“I hope that they feel like the journey was satisfying for ,” Shakman told Entertainment Weekly about the finale. Director Matt Shakman, who helmed all nine episodes, said as much in a few interviews ahead of Friday’s WandaVision finale. But WandaVision will also disappoint those fans who had bigger theories for the show. And the finale could always deliver some surprises. WandaVision will set in motion a chain of events that will lead to Spider-Man 3 and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, leaks have said. WandaVision is only a cog in the giant MCU machine, and it’s telling a highly specific story. It’s a cliff-hanger that, combined with what we know about Agatha, poses many questions about Pietro’s nature, and potentially hurls all our X-Men theories into the garbage.Leaks and teasers aside, the 50-minute finale can’t possibly explain everything that fans will want answers for. In the show’s first post credits scene, Evan Peters arrives in menacing fashion to interrupt Monica’s discovery of Agatha’s basement. Isolating Wanda for an episode means the absence of Pietro, but this doesn’t mean a complete lack of Quicksilver. After casting her as the villain for several subsequent episodes, the show is making efforts to make Wanda sympathetic again, which neatly marries up with the reveal that she is, at least partially, a victim of Agatha’s schemes. Along with the Nexus pills advert, it’s clear Wanda has progressed past her angry grief stage and into depression, neatly visualised by the unstable house around her. Her stay-at-home routine does give the show a moment to reflect on her troubles so far, though. In fact, the homage is perhaps a little too much, as Wanda feels less like Wanda this week until her final encounter with Agatha. Her hand movements and emphasised delivery is a perfect replica of Bowen’s Claire Dunphy from Modern Family. There surely would be more fizz if Vision had learned this from Wanda, but - again - it does lay foundations for something more exciting in the final two episodes.Īs for Wanda herself, well, Elizabeth Olsen sure can do a fantastic Julie Bowen impression. He also seems oddly calm about it all, in part due to the deadpan style that leaks in through the mockumentary format. Again, this is important set up for what’s to come, but it means that Vision’s place in the story this week is to be entirely a receptacle for exposition. Of the SWORD trio, Darcy has the most screen time, but is resigned to delivering an information dump to Vision for the entire episode. Jimmy barely gets a word in, and the reveal of Monica’s contact - a bunch of military people with a space truck - is particularly unspecial considering some of the surprises WandaVision has set up in the past. That thankfully doesn’t make the reveals themselves any less exciting, but the construction of the episode does mean all the characters feel somewhat underserved until the final ten minutes. It’s nice to get hints back to her past and hear voices from Captain Marvel, but this is very much an episode about moving all the pieces into the correct position for the finale, rather than doing anything massive with them. Monica’s material here is all in aid of anticipation rather than immediate pay-off, though, something which characterises the episode as a whole. It’s also fun to see the design of her SWORD uniform acting as a prototype of her hero costume from the comics. The glowing blue eyes, strange electromagnetic vision, and invulnerability to the hex’s transformative power all indicate that we could be well on the way to getting a Captain Marvel-grade superhero punch-up in the coming finale. In other big reveals, Monica’s pushing back into Westview through the hex barrier appears to have activated her powers, putting her one step ahead on the road to becoming her comic book counterpart, Spectrum. And with Agatha’s part of the story confirmed, it opens the door wide for further theories around her intentions for Wanda and her children, as well as the potential for characters like Mephisto or even Chthon to make their MCU debut. Blowing the candle out on this theory, only to reignite it an episode later, is an ideal act of timing from showrunner Jac Schaeffer, and ensures the reveal still carries some punch, even if it does get just a brief few minutes of screen time. But as episodes have gone by, she seemed less and less the culprit, especially following her bewildered encounter with Vision in episode six. However, it has long been a fan theory among lore obsessives that Agnes is Agatha Harkness. For non-comic fans, this reveal may have come out of nowhere, especially as Agnes has done nothing truly suspicious on-screen, which does dent its impact.
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