Iris is back to save the day with the power of love “pukes.” This show should probably be ending this year, instead of Black Lightning and Supergirl.
Just use Barry one crossover specials. This show isn’t as good as it once was.
At least they mentioned Ralph. Making believe he never existed would be dumb. At least the Olicity shippers enjoy how corny this show is now.
The writers and Grant Gustin are full of shit, Eva gets a second chance but not Hartley Sawyer ? lol.
I'm guessing this was the original season finale for the previous one. But man, what an awful episode. It's getting dumber and cringier every minute. I agree that the use of a different wells each season wasn't THAT bad, but come on. They give the character a proper goodbye (although i think that they should have done it with Parriah in Crisis. It would have been a really good place to finish the Wells storyline, plus the "Nash" storyline was really boring, so need to had it) and they just take back the OG Wells magically and with some random explanation. Then, the Ralph thing. I bet my ass that if they use the character again, they will explain the change of appearence because of this explosion-daft punk helmet (something similar to what Black Lightning did with Jen) "changed his molecular shit" or some random bs like that. They have to finish it this season, it's been more than enough
An underwhelming series finale for sure, I actually enjoyed the last 2 episodes a lottt, Grant Gustin's acting as the different Wells and an emotionless smart guy was superb!!!
However if Eva was faster Barry, how could Cisco and Caitlin fight her? Are her clones unable to travel as fast as light? If that's the case then it kinda makes sense, but I expected a lot more action or a clever plan or something instead of just talk-no-jutsu to beat her...
Also Joe clearly knew that it was fake Cecile, why in the world did he not shoot her?!?! Was it just because of the same face?!?! C'mon, you're a friggin' detective, you should've used your head a little!! That was the dumbest thing in this episode!!! Now that Season 4 finale looks like masterpiece compared to this...
Natalie Dreyfuss must be pissed she's losing the gig too because of her costar. Shame. She's easy on the eyes.
Terrible episode, maybe on of the worst of the show. Incredibly cringey, I mean come on; using the power of love to bring the speed force back? Iris getting powers? Villain calling herself Mirror Monarch? It's just getting incredibly lazy from the writers at this point. The Wells character was underwhelming and he can time travel, whatever :man_shrugging:. Ralph coming back as daft punk, they really should have cut his and sues storyline out. I feel like giving up this show but I'm too invested.
Another awful episode. Every problem the team has was solved, simply by...wishing really, really hard that they didn't have those problems. Then, poof! Fixed like magic. Except dumber.
I think Red faked Katerina’s death to protect her, and that stupid daughter of hers is actually the one that will screw out all up! Will serve her right. Elizabeth makes me ashamed to be a woman!
Shout-out to our boys in blue: Niels, Rahim, Roberta, Jafar, Claire, Maria, Alvin, that we'll never see again ;(
I think that the one brother who found and picked up the photo may end up helping Angelina or give his life to save her and thus beating the "Death Date" and living on. After all, Angelina was supposed to find that photo and the icecream place where he was and that he had a crush her because they were the same age, prior to her disappearance on flight 828.
I agree. I do not agree how they handled the ralph situation. He can change his shape so at least replace the actor. Getting fired for something that was said in the past is for me unfair. If he exhibited those in the present then it would have been more understandable
Speed thinking, that's new. Nice to see something new after all the various ways that Barry is always losing his speed. Gaining a new ability is a welcome twist especially since it's turning our lovable Barry into this cold hearted machine like person.
And that ending, yes yes yes. OG Wells! I can't wait to see how they'll explain this one though. Because we see Thawne still killed him and nothing seemingly changed in the future in the sense that Team Flash still believes Wells to be dead but somehow he isn't. Just thinking about this makes my brain hurt but I dig that we get to see another Wells. I couldn't imagine the show without Tom Cavanagh.
Woah, that was surprisingly good!
After that disastrous season premiere, we got an actually well-written episode!
Gustin is killing it so far this season. Glad we got Cisco and Caitlin back, and no Chester.
He freaky :rofl: glad to have Cisco back
Much better than the season premiere. Yet I am still missing Ralph. Grant Gustin even blocked me on Instagram just for saying they should at least replace Ralph.
This episode is better than it has a right to be. Since the show isn’t as good as it once was. Feels like the show should end soon.
Time to put this show on “watch in background” list. CW shows are pretty shitty but this new season is just garbage. I can’t believe they got signed up for season 8.
Ralph was in the previous episode and was written out to have never existed now I guess. I meanwhile miss Caitlin and Cisco. I can care less about Iris coming back from mirror world.
The show will suck if Tom Cavanagh left as well. As it was this wasn’t a memorable premiere. Without Cisco and Caitlin.
They should've let Chester touch the fusion sphere.
Also, Top was under police custody without a metahuman dampener?! Who the hell thought that was a good idea? And Cecille is now torturing people??
CW, just let this show die FFS.
Terrible premiere episode for this new season. Just tired, uneventful and pointless... I'll always watch for the beautiful Candice Patton but it's sad to see what this show has become. It just limps along now waiting for a multiverse crossover episode.
