#wednesday analysis

[boopable-sinclair]

Wednesday loves her personal space. Enid also loves Wednesday's personal space. So Wednesday takes pills for her color allergy, so that Enid will continue to be able to enjoy Wednesday's personal space.

[theshipdiaries]

"Tyler Galpin is coming I NEED TO LEARN EVERYTHING I CAN ABOUT HYDES"

AND YET her ONLY QUESTION WAS:

"if you were in love why did he try to kill you 🥺🥺" oh my poor girl

And once it was confirmed for her that it was only because he was forced to, she decided to bind him to her FOREVER so they could be together and no one could be able to turn him against her.

And then IMMEDIATELY HIS NEW MASTER TRIED TO TURN HIM AGAINST HER. Exactly what she feared 🤧

[venlo]

you can't tell me I'm wrong

[phoenix-downer2]

Wednesday and Tyler Hospital Scene Analysis

I was intrigued by this scene at the hospital because it kept subverting my expectations, and that really added this element of dark humor but also pathos to the scene.

Other people have already pointed out the little details about Tyler’s…gifts that show the sheer amount of thought, effort, and planning put into them, like how he gives her an entire bouquet of dead roses (which meant he probably stole them and waited for them to die before giving them to her) and wrapped the stems in black and white tissue paper ahead of time so she can safely hold them with her allergy. He also hand wrote her a card to accompany the roses. Normally, such a sweet, thoughtful gesture would be heartwarming, but it’s chilling because the card has a death threat written in it, the roses are dead even if she prefers them that way, and we know he’s obsessed with her and can turn into an angry, violent monster at will.

And yet the sheer amount of thought and effort he put into the gifts is so over the top that it crosses the line twice and comes back around to being darkly humorous and almost sweet, in a twisted, macabre way. Yes, he's going out of his mind and is acting really creepy and claims he wants her dead, but he didn't have to be so extra about it. A death threat scrawled on a piece of paper would’ve sufficed. Killing her in the hospital while she was still in a coma and no one else was watching would’ve been possible if that was all he cared about. Instead, he’s telling on himself big time with these grand gestures. I’m sure part of it is because he wanted to toy with her, but at the same time, his real feelings are leaking out of the deranged Hyde persona, and he can't stop it from happening.

It's almost embarrassing how clearly he’s still into her and obsessed with her, as dark and twisted as his expressions of those feelings may be. And I think Tyler’s humanity is leaking through here too, because flowers and a card almost feel like they started out as apology gifts for hurting her and landing her in the hospital in the first place. And from anyone else they might be, but of course everything gets so warped and twisted by his Hyde that the card has a death threat instead of an apology and the dead flowers really add to the ominousness of his words.

Of course, Wednesday immediately knows something is up. Only Tyler would know to do all these things—the dead roses, the black and white tissue paper, the death threats painstakingly handwritten in a card she can safely handle (why care at all about the allergies of someone you truly want dead?) He knows how much she cares about Enid, and he knows exactly how to get under her skin and get her attention—by threatening Enid. He’s her enemy, yes, but he knows her, and moments like this make it clear.

She asks the candy striper who gave her these “gifts,” and then there’s this reveal that not only did Tyler ask for these to be delivered to her, he's close by because he wanted to see her, too. It would've been way less risky if he hadn't stuck around to watch her reaction, but he did, and he even gives her a little wave:

One wonders just how long he's been skulking around the hospital waiting for her to wake up. The sheer amount of risks he took to be here, the lengths he went to to avoid detection when he only recently escaped Willow Hill and is wanted by the police—it really says everything about just how badly he wanted to see her. For this moment to happen, he had to sneak into the hospital somehow, steal and don the scrubs disguise, and avoid being recognized by anyone, even though this is clearly a busy hospital. He was also apparently around long enough to see Agnes visit at least once, because he knows she’s one of Wednesday’s friends in Episode 6.

