Wandavision

[jim360]

Anyone watching this and enjoying it as much as I am?

[Mozz71]

Unsurprisingly, I am! It was a slow start (I'm not a fan of those US sitcoms the first couple of episodes were inspired by), but the characters are all in place now for the last two episodes.

[jim360]

I've not seen much of the sitcoms that inspire the setting -- certainly not the earlier ones, although I've heard of a few of them. I suppose especially early TV is very much a case where "before my time" is a decent excuse, given how hard it can be sometimes to come across old recordings.

Still, I loved even the first episodes, because of how weird the premise was if nothing else, and because the whole show feels like a perfectly-crafted mystery box where the clues are (mostly) there waiting to be solved. Just how a mystery box should be, in other words, rather than what happened in Lost or, more recently, with the Star Wars sequel movies that were so obviously improvised afresh each movie.

It's also delightful how self-aware the show has been, especially through the character of Darcy, and of course with today's ending sequence!

The only annoying thing is having to wait another week for the next layer, and then several months more for the films that this is going to tie into. How did people cope when this was the norm?!

[Mozz71]

I have no idea. Yeah, it looks like it'll directly tie into Dr Strange 2 and potentially Spider-Man 3, with Monica moving into Captain Marvel 2.

There's supposedly one more big (unannounced) cameo left to come. I have my suspicions, but we will see.

[jim360]

Clearly, the unannounced cameo isn't "just" Dr Strange, although I'm sure he's going to show up too!

I don't think I have a theory myself. Lots of wild guesses involving other X-Men from previous movies, but honestly I'm stumped as to who's meant! I'm assuming that somebody has in fact guessed the answer already, even if it hasn't been confirmed or even leaked yet.

[Mozz71]

Well, Bettany said it was someone he's wanted to work with for years, and with Wanda and Pietro talking about their parents in the Halloween episode, I suspect Ian McKellen's Magneto.

I'm probably way off though.

[wolf63]

I watched Space Force the other day. I thought that it would terribly, terribly awful but it was actually watchable. I also found two Star Trek films I hadn't watched.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Force_(TV_series)

[jim360]

Different show. I've not seen that, although I think it's supposed to be good. Did you see WV yet wolf?

Yeah, old-Magneto is possible -- although then again, why not Fassbender instead/as well? Especially if you wanted to run with the concept over future films, getting in an actor who is more likely to be around for a while would be more pragmatic.

[wolf63]

What is WV?

I rewatched all of the original Star Trek recently. It was sexist, one female officer was constantly referred to as The Girl.

Night

[Mozz71]

Mainly because I think Fassbender is too close in age to the twins, whereas if it's only a WV cameo, it doesn't matter too much about McKellen's age as it's a one off.

Wolf, WandaVision is a Marvel Universe spin off show. It's utterly confusing for fans of Marvel, like Jim and myself, I would imagine it would be completely surreal if you have little MCU knowledge!

[jim360]

Well, confusing but also super-fun! I think not everybody likes WandaVision, because those people are wrong, but for those who stick with it it's got some incredible acting and writing, not to mention the concept that I just find so fascinating. And it's been so lovingly crafted too, you can tell how much care the creators have for not just the show but the MCU as a whole.

Agreed, old Star Trek is so dated, which is a shame because it was, at the time, rather progressive ( at least on race issues, etc, if not on sexism).

[woofgang]

Jim is it only on Disney?

[jim360]

For the moment, yes.

[jim360]

What'd you think of today's outing, Mozz?