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Television WANDAVISION Discussion (Dragonlord's Review)

If you have seen the whole season of WANDAVISION, how would you rate it?

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KnightTemplar said:
Look, Kathryn Hahn is absolutely fantastic as Agatha. She damn near steals every scene, which is no mean feat when an actress of Liz Olsen's calibre is bringing her A Game too. But I'm sorry, if Harkness is the sole Big Bad, then son, I am disappoint.

Harkness is obviously an extremely powerful and experienced witch. But she's not in Wanda's league. Wanda made Thanos her prison bitch, and nothing I've seen so far makes me believe that Agatha could have done the same thing. And yes, I know, Styles make Fights, but the difference in raw power is just too great. Hell, even Agatha herself pretty much admits this when she's tells Wanda her Hex Magic is manipulating thousands of people and conjuring living beings out of nothingness with, "the Power of Creation...and that makes you the Scarlet Witch".

Agatha is a Witch. Wanda is the being Witches tell each other legends about. A fight between the two should go the same way as Batroc vs Cap in Winter Soldier.

So I really hope that Senor Scratchy turns out to be Nightmare/Mephisto/Ralph in disguise. The MCU's major weakness is it's inability to provide it's Heroes with powerful, charismatic Big Bads to fight. For every Mad Titan or Hela, there's a Whiplash, Malaketh, Sonny Burch, Yonn-Rogg, Aldrich Killion/Mandarin...
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Don't you be disparaging Whiplash like that!!!


Honestly they screwed his character up so much by making Rourke a Whiplash/Crimson Dynamo hybrid.
 
Is tonight's episode the season/series finale?
 
For the season finale, I'm setting my expectations low and just dismissed all outlandish but fantastical theories on the outcome. I'm just going to expect that it's going to presented at face value - Agatha is the main villain, there is no bigger bad, Vision remains dead in the end, Wanda continues to be heartbroken. I'm not so sure on the Twins though.

But my wish is that Vision (the one Wanda created) somehow survives and will be the new MCU Vision going forward.
 
Brazilian HKD said:
Good to see Wanda finally getting closer to her comic book level of power.

She is a much better character than CPT Marvel. She can literally change the universe without having to pose as a badass every five minutes.
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And the times she goes badass are fucking epic. The most epic. She isn't trying to be badass, she just is. They made Captain Marvel an annoying smartass. Wanda is the primeval essence of vengeance.

Wanda: You took everything from me.
Thanos: I don't even know who you are.
Wanda: You will.

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Ultron: If you stay here, you'll die.
Wanda: I just did. Do you know how it felt?
[tears out Ultron's metal heart]
Wanda: It felt like that.

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I actually took the time to download the videos so I could capture these scenes in slow motion, that's how much I love them.

I love how Wanda is written, you can't help but empathize and she doesn't mess around when someone done her wrong.

The way Captain Marvel is written it's impossible to like her.
 
Aegon Spengler said:
Yeah he's a super genius. He gave life to AI. He wielded the infinity gauntlet. But he never bothered to check where his missiles landed, until Iron Man 1.
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He creates a tiny power source that could power a city, but doesn't let anyone do that.
 
- Agatha's boots sticking out the ruins of the house?

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- "You don't know what you've unleashed!" Basic Physics: Energy cannot be destroyed, only changed. It's possible Wanda tearing down the Hex caused the energy to spread across the US, if not the entire world. Given that it's already been established that the Hex can rewrite a person's DNA and give them Superpowers, I think Wanda just pulled a Reverse House of M. This might be how we get Mutants in the MCU.

The other possible interpretation of Agnes' line is that Wanda inadvertently damaged the entire Multiverse itself. That's even more likely, given that this series leads directly into Multiverse of Madness.

- Nice references to Blade Runner. The cinema showing, "Tannhauser Gate" is the obvious one. But the way KKK Vision tries to kill Wanda by crushing her skull also references how Roy Batty kills his creator, Sebastian.

- Wanda in full Scarlet Witch costume: Nerdgasam achieved:D

- Wanda's last(?)scene with Vision...damn. Straight in the Feels<DCrying>

- Their last words, about saying goodbye so many times they must at some point say hullo again is actually paraphrasing a traditional greeting between adherents of Wicca,

"Merry Meet, and Merry Part, and Merry Meet Again":cool:

- Mid-Credits Scene obviously setting up Secret Invasion.

- After Credits Scene does the same with Multiverse of Madness: Wanda is using the same Astral Projection technique to read the Dark Hold that Strange used when studying the forbidden books of magic at Kamar-Taj. Also, the voices of Wiccan and Speed pretty much confirm there will be a Young Avengers series at some point.

Overall, I rate this series an 8. The performances of Olson, Bettany and Hahn were flawless. They managed to hit pretty much every emotional state: joy, humour, rage, love, grief, fear. It's Olson's show, and she's the MVP, effortlessly switching from sweet and funny to cold-blooded, terrifying rage. Often in the same scene. Norm's line in the Finale,

"When you let us sleep, we dream your nightmares"

Is genuinely chilling. As is Dottie begging Wanda to give her daughter a role to play just so she can hold her again:eek: This is as about as dark as the MCU gets.

That said, while Hahn is absolutely superb, Agatha being the Big Bad was something of a disappointment for me. I knew we weren't getting Mephisto; China's weird cultural rules make him a non-starter. But even a brief cameo by Nightmare would have lent a real sense of menace that could have continued past the end of the show.

However, the worst fumble was Ralph Bohner(Giggity!). It wasn't explained how Agatha's husband got his Super-Speed. Was that a factor of the bead necklace, or did he have those powers before Agatha possessed him? Is he the MCU counterpart to the Fox-Verse Quicksilver? His appearance didn't change after Agatha's control over him was broken. Monica finding out his real name and releasing him from Agatha's, "crystaline possession" felt clumsy, as though they were running out of time and had to force it in there somehow(again, Giggity!;))

- Senor Scratchy? Fuck that Red Herring Rabbit:mad:

TLDR: Excellent writing and performances across the board let down by too many head-fakes with no pay off and a sub-par Big Bad. Marvel's fatal flaw yet again sees them drop the ball inches from the end zone. I loved this show, but I'm actually looking forward to a change of pace with Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
 
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