WANDAVISION: What's the Point? | EVERYTHING Explained + Full Marvel Series BREAKDOWN
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- Опубликовано: 15 мар 2021
- WandaVision has ended, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe show left many lingering, philosophical questions. This video breaks down the full meaning of WandaVision, Vision, the kids, Pietro, Fietro, flashbacks, sitcoms, Agatha, and Wanda's staged of grief.
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Written and Hosted by Ryan Arey ( / ryanarey )
Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright
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What's the point of WandaVision?
idk
Shut up
It was as inconsequential as captain marvel
Explore Wanda's grief after EG.
it's up there.. but is the story finished 🤔
Can we just agree that without Agatha pushing Wanda into "therapy", she wouldn't solve her trauma and would still be in the hex?
That kind of touches on the comics a bit. Agatha was more neutral than anything and actually a mentor to the Scarlet Witch.
I still think Agatha was there to forge Scarlet Witch and not really fight her.
@@jaym8927 i doubt so. she seemed hungry for wanda’s powers and when wanda tricked her and got all her powers back including agatha’s, she became the scarlet witch and agatha seemed scared therefore saying, “you don’t know what you’ve done.”
@@elijahbrothers14 oh :) thats nice
Agatha seemed to have gotten shafted as bad as the residents of Westview, she didn't seem to deserve what she got in the end. What was Agatha even doing in the hex? Was she living in Westview when Wanda created the hex? Was she Jimmy's witness protection case? And talking about people getting shafted, how was the director of SWORD even in the wrong? The Vision in the Hex was a fake, what Wanda was doing was actually wrong, he actually told Wanda they were decommissioning Vision when she showed up. The only thing he could be wrong about was activating Vision again against his orders, but the show already made him to be the villain before he ever did that.
The stages of grief is simple enough, but pairing it with the evolution of TV from idealism to realism is brilliant. Best analysis of the overall plot I've seen on RUclips.
couldn't have said it any better
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"For the Children" seems to be the town agreeing to not fight back against Wanda because she has all the children held hostage somewhere.
Fighting back is not a choice for them, they don't control it
@@willybigp Well they can put input. "Stop it!" Or any time anyone goes "what do you want Wanda?" type moments.
@@JJSMJ i think that was agatha's influence as they didn't ask that in the beginning, but fighting Wanda's influence was not an option for them
@@willybigp I think they need to clarify that...I believe Debra Jo Rupp was definitely pleading with Wanda to save her husband when he was choking.
@@JJSMJ you mean in the first episode?
First off it showed how talented both Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany are. It took such an unusual premise and made it work.
Oh and It built up the backstory of Wanda which was needed and it provided insight into her grief and love. We also got some unforgettable Vision quotes. Everything else is just gravy.
I dunno.. flashback right after pietro died and she had full on American accent. Seems they just decided to gloss over it with jokes about her accent rather than actually trying to get her to learn it. Lazy actress is lazy.
@@mekkiepoo she had no accent in the avengers compound flashback?
You serious?
@@Pointman11111 yep, not even an attempt at one lol
@@mekkiepoo wrong
@@mekkiepoo i watched it in german and english and she definitely has an accent
When Wanda says to the people of West View "I'll let you go" she's, in a way, talking to Vision.
No?
@@TheSeanyb96 Why not?
Wow I never actually thought about that. Nice!
yes i can see where you’re coming from. when she has to let go of all the people of Westview she is saying goodbye to everything she created out of her grief~ including this version of vision
The line was presented in an unusual way. The "Mrs. Hart" character says "if you won't let us go, then let us die" and Wanda replies "I will" and immediately says "let you go". Wanda's "actors" were begging her to end the "series" that were being forced to participate in even by "killing off the characters".
I lost two family members last year within a month and a half, sadly I was unable to attend both funerals due to covid restriction, and when I watch the last episode it reminds me how it feels to lose someone you truly love and care, and how you won't able to see them again, it really does hurt a lot, even when I'm typing this I cry like a baby.
So sorry for your losses. Words are inadequate.
That’s ridiculous that they won't let you honor your loved ones lives. Sorry about that
I’m so sorry for your losses.
bless you!
R.I.P ✝️.
Wandavision is honestly a heartbreaking show once you realize the fact that she is just trying to keep everything together.
