Reviews Series / Wanda Vision

Maybe you could elaborate more on those points?

Thanks for your comment.

Which part of what I wrote is unclear to you or in need of more elaboration?

Everything? I mean you don\'t elaborate anything, specially given that it\'s only 2 episodes.

Not only that but calling it \"unwatchable\" after only 2 episodes is a little bit extremist, don\'t you think? Let us see at least the first 10 or so episodes to decide, that is my motto.

I understand that others may have differing opinions and that's fine. I'd offer to update my review of Wandavision after viewing more except I won't because I immediately cancelled my Disney Plus after seeing the first two episodes.

That's two hours I can't get back and two hours of enduring a boring parody of a boring era of boring television.

There's lots of good "mindfuck serialized fiction."

Wild Palms, Tekwar, Max Headroom, Lain, GITS SAC, Twin Peaks, Black Mirror, Altered Carbon, Stranger Things, Dolls, Lost until it jumped the shark, Highlander likewise, Nikita, Westworld etc.

Wandavision just doesn't happen to be one of these good serialized weirdness shows.

Most entries are for factual info on tvtropes. Reviews are for opinions and these are mine. If you have a different opinion and something with which to back it up, I'd love to read it, seriously. Maybe you will point something out which will change my opinion about something.

I'm looking forward to reading your reviews, Vailona, marcelX, and megagutsman.

I don't plan on watching this show, but when reviewing TV shows, I generally wait until at least finishing the first season to write a review.

If you were to only review the first two episodes of Game of Thrones, for example, in which the most shocking event in the first two episodes is Jaime pushing Bran out a window, you would miss much of what gets people talking about the show, from killing off Ned Stark, the apparent protagonist, to what happens to Daenerys in the final episodes. It's a bit premature to conclusively judge the entire series thus far (I notice your review is tagged "Series") based on two episodes, so if that's all you plan on watching, then maybe you should refrain from writing a review.

Speaking also as someone who hasn\'t watched it, or any trailers for it, and doesn\'t plan to, the only point at which your review rises above \"thing bad\" is when you say \"It wasn\'t a funny or effective parody of source material I have no interest in.\"

And fair enough. It\'s notoriously hard to make bad comedy entertaining.

But a lot of the rest of the review never goes into why thing bad, only how bad thing is, and a premature feeling of persecuted genius for other people who liked thing telling you \"no thing good.\" Neither is useful for a review. And I speak as someone whose first review on this site devoted a paragraph to fan toxicity surrounding an old show.

This review is tagged as episode/issue, not series. I also make clear exactly what I am reviewing in the text of the review.

I will be very glad to hear constructive criticism or praise or commentary on my critical review from people who have watched the episodes in question and who have an informed opinion regarding the issues and opinions I raise. Thanks for sharing.

Please take note:

\"About Reviews Reviews are limited to 400 words. That means there is very little space for anything but review text. No room for a recap or transcript. It comes down to whether or not you would recommend the work and why you would or wouldn\'t. The why is the interesting part.

Note: Spoiler font is turned off in Reviews. So don\'t write spoilers.

Unlike most text around the wiki, a review is only editable by the reviewer. It has a byline. Using first-person address would be a valid choice. This is your chance to say \"I liked it!\"

We have moderators that have the power to delete stuff that needs deleting. If they come across a review that is spelled badly and has crappy grammar, they\'ll delete the review. Your spelling and your grammar are your responsibility in your review.

Have fun with it. Both geeked-out nerdy fangasms and curmudgeonly mutterings are expected. As long as it isn\'t boring.\"

All I can say is, your review is pretty skinny and bare-bones, even setting aside that a great deal of it could\'ve been cut if space was an issue, and I have got multiple reviews much longer than yours that\'re still well-under the limit.

My mistake. When I saw the "Series" tag by the review, I mistook it for the "Entire series" category for the review," instead of the "Series" category for the work. It's a shame that the category you pick for your review seems to no longer be visible.

That said, your review is a bit too short and sparse in details for even this limited scope. If the first two episodes were bad enough to drive you to stop watching and even cancel your subscription, then it should be easy enough to list more specific reasons why you disliked them so much and provide examples of specific parts of the show to back up your points.

Incidentally, the "About Reviews" section that you pasted is out of date. "Reviews are limited to 400 words" should be "Reviews are limited to 3,000 characters"- in the former case, a word was counted as being, on average, five characters. Of course, your review is 1,097 characters, so you aren't in danger of running into the word limit.

... Okay two things:

First:

• Agents of Sword now repeating the Agents of Sheld Framework arc, except much worse.*

Putting aside the fact I fail to see how this matches Agents of SHIELD in any way... How can you mention a criticism regarding the SWORD parts of the show when you only watched the first two episodes, and SWORD doesn\'t actually show up until episode 4?

Second:

• Not engaging, not funny, no characterization, no arc... very disappointing.*

... Really? You expect an arc after 2 episodes?

I can't take this seriously because the first two episodes are 30 minutes each including the credits. Unless you watched each episode twice - and if you didn't like them the first time, why would you even bother to watch them both a second time - you shouldn't have spent 2 hours watching the first two episodes of this show.

I don't think this review was made in good faith. You get aspects of the show blatantly wrong and you make a premature judgement about the direction of the show based on an entity that hadn't even appeared in the show yet when you wrote your review. It's like seeing a bottle of whiskey behind Iron Man in a shot of The Avengers and going "THEY'RE ADAPTING DEMON IN A BOTTLE".

If old sitcoms aren't your thing, that's fine. No-one would have expected you to like it. If you don't enjoy the style of each sitcom pastiche, that's your business. But are two episodes of a TV show that's in a style you don't like, that goes out of its way to be episodic in the style of those shows and which deliberately holds its cards close to its chest, really worthy of a review where you claim to cancel your Disney Plus subscription over your immediate disdain for one TV show it offers?

Unless you're winding people up for attention - in which case, you succeeded - I don't see a reason for this review to exist.