WandaVision WandaVision: Season 1, Episode 8 "Previously On" (spoilers)

[ArmsHeldOut]

Hope the season finale is an extended episode.

 

[Web-Head]

Hope the season finale is an extended episode.

Should be about an hour

 

[flickchick85]

The footage he shared was of Wanda busting into the facility and smashing the glass. He added to that the body snatching story to hide the fact that he still had Vision 2.0.

Oh ok, that makes sense. My memory sucks. For some reason I thought we saw her actually taking the body.

 

[scarlet-witch]

One of the things I've always wanted in regards to Wanda was her talking about Pietro and I just loved that flashback of her in Vision in her bedroom talking about it post Ultron. It was perfect.

I liked how they used sitcoms, I'm not even bothered that they retconned "sitting at the table" before getting bombed, this was a cute way to tie it in and kid Pietro felt so much like ATJ "sitcoms, sitcoms, sitcoms!"

Also I missed Wanda's stronger accent so I'm glad we heard more of that in this episode.

I know the Emmys will ignore this but give Lizzie one anyways, she's been phenomenal.

 

[samsnee]

Rewatched it again and I don’t think Agatha is as evil as she seems. She actually shed a tear during the scene where Wanda and Vision connect at the Avengers compound. She seems to want to understand Wanda’s power but we don’t know what she wants to necessarily do with it. I’m not saying she’s good but I don’t think she’s necessarily evil.

 

[Dark Raven]

This episode still felt short. It was over by about 38 minutes. Why do we need such long credits?

Wonderful acting by Lizzie Olsen. She's deserving of an Emmy. I did miss Monica, Darcy and Jimmy this episode. I also hoped they'd show us what happened after Monica was caught by fake Pietro 3 last week.

I missed there being any musical theme this week.

I like how in the recaps at the start they show bits from Infinity War as if it's just from a previous episode. They could never do that in other Marvel series.

It doesn't feel there's enough time to wrap everything up next week and it could feel rushed, especially if the episode isn't all that long even if it's meant to be an hour (or 50 minutes in reality).

 

[bubbadoom]

Didn't really get the credits scene with white Vision, so I'm just going to let that one play out and see.

Hopefully the finale really delivers. There's still a lot of questions unanswered.

What's there to "get" - SWORD put him back together but he's missing JARVIS since Wanda removed that to make her Vision - they used some of her Hex Power to turn him on and they are about to send him into Westview...

 

[Dark Raven]

Kathryn Hahn looks quite different at the end in her full witch's makeup and outfit and rather scary. She doesn't look like the same jolly actress but a villainness.

 

[Drizzle]

Seriously the Avengers all failed Wanda. Nobody thought of checking in on her .

While it remains to be seen if any Avengers show up in the finale, the only ones who really know Wanda well enough to reach out to her would be Clint, Sam and Rhodey. Thor is off-world with the Guardians and Bruce wasn’t really a Wanda fan after what happened in AOU.

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

One of the things I've always wanted in regards to Wanda was her talking about Pietro and I just loved that flashback of her in Vision in her bedroom talking about it post Ultron. It was perfect.

I liked how they used sitcoms, I'm not even bothered that they retconned "sitting at the table" before getting bombed, this was a cute way to tie it in and kid Pietro felt so much like ATJ "sitcoms, sitcoms, sitcoms!"

Also I missed Wanda's stronger accent so I'm glad we heard more of that in this episode.

I know the Emmys will ignore this but give Lizzie one anyways, she's been phenomenal.

I don't even think of it as a retcon since we never actually saw them sitting at a table, and memories tend to be recalled a bit differently over time.

 

[Dark Raven]

I wish we had cameos from Baron Strucker and Aaron Taylor Johnson's Pietro when they showed the Hydra base. Even if they couldn't get ATJ, was there no spare footage or extra takes of them in captivity that they could've used for him?

 

[Iceman]

Man, that episode was amazing. It lifts up everything that came before it. What a show and a great backstory for the Scarlet Witch and for Agatha Harkness.

