
Re: Marvel Cinematic Universe: THE END (until the next movie comes out)
February 28, 2021, 01:34:36 AM View in topic context
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Spoiler, click to toggle visibiltyHmm... I always assumed that was just a side effect of Wanda's hex, but perhaps it was Agatha's doing, to keep any Avengers or other do-gooders from interfering? But then again, would Agatha have known it was Wanda's doing before she entered?
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SWORD couldn't identify her - or whatever her modern alias is, so we still don't know if she was one of the victims pulled into this fake town or if she's involved with whoever created it. But it's been a running theme that Wanda isn't sure why there are people trapped in this town, suggesting since day one that she wasn't the villain controling everyone. Well, she was the one doing the current mind control, but the people were alraedy there before her and they were supposed to be from other places, they shouldn't have been her for her to control in the first place.
... Okay, I checked ep 4 again, SWORD finds the people's real names but they don't actually say where they come from. So the last problem is this cop in ep 4 who tells Monica that Westview doesn't exist, so the people must have come from elsewhere. Or are we throwing that line away as a red herring, like, was his "no such place" comment a side-effect or the hex ? Monica wonders if everyone outside simply has selective amnesia and Westview really did exist before everything. Jimmy does say he's been going through the phone book of the town, so maybe it did exist and it was, in fact, all Wanda, and Agatha just got pissed when she was caught in it (and she probably did live in Westview, SWORD just didn't get to her yet in the phone book), and she tracked the Scarlet Witch down...
Yeah I guess this episode was definitely closing down that door, the town existed and Wanda pulled its inhabitants in her pretend world, and Agatha broke free and got mad and started sending spies (Fietro) and traps (Sparky) to pick her brain. So it does point to her not trying to teach Wanda (yet), she's antagonizing her because from her point of view, Wanda did attack her town, and Agatha thinks she's the legendary Scarlet Witch fucking around with her town. But as she pokes around Wanda's past trying to find how she got that much power, she figures out her trauma and what she needs is therapy. That's actually real good for an anti-villain/anti-hero's introduction to the MCU (we don't know yet if she'll end up a villain or a hero).
Also ep 2 was another red herring, I was sure the weird "for the children" subplot would be someone else trying to make Wanda create babies and steal them from her, but it really was Wanda's desire to have a normal family. God damn I fell for all those hidden red herring double fakeout hook line and sinker
... Okay, I checked ep 4 again, SWORD finds the people's real names but they don't actually say where they come from. So the last problem is this cop in ep 4 who tells Monica that Westview doesn't exist, so the people must have come from elsewhere. Or are we throwing that line away as a red herring, like, was his "no such place" comment a side-effect or the hex ? Monica wonders if everyone outside simply has selective amnesia and Westview really did exist before everything. Jimmy does say he's been going through the phone book of the town, so maybe it did exist and it was, in fact, all Wanda, and Agatha just got pissed when she was caught in it (and she probably did live in Westview, SWORD just didn't get to her yet in the phone book), and she tracked the Scarlet Witch down...
Yeah I guess this episode was definitely closing down that door, the town existed and Wanda pulled its inhabitants in her pretend world, and Agatha broke free and got mad and started sending spies (Fietro) and traps (Sparky) to pick her brain. So it does point to her not trying to teach Wanda (yet), she's antagonizing her because from her point of view, Wanda did attack her town, and Agatha thinks she's the legendary Scarlet Witch fucking around with her town. But as she pokes around Wanda's past trying to find how she got that much power, she figures out her trauma and what she needs is therapy. That's actually real good for an anti-villain/anti-hero's introduction to the MCU (we don't know yet if she'll end up a villain or a hero).
Also ep 2 was another red herring, I was sure the weird "for the children" subplot would be someone else trying to make Wanda create babies and steal them from her, but it really was Wanda's desire to have a normal family. God damn I fell for all those hidden red herring double fakeout hook line and sinker
