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Vision will fall apart, and Wanda will be left alone.
What can they possibly say to one another?
This has to be the end, and the episode title makes that plain its called The Series Finale.
Series, not season.
In the TV world, we know what that means.
Its the kind of line thats meant to be hopeful, and sweetly tragic.
What is grief, if not love persevering?
Theyre a little couplet of grief platitudes, but that doesnt mean theyre necessarily bad.
Platitudes are cheap and reductionist, but sometimes its the easy, simple stuff that breaks through.
(Sitcoms and superhero shows are great examples.
Obviously, the sweet and (asWandaVisionitself suggests) outmoded form of the sitcom gives way.
Its not a celebration ofKathryn Hahns scene-stealing workwith that role.
In the context of the MCU, that empty but nice enough goodbye/hello line plays very differently.
Its achingly hopeful in reality and in the sitcom reality simulacrum.
But in the Marvel Universe, its just painfully boring.
(Sorry to be a bummer!)
Finales do not have to be should not be pass/fail final exams.
Feeling disappointed with an ending does not have to change how you felt about the beginning.
Platitudes can sometimes be true!
Its the journey, not the destination!
WandaVisions ending is annoying, and that line about goodbyes and hellos is especially so.
In a more hopeful interpretation, though, its a promise.
