Now we are, after a long wait and thousands of theories born from every single corner of the web we are really one step away from the grand finale of WandaVision, the first tv series of 4th Phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe that from the beginning of this 2021 entertains and excites hundreds of thousands of cinecomics fans. With the penultimate episode, the signed TV series Disney + succeeds in justifying everything we have seen so far, in all its antics and time leaps, which have made this enormous experiment by the Marvel Studios one of the most successful of their productions, both cinematographic and not, which will surely make you satisfied Kevin Feige.
After the gigantic revelation occurred at the end of the seventh episode, this episode revolves completely around the past of Wanda, which is eviscerated and explored in all its most salient points to be able to find out what is the secret of its powers, so longed for by main villain of this series that has finally revealed itself: that there is something innate in its powers instead of the simple influence of Mind Gem?
Fragmented past
This penultimate episode of the series, a bit like the fourth already did, detaches from the classic routine of Westview, where we have been used to jumping from decade to decade and catapulted into episodes of sitcoms that changed from day to day. This time the focus of the episode are the origins and motivations that push both Wanda, and the entity that is manipulating the anomaly, to have imprisoned and subjugated an entire city… some for a more emotional and sentimental reason, some for a mere and quite obvious search for power. The curiosity of this centuries-old witch arose precisely at the exact moment in which our protagonist, dominated by a indescribable pain - and perfectly played by a Elizabeth olsen who in this episode even more than in the others shows off her great acting skills, perhaps a little too hidden and mistreated in the Marvel films in which she has appeared so far - decides to catapult a citizen of the New Jersey back in time 70 years, transforming the inhabitants into characters of a sitcom called “WandaVision”.
But before reaching the peak of Wanda's powers, the witch is keen to relive the highlights of her entire life: from sad childhood in the war in Sokovia who took her parents away, to experiments carried out on his body with the Mind Stone and finally ai first moments spent together with Vision. All these stages allow us to follow the development of a character who in the course of his life has lost everything he had, from family to love, and who has always had to suppress his pain for the great responsibilities born of his powers and collaboration with Avengers. A pain that then broke out in a immense power, which prompted the evil witch to infiltrate the Hexagon to discover its origins. Furthermore, in the various flashbacks, there are also many of the details that Wanda used to set and enrich the episodes of her imaginary sitcom: from ticking of a Stark bomb did not explode in his house, to the dialogues with Vision and finally the same sitcoms she saw as a child together with his parents have been transposed and modified within the anomaly.
The grand finale of WandaVision
The construction of all previous episodes reaches its peak with this eighth episode, which fits together all the pieces of the puzzle in the right places, giving us a big smattering of what Wanda's past has been and also giving us some more insight into her enormous powers, which may not simply be the work of the influence of a Gem of the Infinity. Many have called the entire episode one "he explains it“, Criticizing this episode as just a big round-up that could simply have been avoided; in reverse, this eighth episode of WandaVision is of fundamental importance in the Marvel production as it also allows those who are not a regular MCU enthusiast - or even those who have never really seen anything in this huge universe - to be able to appreciate the work and understand every single facet. The historical background of all the main characters is constantly reiterated and told from the fourth episode onwards and becomes understandable even to the spectators who unfortunately have not followed the cinematic evolution of Marvel productions and have approached this series driven by curiosity and by the mystery of trailers. Finally, the scene after credits shows the real project he is working on Hayward and all SWORD in secret, which could completely turn the tables on the next episode.
WandaVision continues to surprise and does so also in this penultimate episode that definitively breaks the mold and takes us back in time to relive the highlights of the life of Wanda Maximoff and the true villain of the series who, despite the big surprise at the time of his revelation, unfortunately lacks the poor characterization that plagues every Marvel villain (obviously excluding Thanos), who never manage to be incisive or with unilateral personalities, which very often justify themselves in the "pursuit of power”Or in their purely evil essence. We are now one step away from the grand finale, and who knows if this first work of the Fourth Phase of the MCU will really allow us to at least witness the long-awaited introduction of the concept of Multiverse, which will then be developed in the highly anticipated Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and maybe even in Spider-Man: No-Way Home coming to the end of 2021.
