"Someone whose fucking JOB -- who gets PAID a hefty RETAINER -- to COVER UP THE BAD THINGS YOU DO, in case you ever do them And then you STILL CHOOSE NOT TO DO BAD THINGS? If you've ever experienced that then sure, you get an opinion over whether I deserve a cookie"
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It was very dark rant, and one that, you know, I hope he meant with a certain degree of irony for the sake of dark comedy But I mean, shit It's a pretty big fucking question, isn't it (This kind of thing is the heart of Nietzsche's whole deal with Herrenmoral and Sklavenmoral)
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And, like, WandaVision is this story about pushing that question to its limit This terrible mathematical equation where her power grows in proportion to her pain, which means it's always growing past her ability to rein in her desires
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She *tries* to be good, she *really really tries* -- when someone like Hayward deliberately pushes her to the very brink of what she can tolerate, makes her watch her husband's corpse being coldly dissected, in hopes of triggering a reaction, she still holds back
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But finally when she has nowhere else to go and nothing else to do and she just drives to that vacant lot where she wanted to bury Vision and finds the path there to be an emotional dead end it all comes pouring out It's a very visceral, real moment
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And it's like yeah Having seen it and felt it from her perspective, I can't *hate* her But it's... not okay This situation shouldn't happen It's wrong to put the responsibility for not hurting people on the shoulders of someone already so burdened
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I cannot actually sympathize with Roman Polanski for being so traumatized and sad he raped children I can, however, say that, trying to look at it from the POV of his own welfare -- it was a bad thing for him to carry the weight of so much loss *and* so much power at once
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To be lauded and celebrated as a filmmaker such that he made his living and affirmed his own worth based on how deeply he could dwell in his own pain To have immense amounts of money and fame and the ability to fly to another country to escape consequences
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It is obvious that not only would his victims be better off but also he would be better off if he hadn't had power (Even continuing to live a life of luxury and celebrity as he does, he wouldn't be racked with guilt and constantly looking over his shoulder as he obviously is)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
The only issue I have with the comparison is that Polanski didn't have a mental break and start raping children. That was always who he was. He was just at a point where he could get away with it. Wanda didn't even know she was torturing people, and once she did she stopped
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To the extent this is actually true in-universe, I regard it as weakening what the show was talking about and trying to do Like, there was a fan theory you'd have an actual "split personality Wanda" and that the Big Bad would be "Evil Wanda", and I'm really glad they didn't
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Cubsfanatic76
It's a big part of what makes the show meaningful that even if Wanda's initial "mental breakdown" was "unconscious", she makes a clear, voluntary choice to keep this shit going over time She's not actually "unconscious" of what she's doing, she's in DENIAL
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There's no moment where she suddenly "wakes up" and is like "Holy shit, I'm pulling the strings on everyone? How is that possible?" When Vision confronts her about it in Ep. 5 he's not genuinely telling her shit she doesn't know, he's bringing up shit she refuses to talk about
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