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#i love WandaVision but all their other shows are either incredibly boring or just bad and The Lang Brothers could apply The Hatchetfield Sty
iamnmbr3 · 3 years
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I know you're not happy with the show but making things up is really damaging your reputation. The show is not a failure; it's the biggest launch of any disney+ show so far with the highest ratings. The first trailer has so many views because it's 7 months old, compared to the first episode being out a week and a half. The CGI doesn't look like it was done by a two year old (seriously lmao??). The tesseract looks dull because it powers down once in the TVA. Stop pretending Loki was mind controlled when Marvel confirmed in his character bio that he was emotionally influenced by the scepter. Bucky was mind controlled. Selvig and Hawkeye were mind controlled. Loki was influenced like Banner and the others were by the sceptre when they were around it on the helicarrier. Please consider that care has been taken to make Loki more multifaceted in this show, not OOC - he's just got more emotion and character to him now and feels to me and a lot of others, more like a living, breathing person who is struggling in the immediate aftermath of being shown the most traumatic recap of his life. I'm really sorry you're not happy with him, but his emotional core and inner heartbreak is being treated with love and respect by the show.
Hahahahahahahahhaha oh my god anon this was a funny read. Ngl usually when ppl come clowning in my inbox with incoherent rants I just delete it. But this was some quality clowning. This was just too funny to not share with everyone. So I’m gonna go line by line here.
“I know you're not happy with the show but making things up is really damaging your reputation.”
I’m gonna be real with you anon. This makes me sad because I will never write anything this funny. This made me laugh out loud. My reputation? My reputation?!?! I run a blog on Tumblr dot com. No reputation can recover from that. Also as to making things up? Uh. Where??? Just because you don’t like what I have to say doesn’t mean it’s made up. However with that kind of attitude I think you have a bright future ahead of you working in PR for the GOP. They love people who talk like you.
“The show is not a failure; it's the biggest launch of any disney+ show so far with the highest ratings.”
Ok I literally just talked about that HERE. But let me add a few more points here for your convenience. First of all, Disney+ hasn’t actually been doing that great. In fact Disney’s stock recently fell precisely because Diseny+ has underperformed. It missed growth expectations and none of the shows have attracted that big of an audience. Loki had MASSIVELY more interest than either WandaVision or TFATWS and yet it only drew 890K households for the premier - just barely more than either of those shows got. There haven’t been any numbers released for the episodes after the premier but given how boring and unfunny and uninteresting the premier was, I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of viewers, especially more casual ones, didn’t come back for more.
“The first trailer has so many views because it's 7 months old, compared to the first episode being out a week and a half.”
Incorrect. Trailers get most of their views in the first week, and the vast majority in the first 2 weeks. Indeed, they get the most engagement in the first DAY usually and then it starts slowing. The early trailer that got 18 million views got most of that very quickly and then has grown extremely slowly ever since. The more recent trailers are not tracking to get anywhere near than engagement. Why? Because interest is dropping. Now maybe people just aren’t as interested in the trailers because they’re just happy to watch the actual show now or because they loved the first trailers so much that they decided to watch the show just based on that and didn't want to spoil themselves watching later trailers. Who knows. I certainly have my theories though.
"The CGI doesn't look like it was done by a two year old (seriously lmao??)."
Actually I said the posters looked like they were done by a 2 year old. Most of the CGI looks like cheap made-for-tv effects done by an underpaid and under qualified adult. But go off I guess. Also don’t even try to defend those badly photoshopped posters to me. I have eyes. I could argue with you but a picture is worth a thousand words. And just. Look at this thing! This is real. It’s so bad but it’s real. Who wants this?
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"Stop pretending Loki was mind controlled when Marvel confirmed in his character bio that he was emotionally influenced by the scepter.Bucky was mind controlled. Selvig and Hawkeye were mind controlled. Loki was influenced like Banner and the others were by the sceptre when they were around it on the helicarrier"
That’s mind control lmao. The scepter was magically influencing his mind. Do you think emotions come from our feet or something?! (And that’s not even getting into the torture and conditioning he underwent or the fact that the Other had his claws in Loki’s mind and was hurting and threatening him in addition to the mind control). Also why do you think it’s appropriate to come on my blog like this and make these sorts of demands? This is my fandom blog that I run for fun. I can engage however I want. You need to learn to cope with that. If you enjoy the show that’s great. Go enjoy it. Don’t tell other people what to think. That’s not appropriate, reasonable, or healthy. If you find yourself truly unable to cope with strangers having different opinions from you about a tv show based on a comic book I definitely suggest you seek help from a professional.
"Please consider that care has been taken to make Loki more multifaceted in this show, not OOC - he's just got more emotion and character to him now and feels to me and a lot of others, more like a living, breathing person who is struggling in the immediate aftermath of being shown the most traumatic recap of his life."
I don’t see any evidence at all of care being put into the show. The writing and storytelling is incredibly sloppy. It gets even the most basic things wrong - like Loki’s speaking style or the fact that he wasn’t young in the 70s or that he speaks the Allspeak not English or his skin tone or hair length or the fact that Jotun!Loki should’ve had ridges on his skin. The head writer and story creator also is openly disdainful of Loki and talks about how he’s a “shithead” and “proper and pompous” and how he needs to be put in a situation where he has to stop “blaming” Odin and Thor for all his problems. He shows no understanding of Loki’s character or care for it. Maybe care was put into the show and they just messed up but I don’t see evidence of that. There’s certainly no way you could know that for a fact unless you are involved in the production in which case you are a biased source who has an ulterior motive for silencing critics of the show.
