WandaVision
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Thats not a crime in and of itself are any of us well, these days?
Not exactly a victory for feminism or mental-health advocacy.
Id held out hope thatWandaVisionwould be different.
Whats more, it seems that shes doing it all because shes upset that her boyfriend got killed.
But were getting ahead of ourselves.
The Un-Blippening has arrived.
In the intervening five years, Maria died.
We then cut to S.W.O.R.D.
(Why theres only an acting director, even years after Marias death, goes notably unexplained.)
He tells her S.W.O.R.D.
As Monica notes, theyre not so much observing and responding to sentient weapons as they are building them.
Mayhap theres a relation, or even a shared affiliation with that notorious Nazi splinter group?
Are you not entertained?)
wants her to chaperone a drone for their search efforts.
Skeptical, Monica follows orders and drives to the quaint Jersey town of … Westview.
He tells her he had someone in witness protection in Westview, but that something went wrong.
residents no longer even remembered by their loved ones.
Nevertheless, Monica deploys a drone, which looks exactly likethat toy helicopter from episode two.
As it turns out, one of them is astrophysicist Darcy Lewis, a.k.a.
the wry sidekick from the first two Thor movies, played by the one and only Kat Dennings.
First Jimmy, now Darcy … theyre bringing out the medium-sized guns, folks!
It seems she got her doctorate sinceThor: The Dark World, which is nice for her.
Darcy immediately declares that she needs a TV.
An old one, she says.
Like, not flat.
Speaking of flat: Hoo boy, the jokes in this episode really do not land.
Its all like a parody of MCU humor: all dumb punch-up asides and soooo, that happened buttons.
Or not, thats cool.
Anyway, we see a S.W.O.R.D.
So youre saying the universe created a sitcom starring two Avengers?
Jimmy asks Darcy; she responds, Its a working theory.
That is, except Geraldine a.k.a.
Monica whom Darcy sees on the screen, prompting everyone to freak out.
Jimmy wonders; Or render it useless?
Soon, theyre watching the 1970s episode, where Wanda is giving birth.
Another skip of the weird part with Geraldine, prompting Darcy to speculate, Someone is censoring the broadcast.
An alarm goes off.
The boundary, a voice on the PA says, has been breached.
Youre not my neighbor, and youre definitely not my friend, Wanda tells Monica.
You are a stranger and an outsider.
And right now, you are trespassing here.
And I want you to leave.
(Umm,redlining, anyone?)
But then he looks fine again.
We dont have to stay here; we could go wherever we want, Vision intones.
No, we cant, Wanda replies.
This is our home.
Oh, dont worry, darling, she says.
I have everything under control.
We see Monica outside, saying, Its Wanda.
Back in the show, Wanda picks up a baby and says, What should we watch tonight?
Vision looks slightly upset and confused, but keeps it together and smiles in his robot face.
But hey, at least there was some actual plot this week and not just TV-tribute artifice.
Things will likely get weird again next week.
