The only real fix it needs is to make it more clear that the darkhold had corrupted Wanda in her search for her kids, and was influencing her. That seems to be the most missed aspect

My biggest issue with this movie wasn't that Wanda was the main villain, but that it was OUR Wanda that was the main villain. It should have been a variant of her who had given in fully to the Darkhold. Thus serving as a cautionary tale for our Wanda, to inspire her to continue on her healing path that she began at the end of WandaVision.

The way they treated America was the same like how they treated Riri in Black Panther, and that celestial in Eternals - has huge potential effect in the MCU as a whole, but was just used as a plot device then dropped and never mentioned again. Bummer

all the work that was done on wanda to build her up and this film just makes her a straight up villain. she somehow magically unlearns all that she learned from wandavision... but if teenagers think its sick that she being all evil and shit, then sure whatever raimi and feige, you know best right?

I understand the criticism of Wanda having her growth undone... But the truth is people often fall back into old patterns, old flaws, repeat old mistakes . That's a very real thing

The people making Doctor Strange 2 had NO CLUE and just didn't care at all about the purpose of WandaVision.

The biggest problem with all these good characters turned evil is that they DON'T lay the groundwork properly. Wanda's turn to villiany was like Daenerys turn to madness. Rushed and nonsensical. Compare them to Willow Rosenberg (BTVS) during her Dark Willow reign of terror. The audience had six years to identify with Willow, her strengths and more importantly, her FLAWS. One of them being her overconfidence and her over indulgence in her magic. Willow wasn't stupid or foolish, but rather cocky and ego driven. They hinted at this through multiple seasons so it wasn't surprising when she snapped after 1. Been through months of magical rehab. 2. Had the love of her life (Tara) be killed in front of her. 3. Her inability to properly let go of her anger after Warren was killed. Simply put, Willow's fall from grace was perfectly planned. Wanda's and Daenery's was half done and poorly execeuted. Setup is important people. Otherwise the story flops.

Wanda Vision was a good enough wrap up. I would have liked Wanda to instead go off with America Chavez through the multiverse to find her parents and a reality Wanda can be with her sons that need and will love her.

Anson Mount is not only the actor who portrayed Blackbolt in both Inhumans and Multiverse of Madness, but he DID, in fact, play Christopher Pike in Discovery Season 2, a few of episodes of Short Treks, and is currently playing him in Strange New Worlds.

Raimi and Waldron were right thinking that Wanda as a villain would be box office gold. However storywise, it is problematic. Also it would have been even bigger box-o9ffice having her go up against the Avengers in something like Civil War. Also the problem is that they refuse to do a Scarlet Witch solo movie which could conclude WandaVision. She is a popular character yet they have nowhere to put her in.

The movie needed fixing in the story, even Elizabeth her self took shots at the writers and Sam rami for not watching Wanda vision to PROPERLY continue the story of Wanda. At the end of WV when Wanda was using the Dark Hold, she heard her kids CRY for help that’s what motivated her to find them ! in the movie they easily could’ve had the story be Wanda Tearing through the multiverse because she needs find her kids because they are in DANGER not because she can’t let them go but she’s being manipulated by the dark hold to some bigger threat or plot ! through Wanda tearing through the multiverse causing damage and starting incursions that causes a disturbance that Dr strange detects and it starts to effect the 616 universe and that’s what brings in the Illuminati! To interfere and stop this 616 Wanda ! ( also you can add in the Illuminati had to stop a different Wanda before because she killed all the mutants which almost destroyed the multiverse and any form of the Scarlett witch is a OMEGA LEVEL THREAT ) there’s you plot to the movie !

Jay I love you buddy but I am with Adam on this one. There are conservation efforts like the Irwin Zoo, and while they do make money the zoo isn't exploitive. The problem is that many are expliotive and only out for money. Any who haven't I applaud them, but too many have crossed that line.

