My Thoughts On WandaVision

 

As a whole, this was an okay show. There were a lot of moments that referenced the stories I grew up on like Avengers: Disassembled and House of M. And as a never-ending cycle of on-the-nose easter-eggs, it was enjoyable. The story was a bit of a closed circle and inconsequential.

 

Wanda is more powerful. There's probably another Vision running around out there. Photon is in the MCU. We got to see people coming back after the Snap. We got to see Wanda and Pietro's childhood. The MCU is basically at the starting point of Avengers: Disassembled, and if they go through with that arc, all but one of the Young Avengers are here now, too. This was a good world-building exercise.

Let's start with the pros -

 

It was awesome to see Evan Peters as Quicksilver in the MCU, even if he was just a random guy. (Which I'm not totally buying. I don't believe the man who tried to get Hugh Jackman's Wolverine onto the set of the first Spider-Man would just hint at the Multiverse as a throwaway gag.)

I like the way that they established that it probably wasn't the mind stone that gave Wanda her powers. I like that Darcy was utilized properly. She always felt out of place in the Thor movies, since they tried to use her as comic relief. She would say stuff that messed up the tone of the scene and it was usually more annoying than funny. 

 

 

But using her here felt way more sensible. She's written as being aware of how annoying she is, and that makes her snarkiness and terrible sense of humor more bearable. I don't think anyone has ever cared about Monica Rambeau. She's been an Avenger since the 70's, and has never done anything significant. And Captain Marvel was the weakest MCU movie, literally no one is hyped that there's going to be a sequel.

Hayward is a terrible character. Hayward's nonsensical lack of motivation really hearkens back to the early MCU days of poorly-written villains, like Abomination and Yellow Jacket. And when we've had villains like Thanos, Baron Zemo, and Ego, these kinds of cartoonishly bad antagonists just pull you out of the story. And this is made even worse by the fact that we've had far more time than usual to develop Hayward's character. I don't see the guy we met in Episode 4, shooting at some children, super-powered or not. Especially not after we see him acting somewhat empathetic in Episode 8.

 

The fact that this is the same Universe, makes Hayward look even worse...

 

I'm not forgetting Agatha Harness, she just also didn't really do much, either. I can at least say that Hayward and SWORD were scared after Thanos, and wanted to use Vision as a defense mechanism. Agatha Harkness is just evil. But why? We've seen witches in the MCU before, and they weren't evil. This isn't a comic book. People can't just be evil for no reason...

Also, the "Agnes is Agatha" twist was very obvious and that song was goddamn annoying. 

But goddamn, Kathryn Hahn is stunning...

A lot of times, I actually found myself saying "This show isn't really for the fans." It was like the exact opposite of Endgame or Guardians of the Galaxy, which are just nonstop fanservice. This was just a linear predictable tale, with a few easter eggs thrown in to keep the nerds happy. The only thing this show did that caught me off guard was having Evan Peters as Quicksilver. The rest of it was very predictable. Including Vision still being dead, Wanda not getting to actually keep her kids, and the name "Scarlet Witch" being bestowed upon Wanda. I could see it all coming from a mile away...

 

 Plus they didn't even have the balls to kill the kids off the original way...

This series was just meh...

 

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