Marvel Studios very rarely if ever get a live action TV show right with Daredevil: Born Again one of the few examples of them doing a good live action TV series. Well now we have another one to add to that list with this one closing out a quadrilogy that started out with Wandavision and carried on through Doctor Strange And The Multiverse of Madness and Agatha All Along and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review the show that might set up something for Avengers: Doomsday with the show in question being called simply just "Visionquest" enjoy.
The plot of this show is when someone starts hunting down Vision he must team up with a London outcast and Ultron to find out who is doing it and why. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. To be honest here this shews plot is really good and is alot more better then what it really should have been as the show does take full advantage of the fact that it's a TV show and not a movie with this plot being one that really works best as the plot of a TV show. Whilst yes there could improvements made to the shows plot just in things like catching up with characters and not giving Vision and Ultron kind of dull character arcs where we know the outcome this is a plot that is still ten times better then the plot of Agatha All Along with it being clear as day that there is alot of thought and effort being put into this shows plot and it is something that you do see not only in the final episode but in all of the episodes as the show will set up something minor at the start of an episode and then will bring it back in to play in a major way later on in the show and it is something that does work for this show, with the shows plot being something that on paper shouldn't work as Vision himself is a character that you don't really picture leading a solo TV series and yet it is something that does work with the show full on embracing the fact that it's main characters are AI and having fun with that with this shows plot also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this show is this shows executive producer Paul Bettany as Vision and James Spader as Ultron. Also starring in this show is Ruaridh Mollica as Tommy Maximoff , Todd Stashwick as Paul Denning / Paladin , T'Nia Miller as Jocasta / Jo Carrington , Orla Brady as F.R.I.D.A.Y. , Henry Lewis as Dum-E , Jonathan Sayer as U , Emily Hampshire as E.D.I.T.H. , Lauren Morais as Lisa Molinari and Michael Akinsulire as Ashford.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. The fact that we have some really good acting in not only this final episode of the show but in the show as a whole is something that was kind of shocking as while yes this show does have some some really good and at times funny actors it heck heck we have two of the creators of The Goes Wrong Show playing minor characters and yet everyone in this show gives some truly wonderful performances. With the best actor by far in this whole entire show and episode quite easily being Paul Bettany as Vision as to be honest here he really does kill it every single chance that he gets with a good example of this being in the previous episode where he gives this powerful speech to another AI and my god did he act his socks of during that scene as he made you feel every single emotion that you was meant to feel and it's something that does remind you that you can have good acting in comic book shows as alot of people to tend to think that you can just phone in your performance in these types of shows and films as there not high art and aren't going to be seen that many people and yet here we have an actor that gives you a great performance in every single episode of the show so much so that he should at very least be nominated for his acting in this show with his own natural charm really coming through in this show and episode. With the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.
It's unknown who did the CGI effects for either this show or this episode as there no effects companies listen anywhere online. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. Again much like with the shows acting this shows CGI didn't have to be that good as both the show and the episode would have done just fine if the effects where sub-par and yet it's the fact that the makers of this show did go the extra mile to give us some really good looking effects that do help the show stand out a little bit more. Whilst yes this show and episodes effects aren't on the same level as something you'd see in the movies but that was always going to be the case as this show would have had to have had to spread it's effects budget across several episodes and therefor there will be episodes in this show where the effects aren't that good and yet the show still did manage to turn out some really decent effects with the only sort of bad looking effect is Ultron himself how does a little bit unfinished alot of alot of the time this might have been due to the fact that the effects team might not have had the time to finish working on him but given the fact that he's a main character then there should have been more time to getting his finished effect looking as good as as it did in Age Of Ultron but do be fair he doesn't appear in robot form all that often with the overall majority of the shows effects being really good almost to the point where you couldn't really tell what was done for real and what was done inside of a computer.
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As with alot of the Marvel TV shows not only where there cameos in the final episode but also two credits scenes. As we have Joe Locke back as Billy Maximoff and in the second credits scene we have both Elizabeth Olsen back as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch and Robert Downey Jr. as Victor Von Doom / Doctor Doom weather or not Robert was actually physically playing him or just doing the voice is hard to say but the fact that they are in the episode in this end credits scene is a big deal as we see Doom resurrect Wanda from the mountain top where she sacrificed herself at the end of the second Doctor Strange movie with this being something that might set up her appearing in either Avengers: Doomsday or quite possibly Avengers: Secret Wars with now seemingly willingly helping out Doctor Doom. With Billy tho he appears in a minor role in the episode as Tommy gets the idea to see him by drowning himself thus forcing a connection between the two of them with the two of them having a conversation before Tommy is pulled back to the real world by Lisa but it doesn't stop there for Billy as he does come back later on in the episode to help Tommy resurrect Vision with all three of them being reunited in a pretty sweet scene with it being nice to see alot of the family being back together with this meaning that you don't really have to have seen Agatha All Along as Billy does explain where he is in this episode and what he's been up to but it is nice to see that two of the three shows telling this story focused on one of the Maximoff kids it will be even nicer tho to see them all back together as a family as that is the only thing that will bring this whole saga for lack of a better word to a close and given then fact that both Paul and Elizabeth could be in the next Avengers movie it does make sense that Vision would mention to her that there kids are safe in this world.
