Oh, they've just been asleep, that explains it then. Makes perfect sense and doesn't raise any more questions at all.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 February 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
Wanda's accent vanished between movies too― Wrong Screamed Barney (Neanderthal), Wednesday, February 3, 2021 8:56 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Wrong Screamed Barney (Neanderthal), Wednesday, February 3, 2021 8:56 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
Loved the dig at this in the latest episode.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
there has to be some multiverse angle to it since she doesn't recognize him at the door until he clearly implies he's Pietro by calling her his sister, remembers details of a prior shared event differently, asks him why he looks different, where his accent went (lol), though clearly in his universe he died the same way.
xpost lol yeah I laughed out loud. I'm glad too, her accent was bad and distracting in Ultron.
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:04 (three years ago) link
Just watched it again. First, the stuff about the kids comes from Pietro, who is an unreliable character at this point. Second, he kind of slyly, rhetorically asks "where have you been hiding all these kids? Probably just keeping them asleep to prevent trauma," before talking about the ethics of the situation. So ... really we don't know, any more than we know for sure where he came from, or who he really is.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 February 2021 16:04 (three years ago) link
i'm pretty sure everybody's frozen at the end of the street for reasons similar to that one episode of Rick and Morty, the program 'uses a lot of memory' so she's not able to keep the ancillary characters busy/doing things, they're like the crowd in RBI Baseball basically
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
I guess we'll see what happens now that she's expanded the bubble by hundreds of feet.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 February 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
how can we ever know anything, rly
makes u think
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
i'm pretty sure everybody's frozen at the end of the street for reasons similar to that one episode of Rick and Morty, the program 'uses a lot of memory' so she's not able to keep the ancillary characters busy/doing things,
Westworld used this trope too
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
What is a movie or TV show if not a simulation itself?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 February 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
fuck that, what if we're living in a simulation and that simulation is just a passing thought in the mind of a vast and incomprehensible cosmic consciousness
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
On the back of a turtle.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 February 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
steady on, that's just stupid
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
we're all living in a butt
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:21 (three years ago) link
Balthazar Getty's butt
living in a butt / living in a cardboard butt
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
kudos
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
Please be around more, bg, yr wisdom is missed.
― The Mandolinrainian (Old Lunch), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link
otm
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
Thank you for picking up my slack, bg
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Monday, 15 February 2021 16:41 (three years ago) link
she doesn't recognize him at the door until he clearly implies he's Pietro by calling her his sister
I definitely didn't read the scene this way - she's just stunned (because he's Pietro and because she wasn't expecting him)
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 15 February 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
how would Wanda know what that version of Quicksilver looks like? it definitely wasn't a "we called Evan Peters because Aaron Taylor-Johnson was unavailable" type situation as Darcy notes that it's a 'recast'.
or is your thought Wanda did intentionally recast him with someone else (and the fact that it's Evan Peters is more coincidental)?
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 February 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
i kinda assumed, given the way that he's picking at the edges and asking a lot of leading questions, that nu-Pietro is a super-powered mole by Hayward/SWORD and not a figment of Wanda's imagination
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link
yeah he seemed to want to know how the sausage was made way more than a normal person would
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 February 2021 17:16 (three years ago) link
and well he knew sausage *was* being made
lol friend of mine is telling ppl on FB that merely saying you loved or didn't like an episode = 'posting spoilers' now
pietro reeled off a list of plot/character functions to wanda that he assumed he was there to provide to her world - at her behest - but it all seemed like it was news to wanda.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 15 February 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
I think she's also in willing denial as to what her idealized world is doing to the very real citizens.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 15 February 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
better call Jon Taffer in
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 February 2021 17:22 (three years ago) link
I binged all of this on Saturday and I can safely say it is the most enjoyable MCU related thing in recent memory (except for maybe the Holland Spiderman movies).
