This will be the first week in nine weeks that we won’t have a new episode of WandaVision. Disney+’s first Marvel show wrapped last week. And it was intense! If you still have questions surrounding that emotionally packed finale, the director of the show Jac Schaeffer sat down with Deadline to answer some burning questions.
SPOILERS
First, let’s start with that ending. Spoiler alert here. The ending of WandaVision saw Wanda accepting that she needed to say goodbye to the world she created. Which, meant saying goodbye to the Vision she had created, as well as her children. Schaeffer was asked if there was an alternative ending in mind:
“Not really. This is essentially what we envisioned from the very beginning. This was always going to be a story about grief, and we took that seriously, and it’s a little bit reductive, but we used the stages of grief to map out the arc of the season, and we knew that we wanted to take it to a place of acceptance.
It is acceptance in two ways, it’s ultimately Wanda’s acceptance of the mantle of the Scarlet Witch, and then secondly and perhaps more importantly it is acceptance of her grief and of the fact that she has to let Vision and the boys go. So, you know, things changed along the way and there were discoveries and enhancements and all the sort of ins and outs of the finale specifically was kind of ever-shifting, but the actual goodbye scene was written fairly early on and we were all united behind it.”
If you’re watched WandaVision and commentators talking about WandaVision, you’ve probably seen a lot of speculation as to who the big bad was. Many people guessed that it was a character named Mephisto pulling the strings. When asked why Mephisto didn’t appear in the show, Schaeffer responded:
“We didn’t think this series needed a big bad. I mean, the big bad is grief, you know, and that’s the story that we were telling, and then we got a bonus baddie in the form of Agatha Harkness who ended up facilitating Wanda’s therapy, so yeah, I think we feel pretty good about that.”
Schaeffer was also asked why Doctor Strange didn’t make an appearance in the show:
“I heart Doctor Strange just like anybody. Yeah, it’s one of those things, that’s how the chips fell, that’s how the cookie crumbled, is what I will say, but I look forward to seeing him on screen with Wanda in Doctor Strange 2.”
For the entire interview, which touched upon the filming of the show, Evan Peters as Quicksilver/Ralph, and the importance of an emotionally charged Marvel show, click here.
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