RE: RE: WandaVision Ends On Its Own Terms, Not Ours
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RE: WandaVision Ends On Its Own Terms, Not Ours

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Hey, bigcarrillo@bigcarrillo.

I just went and read yours. Sounds like we're in agreement on some things.

WandaVision was mostly meant to center around Wanda and her rekindled (and explosive) grief, like it should, while introducing some characters and re-introducing some others, that will have larger parts in the MCU moving forward, not because it would please fans, but because it served the character and story development.

It was that simple.

It took 11 years basically to get to the final battle against Thanos. In the very first Iron Man, we didn't even know he was the big bad—that took several more years for Thanos to even make a cameo, though he was hinted at earlier.

In my estimation, I don't think that Marvel Studios is going to do a whole lot different than they've already done. I think they will continue to adapt genres to fit their stories when needed, and I think they're going to continue to create stories that are character studies with an appropriate amount of superhuman action.

I don't think you need to have a deep understanding of Marvel Comics to get something out of these adaptations, since they're not at all cutting that close to the source material. In WandaVision, they came up with their own take on Wanda's grief—the sitcom format, how Westview was co-opted—and how it was taken down—by Wanda herself.

In the comics, things happened quite differently, though with a knowledge of them it's a little easier (not necessarily much easier) to see the little bits and parts that they took or referenced in each episode. The fact they through in Easter Eggs everywhere served as misdirection and distraction from what was actually going on, so knowing all of that was actually worse, because it became misleading.

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