Zoos are weird. A decade or so ago, in New Orleans Audubon Zoo is right next to Audubon park, which is just a regular city park but not part of the zoo but still next to it. My friend and I decided to smoke weed in the park and listen to music. Probably Marley or Floyd or something chill, I can't remember. Then we look up and see 3 giraffe heads staring at us, and if im going to be honest....we might have been just high, or they might have been just vibing but we were all in it. I always thought it was weird the zoo didnt have security for that though, if we were bad people we could have done some harm. But then again what psycho would want to harm a giraffe for gods sake. Crazy experience I'll never forget though.

Congrats on the most successful episode of Fix It! on the main channel ever (and also almost in all, just 100 under the Spider-Man 3 fix on the old channel)

They did such an incredible job of building Wanda up for so many years only to absolutely torpedo the character and flip a switch with 'oh, she's now evil and how typical of a woman.' It felt like misogyny to me.

Yeah the complete erasure of Wandas character development from Wandavision was so so so frustrating

I love -good- zoos, but I've been to a couple of zoos and aquariums that were a little shady. Depends on how the animals are aquired, contained, and treated. I'm not a fan of seeing elephants, primates, octopi, dolphins, and whales. Basically, anything considered to be really intelligent. Especially if their enclosures are too small.

The guy asking him about it being the only way...wasn't just a random guy. It was his rival dr from the first movie

TRUE STORY: the Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, SC has a prairie dog exhibit by the big outdoor food court. It’s behind a wall of glass so you can see their little tunnels and watch them play while you eat with your kids. You can also feed giraffes. And that’s awesome.

ITS .. PREVIEW'D!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mordo thinking the problem is too many sorcerers and Strange thinking only he can hold the knife. The only way either can be saved is for them to learn to trust and lean on others.

Years ago I had a coworker who was a deep dive Harry Potter fan. As part of her honeymoon, they went to the Harry Potter theme park in Florida. Of course, they went to Ollivanders, only to find that they were ALL OUT OF WANDS. How effed up is that. Whatever interest I had ever had in going floated away like a fart in the breeze.

I would argue that Jay should add that some zoos are better than others and not all animals have it Good. I was at a place here in Atlanta last year with a porcupine standing and just swaying back and forth against the glass over and over. Parents and their kids were dancing in front of it and laughing thinking it was was silly. When I got closer, the porcupine’s nose was rubbed so raw on the glass it was actually smearing its own blood across the glass. And all the mulch in the ground under where it was moving back and forth was actually moved around it was just bare plastic that it was standing on (the enclosure material under the mulch they covered it with). I’ve been to some amazing zoos that treat the animals really well and are incredible experiences. But it’s important (as Jay later mentioned) that there are the places doing it for the $$$ and nothing else. Usually the smaller places.

Jay is surprisingly informed on zoos and how important they are to conservation

The fact that "Wongers" has stuck means Madisynn should be in one of the movies he's in. This is the way.

Hey Jay, last week I went with my 2 year old nephew to the Bronx zoo and he had an absolute ball. It’s good to take them when they can understand what they’re seeing. He started screaming when we saw the giraffes, that’s his favorite animal.

Comment on zoos: Yea, zoos often give animals a great place to live, *however* sometimes that's not the case. The one time I went to a zoo, there were penguins who were always inside in a small glass area underground with plastic blocks and a tiny water section. They never get to see sunlight, and they live in that tiny area for the rest of their lives, a tiny area which can be observed through a single photo. That to me was quite horrible. So I think this is based on personal experience. If I had only seen monkeys in trees in a big area or something like that, my opinion would be different.

If your ever in Pittsburgh, our Zoo is awesome.

I think this movie works because of Wandavision. She didnt deal with her grief. She knew she had to let go of her illusion but then, through the Darkhold, she realized "her" kids arent an illusion, they are just in another universe. Agatha had just told her there is only 1 SW in the multiverse and her being that she knows she can "protect" her kids she just kinda lost better than any other Wanda. Plus as the SW she feels a bit entitled to be as happy as lesser Wanda's. It wasnt until she saw the pain in her kids eyes... much like Vader and Luke, that she knew she had become everything she wanted to protect her kids from. Love broke the spell of the blackest magic...just like Vader breaks free from the Darkside.

