# WandaVision new Marvel / Disney trailer drops **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [September 21, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandavision-new-marvel-disney-trailer-drops/921112 "2020-09-21T03:27:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandavision-new-marvel-disney-trailer-drops/921112/1 "2020-09-21T03:27:16Z")
It’s hard to make out what the plot is, but it looks pretty cool. 🙂 They’re doing a good job replicating 50s/60s television shows. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sj9J2ecsSpo/maxresdefault.jpg "WandaVision | Official Trailer | Disney+") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj9J2ecsSpo) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandavision-new-marvel-disney-trailer-drops/921112/2 "2020-09-21T03:35:10Z")
I’m definitely intrigued. Looks good. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandavision-new-marvel-disney-trailer-drops/921112/3 "2020-09-21T03:40:04Z")
Looks cool, and very creepy. I’m feeling something like I felt at the end of the first _Avengers_ movie, when Thanos turned around with that creepy smile.¹ I suspect that this series will be kicking off the connecting tissue, as it were, of the MCU phase 4. Wanda is hella powerful; if that gets combined with insanity (as seems likely, at this point), then there’s no telling where things might end up. ¹ My wife tells me I did a quiet, but very definite, ‘squee’ when he did that. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandavision-new-marvel-disney-trailer-drops/921112/4 "2020-09-21T10:12:25Z")
I remember many folks, me included, wondering why it was called _WandaVision_, which seems such a lame title. But now it makes sense, if it’s all a delusion or a trap or whatever, set inside 50s TV shows. I still think Vision was backed up by Shuri on Wakanda’s servers, so that might play into it. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandavision-new-marvel-disney-trailer-drops/921112/5 "2020-09-21T12:07:57Z")
Do we have a release date yet? My name is Earl did the locked into a 50s/60s sitcom before and of course there is the great Pleasantville. But this looks good, better than I was expecting. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandavision-new-marvel-disney-trailer-drops/921112/6 "2020-09-21T12:53:11Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Do we have a release date yet? Not yet, but they originally said before the end of 2020 and so far we haven’t heard that has changed. My guess is mid-to-late November, after _Mandalorian_ has begun, but before Christmas ramps up. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandavision-new-marvel-disney-trailer-drops/921112/7 "2020-09-21T12:56:42Z")
Disney Plus has been pretty slow on their new shows that weren’t stickly Disney Channel fare. I know some of it was COVID related but still seems slow for their big roll-out year. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandavision-new-marvel-disney-trailer-drops/921112/8 "2020-09-21T14:13:58Z")
In the comics, Wanda’s powers were originally supposed to be luck manipulation (which somehow let her shoot energy bolts), then she learned magic, and the way her powers were depicted were all over the place. No two writers seemed to agree on what the heck her powers actually were. Even with a single writer the depiction of her powers was wildly inconsistent. Eventually, it was retconned that she never had “luck manipulation” or “magic” - her power had always been reality manipulation. And she was insane. She completely re-wrote reality at least a couple of times. _WandaVision_ seems to be leaning heavily into that. It also seems to be drawing on a recent comic series where the Vision creates an artifical, 1950s-style family of fellow synthezoids (it does not go well). ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandavision-new-marvel-disney-trailer-drops/921112/9 "2020-09-21T14:25:56Z")
So, all a reality caused by Wanda’s power, like _House of M_ only it’s her own ideal world she’s creating? And Monica Rambeau is trying to break her out of it? And hints, with that happy suburban life, of Vision’s own standalone title… damn, ninjaed on both counts… ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandavision-new-marvel-disney-trailer-drops/921112/10 "2020-09-22T00:33:26Z")
Their classic comic book outfits as Halloween costumes is just wonderful. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandavision-new-marvel-disney-trailer-drops/921112/11 "2020-09-22T01:51:30Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Do we have a release date yet? Back in February, Bob Iger (Disney CEO) said it would premiere in December. Recent press releases indicate before the end of this year, so sometime in December seems like a good bet. No firm date yet, though. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandavision-new-marvel-disney-trailer-drops/921112/12 "2020-09-22T13:29:59Z")
They seem to be living in Rob and Laura Petrie’s house on Bonny Meadow Road in New Rochelle. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandavision-new-marvel-disney-trailer-drops/921112/13 "2020-09-22T13:40:17Z")
I noticed that too! If anyone’s intrigued by that “Vision in 50s sitcom family” idea, you have _got_ to read Tom King’s [VISION mini-series](https://www.comixology.com/Vision-2015-2016/comics-series/58175?ref=Y29taWMvdmlldy9kZXNrdG9wL2JyZWFkY3J1bWJz). ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wandavision-new-marvel-disney-trailer-drops/921112/14 "2020-09-22T14:23:59Z")
Something that occurred to me: _WandaVision_ seems like it has multiple layers of meaning. On one level, of course, it’s a show about Wanda and the Vision. On another level, it’s a reference to the promotion of emerging broadcast technologies of the 1950s/60s - “Now in glorious WandaVision!”. On yet another level, though, it’s (probably) a reference to the fact that what we’re seeing is Wanda’s vision of an idealized world and an idealized life.