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Post by scabab on Mar 26, 2021 0:32:18 GMT
After three episodes I thought it was crap with a couple decent moments. Episode 4 was much better.
That's where I am currently.
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Post by Jayman on Apr 10, 2021 3:20:53 GMT
I'd give a 6. borderline but not quite a 7. It was solid but I wasn't in love with it.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on May 1, 2021 2:18:39 GMT
I finished the show today and i have changed my ratings from 8 to a 9
I think it was a really good show, and i think the ending was really good.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on May 1, 2021 10:37:02 GMT
I give it an 8/10. I think the early episodes fail not because the idea of her creating a sit-com world isn't a good one, but the "sit-coms" themselves are not funny. They missed a great chance. Once the narrative gets out of her head, it picks up steam. I don`t think they are suppose to be funny. Also comedy is subjective not factual.
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Post by Nalkarj on May 7, 2022 1:03:25 GMT
Got access to someone’s Disneyflix account a few weeks back, have been watching a lot of Gravity Falls. (Watch it! I’m becoming a Gravity Falls proselytizer.)
Just turned on first episode of WandaVision. I know it’s intentionally unfunny, but intentionally unfunny is still unfunny. Acting is good, though, and Elizabeth Olsen is absolutely adorable as Elizabeth Montgomery. So far it looks like it gets the ’50s better than Agent Carter gets the ’40s, at least.
EDIT: On to Episode 2, and she’s even better—and more adorable—as Mary Tyler Moore.
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on May 7, 2022 2:18:47 GMT
I give it a 8/10. I was hoping that the final episode wouldn't go the route of a big CGI battle, but unfortunately sometimes Marvel can't help themselves. Still a good first attempt at a streaming series by Marvel Studios.
It's my least favorite of the Disney+ shows so far.
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2022 22:25:29 GMT
Got access to someone’s Disneyflix account a few weeks back, have been watching a lot of Gravity Falls. (Watch it! I’m becoming a Gravity Falls proselytizer.) Just turned on first episode of WandaVision. I know it’s intentionally unfunny, but intentionally unfunny is still unfunny. Acting is good, though, and Elizabeth Olsen is absolutely adorable as Elizabeth Montgomery. So far it looks like it gets the ’50s better than Agent Carter gets the ’40s, at least. EDIT: On to Episode 2, and she’s even better—and more adorable—as Mary Tyler Moore. Did you finish it yet? I thought it became a bit hollow once the sitcom gimmick was dropped. And honestly, I didn’t really enjoy the sitcom episodes much either.
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Post by Nalkarj on May 10, 2022 23:10:02 GMT
Got access to someone’s Disneyflix account a few weeks back, have been watching a lot of Gravity Falls. (Watch it! I’m becoming a Gravity Falls proselytizer.) Just turned on first episode of WandaVision. I know it’s intentionally unfunny, but intentionally unfunny is still unfunny. Acting is good, though, and Elizabeth Olsen is absolutely adorable as Elizabeth Montgomery. So far it looks like it gets the ’50s better than Agent Carter gets the ’40s, at least. EDIT: On to Episode 2, and she’s even better—and more adorable—as Mary Tyler Moore. Did you finish it yet? I thought it became a bit hollow once the sitcom gimmick was dropped. And honestly, I didn’t really enjoy the sitcom episodes much either. Haven’t watched any more than ep 2… I might watch some more, though, since I may see Dr. Strange on Saturday |
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Post by twothousandonemark on May 11, 2022 4:29:53 GMT
Back in the day during initial run, I read all the episode recaps/spoilers on wikipedia. Apparently, I didn't miss a whole lot for Doctor Strange 2.
I will say that COVID did mess up their creative timings if you will... Wandavision I hear was supposedly going to finale mere weeks before Doctor Strange 2's release. Instead, ppl had to remember things or forget altogether.
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Post by Marv on May 11, 2022 15:38:42 GMT
Back in the day during initial run, I read all the episode recaps/spoilers on wikipedia. Apparently, I didn't miss a whole lot for Doctor Strange 2. I will say that COVID did mess up their creative timings if you will... Wandavision I hear was supposedly going to finale mere weeks before Doctor Strange 2's release. Instead, ppl had to remember things or forget altogether. Blessing in disguise for me because I would have not seen Wandavision if they had kept that DS2 release date. I didn't see WandaVision until january this year so it all kind of worked out. For me at least.
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Post by Nalkarj on May 13, 2022 0:54:27 GMT
I’m watching the ’70s-themed Episode 3, @forceghostackbar. For some reason the (in-“sitcom”) jokes seem better written in this one than in the previous two, though Olsen’s performance seems broader.
Paul Bettany looks like Robert Webb and acts like Hugh Laurie, funnily enough. Wikipedia says he based the performance on Laurie, an odd choice with the sitcom gimmick but one that works for me.
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Post by Nalkarj on May 13, 2022 2:06:06 GMT
I don’t mean to keep posting random thoughts, but I’m just thinking that—as audacious as the gimmick is, and it is audacious—this show isn’t well written. Lots of forced exposition (“Agent So-and-So.” “Director So-and-So.” “Acting director.” Oy), and Episode 4, which drops the gimmick, is such a miscalculation, introducing mysteries to which we already know the answers.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2022 2:15:19 GMT
I don’t mean to keep posting random thoughts, but I’m just thinking that—as audacious as the gimmick is, and it is audacious—this show isn’t well written. Lots of forced exposition (“Agent So-and-So.” “Director So-and-So.” “ Acting director.” Oy), and Episode 4, which drops the gimmick, is such a miscalculation, introducing mysteries to which we already know the answers. My unpopular opinion is that all of these Marvel streeaming shows are the same: intriguing gimmick that quickly devolves into poorly written filler and culminates in a typical MCU climax. They would’ve all been better off as movies or not made at all.
