If not the internet will fucking tell you. I'm never watching it because I'm already sick of it before seeing a second of it.
Iron man: "Oh uh, we're cutting down the tall trees now"
Spiderman: "Uh, yeah, I thiiiiink we're cutting down the tall tress"
It's not bad and has a fun concept. People are just so inured to the absolute mediocrity of Marvel/DC shit that they lose their minds when someone elevates it even slightly (also see: the Joker movie)
Plus there's kind of a drought of content rn due to COVID
I think they could have done a lot more with the concept. Using different eras of American television to examine the ideology behind each generation and its view of the american dream would be extremely cool, but instead they kind of just got their writer's room to jack themselves off showing how they can stylistically mimic old shows. I also don't like how homogenized American media is becoming as a result of major studios and streaming services sticking to the same few brands they know will sell rather than giving opportunities to new ideas.
All that said, I was still entertained by the show. It's like a 73/100 for me I guess.
This is 100% true, it is a bit of a waste of the concept. The theme song/opening montages are spot on though
Like Breaking Bad I'm going to not watch it out of spite for no one in particular.
I'm fully aware that I'm missing out but it's a matter of principle at this point. It's a loop I will not be in. I have no rational reason for this and I'm being very immature but I'm gonna stick with it anyway.
The more distance people have from it the more I feel validated in thinking it didn't seem that great to start with.
If you want to be even more spiteful, watch only the spinoff (which according to some people it's better, but you will miss out some cool references or moments for BB fans).
Yeah there's always a ton of questionably organic "hype" for superhero shit and then it dies in a week
Better Call Saul is an infinitely better and more interesting show anyway, just watch that.
You get the same great cinematography and dialogue, but with a plotline that isn't driven entirely by the high stakes McGuffins at the start and end of the season.
you can skip breaking bad but there's no excuse not to watch better call saul. funniest prestige drama since the sopranos
Don't Wandavision. Ignore things cause other people like them. Guardians 2 and Thor Ragnarok fucking slap though, I can agree with that. Honestly I wish they'd just go full Ditko and make a good chunk of Marvel movies into Heavy Metal style acid trip space operas cause I like those and will pay to watch them.
Guardians 2 is awesome, but Thor Ragnarok felt like two movies stitched together with a bandaid. It doesn't help that one of those two is bad and the other good.
Never saw Infinity War. I'm going to say, yes, you would like it
People are just so inured to the absolute mediocrity of Marvel/DC shit that they lose their minds when someone elevates it even slightly (also see: the Joker movie)
I think the problem with these films/stories is that they try to take genuinely engaging topics - blinkered nostalgia, our failing social order, imperialism and the horrors inflicted by the imperial core upon the colonies (WandaVision's big plot reveals serve as fantastic metaphors for a bunch of these) - and then paper it over with Robots And Wizards And Laser Beams.
Like, they're not strictly bad entertainment, which is why they get gobbled up by the public. But they're infantilizing these heavy concepts and looming crises. "Elevating" a Batman villain to bring to light our collapsing social safety net is doing to welfare reform what Captain Planet did to the environmentalist conversation. Except we're doing Big Budget Captain Planet For Adults, because we literally cannot digest our politics any other way.
And even past all of that, we're still in a very dangerous place because so many of these media spectacles still end up promoting our worst political impulses. Avengers lets us continue to believe Smart Military Officers With A Plan and Super Technology will defeat a single malicious actor commanding a horde of monsters. DC keeps pressing on the "Crime Is the Problem" button every chance it gets, adding more fuel to the Terrorists Everywhere hysteria we've been experiencing since 9/11 (and the Satanic Panic before that and the Red Scare before that).
We're losing our minds because this is junk food for our brains.
It's the memes. The fucking memes. Every themed shitposting group has been doing Wandavision stuff and I now hate it cause of it clogging my feeds.
I hate how successful companies have been at getting dumb kids into advertising for them.
