Hey everyone welcome back to Silver Screen Spectacle! Well, today is the day we’re concluding our WandaVision articles with the confirmed series finale. It’s been quite the journey, with plenty of highs and a few lows. So I went into this episode hoping certain things would happen but would hold nothing against this show, especially after the director said they expected to be people disappointed because of fan theories. So despite the overall positive but mixed reactions I’ve seen to this episode, what did I think of the finale.
This was a glorious finale! Now was it my favorite episode of the show not necessarily but I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of this. The hype was hitting from the get-go with the flashes of the costume during the previously on. I loved that after last week’s cliffhanger we just started right where we left off. So it turns out they based the shark commercial on Agatha as she consumes other magic users’ power. I got very impressed by the production value and visual effects this would not have felt out of place in a theatrical film to me. So let’s talk about the Evan Peters reveal, I wanted as much as anyone for him to be the Fox Quicksilver but while I didn’t find the joke about Ralph Bohner necessarily hilarious it didn’t make me angry like it has many people. So I guess we are retconning Agents of Sheild now with Agatha’s book being the Darkhold. I found it very interesting that it specified that Wanda was more powerful than Doctor Strange. The scene of Wanda realizing what she had done to all the townspeople was fantastic and felt earned after the previous episodes.
I love that Vision vs White Vision turned into a philosophical battle after they realized they couldn’t beat each other physically. Though I am wondering where the heck White Vision flew off to. I felt everyone got their due credit in this episode. That shot of Wanda’s family getting ready to do battle reminded me so much of The Incredibles. The twins got to use their powers, which I loved seeing, and I hate Hayward even more now after he opened fire on them. Wanda finally using her mental manipulation again made me geek out a lot. The ending battle between Wanda and Agatha was satisfying, especially once you realize Wanda was tricking her and reabsorbs her power to get her Scarlet Witch costume. I was squealing in joy during this entire sequence, and her costume is easily one of my favorites in the entire MCU. Agatha being trapped in Westview was dark, but now it’s what the entire series has been building towards. Wanda having to say goodbye to Billy, Tommy, and Vision. I was basically emotional about this entire sequence, but I broke fully at “we’ve said goodbye before so it stands to reason we’ll say hello again”. I was in tears until the credits scenes.
As for the credits scenes, the first one was definitely Secret Invasion, and Captain Marvel 2 setup putting Monica in space with Fury. As for the second credits scene, that’s a bit more up for debate. So Wanda is astral projecting while studying the Darkhold, which is a terrible idea. She hears her kids call for help and closes the book, thus ending the show. So two theories, one some evil entity has her twins, option two, she heard them across the multiverse. So overall, while not my favorite episode of the series, this was an extremely satisfying finale to an extremely good show.
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