WandaVision Episode 3
Spoiler Warning
January 29, 2021
Marvel’s first MCU show, WandaVision, is still in its prep phase. The first two episodes we got didn’t tell us much, yet episode three moves a little faster and you start to get the general idea of what the show’s premise is.
The episode starts off with following the theme of every decade of television eras, starting with 1950s, now with the 1970s resembling an intro similar to “The Brady Bunch” with them preparing for the babies to come.
The first scene we get is Wanda getting checked by Dr. Nielson on how she is with her pregnancy. Within this episode they like to make jokes on how Wanda couldn’t have gotten pregnant since Vision is an android and joke about where babies come from. The doctor mentions how he is going on a vacation which is important later in the episode.
Her pregnancy progresses faster, as Wanda finds her contracting which evidently causes her to lose control over her powers. The more painful the contraction, the more changes in the nature of her reality, since she has control over everyone and everything in her reality. They then start thinking of names for the baby, deciding whether to name him, Billy or Tommy, assuming Wanda is only carrying one child instead of two. These names chosen weren’t random as Billy and Tommy are a reference to her kids in the comic books.
Chelle, a fan of the show, said “Billy and Tommy doesn’t sound like a superhero name.”
They actually were created by accident in the comic books during a fight with Agatha Harkness, a powerful witch, yet later revealed that Wanda used Mephisto’s life essence to create her own children. With Mephisto later taking their souls and Agatha wiping Wanda’s memories of ever having them. Later in the comic books, Marvel retconned the twins and they become Wiccan and Speed which have the same powers as Scarlet Witch and Quick Silver.
Kyle, another fan of the show stated, “I think Marvel would rather skip the complications and go straight to Wicked and Speed so that they’re set up for future Marvel movies like Young Avengers.”
Some have theories that Agnes, Wanda’s close friend in her reality is actually Agatha Harkness and her husband Ralph that she mentions is secretly Mephisto in disguise.
Moving on, Geraldine, who is Monica Rambeau (first introduced as Maria Rambeau’s daughter in Captain Marvel) stops by and starts discussing with Wanda how every pipe in her house broke during the time Wanda’s water broke. After that a stork from the baby’s room comes to life, after another painful contraction, which pays off the joke about where babies come from and how storks bring the babies. Wanda tries to get rid of it, yet the stork seems to be immune to her powers, symbolizing Wanda’s attempt to use her powers to slow down the birth of the babies but fails to do so, “which by the way is an amazing example of settle symbolism” said Chelle.
Vision rushes over to get the doctor from his house using his super speed, similar to Quick Silver, right before the doctor is about to take off for vacation. She finally has the babies and of course names them Billy and Tommy. Vision then walks the doctor out telling him to have a nice trip yet the doctor says he’s not going because it’s hard to get out of a place like this. When analyzing what the doctor said, you can see that he means that nobody in Wanda’s reality is allowed to leave whenever they choose to since they are under her control. Vision then catches Agnes and Herb talking about how Geraldine doesn’t have a house and is cut just before he is about to say something, possibly there to save them.
Monica finally snaps out of being Geraldine and comes to a realization of everything, about Wanda and what has happened to her, like how her brother was killed by Ultron. Eventually Wanda throws her out of the reality and then Monica gets surrounded by S.W.O.R.D agents, and that’s how they leave us from there.
Kyle adds, “hopefully from what I’ve seen from the trailers for episode four we get a perspective of the S.W.O.R.D agents on what’s going on inside Wanda’s reality.”
Episode four will be available January 29.