I saw someone comment that Wanda started out as this radicalized Eastern European teenager who despised American capitalism so it's a contradiction that she seems obsessed with US TV And I'm like You haven't met many people fitting that description have youhttps://twitter.com/jeannette_ng/status/1358066774609178624 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Anyone who thinks she didn't get embittered precisely because the America they represented was so completely disconnected from the reality she lived, both in Sovokia, and then, later, hunted for her powers, doesn't really understand human beings at all.
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Replying to @RavenclawConsp @arthur_affect
She fully understands the lie she is living, and that it is a lie. She knew the stories of America on TV were a lie ever since she sat with her brother for day and watched the bomb in her apartment not explode. It's just...she's so broken she's willing to accept that lie.
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Replying to @RavenclawConsp @arthur_affect
I really liked the fact they had her slip back into her Sokovian accent last episode, and I'm really hoping the MCU is actually going to get someone with a complicated relationship with 'America' and their ideas of what it is. ...through the lens of fricking sitcoms, apparently.
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Replying to @RavenclawConsp @arthur_affect
And I find it a bit interesting she made herself be canonically Sokovian within the sitcom, but has absolutely no accent or anything, and has decided the fish-out-of-water comedy premise should be 'a witch' instead of 'a foreigner'. God, I love this show, it's so metatextual.
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Replying to @RavenclawConsp
And yet Vision gets to stay British! (Even though the "real" Vision just had a British accent for random reasons and wasn't actually British in any meaningful sense)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
That raises an interesting question: Has anyone mentioned him being British or having an accent within the sitcom? I can't recall them mentioning that.
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Replying to @RavenclawConsp @arthur_affect
Just like no one mentions he has no last name. Which a weird way to take that sitcom conceit. In an actual 1950 sitcom, he'd be 'Vision Smith' or something. ...or, Wanda would have remembered to _actually marry_ them and given them both the last name of Maximoff. Whoops.
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Replying to @RavenclawConsp @arthur_affect
Honestly, in retrospect, the fact she forgot 'sitcom couples need to actually be married and have wedding rings' is a pretty funny gag, right up there with Agnes breaking character and asking if they need to do another take.
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Replying to @RavenclawConsp @arthur_affect
Although for Agnes's OOC...as someone who winces when characters are embarrassed and awkward, _and_ someone involved in theatre...watching that scene was fucking __fingernails on chalkboard_. It was fully supposed to be, but just...wow.
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Ha ha yes The nightmare of everyone else trying to stay in character and continue the scene
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