Think it's official that Wanda is the envy of every mother, ever. Imagine getting 9+months worth of misery and discomfort over with before dinner.
Last time on WandaVision, Wanda and
Vision progressed to the 1960s. Their attempt at being a normal couple
participating in a local talent show For the Children by hijinks. Namely, that Vision
swallows some gum and it screwed up his system. Oh, and Wanda noticed a
helicopter with a sword logo, and received a creepy message via a radio asking “Who
is doing this to you?” So yeah, creepy. The episode culminates with the
Maximoffs keeping their secret despite some hiccups, but when they make it home,
they get hit with a double whammy. Whammy one, Wanda is very noticeably pregnant.
We’re talking like 3 months, baby bump pregnant. Whammy two, a random beekeeper
climbs out of the sewers and kind freaks them out. Wanda rewinds time to when
they realized she’s pregnant, and replaces whammy two with the decision to add
color to their black and white world. Neat. Enough recap, let’s get to it.
They seem to be taking the sudden pregnancy really
well, all things considering.
We start with a 70s style opener,
in the vein of the Brady Bunch and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. After the opener,
we’re shown that the Maximoffs have called a doctor to examine Wanda…
condition. They obviously don’t say directly that this pregnancy is quite
possibly the most miraculously since the conception of Jesus H Christ. The
doctor notes that she’s physically four months pregnant, which noticeably freaks
Vision and Wanda out, as that’s off by like 3 months, 29 days and 12 hours. Depending
on what month this is. Viz walks the doctor out to his car, and he politely asks
the doc to keep this under wraps… because Wanda getting pregnant in hours is
kinda a big deal. The doc drives off, and Viz notes his neighbor Herb is
literally trimming his brick wall. Clearly something is wrong.
Herb, buddy, you need to turn 90 degrees.
Back in the house, Wanda is clearly
even more pregnant. The baby book tell them the fetus is papaya sized… huh,
wonder how big they’d be if two were in there… hoho, would that be nuts? They
go into the former office of their house and Wanda magics the crib together,
puts up a mobile and otherwise does the activities an expecting mother does
when she’s nesting. Vision cranks the numbers and calculates that the baby will
be due on Friday, given that they developed about six months in 18 hours. They
playfully argue whether they’re going to dub their son, neither seems to question
the likelihood of this, be Tommy (Wanda’s suggestion) or Billy (Vision’s).
The Maximoffs do more baby
prepping, with Vision practicing changing diapers. His record is about 18
seconds. They have a brief scare when Wanda starts having Braxton Hicks
contractions. Not just because Wanda’s in pain with intense not-labor inducing
contractions (not fun, my sister had them almost constantly for a month before
her oldest was born) but because the pain caused Wanda’s powers to flare and
she caused a blackout. They get things under control and Vision and Wanda take
a breath. Vision notes that they’re always on the verge of being discovered,
and yet never do… he clearly thinks something is wrong, but Wanda causes an
edit and seems to change what Vision says to “truth is we’re in uncarted
waters.” Wanda starts having real contractions, causing Vision to literally fly
up in shock. They have a minor freak out about how early this is, “You said Friday
afternoon!” “Well, I didn’t consider that the timings between developmental benchmarks
could be quite random!” is particularly funny. Wanda and Viz are able to calm down
using her labor breathing exercises. Things are calm for about 3.5 seconds
before her water breaks, and so do their pipes. Whoops.
We get another add break, this one
is for HYDRA Soak, a soap that’s tagline is “Find the Goddess Within.” Huh.
I mean, how does she NOT see it?
The Maximoffs are waiting out the
rain under their kitchen table. It finally stops and Wanda magics everything dry.
The phones are out, so Viz literally has to run to get the doctor. While Wanda
is left alone, huh that feels like a horrible situation for a lady in labor to
be in, she hears some kind of noise in the nursery. She’s distracted from the
noise by the doorbell. Wanda throws on a coat and opens to see Geraldine. She
stopped over for a bucket; her pipes had also burst so she needs to bail herself
out. Wanda tries to help her friend out and to get her out of the house
immediately, looks for a bucket. The contractions seem to be causing her powers
to fluctuate even more, turning her overcoat into several different coats as
she looks. Wanda finds the bucket while hiding her belly, but Geraldine wants
to stick around and gossip a bit. As Geraldine talks, the noise maker from the
nursery walks in, it’s a stork. Huh. Even weirder than the bird associated with
delivery of human infants, is Wanda’s inability to get rid of it. Geraldine
does start hearing a noise, but Wanda plays it off as their newfangled Ice
Machine. Thank God for the sitcom characters infamous lack of peripheral vision.