Had this conversation with a gen x co-worker and said more or less 'as cringe and short lived as your reign was at least you saw corporations for what they were'
I'm gonna assume it's about/starring Wanda Sykes, like all those semi fictional shows that comedians were doing like 5-10 years ago
I saw a quick review where they said like all Marvel, it starts off fresh and interesting then devolves into boring capeshit tropes. Good enough for me to stay away.
I saw a quick review where they said like all Marvel, it starts off fresh and interesting
I mean... if you consider re-hashing six decades of sitcoms either of those two things, I'd be curious to know your standards for either.
Wandavision (and Wanda in mcu in general) has done worse for Romani activism than anything else in this goddamn world. And I am only 40% joking. There have been over ELEVEN Wanda stans on twitter being outted as racefaking as Roma within the time the shows been airing alone. This show makes gadze act fucking wild.
Wait, does the show seriously use an Olsen twin in order to gain some romani activism points????
Lmao, at least From Russia With Love does romani racism upfront.
Wanda is (sometimes) Romani in the comics, in the MCU she's "Sokovian" which seems to be a made-up South Slavic country, modeled after Bosnia-Herzegovina.
To be fair, Sokovia exists in the comics. I'd rather them making up new countries rather than fucking up for bad representation. But...
Mmmmm, wonder why those new countries are always in "exotic areas" and never in the US or western Europe. Mmmmmhmmmm.
never in the US or western Europe
Europe is way more different in Marvel than I thought
Seems like almost every country has been carved up except The Anglosphere, India, and Japan?
Well it’s more like they used a white actress and that is why people are upset. She also has said Gypsy before which to some people they still debate it’s a slur. But mostly I mean people care so much about her to the extreme they ignore any OTHER Roma issue or pretend to be Roma to “personally” excuse her. Pretty sure the movies also make her like Nazi-adjacent sympathetic which is... fuckin bad since in the comics she tends to be halfRoma halfJewish.
Edit: the only time as far as i know they’ve tried to ‘explore’ wanda’s race was when they made her dress up as a fortune teller like LOL
MCU is a waste of your time. There hasn't been a good comic book movie since Batman Forever.
Blade erasure. Classic chapos ignoring POC protagonists.
Also Guardians of the Galaxy was good, but I'm not even gonna try and joke about furry erasure tbh.
i watched the last two episodes and they were fun standalone capeshit shlock
the exposition villain literally explains the entire plot of the show in episode 8, and then past that its nonstop glowy eyes yelling and shooting concrete destroying lasers
i honestly can't imagine watching it over a period of three fucking months, where the first seven episodes contribute nothing other than "haha we copied the tropes of older sitcoms with zero fuckin substance and without moving the narrative forward at all!"
if the show had done something interesting like have the only antagonist in the show be wanda's grief or something, (or literally anything other than the usual capeshit formula) i would have been interested in watching the rest of it lol
Also, are the bad guys Anarchist in this one too?
Nah just a witch, some military guy and the main character's grief
I haven't seen it but I'm going to say both yes and they're also unexpectedly also the exact kind of anarchist you like.
Apparently everyone's mad about the ending? I already read spoilers, but I can't tell why they're mad about it. I think it was just less epic than they were expecting?
I love the television program WandaVision. It inspired me. I am stronger for having watched it. We all should watch it.
I already read spoilers, but I can’t tell why they’re mad about it.
Conservatives are mad about Dr. Seuss. Liberals need something to be mad about, so they picked this.
i too refuse to watch it because some of the biggest critics that i hate loved it so i assume it's probably not that great, plus that stuff has never interested me. i don't really care for any superhero stuff, i never cared when i was kid and im not starting now. i've only ever seen like 5-6 super hero movies and the only ones i genuinely enjoyed watching was the old Batman and Deadpool
honestly it took me awhile to figure it out. the fuck kind of name is wandavision
Are Wanda and Vision two different people? I just thought it was the kind of vision Wanda had.
vision is wanda's dead robot husband who she brings back to life as a sitcom dad
