Originally Posted by
DrNewGod
I enjoyed it very much. I'm disappointed by only one thing: The inequity of the Scarlet Witch's resolution versus Hayward's.
I'm okay with a morally compromised Scarlet Witch retreating to learn her powers, and haunted by what she's done. I'm even okay with Rambeau taking the view that she can't be sure what she might have done had she had that kind of power and the chance to save her mother. I'm reminded of the Walter Houston quote from Chinatown pointing out that very few of us will ever find ourselves in circumstances that surface what we're truly capable of doing. Granted, Houston's Noah Cross was batshit crazy, but mad men sometimes speak disturbing truths.
However, I feel like they kicked the legs out from under that dark admission of what people in grief will do in the way they handled Hayward. He doesn't have to be likable, he doesn't even have to be honorable. But the writers passed on an opportunity to have his motivations, choices, and outcomes mirror Wanda's. Instead, they gave him the stock footage bad guy resolution; packed off to the hoosegow in handcuffs, without any clear picture of what it was he's done that's actually illegal (yeah, I know, exceeding authority, kidnapping, we could maybe even make a case for attempted murder with the FBI, but you know big brother is going to slam a great big iron lid on top of this thing and bolt it down tight, nobody's going to jail).
It's a small quibble, but I do have to say it took a bit of the edge off my enjoyment of the whole thing. Still, really good, but it passed on the opportunity to be great.