Haven't been on here for a long time. WandaVision brought me back. Since it's over now, I can write my review.
WandaVision is the worst MCU project to date. That's a surprise for me since it's hard to be worse than Captain Marvel and Black Panther, but they managed to do it. For most of the show, nothing happens. It's just bland, irrelevant, slow and overall a plot crater mess. The only episodes I thought were fine were episode 4 and small bits of episodes 8 and 9.
The whole sitcom aspect is unnecessary and downright idiotic. Sure, the show's approach is different, but different does not mean good. In this case, different means utter nonsense. You can skip 95% of this show and you won't miss a thing. The ending was incredibly underwhelming. The newly introduced characters (with the exception of Agatha) are horrible, especially Monica. Her character is a travesty. Agatha is a great, but ultimately a wasted character. Horrible decision on writer's part.
I won't go into execution details because the post would be the size of Texas. Instead, I'll just go into detail when it comes to the gigantic plot holes this show has as it much better/clearer depicts the utter failure that this show is. I'd love anyone (actually the writer Jac Schaeffer in particular) to even attempt to give credible answers to the following questions:
1.) How in the hell was Monica instantly able to understand, control and use her fresh, new powers?
She passed through the Hex one too many times, got her DNA rewritten and with that, her new powers. That's hilariously idiotic to begin with, but ok. Let's go with that. But, full 5 minutes later, Wanda attempts to ground slam her using her magic and Monica nails a superhero landing using her whatever-the-hell powers to nulify the fall? How does that work? No training? No prep? No learning? Nothing? Okay. 5 more minutes later and she can already use her whatever-the-hell power with her eyes to see stuff ordinary people can't. How? How does she know how to do it? Complete and utter nonsense.
But what takes the nonsense's cake is what she did in the last episode - standing in front of Hayward and taking all those bullets. How did she know she could withstand getting shot? How did she know how to react or what inner buttons to press? She knew exactly what she was doing right off the bat. And what makes it even more idiotic is that she risked her life for 2 projections of little kids who, ironically, could take care of those bullets by themselves anyway even though they're not even real? So essentially, she stood in the line of fire for absolutely nothing. That's why she's as bad as Captain Marvel's character. Every other MCU character besides the two of them have had to study and learn about their powers to be able to use them effectively. ****, Wanda has been struggling with her own powers for how many movies now and she still doesn't have full control? Steve Rogers ran into a glass window of the shop when he first got his powers because he wasn't accustomed to his new powers. I don't even want to mention Tony, Bruce or Scott. And this chick can just pull off effectiveness out of her ass on the fly? Give me a break.
2.) How in the hell did Wanda cast the runes in the last episode?
It was THE move which directly defined the outcome of the final battle and the writer messed it up spectacularly. This also ties to Monica's usage of her powers because the same point applies to her and Wanda, so I'll break both of these down with a simple analogy to get the said point across. Let's say you've never driven a manual car before or any car at all. So one day, you go to your friend's house and you see his car parked there. You go inside the house and ask him about the car and instead of him showing you, he tells you that in order to drive the car, one needs to press in the clutch, put the car into 1st gear and then press the gas pedal while letting off the clutch.
Now, you knowing nothing about cars, how in the hell would you know where to even start? You don't even know how to unlock or start the goddamn car to begin with? And even if you got in there, how would you know what a clutch is, or a gas pedal or how to put the car into 1st? That's exactly what happened in episode 8 between Wanda and Agatha. Agatha just briefly told Wanda that a witch needs to cast the runes to be protected. She didn't tell her how to do it. She didn't give her a step by step practical tutorial or give her any kind of pointers. Wanda only knew there's the things called runes and that she has to cast them. How? No clue. Yet, just a little later, there she is, casting the runes. Driving that car, right? You can kiss my ass with that BS. What's funny, Agatha told Wanda like a couple minutes earlier in a scene that her problem is knowledge and before that, Wanda told Agatha that she doesn't know how to cast spells because no one taught her magic. Well, problems are certainly none of those if she was able to cast the runes out of her ass without even knowing how or where to start. Same point applies to Monica who only knew her DNA will possibly be rewritten completely upon entering the Hex. That's all. Nothing about new powers, let alone on how to use them and use them effectively depending on a given situation.
3.) If Wanda casted the runes, how was Agatha able to levitate and use some of her witchcraft, but not all?
Surely once Wanda's runes were cast, Agatha would've fallen straight to the ground. However, I guess we're to believe Agatha being able to levitate isn't witchcraft, right? Give me a break. Not to mention, Agatha, a witch with hundreds of years of experience, wasn't aware runes were being cast right in front of her? HA!
4) What's up with the whole Vision and dupe Vision situation?
How was Wanda able to recreate the mind stone in projected Vision's head? Are we to believe it was the real mind stone? If so, how is that possible? Also how was dupe Vision (who didn't have the mind stone) able to hold his own against projected Vision's mind stone beam which was barely reflected by Corvus Glaive? How did dupe Vision even have all Vision's abilities to begin with? Like phasing? Are you kidding me?
5.) With all due respect, wasn't Vision supposed to be really smart?
It was established that Wanda couldn't control Vision like everyone else, so what gives? Did Vision not know he couldn't possibly have kids? Did he not know a pregnant belly doesn't get magically swolen in one day? Did he not know kids don't grow up within minutes? He just blindly went along with all of it? Really? Are we to believe he was momentarily ******ed?
All that is what you get when a what's-her-face, irrelevant, non-experienced female writer gets pushed into the big league. Instead of using solid logic, her writing consists of pure emotion and delusions because that's how she thinks, that's how her brain works on a daily basis. And as soon as you look at anything even slightly more closely, everything comes tumbling down like a house of cards. What's more tragic and alarming than the fact that Jac Schaeffer thought her script was good is the fact that there was someone who directed this and didn't challenge any of it. And even more scary is that there was someone who green lit this project clearly without giving it a second thought.
2/10 and that's being generous. If this is the level of writing Marvel will tolerate in the future and if Kevin Feige continues to push amateur writes into projects which are way above their heads, we are in for a ****show all the way down the line. I sure hope this was just a one-off, call it a brain fart.
