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For an alternate take, I think one would be more lost with WandaVision if they weren't familiar with TV sitcom tropes from the 50-60-70-80s as opposed

Posted by JD (aka Jason Dean) Nov 7 '24, 07:44

to having to have an encyclopedic knowledge of the MCU.

Granted I can't erase from my memories that I saw the MCU movies before I saw WandaVision but I think there's more than enough enjoyment in watching the episodes set as various era TV episodes.

Along the way, you'll learn about the characters specifically in the context of show. Again, I didn't watch from a never MCU basis so I don't know how much my memories were filling in but my take was that I was seeing the characters in a way that was never in the movies so those arcs should make sense without any background.

By the time that the show moves on from the strict framing device of the TV episodes, I think that there would be enough to care about the characters. Sure there'd be something missing on an easter egg basis but 🤷‍♂️ Sometimes I think some MCU fans spend so much time trying to look at the edges that they miss the actual story going on center screen.

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I watched like two minutes of wanda vision. someone told me it wouldn't make sense to me if I hadn't seen all of the avengers movies

amandachem (aka amanda) Nov 7 '24, 06:07

which I certainly have not. I haven't seen any "avengers" movies since the first one, I only watched iron man 1 and 2, I have seen all of the spidermans, I watched the eternals (long story), and I saw half of the second captain america and half of a movie with jeff goldblum? in it where there was a plane? I saw shang chi and black panther. oh! I also saw ant man. that was funny. anyway, I've seen all of these things once each. I haven't studied them. do I remember them? no. I don't like how smarmy my boy RDJ is as iron man, so I walked.

In response to Epiphany: "have you watched it though avoided it to begin with?"

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I have only seen a few MCU films and I loved WandaVision. I knew I wasn't getting everything, but it was still enjoyable. Some of the big reveals were - jnine Nov 7, 08:11
Yeah, it's much more about the TV pastiche. - Reagen Nov 7, 07:54

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