That said, a lot of people who said episode 4 "ruined" the show by bringing in MCU-style action/science-fiction stuff to disrupt the weird surreal metafiction and they are also wrong Not enough of you spent time on the SCP wiki familiarizing yourself with this genrehttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1355632309311954946 …
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You give the nerds a powerful government agency armed with cool toys and you let them try all their wacky ideas - let's send in a drone, let's tunnel under the haunted house, let's take samples to a lab and analyze them
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And when the surreal mindfuck is able to overcome all this nerd shit and still be surreal and horrific despite all that, it's all the more powerful
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Probably the best mainstream entry in this genre was the Southern Reach Trilogy, whose first entry was adapted as the movie Arrival
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I don't expect WandaVision to be as good as Annihilation but I do very much like this setup of a goofy sitcom setting under siege from very serious government Men in Black
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so, it's an overplayed trope...but why does that mean we can't be bored of it or dislike it?
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