whenever Iron Man is involved HE ALWAYS DIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ugh

So, wait, let me get this straight. Killmonger isn't just a killing machine, he's as capable of an engineer as Tony, too? Okay, I'll buy that, but he outsmarts Tony with his own tech? You're telling me that Tony had some way of catching him killing Rhodes via Jarvis but the Wakandans don't have something built into T'Challa's vibranium combat armor to do the same thing? When did Shuri figure out something was up? Where was Shield during all this and why didn't Pepper go to them, or vice-versa? Killmonger acquired all of that intel on Stane how, exactly, and since when does showing all the evidence in public without handing it over to the authorities actually work? Would T'Chaka, Ramonda, and Okoye all be completely and totally oblivious like this? Did Killmonger have to complete some kind of a trial to become the new BP? What even was his plan?

That's the part I can't figure out. It's extremely convoluted. He built an army of vibranium super bots (and do they have the vibranium in the shell, or just use it for a power source? This was unclear to me) only to wreck them to... make himself king? Why did he personally kill T'Challa and take that risk?

In the movie, Killmonger is a pretty clever villain, and he knows he can't fool everyone- he makes allies in Wakanda who have hardliner positions that are sympathetic to his plan to overthrow world governments and uses Wakanda's traditions against it to seize power with the support of those internal allies, effectively carrying off a coup. In this he just waltzes in and they all love him as the result of a painfully obvious and transparent plan?

And where the fuck was M'Baku? You're telling me he wouldn't have challenged Killmonger?

Also, you raise good points about the latest episode. Killmonger never struck me as a brilliant engineer. Good at planning, yes, but actually designing warbots, no. Not to mention his plan in this episode glosses over a lot of the issues in Wakanda that enabled him to briefly become king in the movie. Killmonger had to take advantage of Wakanda's isolationism and xenophobia to succeed in the movie- his biggest supporter was W'Kabi, who was established as an anti-refugee asshole that wouldn't mind "cleaning up" the world.

Also, the Jabari def would've gotten involved as soon as it looked like Wakanda was going to go to war with an outside power.

the Watcher getting his hands dirty in self defense!

I particularly liked the scene where Ultron kept punching them into different realities.

Also, damn Uatu's got hands. Considering his vantagepoint in the multiverse and seeming isolation, I'm wondering if rather than just being one of the Watchers, Uatu is now simply the Watcher.

Thanos def has been hit with the Nerf this whole season. Where the hell did that bisecting feat come from? Hell, Ultron melted fucking Uru like it was nothing. Vision never demonstrated that kind of power, and I don't buy the argument that he didn't understand his body compared to Ultron- dude was so much more advanced an AI he was able to bitchslap Ultron out of the internet in seconds. He has the Mind Stone, not the Power Stone.

was totally WTF when he picked Killmonger....but then it made sense

Chadwick Boseman was obviously ill when they recorded the finale. I mean, he was sick the entire time, but it was really showing in his voice. It was pretty sad and I couldn't help but wonder if they reduced his role.

I wonder if we'll see any of these characters again. Frankly, it would be a waste to never bring back Captain Carter or evil Strange. Both characters are great and Cumberbatch is phenomenal with the voice work.