BTW, yes I did. It responded to someone saying that the show may not work for some and may for others with that only a KoolAde fan would like it comment. Very subtle.
I thought it was fairly amusing and well done in and of itself.
It’s something different, and even if the sit-com bits are just that, with just a couple of hints of something more going on, the sit-com bits themselves are enjoyable. I personally thought the whole magic show thing to be quite hilarious.
It’s not that it is difficult for people to understand, it’s just that they have a different opinion. Not everything has to be something that furthers a plot, some things can just be.
I personally didn’t think I would care much for this show, never really cared for either of the characters all that much. I actually care a bit less about what the overarching plot is than what sorts of stuff they will get themselves into next.
If you have a different opinion, great. There are many shows out there that I don’t like that you may like, and vice versa. It would be a terrible world if we all agreed on what is good and what is bad entertainment.
I think what it really reminds us is that 50s, and to a lesser extent 60s, sitcoms simply sucked in comparison to what we’re used to - and our memories of some of these are more rose colored than reality.
I want to see WandaVision in a Seinfeld or Friends - or Frasier- even Cheers.
‘Vision!’
Just a note - the first episode was modeled after an early 60s sitcom. And some of them are great and still hold up, 50+ years later. (I laughed my ass off the other day at this scene in a DVD rerun. There’s a longer lead up, but even on its own, this is still funny - to me, at least. And yes, I do like modern sitcoms, too.)
I think I’m still at the point to be patient - in terms of a movie, we’re at 20 minutes in to a 90 minute movie/less than the first hour into a three hour one. At this point, I feel like we’re in a good place as far as that - we’re table setting. We’ve seen hints of the problem (though it isn’t fully shaped); we know some of the protagonists - but not all; and we’re very slowly ratcheting tension because we being shown that at least one of the protagonists doesn’t want to deal with the problem and is trying to push it aside less, and less successfully.
(also, that’s mirrored in the two sitcom episodes - in both, Wanda could have solved the problems more quickly, but she tried to hide them, cover them up, work her way around/through them, and eventually, it got too big and she had to “fix” the problems directly.)
Eventually, in the larger arc, the crisis will get too big - she’ll try to avoid/work around the issue, that will fail, and we’re going to need Wanda to go full out on her powers to fix it.
If we get to episode 6 or 7, and we’re not further along, I’ll start grousing more (there comes a point where you can’t wrap the story up successfully in the 30 minutes of runtime you have left - there are plenty of other tvshows where I’ve logged plotting and pacing complaints on the board). But to me, at this point, there’s plenty of time to get where we’re going.
So which one is it? I’m seriously calling all you lot idiots, or I’m being sarcastic in response to the same behavior on your side? At least maybe I was effective in illustrating how effective at pissing people off using that kind of shit is…
Modnote: Closing this thread. Somehow it stopped being about the show and turned into a pretty thorough trainwreck.