I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.
I usually don't care for the 'it was a dream/vision/hallucination/virtual reality' trope. However, I suspected something was up when they killed of a lot of characters that turn up alive later on, although I didn't suspect this particular trope.
And enough happened with the Mandarin and the armor that I was more focused on that storyline, especially since drunk!Tony is facing The Mandarin.
Jocasta finally clued Tony in to the fact that the armor is sentient - mostly because she's finally figured it out.
All in all, liking this. This doesn't fit into the spot in my last Marvel bingo card but I'm still ahead. I needed 1/4 of all the cards done and I have over that. I'm taking a day off to read a storyline I'm excited about on MU.