The big battle may have between Wanda and Agatha, but the series climax was Wanda and Vision’s heartwrenching goodbye.Īs Vanity Fair’s Anthony Breznican astutely put it on the Still Watching podcast last week, Marvel Studios has managed to be so successful, more than other similar franchises, because it has frequently prioritised their characters’ connections to the people in their lives. Many of the frenzied fan theories didn’t pan out, at least not yet, and there was too much laser/magic beam fights in the sky but it didn’t matter because this was the emotionally satisfying ending this story needed. WandaVision was stellar television that was more interested in developing these characters we fleetingly knew and giving them the time to just be, rather than rushing through reams of plot and setting up future projects (though there was a lot of that too). This was Wanda’s expression of that grief, the ultimate manifestation of love. That profound line of dialogue from episode eight really hit home again, “What is grief if not love persevering?”. That pain manifested in this world born out of the escapist family sitcoms she loved as a child, fictional worlds where everything was righted by episode’s end. In that it was a love story, it was also a story about grief, centred on a character whose life has been marked by loss – her parents, her twin brother and her lover. Wanda sacrificed the idyllic suburban world and family she created to free the people she had naively trapped in the hex. Wrapping after nine episodes, WandaVision gave Wanda and Vision an ending of sorts that highlighted the deep love between them and the deep pain of her grief. SPOILERS AHEAD FOR WANDAVISION EPISODE 9, ‘THE SERIES FINALE’
Marvel series WandaVision ended as it started, as an emotionally honest, beautifully told love story between two characters who never had the space to breathe in the crowded blockbuster movies.
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