Also TV!Loki doesn’t feel like a real person to me at all. He feels like a caricature. He doesn’t act like Loki or do or say the things he would or even stand like he would. Look how Loki behaved when being interrogated by Natasha or when being berated by Odin. Loki is someone who puts on a performance as a sword and a shield. TV!Loki is a stupid clown.
"I'm really sorry you're not happy with him, but his emotional core and inner heartbreak is being treated with love and respect by the show."
No it’s not. It’s being turned into a punchline. The “humor” in the show derives entirely from invalidating Loki’s feelings and retconning his motivations and humiliating and mocking and denigrating him and turning him into a literal punching bag. The show robs the character of all dignity and seriousness and makes a mockery of him and the fans he meant so much to. And for what? The humor isn’t even funny.
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simplystefanie-rae · 3 years
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Hi, welcome to my hour of discussing/stream of conscious writing about Wanda and how terrible her life was and how this effected her without the tired and frankly boring reminder of how bad of a person she is and that what she’s doing is bad attached to it. I believe her doing bad things should go without saying. 
Anyway I just really wanted to get my thoughts about her out there. This show has been such a fascinating look into her head that was sorely needed after Endgame. In having her force control over everything around her it made me realize that control, or the lack of it, is one of the most defining traits of her arc. 
Wanda having almost no control over anything in her life and her subsequently breaking down and retaliating by forcing control over everything around her is the most interesting character arc marvel has ever done, at least in my opinion. I always thought there is no physical way a person could cope with this much trauma unless they had help (and as far as we know, she hasn’t), and wondered why they kept piling this onto her character without giving her the space to really do anything about it. Obviously she wasn’t a huge character until now so there was no space for her to do so, but this neglect allowed for what I think is the inevitable response from her body and mind to reject reality all together because it is physically impossible for her to process everything that happened to her, so I’m glad the showrunner seems to just be running with that. Her character screams ‘repress and move on’ until suddenly she just can’t anymore. 
Considering that the commercials in Wandavision are hitting the major story beats of her life in order (though not her brother’s death yet, which seems significant), and that they’re ads, something she’s not actively part of, I don’t think she ever truly accepted all that’s happened to her. Wanda is a person who I think desires control and stability in her life since she's always lacked it, but her trying to actively take control always ends in disaster, and instead of seemingly coming to terms with that she just moves onto the next thing instead.
When her and Pietro are 10 years old a bomb dropped into their apartment and killed their parents and they’re stuck waiting under a bed for two days while another bomb just sat in front of them. There’s nothing the two could do except  wait to die, and look at the name on the bomb. If they didn’t have a face to put on the cause of their tragedy I think they either would have been truly lost, or had space to cope with what happened to them in the absence of anything else to do, but they know it was Stark Industries/ the USA and this knowledge gave them something to hate and fight against, and I think that sets up Wanda’s character for the rest of her life in how she deals with more trauma; look for something else to do and do it. 
The events in her life are almost absurd in how everything seems stacked against her and her choices no matter what she does. She joined Ultron because she thought she was helping the world, and she was wrong. She teamed up with the Avengers to try and fix her mistakes, but her brother dies. She chose to stay behind in Novi Grad to die and Vision saves her (which I’m glad for, and I don’t blame him obviously, but it’s interesting how it’s still taking a choice away from her). 
As far as we know, since they refused to mention her brother again for the longest time, Wanda hasn’t really processed his death. The lack of commercial about him so far and how she’s now deluding herself into believing he’s alive supports that. Going by her character, it makes sense that she would focus on being an Avenger and trying to do some real good in the world, and I’m sure that worked for a while until what happened in Lagos. And then she had to grapple with more guilt over an event that, let’s be honest, wasn’t even her fault. But because she’s a woman of action, she chose to go with Clint instead of ‘sitting on her ass’, because to her siding with Steve and helping Bucky stop more winter soldiers was more important of a goal. And for that choice she gets sent to the Raft and locked up in a straight jacket with a shock collar. 
The two years she had with Vision are very important because despite being on the run I think it’s the first time she could actually breathe and just be. Obviously that’s just a lot of speculation because we see very little, but they both looked content and happy. ‘It works’, as they said, and they were about to run away together until everything went to hell, ruining what was basically a fairytale ending for them.
I don’t know if enough emphasis is being put onto how incredibly fucked up it is that Wanda had to kill Vision herself and how it all went down. She was forced to make this awful choice, but between her and Vision they agreed and while it was a bad choice, it was still hers that she made with respect to the love of her life. But once again her choice didn’t matter. Thanos literally undid her decision and murdered Vision right in front of her in one of the most brutal deaths I’v ever seen in these movies. Wanda was relieved to die after that and that cannot be dismissed. She wanted to die, again, and she got what she wanted for once, until she didn’t. 
We don’t exactly know yet how things went down when she went to get Vision’s body out of Sword, but I think we can make an estimated guess that seeing him taken apart and treated like an object to be used (again) was it for her. It’s unimaginable having to kill your significant other, see them murdered, and then desecrated in the span of what, a week? I really think her body and mind completely just rebelled against her and that exploded into what Westview is now. She’s literally unable to process anything else so she’s now just violently rejecting reality and forcing control over the world around her, because if she accepts reality, well, there’s nothing left for her except for that feeling of nothing. 
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