#wandavision episode 6

[unhingedmarvelandclassicwhobuff]

Hoo boy, this scene. This is quite possibly the most questionable thing Wanda does (at least consciously) in the whole show. Not the expansion of the Hex itself; that was clearly an act of desperation done to save Vision’s life. But like... she only had to put about 20 feet on it to do that and everything would have been fine. And if she was putting more than that on the Hex deliberately to entrap SWORD, that means she knows for certain that the Hex is overwriting people, because if she thought no one was being mind controlled then she just let her enemies inside her protective barrier.

Also, the fact that she knows she can do this at all means she knows she is in control of the Hex. But to be fair, that doesn’t necessarily mean she knows she is in control of the people. What DOES mean that, however, is the way she straight-up freezes everyone in place while she does the expansion. I guess maybe you could make the argument that she didn’t intentionally do that, and her magic just had to pause everyone to focus exclusively on what she wanted, but you’d think she would at the very least take notice of everyone being frozen if that were the case. In fairness, the scene ends before we see the aftermath, so maybe everyone immediately resumed moving right before she opened her eyes, but who’s to say. Even if she legit never saw that, it still doesn’t explain her letting SWORD into the Hex unless she knew about the mind control. 

The only excuse I can think of is that she assumed the strengthened barrier would push them away like it did to Monica’s tech in the following episode and only let Vision through, but that’s nothing but mental gymnastics.

I suppose some of the blame for this happening can be placed on Agatha, as she put on that façade of a frightened citizen in order to scare Vision into trying to get out of the Hex, but that doesn’t make it much better.

[skittlebits]

Oh shiiiit, people got emergency alerts on their phones about the Hex around Westview changing like

[whogirl42]

Okay but since Agatha remembered Billy's name I'm positive she also remembered Tommy's too she was just being as asshole😂

[rebecca--barnes]

Minor Agatha All Along Spoilers- Ep6

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“I can sense him. I just… can’t find him.”

“I just feel you”

[cissa-calls]

Not only is Agatha Jolene, as in, “Jolene, Jolene, Jolennnnee. I’m begging of you please don’t take my man,” but what does this imply?

At some point, the Agatha Harkness, was a REDHEAD

[stormythalamus]

what do you mean agatha harkness was seen on the titanic 😭😭 i need a whole spinoff of all of agatha’s crazy adventures between salem and wandavision

[wolviestars]

I wish we could watch more of him

[snowangeldotmp3]

please go on and on about agatha and medea i wanna hear ur thoughts

omg okay i hope u know i had to bust out my copy of medea so i could draw semi-coherent comparisons but. here we go.

medea, first and foremost, is a witch. like. that's her whole thing. she's married to jason, or was married to jason. she helped him grab the golden fleece in his tale, but in euripedes medea, we see the after of the glory that jason gets.

medea is a play about revenge. it's a tragedy, actually, but what medea wants most is revenge. she wants to make jason pay because jason is now in love with creon's daughter instead of medea. jason already had kids with medea, and now he's seeking out creon's daughter and medea (kind of rightfully so) wants to make him pay for this. SO. what does she do? she devises a plan. or two. it is an awful, evil, absolutely wretched plan, but she wants to hurt jason. she hates jason so much after what he's done, that she wants to bring him pain and suffering--even if it means she has to suffer as well. (it's important to remember here that medea is not greek. she is a stranger in a strange land. also her grandad is helios but that's a separate can of worms) so the plan is broken into 2 parts. part one: kill creon and his daughter, who jason is absolutely enamored with. and she does! she poisons a crown and successfully kills them both. jason is devastated.

and then, to make sure she really drives it home. part two of the plan: she's going to kill her children and make sure that jason can't touch the bodies. so he doesn't get to hold them or ease their pain etc etc. he doesn't get to grieve them. she kills her own children just to make jason see how badly he messed up. throughout the whole play medea is constantly called wicked and evil and all of these things. one of the most famous lines is the from the chorus, "you would become the wretchedest of women." then medea: "then so be it." (worth noting that in my copy of the play, the interaction goes: first woman-chorus: "not justice; vengeance. you have suffered evil, you wish to inflict evil." medea: i do according to nature what i have to do.") HOWEVER! it is also important to realize that like, medea does mourn her kids, and if she thought there was a better way to do this, she probably would have done it. but there isn't. she must make jason pay for what he's done, and this is the only way to make him suffer--by taking away something they both love. medea loves her children dearly, but she hates jason more. and so her kids must die, and she must be deemed an evil, wretched thing.