I just wanted to take a moment to gush over the wigs they used. They were the best I’ve ever seen. I didn’t even know they were wigs. The usual ones are noticeable and pull me out of the story. Well done Wandavision.
I totally agree. I loved Wanda’s hair styles. I also wish Elizabeth Olsen actually had red hair
As a wig designer I said the same thing! They did a great job!
Did Olsen wear a wig?
Yes she did in many scenes but she alternated between a wig and what looks like pieces added for fullness. Thicker hairline was the wigs.
@diascrive Aww man even at the end in her new outfit?
It introduced a New Hero in Photon and two Bad Guys in Hayward and Agatha and a Transformation of Wanda to Scarlet Witch.
This is the right answer
Hayward and agatha were basically introduced and done away with by the end of the show.
We didn’t need 9 episodes just to find out that scarlet witch is strong
@@hamzahassaballa5050 Nah I don't think Agatha'a done. She knows more than Wanda so she'll need her help someday and remember that "If I do, I know where to find you" line?
Hayward will likely return as well
And it brought vision back and gave us her children that will definitely play a bigger role in future series/movies as we saw in the end credit scene
“What is grief if not love persevering”
What's the point?
To cure my sanity from being in quarantine without being able to watch a Marvel movie like the before times.
This is the right answer.
✅
Now we essentially get a mini Marvel movie every Friday!!!
Mhmm exactly.
Yesssssss
the point, like everything else Marvel, is to get you excited to watch the next Marvel thing... and I loved every second of it.
same, by the way i made a wandavision summary, could you watch it and tell me what you think?
Umm you don't know what you're talking about... Marvel is objectively worse than DC. Anyone who doesn't like DC is stupid and doesn't know what is good entertainment. Even in the old days where comics were popular DC still prevailed. You unintelligent dimwitted sub-human.
@@jasonchadfield7267 🤣🤣🤣😂
@@jasonchadfield7267 Eat a Snickers. Life is too short to be this bitter.
@Azrael’s Shadow No I wasn't. Clearly you were if you think marvel is good
Best character study in the MCU so far
Daredevil... He's in the MCU now. So, I don't know.
@@tellmesomething2412 Daredevil was quite good but there was just something different about WandaVision, you could even call it magical lmao
@@Yehoshua66 originality. It was really worth the watch even for those who despise superhero movies. Daredevil is a blast, but honestly it's just a super-duper lawyer-man's adventures
@@tellmesomething2412 always was
@@kikosawa very well put. I mean I would’ve been all for whatever they chucked out with Wanda (obviously) but wow I’m still shocked at how masterfully crafted it was especially in comparison to its peers
Fridays are just not the same anymore.... 😢
Well at least Falcon and the winter soldier is coming out this Friday so I guess that may fill the void a bit
@@-lovi-961 Something to pass the time until Loki
F&TWS and Loki: *On your left*
@@ludicrousslim my thoughts exactly
@@-lovi-961 it wont fill it as much as wandavision for me. I love wamdas character but the fatws looks amazing so im definatly hyped!
I had no clue the series structure was based on the stages of grief - great stuff!
That and didn’t realize the shows/periods tied in much more than just sitcom gags. Really amazing analysis to notice all that
such a great analysis! if anyone has not yet I totally recommend The Making of WandaVision. It took me forever to locate; Disney has it listed under 'Live Action Series and Specials" > 'Assembled' It was so great to know that even the production was period accurate. The magic in the first episode was all practical and in front of a live audience. it adds so much to just the experience of watching at home.
I wondered where that was. Thanks for the tip! I had to do a search for "Assembled" to find it. And I agree with you 100% this was an excellent analysis that I thoroughly enjoyed.
This series was so sad, so dramatic, so well written, so creative, so philosophical and so funny... you wouldn't expect something like this from a blockbuster studio like Marvel. What a masterpiece
The point was to get us to care about a character that we were luke warm about because her significance is about to skyrocket, and btw, big time success at doing so
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I'm loving the positive attention!
i totally get the appeal of the classic sitcoms, though. because no matter how deep they dig themselves, they always manage to rectify everything by episode's end. it's a perpetual reminder that as long as we do our best, everything will work out in the end
It was the fantasy she had hoped would finally bring happiness...she learned, it wasn't real. How painful!
Wanda: "I trapped hundreds of people in a nightmare existence and tortured them for weeks. It helped me learn to love myself again."
