{"id":203826,"date":"2021-02-27T15:09:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T15:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/wandavision-episode-8-recap\/"},"modified":"2021-02-27T15:09:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T15:09:58","slug":"wandavision-episode-8-what-weve-learned-game-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/02\/27\/wandavision-episode-8-what-weve-learned-game-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"WandaVision Episode 8: What We’ve Learned | Game Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The following contains spoilers for the eighth episode of\u00a0Marvel\u2019s WandaVision<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is grief, if not love persevering?\u201d The penultimate episode of WandaVision<\/strong><\/em><\/a> brought the central forces of the ongoing interdimensional conflict into full focus, serving as a haven of answers to questions circling the series since the pilot. If the seven preceding episodes were almost entirely composed of setup, the eighth is\u00a0all about payoff: Wanda\u2019s origin story, the creation of the “Hex,\u201d S.W.O.R.D.’s true intentions, and more were given the spotlight for which millions of fans had been waiting.<\/p>\n

2021\u2019s first breakout TV show is reaching its curtain call and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Thanks to this episode’s guided tour of Wanda\u2019s trauma, many of the biggest blanks have been filled, and a greater understanding of the title character has taken center stage. The end may be nigh for the Marvel Cinematic Universe\u2019s cutest couple and their televised hijinks, but this episode shows their story hadn\u2019t truly been told until now. This is the most essential information in WandaVision<\/em>\u2019s eighth episode, \u201cPreviously On\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

RELATED:\u00a0WandaVision: Wanda Has Finally Fulfilled Her Destiny<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Since first entering the MCU<\/a> in 2015\u2019s Avengers: Age of Ultron<\/em>, Wanda Maximoff\u2019s powers have never been given much of a concrete description. It\u2019s easy to understand her late brother Pietro\u2019s set of abilities just from a cursory glance, but Wanda herself has always been a tougher sell (this difference was spelled out appropriately by agent Maria Hill in Age of Ultron<\/em>: \u201cHe\u2019s fast, she\u2019s weird.\u201d). Though it’s been known Wanda\u00a0acquired superhuman abilities through experiments with the mythical Mind Stone conducted by the evil organization HYDRA, it\u2019s never been made clear why these experiments resulted in her magic-esque psionic and telepathic abilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cPreviously On\u2026\u201d brings viewers into Wanda\u2019s missing chapters, as Kathryn Hahn\u2019s Agatha Harkness uses her dark magic to manifest Wanda\u2019s memories into a guided tangible scene selection of lost innocence. When Wanda and Agatha revisit the explosive death of the former\u2019s parents, the latter deduces the only reason she and her brother survived was through Wanda unwittingly casting a \u201cprobability hex\u201d that prevented a Stark Industries missile from obliterating them both for two days.<\/p>\n

Years later, as an imprisoned Wanda enters within proximity to the Mind Stone, it moves toward her at its own free will and exposes her to its power (in doing so she sees the silhouette of a woman in the outfit of a Sokovian fortune teller\u2019s outfit (which fans will recognize as her original outfit from the comics). Agatha theorizes the Mind Stone didn\u2019t bestow Wanda her abilities but instead amplified what was already there. By the end of the episode, the centuries-old witch claims Wanda\u2019s too dangerous for her own good, unchained and overflowing with what she calls \u201cChaos Magic,\u201d dubbing her \u201cthe Scarlet Witch.\u201d It\u2019s about time!<\/p>\n

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More than simply the second-to-last episode of an expensive Disney+ miniseries, WandaVision<\/em>‘s eighth episode is also a dark meditation on grief and trauma’s personal costs<\/a>. As Agatha explores Wanda\u2019s memories, she and the audience come to understand the Avenger\u00a0as a person burdened under the weight of personal tragedy, having lost her entire family and the only person she\u2019s ever loved. Through four flashbacks, the most important parts of WandaVision<\/em>\u2019s premise are given full context: Wanda\u2019s affinity for sitcoms<\/a> comes from her childhood, explaining her world\u2019s likenesses to shows like I Love Lucy<\/em>, Bewitched<\/em>, and Malcolm in the Middle<\/em>; additionally,\u00a0the reason she\u2019s in Westview at all is that it\u2019s where she and Vision dreamed of settling down once upon a time.<\/p>\n

