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Yep, I've been watching and it turns out, I have opinions and thoughts and conjectures (this is what happens with that damn Marvel Unlimited subscription.) Also, I'm actively avoiding spoilers going forward, so all of this is just me spinning plots out; please don't tell me who's signed on for guest appearances b/c I had a blast with that most recent reveal
So, this is more than likely fueled by my dislike of the foundational trope that drove the House of M comics arc (which was in turn fueled by my sense of betrayal and disappointment in the original Dark Phoenix arc, all of which has been marinating for, good lord, 30+ years), but I would like it very much if Wanda was not the one who was betraying Vision by re-animating him, but was instead doing the best she could to rescue him from whoever *was* using his corpse, namely the ass-hat in charge of SWORD. Hayward?
(Sidenote: the kids will testify that I disliked and distrusted him from his opening lines. I *don't* think he's the slightest bit sorry that he took Monica's spot as head of SWORD and I do think he's clueless enough to have put something in motion that he hadn't a hope in hell of controlling.)
The whole thing could possibly even be a SWORD experiment gone awry, though I'm basing that on how Agnes seems to be much more aware of what's happening than the rest of the town's inhabitants, enough that I could spin where she was supposed to be the person on the inside and is now stuck there, playing through Wanda's manipulations. And also how it was terribly convenient for Hayward to send Monica (who he really wants to get rid of) up to Westview so she could get sucked into the zone and out of his hair. And he really hit those she-was-with-Hydra and she's-doing-this-against-Vision's-living-will points really hard--he really wants *Wanda* out of the way.
This is 2ish weeks post-Blip -- have we sorted out when Tony's funeral was in Endgame? Because there's that Wanda-Clint conversation about how he hopes the ones they lost (ie, Nat & Vis) know that they won & Wanda says she "...know[s] he does" ... which...? Is this happening before that funeral/memorial service and implying that she's going to tell him now? In WV?
(Also, I know we haven't established the father-daughter relationship between Magneto and Wanda here in the MCU, but clearly, we're having multi-verse bleedover and, yeah, wasn't that scene where Wanda redirected all the laser sights to Hayward very much like-father-like-daughter from the original X-Men movieverse?)
And: Monica's odd medical tests... I forget how she gets her powers in the comics arc, but wouldn't powers granted by whichever of the Infinity Stones powered Wanda & Vis also cause weirdnesses? Is that why Wanda trusted her initially? Like calling to like?
Two other things: Monica's fast sidestep of any mention of Carol and when she's talking about the tank they'd need to go into the town, she says she might know an engineer and sends a text and then there's no other reference to it. #2 & I can't think of any engineers now that Tony's gone. Possibly Shuri but we're not sure how Monica would know her. I mean, they could have met through the Wakandan outreach post-BP, but ...?
In conclusion, I would really really really like this a lot better if it was the story of a mediocre white man fucking around with forces he had no hope of understanding than yet another story of a powerful woman unable to control herself because of feeeeeeelings.
er, that was a lot; I had no idea I had that much to say about this show, but here we are, yeah?
So, this is more than likely fueled by my dislike of the foundational trope that drove the House of M comics arc (which was in turn fueled by my sense of betrayal and disappointment in the original Dark Phoenix arc, all of which has been marinating for, good lord, 30+ years), but I would like it very much if Wanda was not the one who was betraying Vision by re-animating him, but was instead doing the best she could to rescue him from whoever *was* using his corpse, namely the ass-hat in charge of SWORD. Hayward?
(Sidenote: the kids will testify that I disliked and distrusted him from his opening lines. I *don't* think he's the slightest bit sorry that he took Monica's spot as head of SWORD and I do think he's clueless enough to have put something in motion that he hadn't a hope in hell of controlling.)
The whole thing could possibly even be a SWORD experiment gone awry, though I'm basing that on how Agnes seems to be much more aware of what's happening than the rest of the town's inhabitants, enough that I could spin where she was supposed to be the person on the inside and is now stuck there, playing through Wanda's manipulations. And also how it was terribly convenient for Hayward to send Monica (who he really wants to get rid of) up to Westview so she could get sucked into the zone and out of his hair. And he really hit those she-was-with-Hydra and she's-doing-this-against-Vision's-living-will points really hard--he really wants *Wanda* out of the way.
This is 2ish weeks post-Blip -- have we sorted out when Tony's funeral was in Endgame? Because there's that Wanda-Clint conversation about how he hopes the ones they lost (ie, Nat & Vis) know that they won & Wanda says she "...know[s] he does" ... which...? Is this happening before that funeral/memorial service and implying that she's going to tell him now? In WV?
(Also, I know we haven't established the father-daughter relationship between Magneto and Wanda here in the MCU, but clearly, we're having multi-verse bleedover and, yeah, wasn't that scene where Wanda redirected all the laser sights to Hayward very much like-father-like-daughter from the original X-Men movieverse?)
And: Monica's odd medical tests... I forget how she gets her powers in the comics arc, but wouldn't powers granted by whichever of the Infinity Stones powered Wanda & Vis also cause weirdnesses? Is that why Wanda trusted her initially? Like calling to like?
Two other things: Monica's fast sidestep of any mention of Carol and when she's talking about the tank they'd need to go into the town, she says she might know an engineer and sends a text and then there's no other reference to it. #2 & I can't think of any engineers now that Tony's gone. Possibly Shuri but we're not sure how Monica would know her. I mean, they could have met through the Wakandan outreach post-BP, but ...?
In conclusion, I would really really really like this a lot better if it was the story of a mediocre white man fucking around with forces he had no hope of understanding than yet another story of a powerful woman unable to control herself because of feeeeeeelings.
er, that was a lot; I had no idea I had that much to say about this show, but here we are, yeah?
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Same! But I still have hope for this: "Vision's living will says don't revive him" is very much not the same thing as "keeping Vision's body for experiments". I was wondering if the engineer is Rhodey? And Carol was powered by the same stone as Wanda (and Pietro) and Vision, so it wouldn't surprise me if Monica is linked to it as well. In the comics she was in the Coast Guard and got her powers from a super-villain weapon gone wrong, but the MCU likes to link everything up so I presume it will be different here.
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And Rhodey -- yes, I forgot he was at MIT with Tony AND the War Machine armor is probably okay to go through that barrier itself. And they're both pilots in the rarefied SHIELD/SWORD world; I'll bet they do know each other. I would be super-happy to see him pop up. :D
When I go out and look/listen to all the fan commentary, everyone seems to just be accepting that Wanda has lost control and it's House of M all over again, but they do like to tweak things in the MCU, so I'm hoping that carries over here.
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In conclusion, I would really really really like this a lot better if it was the story of a mediocre white man fucking around with forces he had no hope of understanding than yet another story of a powerful woman unable to control herself because of feeeeeeelings.
Agreed 100%!
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Also, Wanda's power is wow. I liked that they acknowledged both Carol and Wanda supremacy. *g*
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Also, omg, the thought of Fassbender's Magneto running full tilt into the MCU is entirely too much fun.
We speculated a little that Wanda could maybe even be using Vision's powers b/c the clothes aren't an illusion but a molecular rearrangement of existing matter, which is more his jam than hers, but either way, she's doing a LOT.