 

[Asharad]

If Wanda must fight and destroy White Vision, it will be the 3rd time she deals with Vision's death. If that happens.... oh wow.... I expect 616 will never be the same.

 

[Legendver2]

If Wanda must fight and destroy White Vision, it will be the 3rd time she deals with Vision's death. If that happens.... oh wow.... I expect 616 will never be the same.

I actually think they're gonna merge? However she created her Vision, it's still out of thin air, and I'd imagine it won't be stable, as seeing he was falling apart trying to leave the Hex.

 

[DawnWarrior]

I suspect they'll merge somehow too, and that'll be our returned Vision for future films.

Almost every episode takes inspiration from a classic show. I don't know if it was intentional (especially since it's not a sitcom), but I got strong 'Once Upon a Time' vibes watching this one. We've got a closed-off town transformed by magic, we've got the younger magic girl in red (Emma/Wanda) squaring off with the elder evil sorceress in black (Regina/Agatha) to save the kids (Henry/Tommy & Billy). And of course, we got flashbacks.

 

[bubbadoom]

I actually think they're gonna merge? However she created her Vision, it's still out of thin air, and I'd imagine it won't be stable, as seeing he was falling apart trying to leave the Hex.

The JARVIS AI overwhelmed Ultron in AGE OF ULTRON so I assume this will happen again here - the Yellow JARVIS energy will leave Wanda's faux Vision and retake his body, now the White Vision but perhaps with a bit more effort and maybe some help from Photon, etc.

 

[Albright]

During the episode I too got the impression, that Agatha isn’t as evil and probably could connect with Doctor Strange to stop that Chaos magic.
Then again she tortured Billy and Thommy and a person who does this to kids in a Disney property is sure evil.

 

[DCnightwing23]

 

[Albright]

Well the theory is that maybe Marvel won't use Mephisto because China doesn't like portrayals of the Devil or something to that degree.

I was on that train too a few weeks ago. Then again Disney has Chernabog and the horned king and it isn’t censored in China.
Also movies like Ghostbusters aren’t censored.
There are a lot of movies like Chinese ghost stories that feature ghosts and demons.

 

[DawnWarrior]

One moment that struck me was with the Stark missile, where Agatha says, "you cast a probability hex." And Wanda's like, "no I didn't, I don't know what that means. The bomb was defective." I used to think the same thing as Wanda. But...Probability Hex? That's Wanda's power. That's her signature. She tosses those like Spider-man slings webs. Agatha has to be correct.

All these years since Wanda first told that story in AoU, I have never heard anyone float the fan-theory that Wanda stopped the missile from exploding with her latent hex powers. I didn't give it much thought myself. At the time I was only concerned with how Joss and the MCU brain trust had to get Wanda and Pietro into the game without connecting them to Magneto. At that point, Wanda's not supposed to have had powers, because her encounter with the Mind Stone at Hydra HQ was still years away. But in that moment, it starts to make a lot of sense that Wanda would spend two whole days desperately thinking "don't blow up, don't blow up, don't blow up, don't blow up" really, really hard, and that little something deep inside her made it happen.

 

[Jostru]

So ugh... Just one thought: How the heck was Hayward able to monitor Vision inside the hex if that isn’t actually Vision?

 

[SpocksBrain]

So ugh... Just one thought: How the heck was Hayward able to monitor Vision inside the hex if that isn’t actually Vision?

Vibranium decay signature

 

[Limonade]

So ugh... Just one thought: How the heck was Hayward able to monitor Vision inside the hex if that isn’t actually Vision?

I was thinking that same thing.

 

[Albright]

It looks like Wanda can create Vibranium...
It like in the Simpsons episode: Everything is so much easier now that science has invented magic

 

[Dark Raven]

So we've seen elements of "Vision and Scarlet Witch" and "Vision Quest" so far. But will there be the main "House of M" reference about "no more mutants" or at least a reverse of that with "more mutants"? I'm guessing there won't be any Avengers Disassembled.