There should be a 3rd option of "I don't mind either way". I'm not disappointed but wouldn't say I'm satisfied either. I wouldn't have minded him being someone else than a random person, but it isn't a huge thing.
Eh, lately I've been trying to avoid a third option of that sort of sentiment since it's kind of a copout answer. If you didn't care then you might as well have been satisfied with what you got.
Definitely pleased. While I generally don't mind easter eggs and cameo teasers, the Evan Peters theorization was definitely a case of fanon metastasizing.
...I'd argue that the studio was counting on fans theorizing by casting an actor who portrayed the character in a different cinematic universe. I'll leave Chris Stuckmann's review here and timestamped too explaining why it made sense to believe that they were going for the multiverse by casting him:
I never expected a merger of the Fox universe. While I figured he had some greater significance, being "Ralph" turned out to be that significance.
I thought he was the only actor who could have added an extra layer of mystery, not been Aaron Taylor Johnson (who would have suggested the possibility of resurrection of the character), and could persuade the audience that he could in fact be Pietro. Any other recast would have been unsuccessful if lampshaded. So I'm fine with it. It wasn't the strongest decision, but I think it was fine and worked well in the Halloween episode.
The thing I don't get about this that there is a difference between the studio misleading the viewers vs. Agath misleading Wanda. When Bohner arrived at her door, she was only confused as to why her supposed brother has a different likeness, and Darcy echos that. We the audience on the other hand, are confused (at the time on episode 5's cliffhanger) as to why the same character from a different cinematic universe is in the MCU. With the previous fakeout in FFH and the upcoming MOM, and the character wearing the same jacket as he did in his Deadpool 2 cameo set this all up for a lot of fans to believe that the multiverse is really what the studio was teasing.
If the studio's only intention was to convey that the audience knows as much as the protagonist and mislead narratively as well as canonically, then they shouldn't/wouldn't have cast an actor who played the character he has been playing in a different franchise. We know about the Fox film universe, Wanda doesn't. If the studio just wanted us to wonder why Quicksilver looks different (and not think too deeply about the difference in actor choices), then they would have cast someone who has not yet been in any Marvel movie to be Bohner.
And this is my issue with the Evan Peters troll. There is a bigger narrative that needs to be told about mutants and cross-overs, so we don't really have time to play silly games. I never for a second thought that the MCU would incorporate the dysfunctional timelines and poor character development from the Foxverse, but I did think they might have used some of the same actors who so many people identified the characters with. And Evan Peters was the actor who we identified with the most.
Wanda is definitely not a mutant though
This is another thing that I feel like is being blown a little out of proportion. A lot of people find the X-Men movies to be unfavorable - I feel that way about almost all of them as well, however - if Marvel Studios really wanted to have Evan Peters play the character he has been playing for several movies so far and cross cinematic universe, I don't think that would also obligate the studio to fully involve all of the events in from that franchise in the MCU. They could have done what I and many others may have been hoping, and just used Evan's Peter Maximoff to quietly introduce the concept of the multiverse, delineating that he is indeed from a different Earth and needs to get back to where he belongs, that's it. Then at least one major MCU character just becomes aware that not only are there universes that are branched timelines of their own universe but also universes that are their own timelines completely independent from the events of their own history, to make for an ever expanding multiverse. Putting Evan Peters there as the real X-Men Quicksilver doesn't at all mean they have to use everything from the Fox films.
By the way, I agree with you about The Incredible Hulk. I think it is a pretty good movie and an underrated part of the MCU. It's a shame we never got another Hulk movie after that. Like, what is the deal with Universal? Literally
As for the whole Mandarin fakeout, one of the WandaVision directors said he got a random text complaining to him about Iron Man 3 and how the whole Bohner thing is such a horrible example of repeating that mistake, and he responded by saying that the fakeout was his favorite part of that movie. He also said that for those disappointed that there was no multiverse involvement in WandaVision, that it is coming soon. I don't know if he meant that there is more to come with Evan Peters' character and that he will be revealed to be Quicksilver after all, or if he just means there will be real multiverse stuff in the MCU eventually with the other movies/shows. I timestamped his interview here:
After Agatha made the comment about Pietro's body being "on another continent, and full of holes", it got me thinking...what DID happen to Pietro's body after Sokovia? I figured they took him back and buried him in America, but it sounds like he was laid to rest in Sokovia? I didn't think that would happen because the area was probably a mess after Ultron, but I guess not.
Speaking of Agatha, I kinda wanna believe that Bohner is the missing person in Jimmy's WPP. Following up to what I was saying to
@NeverReadComics , maybe we haven't seen the last of Evan Peters in the MCU. Are we absolutely sure that the necklace she made him wear is what gave him superspeed? Also, when Wanda created the Hex, all of the corporeal existence was warped by her, so couldn't it be that the water bill and the actor headshot was also something warped by the Hex?
Its not like it would have been especially hard for Wanda to get someone to take her back to the remnants of Sokovia to hold a small funeral.
Not only this but a funeral like that would be a significant part of Wanda's life so there should be a scene filmed for it if it actually happened, not just talked about
Honestly I really liked it. It made us the viewers experience something we normally would not have.
In that episode Wanda is dealing with grief by bargaining. She wants her perfect sitcom life including Pietro back so badly that she's willing to accept the idea that he is, even though she and the rest of the world knows it's not him. It parallels nicely with our own take on it. We wanted him to be something so badly that even though we knew it wasn't her Pietro, and the show even told us it wasn't her Pietro, we as the audience even overlooked it and tried to force until we ultimately had to accept that he wasn't.
It also caused us to question that reality. The same way that everyone in or dealing with the hex was questioning reality.
This wasn't about trolling. It was about creating a different level of engagement.
Not really. As I was explaining to
@Mike Murdock , our take (or at least mine) is that we are being presented by MCU's peace on earth getting disrupted by the multiverse of madness, and Evan Peters as Quicksilver showing up to her doorstep is evidence of that. That's what
I was thinking, but the only thing Wanda/Darcy was thinking was "why does Pietro look different?" That's. It. The concept of multiverse was never brought up or even thought of by anyone, in or out of the Hex.
Marvel Studios was definitely aware of this and they wanted this to happen. They baited the FoX-men fanbase into believing they were bringing a multiverse element into WandaVision. "Trolling" is a colloquial term we all use on the internet and know what it means, I dunno if there is a more eloquent word to describe what they were doing, but that is what they were doing.
This. Dicksilver was a lame as hell troll job to me. They could've just cast a different actor and accomplished the same thing narratively. No need to insult fans of that character/universe like that.
Lol, Dicksilver. That's a good one. But yes, I agree. If all they wanted to do was put Wanda through a dilemma of confusion, they would have cast someone new.
