selenak: (River by wickedgoddess)
selenak ([personal profile] selenak) wrote 2021-03-10 06:12 am (UTC)

"What does justice look like for Wanda and the people of Westview?" is an interesting question! There's a story in that! It needn't be imprisonment, for example. I hate that this story about Wanda fighting her own grief for agency ultimately infantilises her like this.

Quite. I actually have no problem with the FBI letting her go at the end - the show has made it clear that Wanda is on a power level now that short of killing her when she's not paying attention, there's no way you can take her into custody against her will. But if Wanda had remained to face the music in whichever form - maybe for a trial, maybe for the super version of community service, maybe just to listen to what the people of Westview had to say - it would have been a far better narrative pay-off. Also, you know what would have been interesting? Maybe some of the Westview citizens had a miserable life before (be it through the results of the non-snap deaths caused by Thanos or just because) and prefer living in a sitcom, as Wanda has done at the start. And they ask her to put them back into that state. While the majority of the others is horrified because for them, it was torment. What does Wanda do? Lecturing the ones who want the dream life about facing grief would be extremely hypocritical, but keeping them in artificial bliss (provided she could even do that without enslaving the entire town again) also isn't right. That could have been something to explore in a future story, except the MCU won't do it. Alas.

"On Pointe" sounds interesting, thank you for the tip!

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