Geraldine finally gets to the point of her story, that she needs office supplies
for her new job and she makes for the office before Wanda can move her very
pregnant self. She finally notices that Wanda is pregnant and in labor. Better
late than never.
Outside, Viz has grabbed the doctor,
interrupting his attempt to leave on vacation and leaving his wife in the car,
and starts hurrying back to his house.
Wanda’s labor is causing everything
to freak out of control. Their chandelier falls, a painting tarts spinning in circles,
a fire erupts in the fireplace, that sort of insanity. Props to Geraldine for
just rolling with the sheer insanity of the situation. “I maybe late to the party,
but I’m sure there is a logical explanation to this.” Wanda’s contractions get intense
enough that the power shorts out. Geraldine does her best to psyche Wanda up
before her big push. Geraldine gets the baby out, and somehow cleans him off in
about .5 seconds. I know, television. Viz and the doctor arrive a moment later.
Geraldine pulls the doctor into the kitchen so the Maximoffs can meet their
son. Wanda encourages Viz to introduce himself to his son, and, after checking
everyone is gone, Viz turns off his camouflage and meets his son. They dub him
Tommy. They have a nice moment, but it’s kinda ruined by Wanda… she’s going into
labor again. Shoot. Well, at least they get to use both names.
A little while later, after
confirming that the babies are both fine and healthy, Viz shows the Doctor out
while Wanda spends some time with her babies. Viz apologizes for delaying the
doctor’s vacation, but he doesn’t mind, saying that small towns are hard to
escape. Viz notices that’s odd, he turns to go back inside, but sees Herb and
Agnes chatting at the fence. He goes over to them, asking if they also experienced
the outage, but clearly everyone is uncomfortable, so he tries to go back
inside. Agnes calls him back, asking if Geraldine is inside.
Wanda isn't amused...
Geraldine and Wanda are just
watching the babies. Geraldine points out how crazy it is that they’re twins.
Wanda mentions that she’s a twin, and her brother was Pietro. She starts
singing to her sons what I assume is a Sokovian lullaby. Either the mention of
Pietro or the song seems to shake something loose from Geraldine’s head, and
she asks if Pietro was killed by Ultron. Back outside, Herb and Agnes point out
that Geraldine is weird, she’s new in town, no family, no home or anything. Inside,
Geraldine tries to take back what she said, but Wanda clearly isn’t interested
in the lies. She tells Geraldine to leave, but then notices that she’s got a Sword
pendant. Outside Herb can’t tell Viz why Geraldine came to town, Agnes cuts him
off when he almost spills the beans. Wanda asks Geraldine who she is while her
children cry. When Agnes leaves, Herb bails too. Viz goes back inside, asking
where Geraldine is. Wanda tells him that Geraldine is gone, had to rush home.
I've heard of being ejected from a show, but this
is ridiculous.
We’re shown the city limits of Westview.
It’s the dead of night. Geraldine is thrown out of a red barrier and crashes
into a grassy hill. Music starts playing as several trucks and a helicopter
arrive around her. We’re also shown some sort of perimeter around the field Geraldine
was thrown out of. Well, that’s bonkers.
This was a great episode. It’s clear
that Wanda’s world is growing more and more unstable. Sure, being pregnant definitely
didn’t help the situation, but the fact she immaculately conceived at all seems
to suggest things are not totally in her conscious mind’s control. Vision is
clearly noticing more and more things are wrong two, what with everyone giving
him vaguely cryptic hints like Herb being unable to finish his thought about
Geraldine or the doctor’s line about how hard it is to escape a small town. Oh,
and Tommy and Billy are a thing now. As I mentioned last time, those two are
the canonical son’s of Wanda and Vision, having been magically created by Wanda
to give her and her robotic husband the full family experience. I liked how seeing
her twins got Wanda talking about Pietro. I’m not 100% sure, but I think this
is the first time he’s been brought up since he was killed during the finale of
Age of Ultron. The part where Wanda sings her boys a lullaby from Sokovia was a
beautiful if incredibly creepy moment. Geraldine’s reveal as being some kind of
interloper was fairly obvious, what with her making her name up on the spot
last time and the comments about her having no home in town. She’s a fairly
important character, but I’ll get into that next time. Though it should be
fairly obvious that she’s tied into SWORD with her Sword pin and the group of
armed guards coming to check on her. Wanda’s little sitcom is about to take a
hard left turn into crazy town, but more on that later. Have a good night,
everybody.
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