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Originally Posted by GGG
Quicksilver being a Dick joke was awesome. It was a perfect meta troll by Marvel. They knew exactly what people would expect and said #### you.
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People’s expectation of this series seem to be reintroduce the X-men, establish the multiverse, bring in the fantastic four, explain Mephisto’s role as the Devil in Marvel while also telling the Wanda story. That’s too much for the show to do so I’m glad it didn’t.
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I think those expectations were because of the show itself. I think most people were at best hoping for a not-needed-to-enjoy tie-in with Doctor Strange 2 after Disney announced Wanda would be in it (Like seeing Jarvis in Endgame if you watched Agent Carter). But then WandaVision goes and starts hammering us over the head with fake-Quicksilver and aerospace engineer for the only reason to build hype that they knew was going no where.
Like did they stop watching the Fyre Festival documentaries half way through and think, hey this is a great, let's just build massive hype and expectations that we know we aren't delivering on and I'm sure it will work out fine.
I also strongly agree about the Quicksilver thing in that it was a "#### you" but I don't know why you go out of your way to tell your audience that. Yes, people expected it to be more than a random guy but that's entirely because they went out to get Evan Peters to reprise his role. This wasn't "What's with the stork...well stork sounds a lot like Stark, this must be Tony's plan to be revived!" weird ass theory we saw, this was the studio telling us that Quicksilver from the X-Men universe is here somehow....and then he wasn't, Ralph just happened to look remarkably like him. We could also had the finale end with Luis waking up mid climax and telling Ant-Man about his crazy dream about Wanda if we really wanted to #### with audience and subvert expectations but it wouldn't be a good ending. Although probably a better one.
Take out Quicksilver (or replace him with a random actor/Taylor-Johnson) and I think the show would be much better for it.