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Post by Nalkarj on May 13, 2022 3:28:47 GMT
I don’t mean to keep posting random thoughts, but I’m just thinking that—as audacious as the gimmick is, and it is audacious—this show isn’t well written. Lots of forced exposition (“Agent So-and-So.” “Director So-and-So.” “ Acting director.” Oy), and Episode 4, which drops the gimmick, is such a miscalculation, introducing mysteries to which we already know the answers. My unpopular opinion is that all of these Marvel streeaming shows are the same: intriguing gimmick that quickly devolves into poorly written filler and culminates in a typical MCU climax. They would’ve all been better off as movies or not made at all. I haven’t seen any of the other streaming shows (I have tried Agent Carter and didn’t like it at all), but WandaVision’s gimmick is so daring—not the sitcom spoofing, which everyone has done, but making each episode a parody of a whole decade of sitcoms—that the execution needs to be perfect, or as close to it as possible. And the creators/showrunners/what-have you just can’t pull it off. The first thing to come to mind, other than the dreadful Episode 4, is how unfunny Episode 1 is. It’s spoofing Bewitched, but Bewitched—at least in its first season and some of its second and third seasons—was a genuinely good and funny show, with unexpected jokes and (yes!) some thematic depth. Same as with The Dick Van Dyke Show, which is a master class in how to write humor rooted in character. ( Dick Van Dyke also could get more surreal—“Washington vs. the Bunny,” “It May Look Like a Walnut”—than anything I’ve seen from WandaVision.) All that said, WandaVision’s acting is good, and the show looks like a big-budget movie, and so far it hasn’t bored me the way Agent Carter did. But the writing is, as you say, just so poor. I finished the Halloween ep and then called it a night. Looks like I still have three more episodes to go, though this show can’t have much more plot left to tell. So much of the Halloween ep is pure filler.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2022 5:53:44 GMT
My unpopular opinion is that all of these Marvel streeaming shows are the same: intriguing gimmick that quickly devolves into poorly written filler and culminates in a typical MCU climax. They would’ve all been better off as movies or not made at all. I haven’t seen any of the other streaming shows (I have tried Agent Carter and didn’t like it at all), but WandaVision’s gimmick is so daring—not the sitcom spoofing, which everyone has done, but making each episode a parody of a whole decade of sitcoms—that the execution needs to be perfect, or as close to it as possible. And the creators/showrunners/what-have you just can’t pull it off. The first thing to come to mind, other than the dreadful Episode 4, is how unfunny Episode 1 is. It’s spoofing Bewitched, but Bewitched—at least in its first season and some of its second and third seasons—was a genuinely good and funny show, with unexpected jokes and (yes!) some thematic depth. Same as with The Dick Van Dyke Show, which is a master class in how to write humor rooted in character. ( Dick Van Dyke also could get more surreal—“Washington vs. the Bunny,” “It May Look Like a Walnut”—than anything I’ve seen from WandaVision.) All that said, WandaVision’s acting is good, and the show looks like a big-budget movie, and so far it hasn’t bored me the way Agent Carter did. But the writing is, as you say, just so poor. I finished the Halloween ep and then called it a night. Looks like I still have three more episodes to go, though this show can’t have much more plot left to tell. So much of the Halloween ep is pure filler. I completely agree. Although I am mostly unfamiliar with those old sitcoms (I know them only by name, reputation and whatever parodies have been done of them), but you actually have me wanting to try some episodes of Dick Van Dyke now!
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Post by Nalkarj on May 14, 2022 0:16:52 GMT
Ha, now they’re playing “It May Look Like a Walnut.” WandaVision did have some more plot ahead of it, I guess, though the twist doesn’t seem to support the premise.
As for Dick Van Dyke, yeah, I highly recommend it, @forceghostackbar. Almost every sitcom has borrowed from it in some way, and it’s just so funny. A much funnier, tighter, cleverer show than WandaVision, to say the least.
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Post by Nalkarj on May 14, 2022 2:43:37 GMT
So, I finally finished WandaVision. The last three episodes did have bits and pieces that I genuinely liked—the Munsters-spoofing twist reveal, Wanda’s family watching sitcoms (a nice aha! moment), Wanda and Vision saying goodnight to their sons and then to each other. But they were bits and pieces, not whole episodes. In fact, I don’t think I liked a single episode in its entirety. Episode 8’s flashbacks are lovely, but I almost didn’t want to watch it because of how bad the Salem witch trial scene is. Episode 3 is the funniest, but Wanda comes off as unnecessarily mean and the long gag with the stork doesn’t work. Episode 1 is the best at imitating a sitcom, but it’s so unfunny. The twist, while welcome and even kind of clever, doesn’t fit the six episodes that come before it, I think. Did we ever learn just how Agatha got into Wanda’s little world? The villain seems to distract from the show’s themes, to be there just to deliver the twist and the punchy-kicky-blow-upy superhero climax. This is all such wasted potential. But, as I wrote above, the gimmick is so audacious that, for this to work, the execution would have to be perfect. Alas. (Elizabeth Olsen is a knockout, though. I had just to slip that in these comments at some point.) |
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