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Well I blasted through WandaVision in a few days in case it’s important for Stephen Strange’s Multiball Madness. It’s certainly a show that sticks to a gimmick until it doesn’t. Honestly I wasn’t that impressed. It’s got not a lot going on but..., well let’s bring out the bullet points:

First up, the sitcom gimmick thing doesn’t really go anywhere. Sure, Wanda uses sitcoms to cope, which explains the internal reasons, but in terms of narrative it’s just a thing that’s around.

Indeed the sitcom premise is dropped for the final two episodes. And not because it collapses due to being an unmaintainable facade, but because Agatha gets bored.

Since the sitcom stuff doesn’t do anything, this means the first three episodes are almost entirely filler. With some low grade “oh no things are wrong“ scens chucked in.

Beyond the introduction of glorious technicolour when Wanda is pregnant, the advancement through time and thus eras of sitcoms is entirely unmoored from the actual plot.

Like this isn’t even difficult! Sitcoms, for various reasons, are a simplified and generally idealized depiction of life. In the earliest ones, everything is how it’s meant to be, but as they evolved, they moved away from that. So the advancement from the early, optimistic 50′s style shows towards more modern, dysfunction-centred shows should be linked to Wanda’s inability to control the Hex.

Also it’s never actually explained why the Hex is broadcasting sitcoms in-universe. Wanda is connected to this somehow?

Of course, the show is very unclear on how much control Wanda has over the Hex. Unfortuantely either situation means Director Hayward is right.

The Hex explicitly traps it’s victims in a living nightmare, where they have no control over their lives, and they are constantly feeling Wanda’s grief. One character even asks to die rather than stay trapped. If she can control it, Wanda is a monster. If she can’t, she’s still incredibly dangerous to herself and everyone around her. Neither of these situations is acceptable.

Is Wanda aware of the situation? Apparently yes, given that she pops out of the Hex at one point to threaten SWORD. But also apparently not, as she thinks all the victims are okay with being turned into sitcom people.

Plus Wanda lies to and indeed outright attempts to mind control Vision, which seems to push towards the bad end of the scale.

On the topic of the weird morality issues this show has, what’s up with Hayward?

Guy is a reasonable if jerkish person most of the time, only to suddenly Become Evil. To ensure we know he Is Evil, he tries to murder some children. He doesn’t know for certain that they’re Hex constructs.

Also he tries to frankstein Vision back to life. Which is wrong, but he does have a point about how they can’t exactly bury the dangerous super-robot.

What are Monica’s motivations? Why does she support Wanda? It is a mystery.

If I were in charge of the whole SWORD clownshow anyone and anything coming out of the Hex would immediately get dropped in a quarentine pod or such.

Actually everything to do with SWORD is... basically pointless. You could cut the whole thing out in order to focus more on the character with the most charisma.

The character who also has a fun villain song.

That’s right, It Was Agatha All Along. Indeed, her machinations are what causes the Hex to start collapsing, she frees manys Westview residents from being Hexxed, and she’s the reason Wanda ultimate decides to end the Hex.

Agatha also has a scene to make sure we know she Is Evil, where she eats an entire coven of witches. Who were trying to kill her. Although assuming she Was Evil at the time, maybe those witches had a point.

Also she killed the dog and threatens to kill some childen, along with sending Wanda to the Psychological Torment Zone, so it’s pretty clear she’s not on the level.

Turning people into sitcom people is immoral even if you do it to the villain. Also if Agatha is still aware in there I doubt it’s going to stick.

Of course Agatha is just The Evil Scarlet Witch so that trend continues.

White Zombie Vison is also The Evil Vision except Vision was The Good Ultron so WZV is The Evil The Good Ultron?

hey darcy and agent woo are also here. hooray for secondary characters.

oh yeah they also had the Fake Pietro in an incredibly dumb subplot that exists purely for Meta Reasons.

Anyway I’m sure Wanda will be fine as long as she doesn’t do something dumb like read the Darkhold.

Oh no.

Final verdict: WandaVision had ideas. Did it do much with them? I think not.