I know a lot of people are on this bandwagon saying it was an excruciating wait to get through three sitcom episodes of WandaVision to get to the "real story" and I would like to just say that they are wrong I would watch a whole season of the imaginary sitcom
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Accidentally Drunk Vision is comedy gold, I'm just saying Vision was already this perfect portrait of non-threatening, idealized masculinity and then making him a literal sitcom dad in that vein is *chef's kiss*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @remembrancermx
There’s a lot about it that ep that was very funny and smart and also... I’ve had a bit of enough of “wife has to scramble to cover for drunk husband” trope
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Replying to @ReadDanceBliss @remembrancermx
Well, it's deconstructive, the joke partly is that Vision being in this situation makes no sense at all and the sitcom reality creates an absurd contrivance to force it to happen
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Replying to @arthur_affect @remembrancermx
Totally. And... if we’re bending over backwards to make a scene happen, it could be *not* a borderline domestic partner-abuse situation? Are we so wedded (haha) to toxic roles that even superheroes HAVE to play them out?
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Replying to @ReadDanceBliss @remembrancermx
Well I mean Joking aside, they're not really trying to make a successful sitcom here The sitcom is deliberately bad, it's playing directly to everything toxic (and therefore surreal) about sitcom tropes to get you to understand this world as sinister and false
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What's actually happening here is Wanda is working out some kind of self-loathing self-abnegation in this supposedly idyllic fantasy The fake Westview is weirdly race-blind for a retro sitcom caricature but it's immensely sexist and it falls on Wanda hardest
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The first ep openly lampshades how the "unexpected dinner with the boss" thing also makes no sense - Vision's perfect memory fails him, and even if they both just had normal memories they'd know whether it was their damn wedding anniversary - but they roll with it anyway
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And wouldn't you know it, it's a contrived scenario where Vision's whole future depends utterly on Wanda succeeding in an impossible task One in which her absurdly versatile Samantha-like powers utterly fail and betray her Almost like there's some trauma she's reenacting
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