70. WandaVision: EPISODES 1 & 2 - (s01e01+e02)

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The MCU has finally returned with WANDAVISION! Will and Jes discuss the highly-anticipated premiere (episodes 1 & 2) with guest Ben Adelman.

Topics include:

• General impressions, brief non-spoiler review.
• SPOILERS BEGIN: ~16:54.
• Which audiences WandaVision appeals to (and which it might not).
• The many genres of WandaVision.
• The central mysterty of the show.
• Will we get "event fatigue?"
• Thematic connections to the comics that inspired the show (House of M and The Vision).
• Why the classic sitcom format was the perfect fit to illustrate how Wanda's trauma is affecting her.
• Wanda's power level: MCU and the show vs. the comics.
• Who could be manipulatiung Wanda.
• Vision = Frodo Baggins??
• How the comics inspiring the show point toward tragedy.
• Elements from the comics in the show.
• Agnes: victim, friend or foe?
• Who created Wanda's alternate reality -- who manipulated her into it.
• Clues in the show that tell us the extent of Wanda's control over her alternate reality.
• Mephisto.
• S.W.O.R.D.: what they're doing in the show.
• Why the S.W.O.R.D. helicopter was toy-sized (and how the same principle could explain the beekeeper).
• Balancing the narrative and the meta-narrative.
• The Agent Coulson wager.
• What happens (and the dangers of) when Wanda goes off-script.
• How many of Agnes's lines can be read two ways, and what that implies about the mystery and her character.
• Agnes's purpose in the Wanda's altered reality.
• How Jes's kids reacted to the show.

Predictions/theories/hopes:

• What Vision's calculations at work could mean.
• Why S.W.O.R.D. might be involved with these events on Earth, rather than S.H.I.E.L.D.
• The possible importance of the very first line of the show.
• Which surprising characters might be a part of the show moving forwward.
• A post-credits scene at the end of the series? What it could be.
• Which character might has a chance of making a surprise camero appearance and make the fandom erupt with joy.

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