So damn awesome. Just when I didn't think I could love any more, he goes and does that. He's so damn awesome.
Spoilers WandaVision discussion thread
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Yeah the first two episodes were a mixture of:
The Dick Van Dyke show
and
Bewitched (and at the end they transitioned from the black and white to the color era of Bewitched.)
I'm torn on how I feel about it, but I'm old enough to have seen Bewitched both first-run and in syndication, as well as the Dick Van Dyke show in syndication (along with all the other sitcoms of the late 50s early 60s, 70s and beyond.)
I don't know how well it's going over with Marvel fans who aren't old enough to even get what they're trying to do here. The homages are very apparent and very well done, but even I would rather see more superhero comic elements introduced quicker.
YMMV of course.
The Dick Van Dyke show
and
Bewitched (and at the end they transitioned from the black and white to the color era of Bewitched.)
I'm torn on how I feel about it, but I'm old enough to have seen Bewitched both first-run and in syndication, as well as the Dick Van Dyke show in syndication (along with all the other sitcoms of the late 50s early 60s, 70s and beyond.)
I don't know how well it's going over with Marvel fans who aren't old enough to even get what they're trying to do here. The homages are very apparent and very well done, but even I would rather see more superhero comic elements introduced quicker.
YMMV of course.
So damn awesome. Just when I didn't think I could love any more, he goes and does that. He's so damn awesome.
I was thinking about this. Disney/Marvel, the producers didn't have to do this.
The fact that they reached out to Dick Van Dyke and asked, 'Hey we're doing this show that's an homage to yours and other 50-60s sitcoms, do you mind if we ask you some questions about what it was like?' Then that he agreed, just gives me a good feeling all around.
Depends on how young we're talking about. I grew up on Nick at Nite so I saw a lot of these classic shows as a kid and I'm....38.
Damnit.
When did I get old?
Right? They definitely didn't have to do that but they went out of their way to ask for advice. Very classy.
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So I finally got the time needed to watch the first two episodes.
Episode 1 was slow, but a lovely homage to the 50s style sitcoms back then. No parody elements, it felt authentic. Could just be Poe's law though.
Episode 2...picks up quite a bit. The cracks in reality begin, we're getting a bigger idea of what's going on. Etc. Loved "Drunk" Vision.
I don't think I'm spoiling anything with the Radio bit because the trailers did that for us.
Episode 1 was slow, but a lovely homage to the 50s style sitcoms back then. No parody elements, it felt authentic. Could just be Poe's law though.
Then the truth of what's happening started at dinner with the guy chocking and Wanda doing nothing until....something just "clicks" in her head. And it's telling that Vision similarly did nothing until she basically ordered him to.
And that last bit, where it turns out a SWORD Agent was watching everything that we have on a monitor somewhere. Reminded me of the Matrix a bit, with the Architect's screens.
And that last bit, where it turns out a SWORD Agent was watching everything that we have on a monitor somewhere. Reminded me of the Matrix a bit, with the Architect's screens.
Episode 2...picks up quite a bit. The cracks in reality begin, we're getting a bigger idea of what's going on. Etc. Loved "Drunk" Vision.
I don't think I'm spoiling anything with the Radio bit because the trailers did that for us.
At one point, there was talk of an end credit sequence for Endgame that would have teased WandaVision...
https://thedirect.com/article/avengers-endgame-post-credits-wandavision-scene
The best reason for them to have done this would have been to give Paul Bettany an appearance, even as a corpse, in the movie. It's a crime against the MCU that he was not listed in that big round up of MCU actors in the end credits.
https://thedirect.com/article/avengers-endgame-post-credits-wandavision-scene
https://thedirect.com/article/avengers-endgame-post-credits-wandavision-scene
The best reason for them to have done this would have been to give Paul Bettany an appearance, even as a corpse, in the movie. It's a crime against the MCU that he was not listed in that big round up of MCU actors in the end credits.
https://thedirect.com/article/avengers-endgame-post-credits-wandavision-scene
Jimmy Woo, former SHIELD Agent turned FBI (Scott Lang's parole officer in Ant-Man 2). And, I guess, now Agent of SWORD.
Just re-watched the Dottie scene, the way she was grilling Wanda. Did... did we just meet the MCU version of Emma Frost?
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A YouTube Easter egg video pointed out that the voice is actually identified as Jimmy woo in the subtitles of one of the trailers, but not in the actual episode. Oops.
I didn't notice that was who it was (which is weird because Randall Park has a distinctive voice) until the foreign voice cast listings appeared onscreen at the end of the episode. Park as Woo was listed there.
Hopefully Buffyverse crossover
Thread...TLDR...
WTF! First it's The Dick van Dyke show, then it's Bewitched and now its going to turn into the Brady Bunch\Partridge Family next week. I really hope this is going somewhere because I have no f-ing clue as to what is going on. What's next? The Mod Squad? Mannix?
The voice in the radio and the ad for "Strucker" watches on the TV seem to indicate that they are in some kind of "framework" VR prison for some reason. I hope they break out soon and start to do some MCU stuff soon.
The homage to early TV is okay but I don't want an entire season of rehashed old TV shows.
WTF! First it's The Dick van Dyke show, then it's Bewitched and now its going to turn into the Brady Bunch\Partridge Family next week. I really hope this is going somewhere because I have no f-ing clue as to what is going on. What's next? The Mod Squad? Mannix?
The voice in the radio and the ad for "Strucker" watches on the TV seem to indicate that they are in some kind of "framework" VR prison for some reason. I hope they break out soon and start to do some MCU stuff soon.
The homage to early TV is okay but I don't want an entire season of rehashed old TV shows.
He owed Disney for his Cockney accent in Mary Poppins.
They said that each episode is going to go from decade to decade. We started in the 50s with episode 1, moved to the 60s in episode 2 (complete with how the ending upgraded to color like they did in the late 60s).
So going by that, episode 3 will be the 70s, episode 4 will be the 80s, episode 5 will be the 90s, episode 6 will be the early 2000s and episode 7 will be the current time period.
With episode 8 as the wrap-up.
Of course, the actual plot of how they're clearly trapped in some kind of illusion/alternate reality with SWORD trying to contact them and get them out will be interwoven with every episode.
My guess, Vision is similarly just something created from Wanda's mind and isn't really the actual Vision. Wanda will have to accept this with even "Dream Vision" convincing her that she must let him go so that she can truly be free.
Essentially his end is "I died once for you and for this world, I'll do it again if I have to."
She's able to leave, he fades away again and this Reality is undone and whatever bad thing it's causing is stopped.
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Don Cheadle must be working for free then, given his accent in the Ocean’s movies.
I don't think she glitched at all. Backing up your first point, she was eventually telling Wanda - even pleading to her - to "stop it" repeatedly.
Sounds about right.
Except, i think, the end won't be a reset button. Events will have consequence and Wanda will unlock something important for later.
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