Most importantly of all, this episode confirms the weird world of WandaVision<\/em> is produced solely by its star<\/a>. It\u2019s not Agatha, S.W.O.R.D., or a last-second final boss like Mephisto<\/a> – it\u2019s Ms. Maximoff herself, generating an entire reality out of her unrelenting grief, designed to evoke the one time in her life when she lived without it. The Scarlet Witch transformed the entirety of Westview into an ever-evolving sitcom backdrop, orchestrating plots and mind-controlling the masses to be part of her escapist fantasy.<\/p>\n

Above all other parts of the perfect little life of her dreams, she recreates Vision purely from psychological scratch (contradicting a claim made in a previous episode that will be discussed later), who “returns” unaware of his existence as a fragment of Wanda\u2019s psyche. In hindsight, it\u2019s so obvious Wanda would take on a \u201cwitch\u201d mantle – after all, most of her show has taken place in a \u201cHex.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Last week\u2019s episode ended with the hilarious (and hugely marketable<\/a>) reveal of WandaVision<\/em>\u2019s true antagonist. A trail of episodic bread crumbs throughout the event series led to one of the most hysterical heel-turns in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Wanda discovers her eccentric and friendly neighbor, \u201cAgnes,\u201d is actually Agatha Harkness, a classically-styled master of dark magic<\/a>. A Salem witch who refused to burn, Agatha has lasted for centuries, seemingly made immortal through the forbidden arts. From mind-controlling the Pietro doppelganger<\/a> (\u201cFietro\u201d) to playing dumb with Vision during the show’s Halloween special, Agatha has been quietly keeping an eye on the Hex\u2019s creator, choosing to play along until the time was right to trap and interrogate the grieving Maximoff.<\/p>\n

Even though WandaVision<\/em>\u2019s seventh episode declared it was \u201cAgatha All Along,\u201d its eighth proved she\u2019s only in on part of the unfolding conspiracy. The episode\u2019s conceit is entirely designed around Agatha\u2019s own search for answers, probing Wanda\u2019s past to understand how she came to wield such intense \u201cChaos Magic.\u201d Though Agatha is undeniably powerful, this episode shows\u00a0she\u2019s not actually pulling the strings like\u00a0many assumed.<\/p>\n

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Surprising absolutely no one, it appears S.W.O.R.D. director Tyler Hayward has been playing a game of deception this whole time. Revealed in the sixth episode, Hayward has been\u00a0quietly\u00a0carrying out a mission titled \u201cOperation Cataract\u201d while everyone else was investigating the Hex, complete with a puntastic objective: regain Vision. Initially claiming the synthezoid\u2019s mangled body had been seized by his unhinged lover before creating her sitcom-styled reality, Hayward and his S.W.O.R.D. cronies have been secretly scouting for a new power source to defibrillate the most expensive and powerful sentient weapon ever designed.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Wanda\u2019s generous return of a Stark Industries-branded drone infused with her energy a few episodes ago, Hayward and his team finally resuscitate the $3 billion man. However, Vision doesn\u2019t look like himself – he\u2019s almost entirely painted white, and his eyes are beady and digital. Even the few seconds spent on his regained consciousness show a very different Vision than the peaceful and playfully awkward robot last seen in the MCU\u2019s Infinity Saga. This \u201cWhite Vision\u201d draws influence from the pages of Marvel Comics, as an\u00a0emotionless version of the Christmas-colored synthezoid. If this pale-faced Vision is anything like his\u00a0comic counterpart, the zombified sociopath resembling Wanda\u2019s beloved will arrive at WandaVision<\/em>‘s grand finale, and the newly-christened Scarlet Witch<\/a> will bear witness to a battle of Visions, between the remembered and the resurrected.<\/p>\n

MORE:\u00a0WandaVision: Episode 8 Avoided One Of the Show’s Biggest Problems<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n

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