The nine episode hit show from Marvel and Disney, WandaVision, finished to a somewhat decent conclusion which answers some, if not most, of our questions about Wanda Maximoff, her turtleneck clad Vision, and the town of Westview. But when those final credits rolled and sans the usual “Please Stand By,” I couldn’t help but realize there was something important missing from a show I had theorized and talked about for weeks.
WandaVision gave answers, some satisfying, others less so, but in the end the show failed to hold Wanda to account for her actions, a troubling trend in an ever growing superhero tradition.
Spoilers ahead for Disney+’s WandaVision
Seriously, mad spoilers.
I’m not going to recap the show because, well, if you’re reading this you’ve seen the show and, hopefully, the finale by now. But to state that the evolution of Wanda becoming the Scarlet Witch, her goodbyes to her children, Billy and Tommy, and to her fake husband, Vision, had an effect on me would be an understatement. I enjoyed that the show was able to give two characters smaller moments, moments of real humanity and hurt and love in a genre convention that shies away from genuine emotion.
And so it is that, at the end of Episode 09, as Wanda walks through the town of Westview to…
