![]() As Vision noted repeatedly, Agnes always seemed to show up at exactly the right moment with exactly what Wanda and Vision need. What I’m more intrigued by, however, is that Agnes seemed far more aware of what was happening in Westview than any other resident, and far more game to play along. Vision was unsettled by Agnes breaking the fourth wall of their sitcom lives, but Wanda stayed in character, laughing off Agnes’ behavior. “You want me to hold the babies,” Agnes replied. “I’m sorry?” Wanda replied, still in character. “Uh, do you want me to take that again?” she said to Wanda, and the laugh track suddenly faded into silence - as did the crying babies. Wanda and Vision couldn’t stop the babies from crying, and just when Wanda said, “Maybe we just need some help,” Agnes (Kathryn Hahn) swooped in with what she said are “some tricks up my sleeve.” But when Vision indulged in some sitcom dad anxiety about her picking up the babies, Agnes was thrown. The episode opened with what was for my money the most unsettling moment of the show so far. So are these two halves of the same person? If Wanda’s Not Really in Control…Is Agnes? She seemed genuinely shocked to see her (re-cast) brother standing her doorway this did not seem to be part of her plan.īasically, we seem to be dealing with two Wandas: The first, a frazzled sitcom mom with a bland Midwestern accent who is vaguely aware that things are really off and isn’t sure how or why she got herself into this situation the second, an enormously powerful woman whose Sokovian accent has returned and who appears to be fully aware of what is really happening and why. Most crucially, Wanda insisted to Vision that she did not cause their doorbell to ring just when things were getting intense between them. (Sparky gets his name from a 2016 comic book series about Vision that Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige told Variety is a direct inspiration for “WandaVision” - though in that run, Vision created Sparky out of the brain of a neighbor’s dead dog.) (More on this later.) Wanda was totally thrown by the appearance of Sparky, a dog with no collar - which is to say, not a clear prior resident of Westview - who her sons said just showed up outside their home. ![]() Nine days!)Īlso, Wanda’s powers are not absolute: She wasn’t able to stop her twin babies from crying with magic, and she also didn’t seem to be in control of their rapid aging from infants to 5-year-olds and then to 10-year-olds. (Let’s just pause here for a moment to marvel, heh, at the revelation that everything we’ve seen has unfolded in just nine days. ![]() ![]() in the first place? How did she know Vision’s body was there? And why did she take it all the way to Westview? And the footage he displayed certainly doesn’t tell the whole story: What caused Wanda to storm into S.W.O.R.D. HQ nine days ago struck Monica, and me, as a suspicious sin of omission, given that Hayward never bothered to tell Monica about it before sending her to New Jersey. Hayward’s revelation that Wanda stole Vision’s body from S.W.O.R.D. That pretty well clinched it.Īnd yet there was also a pervasive feeling that we’re still not seeing the full picture here. Then there was the whole Wanda-emerging-from-the-forcefield-and-causing-all-the-S.W.O.R.D.-soliders-to-turn-their-guns-on-Hayward thing, followed by her making-the-force-field-around-Westview-glow-a-menacing-red thing. Later, when Vision zapped Norm (Asif Ali) out of his sitcom stupor, a terrified Norm appeared to echo Monica’s experience: “She’s in my head! Make her stop. Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) said that while she was inside Westview, she could feel Wanda’s voice in her head, which led director Hayward (Josh Stamberg) to declare that Wanda, once thought to be one of many victims, was in fact “the principal victimizer.” ![]() So much of “On a Very Special Episode…” was designed to reinforce the idea that what is happening in Westview is emanating entirely from Wanda. No, Really, Is Wanda the One in Control Here? Plus, super-aging twins, mysteriously reappearing accents, and bulletproof bellbottoms! Let’s get to the biggest burning questions. We’ve jumped into the 1980s, the era of “Family Ties” and “Growing Pains,” but the sitcom trappings are beginning to lose their rigidity, as Wanda’s grip on Westview - and Vision’s dawning awareness of his surroundings - begins to slip. In hindsight, the entire episode was laying the groundwork for a reveal that further cracks open not just this show, but the entire MCU. ![]()
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