Spoilers Ahead!
WandaVision episode 8 is totally not what the fan had expected. The episode trope features an emotional, heartbreaking sequence with some recaps as a mainstay in the Marvel series. We have Agatha Harkness in not exactly, but the accurate comic outfit. Episode 8 circles around Wanda given a quick walk to all the events in her life.
The series started as an archetype of sitcom-like the 1987s “Married with Children,” but the dark always lurked underneath up above the smile and humor. Since Episode 7 ended with Agnes’s reveal, this week’s episode brought more details to MCU fans with Agatha’s more elaborated role. Let’s get down to the events that happened in Westview.
Episode 8 begins with Purple Marvel Logo, and that’s no wonder it depicts Agatha’s purple controlling powers. Agatha’s origin much surrounds the episode. As the episode begins, Agatha Harkness is seen to be trialed by her own in 1693 Salem, Massachusetts, because she went against the rules and meddled with dark magic.
The book (Whether Darkhold or not) seems to contain the power. As we move ahead, we see Wanda is trapped in Agatha’s basement, trying to uncover the source of Wanda’s power. And takes Wanda back into her memories from place to place.
How Agatha may have Come to Life?
The flashback begins with Wanda visiting her childhood, watching a sitcom with brother Pietro and parents. That moment when the bomb strikes, it ends killing the adults, but Wanda and Pietro survive. This is something we already knew when we first met the enhanced in Age of Ultron. Agatha’s version of the recap shows Wanda, who stopped the bomb from going off.
That might got Agnes curious to know more. In comics, Wanda’s mother Natalya is also the Scarlet Witch who, to restore the balance, sacrifices herself but gives Agatha life. Agatha joins Wanda and the spirit of her biological mother, Natalya, against the physical manifestation of chaos that destroys witchcraft.
How Wanda Created Westview
The episode is crammed with grief and loss, and the character totally seems foiled, broken, and confused. This allows Agatha to control Wanda and show things not as they are. As we further, Wanda is in HYDRA’s experimentation lab where she controls monitors from recording when she sees mind stone and got crumbled. That might be because Wanda discovered something that she didn’t want anybody else to know. While we move ahead, we see Wanda never stole Vision’s corpse, and the footage was altered by “lying Hayward” to manipulate everyone except a few. After a moment, we see Wanda building Westview for the first time, which is clearly built by her continuous grief and loss.
When Wanda comes to Westview, the devastated and grieved look made her expand the horizon by her previously latent power that might have also triggered Agatha that there is someone more powerful. Wanda made the hex to deal with her grief. Wanda didn’t steal Vision, so how did Wanda create Vision? Or is it really Wanda who created Vision?
As the episode ends, we see Agatha holding Billy and Tommy and telling Wanda, based on some archaic lore, that she doesn’t know how dangerous she is. And that’s where we get the official title of Wanda. Like every other episode, this one also ensues suspense with Hayward’s created Synthzoid white Vision coming to life. We might see the standoff of grieving yet loving Wanda with her Husband.
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