WandaVision’s Critical Questions

 

We are now five episodes and on the eve of the sixth into Marvel Studios’ television project WandaVision and in my mind there a few essential mysterious questions propelling the plot. Naturally to even pose the questions is a bit of a spoiler so consider this lede your warning.

In No particular Order.

1) Who is Agnes? Other recurring and important residents of Westview NJ have been identified but on the big board Agnes still has no real-world identification. This coupled with her knowledge and acceptance of Wanda’s powers along with her ‘coincidental’ arrival at key plot points indicates she is a principally important piece of the puzzle.

2) Who or What are Wanda’s Children” It’s been established Wanda or the ‘Hex’ doesn’t created matter but rearranges it and the twins are real but like Agnes without real counterparts. Connecting question; Why are they immune to Wanda’s abilities?

3) What is the purpose of the broadcast’s commercials? In the four commercials all present elements key to Wanda’s backstory before the series. Stark Industries whose weapons killed her parents, Strucker who led the experiment that enhanced her and her twin brother, Hydra the organization that Struker served, and Lagos the site of her mishap that resulted in the death of Wakandans and helped initiate the Sokovian Accords regulating super powered individuals.

4) When ‘Norm’ temporarily freed of the Hex’s influence begs Vision to stop ‘her’ who is ‘her?’ A casual interpretation would be Wanda but the using only a pronoun is a classic way to mask the actual identity.

5) What was SWORD doing with Vision’s corpse? In episode five security records show Wanda stealing Vision’s corpse from a SWORD facility but it was clear that the corpse was not merely in storage but being subjecting to study and or tests. In the comics SWORD stands for Sentient World Observation Response Division but in the Cinematic Universe World has been replaced with Weapon and I can think of only three such ‘items’ in the MCU, AIDA from season 4 of Agents of Shield, Ultron from Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Vision. Of that list all have been destroyed but one has been in some matter returned to functionality, Vision.

6) Why is SWORD Director Hayward so intent of presenting Wanda as a terrorist and willing to move to lethal force so quickly?

So, these are the questions I think are essential elements to the final resolution of the series and the answers will determine if the story works or fails.

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