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70. WandaVision: EPISODES 1 & 2 - (s01e01+e02)
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The MCU has finally returned with WANDAVISION! Will and Jes discuss the highly-anticipated premiere (episodes 1 & 2) with guest Ben Adelman.
Topics include:
- General impressions, brief non-spoiler review.
- SPOILERS BEGIN: ~16:54.
- Which audiences WandaVision appeals to (and which it might not).
- The many genres of WandaVision.
- The central mysterty of the show.
- Will we get "event fatigue?"
- Thematic connections to the comics that inspired the show (House of M and The Vision).
- Why the classic sitcom format was the perfect fit to illustrate how Wanda's trauma is affecting her.
- Wanda's power level: MCU and the show vs. the comics.
- Who could be manipulatiung Wanda.
- Vision = Frodo Baggins??
- How the comics inspiring the show point toward tragedy.
- Elements from the comics in the show.
- Agnes: victim, friend or foe?
- Who created Wanda's alternate reality -- who manipulated her into it.
- Clues in the show that tell us the extent of Wanda's control over her alternate reality.
- Mephisto.
- S.W.O.R.D.: what they're doing in the show.
- Why the S.W.O.R.D. helicopter was toy-sized (and how the same principle could explain the beekeeper).
- Balancing the narrative and the meta-narrative.
- The Agent Coulson wager.
- What happens (and the dangers of) when Wanda goes off-script.
- How many of Agnes's lines can be read two ways, and what that implies about the mystery and her character.
- Agnes's purpose in the Wanda's altered reality.
- How Jes's kids reacted to the show.
Predictions/theories/hopes:
- What Vision's calculations at work could mean.
- Why S.W.O.R.D. might be involved with these events on Earth, rather than S.H.I.E.L.D.
- The possible importance of the very first line of the show.
- Which surprising characters might be a part of the show moving forwward.
- A post-credits scene at the end of the series? What it could be.
- Which character might has a chance of making a surprise camero appearance and make the fandom erupt with joy.
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