It can be great fun to play what if, but, to paraphrase Vanity Fair’s Joanna Robinson, speculation with expectation is just a recipe for disappointment. In today’s hyper pop-culture literate landscape, any show that draws from a wealth of source material like this one risks its fans using their knowledge of that material to get precariously far ahead of the story that’s being told. Nor did it ever really suggest it would be. It was not, however, a show about the devil, or about a sorcerer in New York, or about Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan or Michael Fassbender showing up at the last minute as a character who meant nothing to anyone on the show. Virtually all of the biggest fan theories about “WandaVision” came to naught, for the simple reason that many of those theories ultimately had very little to do with what was actually happening in “WandaVision.”Īt its core, this was a show about how one woman dealt with almost insurmountable loss - of her parents, her brother, and her soulmate - and how Wanda’s grief not only warped reality to spectacular effect but reverberated into the lives of virtually everyone around her, often painfully and at great cost. Brie Larson didn’t fly in as Captain Marvel, either.
The Sorcerer Supreme got a name check - it seems Wanda’s stronger than him - but Benedict Cumberbatch did not appear as Doctor Strange. There was no tearing of the multiverse for now, the X-Men remain firmly outside the MCU. It did not introduce any new major characters, or showcase a mind-melting surprise star cameo, or affirmatively establish a new Big Bad beyond Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn).
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But like any story within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it also left some major things unresolved - and proffered a few tantalizing new questions for what’s to come.īefore we dive into all of that, however, it’s worth pointing out what “The Series Finale” did not do.
“The Series Finale” certainly did bring the story of Wanda’s grief to a close with an action-packed climactic episode that ended with a moment of deep tenderness and love.
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