Omg, do you know Gandalf :rofl:
The show probably needed Sophie to figure out that she is Batwoman. She will most likely be the one who foils the other guy's attempt to have Batwoman's blood tested and ran through the database to determine her true identity.
Now THAT is how you write TV. One word, that last word, took this episode from great, to un-fucking-forgettable.
Dang these fracking allergies!!! Not quite "Ninja" level great, but pretty darn close. The writers deciding to channel Close Encounters of the Third Kind, was what IMO, gave the episode some much needed heart, while also introducing a new "squint", to the team. One of the unintended consequences of wormhole, or FTL travel possibly being that if and when you return home, everyone you knew and loved, will have either aged significantly, or, might even be long dead and gone.
Some genuinely touching concepts explored, in the idea that love can maintain a connection over time and space, possibly through shared (lucid?) dreams. They could have driven the point home a bit more if the Father had finished the Daughters sentence(s), but, Bryan's eyebrows would have to suffice.
The net is closing around Maddox and his double (triple) dealing. You can't serve TWO masters, as you will hate one and love the other, or vice-versa. Last scene though, shows something else may be afoot.
What's the over-under on Bryan spilling the beans to Fiona in the next couple episodes, or before Dad two point oh, shows up on MI6"s surveillance somewhere?
It seems the Nabob's reports of "Debris" eminent demise may have been exaggerated..... We shall see.
Ok so apparently Marvel comics’ fans were very excited about this episode as it revealed many characters which are known to them leading them to more theories.
In my case, I have no clue who Agatha Harkness is, or which superhero Monica will be, or what that fly represents BUT I am intrigued to know so hopefully this will be explained in the next episode. And what happened to the kids??
WandaVision's sitcom premises and tones have been tied to the emotions and mental state of Wanda since the beginning, so it makes sense that her at the lowest point yet things would start to become fractured and all over the place. And, as it turns out, the mockumentary style comedy of Modern Family and The Office turn out to be a great mix with these characters - the humor is far more subdued then before as well and much drier, fitting of this kind of show. The constant changing of the things around Wanda, her depressive mood - it's played very realistically, much more so then I expected, and the emotional beats hit hard.
But honestly what really sold this episode was everything around that - Elizabeth Olsen probably gives her best performance to date on the show here, and Paul Bettany's chemistry with Kat Dennings is surprisingly really great. Monica nearly steals the show here with a show stopping scene involving her gaining her powers, even if they haven't been shown yet, but Kathryn Hahn man. Her performance here is simply divine, and while I'm curious to see how this changes the show going forward (some explaining has to be done), if Hahn is having THIS much fun here I can't see why we can't.
PSA: hold ON through the credits there are TWO post-credit scenes
The thing I love the most about WandaVision's finale, and what some people aren't gonna like, is how straight forward it actually turns out to be. In the end, WandaVision was a show about grief and loss, and both Wanda and Vision were at the center of it. Because of that, the show wisely foregoes sudden reveals or shocking revelations in favour of emotional catharsis. And yes, while one answer in particular could be seen as a cop out, personally I think it was a wise decision to instead simply skip over it and instead hone in on the things that really make this show tick.
And both of the climaxes for Wanda and Vision turn out to be smaller conversational scenes amidst the more fantastical battles (which are standard Marvel fare, meaning very fun and well shot) - Paul Bettany in particular kills it here and the promise of seeing more of him is tantalizing. And yes, seeing the Scarlet Witch fully unleashed is worth the viewing alone, a moment and look ripped straight from the comics in the best way possible.
The five stages of grief brought forth in tangible form. Wanda's journey through her own trauma is as compelling as it gets - the kind of backstory that isn't exposition but necessary character drama. Probably some of the best written stuff to come from the MCU in awhile (a franchise that has had much better writing then most blockbusters), letting the audience feel her trauma and sadness from the core of her experiences rather then just a brief throwaway line. And they don't screw around either - Wanda is the one responsible here, in a very "House of M" esqe moment that feels earned and deepens her character.
Lots of other great stuff here too. Kathryn Hahn is still stellar as Agatha, and her opening scene in Salem is a highlight as it introduces us to the concept of witches in the MCU, while the mid-credits scene is a fantastic reveal of who the big final threat is likely to be. So far the show continues to be one of the MCU's finest offerings and I can't wait to see how it all ends.
[7.8/10] “Previously On” is the sort of episode that answers the questions fans have been asking from the beginning. Who caused the hex? (Wanda) What made her do it? (Cumulative trauma) Who’s controlling it? (Sort of Wanda, sort of not.) What’s the deal with Pietro? (Total fake). What about Vision? (Wanda recreated him.) What’s Agnes’s angle here? (A witch trying to attain more power a probably drain Wanda the same way she drained the rest of her coven.)
For a lesser show, these could be mechanical answers to mechanical questions. Instead, this episode answers those technical points while also getting at the why of all this. It confirms, once and for all, that WandaVision is a story about the slow accumulation of trauma, and the ways the shiny sitcom worlds on the television screens are an escape from it.
