Wandavision episode 4 teases the biggest problem facing the MCU
We could get used to this MCU; Teyonah Parris and Randall Park in Wandavision.
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It s official as of
Wandavision episode 4 on Disney+: Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) has created a pocket reality to live out her stolen life with Vision (Paul Bettany).
This episode didn t do more than confirm what we ve suspected since Scarlet Witch showed up in a 50s sitcom with her dead robot boyfriend, but it scratch the surface of a massive iceberg: the psychological repercussions of
Marvel and Disney+’s
WandaVision is, for the most part, a show about Wanda Maximoff, but as the series continues on, we get to see more of the women trying to tackle this world and what’s going on with Westview. So, let’s take a moment to explore Monica Rambeau, Darcy Lewis, and the other women trying to help/stop/trapped by Wanda Maximoff. Spoilers for the first four episodes of
WandaVision
lie within.
First, let’s talk about Monica Rambeau. We’ve seen her as “Geraldine” since “Don’t Touch That Dial,” and last week on “Now in Color,” we watched her break Wanda’s fourth wall and be thrown from the sitcom world that Wanda Maximoff was creating. This week though, “We Interrupt This Program” showed Monica’s return from the blipped world and what awaited her on the other side.
were a total departure from the Marvel movie formula. Thanks to whatever combination of mysterious forces was keeping Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision (Paul Bettany) trapped in a decade-jumping sitcom prison, viewers were getting a flyby lesson in TV history while two relatively minor Avengers went about their quirky lives. The experiment was a hoot and honestly, we’d watch an entire season of Scarlet Witch and Vis playing pretend without any winks to the camera.
But episode 4, “We Interrupt This Program,” departs from the formula in order to show
WandaVision’s true Marvelness. There’s something strange going on, and a new trailer for the back half of the season promises more of what fans might expect from the MCU.
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What in the blip is going on?
Episode 4 of âWandaVision,â titled âWe Interrupt This Program,â finally gave viewers a look behind the curtain of the Marvel sitcom with a little help from two new characters, Dr. Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings) and FBI agent Jimmy Woo (Randall Park). And what was hidden may be even darker than whatâs on the surface.
It appears that Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) created her own alternate reality in order to bring Vision (Paul Bettany) back to life, and everyone in the immediate vicinity is getting sucked into her sitcom world. This includes Geraldine (Teyonah Parris), who is actually Captain Monica Rambeau from Marvel agency S.W.O.R.D. In fact, all the weird occurrences, such as the toy helicopter and the beekeeper from Episode 2, are attempts by the Marvel agency to infilt
WandaVision below
Here s all the big Marvel comic book and movie easter eggs that you might have missed in
WandaVision.
The Blip Disney+
Right at the beginning of the episode, Monica Rambeau wakes up in the hospital, she soon realizes that she has actually be gone for 3 years due to the Blip. For the first time in the Marvel universe, we see what happened the moment when the Blip was undone and everyone returned.
Welcome to S.W.O.R.D. Disney+
Fans are finally getting their first glimpse into S.W.O.R.D. AKA the Sentient Weapon Observation and Response Division. However, the biggest surprise is that in this universe, Maria Rambeau, Monica s mother, is the founder for S.W.O.R.D.