The following contains spoilers of the WandaVision finals and episodes that led to it.
Once the dust in the WandaVision finale (now streaming on Disney +), yes, Wanda (played by Elizabeth Olsen) defeated witch rival Agatha Harkness (Kathryn hahn). And yes, she freed the people of Westview, NJ, from the enchantment they held hostage in her idyllic world, to sacrifice the family she had enchanted for herself.
But the fact remains that – as revealed earlier by Agatha and later owned by Wanda – these people were not only robbed of their identity, but, as one remarked: “If you let us sleep, we get your nightmares ! “
When Wanda enters the city after losing Vision and their sons to the missing Hex, Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) tries to alleviate the wizard’s guilt by saying, ‘They will never know what you sacrificed for them. . ‘ But Wanda knew it was far from true and said, “It will not change how they see me.”
However, some viewers felt that the exchange was a bit too beating. Although Wanda plays her part in Westview’s torture, it does not change it at all. happened.
Was there ever ‘more’ to the final scene, an attempt to do better by the people of Westview?
“There’s so much talk about Westview being taken hostage in the final,” WandaVision director Matt Shakman remarks. In the scene in the middle of the episode, ‘Agatha really brought it to Wanda and said,’ Are you a hero or are you a villain? Heroes do not torture people. ‘It’s a big moment in the final, when Wanda has to wrestle with it. ”
Lead writer Jac Schaeffer, who spoke about the scene after the Hex crash, told TVLine: ‘I think Wanda’s embarrassment towards the city is really powerful, and it’s written that way on the page. It was meant to be like an assault of death glow of people, and we had to feel how angry they all are.
‘I remember a note from [Marvel Studios chief] Kevin [Feige] like: ‘More, more, let’s feel it for her, let’s understand that what she did was terrible, ” Schaeffer adds.
To those who wanted a happier ending for Westview: ‘No, that’s not the story we’re telling, it’s now [Wanda] must fix everything, ”says Schaeffer. “It was not to end her in a way like, ‘Everything is wrapped up and squeaky clean, and she’s a hero and did nothing wrong! ‘She has a very of wrong. And there will probably be bills on the line. No, I like how it is in the gray area of misdeeds that she was involved in. ”
As the director of the Wanda / Monica scene at the end, Shakman says “there were definitely a lot of versions, but nothing anymore.” He then echoes Schaeffer’s reverence for the complicated moment and says: ‘I think it’s a beautiful scene. We are not trying to get Wanda off the hook at all. The daggers she gets from every villager as she walks through the city must clearly show that she is not forgiven, and she will not are forgiven by them. She understands that. ‘
Are the residents of Westview left behind to mourn Wanda and are they plagued by their time in magic? And what about Agatha, who was returned by Wanda to her “Agnes” character? Sal Sarah, Sharon et al. Give their curious neighbor the stinking eye?
‘I can not really talk to [the residents], because it is beyond the scope of the show, which is my department, ”says Schaeffer. “But as for Agatha, this is what Wanda says: You’re going to live here, she does a mind control on Agatha, and then says: Nobody will bother you. In my opinion, this means that Agatha lives, or will live, in a kind of bubble. No one is going to interview her or go hard with her. Wanda hid her there and essentially defused her as well. ”(Reported by Rebecca Iannucci)
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