#WandaVision Spoilers
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I’ve seen Dottie described as a red herring and that’s true. Particularly Emma Caulfield being cast as her makes it seems as if she’ll be more crucial than she is, to draw attention away from Agnes. But there’s something I haven’t seen discussed.
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I’ve seen Dottie described as a red herring and that’s true. Particularly Emma Caulfield being cast as her makes it seems as if she’ll be more crucial than she is, to draw attention away from Agnes. But there’s something I haven’t seen discussed.
#WandaVision Spoilers
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Which is that it’s not her only narrative purpose. Another thing she does is confirm that Wanda isn’t yet aware that she’s created this reality. She would have no need to appeal to the ‘queen bee’ in town if she had.
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Which is that it’s not her only narrative purpose. Another thing she does is confirm that Wanda isn’t yet aware that she’s created this reality. She would have no need to appeal to the ‘queen bee’ in town if she had.
#WandaVision Spoilers
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She could’ve just made herself the queen otherwise. What this shows is that the seeds of Wanda’s fantasy falling apart were always there from the start. Her subconscious didn’t create a perfect dream reality for her and Vision.
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She could’ve just made herself the queen otherwise. What this shows is that the seeds of Wanda’s fantasy falling apart were always there from the start. Her subconscious didn’t create a perfect dream reality for her and Vision.
#WandaVision Spoilers
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Instead it made one where, due to the parameters of 1950s/60s paranoia of the Other (communists, gays, etc.), they would have to continually try to pass tests of normalcy to be accepted. Because that’s the dark underbelly of sitcom nostalgia.
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Instead it made one where, due to the parameters of 1950s/60s paranoia of the Other (communists, gays, etc.), they would have to continually try to pass tests of normalcy to be accepted. Because that’s the dark underbelly of sitcom nostalgia.
#WandaVision Spoilers
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And it’s inextricable from it. #Bewitched doesn’t work as a concept if the society it sprang from didn’t force alternative people to hide what made them special. And so the idea is that nostalgia itself can be dangerous.
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And it’s inextricable from it. #Bewitched doesn’t work as a concept if the society it sprang from didn’t force alternative people to hide what made them special. And so the idea is that nostalgia itself can be dangerous.
#WandaVision Spoilers
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We remember the warm safety of the sitcom family homes and ignore how deeply fucked-up the world they inhabit is; how they uphold hetero cis whiteness as ‘normal’ and ‘right’ etc etc.
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We remember the warm safety of the sitcom family homes and ignore how deeply fucked-up the world they inhabit is; how they uphold hetero cis whiteness as ‘normal’ and ‘right’ etc etc.
#WandaVision Spoilers
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Dottie, from the start, stands for the price of living in a sitcom world. Neighbours who will size you up and deem you worthy or not, and whose good side you want to be on, for fear of having your social cachet removed with a single phone call.
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Dottie, from the start, stands for the price of living in a sitcom world. Neighbours who will size you up and deem you worthy or not, and whose good side you want to be on, for fear of having your social cachet removed with a single phone call.
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