Warning: Full series spoilers ahead
If you are a Marvel fan of any kind, you have probably heard of the WandaVision series or watched it.
When the Marvel Cinematic universe hit its climax with Avengers: Endgame, Disney released the title of the show and the Marvel fanbase went nuts. We all thought the storyline for Wanda Maximoff and Vision came to an end with Vision’s death in Infinity War. When the trailer first came out, the show did not look like anything Marvel had done before, which is not a bad thing. But in this case, it made us Marvel fans worry if it would be as good as we wanted it to be.
WandaVision wrapped up with its series finale on March 5, and I was very pleased with how Marvel executed it. The show starts off with a sitcom vibe located in a cute town called Westview, with only a few subtle hints of the events that have taken place in the movies. Any time that Vision would mention something related to the Marvel timeline or would ask Wanda a question regarding how they got to Westview, Wanda would freeze or rewind the show completely and redo the whole conversation. The most interesting and creative part of this show was that each episode resembled sitcoms in the past years like The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched and The Brady Bunch. All of these shows either focus on the married couple, or the family as a whole. We did not start getting answers as to where the show was in the Marvel timeline, until after Wanda and Vision had twins in the third episode.
It was not until Monica Rambeau, first appearing in Captain Marvel as Maria’s daughter, came into the storyline that we finally figured out where we were in the Marvel timeline. The fourth episode began with Monica coming back from Thanos’ snap confused and looking for her mother, with the rest of the episode showing us how she arrived in Westview. As more and more characters from past Marvel movies started showing up, I realized that this series would not stay as cheesy as it had been. The main question that I had was where will the newly cast Pietro come into play, and did Wanda create this alternate reality trap on purpose? What will happen to Vision and are the twins even real?
The last three episodes answered these questions for us. It was Agnes, or Agatha, all along and Pietro is under her wing. We also get the Wanda Maximoff backstory that we have all been waiting for, when Agatha tries to force Wanda to realize what kind of world she created by making her go through all of her trauma, specifically how she and Pietro lost their parents, how they got their powers, how Wanda fell in love with Vision and watching the heartbreaking scene of Wanda removing the mind stone from Vision. All of this backtracking finally answers the question of how this world came to be. Wanda never got to bury Vision’s body, causing her to have a breakdown on the land that they were going to build a house on, which created the Westview where Vision and Wanda’s family came to be. Wanda did not create Westview or the TV show on purpose; it was all her subconscious and her trying to grieve with the loss of Vision.
The season finale ends with battle after battle between Wanda and Agatha. Agatha was definitely the antagonist, constantly pushing Wanda to accept the fact that she is the Scarlet Witch. Wanda doesn’t want to believe this at first, which was quite an interesting edge to me. I loved how they chose to make Wanda see the world that she created, even if it was by accident. We saw her falling to her knees to fix everything until she saw Vision and her twins disappearing with it. As heartbreaking as it was, we finally figured out that the twins aren’t real, but we know that Wanda has the power to create them again. We thought all was lost when it looked like Agatha took all of Wanda’s powers, but she finally came to terms with herself and became the Scarlet Witch, resulting in her taking her powers back and sentencing Agatha to be the nice, perfect neighbor for the rest of her life.
In the end, Wanda sacrifices everything so that the people she trapped in Westview can be free. Wanda had no idea the pain she was causing, and I could not help but notice all the allusions to how grief can affect people. When we’re trying to deal with a major loss, we close ourselves off and refuse to come to terms with it, in turn hurting all of the people around us. Granted, not all of us have witch powers, but I loved the vulnerability of Wanda in this episode when it shows how torn she is to save everyone else, but lose everything once again. I have to say, I really didn’t want to have to see Vision die again, but it was a beautiful moment between him and Wanda. Of course, we got some after-credit scenes which is always a plus. With a reference to Nick Fury to Monica, we know that Monica’s storyline is just beginning. Seeing Wanda living in a secluded cabin in the mountains causes us to think she finally found peace until we see the Scarlet Witch reading the Darkhold Book with her twins in the background screaming for help.
In conclusion, Marvel answered our most important questions regarding the plotline of the first season. However, we still have no idea what this means for the Scarlet Witch and her family that she created. We have no idea why her kids were screaming for her and how they are alive in the first place, if you can even call them being alive. Needless to say, there are a ton of routes that Marvel can go in the next season or in the next movies that are coming up that are supposed to be featuring Scarlet Witch. I look forward to seeing where the Marvel Universe goes and I was very impressed with their first show on Disney+. I loved the creativity, the humor, the visuals and the storyline of Wanda. Marvel did a great job of making us question Wanda’s intentions until the very end when we see her be the hero we know her to be. I loved WandaVision, and I am so ready for the next Marvel Project that will be released.
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