game because those full-size candy bars and pickled herrings won't throw themselves into your plastic pumpkin! Just a few weeks left before WandaVision wraps up while Phase Four of the Marvel Entertainment Universe continues. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

It's a "very special" episode. After all, it's not every day your kids age from babies to 5 years old, then to 10 years old, they find a puppy, the puppy then dies, someone invades your hexagonal pocket dimension using 80s drone technology, tries killing you with a missile, your husband threatens to uncover your wrongdoings to a town full of people and your dead brother comes back to life, played by a different character from a different franchise universe. Life moves fast in suburbia. If you don't slow down, you just might miss it. Steve does his best to fit it all in, but the notes are getting long and the clips are getting shorter. We'd love feedback and you can send email to thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour , so stick with us through the back half of season one of WandaVision as Phase Four of the Marvel Universe continues. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

If you thought getting dusted was chaotic, how about all those people getting "undusted" suddenly, all across the universe? Monica Rambeau experiences it and immediately has to come to grips with what's happened and decides to deal with her mom's death by working through it. Unfortunately, her first case is a missing person's case and she quickly becomes one herself. We get to see "behind-the-scenes" in a way, as episode 4 sees S.W.O.R.D. posing the same questions we all have about the show. How meta! Darcy Lewis is now a "doctor", Agent Woo is a magician, and we're REALLY not sure about Director Hayward...or Wanda. Vision is feeling a bit gray, Agent Franklin brings in the bees on his knees, and Captain Rambeau gets back to flying, just not the way she had hoped. It's a clip sparse podcast, which means a lot of Host Steve Loscalzo's voice, but we'd love to hear what you think. Feedback would be fantastic! Send via email to thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and continue with us this season as Phase Four of the Marvel Universe is only four episodes of WandaVision old! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Wanda and Vision move to the mid-to-late 70s with a "Brady" bunch of homages and not one, but two "Partridges" added to the "Family" tree. Though it came well after the episode aired and the discussion was recorded, the episodes now get actual names, and this one is called "Now in Color", which is appropriate, since this is the first of the episodes to be entirely in color. Host Steve Loscalzo recaps everything including the "Calgon"-esque commercial parody in the middle and slides some speculation in here and there. We meet a doctor and his wife (hmmm, do you think they go Gilligan's Island at all?) and Agnes and Herb appear in cohoots. Poor Phil Jones gets saved by Wanda's contractions and paintings that come to life don't appear to understand the difference between textiles and the real thing. Geraldine gets thrown out of the house, which is odd, since she doesn't have one in Westview, but it's probably for the best, since two new residents named Billy and Tommy arrive (really) early. Please send your feedback via email to thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and join us as Phase Four of the Marvel Universe continues! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Wanda and Vision are back for a mid-to-late 60s TV era homage where Marvel Studios hopes to continue to "bewitch" viewers with a black and white barrage of secrets with just a splash of color. Host Steve Loscalzo tries to dance around the delicate subject of the birds and the beekeepers and wonders what is scarier, the bumps in the night or the baby bump Wanda sports suddenly after an urge to snack. There's another "in-universe" commercial to break down as well as Vision's "Magnet of Crysteries" and other illusions while Wanda's attempts to be glamorous fall short if you ask Queen cul de Sac. We meet Dottie, Bev, Geraldine, and Herb and Norm and Jones are back...for the children, of course. Please send your feedback via email to thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and join us as Phase Four of the Marvel Universe unfolds! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Wanda and Vision are welcomed to Westview in a 50s era send-up by the Marvel Studios television writing team and, well...you've got to start somewhere, right? For what it's worth, host Steve Loscalzo is willing to give a lot of leeway to those who put these things together. Remember when a movie called Guardians of the Galaxy was announced and there was going to be a tree that only says three words with a sidekick that was a much more verbose racoon? Yeah, WandaVision gets at least a whole season to get set up. There is much to speculate about since Episode 1 was so confusing, so come along for some honest misunderstandings, dinners with the boss, quirky neighbors and 50s TV tropes galore. We try a fake commercial breakdown and sample sound from the season premiere, so send feedback to our "new and improved" e-mail address of thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com or interact on Twitter @TheWayPhaseFour and come back for Episode 2 soon! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support

Welcome to Phase Four! Marvel Studios debuts the next group of stories that will connect across the silver screen and streaming platforms on January 15th, 2021 with WandaVision, which is also the debut of our new podcast, set to specifically discuss this phase in the movie and television mediums. Host Steve Loscalzo invites you to listen and give feedback, either through thisisthewaypodcast@gmail.com or thisisthewayphasefour@gmail.com. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-is-the-way-phase-four/support