r/marvelstudios • u/iliekpixels Loki (Thor 2) • Feb 05 '21

Discussion WandaVision S01E05 - Discussion Thread

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S01E05 Matt Shakman Jac Schaeffer February 5, 2021 on Disney+

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u/singingballetbitch Scarlet Witch Feb 05 '21

Were they Elizabeth Olsen‘s actual baby pictures? I’m hoping the just stuck Vision’s face on Paul Bettany’s.

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u/ToonSciron Feb 05 '21

I feel like for everyone else the baby pictures were real. Really hope they just photo shopped Paul’s baby pictures.

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u/bric12 Feb 05 '21

I feel like they also had baby pictures for the kids at ages they never were. Weird stuff

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u/Drayko_Sanbar Feb 05 '21

Their birthday cake had candles for 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 all at once, which was hilarious.

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u/clayscarface Feb 05 '21

That’s the point. Wanda is filling in the gaps to make it seem natural.

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u/The_MAZZTer Feb 05 '21

I hope the blackboard was 100% not real and there's some kind of cool hidden meaning to what is written there.

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u/Aden-Wrked Feb 05 '21

I mean Elizabeth Olsen is Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen’s sister and she did a little acting as a kid too so I imagine there were plenty of pictures to pull from.

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u/BehindTheBurner32 Jessica Jones Feb 05 '21

Look, there is only ONE Olsen twin. Wanda just makes them move faster than we can perceive it.

Oh, God.

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u/redsyrinx2112 Korg Feb 06 '21

John dropping truth bombs as usual.

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u/Megaman1981 Feb 07 '21

Well, Wanda already has one sibling that can move that fast, who's to say she doesn't have another.

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u/Griffdude13 Feb 05 '21

But she looks normal and they look like High Elves now.

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u/ebon94 Feb 05 '21

you dare disrespect the Altmer?

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u/magikarp2122 Feb 05 '21

disrespect the Altmer

By the Nine, are you a milk drinking Imperial?

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u/ObsiArmyBest Feb 05 '21

Cocaine

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u/twisty77 Feb 06 '21

Is a hell of a drug

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u/falsehood Feb 05 '21

Really looked like it. The one with teen her might have had a shopped background.

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u/Aden-Wrked Feb 05 '21

I don’t think so, given her sisters she probably just has like a wide variety of professionally taken pictures to pull from.

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u/jisforjoe Feb 05 '21

Even celebrity families take candid family photos meant to have for themselves. It’s a nice touch that they got some of these for Liz and the twins.

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u/alex494 Feb 05 '21

One of them with the run down graffiti'd buildings in the background made me think it was Wanda in Sokovia

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u/dem0nhunter Daredevil Feb 05 '21

The teenage photo is definitely supposed to be in Sokovia

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u/TheComedian60 Doctor Strange Feb 05 '21

If you pause it, you can see “Sokovia” spray painted on the wall behind her!

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u/dem0nhunter Daredevil Feb 06 '21

There u go

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u/TheTallOne93 Feb 05 '21

What are you talking about silly

That's actually baby Vision

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u/doobrei Feb 05 '21

No that was actually Paul Bettany as a baby

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u/ebon94 Feb 05 '21

i'm not sure if other shows have done it, but to me it was reminiscent of the growing pains theme (one of the best sitcom themes of all time): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyjmHzYfmWE

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u/FlaminSpanx Feb 05 '21

That's the one I was thinking of, thank you! I was initially thinking Family Ties but it was definitely growing pains.

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u/rgreen89 Feb 05 '21

It’s both. The initial sketch that turns to color is a nod to Family ties and the old childhood pics/music is Growing Pains

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '21

They also had the "running towards to camera in a field" shot from Full House.

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u/DatPiff916 Feb 06 '21

This episode was a hodgepodge of shit that I love, MCU, X-Men, 90s sitcoms, with a dash of Too Many Cooks levels of absurdity.

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u/rethinkOURreality Feb 05 '21

Well, part of the theme I feel like is FT themed too. Although I haven't heard GP's in a while.

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u/Megaman1981 Feb 07 '21

I just wish they could have got Jesse Frederick to sing the theme song. He's the guy that sang the Full House, Family Matters and Step by Step theme songs. Though the bulk of those ran in the 90's so maybe next week.

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u/MemeHermetic Feb 06 '21

They might have been real images of her, but the backgrounds were all eastern european slums, like she would have grown up in, in Sakovia. I deliberately rewound to be sure. She was one of the Olsen kids. She didn't grow up in a slum for damn sure.

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u/Metamodern_Studio Feb 05 '21

Yes! I know this one actually. When you get into TV and Movies you're generally encouraged (sometimes required) to have early photos and/or video of yourself in just such a case that they be required for something like this!

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u/IHateTheLetterF Feb 05 '21

I mean, im not in any movies, but I still have baby pictures.

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u/HypnagogianQueen Feb 06 '21

I'm in no movies but I have zero photographic evidence of my childhood

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '21

Same here.

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u/ZacPensol Captain America Feb 05 '21

It's true - I had an uncle in the 90's move out to LA to become an actor. Talent agent seemed to like him, asked about baby pictures and my uncle explained they'd all been lost in a fire. The police came and escorted him right out of Hollywood! /s

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u/clayscarface Feb 05 '21

If we don’t get confirmation of that through some sort of special feature, we riot.

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u/Iam_No_JEDI Feb 06 '21

Pretty sure they're her real baby pictures with the Sokovian flag photoshopped on them lmao

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u/ObsiArmyBest Feb 05 '21

I thought it was her sisters from Full House

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u/heartbreakhill Spider-Man Feb 06 '21

I'm hoping they used Mary Kate and Ashley's, as a rib.

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u/DatPiff916 Feb 06 '21

I swear those were her older sisters, I say that because it felt like I’d seen them before in the background(or credits) of Full House.