― akm, Monday, 15 February 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
From the kids to Wanda's new powers, it read to me like nu-Pietro was fishing for answers himself.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 February 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, February 15, 2021 12:11 PM bookmarkflaglink
This was my take too, but I'm an MCU noob and don't really have a handle on who everyone is and what they're capable of.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 February 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link
me too!tbf a lot of wanda’s characters are hornswoggling her with their meta-sentience, not just pietro - herb & agnes have both asked her if she wants any changes, they’ve both been whispering together, and now of course vision
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 15 February 2021 17:43 (three years ago) link
Wolverine shows up next
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 February 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
how would Wanda know what that version of Quicksilver looks like?
No idea! I'm just describing what I saw.
As an aside, are we all agreed that one thread of the main plot is "Something has happened such that Wanda now has Vision back to live an idyllic sitcom life, but his specific virtues mean that he can't not notice that something is wrong and fight against it"? I feel like there's an obvious example of this story other than this, but I can't place it.
Last week I thought Quicksilver was an example of this, but that seems a lot less likely this week? When he tells her that everyone has the same jobs, but better hair, how is he supposed to know that? It could be someone external to the situation plámásing her, but how would you plan that? Sending in someone in the hope that they'd keep their brief would be firing a bullet into the sun - Geraldine/Monica seems to have only regained agency because Wanda had new kids and memories of Pietro occupying her.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 15 February 2021 18:01 (three years ago) link
“plámásing”?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:02 (three years ago) link
"flattering" would be a crude and unmusical translation from the original Sokovian.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 15 February 2021 18:48 (three years ago) link
The official song of Sokovia was Go West's "King of Wishful Thinking"...
Translated of course
― he said that you son of a bitch (Neanderthal), Monday, 15 February 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
So in the comics Wanda's kids have something to do with Mephisto, right? Seems odd that they would introduce them in the show, give them the names and powers from the comics and then ... take them away. Certainly would be as if not even more traumatic than Wanda losing Vision and her brother, doesn't it? At the same time, can't imagine the kids sticking around the MCU as kids, or for that matter as adults, which would be strange, given the age of their mom. Any thoughts of how it might play out in the plot ahead?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 February 2021 20:33 (three years ago) link
i imagine this ends with wanda either not in the sunken place or sent to hell and the focus of Doctor Strange 2i imagine this also ends with vision back alive and captain marvel 2 zipping along on photon beamseverything else is a crapshoot
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 20:35 (three years ago) link
I just read that WandaVision supposedly features more SFX shots then Endgame!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 February 2021 20:37 (three years ago) link
well it is twice as long
― silverfish, Monday, 15 February 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
At the same time, can't imagine the kids sticking around the MCU as kids, or for that matter as adults, which would be strange, given the age of their mom. Any thoughts of how it might play out in the plot ahead?
― Tuomas, Monday, 15 February 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link
and kate bishop's showing up in Hawkeye so hmmmmm
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 15 February 2021 22:24 (three years ago) link
this may have already been addressed but was the other kid dressed up for halloween as gambit?
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 22:36 (three years ago) link
no, Wiccan from YA.
― Nhex, Monday, 15 February 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
right, duh; forgot about that whole extension of the storyline.
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 February 2021 22:52 (three years ago) link
So Young Avengers is a) a thing and b) something they may just be keeping in their back pocket for later? Or it could be just more easter eggs for fans, I suppose, though like I said, I can't imagine them giving Wanda kids and then taking them away, after already taking away her husband and brother. I mean, of course they *can*, but it just seems a bit much.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 15 February 2021 23:20 (three years ago) link
what would be a bit much would be having this be a hysterical wanda story, which i think there is zero chance of considering the politics of this universe so there's gotta be a reckoning
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 00:09 (three years ago) link
(to be clear, the politics of the Marvel Studios world, NOT the politics of standard Marvel comics where hysterical wanda had been the norm for decades)
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 00:10 (three years ago) link
We already know Kate Bishop is coming into the MCU in the Hawkeye series, Cassie Lang has already been introduced and even recast for Ant-Man 3. Add some Champions (Ms. Marvel we know is coming in, maybe we'll see a Amadeus Cho, Viv Vision or Miles Morales?) Def seems like a likely direction, esp since the MCU is nearly 15 years old in-universe!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 02:25 (three years ago) link