See I can't related to Wandavision's depiction of grief bc it absolutely reminds me of the kind of people who absolutely move in and take over an art form, like indie video games, to "deal with their issues," and don't believe anyone else copes differently
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It's a great depiction of those people, in that their "safe spaces" are actually horrifying and filled with death that they sanitize and erase, but I can't see Wanda as anything but a villain, not really more sympathetic on anything but scale than Thanos
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
That Wanda is both a victim and villain is the intended takeaway, here. She’s torturing people so that she has her own fictive RP world to live in.
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Yes, but additionally, her fictive RP world sucks and isn't how everyone would cope even if they were doing something equally horrible
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I don’t think there’s any insistence that anyone except her ought to grieve this way. She has reality altering powers and at some point decided “fuck it why shouldn’t I? This is a thing I can do.” Sort of like a showerthought that’s been stuck in my head...
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Yeah but it's telling that her coping resembles the coping of a large group of real online people who really frustrate me a lot, and that we're getting a semi-sympathetic exploration of that mindset
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The best villains are semi-sympathetic or at least relatable on some level. I think semi sympathetic is overstating it though. Pretty much everyone concerned is horrified and outraged by what she’s doing. Rambeau isn’t trying to be her friend, she’s in Hostage Negotiator mode.
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In hostage negotiations you avoid inflicting moral judgment on the subject—you have to build a rapport and sympathy so the situation can be ended without bloodshed. Rambeau knows this is Not Okay, she’s just handling a dangerous unstable individual with kid gloves.
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It's not 100% that, since she expresses sympathy for Wanda and argues against her being irredeemable to her boss when Wanda's not there But I mean she really doesn't want SWORD to just decide to cut the knot and try to nuke the town
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You want to pull Wanda out of it, more than just go for raw destruction. That makes sense; this is out of character. Kinda.
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