I take back everything I said that was an MCU criticism, mostly. I saw some Internet chatter that the Plus (Disney Plus) was being blamed for the strangely slow rollout, and by slow I mean nothing much happened until Wanda kicked "Geraldine" / Monica Rambeau (Captain Rambeau?) out of the Wandasphere. If I could get into the quantum realm and time travel, I could convince the Plus that they should have aired the first three episodes all at once, and started the weekly episode half hours with episode 4.
Rough from memory recap:
After Monica lands in the field, we go back to Monica re-materializing from having been snapped out of existence via Thanos. She is in her mother's hospital room. Now we know the answer to where people re-materialized; exactly where they were when they were dusted.
Monica runs around the hospital floor looking for her mother, oblivious to all the other people re-materializing in front of her, asking anyone she sees what happened to her mother. Finally she sees her mother's doctor, who tells her that Maria died of cancer three years prior to this moment, and two years after Monica had - YOU KNOW.
We then see Monica walk into S.W.O.R.D., which we are told stands for Sentient Weapon Observation and Response Division. This apparently co-existed in the MCU with Tony Stark, and he never made fun of it. Unless he did and I didn't understand the reference.
Monica is stopped by a disrespectful security card when she is surprised that her security badge was taken offline when she was dusted. "Don't you know who this is?" asks a mystery voice that we're supposed to know. We look and it's - That Guy! Yeah I still don't know who he is. He was in that show and that other show and then that movie.
Guy We're Supposed to Know is Director Tyler Hayward (does that name scream "secret bad guy" or what?), who takes Monica into an office and has a heart to heart with her. We are informed that S.W.O.R.D. was started by Monica's mother, Maria, and Hayward acknowledges the elephant we don't know is in the room, in that Maria intended for Monica to be the director and that is where she would have been, if not for YOU KNOW.
To sum up the rest of the conversation: Blah blah blah you're grounded blah blah your mother's protocol, but she knew you'd be back blah blah blah New Jersey.
Next thing we see Monica driving up to meet an FBI agent - and it's our friend Agent Jimmy Woo from Ant-Man and the Wasp! After a strange conversation with some police officers, he shows Monica that what started as a missing person's case is actually a missing town. The town of (wait for it) Westview!
Monica takes out the yellow and black and red S.W.O.R.D. helicopter that we see Wanda find back in the black and white episodes. It disappears. Monica walks toward the path of the helicopter and puts her hand out, and touches the TV screen, and.... she's gone. She gets pulled in.
Next we see our friend Darcy Lewis - now Dr. Lewis, you go girl.... in a van with a lot of other smart types trying to figure out why S.W.O.R.D. called them. Darcy is the same with the quick comebacks but is now mature and twenty times more likeable. Jane Foster was holding her back.
Darcy figures out that the energy around the town is some kind of force which is keeping them all inside what appears to be a TV show. She asks for a black and white set, somehow knowing that Wandavision was still in its fifties and sixties years. Darcy gets the transmission to appear on the screen and we see scenes from episodes 1 and 2. "Isn't that....? Well it sure looks like her."
Darcy sees Vision in his human form, and says, "Wait, he's dead, right? Not blipped.... dead."
The gang from SWORD sets about identifying all the "characters" and who they are in actual life. Darcy comes up with the idea to transmit a message through a radio to Wanda, when Wanda is near a receiver, assuming that she is trapped there. Oh, look, there's Monica, trying to fit in. Jimmy gets through, and Wanda recognizes that someone is calling to her, and then, blip, Dottie telling Wanda how to get a blood stain out.
Meanwhile, they send some poor agent through the sewers to try to break into the town. By the end of episode 2, after the talent show and Wanda discovering she is pregnant, the agent has crossed into the town, and as he crossed, he went from agent in a special suit to beekeeper and lost his line back to reality. Then we see him coming out of the sewer tying to figure out what the hell, and he hears Wanda and Vision talking. "
"No," Wanda says.
Seriously, not clear on what happened to the beekeeper.
Meanwhile, Darcy sees another blip on the show as it shifts to closing credits for episode 2. Now we're into episode 3, and Monica is helping Wanda when she goes into labor. After the babies are born, and Vision is outside having his conversation with the nosy neighbors, we now see the rest of Monica and Wanda's conversation from episode 3.
Monica's mentioning of Ultron's name was not something meant to hurt Wanda, it was just a question that came out of her mouth. Wanda knows that Monica is from the outside world and confronts her. "You're not my friend, and you're not my neighbor." Then she goes full Scarlet Witch with the hands of intense energy, and shoves Monica out of the television universe! Not since Cap caught Mjölnir, am I right?
When she hears Vision come back in, she rebuilds the fourth wall, which has a Monica-sized hole in it. Then she looks at Vision, and he looks the way he looked after he was killed. Wanda gasps and covers her eyes, and when we look at Vision again, he is whole. They sit down with their new babies to watch TV as Darcy sees a third blip from the Wanda/Monica confrontation to Wanda and Vision sitting on the couch with the twins.
Then we go back to the beginning of the episode as Monica is surrounded by agents to help her.
"It's Wanda!" she says. "It's all Wanda!"
OMG YOU GUYS!
Final thoughts:
Of course Wanda would want to create a world in which she felt safe. Despite her powers, she's had no control, ever. Vision is dead, and while we must assume Wanda can't bring someone back to life, or she would have done that in Sokovia, not to mention with her brother. So she creates a world that only she can control. That's my theory, of course, there could be more we don't know since we have six episodes left!
But, I do want to look at the timeline as it applies to this theory, because why not: Wanda was also dusted, so we are to assume that when the Avengers gang got all the stones back and Bruce snapped everybody back into existence, that Wanda and Monica re-materialized at the same time. So while Monica is looking for her mother and going back to work, Wanda is beating up Thanos and saving the world with the rest of the Avengers.
Then, as she leaves Tony Stark's funeral, PTSD hits her, and she says to herself, "Hey, I have an idea! I'm going to ditch my accent, go to New Jersey, and kidnap a town! I'll trap us all in a series of TV shows, and while I'm at it, I'll recreate my boyfriend, and we'll just bounce through the decades! It'll be great! Just the therapy I need."
I cannot wait until episode 5!
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