Honestly do we need another episode of the sitcom stuff? I'm not even paying attention to the non Marvel stuff anymore.
shareI hear people talking about a tribute to old sitcoms but personally I can't be bothered.
shareWhatever, WandaVision Episode 3 really kicked things up a few notches!
sharewill every episode be a shallow wink-wink "tribute" to sitcoms? I could only finish it while I was fiddling on my phone.
sharePut it in context, they're trapped in some version of reality. it's not so much a wink, but a trope. Why, how, when will they fully realise, without being rewinded...
who knows, it just might be complete crap... but it's still got things going for it, that someone who has never seen the characters before, can watch.
If you watched Life on Mars (UK or US, but UK preferably) then you get it...
But if you're just fiddling with your phone, you are going to miss the things that make it worth while.. so onwards young flappy bird.
I’m surprised people watched this show, not realizing it would be parodying sitcoms. I get it that wouldn't interest everyone but this thing was promoted very honestly from the start.
shareI knew what to expect from the trailers so no suprise there. Just didnt expect it to be stretched as much as it has been.
shareThe trailers were almost entirely sitcom stuff with a few glimpses if the outside world, almost all of which have been seen in the first three episodes. I figured it would be more or less like this until they started doing the big reveals.
shareNothing so far (eps. 1-3) has been pointless exactly... but it does feel quite stretched out. Put the other way around, these 1.5 hours feel like they could be naturally compressed into a sharply-edited 15 minute, movie Act 1/premise (the first 15-20 minutes of The Truman Show?). None of the sit-com hijinks so far have been quite satisfying- or fun-enough to be worth whole episodes while we wait for Act 2/the real plot to kick in.
There'll doubtless be a fan 'movie-edit' of the series in due course to cater for snappier tastes!
Sometimes things don't need to be edited down and can just be enjoyed over a period of time. The payoff here might be crap, likely is given that it's marvel, but on the off chance they have something good planned I like that we are taking our time getting there. And the trip down sitcom memory lane is kind of enjoyable in its own right. There's a meta atmosphere being created here where the lack of awareness by the characters of their time skips makes it very creepy. The way they (mostly) blindly accept the illogical and absurd tells us a lot about how sunken they are into this. It makes the few moments of lucidity more powerful. And we would lose a lot of that if they chopped it down into an attention deficit 30 minutes of time skips. A bit like the issue playing out on The Stand series where they jumped right ahead to the conflict and lost a lot of the charm of the book and original series where we saw things unfold in a bigger, broader paced way.
share@unsanesarah. You might be right about this. I hope you are. After all, there's a whole *type* of film-making ("slow cinema") that depends upon viewers showing a little patience, allowing details to accumulate, etc., upon us being able to turn off our plotty side at least for a while... Is a Marvel product asking for too much if it asks for the same viewer patience that Bela Tarr or Nuri Bilge Ceylan, or Hirokazu Kore-eda or Ozu or Tarkovsky (or even Linklater or Tarantino in some of their more digressive moods) expect and reward?
Nobody wants a snappier, edited down 'Once Upon a Time In Anatolia', that's for sure!
So I saw episode 3 and I’m not sure why you thought it was pointless. It turned the entire plot upside down.
shareWhen I started episode one, reluctantly, I was not amused. I skipped forward and saw it the same the whole way... but I read some reviews on the Ytube and decided to give it a proper go.
Glad I did, there is something to it that I dig.
It's not just a nod to old sitcoms, but an evolution really, they started with a lucy-esque style, then a bewitched, now it's the brady bunch, and at the end of ep3, the screen went wide. What they are doing, will only be known at the end.
But so far, the silly dialogue, and appeasing gestures are tolerable, as long as they keep giving it a push - which the end of ep3 certainly did.
So, yeah, I agree with ya, but I'm still going to watch it to it's conclusion.... and I just know you are too, hehe, even if disgruntled all the way ;)
It's not just a nod to old sitcoms, but an evolution really, they started with a lucy-esque style, then a bewitched, now it's the brady bunch, and at the end of ep3, the screen went wide. What they are doing, will only be known at the end.