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OMG, Wandavision shockers Cannoli Send a noteboard - 07/05/2021 05:17:35 PM

The sinisterly-featured woman making pointed and on-the-nose comments throughout the season turns out to be the surprise twist reveal villain!

Also the white male authority figure has selfish intentions, and the techy woman, the black woman and the non-white beta male, all from the movies, are the real heroes.

Also, also, Wanda's power is actually magic and, big shocker, she's more powerful than the Sorcerer Supreme. You know it had to happen after "Doctor Strange" when that title passed from a woman to a cis het white man. I'm sort of surprised that her sons are allowed to be good guys considering they're white males. I'm guessing they're gay or trans.

I mean, they supposedly don't exist, but at this point we can't really trust the MCU to leave anyone really dead unless they are played by an actor who has all the work he could ask for and whose contract is up.

I'm just amazed the FBI turns out to be good guys. Imagine if Trump hadn't fired Comey. How could they possibly have brought themselves to allow the bureau to arrest the bad agents?

But of course, the story won't let them arrest the person who actually did wrong in the first place. All she has to do is apologize to the person least trapped in her nightmare dystopia, and it's all good. See, the problem with these empowerment & representation rules, along with their belief they are subverting expectations (which they aren't, since they are just training us to expect representation, empowerment & validation), is that they keep not making sense. The evil actions of the bad white guy, Heyward, are negging Wanda to bring Vision back to life (although it doesn't work he is thereby apparently to blame for her subsequent actions), sending the rebuilt Vision into Wanda's personal world to kill the actual Vision, and repeatedly trying to take out Wanda with little concern for collateral damage, and ultimately, trying to shoot Wanda's and Vision's kids.

Except outside of the moment when Heyward's evil deeds are presented with little context to shock the audience and the good characters, he isn't that wrong. See, the people he tries to "kill" were not actually real. What's more, Heyward, more than any other character, is shown to have access to data which means if anyone is in a position to know or guess that Vision and the boys are fake constructs, it's him.

You can't have the duh duh DUH moment revealing that something isn't real, and then turn around and pretend it is, and that it's false reality has real consequences. The black heroine for whom this whole show is a backdoor pilot, validates Wanda by telling her that all the people who resent her controlling their minds and enslaving them in her fantasy reality and separating them from their children (and imprisoning those children or possibly rendering them comatose when not interacting with her or her imaginary sons) "don't know what you sacrificed for them". NOTHING! She gave up a delusion that existed because of abominable violations she perpetuated on these people! She did not sacrifice anything to advance them, she gave up something she had to right to, in order to end the suffering she inflicted on them! She did the bare minimum decent thing, not even making amends. Those people now have to go back to their lives after weeks of lost time to abuse and imprisonment, living in a ruined town, and who knows what mental trauma and PTSD, and now, by the way, they are being subjected to scrutiny and investigation by the authorities and various agencies that deal with superhuman phenomena. Because that always works out well in the MCU.

Heyward was right to want to nuke her. Efforts to penetrate the field with an agent got the agent captured by the system and only pissed Wanda off. They had no real way of making a surgical strike or getting to her as far as they knew. Once Wanda expanded the field, proving it was a possibility, staunching the bleeding by getting rid of her is a justifiable, if not optimal, solution. The collateral damage, as in the people already living in the town where Vision took advantage of an apparent economic downturn to snap up a piece of property for their dream home, thereby selecting the ground zero spot for Wanda to freak out and start enslaving and brain-raping the locals, were on Wanda's head for keeping them there.

And at the end, we see that even while she's off living peacefully in the remote wilderness, some part of Wanda is earnestly studying magic in an effort to recreate her sons. It would be neat if she's going to be some phase 5 supervillain, but even if they go there, it's all going to be wiped away by some heartwarming moment, such as in the breakout work by the writer/director who created movie-Wanda, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", where Willow became a powerful redhaired witch and skinned someone alive and tried to destroy the world, but then faced no consequences and everyone was all about making her feel better.

On the other hand, funny Easter eggs include the appearance of the actor who plays the Xmen Quicksilver as Pietro in Wanda's fantasy sequence, an archive footage shot of Bryan Cranston, who played Elizabeth Olsen's father-in-law (and Aaron Taylor-Johnson[Pietro]'s father) in "Godzilla" and Emma Caulfield probably ready to fire her agent for getting her yet another part where her character is just supposed to shrug off nearly getting murdered by a supposed hero because it's not women's fault when men make them go psycho. (a moral and ethical position brought to you by the Wife Beater's Support Group).

Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
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