![]() He could still be a “random” person in disguise, cloaked by an evil force yet to be revealed, but another option seems more likely. If we believe Wanda, then he’s not a random citizen playing a part (meaning, as she told Vision, she didn’t have him knock on the door in order to interrupt their conversation). Can she really just pretend he’s part of the “show,” part of their lives, like everyone else? How, exactly, Quicksilver ended up there may help ease her moral quandary. He’s entered her Westview, NJ bubble, and she knows he’s dead. ![]() How can she say “some things are forever” when she refuses to accept Vision’s death? Does she justify it because he wasn’t technically “alive”? Because he wasn’t ever human? If so, what does that mean for their relationship, their marriage, and for how she thinks of him in general? Vision is her husband, and if he’s not a living, breathing human, then he’s still sentient enough to pick up on her treatment of him as less than other humans.īut now she has to make that choice again, without any excuses. ![]() Paul Bettany, Kathryn Hahn, and Elizabeth Olsen in “WandaVision” Courtesy of Disney+Īs Olsen delivers the line (rather beautifully, I must say), her revival of Vision is first and foremost in the audience’s mind. “And we can’t reverse death no matter how sad it makes us. We can’t rush aging just because it’s convenient,” she says, when the kids want to grow older to avoid the pain they feel right then. “I’m trying to tell you there are rules in life. “Fix dead.” Horrific dialogue aside, the confrontation forces Wanda to explain why rules matter - not just to her kids, but to herself. Billy and Tommy beg their mom to revive their day-old pet. Later, that rationalization gets her in trouble when Sparky dies. ![]() Vision protests, but she rationalizes her decision by saying Agnes already saw them age up (which, I must say, is one of the creepiest things I’ve ever witnessed). This week, she creates a dog collar out of thin air, right in front of Agnes. Since Episode 3, she’s been going along with inexplicable events (like her speedy pregnancy), but more recently she’s been asking others to go along with them, too. Wanda’s arc this week is all about rules. Episode 5 sets up quite a challenge, and it does so under the guise of a meaningless sitcom story. It’s the first time we’ve been allowed to really connect with the character, and while it’s arriving a bit late, the moment is nonetheless powerful. That kind of personal discomfort, that kind of nagging doubt in one’s own identity, it’s shattering, and Bettany conveys it with apt anguish. Now, not only does he know something is wrong with their world, he knows something is wrong with him. Wanda tries to calm him down, but it’s clear Vision’s disquieted state stems from his request long ago, before he died, when he made Wanda promise to let him rest in peace. “I can’t remember my life before Westview,” he shouts. Vision’s discoveries range from troubling to downright monstrous, all of which build to a heated confrontation at home, where he refuses to let the credits roll on their argument and instead takes to the air for a throwdown with his secretive wife. From there, Vision’s world continues to crack he can’t understand why Wanda is so cavalier with her powers around Agnes, and he forces his coworker Norm (Asif Ali) to break character and tell him how he’s really feeling. Only a few minutes pass before Auntie Agnes (Kathryn Hahn) is asking if she should “take it from the top,” after Vision rebukes his wife’s wishes for a babysitter. And it’s also what makes Episode 6 worth getting excited about.Īt first, it seems like “On a Very Special Episode…” is all but doing away with its sitcom set-up. ![]() These are the puzzle pieces MCU fans have been waiting (rather impatiently) to see click into place, and while rewarding their fan theories does a good episode make, Episode 5’s focus on Wanda is what makes the jam-packed plotting connect. There are sweet little callbacks, like Jimmy (Randall Park) bringing Darcy her long-awaited coffee, and major moments of clarity, like when we see security footage of Wanda stealing Vision’s corpse in order to reanimate it to her liking. There’s photos of baby and teen versions of Wanda and Vision. There’s the eerie opening titles that pay homage to “Family Ties,” a title that even taken on its face ties in to the familial twist at episode’s end. That’s a lot to process, and I’ll leave the bulk of it to my Easter Egg-spotting colleagues to sort through properly, but Episode 5 succeeds via an all-out informatory assault. ‘The Bear’ Season 2 Is a Better, Richer Second Course ![]()
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