Episode Discussion ➝ WandaVision 1.9: The Series Finale

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EPISODE 1.9: THE SERIES FINALE

Expect HEAVY SPOILERS FOR ALL WANDAVISION EPISODES up until this point, as well as all other MCU properties currently released!

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I am still processing this finale. Holy shit, WE GOT THE SCARLET WITCH AND SHE IS POWERFUL AND HAS SUCH A GREAT NON-SEXUALISED COSTUME. What a great conclusion, although I am so sad that Wanda had to give up her family and be alone all over again. I really hope that they don't villainise her or try and give her a split personality like they tend to do with Jean Grey/Phoenix. Please just let her own her magic and BE the Scarlet Witch.

I cannot believe this show has made me love Vision. "So long, darling." I didn't need my heart. And to find her standing in the vacant plot was just so gut wrenching.

The only thing I was disappointed by was the reveal of Fietro's true identity. Why couldn't they have had him NOT have an identity and have that be a little teaser for X-Men?

I know a lot of people believe Wanda should be locked up for taking a town hostage, but considering that the Avengers (and some faves) have always gone about destroying towns when fighting aliens (and not to mention Thanos destroyed the Avengers HQ and everything around it)... can we stop trying to say Wanda needs to be imprisoned when so many of the Ultimate Faves deserved it too? Being imprisoned for this type of stuff isn't within the MCU storytelling.

I'm just so glad that we got a women-led story and that it was SO GOOD. I cannot wait for Agatha to come back!

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I hadn't even heard of viewers considering Wanda a villain until yesterday. Now I've seen it in 2 places and it worries me. It would be so fucked up if Wanda were to be turned into a villain, because that would make the message that being not mentally healthy makes you dangerous. Not to mention that Wanda is a witch, to make her evil would just smack of misogyny.

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I've seen it theorised a few times. :/ People think Wanda = Chaos and Strange = Order, and that Strange will need to bring Order to Wanda's Chaos. I am hoping that this is not what's going to happen and that the focus on Wanda in Phase Four is bringing in the Multiverse, developing her powers (letting her actually learn to control them; let's not do the whole "You're evil!" speech from someone who does know the Scarlet Witch legend actually be gospel) and even the mythology of the Nexus Being.

I personally have no faith in filmmakers when it comes to mental health. Endgame was only a few years ago, and look at what they did to Thor. They treated his depression as a joke, all because a previously once fit man gained weight and fell out of his hygiene routine. I would hope Marvel would not go that way with Wanda (nor the split personality; this is so overdone and offensive with Jean) and just let Wanda own her magic and begin to control it. We all know Wanda is capable of it. (Why should a woman who is overpowered as fuck and more powerful than a man be villainised and told that her mental health = evil? No woman needs a man to make her "good".)

Sorry, I have a lot of feelings lol.

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Sure sucks to be Wanda, being suspicious for having a power she didn't get to choose. Entropy is an integral part of nature (I love how that fits with being a witch), but just like death, she is met with hostility. I mean, on some level I understand it, but that wouldn't make her inherently bad, as she has a conscience and control over her actions - at least the conscious ones. I'd love to see Wanda actually developing her powers. I don't want that disappointment from lack of on-screen character development again that I got from suddenly seeing Bruce having sorted out his differences with his Hulk side (although kinda understandable in that case, as it was the ensemblest of ensemble movies).

Is Strange being a representation of order confirmed? I have yet to see that movie! But first I want to get that Peter meta and the required film/show-rewatching done.

I'm so tragically uninformed, I need a news aggregation site for WandaVision & co. (sorry to not just google it, but that would be going off on a tangent [and who knows for how long], since my mission is to reply to comments and that - as well as the other stuff I want to do - takes me a frustratingly long these days). Do we know yet who'll write/direct Multiverse of Madness? Maybe those people will handle mental health better or - if they're the same people as Endgame - they've learned something by now.

I have the same problem, shows and movies giving me a lot of feelings. They can't always be positive. *sigh*