And I don't know these characters at all.

What I meant to say was, I was happy with this show when it was a weird experimental oddity. The jokes didn't (and don't) hit, so the sitcom aspects are cool TV nerd shit but also a way to help pad out a narrative that doesn't demand, IMO, the four hours we're giving it. All the great ideas wind up in the last five minutes of each episode.

BUT, I liked when it was doing bad early sitcom stuff, because it was weird for this franchise. So do I want more of the connective tissue stuff or more of the standalone, freewheeling, probably more true to the nature of comic book story arcs stuff that comes before that?

Elizabeth Olsen, Kathryn Hahn and Paul Bettany are all killing it, so am I really upset at this much of them? No.

BUT, something I liked a lot about the MCU is that the stakes always felt big and the chains were always moving, even in the standalone movies. WandaVision feels like it's spinning its wheels to make a TV show - I'm fully ready to admit I'm still just riding the high of phase 3 too.

I just found it funny that what I said might be wrong or unthoughtful. I think it's great to see an IP not worship itself. WandaVision still feels a little undercooked to me - doesn't mean I don't enjoy it or dislike talking about it for hours over IPAs.

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