My wife almost walked out of the theater she hated this movie so much. I was torn because it had all the characters I loved and loved them in their previous movies, but this movie felt like a cartoon joke or something. I felt like I should like it because of the characters but thought it was a cheesy horror, comic book movie mess

Hotchie motchie, I have a story or two about the Vienna Zoo. If y'all ask I'll send the photos I have of the tiger (who was acting like a kitten) and the jaguar (who was definitely not). Or the Calgary Zoo, where there's a whole dinosaur park and ELEPHANTS. (The correct answer to any animal question is "elephant"). You can go right up to them and pet them and everything!

Okay... hear me out. Dr. Strange comes in 1 of 2 flavors, either ordinary and good or a sorceror and evil. The movie opens with Wanda approaching strange, "What do you know about the multiverse?" and she hands him the Darkholde. The impetus? Wanda knows that her kids are out there, because she can hear them, but needs Strange's help on how to figure it out. This gives us some universe hopping for Strange and Wanda... where they are popping into the other versions of themselves, with no control... but gradually gaining more and more. We start seeing the pattern of magical Stranges are always thirsting for more and darker powers, while the ordinary Stranges are well adjusted and at the center of community. When we leap into the baddest Strange who is trying in the middle of trying to unalive America, to steal her power in order to gain the power to physically jump between realities. This in essences Starks Strange... he's terrified of that Strange and starts pouring into the Darkholde to learn a way of defeating him... This is where Wanda leans back into what she learned in Wandavision about how holding on too tight perverts you in ways that you can't see amd before you know it, you are what you're trying to stop. As Strange is diving further down the rabbithole, this is when America pops in now shes trying to unalive Strange... informing the audience that if he has magic, he is the bad and Wanda makes the plea that it isn't too late and they can save him... using her WV character growth to make the argument. Wanda basically acting as spoiler in the fight between Strange and America, fighting both, trying to restrain both. Final act, we see Strange becoming the Evilest 3rd Eye Strange... and now we are on that heroes journey of Strange learning the lesson to cement that he is the only Magical and Good Strange, leading to him fighting to separate himself from being entangled with Evil him... and then we get the big battle at the end with Evil Strange vs Strange, America, and Wanda.

psst: Wanda's heel turn was the best and scariest part of this movie.

Tell me more about this Vlistarian Zoo. I’m imagining with the knowledge that Vlistaria has a pact with Cthulhu that the Zoo’s wild life population is probably buck wild. Sure, you have the traditional animal attractions we all know and love…But, if Hellboy has taught me anything, there’s certainly a lot of Frog-Men. Many deep sea creatures in the ponds that shouldn’t be seen by the eyes of mortals, but they are. Saber-tooth lion chimeras, beetles the size of hippos, and horses of a different color.

But she tried to burn the world down for kids she made in Sims…. That pothole stayed with me the whole film.

If the movie was another 30 minutes it would’ve been perfect, gives you a big enough window to add more exposition/development for Stephen without detracting from the existing plot I felt most of it was good just needed more breathing room

The post credit scene needs to take place in the Bluey universe

Jay said Bowling Alley Food!!!!!

This is probably my least favorite MCU film, although Love and Thunder might be worse. Interested to see how you guys FIX IT!

