Amph Marvel's WandaVision

That's probably fanon (fandom made theories/head canon for the uninitiated), because I've seen the "Nat tells Wanda to lose the accent," story come up a lot in fanfiction.

 

I will not stand for this Twin Peaks slander! Dougie Jones is the best.

And the payoff was pretty perfect, too. Cooper's "What year is this?" followed by that awful scream is quite possibly the scariest thing I have seen in a movie or show, well... ever.

 

Sorry, no.



This is the best, and it was much too late into the season (even if I really appreciated The Return)...

 

Dougie Jones is Cooper in his purest form. The coffee and cherry pie, the way he goes out of his way to help others, all of it. I don't think the payoff of that "I am the FBI" line would have worked had it come sooner, honestly.



I could probably watch this moment for hours.

 

I think this settles it. I feel a full Twin Peaks rewatch coming on in the very near future...

 

I couldn't sit thru the last Twin Peaks series again . I am enjoying the latest Agents of Shield tho and all the neat spoofs in that , especially the title sequences.

 

I've done it twice already. Once as it aired in 2017, and a rewatch in 2018. And I just can't get it out of my head. It is truly one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen, alongside the original Alien. I find the finale especially to be unsettling on a deeply existential level.

I'm not really one for ranking things, but when I think of my favorite media releases of the previous decade, I'd probably absolutely Twin Peaks: The Return up there with the likes of Mad Max: Fury Road, Under the Skin, Better Call Saul, and a handful of others.

 

HeloooooOOOOOoooooo

Mr. Jackpots

 

And for every bit as unsettling as the show gets, it can be equally as endearing and sentimental and... well, hilarious!

"Mister Jackpots!"

 

Jade gave two rides!

 

I absolutely love some of Lynch's work , Blue Velvet , Eraserhead , Mulholland etc. I prob should give the last TP series another go , but its like 17 hours , so ...

 

And to cycle that back to the thread at hand...



Cherry pie, anyone?

 

Feige described the show as "a love letter to television" so it's really about replication of the sitcom tropes from each era and tossing in some twists. Like even the camera angles in the first two episode are more long wide shots, closeups are rare. You get a few more closeups in episode 3, cuz in the 70s you could do more and different camera setups. It'll be interesting what genre conventions they engage in the later episodes. Probably at some point it'll all happen at once on-top of each other as it collapses.

Anyway, 4 years old but Elizabeth Olsen doing a OG Scarlett Witch origins. Her holding the "No more mutants" panel may be the closest we'll get.

 

Hey, so posted this elsewhere and someone else came up with good information I didn't notice.

Spoiler

... what shape is that Hydra Soak?

 

we should just rename this Twin Peaks second thread and never talk about WandaVision

 

Now, remind me

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Was it the Tesseract that gave the twins their powers? I thought it was the scepter as Thor took the tesseract at the end of the Avengers.

And the scepter held the mind stone that goes to Vision.

So what is the significance of the Tesseract then?

 

Spoiler

It was not, it was the Mind Gem, as you note.

However...

Wanda's powers materialize as Reality Gem colors (going back to "everything is color-coded" -- Visions beams from the Mind Gem are yellow, Power Stone punches/blasts were purple, Space stuff was blue, etc. And "magic" in the MCU is primarily yellow, as it comes from "expanding your mind" as per Doctor Strange... so, it's possible her powers are "infinity"-based rather than specifically Mind Stone-based.

And, further, they may simply introduce a Cosmic Cube -- which in comics also has ties to Hydra and reality rewriting -- separate from the Tesseract/Space Stone...

 

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I wouldn't look too closely into the color of the powers. Marvel has always been fast and loose with that. The Scepter wasn't originally intended to be the Mind Stone, hence the original blue gem that was later retconned to be casing around the yellow Mind Stone. And the Orb in GotG was originally red during production and had to be turned purple in post because the Aether in TDW was already red and was being established as another Infinity Stone.

The intention thus far in the MCU has been that the Mind Stone was used to "unlock" the abilities in Wanda and Pietro, but I'm inclined to think had the powers were already coded within them and the Mind Stone simply cracked that code, rather than granted them the powers outright. And if I had to guess, now, in WandaVision, Wanda's powers seem to have grown well beyond what we have seen from her before - most likely due to training from another witch, presumably Agatha Harkness, rather than from anything directly relating to the Mind Stone.

This would also put Wanda more in line with sorcerers like Doctor Strange, where she herself is able to manipulate these magical abilities, and an object like an Infinity Stone is a tool that can be manipulated rather than the be all, end all source of the powers at her disposal, which I personally find to be more interesting than her simply "getting" the powers from the Mind Stone.