WandaVision Wednesday #19: Saving the Messenger
Happy Belated Birthday to me! And many happy returns to my Ticketholders out there, because I'm reverting to the WandaVision Wednesday for this special, one-time-only dose of ALGORITHM-CHASING, QUASI-BASELESS MARVEL SPECULATION!!!
So, why WandaVision Wednesday and not Streaming Saturday? Well, it's because this post has to do with my new WandaVision theory...and because I didn't want to wait until Saturday to share it with you.
As we prepare to fill time until Loki releases (which will not be until June for unnecessarily recurring global health reasons, again), remember to leave a like and comment down below, and for those of you who haven't seen WandaVision yet (which, considering the current pace of social media, is like if I had to say the following when reviewing an old M. Night Shyamalan movie), a SPOILER Warning! is now in effect.
I am not anywhere near nerd enough to have posited the "Magic-colored Flowers" theory on my own, but I, too, was disappointed by Marvel's failure to "go there." And so, when it was over and I had said my piece, I let WandaVision rest on its ambition and relative success, and moved on to other (though ultimately not bigger or better) things, like Falcon & the Winter Soldier, and school. Schooling is important, kids; remember that!
But yesterday (is it hard for anyone else to write the present in the past tense with the knowledge you will be releasing said writing in the future?), TVSins released their season/series compilation on WandaVision, and when I re-watched it (they previously released their "Everything Wrong With..." videos on the series on a weekly, episodic basis), something clicked. Today, I intend to (maybe) blow your minds, and (definitely) live up to the title of this post by positing a theory that will save the messenger.
That theory can be summed up in one nonsense word: GeralDot.
Now, I'm not shipping Dottie Jones and Geraldine/Monica Rambeau as a couple (especially since she has a husband named Phil), but I am suggesting that the two had been living together at least between the events of the second and third episodes.
How did I come to this conclusion? Well, it begins with the second episode, in which Dottie and "Geraldine" are both introduced to the series. We learn who "Geraldine" really is in episode four, but there's no indication prior to that (or after) where she lives in Westview. Of course, there are all of the clues that point to Dottie being a third witch: she, Agnes, and Wanda are the only ones to not get facial recognition profiles in the fourth episode; the whole "flowers and magic are the same color" thing, Dottie being a controlling presence in the town, the "for the children" mystery that never got addressed again (unless you count the end credits scene from the finale, where Billy and Tommy contact Wanda from the beyond--by the way, in the comics, Arcanna has four children: daughters named Katrina and Drusilla, and sons named Andrew and...Benjamin Thomas. Am I stretching? Maybe. But Marvel wouldn't have chosen to bait us with Arcanna if they didn't think someone would make the leap in logic).
But that's enough about Dottie Jones. I need to better explain how I arrived at "Geraldine"/Monica living in her house. For that, let's jump ahead to the series finale, where we see that Monica's energy is yellow. If the color theory still holds water, we can assume from this that not only is Dottie Jones Arcanna, and not only has "Geraldine" been living in her house, but that Arcanna taught "Geraldine" magic. Yes, it's just as likely that the series' explanation of Hex radiation mutating Monica into a superheroine is the true one. But in the majority of cases, the effects of Wanda's magic have reversed themselves by the end, and when Wanda withdraws the Hex, Monica still has her powers. Now, you might be asking, "but what about Monica's costume? It didn't turn back into a spacesuit when Wanda left." Well, who said that Wanda's barrier even caused it to change in the first place? The entire mechanism of the series has been based on magic being tied to the subconscious, so it's just as likely that Monica, through her own instinct and expectation of how the Hex is supposed to work, used the magic that she learned from Arcanna to change it herself.
Speaking of which, what exactly can Arcanna's magic do, and what could she have possibly taught "Geraldine"/Monica in the space of twoish episodes (let alone the time between Wanda's breakdown and the third episode, because time is clearly inconsistent "on set" when pondered from beyond the fourth wall(s))? According to the Marvel Fandom wiki, Arcanna's powers include control over the four elements (including using wind for levitation and flight), firing bolts of magical energy (which Monica Rambeau can arguably do, according to my theory), and the real kicker: altering light to create illusions. And if you've read my past coverage of WandaVision or already knew this from the comics, Monica Rambeau has gone by such aliases as Photon, Pulsar, Lady of Light, and (in accordance with her costume from the series) Spectrum.
So what do you think? Is my theory about Monica being trained in light and wind magic as plausible as I made it out to be? Or is it all another speculation illusion? Like and let me know in the comments below, because right or wrong, it's all cause for conversation.
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