Yes, WandaVision started out a little slow, but I think we can agree that episode three is kicking things off.
According to WandaVision’s creator Jac Schaeffer, Marvel Studios’ President Kevin Feige has “a lot of faith in the fans”. Meaning he has faith we will be patient enough to wait for the payoff WandaVision is going to have. I know I’m certainly patient and already feeling it picking up.
Schaeffer continued:
“[The pacing] was always a question. It was mapped out pretty thoroughly early on. When I first got the job I reached out for advice, and a lot of the people that I spoke to were like, ‘The pilot is so important because you’re finding the voices and you’re finding the story,’ and that just does not apply to us. Because that’s not what that is. Obviously, these characters have existed, so much of the mythology exists, and it was all mapped out like a feature.”
He added:
“To his credit — and it’s one of the reasons that I love working for him — he referred to it as ‘playing chicken with the audience’ (laughs). He really wanted to see how long we could hang onto it, and there was a lot of discussion about how long we could hang onto black-and-white because we knew we would go to color. That was always a piece that’s involved in the larger story.
So it was really wonderful that he allowed us to really sink into the sitcom and to really delay the gratification. When we were putting the show together, we knew sort of what a lot of the really big moments would be, and they’re mapped out. I wanted to start small,” Schaeffer said. “Kevin was 100% in for doling it out slowly. And I think he also has a lot of faith in the fans and the Marvel audience, that they’re so interested in paying attention and they know they’ll be rewarded, so we started out slow.”
It’s for this reason that Feige said WandaVision couldn’t be a movie – rather it works better as a show:
“[Marvel mini-series The Vision] is what led to me to say, ‘Let’s look at putting these two things together,’ and doing what is now our first Disney+ series in a way that it couldn’t just be a movie. It’s not just a long movie on Disney+. We will make shows that are like that, but for what is now our first one, it felt great to do something that could only be done for television.”
What do you think of WandaVision so far?
Source: ComicBook
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