emunney wrote:Watched the first 4 episodes of WandaVision and I think it's pretty good, kudos to them for doing something a little more formally challenging, and the way they've brought in different elements of the universe and explored big MCU events from the ground level has been smart. That said, I still don't care about these characters, and you could argue superhero **** works better when it's purely bang-bang escapism.
I like the ambition, and I like the execution, I'm just not really invested in the context, I guess.
I now find this to be pretty challenging with both the Marvel and Star Wars universes in general. I've liked Wanda Vision so far, but it suffers so much from meta-fatigue. I thought how they treated the "snap" was cool (especially the hospital scene), but so much of Wanda and Vision's back story requires them to flash back to the 2nd Avengers film, which was like, 10 Marvel movies ago, and 6 actual years ago. Once I got past the "Oh I remember that, neat!" nostalgia moment, I found myself wondering "Why is the show asking me to care about this?"
It doesn't help that none of the acting performances (outside of Randall Park who I always find hilarious) are inspiring and it just seems like everyone showed up for the paycheck.