Agnes: "I bit a kid once."
“And I killed Sparky too!”
Agnes: Let's forget the fact that I'm power hungry. Doesn't really care about people. My own Coven and mother thinks I'm dangerous and should be killed. As seen in Doctor Strange, she's basically a more power hungry version of Caicilus. I was also prepared to kill police officers and basically anyone.
But sure, I only bit a kid once is the bad thing I did.
Well I don't know about y'all - but I would love to see wanda and vision HAVE their happily ever after with the boys... call me sentimental.
I feel the same way. She's been through a lot. And I have a bad feeling she'll be going down a dark path in doctor strange 2
@@flynnwhimster5371 perhaps...I had hoped they wouldn't make her dark - after studying up in her book, maybe she'd managed to NOT become the ultimate destroyer!
I thought vision give the white vision his memories so wouldn't that make the white vision the actual vision
@@BLVCK-VINCI I thought so too - but then he flew off!
@@BLVCK-VINCI He doesn't have the feelings. He has the memories but he doesn't have the heart of Vision.
I just binge watched WandaVision and loved it. It took me a few episodes to get that it was Wanda only doing everything, not someone else (like Agatha) controlling Wanda against her will. And the use of American sitcoms, particularly the 80s and 2000s sitcoms, was too fun. I will say that as I watched Wanda walk through the crowd of towns folk in her hoodie after they were all freed in the final episode, I felt so much anger and frustration on behalf of the people because there would be no justice for them, like jail time for Wanda, for being held against their will. After realizing what she’d done, I was at first thinking that her walk through town was her walking towards her punishment. Anyone else feel or think this way?
Vindictive justice is not justice at all. So, I defninitely didn't feel that way.
her punishment is being alone in the life she always wanted; without vision she feels that same emptiness that she did as a kid
Wanda is one of my favorite Marvel characters. While I don't even know how to punish a character with Nexus level power, I do agree that the townsfolk deserved something more than her escape. She did something very wrong and never had to answer for it other than "I'm sorry' as she fled the scene of her crimes. I *get* that she was traumatized and in grief, ect, but that doesn't excuse crimes in the real world. Even in the trailers for (and now in the actual movie) Doctor Strange & the MoM, when she first sees Stephen she is not at all surprised as she assumes this is about Westview.
If you think about it, had she been forced (somehow) to stay, give proper apologies, do community service, mandated psychological counseling (good chance to re-introduce Doc Sampson into the MCU) and face ANY sort of reasonable justice system, then the events of Dr. Strange II might never have happened.
I think you missed the entire point of the trauma Wanda was born into and continued throughout her life with both her brother and finally Vision dying.
I ask you has Wanda not been punished enough by the universe? Also, nobody is going to arrest the Scarlett Witch.
I feel like wandavision was made to expand their audience. That’s why they went with the decade by decade sitcom and threw in a bunch of easter eggs and room for viewers to theorize.
I just got to binge the entire series last night and here I am watching this, fully intending to watch your entire series on the title. Not only was that one of the most incredible series I have ever seen in so many ways, but the premise actually closely mimics a scenario I wrote into stories as a kid in what I had actually named the predicament "hex".
Honestly did not think that the MCU could even pull off such a good character study. Good job i hope whoever that was behind this gets to do more stuff.
Doctor strange two
was that assistant Manager Doug on your lap in your home? inappropriate, someone should alert H.R.
And doggo resources!
I think it was definitely more focused on the journey than the destination. It seems like it wouldn't make sense for Marvel to put too many crucial story points for the next phase into something that not all theater-going audiences would get to see before the next movies come out. But by putting in so many fake-out Easter eggs and sticking to the weekly format, they created tons of water-cooler hype around the show to garner more subscribers.
But didn't Kevin Feige confirm that you must watch WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Sodier and Loki to make sense of the Phase Four Cinematic Universe?
@@Pranav_Bhamidipati ofc you really believe this series is insignificant?
I never really got what the big deal was with this show but now that you've explained what everything represents I have a way better understanding. THANK YOU SO MUCH
Ryan - this is outstanding. First, the genius within the narrative arcs that the showrunners crafted - and second, your deconstruction and analysis.
