SPOILERS AHEAD! YE BE WARNED!
My wife and I are still talking about the final episode of the Wandavision series, debating what worked, what didn’t work and teasing out all the little clues as to where the overarching story is heading next. Bring on Dr Strange!
Agatha really stole the show in the last couple of episodes, growing from comic relief to creeping threat to a full-blown apocalyptic nightmare above Westfield. The scenes of the two Visions, one with the original mind and the other with the original body, were great moments that were played perfectly by Paul Bettany.
The only gripes I have with this finale are the very stock-standard “evil army villain” character of Director Hayward, and the fact that we never seemed to find out who Agent Woo was protecting in the small town of Westfield. I was counting on some last-minute twist for these two pieces and was left kinda flat when these plot points didn’t seem to go anywhere.
The Monica Rambeau plotline was intriguing, and it’s clear the showrunners are setting us up for more adventures with this character. Speaking of superheroes – until it’s confirmed otherwise, I still believe that what we saw was a multiverse Quicksilver. I was hoping for something that would confirm the existence of the Marvel multiverse, and sadly that’s still just a hint at this point. But then again, the growing ranks of superheroes and villains was never the focus of this story.
And here, once again, is why Good Writing Matters. The finale of this show wasn’t the showdown with Agatha Harkness. The crucial decision point for Wanda was where she had to let go of her fantasy world and accept the hard reality behind it – even if that meant losing her husband and her children. The scene of Wanda putting her boys to bed for the last time was beautifully heartbreaking. Wanda didn’t get anything for herself out of this; she stepped back out into a world of suffering and responsibility because she had outgrown the fantasy where she could control every aspect of existence. What the show writers presented wasn’t a story of Wanda becoming more powerful, it was a story of Wanda maturing as a person.
Agree? Disagree? Have a theory as to where this story is going next? Please leave a comment below and we’ll chat about it!
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