That's why I wondered if there was a trope for when a character's job only ever gets a very fuzzy description.
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation
The closest I found through a very quick and not at all scientific search. As per the description: "A classic sitcom trope where a character (or an entire company, in some examples) has an occupation but no details are ever revealed to the audience, or occasionally to any other characters."
Technically I'd guess we know as much detail as there is TO know, but that's minimal.
Edited by jakobitis on Jan 25th 2021 at 12:36:21 PM
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."Thanks, I managed to miss it in the Occupation Tropes Index and on the show trope page itself. I must be tired...
Moving on, I wonder if the last episode will have a cameo from Doctor Strange, or at least one of the sorcerers.
Edited by C105 on Jan 25th 2021 at 2:19:11 PM
Whatever your favourite work is, there is a Vocal Minority that considers it the Worst. Whatever. Ever!.![]()
Thinking about, the number shows using that trope don't seem to be as many as I thought. Leave It to Beaver had Ward working at "the office", but never specified what he did. But Ricky Ricardo was a performer at a nightclub, Rob Petrie was a TV show writer, Darrin Stevens (both of him) worked at an ad agency, Tony Nelson was an astronaut, and Mike Brady was an architect.
(Though I wonder about an architect who lives in a house with two bedrooms and one bathroom for six people.)
Not sure if it's a spoiler, but Westview's in New Jersey idk if that'll mean anything
Something that's definitely a spoiler from the clip, it seems to confirm everyone Wanda's interacting with has been put into a role like Monica as Geraldine except maybe Agnes.
Edited by Nouct on Jan 28th 2021 at 8:37:07 AM
Why do y'all think Agnes's profile on The Big Board doesn't have an attached ID?
Huh. I wasn't expecting everyone to be SWORD. Just a bunch of them. Agnes not being up there is interesting, definitely.
That said, Dottie not up there at all makes me suspect she at least is an innocent person Locked Out of the Loop - especially since her freakout was a "WHO ARE YOU?" rather than a "STOP IT" or a Monica's suddenly flashes of memory.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jan 28th 2021 at 11:26:49 AM
That makes sense as they get photos of the various 'characters' they then run down who they really are and if the names on the 'show' match the name on the actual ID. So in theory Agnes hasn't been properly I Ded yet. Yet we know Dottie has been shown 'on camera' several times yet she has no photo, no info sheet or ID on the board.
My overall theory is that most of the people in the town are just Westview civilians that got caught up in Wanda's reality distortion.
If that's the case then For the most part SWORD is matching people in the "show" to I Ds based on the records of who lives in the town. The fact that Anges doesn't have a matching ID means that SWORD hasn't figured out who she is...and I don't believe I'm the only one who thinks there may be a very good reason for that.
Also after taking a closer look at the shot of the ID's, I'm pretty well convinced I'm right on most of the people being Westview civilians since all the ID's that are clipped to the SWORD files are New Jersey I Ds. If they were SWORD agents, they'd be SWORD I Ds. I wouldn't read too much into Dottie not having a sheet, since it could just as easily be that her sheet just isn't on the wall at that precise moment for a mundane reason. Anges having a sheet without an attached ID is more important I think.
Edited by Falrinn on Jan 28th 2021 at 5:57:07 AM
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Looks like your theory is correct; Everybody on the board that we see appeared in the first ‘Wanda Vision’ episode, Dottie didn’t appear until the second episode and didn’t have an entry yet.

I think it's more because Wanda is "in charge" and trying to run on the rules of the era/period. She was a housewife, therefore her husband works. She just hasn't put a lot of thought into what he actually works as.
Vision asking questions was the first indication that whatever is going on, he is considerably more in the dark than Wanda is.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."