![]() ![]() This week’s episode of WandaVision gives us our first glimpse at what the Blip looked like in real time, as Monica runs through the chaos of a hospital that is suddenly filling up with people who had been missing for five years. As high school student Betty Brant describes the event in Spider-Man: Far From Home, “they called it ‘The Blip.’ Those of us who blipped away came back the same age, but our classmates that didn’t blip grew five years older.” (A convenient workaround for the purposes of a high school movie, I’d say.) After the Avengers and the remaining Guardians of the Galaxy banded together for a “time heist” to retrieve all six Infinity Stones that granted Thanos the power to cause the great Snapture, the heroes were able to reverse Thanos’s snap and its effects on the universe. Five years passed between the fateful snap and the events of Endgame, and things had profoundly changed: Tony Stark and Pepper Potts had a child together, Steve Rogers became the leader of a support group, the Hulk and Bruce Banner learned to coexist, and Thor developed a much, uh, thiccer physique. At random, life-forms from spiders to Spider-Man turned to dust, leaving everyone else to question their existence like they were a character in The Leftovers. In 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, the 19th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the inevitable Thanos wiped out half of all life in the universe with a snap of his fingers. ‘WandaVision’ Hints at an Exciting-and Scary-Future for the MCU We find her returning to the land of the living right in the middle of “The Blip.” Although, “wakes up” doesn’t quite capture it: More accurately, Monica appears in the hospital, as her body comes together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. ![]() Monica Rambeau, formerly known in Westview as Geraldine, wakes up in a hospital weeks before the events of WandaVision take place. What’s Really Happening? All screenshots via Disney+Īs if answering the pleas of every Marvel fan desperate for explanation, the fourth episode of WandaVision wastes little time jumping into the action. Just like WandaVision, we’re going to switch up the format for this week’s recap to focus on how the series tied the first three episodes together and where they fit within the greater scope of the MCU, before reacquainting ourselves with some familiar faces. ![]() This week’s episode skipped the catchy themes and sitcom homages and-finally-opened the mystery box. Each 30-minute program featured a different theme song, wardrobe, and character performances to match the times, and though there were hints at what was really happening outside of Wanda Maximoff’s alternate reality, WandaVision was-as advertised-a true sitcom series. Woo may have been asking this to the people sharing the room with him, but really, he was speaking on behalf of everyone who spent the last two weeks watching WandaVision.īefore this fourth episode, titled “We Interrupt This Program,” each episode of WandaVision had been set in successive decades of classic sitcoms, starting with the black-and-white, I Love Lucy–era 1950s in the premiere before reaching the colorful Brady Bunch–era ’70s in the third episode. agents huddle around a vintage television screen. Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings), and several S.W.O.R.D. ![]() “So you’re saying the universe created a sitcom starring two Avengers?”įBI agent Jimmy Woo (Randall Park) poses this question midway through the fourth episode of WandaVision as he, Dr. ![]()
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