I assume enough time has lapsed to talk about WandaVision ep 4? Fun detail I spotted on rewatch. When Wanda yeets Monica out of WestView, she crashes through an interior wall of the house, exterior wall, fence, and finally the force field around the town/TV world...
In other words, when Monica exits the sitcom realm for “reality” she... breaks the fourth wall.
Also, they tweaked what SWORD stands for. In the comics it’s “Sentient World Observation & Response Department.” The show makes it “Sentient Weapon...” and the director drops a line about how they’re increasingly relying on developing their own “sentient weapons”...
... via nanotech & AI, as they walk through a sort of factory floor. It suuuuure sounds like they’re setting up Sentinels for the inevitable introduction of mutants to the MCU.
Amusingly, Monica gets a bit of a concealed fourth wall break at the very start of the episode too, in the hospital. She’s telling a doctor “My mother is Maria Rambeau,” then there’s a cut and she’s saying (diegetically to a desk nurse, but essentially straight to camera)...
“Look it up, Maria Rambeau!” As in: “You, the audience! Maybe you don’t remember this secondary character from Captain Marvel? Look it up on a wiki. It’s the first of a bunch of other MCU links we’re going to make in this episode; you may want your phone handy.”
I’m certain this is intentional, like the four walls (which they make a point of showing you each of again as Wanda reconstructs reality in case you missed them the first time). The rest of the conversation is shot-reverse with the doctor...
...which they break away from for the straight-ahead shot over the desk nurse’s shoulder JUST for the single line “Maria Rambeau, look it up.” That’s a bunch of extra work to set up a shot for one line she could’ve yelled over her shoulder.
That first scene is also a great bit of foreshadowing for the (increasingly obvious) parallels they set up between the MCU and Real World “audiences” for WandaVision over the rest of the ep. She’s just experienced a time jump, she’s disoriented, and WANTS SOME EXPOSITION DAMNIT.
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