Hey everyone welcome back to Silver Screen Spectacle and the latest edition of my weekly series covering WandaVision. This article will contain a mix of my thoughts and theories on the episode. As always, massive spoiler warning. Please watch the episode first. So let’s get into it...
Holy Crap! I’m literally shaking from this episode, I cannot believe what I just watched. Marvel you crazy sons of guns, you’re actually going to do a proper House of M arc. So the recaps are actually important. Wanda told Vision Geraldine didn’t belong here instead of she had to rush home. I love that after last week this is a mix of the sitcom and the actual world. Vision is fully aware of what’s going on by this point, and it changes the entire dynamic of the show for the better. It involves Agnes one hundred percent. After her not reacting to magic and asking Wanda if she wanted to take the scene from the top, though, I’m still unsure whose side she is on. Billy and Tommy control their aging, which I didn’t expect. I figured the show would age them up, but that Wanda would do it subconsciously. The opening credits were hilarious with the baby Vision photos. So it’s a smaller detail. But when Sword was scanning Monica, everything came up blank. I don’t know the significance of this yet, but this feels very important. Monica, Darcy, and Jimmy are Wanda’s only allies at Sword. Still, the way they edited it to have it sound like the director is a terrorist makes me wonder if there is more going on there. We got confirmation that Wanda stole Vision’s body. Which just makes things even creepier that she’s playing house with his corpse. Sparky was adorable with the boys aging up to be old enough, though I wonder if anyone else caught this. Sparky tried to kill himself possibly he went straight for an electrical outlet then poisonous bushes. I could be over-reading this, but it could easily be important.
What was up with Monica getting angry at the mention of Captain Marvel? My only guess is maybe she wasn’t on Earth to comfort her mom and she’s angry with her for that. It was nice to get confirmation of what we all expected that Wanda could’ve beat Thanos in Endgame if he hadn’t rained down missiles. Wanda is rewriting reality, nothing is an illusion that means her kids should be able to exist outside of Westview. The scene with Vision and Norm was possibly the scariest scene in the show yet. Wanda has truly taken a town hostage against their will, and it’s terrifying. With Vision getting a Sword email, is there any way he could communicate to them? The decision to use an 80s technology drone was genius, though the director immediately resorting to taking the shot again makes me question him. That last shot of Wanda on the drone screen screams pure villain. My favorite scene of the episode though is Wanda coming out of Westview to confront Sword. She threw that drone down in front of them with her full Sokovian accent back, just full-on threatening them. Her taking control of all the agents and having them turn their guns on the director was beyond awesome.
As for the commercial, this one connects back to Captain America: Civil War. Lagos is from the opening sequence of that film where Wanda accidentally blows up part of a building trying to save Captain America from Crossbones suicide bomb. Hence the slogan being, for when you make a mess that you didn’t mean to. Steve is the only one who really understood what that did to her, and he’s gone. Billy and Tommy begging Wanda to bring back Sparky was really sad but ironic. She’s talking about accepting death when all this happened because she couldn’t. Vision went all the way this week, just straight up accusing Wanda of being responsible for everything. That Wanda tried to roll the credits to get out of things was a huge 4th wall moment that worked really well. As Vision and Wanda got more heated, I thought they were about to fight right there, but he still wants to help Wanda at this point. The show does intriguingly bring back up the idea of outside influences if she really didn’t trigger the doorbell.
Speaking of the doorbell, what the freaking heck Marvel? So she opens the door and we see Quicksilver’s iconic silver hair, but then we see his face, and it’s not Aaron Taylor Johnson. Instead, it’s Evan Peters who played the character in the Fox X-Men universe. Darcy says she recast Pietro but if that’s the case I don’t think Wanda would’ve gotten so surprised to see him. Now could this just be Marvel doing a fun gag, having the same actor play a fake version here? Normally I’d say yes, but we know this is part one in Marvel’s multiverse saga. I think this is actually Quicksilver from that universe that has somehow made his way into their reality.
So, wow, what an episode! This is definitely my favorite one so far, and I look forward to re-watching this episode, trying to find things I missed. This show keeps knocking it out of the park and I’m dying to see the 90s episode next week. So, guys, that’s it for this week’s WandaVision Thoughts and Theories. If you liked it, give it a share and I’ll see you next time.
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