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Episode 9

March 5, 2020

 

The last episode. The one that will answer all the questions and finally put my mind at ease… What the f…!! DAMN IT MARVEL!

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The first season of WandaVision is complete and man was it a masterpiece of twists and turns. My brother and I are the type of people to analyze a show and expect some surprises but then expect a lot of the same stories to happen within a show. Some TV shows have other ‘movie or tv show covers’ for one episode. One that a lot of teen shows like to do is the cover of ‘The Breakfast club‘ others are the Halloween movies, so on. WandaVision edited their story in a way that it was part of the entire WandaVision storyline then did (like TikTok) ‘tell me without telling me’ type of answers, for example, the intro to each WandaVision episode showed you what year they are in by covering the original intro to a show in that time frame. The commercials all are ‘covers’ of their time with secrets to unravel.

Now, most people are thinking there might be a second season but you have to understand that the TV show’s story were meant to play a bigger role in the movies that are coming. This part between these characters is complete and ready for the movie aspect. Now we will be watching The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. If you want to know what that’s all about we did a deep dive into the trailer and the characters a bit just click here.

There really isn’t much to say on this episode other than some key points to point out. The episode started right where the last episode ended. The kids were being held by Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn). Kids got free, the witches started their fight but then after Ageness gets hit with a car White Vision (Paul Bettany) shows up. Wanda was happy at first as he started touching her cheek he then showed his emotionless side and almost crushed her head but then ‘our’ Vision (Paul Bettany) came to save the day.

More fight, fighting, fighting. Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) starts reading from the Darkhold about the Scarlett Witch. Looks nothing like the book from Shield TV show! “… Scarlett Witch is more powerful the sorcerer supreme himself, she will destroy the world…” If that doesn’t sound like a movie to you I don’t know what is!!

Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) started releasing the characters of the WandaVision show and when she did that they all started talking over one another trying to convince Wanda to release them and their family’s. Wanda tries to bring down the hex but in doing so her family starts to deteriorate. Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) explains “you tied your family to this twisted world and now you have to decide whether to let the innocent people go or let your family go”

Wanda lifts the hex field back up but before doing so S.W.O.R.D soldiers were able to get in. Wanda and her family gather together in the middle of the town center and they did the superhero family pose like the Incredibles, which was awesome!  Surrounding them is White Vision (Paul Bettany), Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), and the soldiers. The soldiers look to Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) but Agness was quick to react, lifting the soldiers with her power Wanda saves them but hen tells the boys to go handle the military.

White Vision (Paul Bettany) starts the attack with our  Vision (Paul Bettany) . Both Visions started acting link… computers than humans! Our Vision gave White Vision a good point. White Vision’s prime directive was to kill  Vision  and Wanda but our  Vision  isn’t real, he is made up of the memories from someone else, does that mean that he is the real Vision? Or is the White Vision the real  Vision without the memories, in which memories are what makes up a person? They both agreed that they are both no longer the real  Vision. But Our Vision made a good point. As complicated as ‘Jarvis’ was it’s not easy to get rid of, now a more complicated ‘Jarvis’ now known as Vision, a synthezoid.

One major question was answered… not really happy about it though. Piedro AKA Quicksilver  isn’t really Piedro AKA Quicksilver  from the X-Men. He was just a neighbor. He isn’t even Mephesto in disguise. Maybe he will be the reason she will be set free. Marvel never really kills off their characters. Throughout the TV show series, Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) constantly mentions a ‘husband’ but we never saw this person. Now we know why. Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) took over the owner of the house and the location next door to keep an eye on Wanda and her family. I guess I can see that because Marvel and even just TV shows do that, recycle actress. Have you noticed TV shows longer than 3 seasons the same people have mad issues that seem to affect the town for no reason? Literally had this talk with my girl 2 days ago!

Side note: Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) explaining things throughout 2 episodes on “witchcraft 101” isn’t that bad. I’ve been reading other articles about what other people thought about the villain and they seem to forget that some people who subscribe to Disney Plus just so happened to run into the show. They don’t know what’s been going on in the Marvel Cinematic universe. Have these characters take a little time to explain things helps people connect with the show and/or want to watch the movies to catch up on recaps. I think they have done very well integrating a learning lesson into the story. Especially when even the main character doesn’t know the rules of being a witch!

Wanda pulls a fast one and embeds runes to the hex field.

Giving Wanda the opportunity to flip the tables and drains Agness’s power to the point of transforming into the Scarlett Witch.

At the end Wanda and her family went home, the kids were tucked into bed, and Vision and Wanda had a moment for themselves.

