![]() ![]() Someone had to stop her, and for the longest time, no one else could get inside the hex. Should a witch in Agatha’s position really have done anything different? Wanda was torturing these people. Soon after, Agatha tells Wanda, “Heroes don’t torture people,” to which Wanda counters, “The difference between you and me is that you did this on purpose.” Except… what did Agatha do, exactly? In the flashback to 1693, it was implied she used her dark magic for illicit means, but here in the present, she was merely hiding in Westview, trying to understand Wanda’s powers, and then attempting to steal them. Taking away a person’s autonomy, their free will, their identity - that is a rough act to wrestle with, even as an accident. This scene marks the other -possibly more lasting - moment from the finale. Earlier, when Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) “cut the strings” so these citizens could speak freely, Dottie (Emma Caulfield Ford), whose real name is Sarah, pleads with the superhero to “let out of her room.” Another resident says, “Your grief is poisoning us.” Vision’s former colleague Norm (Asif Ali) tells Wanda, “When you let us sleep, we have your nightmares.” Should it? Wanda has inflicted severe trauma on these people. “It won’t change how they see me,” she replies. “They’ll never know what you sacrificed for them,” Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) says to Wanda. Their stares don’t echo admiration, appreciation, or even relief. There, she again sees the Westview residents who she’s held hostage for days and weeks on end. But as Wanda’s face falls, she accepts what she’s lost and walks back through town. The shot of Wanda standing in a lot of empty land serves as the necessary bookend to the last time she was living in reality, to the breakdown that started all this. Oscars 2023: Best Adapted Screenplay PredictionsĪs Vision disappears along with the rest of Wanda’s magically manufactured home, the look on Olsen’s face isn’t one of anguish but love. 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' and 'Nope' Lead Early Best Original Screenplay Contenders ![]() How 'Werewolf by Night' Honors Universal Monsters and Brings Gnarly Kills to the MCU Showtime's 'Let the Right One In' TV Series Makes for a Sufficiently Smart Expansion “We have said goodbye before,” Vision says, as her shrinking Hex closes in on them, “so it stands to reason–” “–we’ll say hello again,” Wanda replies, completing the sentiment. Though no parting words between Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) and Vision could compare to the all-timer from Episode 8, they didn’t need to that moment was the true climax of the series, and their shared final sentence provided enough belief in their bond without promising an idyllic reunion. Still, showrunner and episode writer Jac Schaeffer deserves credit for executing that farewell with grace and power. ![]()
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