![]() Olsen really conveys Wanda’s exhaustion here, and is wonderfully matched by Paul Bettany, who’s back in classic Vision mode for a lovely tender moment. Here we see that it’s not just Vision’s death that has caused all this grief, but a life of accumulating tragedy that has “drowned” her. As ever in the MCU, it's in the fleeting, quieter moments that we see the heroes’ most interesting character traits, and for episode 8 that comes in the flashback to Wanda and Vision at the Avengers HQ. This largely comes from Elizabeth Olsen herself, who provides a sense of heft to the episode’s emotional sequences. ![]() This positions Wanda between the two enemies of Agatha and SWORD for the finale, which will hopefully provide some entertaining results.Įpisode 8 certainly has its flaws, then, but there are enough components that worked to prevent itself from feeling truly unnecessary. Still, it’s clear that Agatha wants to at least interfere with what Wanda has, and will cruelly hold her children hostage to meet that goal. ![]() There’s nothing in the episode to contextualize Chaos Magic and its sinister comic origins, nor really demonstrate how Agatha has come to identify it. It is, though, another reveal that really only works with the benefit of comic book knowledge. The scene in Hydra’s lab, in which Wanda sees a vision of herself within the Mind Stone dressed in the classic Scarlet Witch costume, was a particularly strong method of adding a feeling of legend and weight to her story. It’s an interesting spin on inserting Wanda’s superhero name into the show, and the whole episode helps establish that this is who she was destined to be from birth, rather than via experimentation. With that discovery, Agatha proclaims Wanda as The Scarlet Witch, suggesting that in the MCU the title is some kind of prophecy or lineage for witches. Power which, by the end of the episode, Agatha has determined is Chaos Magic. This does neatly position her as a sort of investigator for the episode, working as a guide for the audience’s thought process as she interrogates Wanda from memory to memory, attempting to discover the root of her power. ![]() Yes, she’s definitely been up to no good, but Agatha is almost entirely in the dark about Wanda’s power, rather than being the manipulator behind it. ![]() Where we do learn new things is with Agatha Harkness, although it may be that Marvel overstated her impact in the last episode by suggesting it was Agatha all along. But, for much of the episode, it does feel like we’re doing revision for our final WandaVision exam, rather than learning a whole lot of new topics. That’s not to say there’s no merit in these scenes their key value to fans comes in their emotional weight, and how they contextualise the sitcom elements with Wanda’s childhood love of imported American DVDs. For anyone invested in the MCU, this is largely an exercise in watching stuff you already know, and even those who have only seen WandaVision will have pieced together these events thanks to expository dialogue in earlier episodes. This design, which walks viewers through key moments of Wanda’s life, acts as a catch-up on her origin story so far. A reveal as large as that is unfortunately relegated to a post-credits due to this week’s structure, which takes place almost entirely in Wanda’s memories, and so there’s no natural room for a detour to SWORD’s base. ![]()
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