I would only add that THIS explanation of everything demonstrates why we didn’t need a Big Bad reveal, or a direct tie into something next. This is a self-contained journey, that ties up the loose ends of Wanda and Vision’s story, and gives her the resolution her tragedy demands.
i never really looked at WANDAVISION this way, thanks Ryan
I swear that nick cage bees scene must be Ryan’s favourite thing ever
The Pietro reveal makes sense. I don't think Agatha would be capable of pulling someone from a whole other reality, so it wouldn't make sense that she would be chasing Wanda's power if she could.
yes!! the confusion that his character caused for Wanda and the audience was just brilliant, it kept us second guessing ourselves this whole series and totally submerged in the series
I think this analysis is the most accurate one I’ve seen on RUclips by far.
Wanda was using sitcoms based on what she watched when she was growing up for her grieving. While Wanda and Vision spend the early episodes trying to hide their abilities it was only a matter of time before they came realized to the town. I believe the beginning was Agatha testing Wanda’s powers.
It is a shame that not a lot of people watch this channel. I find the analysis much more deeper and from the heart than on any other channel out there. Eric, heavy spoilers, emergency awesome are all interesting in their own ways, but this channel does it better and still has less views.
Thanks for watching with us. Best You Tube companion for this show. Some others went so far out, but you kept it simple
And now we have to wait another year for Multiverse of Madness. Come on!
Wait... I've seen Black mirror and I'm just now realizing that a "black mirror" could be a T.V turned off.... woah
That is what it always meant lol
@@hello3.14dodododododododod5 no shit
Man, this was great, a deep breakdown of all the themes & tropes & the stages of grief. Such a cogent & thoughtful breakdown.
Screen crush you have groomed me. Every time I hear the word bees on youtube I expect good old nick screaming "NOT THE BEES!!"
Thanks for this video essay. Really well thought out and well written. Always look forward to your vids.
I actually enjoyed it made me like Wanda even more
Dang. This breakdown was actually crazy and highlighted a lot of stuff I didn’t realize. Especially the connections between the older sitcoms, the show, and how they relate to everyday life for us as well. One of the few video essays that’s done right. Well done.
Holy Moly Ryan ! Big up yourself
This is an astoundingly comprehensive and simply brilliant analysis. Thanks
hahaha, by the way i made a wandavision summary, could you watch it and tell me what you think?
What a fantastic breakdown of the series. Your insights reminded me of my film theory class. Thanks for making this video!
Ryan. Thank you sir. Your work is valued and you are appreciated.
“What is grief, if not love persevering.” Damn. Stellar writing and stellar delivery by Paul Bettany.
I just wanna applaud the creators of this show for doing something unique.
To give Elizabeth Olsen the full experience of the big screen. I don't ever want it to end.
So well put. I have enjoyed all these episodes along with WandaVision and the Mandalorian and I look forward to the next obsession!! 😅
I find your well thought out breakdowns second to none with New Rockstars a close second.
Thank you for your hard work
I cannot stop watching your videos on analyzing these characters. They add more depth to super hero shows. 🙌🏽
Just finished it. Absolutely loved it. So well made, clever and emotional. It's great they are daring to take the marvel universe into new directions with this and Loki. The future looks good.
The ending of this video is some of your finest work, well done!
Woohoo, NEW VIDEO I LOVE MARVEL AND YOU HELP ME SOLVE MY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MOVIES/SERIES. keep up the amazing work
You literally have the best videos for Marvel content. I spent 20 minutes that I should’ve been using to get ready for work, to instead watch your, “what’s the point?” vid for the Loki series. Now I’ve done it again on this one. Now I’m 40 minutes late for work. Thanks Ryan Arey!❤️
I've always liked Wanda. I had trouble accepting that she was capable of being so villainous and selfish after all this time. Granted it was unintentional but almost none of it was addressed in the end, and her character seems slightly more grey. It makes sense that there is still a dark and terrifying aspect of her power. But after being an Avenger for so long it's almost jarring. These people snapped out of it and were terrified of her. And her reflex was to accidentally strangle everyone. This was before she leveled up to become the Dark Phoenix. Oops I mean Scarlet Witch.
Hurt people hurt people. I find it insane that a character can be an orphan, have her brother murdered, then have the love of her life murdered in front of her, after she already murdered him to save the world...why do people not think that trauma will come out? I don't remember the government asking if she was okay after her twin died instead they put her on house arrest.
