On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

So, ms_danson points out the MarvelMeta Tumblr to me. I stumble across links to other Tumblr-hosted blogs from there, and it eventually leads me to this essay on the way things must seem across the MCU version of Earth after the Insight Disaster in The Winter Soldier.

To quote where it begins to go...

"Depending on how you want to play it, the post-CA:TWS environment isn’t a political thriller or a spy drama or the tragedy of Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes played out on the world stage.

It’s a horror movie. It’s a horror movie where the the infection/invasion can’t be stopped without killing every single carrier, can’t be identified before it’s too late, can’t be cured by some convenient MacGuffin like closing a portal or uploading a virus or sending an aerosolized cure into the clouds. It won’t just bring about the end of the world by the time it runs its course, it will poison everything that comes after it. It’s the apocalypse and there’s nowhere to hide from it, no protection against it, no happy ending.

There is no possible way HYDRA’s infestation stopped at SHIELD’s borders. They weren’t just at SHIELD, they weren’t just in the US, they weren’t just anywhere and thus not somewhere else. Yes, if you want to launch yourself into global domination, you work hardest within the global hyperpower, but you don’t stop there because suborning the US is necessary, but it’s not sufficient. HYDRA’s in every nation, every state, every polity, every leadership group down to the PTA and tribal councils."

Domenika Marzione notes that the MCU can't follow that logic right to an absolute, dystopian conclusion. And she's right, up to a point. Not if they want to have at least two decades' worth more of movies and TV series in an "#itsallconnected" framework.

But Kevin Feige and company could take various aspects of the whole HYDRA mess as suggested in Marzione's essay and play with them all the way from one end of the MCU line of projects from this point onward. Agents of SHIELD has to be the main line of exploration for that.

Speaking of which, I do wish that the team working on that series would take odd bits from the Romanova Infodump and throw them into the storylines. Because there's got to be stuff in those files messing things up for all sides.

Also, same author: an opinion piece on captured HYDRA gear from the WW2 era. Which makes a certain amount of sense.

...and not the only one.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/11/hushed-mars-curiosity-discovery-sparks-wild-predictions.html