And it's kind of this arch commentary on the fact that pop culture has, for better or for worse, taken the place of actual religion/mythology for a lot of people There's a limit to how meta Disney will let WandaVision get, but it is meta -- about the MCU as well as sitcoms
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They played a clip from that show -- the OG Flash meeting his version of Iris in '80s 4:3 standard definition -- as a final farewell, as the John Wesley Shipp Barry Allen destroys himself in the cosmic treadmill to save his Earth-1 counterpart
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It was EXTREMELY meta This Flash has already seen everyone he loved die, seen his entire universe brought to an end, and is this incongruous relic from a world that now never was But he makes the choice to end his existence as the hero he always was
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So that this other younger version of him can live, so that a different version of his world and his loved ones can continue I mean when you explain the meta it comes off as a very melodramatic take on the simple fact that they're referencing an old TV show that got canceled
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But it's the fact that THIS WAS A REAL SHOW, and that John Wesley Shipp is a real guy who really did take the cancellation of his show and the end of his superhero career pretty hard, and they really did call him and say "We really need you for this scene in the new Flash series"
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The fact that this all really happened in the real world, that it has a meaning beyond something they just made up for backstory It's like when they called Adam West to ask him to be the Gray Ghost in Batman the Animated Series It always gets me verklempt to think about
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