The way she just drives in a haze to Westview because where else can she possibly go now Knowing that going there can't possibly make her feel better but what the fuck else is there to do
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Not to see your life as a fancy pants classical drama that resolves its primary arc and then wraps up with a neat ending and the curtain falling The kind of ending a classical protagonist like Hamlet famously fantasized about engineering Those are the bad thoughts
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What they need you to believe - what you need to believe, if you want to keep going - is that childlike faith in the ongoing eternal second act of life, the stupid naivety a sitcom reality is based on Every episode is just... an episode Arcs come and they go The show goes on
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Whether it was a great episode or a shitty one, the curtain falls, the credits roll And we wait for the next one to air What hijinks will these crazy kids get up to next? You don't want to miss a moment! We'll be back next week, same time, same channel Don't touch that dial
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(I feel like this most fundamental element - the timeless of a sitcom, the way its reality lives in an endless reassuring loop - is extra powerful because of the irony that WandaVision itself is a limited series hurtling at warp speed through the decades toward its ending)
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(All the fans going "I don't want this to end! I can't believe it's almost over! How did it go by so fast?" are expressing the same emotions as Wanda)
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Though, granted, she still can't drag innocent folk into her pain without their consent. That part still needs fixing, if nothing else. She's well aware of the fantasy, but not... enough regarding the trauma she's inflicting on the people of Westview, or she does but...
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... but she's too far down the throes of grief to care. Though, I imagine this is part of the nuance you're referring to.
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