I agree and want to make just a few adjustments I hope you like my fixes and any suggestions(I am trying to be a better writer because I am making books) Also please please please go back to two different pitches as it leaves an opening for your joke fixes and more fun plot development. I still go back to your older fixes because they were better. Our Mordo is worried about all of this magic hopping and breaking of rules especially since Stranges last scene was him almost making an incursion for Spiderman's wish. Act 1 has a lot of other Mordo fighting Chavez in the different multiverses and each time they lose him for a second but see him at some point in our near a Sanctum The other Mordo is trying to Kill/Extract Chavez's power to start his Strange Rampage because the chaos in the multiverse is partially due to most dr stranges. Every time his Staff gets near Chavez it causes her to use her powers. 2 times this happens when Mordo sees a different Dr. strange that is approaching him or them. The 5 Universe the illumanati and 2 Mordo start fighting our team midway through the fight they turn on Other Mordo when they find out Other Mordo tricked illumanati to being on their side. Other Mordo should have by now found a weapon that can absorb magic and memories as to make sure our Dr. Strange and Chavez will not regain their magic that he used on Illumanti Mordo. Illumanati pull in their magic people to send all visitors back to Dr. Stranges world and say that they have band all of them from doing multiversal travel as they don't trust Strange or Mordo now. Act 2 is other Mordo is in a Sanctum Prison cell chatting with Our Mordo who is guarding him. Our Mordo sees his point but just wants to have an uneventful universe that stays out of all the magic universe breaking fights and if that means eliminating sorcerers then fine. "Chavez I must thank you for letting me see so many universes before my access to the multiverse was restricted." It becomes apparent that other Mordo wanted to be captured because of magical items that he had left in other multiverses Sanctrum cause massive chaos and give him a way out and a few magical being to assist. Act 3 Our magic people (Wong Wanda Strange and trainees) vs Mordo"s team and you can guess who wins. At the end Our Mordo is in charge of decommisioning other Mordo's items and chooses to kill other Mordo with it because sending Mordo home leaves a chance for the news of our universe to spread and everyone would be better off with less magic travel and less magic in this universe.Other Mordo should have by now found a weapon that can absorb magic and memories as to make sure our Dr. Strange and Chavez will not regain their magic.

Got distracted, then wondered how they got into a 14 minute discussion about Zoos. Lol

Love your fix. For me the MCU is at its best when it's characters. That's why I like Iron Man 3, because we get to spend time with Tony Stark the engineer, not just the suits. Even if it has some issues. My favourite Avengers scenes are the heroes doing mundane things and talking. But this way actually paying off the post credit of the first one and still giving the option to set up villain Wanda. Maybe we can already see some hints of Wanda using the darkhold. Just using some powers we haven't seen before or that seem off. Instead of it being an offscreen 0 to 100 change.

Zoos are great. Adam's concerns should be targeted towards Sea World. Sea World is horrible. My favorite animals at the zoo are the polar bears and the otters.

Boy, did they ever.

I couldn't figure out why you were discussing Zeus!?? 🤦🏻‍♀️

I really liked this film

That's comics... Characters get handed off to different writers who have their own ideas for them than the previous. Michael Waldron said that making Wanda a villain was a "selfish decision" because she's his favorite villain/anti hero and he wanted to write her being a villain and having Sam Raimi as director encouraged that decision. I saw it as Wanda dealt with her grief of Vision but that got replaced with new grief in the form of her children "dying" and I could tell from the WV post credit scene that she originally read the darkhold to learn about herself and she clearly believed that she could resist the darkness but everyone gets corrupted eventually. Wandavision takes place 3 weeks from Endgame and M.O.M takes place 6 months after EG. A lot can happen to a person even in that "short" amount of time. I personally liked this movie I call it one of Marvel's "bangers" along with Black Widow, Shang Chi, and Spiderman from phase 4

I think the problem that the awsome WandVision show created.. is everybody loved Wanda.. so.. although she may have been a super baddie in the comics.. Turning the Wanda that the TV show created to evil did sit well for many. Maybe if they added in a bit more of her journey to the dark side it would have been better.

As awesome as Spiderman No Way Home was, you should fix that as well. I want the og villains to actually talk to og Spiderman, like that would be emotionally better. Sure we got Doc Oc ask8jg Peter how he's been BUT Green Goblin messed up Peter the whole trilogy. I feel like it would've been awesome to see the horror on both Peter when he sees him after all these years, and Norman when he founds out what Goblin has done not only to Peter, but to his son Harry.

Steak Count: 1 Steak 🥩

All the fights and action sequences the guys like... I don't, mainly because stylistically they just jumped way off from what had appeared in all the previous shows. It's part of a broad pattern of having absolutely no concern or respect for being part of a larger property.

Washingtonian here. I miss the pandas. 😢

The secret of the cheese is that you buy the canned nacho cheese sauce and mix in a can of Rotell

Sorry guys, Agatha has The Dark Hold in WandaVision and uses it on Wanda. Wanda takes it even knowing the outcome of the small town she just mind washed. It's a selfish act, she just leaves Westview and practices dark magic in the apple orchard.

