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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The main intention of the line is clearly that Monica is showing some empathy for her, because she understands Wanda's grief and how difficult it would be to give up everything she ever wanted after losing everyone she ever loved. One could even be generous and argue she's referring to Wanda's initial sacrifice of Vision during Infinity War.
And when people harp on Monica's line, they actually tend to overlook how Wanda counters that even if the people of Westview did know, they'd still rightfully hate her.
Wanda: It wouldn't change how they see me [because I'm well aware that what I did was wrong, and while I wasn't trying to hurt them on purpose, they have every reason to hate me].
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On a change of subject, there's a production still on Empire Magazine's site
of Strange and Wong meeting America Chavez for the first time.
Edited by dmcreif on Feb 14th 2022 at 3:43:56 PM
Okey Dokey!She’ll do a war crime, get killed, and then a dragon will melt something pointy?
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI can see them going in two directions with Wanda in Mo M.
1) She feels remorse for her actions in Wandavision and helps Strange out in an act of atonement.
2) She doubles down in her attempt to get her family back, which puts the multiverse in jeopardy and puts her at odds with Strange.
A lazy millennial who's good at what he does.Much as I otherwise loved the movie I'm still not really pleased with No Way Home's character assassination of Doctor Strange, so Multiverse of Madness seemingly following up on that and making the plot all Strange's fault dampens my hype a little.
"You're a hero because you fixed a problem that you yourself caused in the first place" is a throughline I've always disliked in heroic media. That's not heroism, that's at best breaking even, possibly worse if people got hurt or killed in the interim.
Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Feb 14th 2022 at 4:37:13 AM
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!It's Schrodinger's Pinocchio. People's valuation of Vision and the twins were entirely based on whether or not they were confirmed to be real boys. And as soon as they were confirmed to be creations of the Hex and thus "not real" people instantly stopped seeing them as lives of value. Oh boo hoo, Wanda, quit crying about having to throw out your Barbie dollhouse.
Been calling it since the show ended, people are gonna retrospect the fuck out of that line as soon as the twins are brought back. And they absolutely will be, can't have the Young Avengers without them and Hulkling.
Why would they remove some shows from broadcast? That sounds ridiculous.
I mentioned something about this back in November on the No Way Home thread
. Even if Strange was humbled somewhat by the events of Doctor Strange, it stands to reason he hasn't shed his pre-accident ego entirely and the events of Infinity War and Endgame might've actually made him a bit overconfident.
I mean, those three were real. But due to Wanda's lack of knowledge (and because it was all subconscious), she unknowingly tied their existence to the Hex. That's pretty much the only reason they couldn't exist outside of it.
I don't get it either. Even if some of the shows (like Iron Fist) weren't as well received as others, they still had their own followers.
Okey Dokey!I guess you could argue that the execs might decide that the shows with smaller fanbases just aren't worth the effort, bandwidth, and cost (I admittedly don't know how expensive it is to put a show on your streaming service), but even the worst-reviewed of the shows (Iron Fist) still has a sizeable fanbase who would riot if it were the only one excluded from the service, so I don't see them doing that.
They're willing to offer all of the Fox X-Men films, after all, so clearly quality is not a gate.
Edited by Anomalocaris20 on Feb 14th 2022 at 5:07:34 AM
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Same, kinda? I thought "What If" was fine in concept (though I haven't gotten around to actually finishing it because something about the writing doesn't grab me), but I think the whole variant stuff has the potential to be an overdone crutch. Like "you don't like how we adapted this character? Don't worry, we did that with variant 12345!"
And wanting more of the Spideymen I can understand, but was anyone really clamoring for Tom Cruise Iron Man??? (The leak I desperately hope is fake.)
Yeah, I suspect that a lot of the hype-cycle is going to consist of "OMG, are the X-Men films canon to the MCU? Look at these little details in the trailers that might or might not actually mean anything!" and in the film it's strictly an alternate-universe shebang or something while variants of MCU characters get more focus.
With NWH, I understood the hype (heck, I got involved in it somewhat, given I'm very fond of the Raimi trilogy) because the takes on the character of Spider-Man were very different across the different film series. I'm not similarly excited for "different version of strictly-MCU character".
So, let's hang an anchor from the sun... also my Tumblr

The thing is,Monica sort of the audience surrogate of this story.So people are going to assume that that's how the writers expect the viewship to feel.
And people react poorly to being told to sympathize with someone they don't sympathize with.
Edited by DeanCole on Feb 14th 2022 at 12:40:53 PM