I very liked the show.
For me, WandaVision is about loss and grief and how you deal with it. In the end, you have to go on, change and leave the past behind you.
Elizabeth and Paul have awesome chemistry in front of the camera.
And I don't want a standard superhero action series because we already have the movies, and WandaVision gave me a new perspective regarding the MCU.
The end was a little bit weak but overall this was a very entertaining ride and I am very curious about the next instalments of the MCU, especially for Loki :)
great explanation, you definitely brought things to the forefront that I didn't even catch or realize. This is definitely a great explanation of the series !
It sure was fun watching you break down all the Easter eggs after each episode. Will miss that. Thanks for the memories.
Setting up for the next Marvel movie, of course.
thanks for saving 18 minutes of my life
*movies*
Ikr duh😂😂😂😂
Took 9 episodes to set that up ?
@@CertainOverlord not really,great video
4:27 Your editing of that scene with Wanda and Vision juxtaposed with Thanos and Vision while keeping the laugh track intact was freaking brilliant.
This is one of the best breakdowns of WandaVision yet. It was something I sorely needed to come back to after watching Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
Really lovely and insightful piece, thank you!
So glad somebody understood why the casting of Evan Peters had to happen
I think my dissapointed upon realising he's not the real Pietro was way more intense than Wanda's
Where do you rank WandaVision among the other MCU stories?
Top 5
In the top 40%.. better than most origins
Top 1!!!!
Under Top 5
top 10
Like the show, which kept us all guessing and entertained in a thoughtful way, I enjoyed this very much! Thank you!
Really like your videos man! Looking forward to the next one!
12:04 JJ Walker wasn't a visitor or neighbor like Urkel. He was actually part of the Evans family.
I loved following her through all of it
So well done...thank you Screen Crush dude!
This was wonderful. Thank you 💕
I enjoyed WandaVision. A very unique, powerful character wrapped in a really beautiful lady, but my heart really went out to Wanda. Considering everything she went through, it's no wonder she went nuts for awhile. What she created was cool, unless you count the terrified hostages.
didn't Agatha say in near the end of the series that she wanted to see if Wanda could create life from nothing so surely it was her pressuring her into having children
You’re really good at what you do, I’m happy there are people like you
So glad I found this channel. Thank you!
Great analysis
I understand it all so clearly now... they made Wandavision so we could find this channel. Life has meaning again!
hahahah, by the way i made a wandavision summary, could you watch it and tell me what you think?
The craftsmanship for this is superb, this is brilliant in so many ways, from the black and white to the cinema like color grading and aspect ratio, this reminds me of parallel themes and Tropes like The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask for the stages of grieving and Superman for the man who has everything, for the beautiful lie aspect and the pain it gives to give up that perfect world for Reality.
This is my favourite place to get all my nerd info, thank you so much for inventing this channel
I think the 5 stages of grief have been moved around
1) anger - at losing Vision
2) depression - that she couldn’t see his body
3) anger - by going to Westview and trapping the entire town
4) bargaining- living her life through sitcoms
5) acceptance - realising that a fake family is not the solutions to her problems.
Just a theory tho......
Oh no you are right the show tackles the 5 stages of grief
#1 is denial
Wait, you watched WandaVision with your boss sitting on your lap? Is there anything you’d like to disclose to HR?
hahahaha, i made a wandavision summary, could you watch it and tell me what you think?
@@TheSummarizerMoviesRecaps no one cares
@@SuicidalDave25 might you like it :V
@@TheSummarizerMoviesRecaps I’ll check it out Man 💪🏼
@@SuicidalDave25 this was uncalled for. If you didn't care why comment at all?
Great review !!! Amazing
Thank you. This was very in depth and informative.
Interesting coming back to this after MoM. Contrary to the opinion of many, I believe the movie actually retroactively makes the show even better, in particular the season finale. And the way you've described the themes and the character arc thru the story of WandaVision really was leading to the events of MoM.
The main reason i didn't like the quicksilver reveal was because it reminded me too much of the Mandarin twist in Iron Man 3, which was awful.
It felt like the exact same thing
I agree
I like the Mandarin twist. Without that, there was no "All Hail the King!" and we won't see Mandarin again.
@@McHaro0079 Sme i loved it.
Well that mandarin isn't even the real mandarin
wait until shang-chi
Subscribed! Great video! Thanks!