Philadelphia represent!!!!

I’m the opposite of many fans, I really liked this movie, with the exception of the “music fight” which I think was the worst part of the film, and the second most “wtf” moment in all of MCU , just behind Bao, god of dumpling 🙄

I'm curious what you guys are about to say, because almost every aspect of this movie is horrendous. Bad directing, bad writing, bad editing, bad acting, everyone looks like $%&#, they skipped over Doctor Strange 2 and went straight to Doctor Strange 3, everything was truly awful.

finally nice to see someone acknowledging this garbage movie. It was my most anticipated movie, more so than No Way Home, and when watching it my face was blank the entire time. That’s when my love for the MCU ended. I still like everything before, but since that film i’ve stopped caring about any new installations. Even Deadpool & Wolverine can’t hype me up enough to spark that fire back

Fix it!

The best way to fix it….. drop all of the multiverse stuff from the MCU and never touch it again. Multiverse stuff is terrible. Hell dimensions like Dormammu or the mirror dimension can work but not a multiverse. Do that and half the problem is sorted

Everyone keeps saying the ruined Wanda because she delt with her grief in Wandavusion. She didn't. She enslaved a whole town then only released them when she had too. At the end of the show she was still obsessed with her imaginary children and was using the most evil book in creation to achive ger goals. The Wanda in this movie is the logic result of all het past decisions. Her brother was dead. Her lover was dead. Her imaginary children were gone. She was totally off her rocker.

Good cinematography. Easily the best in the MCU. Decent Raimi effort but a sign of a man just beginning to flex his muscles while working with the machine. Script was bad.

With much love and respect to everyone.... animals should not live in captivity and animals born in captivity (ex ones born through zoo breeding programs) can not go into the wild (ya know where they belong). They are caged and live their lives to be looked at by humans. If you want conservation. It's not zoos. It's wildlife sanctuaries. And even that kinda sucks. All these are captured animals (or offspring of) that people took (usually) far from their homes/natural habitat to live in cages. It's animal prison. It's sad and gross, and we humans are awful for doing that... Sorry for the long tirade, I'm just really passionate about animal mistreatment... :(

Huh?

The MCU is dead. You can't fix it. Needs a full reboot. What the hell is a she hulk.

I think the Illuminati folks being all summarily killed could have worked fine, it was just terribly written. And that's most of what I hate about this movie; it was really really REALLY badly written.

Good morning fellas, I loved this movie. I wouldn't change anything

It don't neet to be fixed

As a low-key defender of this movie, I've always thought that Raimi succeeded at giving Strange a strong personal character arc about self-discovery that feels very much like his Spider-Man movies with Tobey. Stephen's whole deal is that he's kind of a self-loathing jerk, that was a huge part of his origin & his role in Infinity War & especially No Way Home... but this movie finally confronts that and explicitly asks him "Are you happy?". Beneath the messiness of Wanda & the multiverse, there's an endearingly empathetic & campy Sam Raimi superhero movie about a man learning to be a better version of himself that he can like and be proud of, not hung up on his past or his ex, not intimidated by his possible self-destructive fate, just on the road to being happy as himself. Even though lots of stuff didn't work about this movie, it was the first & (so far) only time I've ever actually liked Stephen Strange as a character. This is a superhero and a man I can root for like our classic MCU trilogy. And yes yes yes Jay, the casual hop over the balcony with the cloak is super badass, one of the coolest moments in MCU history. Very Tobey Spider-Man!

The movie would not make sense if WandaVision didn't happen. She didn't have children until WandaVision. Multiverse wasn't about her grief over Vision. It was about her, feeling like a villain after finally realizing she was holding a town hostage, and being possessed by the Darkhold. Sure, half the movie was about the villain, but so was Infinity War.

I love you guys, but when we were 15 minutes in and we're still talking about the zoo, you lost me.

Perfect sequel to Wandavision.

I love you both but you are getting a bit curmudgeonly, overly negative, like you want to prove the a-hole that calls you a Disney shill wrong.

Movie doesnt need fixing, so nope. Wanda was the best part about this movie.