We really need to talk about this weird idea that Wednesday fandom is anti-Wyler, that Wednesday could never kill or would never surround herself with people who kill.
Because clearly, the show proves the opposite many times.
The problem is that people don't see it because most of Wednesday's lines are taken for that by the audience ; words, morbid jokes.
While those who are truly familiar with The Addams Family will recognize certain nods to previous adaptations, which give other context to these creepy lines that many take for empty threats or lies made to intimidate people by Wednesday.
Where people say that seeing Wednesday as capable of killing or accepting that people kill under the pretext that she has the traits of a toxic person bordering on a potential serial killer, would be a superficial reading of her character, I actually find that it is the opposite. Seeing Wednesday as a person with morals that extend to not killing is superficial, because you cling to the facts that we don't see her kill directly in the show, or punish murderers, without taking into account everything that I am going to quote to you now.
First, there is the fact that Wednesday threw piranhas into a school swimming pool when the athletes were in it.
If you dare tell me that there was no possibility of teenagers dying because of this, you have a problem.
Clearly, that possibility existed, and Wednesday didn't care at all. She just wanted to punish her brother's bullies no matter what, even if it meant hurting potentially innocent people in the process.
Later, we even see that the fact that there were no deaths there bothers people, including her parents.
Literally, they didn't make sure that this event didn't appear on Wednesday's file because she attempted to murder students, but because this attempt ultimately didn't result in any murder, and that's what would have been problematic for them in the file of their daughter and Wednesday herself.
We see several times during the show that Wednesday considers failed murder attempts to be shameful.
I don't understand why everyone ignores this clear, precise fact which nevertheless serves as an introduction to the show.
It just goes to show that Wednesday can kill one day if she really wants to, whether deliberately or accidentally.
The fact that she doesn't kill later in the show directly doesn't change what this introduction shows us on the subject.
Wednesday literally says he went to jail for eating Boy Scouts.
And if you think this is just a Wednesday joke meant to scare, then you've really never consumed any Addams Family adaptation before this show.
Because The Addams Family and cannibalism often go together.
Especially in the 90s movie adaptation.
And even though Fester is obviously also a fan of necrophilia (and this fact doesn't bother Wednesday either), I doubt he ate any unearthed scout bodies.
Not when you take into account previous adaptations anyway.
Then Agnes tries to kill Enid. Don't tell me that Enid was safe. That's not true. If Wednesday hadn't succeeded, Enid would have died. Just because Agnes had faith in Wednesday's abilities doesn't change that fact. Enid could have died. And it even bothers Enid that Wednesday is considering having Agnes as an assistant. Just because Agnes failed in the murder attempt doesn't change the fact that it could have killed Enid. Enid clearly resents this, and Wednesday doesn't care.
So she has a cannibalistic uncle in her entourage and a fangirl assistant capable of attempting to murder others.
And don't tell me that Wednesday is okay because Agnes failed, so everything is fine because she technically didn't transgress Wednesday's moral code. Why ? Simply because Wednesday clearly takes the fact that Agnes failed in terms of attempted murder as pathetic. So not as a positive thing either. Wednesday didn't want Enid to die, but the fact is that having a girl around who failed a murder attempt doesn't please her either, precisely because she failed and she finds it partly humiliating.
Also, if Wednesday really had a moral code related to murder, she wouldn't have kept Agnes around. Even less so her uncle, who had already practiced cannibalism on scouts. Let's be serious.
Wednesday does what pleases her or what suits her best. It has nothing to do with a strict code of morality. She is selfish and puts her own interests before everything else.
Oh, and now the thing I've been wanting to talk about, Wednesday's attempted murder of Pugsley by burying him alive.
And no, this isn't just a game of torture.
In this flashback, Pugsley actually cries. This has nothing to do with the usual playfulness we're used to in the usual performances, or what the show suggested for their relationship.
Yes, Wednesday tortures Pugsley for fun often, but he also enjoys it.
Torture was always limited to the use of knives, huge machetes and electric chairs, according to memories from previous adaptations.
When an Addams buries someone, it's meant to kill in the old depictions. Not to play.
To play, they dig up corpses. One of their games, also used in quite a few adaptations, is called waking the dead.
We literally see Wednesday sealing the coffin so he can't get out. And she did this as a little girl.
And no, it's not that horrible. Because again, if you're familiar with the Addams universe, there are murder attempts within the family itself, whether accidental or intentional, successful or not, sometimes happens. And that doesn't take away from the fact that they all still love each other.
Typically in the old movies, Wednesday and Pugsley want to play with their little brother who came into the world not long ago, trying to kill him several times. It is both a real desire to play with him and a jealousy of Wednesday and Pugsley, not only that but they also believe that when a new child arrives in the family, another must die. The parents end up talking about it with them and we learn that there was a time, yes, they killed a child when a new one arrived but that it is no longer done today and that, according to the grandmother, it was the good old days. And that this murderous hateful jealousy is also natural and not alarming, because there was a time when Gomez & Fester often tried to kill each other first degree. We even learn in the first movie that Gomez killed their mother by accident.
So with all that, all that context from the old adaptations, clearly, Wednesday was trying to kill Pugsley at that point because he was the youngest and she probably wanted to get rid of him from time to time. It wasn't a mutual torture game between them like we usually see for me. When Wednesday tortures Pugsley, he usually likes it in the adaptations.
At least that's how I personally see it.
But that's okay. Because they're Addams. Wednesday even saw it as taking care of her little brother.
Not to mention everyone seems to completely forget about the fact that she told Pugsley to no shit hit a stop sign. That cause a huge wreck that could have been fatal to a bunch of people. Sure it shows them getting out before the fire but the Addams didn't exactly stop to check that they laughed about it.
So with all that, don't tell me that Wednesday could never forgive Tyler one day, even if he goes on the path to redemption, under the pretext that he killed people or threatened to kill them.
(Wednesday herself often has murderous thoughts in her head or outright threatens to kill people out loud... And don't make me believe that she wouldn't be capable of carrying that out one day, knowing the crazy torture arsenal she constantly carries around with and the pirates she threw into the swimming pool at her old high school)
As long as Tyler hasn't killed anyone she loves, the door is clearly open to a future forgiveness on Wednesday's end one day.
Wednesday accepted Lucas being around despite what he did to Eugene because he was showing signs of changing.
(I mention Lucas because some say that even if Tyler was completely controlled and that he is really mentally unstable so that Hyde's actions are not really his fault, well he was always someone who bullied others before... Not like Wednesday was aware of it and didn't care either)
Wednesday no longer cares that Agnes almost killed Enid and took her on as an assistant because she can be useful, despite her psychopathic tendencies that might actually make her kill people later. And do I even need to mention Fester ?
Also the simple fact that Wednesday wasn't surprised by the possibility that his father, therefore a member of her family, was a murderer, but simply thought that it just wasn't his father's style in itself ?
If you really think Wednesday has a problem with the murder itself, then you're the one with a superficial reading of the character.
Not to mention the fact that Tyler has once again been groomed and indoctrinated to be the way he is now as Hyde.
So at what point do you tell me that a character like Tyler, in a gothic story like The Addams, would never have the possibility of redemption ? Even if he was one of Tim Burton's sentient monsters ? At that point, it's denial.
Especially in a story made to defend the marginalized, where Tyler is literally the ultimate marginalized among marginalized people, rejected even by those who should welcome him.
Even Jenna Ortega said it was weird that Wednesday didn't kill anyone and that she should do it in season 3 at least.
gummygunk
jbbartram-illu
prguitarman
pixelskylines
theartofmadeline