He plays the role of full on psychotic villain when he knows he has her full attention. Just look at his smirk when he knows she's looking at him:

A chase/round of Hyde and woe seek ensues, but he manages to shake her. And this is where the pathos of the scene really hit me, and it’s all because of Tyler’s reaction once he’s alone:

A “regular” monster and clear-cut, unsympathetic villain would have smirked and gloated over getting away and successfully toying with his target. I think I even expected something along those lines, especially after his smirk earlier. Instead, Tyler practically has a breakdown and has to brace himself against the vending machine for support, and this moment hit me so hard. Props to Angela Robinson (the director of this episode), Erika Vásquez and Sienna Butterfield (the writers of this episode) and of course Hunter Doohan for his marvelous job of portraying Tyler’s emotions here, because it’s exactly thanks to moments like these that Tyler is such an interesting, nuanced character.

I’m sure part of his reaction is because he's sick and in pain and dying without a master, and this clearly shows that. He also just had to race through the hospital halls to avoid Wednesday and needs a moment to catch his breath. But I think he’s also experiencing a powerful wave of emotions—relief that Wednesday is okay and awake and alive, especially because he's the one who landed her in the hospital in the first place, regret that he had to run away from her when deep down he wants her to catch him, and anguish and disappointment over being separated from her again. Look at the way he squeezes his eyes shut, which is Tyler’s way of indicating the pain he’s feeling is unbearable, as he also squeezes his eyes shut like this when he asks Wednesday to kill him in Episode 8 and is bracing himself for her blow.

He also swallows here, like he’s choking back tears and is desperately trying to get ahold of himself. Beneath the monster and the villain is a very vulnerable young man who shows his real emotions when he thinks no one’s watching. It’s his humanity peeking through all over again, and I love that they included it because it adds so much to what came before and casts everything in a new light.

Thank you for reading this, and feel free to chime in with your thoughts!

[kaursblog11]

Hate is a feeling, Miss Addams.

Along with fear

Contempt

Concern

And love.

All emotions that you think can be boxed up and stored in your subconscious.

But that box is a ticking time bomb.

And if you don’t find a way to defuse it...

It could explode at the most calamitous moment.

[amoritasart]

I adore how Isaac’s whole story is that he is cold and ambitious because he doesn’t have a human heart anymore but he is actually so full of love like he’s so affectionate and gentle to Francoise they don’t fight or raise their voice at each other they are always tenderly holding each other like they’re gonna lose each other because they are and he kept his promise to her like he could have selfishly continued the original plan and still try to save her but what she wanted was more important to him like it makes me iNSANE.

And don’t even get me started on Gomez saying whatever shred of goodness he had ended up in Thing … I need a minute… actually a week or a few months, maybe a year….

[nevermoreholmes]

There’s something really interesting about how Wednesday and Enid have opposite relationships with their mothers. Both of them feel like their mothers are pressuring them to be something, but they react in completely different ways.

Enid feels the pressure from her mother to become a full werewolf, and she really wants to live up to that. No matter how hard she tries, she can’t fully “wolf out,” but she still keeps trying , desperate to belong and even afraid she might end up dying alone without a pack.

With Wednesday, it’s the opposite. She believes Morticia wants her to follow in her footsteps, to be like her in personality, achievements, even relationships. So Wednesday constantly pushes back. She argues with Morticia about not wanting to get married, about not caring about her mother’s success at school, and insists that she’ll never be like her.

But the irony is, we never actually see Morticia pressuring her. On camera, Morticia is nothing but supportive and accepting of Wednesday.

Then in Season 2, Part 1, they get what they want and the contrast grows even more. Enid finally becomes exactly what her mother wanted her to be, while Wednesday becomes even more distant from Morticia.

So now the question is that is really what they want??

[kantimplora]

I think it's good that no one ever finds out if Isaac's normifying experiment works. It fuels the tragedy. I feel like its important that this "getting rid of one's magic to live a normal easier life" remains a dream, because you can't do that. You can't run away from the thing that makes you different in this society, because it's a part of you, you are born with it and you die with it, and becoming normal or pretending to be normal is not going to make the more normal people accept you, because you just aren't good enough for them, and that will never change because it's the standard they choose. They will always choose a standard that is unreachable to you if they do not want you with them. Look at Nevermore saying they protect all outcasts and then abandoning Hydes to their own luck.