I start with some insightful observations from, first, dril, and second, Max Lord, to argue this whole thing does indeed "smack of gender" https://ellienottifa.medium.com/grief-gender-and-critical-praise-ab4b029513cd …pic.twitter.com/L1Y2VaOdKP
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I start with some insightful observations from, first, dril, and second, Max Lord, to argue this whole thing does indeed "smack of gender" https://ellienottifa.medium.com/grief-gender-and-critical-praise-ab4b029513cd …pic.twitter.com/L1Y2VaOdKP
I use my favorite tool, aggregated critic statistics, to show that critics don't care whether something is a Scorsese Serious Film or a Superhero Cheese Drama, they care about what the gender of the lead character is https://ellienottifa.medium.com/grief-gender-and-critical-praise-ab4b029513cd …pic.twitter.com/L0MiqI7pfK
I talk about how Monica Rambeau's character would have been a great way to bridge the superheroic elements with the grief themes, and also introduce more close female relationships, but she's been sidelined https://ellienottifa.medium.com/grief-gender-and-critical-praise-ab4b029513cd …pic.twitter.com/wvpDw7ocbh
WandaVision raises a deep issue, but just like the resurrections and other implictions of the Snap/Blip, mostly shoves it in the closet https://ellienottifa.medium.com/grief-gender-and-critical-praise-ab4b029513cd …pic.twitter.com/oPRoEq9LX8
I argue that if we contrast this show with a certain video game that came out last year with similar themes, the difference is people are buying into Wanda's fantasy bc the show lets us, bc the Disney-imposed constraints serve that fantasy https://ellienottifa.medium.com/grief-gender-and-critical-praise-ab4b029513cd …pic.twitter.com/NnkusjTFM0
ultimately if this is the way the MCU becomes art, Scorsese is right, because WandaVision is becoming a success through the power of "positive" gender-stereotyping, policing of how people handle trauma, and the constraints of the specific forum of Disney+ https://ellienottifa.medium.com/grief-gender-and-critical-praise-ab4b029513cd …pic.twitter.com/rdV09mh1us
I'm a little frustrated that as a man I'm supposed to dislike WandaVision because not enough superfights nerd call outs and MCU backstory when my problem with it is too much superfights, nerd call outs and MCU backstory!
Right, and as a woman, I'm supposed to really enjoy it because (allegedly) it has stuff to say about feeeelingsss and does so without showing anything that would visually upset anyone (not even in the moments that are supposed to be horrific, like when Sparky dies)
Well they did show Pietro as a corpse with bullet holes in him
Does that count if it's from a totally different movie and in a clip show, and the audience is expected to have watched that already?
Well they did show the real clip just before but I mean the new footage of Evan Peters as a bullet-ridden corpse as one of Wanda's brief hallucinations
They are obviously stuck in a PG-13 rating but I don't really feel like they're shying away from violence within that constraint
I guess my ultimate take will have to come after the finale, but I was inspired to write today...
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