Posted by: RottingCorpse
« on: Yesterday at 01:13:03 PM »WandaVision is like somebody at Marvel zapped into my brain and took all the shit I love and tried to cram it into a TV show. It's such a loving homage to the history of television. They've really dug hard into the details here. Crispness aside, this feels like TV from the 50s and 60s. (And one assumes, 70s, 80s, and 90s once they get there.) Yet there's this ominous Blue Velvet undercurrent of "things aren't right," even when it seems all is well. It's omnipresent, yet it still gets me in the moments where they bust out into full on "let's really creep the audience out" mode. We've seen the weird conspiracy undertones a hundred times, but you got to hand it to Marvel for having the balls to stylistically swing for the fences here.
It's also the first Marvel property to make what you know from previous stories and use it more for effect than for plotting. (Spoiler alert: Vision died in one of the last two blammo movies and now he's back with so far no explanation.) It never lets things get comfortable even though everything around the characters is trying to let them do so. I don't think they'll go to as dark a place as they're implying, but for now it's spooky good fun.
I see no world where Marvel sticks the landing on this thing. (I have a feeling the big mystery will be all too familiar when revealed.) They'll be too busy setting up the Colostomy Man film trilogy. That said, the first two episodes are an absolute joy. I'm genuinely stoked to keep watching.
It's also the first Marvel property to make what you know from previous stories and use it more for effect than for plotting. (Spoiler alert: Vision died in one of the last two blammo movies and now he's back with so far no explanation.) It never lets things get comfortable even though everything around the characters is trying to let them do so. I don't think they'll go to as dark a place as they're implying, but for now it's spooky good fun.
I see no world where Marvel sticks the landing on this thing. (I have a feeling the big mystery will be all too familiar when revealed.) They'll be too busy setting up the Colostomy Man film trilogy. That said, the first two episodes are an absolute joy. I'm genuinely stoked to keep watching.