WandaVision (2021, Disney+) • Page 33

Lots to really love about this one. Some bits I wasn’t that into, but what I did connect with was easily enough to outweigh them.

The flashback to the kids was really something. Really felt the impact from the attack. Also love that they grounded the sitcom angle, not in some dumb exposition-y way, but as an actual character, thematic element.

Didn’t care for the Hydra bit outside of the well executed quick glimpse at the Witch. The Avengers compound scene ruled, though. Great performances from both of ‘em. I know people were into some of Vision’s dialogue there, but for me, the physical acting is was really sold it.

I think the highlight for me was Wanda driving into Westview. The city & its people just felt so simple & mundane, & so familiar. To then culminate in that empty lot, & then see the note from Vision... I could make a case for that being the most effective emotional beat Marvel Studios has done. Just the way it perfectly showed Wanda mourning not just what she had & lost, but the home & family she was never going to have. The story cut short.

And then I got the meta thing I’ve been stupidly obsessed with! lol. Agatha in the empty studio audience ruled.

I didn’t care for the whole flashback bit at the beginning. I don’t like how standard Marvel some of the magic looks. But, the pros easily outweighed those criticisms. This reminded me of why I love Scarlet Witch so much, & then somehow elevated that.

 

Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany have absolutely killed it this season. Easily some of the best acting in the MCU since it started and it’s not even close. Can’t think of anything that comes close. Maybe Michael B Jordan at the end of BP. But nothing else that really stands out. They won’t get anything, but they deserve a major award or two IMO.

 

show is fine. the last three have left me pretty wanting. the concept is great. i just wish they leaned into it more and explored some real themes. it isn’t awful or even the worst of the mcu. it just could have been the best of it and ... isnt

liked most of last nights episode with the exception of the “youre the .... scarlett witch” drop, in which my eyes rolled out the back of my skull

 

I’m still expecting either Mephisto or Nightmare to appear as the big bad in the finale

 

Hayward's totally the anti-mutant guy going forward right?

 

I’m not sure I agree with you on the “real themes” thing. We’ll see if the finale sticks the landing or gets too weighed down by standard Marvel fare & setup, but thus far, I think the storytelling has mostly worked. If anything, I’d argue some of the theme stuff occasionally gets pretty on the nose, lol, but I’d argue the central story has worked super well.

The “Scarlet Witch” thing was definitely goofy, lol, & it’s funny that’s what some people online have clung to out of everything in the episode. The inherent campiness of superheroes is something I dig, though, so I didn’t mind it.

 

Nothing about this show has felt like an exploration of mutants to me, so I’m gonna say no.

 

Hayward’s gonna get killed off next week probably.

 

Final episode is 50 min. Sucks like 10 min of that will be credits

 

I agree with you here. Think the show is pretty good, but the exploration of her grief has been on the nose too much through the sitcom lenses, and took too long to get where we're at. I wish there was just a bit more focus on the exploration of that through the sitcom world rather than wrapping it in a sideline whodunit mystery. This last episode was great though.

 

I also really loved them poking fun at the accent thing for a second time. “Man, that accent really comes and goes doesn’t it?”

 

Maybe this has already been mentioned, but someone just pointed out to me that the reason the shape is a hexagon and Darcy calls it the "hex" is a play on the word "hex" as in a spell. ‍Wow... completely missed that.

 

any chance this ends with Hex Vision taking over Evil Vision's body and thus being fully resurrected

 

That would be interesting if they did

 

I feel like that could be a strong possibility

 

Either way, I'd be surprised if this ends with Vision still dead. Would work better thematically, with Wanda working through her grief and letting Vision go and all, but with the newer audiences, they may wanna keep the characters around.

 

I would accept if they bring him back, but he can’t love her anymore. She needs to learn how to live with grief and loss in order to move forward in life and as a character. Doesn’t make sense if he just comes back and things are decently all “ok”

 

Yeah if he comes back I imagine this is what they'll do. THIS version of Vision only knows Wanda's lies and manipulations after all, he doesn't have the history with her that OG Vision does where he could probably find a way to forgive her.

 

The main reason I don’t think Vision will come back is because he’ll be absent in Doc Strange 2 while Wanda is a co Star. If Vision came back you’d think he would be right along with Wanda.

 

bettanys contract has been movie to movie. there’s no reason to assume he won’t be in MoM

 

As a long time advocate for Vision being easy to bring back... I don’t think I want that now? Thematically, it’d make more sense if Wanda has to move on without Vision in her life, as tragic as that’d be. (Preferably without becoming the villain some people online have proposed, lol; that’d be a real bad choice given the grief angle they’ve gone down.)

 

They announced the main cast list and Olsen was there but not Bettany and no reports have mentioned vision being in the film. I think it’s safe to assume his character gets closure next week.

 

Vision is gonna take a quin jet to Sakaar and become the Grand Master’s new champion

 

nah, lil dumbass can’t fight