Agnes (or Agatha, depending on your preference), plays Ghost of Xmas Past with Wanda, forcing Wanda to guide her through major events of her history in an effort to uncover how she became this powerful. Rather than centering on incantations or magical artifacts (give or take an Infinity Stone), it hinges on the moments of both comfort and loss in Wanda’s life.
It’s a strong conceit, giving Elizabeth Olsen plenty of notes to play across the years and showing how Wanda has lost so much of the year. We start with a scene of serene domestic bliss, or what passes for it in a war-torn Eastern Bloc country, with Wanda and Pietro as children with their parents. Suddenly a bomb disrupts the peace of “TV night”, destroying the young kids’ lives amid a moment of happiness and depicting events described in Age of Ultron. \
That sets a pattern for these things, where each moment involves how Wanda copes with such losses. We see her becoming a freedom fighter (or terrorist, depending on your vantage point), out of an attempt to avenge her parents in a way. It leads her to connect with the mind stone (something that, alongside a shadowy figure, will no doubt be explored in more depth later). The experience heightened her powers, but was also a source of further trauma, of being experimented on and treated as disposable.
(Just my crazy theory: [spoiler]I predict that the shadowy figure Wanda saw in the Mind Stone will be Wanda herself, from the future, creating a stable time loop and deciding to set these events into motion, even knowing the hardships of where they lead, because it’s a way to let love persevere.[/spoilers].)
But then we get the best scene in the whole episode, where we jump to Wanda still grieving her brother’s loss, another unfathomable trauma, only to get some unexpected comfort from Vision. The writing and acting here is magnificent. The imagery of Wanda talking about grief as a series of waves, continually hitting her every time she tries to stand, is haunting and effective. But Vision’s retort, of not knowing what loss is given his origins, but appreciating the notion that it is love persevering, is just as beautiful a counterpoint. You can see the way the two of them are connected not just through the mind stone, but through their unique experiences of grappling with the human condition from opposite sides, of learning how to move forward together. The chemistry, easy rapport, and connection between them in those moments is off the charts.
It’s a minor miracle. Having lost everyone close to her, Wanda forges a connection with someone else, someone who helps fill that space. Only then, he’s taken from her too. The final flashback we see is Wanda barging into Sword and seeing Vision being torn apart. We see the man she expected to be waiting for her when she was un-blipped lying in pieces before her. She reaches down and can no longer feel her, the last thread of that connection severed.
It’s enough to send anyone sprialing. We witness the mechanics of what happens next -- a grief-stricken Wanda coming to Westview, uncovering what was meant to be the place where the rest of their lives together began, the ghost of a new chapter of domestic bliss that she was once again robbed of by chaotic forces.
So she snaps. She explodes in her grief, for her parents, for her brother, and for her love, each ripped away from her in the times she most needed comfort, most thought she could be safe and happy like those people on the television screens.
That’s the most piercing thread of “Previously On.” At each stage, Wanda watches these sitcoms as a form of relief, of escape, to have a glimpse of the life denied her by circumstance and tragedy. She’s watching The Dick Van Dyke Show and seeing a happy couple when her parents are killed. She’s watching The Brady Bunch and a couple of friendly but needling siblings when she and her brother are treated like lab rats. She sees the comical violence of Malcolm in the Middle where the father figure can endure large scale mishaps but come out unscathed because “it’s not that kind of show.”
The import is clear. The allure of these stories, this pristine or even hardscrabble sitcom worlds, is that even when the edges are rougher, tragedies rarely happen. Happy families get to persist, to flourish. They get to happen at all. It’s a world where the worst losses of the world are kept outside of the frame, made digestible and easily resolved, one half hour at a time. It is, a world where she can have the life that she dreamed of as a little girl, the life she and Vision imagined for themselves, back.
Who wouldn’t want to bury themselves in that world at a time when the universe has taken pound of flesh after pound of flesh from your body? Look, we’re talking about a famed Scarlet Witch using her “chaos magic” to rewrite reality for a small town in New Jersey. None of this is down-to-earth exactly. And yet there’s something that feels so relatable, even natural, to Wanda choosing (or instinctively reacting) to conjure the sort of place that’s bereft of the traumas she’s suffered again and again and again.
We know the ruddy details now: that Agnes wants power, that Hayward wants a Vision of his own, that Wanda is firmly the source of the Hex. But more importantly, we understand why it came to this. “Previously On” gives us all those stark moments of love and joy and happiness that Wanda was robbed of, and the comforting glow of a place where no such heart-wrenching thefts can occur. Whatever season-ending fireworks happen next week, no one can blame poor Wanda for retreating into her static-filled dream world, when so much of her life has been this crystal clear nightmare.
My God… that episode was AMAZING! There’s so much stuff to talk about. First, we now know that Wanda is in (at least 90%) control of everything that happens inside Westview and that Agnes also knows what Wanda is doing and she is (for some unknown reason) just going along with it. Does she have an ulterior motive or is she providing the means necessary to help Wanda? Vision just found out what is happening and he’s both terrified and worried, the woman he loves is controlling and hurting other people to fill her own selfish needs. That’s gonna blow up in her face… eventually. I’m pretty sure there’s a logical –in universe– explanation for the Pietro “recast” and the episode’s full with loads of proof:
You didn't see that coming?
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