Awesome video Ryan Arey 👍
Yeah but I'd rather be upset about what the show wasn't intended to be.
There's a major bias here that's misinterpreting Wanda completely. Wanda clearly wants marriage and children. She was in a relationship with an artificial intelligence who is now dead. By the relationship's very nature (which is referenced in the nosy comments of being asked why they don't have children yet), they are biologically incompatible. He's not human. Do you understand why this desperation to follow the housewife emancipation narrative thus doesn't make sense?
The show isn't making fun of housewives who want marriage, children and a normal life or telling them to give up wanting those things because academia has decided for women that a traditional family life with a nurturer and a provider is unfulfilling. It’s also not making fun of historical time periods and their mindsets in a postmodern way (not the same criticism that Pleasantville made), but actually is looking back on those sitcoms and their tropes with a lot of love. The show creators actually had a sit-down with Dick van Dyke because they have affection for these shows and it showed in how accurate they got everything. At no point do they make fun of the eras or sitcoms of old, but rather reserve most of their poking fun (lovingly) at the characters themselves instead. Elizabeth Olsen herself is a sibling of sitcom royalty (the Olsen twins of Full House fame). Wanda herself has a lot of affection for those escapist shows that got her through hard times and she yearns for having a lot of the things depicted in them. Criticism of past media for not being currently relevant enough (this idea that the ‘50s sitcom world or even music of the era is creepy all on its own even before it unravels--sorry, but a lot of people still respect I Love Lucy, et al.) or of women who might actually yearn to imagine themselves into such a “normal” or “traditional” life with things they’ve always desired (yet are explicitly denied to them) or one free of tragic endings (yet at the same time acknowledging that we do suffer loss we have to accept) was completely the opposite of WandaVision's message.
Wanda has been denied every single one of those things for her entire life and she's in mourning for the life she thinks she'll now never have because everyone she's ever loved is now dead. She desperately wants to have children, a husband and family, to the point where she still hasn't given up on creating them for real. And do note that she has to create them magically, whether Vision comes back or not.
Before she even lost either of these Visions or her imaginary children, she had already lost her own parents, home and twin brother. She's been a young woman without family for years and Vision was the one being she had left (she didn't have many Avengers she was close to and one she spent her entire life blaming for killing her parents), as unusual a couple as they were, until he was taken from her, too.
Hayward pushes her buttons constantly by using language that dehumanizes Vision (phrases like "back online", rather than "back to life") as he's being stripped for parts while she's using language describing a loved one she wants to give a human burial to. She has been judged for her choice in partner, just as the act of White Vision being stripped of Vision's memories that were wrapped up in falling in love instead of strict programming without distraction (Vision injured War Machine in an act of friendly fire because he was distracted by Wanda) is deemed by Hayward to be an improvement. He sees Vision as nothing more than a very expensive weapon to be used. He even puts a price tag on him. The relationship between Wanda and Vision with Vision being capable of having feelings or sentience at all is thus treated as a programming mistake.
The denial of Vision’s personhood also mirrors Wanda’s own for years. Hydra and Ultron used her as a weapon, then the Avengers used her as a weapon until they spent more time treating her as a live nuke that needed to be guarded and imprisoned. It’s not much different than Wanda being told that Vision doesn’t even belong to her and even his own desires are irrelevant (he thus doesn’t even own himself); he’s mere property of an organization.
The last thing Vision wanted to be was a weapon and it shows in how he doesn't defeat White Vision with a battle, but rather an existential philosophical debate.
Consider this when you realize that Vision was ready to flee the Avengers completely with Wanda to go live in a suburban lot in New Jersey when they were pulled into the mess with Thanos. Their attachment was to each other during those stolen moments for two years, rather than to some greater duty. It was Vision who bought that empty lot and was talking about the two of them running away from everything and pretending to be a normal couple. It's the life that Vision was talking about in Infinity War that was taken from Wanda because he was attacked right after that scene and later died in that movie.
Interesting thing to note about Infinity War is that Vision was using a human form at the beginning of the film even when there was nobody around (even alone in their hotel room and even when the Mind Stone is bothering him--he doesn't change form when she's connecting with the stone in his forehead either). Throughout WandaVision, Wanda is constantly asking Vision to remain in his true form with her, such as when meeting his children for the first time. It actually contradicts the real Vision that we saw at the start of Infinity War who seemed to be wanting to be seen as a man instead, even in only Wanda's presence alone.
