Hopefully this is a better promise than the whole they didn't want to have a woman just go crazy with power thing.
Hopefully this is a better promise than the whole they didn't want to have a woman just go crazy with power thing.
Love is for souls, not bodies.
It was literally true, but got our hopes too high for how they would treat her. Someone said that the show avoided "grief makes you crazy" and leaned instead into "grief makes you selfish and inconsiderate" (which is a little better because it's sometimes true, but made Wanda a very un-heroic character).
We'll see where they go with her next, but the ending of WandaVision was ambiguous enough that there are many different ways to go with her while still being true to what they set up.
yeah hopefully He does better than Jac Shaeffer, I liked WV, but I don't deny that I was disappointed in the final she gave Wanda saying she wouldn't do the stereotype of ''women can't control their powers'' in an interview, hopefully Lizzie told him to handle Wanda like a hero like she should be.
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Yes, but some fans (like me) interpreted that as them saying they were going to avoid making Wanda turn bad like in Avengers Disassembled/House of M, and that didn’t happen. She still lost control of her powers and did bad things and wasn’t given a chance to redeem herself (yet). She just didn’t go crazy.
So we won’t get our expectations too high this time around, except they won’t do her as dirty as the comics did… but that’s a low bar.
I really did not see that at all in Wanda's character, by how the story went and by what I got both from the breakdowns by other and what really seemed like what the writers where going for was a Lady not going crazy or being selfish, but coming back from a emotional breakdown down of grief and hitting rock bottom and being gone in her own mind and having to work back up from their.
If she was really selfish and only care about herself, she would have not given up her family or given up the town when she found the truth by episode 9, that is how it came across to me and it seemed like many others I saw in reviews too.
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It's more about how writers interpreted mental illness. And saying that she was selfish. The depiction of depression was also off. And they very much did not portray her as learning control of her powers and link the powers being out of control to her mental illness. Those are very problematic things, still.
Love is for souls, not bodies.
I think it was the right decision for the Hex to be her (accidental) doing instead of having someone else manipulate her into doing it. The criticism is more that at the end she hadn't really learned to do better.
If the tag scene had really showed her learning to control her power and avoid hurting people again, I don't think I would have the same criticism. But the tag shows that she could maybe be learning to control her powers, but she could also be about to get corrupted by the Darkhold, or screw up looking for her children... so we have to wait until 2022 at least to find out if she will do better or get worse.
I would've been fine with Wanda being responsible for the Hex if she wasn't responsible for all the worst parts of it like the brainwashing and people being left comatose to suit her fantasy world, and that she basically ignored it until it was thrown in her face.
It wasn't as bad as her House of M moment, but it felt too similar to be comfortable.