Meh...and even Bah, humbug!
That's my reaction upon seeing the "finale" of WandaVision. I put finale in quotes, because by my lights, it doesn't fit the definition. A "finale" should resolve all the plotlines, bring the story to a satisfying close and not leave loose ends for the audience to contemplate. Because of the post-credit scene, WandaVision episode 9 does none of those things.
Had they left it where it was as the end-credits began to roll (or even with the mid-credits scene--BTW, that was a Skrull who met Monica Rambeau, right?), everything would have been fine. But the post-credit scene, with an obviously obsessed (possessed?) Wanda peering through the Darkhold tome, it remains unclear who, exactly, was responsible for the events in Westview and--if it was Wanda--is she really aware of the damage she did and care about it?
And was there a hint of something more, someone else, in that scene? I'd swear another visage is superimposed on Wanda's in the final split-second, but despite four or five attempts to freeze-frame on the image, I was unable to determine if what I think I saw was real. And that's bad story-telling, too. The ability of the individual audience member to "get" the intent of the creators should not depend on the technology they use. Either show it or don't.
One of the problems with the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been its complete inter-connectivity...to the point that no one movie--or even line of movies--tells a complete story. It's as if, to give an example from a different genre, Rodgers and Hammerstein had decided that all their musicals are somehow connected and you don't get a full story unless you have seen them all, from Oklahoma! to The Sound of Music, including the minor works such as Allegro, Me and Juliet, and Pipe Dream.
"Endings" like this one only make it worse.
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