This was awesome, thank you!
Love this. Such a complete review.
you got me in the last 20 seconds. "For the children"
Since Vision got his memory back I though he and Wanda would see each other and you know cry it out I really was hoping to see that but they never saw each other after he got his memory back. And I was hoping in any of those end credit scene's they would reunite but that was not the case....
Awesome video man!!!! Don’t know how you came up with this?.?.?.? Great job
Steve, your videos never fail to not cheer me up.
Super annoied that, even though she didn't do it "on purpose", she suffers no consequence of holding a town hostage for weeks and leaving them traumatized. They let her go, just like that. Not like they could do anything but would have been more satisfying if Monica instead of saying "nah, just go, don't do it again ok? I would have done the same with mom" would have said "listen what you did was unforgivable, you would beat us to pulp so I won't stop you NOW but rest asured you'll pay for your crimes sooner or later, these people deserve justice and I won't rest until they get it".
If they wanted to show Wanda as a moral person they should have had her turn herself in at the end and face the consequences, instead of flying off into the sunset.
Seriously. What she did, intentional or not, was NOT ok. Not to be the grumpy old man, but the writing smacks of the worst trends of the ascending generation. “I know I took a town hostage and tortured them and their children for weeks, and at minimum I can try to erase some of those horrible memories, but I didn’t mean to do it so I’m just gonna leave without trying to make this right or face the consequences.”
Major, major storytelling mistake.
EDIT: if the reason she can’t turn herself in is fear of being weaponized like Vision, then fine. Verbalize it.
“Wanda, you can’t just leave, what you’ve done is horrible and you need to turn yourself in and answer for it.”
“I want to. But I can’t risk being turned into another weapon like Vision. I need to get away from people and get a handle on my abilities. Maybe once I have, I can return and remove these painful memories I caused in Westview.”
She still ends up in the cabin studying, but it shows that she cares for the people she’s harmed and is determined to make amends for what she’s done. It also shows that consequences matter.
Seriously, I don’t get how Wanda just getting dirty looks from the townies is enough. “I know I just gave you all PTSD and took your kids hostage, but I gotta go have another adventure. Deuces!”
@@DemoDick1 totally agree. Or maybe she could just assume she's a villain and own it. The reason I said Monica could have been the voice of reason there, is because I see more consistent with her character arc the fact that she's not taking responsibility for her actions, her being a victim is part of her character and that's fine, but the writers being OK with it and pretending the audience to be so feels wrong to me. Monica could have embodied that sense of ethic and Wanda could have kept being a victim persona with no sense of responsibility over her actions with no major changes... only that would have implied future conflict between those characters and I don't konw if they're heading that way in future films.
@@lionellerner Yep. Monica’s last lines made it even worse. “They’ll never know what *you* gave up for them.” Uh, hello? How about what THEY gave up? You know, agency and sanity?
Wanda caused potentially irreparable and catastrophic psychological damage to thousands of people who hadn’t harmed her any way. The fact that she didn’t do it intentionally is a mitigating factor, NOT an excusatory one. She’s culpable. The question is HOW culpable is she? It isn’t even examined.
And were supposed to see Hayward as a bad guy because he broke the rules to protect the people of Westview from Wanda’s reign of terror (i.e. his job)? He’s an antagonist? Really?
It could have been so much better, so much more interesting and exploratory with just a couple added/different lines and modified character motivations. No major plot changes, no budget increases. Just better storytelling.
Stuff like this makes me seriously consider a second career as a writer. I could do better and no one pays me for it. LOL.
@@DemoDick1 I'm pretty sure you would end up trying to satisfy some executives and at the same time trying to appeal a certain target audience for some marketing reason and would end up doing the same hahaha
Since both of you felt like that.. then Marvel did it job. I felt that this is how we supposed to feel about her. Just like how everyone in the world hated her (since Civil War.)
And I give a pass to Monica since she's the only one person to understand her grief. With all the world (majority) against her, Monica doesn't need to antagonize her. She's far from a hero now.. she's a force of chaos.
I feel like in the future, she will be an isolated witch. Just living her life at the edge of the world..
If we are being honest Agatha was the “Endora” of the series!
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