Let's Discuss WandaVision

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Wanda has been my favourite MCU character ever since I started watching the MCU. I've had a strange liking for mystic characters like Doctor Strange, Magik from the New Mutants, Raven from DC's Teen Titans and Wanda as I mentioned. When WandaVision was first announced I was nervous, but when news came out that the show would adapt a sitcom format I began to understand what was happening. There was this major comic arc House Of M which was a fall-out and lead-in to many major comic arcs, in which Wanda after getting to know that her children are actually shards of the soul of Mephisto, rewrites reality due to her grief and later almost eradicates mutants by uttering 'No More Mutants' showing off her immense power. I began to understand that this show wasn't going to adapt this arc as there were no mutants and that the MCU was planning to explore Wanda's grief through the sitcom format.

The Feel Of The Series

WandaVision is a superhero genre series, but the way the story presents itself it feels like a mystery, thriller, horror, romance and role play from time to time, which is awesome. The first two episodes were in black and white and though I have not watched much content from the 1950's or 60's, the restraint that Elisabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany and Kathryn Han brought to their roles was enough to make me nostalgic. Also the fact that the creators were able to take two established Avengers and add characteristics to their established characters to better fit the time period they were trying to present and the actors being able to pull it off was an accomplishment.

Characters

Wanda Maximoff as a character has gotten the most out of this series. We see her find out about Vision's whereabouts, unleash her grief and get into the sitcom world, realise she is hurting people and ultimately have to give it all up. The most constructive moment was the goodbye scene, Wanda was never able to have that moment with either Peitro or Vision (in Infinity War)

Vision in this series is a construct of the hex, though he seems to retain the thought process of the original Vision he is naive and he is there to give Wanda and us the audience certain exposure. He also gives White Vision his memories, so in a way it's an origin for a new version of Vision, whether he reunites with Wanda or joins the West Coast Avengers as he did in the comics is left to be seen.

Monica Rambeau embodies what I love about the MCU. A character from a different franchise and time period gets to continue her story. Giving Monica a parallel story arc to Wanda wherein Monica also didn't get to say a proper goodbye to her mother was well done and maybe her association with Carol Danvers helps Monica understand super-heroics a bit more, hence she was amongst the few who supported Wanda. Monica also got her powers in this episode, excited to see where her journey takes her.

Agatha Harkness a.k.a Agnes, Jimmy Woo, Darcy Lewis and Hayward are all integral to the plot but don't have transformative arcs to speak of.

Ranking The Episodes

Episode 8

Episode 8 gave us flashbacks to Wanda's past and some origins for the Scarlet Witch helping us understand Wanda better and hence is my favourite episode.

Episode 5 - On A Very Special Episode

This episode managed to pack in alot of story, buildup and emotions with the final few minutes being a total blast.

Episode 9 - The Finale

The reason this episode doesn't rank #1 is because the previous episodes do all the necessary buildup to get the finale to make sense. Wanda finally becomes The Scarlet Witch in the MCU with a new found prophecy. I loved the BGM.

Episode 3

We start to get into the heat of things when Wanda goes pure villain throws Monica out of the hex.

Episode 6

Vision tries to get out of the hex and disintegrates, which surely must've left fans in tears watching this synthezoid die for the third time. Pietro's comments during this episode added to the spooky Halloween feel. Billy a.k.a Wiccan and Tommy a.k.a Speed too get their powers setting them up to be the future if they ever return (they will!)

Episode 7

Monica Rambeau gets her powers in this episode and Agatha reveals she has been behind all of this ALL ALONG.

Episode 1 & 2

These episodes made us fall in love with Wanda and Vision. The attention to detail to bring the 50's & 60's to life coupled with hints at a mystery is commendable. Would like to rank this higher but each episode has something to make the decision tough.

Episode 4

A weird position for this episode considering we get our first real clues to what is happening and begin to understand the first three episodes, but this is just my ranking and I love this series as a whole.

The two post credits scenes set up the future of Monica and Wanda each looking as exciting when WandaVision was first announced.

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