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dang, Agatha really is just fully evil. Maybe they can pull a redemption arc for her if Wanda ever goes back for advice or something. Don't know why they couldn't have used some other random magic user who's actually evil, or just created someone new.
At least my big worry didn't happen (Wanda's hex expands over the whole world and creates mutants), so that's a relief.
The fighty bits in the last episode didn't really do it for me; the CGI was not up to snuff with the movies and I just think this is not the kind of show that needed an action packed climax. All the actual resolutions to the various antagonists basically all happen in dialogue anyways; they could've easily just devoted more time to both the Wanda/Agatha and the Vision/White Vision conversations instead of drawing things out with the fights.
So about the whole mutant thing..........
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............... I guess last episode confirms that mutants do exist in the MCU. Just a rare occurence, maybe? Or the X gene emerging just recently.
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I don't think they were trying to say Wanda is a mutant at all; they were just saying she was naturally adept with magic from birth, and the Mind gem pushed it all into overdrive, turning her into the Scarlet Witch.
Which is vaguely similar to how her powers work in the the comics: her natural powers—the ones she got from being a mutant from being genetically modified right after birth by the High Evolutionary to be virtually identical to but legally distinct from a mutant—were just gonna be energy projection, but she was touched by the Elder God Cthon when she born, and those altered her natural powers to be extreme and adept control of chaos magic, to the point where she needed no lessons in magic for most of her career (and once she actually learned that she was using magic and sought out guidance on how to properly use it, she was insanely good at it).
It's been sort of inverted in the MCU (her magic is instead the natural part of her, and the powers are something that amps the magic up instead, but it sure does look like they're otherwise following the same general arc for her. She's already learned that she's been using magic all along, that she's literally a witch, and is now training to better use her powers.
So much trolling from Marvel. Enjoyed it as a whole but the last 2 episodes were disappointing especially to comic book readers. Gotta say I enjoyed the Malcolm In The Middle episode the most.
That's interesting, because I think these part few episodes have been perhaps a bit too tilted towards rewarding to comic book fans above all else:
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the Agatha all Along song is a lot of fun, but the show also treats her being Agatha Harkness as a huge reveal that everyone should be shocked by. But hardly anyone knows who the fuck Agatha was before that episode; she's a minor supporting character at best in the comics. I think it basically still worked as a reveal for, even the non-comics audience, since the song is so well done and the show really sells the shit out of the reveal with that song montage, but still.
Then there's all the stuff where they finally let start calling Wanda by her superhero name, after 6 fucking years, and finally let her wear her actually fucking costume. Plus name-dropping chaos magic, it all felt like they were trying to throw in everything element they hadn't yet adapted. Which is good I guess, just wish it came earlier. Just start with the cool stuff, don't make us wait to see the superhero do superhero stuff!
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I really thought that both Visions would "fuse" or something (you know, one was the body and the other was the memories, it would make sense), so they could exist outside the Hex. But I'm sure Vision is not gone yet.
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White Vision got all his memories restored but I'm sure they'll play it off as him not really having an emotional connection to any of those memories or something, in order to keep Vision's death in Infinity War "real", or whatever. This White Vision is not quite the old Vision resurrected, but he's also not not the Vision. His arc over the next few entries will probably be about navigating that divide, and wondering whether he should try reconnecting with Wanda.
I'm fairly certain that when he was rebuilt and turned white in the comics he just straight up lost his memories (and moreover lost the ability to feel emotions and develop a personality), but I'm not going back to check those ruinous garbage comics that straight up ruined both Vision and Scarlet Witch as ongoing characters for literal decades. Fuck John Byrne, all my homies hate John Byrne.
Anyways, more recently he had to delete his emotional memories in order to keep his software from crashing. He still remembered everything that happened to him, but it was like watching a movie from afar; he had no emotional attachment to them. So I definitely feel like they're gonna take that avenue in the movies, to keep the Scarlet Witch/Vision storyline going for a few more movies before they finally retire the two characters permanently.