WandaVision discussion thread

Okay, so in terms of this episode moving the main story forward, it felt like filler and confirmation.

Saying that, the very next thing I have to say is, I loved it.

The intro felt like we were finally back in a Marvel production. When the Marvel intro-reel/music started I got that familiar hyped feeling. The show up to now, while good, hasn't felt quite like "Marvel". This almost seems like the real beginning of the series.

Smelled a bit of an unwelcome trope in the introduction to the acting Director that "SWORD isn't your mom's SWORD" anymore. Basically, "good guy who was single-handedly keeping a powerful organization from getting corrupt leaves and comes back to *shocked pikachu* a corrupt organization." Doubt it'll be a problem in this series but vague hand-wavy foreshadow for something in the future. If I'm right... ehhh, we did the HYDRA infiltrated SHIELD thing already. I hope I'm reading into it too much and we don't go that exceedingly derivative route, again.

I am happy with who they brought in as secondary characters. Good choices with Woo and Darcy. Ties the MCU together a bit more, they both offer their unique styles of humour, and both actors nail their roles.




Next one is REALLY odd. I didn't catch this myself. Saw a post on reddit about it, went back and checked. I dunno if this is a genuine blooper or foreshadow or wtf it is. I enlarged the NOTES section. It's an odd read. Almost as if this sheet is used again in the next episode and they mistakenly used it too early for this scene without changing it or something. I dunno. Vision hasn't released anyone, and Norm hasn't become himself yet. Weird...


When Wanda kicks Geraldine/Monica out I got the sense she didn't want to kill her. (Cause... she'd be dead after that.) She ejected her sure, but didn't disintegrate, blow up, or otherwise destroy her. She would've had to use her power to protect her along with moving her. Along with the obvious level of awareness Wanda demonstrates, that also says to me she's aware enough not to kill for any old reason. However, she looks bewildered a bit. I still think she got nudged in the direction by Agnes or her as yet unseen hubby "Ralph" but she's obviously holding the reins.

Dead Vision. I've had the suspicion Vision will make a long term come-back due to Wanda's power being a direct result of the Mind Stone. It raises a couple questions in that regard. Is it his literal dead body in there? Is Wanda using it like a puppet (IMO, no.) or rather is she powering him herself somehow? Essentially, is that really Vision in there? I'm starting to think it is. Kills my theory that he's Mephisto but oh well. Plays into my guess that, if that's really Visions corpse, then he can be revived using her power, permanently. That assumes he's not a complete puppet though. Given he's expressed doubts about his surroundings himself I'm guessing that's really Vision in there, Wanda's just acting like a mini-Mind Stone battery for him.

I wonder if this whole thing ends with her losing a significant portion of her powers to restore Vision.

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Fun episode, and I'm curious to see the division of time in the next ep. Do we see the show from the outside perspective or are we sucked back into the sitcom for a whole ep, or is it split half'n'half...

I did see...somewhere...online (and I have wracked my brain and Googles to try and remember where), that WandaVision, Spider-Man 3 and Dr Strange 2 are all one “mini-phase” of the MCU to get us ready for the bonkersness to come.

If true, then the possibilities are endless, I guess.

Still not feeling all the new developments.

Wanda deliberately or accidentally taking a town hostage and being unconcerned about it doesn't seem consistent with her agony over the bystander casualties in Civil War or her own experiences of being locked in place due to the threat of someone else's power as a child.

In my mind, the Wanda from the movies would have hated the situation as soon as she realized what it was, and felt compelled to work to fix it.

Vision feels pretty much in character, though. Their conversation at the end feels natural on his part, with him gently but insistently urging her to realize that this is wrong and can't be allowed to go on, because he can't exist like this and doesn't want her to either. Really don't think he would have let the doorbell distract them from the subject though.

I'm not a huge fan of Evan Peters' Quicksilver, so having that very heartfelt and crucial conversation cut off to introduce Wanda's recast brother was irritating and just... awkward. Wish they hadn't.

Still mourning for a hypothetical movie or tv-show about Wanda having adventures and being herself without all this weirdness taking up the screentime and garbling her characterization.

The "take the shot" moment was nice though. Considering the circumstances I feel like it was pretty fucking justified.

Dead Vision talking was a creepy moment I hadn’t anticipated, for sure.

Nit pick of the minor variety; how the hell did the corpse of an Android built with privately held IP (Tony and Bruce), made of Vibranium that was left in Wakanda end up in the hands of the American Government?

Magneto is out. Or, at least, Ian McKellen is out. They were together in the Da Vinci Code.

Trouble is, I don't think Fassbender (or McAvoy, for that matter) fits the bill of a Marvel film "legend" who'd provide a cameo to rival Luke in Mandalorian S2. Phenomenal actor, just...not in the same league as McKellen, Stewart or Jackman. No way in hell Jackman is coming back for this and if McKellen is ruled out then that leaves only Stewart.

Just about everybody loves Patrick Stewart, so that'd be fine, but I couldn't think of a reason why Wanda would 'cast' him. There is no family connection there. Then a mate and I were texting just now and the idea was raised - maybe she doesn't bring him in. Maybe he isn't there physically in Westview. Maybe he uses his psychic connection to Pietro to reach across the multiverse and talk to her?

Anyway, at this point, I've put so much bloody time in to thinking about this cameo (which is still several episodes away) that I don't think anything is going to live up to the hype I've created in my head.