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The old school shows that the 50s and 60s episodes were based on (primarily The Dick Van Dyke Show and Bewitched) both took place in Connecticut, so the husband could have a prestigious NYC job he commuted to
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Replying to @arthur_affect @FroyoBaggins and
Living in a quiet bedroom community near but not in the biggest city in the country used to be the American Dream
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God, it's just, having done that IRL, WHY but I mean, I guess that's also the show's point
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
That's the biggest mystery of the show as far as I'm concerned. Why does Wanda - a millennial raised in a war-torn Eastern European (possibly Soviet bloc) country - fantasize about living in a mid-century American sitcom?
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @BootlegGirl and
Like, I'm not saying there aren't some obvious answers that suggest themselves, but Wanda is such an underserved character that we have to read them into the show. And even then, doesn't that clash with her hatred of Stark (and the American capitalism he represents) in Ultron?
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @arthur_affect and
Well that's sort of the unspoken tension now that I think about it, she's in love with Vision who is essentially the brother if not a literal evolution of her own brother's killer, and also a walking Stark brand advertisement
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @NussbaumAbigail and
So if I were giving the writers credit I'd say they were using the entire Stepford Wife thing Wanda is subjecting herself to to represent that her relationship with Vision and reaction to his death erased huge elements of her personality
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @NussbaumAbigail and
I mean, whatever got her to this moment...it's not like, HEALTHY
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Replying to @mssilverstein @NussbaumAbigail and
Based on the timeline, she left the battlefield in upstate NY and headed straight to Jersey
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There's a deleted scene intended as a post-credits stinger where she busts into the Avengers HQ warehouse after the battle and steals Vision's corpse
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