As Jimmy Woo (Randall Park) and Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) discuss the situation after the hex fell, another agent appears to debrief Rambeau . The two walk into the Coronet Theater with Rambeau. The agent reveals herself as a Skrull by a friend of Monica’s late mother Maria Rambeau (Lashana Lynch). This kinda runs with a question someone else asked, I just never put up, who are the people helping Rambeau (Teyonah Parris)? The S.W.O.R.D agents loyal to Rambeau  over Hayward were likely Skrulls as well. As explained earlier in WandaVision, Maria Rambeau (Lashana Lynch) founded S.W.O.R.D after the events of Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) where Carol Danvers started her mission to find the Skrulls a new home planet. It’s only natural that at least a few of the S.W.O.R.D agents in the midst would secretly be alien shapeshifters.

Overall this series was well put together. It kept everyone guessing till the very end. There were definitely a lot of surprises but the one question I’m still waiting to be answered is… WHO IS THE ENGINEER??!

As we know from the post-credits scene in Spider-Man: Far From Home, which takes place shortly after WandaVision, Fury is currently hanging out in space with the Skrulls while Talos is filling in for him on Earth.

There are two projects coming up involving Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) and the Skrulls. First off is Captain Marvel 2, which is set for November 11, 2022. That movie will prominently feature not only Carol Danvers, but both Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) and Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan), who will soon be the star of her own Ms. Marvel series on Disney+.

Then there’s the Disney+ series Secret Invasion. While filming is supposed to begin next month, its suppose to be a six-episode series but haven’t heard much about it yet.

After Credit Easter Eggs:

Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) now lives alone in a remote cabin home which might be Wundagore Mountain, the place where Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Pietro grew up in the comics. At first, she appears to be living a normal, lonely life as she prepares her tea while wearing normal clothes. The camera then zooms into another room to show another Wanda, wearing her Scarlet Witch costume, intently reading the Darkhold with hands and eyes glowing. The pages turn on their own. The way Wanda is studying the Darkhold is very similar to Dr. Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) using his astral form to study various books while sleeping in his first solo movie.

Wanda is suddenly distracted by the screams of Billy AKA Wiccan (Jett Klyne) and Tommy AKA Speed (Julian Hilliard). Wherever they are, they’re in peril and they need her. Which if they are still going the comic book route then we will meet  Mephisto soon Whatever is happening, the Darkhold appears to be the answer. While Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) was able to explain away what her resurrected Vision (Paul Bettany) (aka “WandaVision”) was, we never got a full explanation to what Billy AKA Wiccan (Jett Klyne) and Tommy AKA Speed (Julian Hilliard) were. Yes, they were constructs of some sort and could not exist outside of the Hex, but Wanda understood that there was more to it. When saying their goodbyes, she thanked THEM for choosing HER to be their mother. Were Wanda’s children the ones insisting she get pregnant? What are they, exactly? Where are they? In the comics, they were pieces of Mephisto’s soul, but they might be going in a different direction here. Were they pulled from different portions of the multiverse? Either way, Wanda wants to find them and is willing to allow whatever horrible side-effects from the Darkhold to be released in order to get her children back.

This is all setting up for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Although Strange will be showing up in Spider-Man: No Way Home on December 17, 2021 for some multiversal action, he’s going to be following that up with his own sequel on March 25, 2022. Wanda be a major player in that.

Episode 8

February 26, 2020

The episode starts off as a flashback to Salem, Massachusetts, in 1693 (the real-life Salem witch trials happened in 1692-93), when Agatha’s coven accuses her of tapping into forbidden dark magic. “I did not break your rules. They simply bent to my power,” she says. Led by Agatha’s mother, Evanora (Kate Forbes), the coven prepares to drain her life force. She turns their power on them, reducing all the witches to zombified husks. Notice the color purple, classic comic book villain color. Agatha Harkness also takes her mom’s broach, we’ve seen her wearing it in most of the previous episodes. In the present time, Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) discusses magic with Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen), she turns an insect into a bird before snatching the bird out of mid-air and angrily squeezing it. Agatha says fake  Piedro AKA Quicksilver (Evan Peters) wasn’t “literally” her, she was just possessing him. She also notes that it wasn’t necromancy.

Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) takes all of us down Wanda’s own memory lane which shows us her angle within the movies she has been in. We meet young Wanda (Michaela Russell) and Pietro (Gabriel Gurevich)’s parents, Iryna (Ilana Kohanchi) and Olek (Daniyar), in their Sokovian home. We know the kids are about 10ish years old, so this happened around 1999. The family decides on a show for TV night so they can learn english and spend time with the family, the options the father bring up are: Who’s the Boss?, The Addams Family, I Love Lucy, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie and Malcolm in the Middle. Young Wanda chooses The Dick Van Dyke Show, season 2, episode 21, there’s a horrifying war raging outside and an explosion happens. The parents are killed in an explosion, an incident referenced in Avengers: Age of Ultron and the commercial in episode 2, with the toaster. The twins are trapped under the rubble, staring at a beeping, unexploded Stark Industries shell. The young Wanda says “…this is a bad dream” and reaches out. Agatha Harkness says she used a probability hex to stop the detonation, which seems like Wanda’s first use of magic.

