I realise these are serious questions to a show that arguably gets more scrutiny and thought than it merits. Needless to say, that plan didn’t pan out so much as it got heavily panned.Īll this puts WandaVision in unchartered territory and poses a strange dilemma: how do you look upon this as? A TV series? A limited series? A long movie broken over nine episodes? Is it a sitcom or a drama? Is it fantasy? What is WandaVision even? The closest anyone came to testing this strategy prior was Ron Howard and Sony with their adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, where a TV show would fill in the story gaps between the planned film instalments. But WandaVision occupies that overlapping sliver of the Venn Diagram where it is spun-off an existing feature film and based on popular IP (the MCU) and moreover, leads into future feature films on the horizon. TV shows have been based on popular IP, such as Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead. TV shows have been spun-off from existing features such as Stargate, Fargo, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, they do so with an execution and, moreover, with an entirely different cast. It remains to be seen how the show plans to deal with this, but considering how good WandaVision is at pulling the viewers' heartstrings, it's probably safe to assume that episode 9 will be a massive emotional gut punch.So ends WandaVision, Marvel Studios’ first foray into television directly tied into their interconnected universe known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), and there’s nothing quite like it made before to compare it with. Pretty on-the-nose for what's happening with the character Vision in the show, right?Ĭonsidering that the whole driving force of WandaVision is Wanda's deep love for Vision and her even deeper grief after losing him, one can probably assume that encountering her lost love's emotionless, reanimated monochrome corpse will be a bad time for everyone involved. This results in blurred, foggy, or otherwise distorted vision. In medical terms, a cataract occurs when proteins in the lens of one's eye begin to break down, causing clouding that can make the affected area of the lens look white. team have been rebuilding Vision - that's what "Project Cataract," mentioned in episode 6 and further discussed in episode 7, really is. How White Vision comes to be in WandaVision is quite different, but the end result is evidently the same. At the same time, Scarlet Witch also comes to find out "shocking revelations about her children" - twin sons Billy and Tommy, who are part of WandaVision as well (via Marvel ). This causes Scarlet Witch, who's Vision's wife at this point just like in WandaVision, to plummet into a deep, dark sadness. The new Vision that boots up isn't the same one that his fellow heroes know and love. The caveats that crop up during the reassembling process are twofold: Vision's red exterior was too damaged to be restored, so he's now ghostly white and his mind, originally crafted in the comics by using brainwaves from Wonder Man, so he now doesn't have the same mind or memories that he once did. Scarlet Witch ends up seeing Vision all broken apart and splayed out - much like she does in WandaVision - before Pym rebuilds him. Once Vision is captured, his body is dismantled. In the comic run, Hank Pym is the one who rebuilds Vision after Mockingbird betrays Vision and the Avengers by aiding in the abduction of Vision. Essentially, he's what Director Hayward claims Vision is and what he thinks the synthezoid should be: a weapon.Ĭomic book readers first saw Vision in white in the 1989 "Vision Quest" storyline of Avengers West Coast, created by John Bryne and Mike Machlan. However, much like his color, his emotions and innate goodness are. Sure, he looks the same (save for the color), and likely has the same powers. He's basically a resurrected Vision, without any of the things that actually make him Vision. White Vision has a robust history in the Marvel comics.
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