NOW: the comparisons with agatha are not like, 1 to 1 exactly. as far as we know, agatha is a witch, she traded her son for the darkhold, and she has mom issues. but where i see the most comparison to medea is trading nicky for the darkhold. we know that agatha loved her son, but she craved that knowledge and power more. another comparison could be the fact that agatha's own mother tells her that she was born evil, so agatha accepts this, internalizes it, and if she must be evil, then so be it. like the line in medea, if she's born evil, then, "i do according to nature what i have to do."

this turned into a dump about medea in general, but i do believe the connections are there, and they might not be exact, but they are there regardless.

[renegadesstuff]

The God of Stories & The Scarlet Witch 💚❤️

[theomenmedia]

Internet Reacts To Agatha All Along Episode 6

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[unhingedmarvelandclassicwhobuff]

Of all the scenes in WandaVision that make me doubt Wanda, this is definitely the one that bothers me the least, because even though Fake Pietro explicitly tells her how the mind control works, it stands to reason that she wouldn’t believe him.

What doesn’t stand to reason, however, is that she would not put two and two together with what Vision told her the night before. What’s up with that? Is she being deliberately obtuse, or does she just not care?

The former makes her look like an idiot, and the latter directly conflicts with who she is as a person.

[starz222]

i finally finished my carrd holy shit

[rootspiral]

Agatha All Along deep dive: episode 2 part 2

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here's another Agatha reflection that I didn't notice yesterday - it's a theme, I tell you

she's essentially doing what she does at the beginning of Wandavision, although with no prep time and no magic for costume changes: a ditzy over the top wife with the made up farway husband

I'd get a couple more candles back there, Lilia. You missed a spot.

But jokes aside, you know what she's doing? She's taking the piss out of agatha. this is Lilia we're talking about, the Seer. her job is literally to See. she knew who and what Agatha was the moment she stepped in, and frankly it's insulting that Agatha would try such cheap tricks on her. this is a little "fuck you agatha" before they get down to business and lilia can tell her to fuck off too

and yes, agatha underestimates lilia from the start, which is the point of lilia's character and the lesson she has to internalize. but the thing is, lilia IS amazing, powerful and wise from the very beginning. this whole scene is Lilia being better, smarter and more powerful than Agatha, she just doesn't have the self-confidence to recognize it

(but WHY beauford?? best name she could have picked)

lilia IS in control. she sets the pace of this encounter. agatha is a step behind, which is rare for her

fuck off, look at that stupid condescending little face

YASSS read her for filth! but let's recap her exact words (so I have an excuse to listen again to Patti's exquisite delivery and voice control)

"You've been under the influence of another. Someone you hurt." Wanda. And we go back to Agatha torturing Wanda and what it's doing to her, the guilt she feels.

"They took your agency. For three years." Agency is one of the main themes of this show and something that will touch Lilia up close too.

"It's not the first time your witch kin betrayed you." Not the other way round! Yes, Agatha has betrayed, she has hurt and killed. But we need to acknowledge that she was betrayed by her kin, her coven, her community first.

"But you survive, in a way few do." Agatha is a survivor. She dragged herself out of a hellpit, and she was maimed and turned into something horrible in the process. But she fucking survived.