 

We go through the next door with a Hydra logo on it. We see Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) as a volunteer test subject for Hydra, and enters a room containing Loki‘s scepter (which Hydra sneakily got hold of after the first Avengers movie, shows up at the beginning of Avengers: Age of Ultron a moment revisited in Avengers: Endgame) The Mind Stone extracts itself from the scepter in her presence. She gets a vision of herself in silhouette form. We saw her in a similar outfit in the Halloween episode and she said it was a ‘Sokovian fortune teller’.

In Wanda’s Hydra containment cell, she’s watching The Brady Bunch. It seems to be season 1, episode 7, in which Cindy Brady treats her doll like a real baby and it goes missing. Which seems to mirror what happened with Billy AKA Wiccan (Jett Klyne) and Tommy AKA Speed (Julian Hilliard).

The next door we go through falls afterAvengers: Age of Ultron but before Captain America: Civil War movie. We jump to a moment with  Vision (Paul Bettany) in the Avengers compound, when Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) is mourning Piedro AKA Quicksilver (Aaron Taylor-Johnson)‘s death. Vision acknowledges that he’s never felt loss like she has, but reveals the depth of his empathy. “But what is grief, if not love persevering?” he asks. This is clearly another major high on Wanda’s emotional rollercoaster, and Thanos (Josh Brolin) would later bring her low by killing Vision (Paul Bettany) in Avengers: Infinity War.

This next door is a week before WandaVision series started. Director Tyler Hayward (Josh Stamberg) said Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) broke into S.W.O.R.D headquarters, stole Vision’s corpse, and defied his wishes by resurrecting him. The flashback reveals that Tyler Hayward showed Wanda to the room Vision (Paul Bettany) was being disassembled by the engineers. He then suggested Wanda bring him back to life, but she couldn’t do that. She broke the viewing glass and said her goodbyes then she left. Wanda takes a drive to Westview.

Wanda’s clearly feeling pretty low after visiting the S.W.O.R.D facility, and she drives to Westview. It’s our first time seeing the New Jersey town before she sitcom’d it up, and it’s a sad place with closed businesses and amenities falling into disrepair due to the impact of the ‘Blip’. She visits a plot of land (2800 Sherwood Drive) with the foundations of a house, and a deed reveals she and Vision planned to start a life together here — a plan ruined by Thanos (Josh Brolin). “To grow old in,” reads the cute note, signed “V.” Overwhelmed by grief, she remakes the town as a ’50s sitcom and Vision is reborn from her magical energy.

In a midcredits scene, Acting S.W.O.R.D director Tyler Hayward (Josh Stamberg) had Vision’s body all along but he has been, bleached? Well, he is plain! He couldn’t reactivate the synthezoid, but used the drone Wanda attacked to power Vision back on. The energy was derived from the Mind Stone that originally brought Vision to life in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

Easter Eggs

Agatha’s Past

In the original comics, Agatha Harkness is a witch who dates back to the sinking of Atlantis. On WandaVision we see here living in Salem during the Witch Trials which is also true in the comics. In fact, Agatha attempts to create a place for her coven to practice magic freely, but they’re persecuted. She eventually creates New Salem in its place. That particular safe haven for magic users is where Agatha Harkness is burned at the stake in the 1982 Vision and the Scarlet Witch comic book series, much as her coven attempts to do here on the show.

Agatha magic manifests itself as purple energy — a combination of red and blue. Since Wanda’s Chaos magic is red, it seems likely this was the forbidden power Agatha got in trouble for using — she just couldn’t use it at the same level as Wanda.

 

Her mother Evanora is not in the comics. The crown-like symbol that appears on her head when she attempts to subdue her daughter is. It’s similar to that of Scarlet Witch, but actually appears to look more like that of Zhered-Na. Zhered-Na is an Atlantean sorceress who fights with white magic. She also has her own magical book of spells, which could be the book Agatha had in her basement last week.

the brooch Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) takes from her mother is the one she’s been wearing in every episode of WandaVision. The brooch is a direct nod to Agatha’s comic book outfit.

When Wanda’s Sokovian accent comes back while she’s talking to Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) in the basement, it’s a brilliant detail to show that we aren’t in the sitcom world anymore. The same thing happened in Episode 5 when Wanda left The Hex.

The blinking red light on the Stark Industries bomb connects back to the commercial in Episode 1, when the only thing in color was the blinking red light on the Stark Industries toaster.

You can spot the HYDRA symbol on the door before we see Wanda’s memory of being experimented on using Loki’s scepter. This memory also links to the Strucker watch ad from Episode 2.

You can see that Wanda is wearing the exact outfit she was wearing in the Captain America: The Winter Soldier post-credit scene, which is when we first met her.

After touching the Mind Stone, Wanda sees the outline of Scarlet Witch in her outfit from the comic books.

“And that makes you the Scarlet Witch.” This isn’t a name we’ve heard previously in the MCU, but it’s been her code name since her first appearance in X-Men No. 4 in 1964.

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