1588

The problem here is that the writers chose to employ a unique conceit through which to convey Wanda’s situation and ultimately her inner turmoil. I can see that some people will not be as on board with how they did this and some will. In the end its subjective entertainment and it doesn’t work for everyone. For me, it worked. I decided from the start to dump any preconceptions I may have had and simply enjoyed the story that they chose to tell. Not all of their creative choices took the direction I would have chosen but then I wasn’t telling the story, they were. So I enjoyed it for what it was. A tale of incredible trauma wrapped in an insane setting.

1589

They clearly played it like he had free will, and said chaos magic had the power to alter reality, so my read is that the in-hex Vision was the real deal and not a marionette-- so long as he was inside the hex.

The kids she pulled from some other reality, she didn’t create them herself.

1590

Wanda says he’s taken from her emotions, memories, and whatever part of the Mind Stone remains in her. She could be wrong, I guess, but to me that’s an indication he’s just that - a memory of someone she knew well enough to create an authentic-feeling replica - and the Mind Stone part probably imbued with the ability to act beyond her dictates. As for the twins…I don’t see any particular reason to believe they actually existed in a real sense, but there will probably be some reappearance through some comic book logic scenario or other.

1591

Teen avengers show coming up, the kids will be aged and on it.

1592

Nothing has been announced yet, so that’s all assumptions at this point.

1593

There’s tons of smoke but correct, no fire yet.

1594

Same question but for all of us.

1595

We are two episodes in, and no, I have not read anything above this, but if it wasn’t Marvel I think I would have bailed by now.

But I have faith their is more. :)

1596

Some nice details here that you may have missed! It covers episodes 1–3, but there are spoilers for the entire season in there.

1597

Well, I have to admit having faith in Marvel paid off as this series caught fire about 3-4 and finished really good. Lots of things going on and lots of tie ins to other Marvel projects. we all ended up enjoying this.

Next, it’s on to Winter Soldier and the Falcon.

1598

At one point, back when Dr. Strange was supposed to be part of the story, the in-universe commercials were going to be messages from Strange to Wanda, and there was also talk of having Cumberbatch appear in one of the ads, head writer Jac Schaeffer says.

1599

Huh.

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I see what they’re talking about in the video clip, but I’ll be honest, it seems like a dumb thing to add, if it was purposeful. It doesn’t even look good. I’d never have noticed the new effect if some site hadn’t pointed it out. Also, it’s just odd to add it now, when everyone is watching other stuff. If I had noticed it, I would’ve thought it was just stream artifacting, in fact, my thought is that it’s a glitch or other camera error.

There’s no denying that the foliage is different, so they did something on purpose to that shot.

1600

That’s really odd. I wonder if the change is for the sake of consistency with a future episode of something, where we’ll see some animated movement of the foliage.

1601

I mean the trending theory online is that’s Doctor Strange and will tie in to his movie somehow. Maybe Dr. Strange 2 will open with that shot.

1602

It doesn’t make any sense though. The weird outline thing people are saying is Doc Strange is tiny and way too easy to dismiss as a VFX or camera artifact. Why would Marvel put something like that as a stinger? They’ve never been that obtuse or subtle before with their tie-ins.

1603

Yeah, that visual artifact supposedly “moving towards the cabin” is actually staying almost completely still onscreen; it only looks like it’s moving because the camera is flying in. It does appear to be moving slightly though, so my money is on some sort of lens flare.

Or to put it another way: I don’t think that Marvel would edit a shadow of a barely-visible character into the post-post-credits scene of a show that everyone’s already done watching, just to tie in to a movie that’s coming out next year.

1604

I mean it doesn’t make any logical sense that I can see, BUT, they cleared edited that scene in to some degree, so…why bother at all?

I dunno. It’s all weird to me.

1605

Not a thing, just an editing artifact apparently.

1606

Right, but to be clear: They did update that scene, and they did change the foliage.

Not sure why. I don’t think I saw anyone complain about the trees when it first aired.

1607

Well that’s an extremely clever discovery!

Yeah, that’s what I keep coming back around to. What were they even doing?