"In fact, that's why you're here." Lilia knows EXACTLY what Agatha is planning, she knows that she's here to kill and she knows why. She knew from the start.

agatha's face falling more and more

YES. FUCK YES. THE PERFECT DICTION TROUGH GRITTED TEETH. SHE IS NOT INTERESTED!! GIVE THIS WOMAN ALL THE MONOLOGUES BECAUSE SHE'S GONNA CRUSH THEM

I know, Billy. this is also the way I look at stage goddess patti lupone

SHE IS CRYING AGAIN! DO YOU SEE IT!!! DO YOU SEE THIS SHIT?!!?!? SHE'S CRYING AT BEING SEEN SO CLEARLY, BECAUSE SHE'S ALWAYS HIDING. AND SHE'S CRYING WITH RELIEF, TRIUMPH AND GUILT BECAUSE SHE'S FOUND THIS AMAZING EXTRAORDINARY WONDERFUL WITCH AND SHE HAS TO KILL HER SO SHE WON'T DIE HERSELF TONIGHT

DON'T TOUCH ME, I'M IN A GLASSCASE OF EMOTIONS.

that's a predator right there

nuh-uh babe, she's got your number. you are not going to win this one. (i'm drinking up all the details in her room. look at that old singer sewing machine, that's a 70s or 80s model - everything in the room is at least 40 years old. Is she making herself a quilt? is she cold at night? we know she doesn't have the money to pay her bills)

I KNOW, BILLY!!!

lol, you know when patti told joe locke something like, 'sorry you're stuck here with all these old ladies'?? and he was like, no you don't undeRSTAND

(I mean, Patti has met plenty of gay boys. she understands.)

Lilia jumps for a moment to episode 5 and hears the ghost of Agatha's mom yelling at her. (aw, her chairs are all mismatched.)

Billy is always so polite. and look at Agatha's body language, she's doing the same thing she did when torturing Wanda, kind of hugging herself. both predatory and defensive, because, once again, she is not as comfortable as she seem. she is not being sincere, she is out to manipulate lilia, and she's not happy about it

I live for lilia's rants about the commodification and gentrification of the queer witch community (look at those gorgeous italian plates!)

she actually did bite a kid once

"when I was chased out of every village I passed through for accurately predicting tragedy? NO, I do NOT. BEAT IT, harkness!" I adore her delivery. and also. ouch. ouch. my sweet lilia. so many years, so much pain

When watching this scene for the first time, you identify with Billy and just sit back and enjoy these two extraordinary witches and actresses working together. the first episodes are high on comedy but they all have a serious, upsetting undertone, and it's especially gratifying to see how both actresses work with voice, face and body language to express what they can't say explicitly. Lilia is an incredibly old, wise, experience witch, but also tired, alone, humiliated. She's been jumping through time and she's really frightened about it. And right now? She's quite literally going against the most dangerous serial killer of witches in known history. She can stand her own against Agatha and then some, but she is not confident enough to see it yet.

A question that reads ironic but is delivered without a hint of irony. Why are you dragging a child into this? You of all people. Why are you putting a literal child in danger?

an ironic answer also delivered with no irony. it's threatening, and it's also protective of Billy

agatha gambles: maybe she can get lilia mad enough later and get blasted anyway. maybe she has other means to steal (a kiss, mayhaps?) And Billy better not hear this, she's not gonna kill him or anything but, you know, keeping her options open. just in case.

lilia DOES NOT need to return to her clairvoyant glory. lilia is one of the most if not the most powerful seer. her isolation is self-imposed. agatha is completely out of her depth here.

case in point: agatha does successfully con jen and alice, but she does NOT con lilia. not even close. she had nothing. lilia was in control of the conversation the whole time, seeing through agatha the whole time, and she was always going to say no.

"Three of Pentacles." collaboration, community, singular voices waiting to harmonize. Lilia REACHES THROUGH TIME and MAKES herself join Agatha. How fucking heartwrenching is that???? Agatha never tricked Lilia into doing anything. Lilia is sitting at the tarot table in her Glinda costume, for the first time fully confident and fully aware in her power, and she just - she grabs herself in the past and says, this is your family. this is your coven. you have chosen it. go and reclaim it. that is why Lilia follows them to the Road. not because Agatha is powerful, but because Lilia is.

and present Lilia is just so scared. she knows this is going to kill her.

FUCK I love this show so much!

(and a quick shoutout to @sapphicjew, I'm loving your commentary!)

go to episode 2 part 3

[linusbenjamin]

WandaVision Episode 6: All-New Halloween Spooktacular!

[cissa-calls]

The radio playing:

“My wife and her flying saucers.”

“My husband and his indestructible head!”

Grief. Pain. Joy. More grief. Lives ended. It recalls their simpler, happier times.