Recently Jac Schaeffer, showrunner of WandaVision had a chat with THR. In the interview Schaeffer talked about Wanda’s walk of shame in the series finale. The scene has been called the ‘walk of shame’ by fans as it was reminiscent of the famous walk of shame scene in Game of Thrones. In that scene, Cersei Lannister was stripped naked and marched through the crowd as they threw fruit, spat on her and more. Of course in WandaVision things were not quite as extreme, but the thought was similar. As Schaffer says , quoted below, this was not about letting Wanda off easily for what she did to Westview.
“Well, first of all, “walk of shame” is exactly how we spoke about it. Even on the page, it says something like, “The townspeople stare daggers at her.” We wanted it to be really visceral and painful for Wanda. And also necessary. She did a terrible, terrible thing. You can argue in the beginning that she didn’t know what she was doing, but once she truly knew what she was doing on a conscious level, she continued to perpetuate it for days.”
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However as Schaeffer also points out, we can still empathize with Wanda’s situation here a little.
“You can’t entirely forgive her for that, but our goal with the show was to understand Wanda and Vision in a complete way. So I feel we have a complete picture of why she did what she did. That does not justify it; that does not make it okay. But we have empathy for her, and we were with her on the journey. So I don’t think that she’s off the hook, and it wasn’t my intention to write it in a way that seemed like we could just forgive all of those sins. But I do think that the empathy for her as a character is still very present at the end of the show.”
No, I don’t think Wanda is off the hook and still some big hero. Wanda In my opinion will have to atone for what she has done. In fact that remembrance of what her power can do for the wrong reasons may be what grounds Wanda. Perhaps Wanda’s memory of Westview prevents her from truly destroying the world like she is capable of?
I expect we will find out more once Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness comes around. What did you think about Wanda’s walk of shame in WandaVision? I’ve seen fans get into some debates about this one, so have at it in the usual spot below.
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