Matt Shakman, Director of 'WandaVision' shares a deleted scene that would have changed the last episode of the series quite a bit.
Matt Shakman, Director of WandaVision ( Scarlet Witch and Vision ) revealed details of one of the deleted scenes of the series. Had it aired, the last episode would have been quite different from what we get to see. Especially in relation to Billy and Tommy Maximoff.
During the last episode of WandaVision, we see the consequences of what Agatha Harkness has been doing throughout the season. Not only revealing her true identity but also looking for ways to push Wanda to show the full potential of her powers, provoking her in different ways.
Once the fighting is over, and Wanda truly understands the damage she has done to the residents of Westview, she returns home to spend one last time with her family. Says goodbye to his children, Vision and chooses to return to the real world.
After returning to the center of town, and receiving the stares of all those people she has judged, she talks to Monica Rambeau, who accepts that, had she had the same powers, she would have acted exactly the same to meet her mother once more. . Later, Wanda takes flight and disappears.
But the final episode would have been quite different if it had included a scene that they finally decided to discard. Shakman, during an interview on director Kevin Smith's Fatman Beyond podcast, explains what it would have been like:
We planned a scene for Mr. Sratchy, which we finally didn't get to do because there were so many moving parts during the last episode. We wrote a scene where Darcy, Monica and Ralph meet the children at Agatha's house. They decide to steal the Darkhold and the basement.
They go down to get it, and when they are about to have it in their hands, the rabbit appears right in front of the book and everyone reacts «Oh! He's Mr. Scratcy! He's the best. ”They try to caress him before they can, he turns into a demon.
The scene was actually recorded, but the special effects were never added. The director explains why they finally decided not to include the scene in the final episode of WandaVision :
“It was a great sequence, it was super fun, everyone acted perfectly. But we decided to discard it because it was a major detour that was really important throughout the episode"
The complicated ending of 'WandaVision'
The end of WandaVision has generated quite a few divisions. Half consider that it has been a disappointment and the other half consider it a great genius that opens the fourth phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the best possible way.
The director himself had already warned, prior to the broadcast of the last episode of the series, that disappointments would come. He was right and perhaps they had already calculated what would happen to a good sector. But you have to understand that WandaVision is part of an immense universe that now lives in series and movies. Therefore it is necessary and inevitable to leave doors open to continue with story arcs that sometimes last for years.
While, with the movies, it seems that we have no problem leaving the theater with an open ending, knowing that we will see the resolution later, it seems that with the series there is a kind of fatigue. A season finished without many resolutions, after several episodes, generates a certain level of frustration. We will see how Marvel and Kevin Feige adjust expectations and narratives in future productions.
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