What was kind of a bad thing for the show was the fact that they reveal that the client who first hired Paladin was someone that we've never seen or heard of called Virgil Horton whom is also played by James Spader. The reveal of this character is just so bad as he's someone that we never really find anything out about nor even know that he exists period until the episode where he's revealed with him being the base model for Ultron and yet a reveal that's this key to the show is something that could have been done alot more better like maybe they have him appear in silent flashbacks with Jo Carrington which would make sense as they are meant to be husband and wife rather then just having him appear in the ending moments of the second to last episode. This is made worse by the fact that his debut is treated as this big shocking thing by the show and it just doesn't work as the show prior to that never mentions or even shows us him with the character character only appearing in silhouetted form prior to that when it is something that should have been better handled but on the plus side while he does have a typical plan as he just wants to kill every single human by using these tiny nanobots to kill us from the inside out which yes is a stereotypical plan for a villain to have given the fact that he's not meant to be that good of a villain in the first place with even the show treating him as an afterthought you can kind of forgive him for having this kind of a dull plan and heck the constant switch between who the main villain is meant to be was more good as they all had good plans about from Virgil with Paladin just wanting to kill Vision because he was being paid to do it and Jocasta doing it because she wants to use the nanobots to control humans and make them like puppets on a string all of which are better plans that Virgil's main plan of killing us all for literally no reason whatsoever.
The main theme of this show is oddly enough fatherhood and what it means to not only be a father but also be a parent. As all of the AI's in some weird way are all the children of Tony Stark , with Ultron is the father of Vision and Vision has to learn to be a dad for Tommy this was kind of an interesting theme for a Marvel show to tackle and to be fair it's not one that they've done before and yet here with the characters of Vision and Ultron it does make sense as as we see in Age Of Ultron that Ultron did make Vision thus technically being his father and while in the show Ultron is more then happy to step into that role in his dark way Vision isn't willing to accept him as his father as it's something that the old him might not have done. This is also something that fully stops him from forming a bond with Tommy with it only being at the end of episode seven when Vision does fully except Tommy as his son as he accepts the fact that this new version of him ad the old version are one in the same which granted is something that you do see coming but it is also something that does tie into the main theme of the show and heck it's not until the final episode when Vision finally excepts Ultron as his dad something which he has been hesitant to do up until them. This is a theme that does work perfectly for a show as there can be more time dedicated to it whereas with a movie it would need to be stopped every few minuets to fit in a long action scene with it also being something that does make sense as the Vision was saw in Wandavision never really spent much time with Billy and Tommy before Wanda removed The Hex and to be fair the scenes with him and Tommy bonding all throughout the show are perhaps some of the best scenes in the show itself as it's not just two people trying to connect it's a father trying to forge a relationship with his son.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and nine minuets and twenty one seconds. Which to be fair was a pretty long running time for this episode to have but also given how much plot it had to wrap up not just from Wandavision but also Agatha All Along and possibly set up something for the next Avengers movie it does kind of make sense that this episode would be the longest episode of the show but in saying this tho all of the episodes had running times ranging from thirty five minuets to fifty nine minuets with all of those episodes putting the plot first and the set up for other things and pay off from other shows second with this episode episode having the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet this episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot which granted is something that you could argue is because alot of the plot development was done in the other episodes but given the fact that this is the episode where we get alot of scenes with Virgil and it's the last episode of the of the show that then that does speak wonder to the episodes plot development with the makers of this episode being more focused on giving us a pretty funny scene with Tommy using his super speed then they were in giving the episode some much needed plot development. The same thing is also true for the episodes character development which again could be argued is due to the fact that alot of them got there development in the previous episodes which is something that would be fair enough where it not for the fact that outside of a few of the AI's none of the other AI characters get any character development and heck the same thing is also true for Lisa and to a lesser extent Tommy with it rightfully being both Vision and Ultron getting alot of the character development with the makers of this episode being more focused on giving us some pretty good cameos then they were in giving its characters character development but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the action in the show as a whole being really good as you can tell right from the first episode that there is alot of care going into this shows action and it's something that is thankfully being the case for alot of the live action Marvel shows as while they can't top what the movies are doing effects wise they can still match what there doing with the action and this is something that does make the episode in not only this show but this episode alot of fun to watch as you do get to see just how strong this new Vision is. Wit the best action in this episode being when Visio and Jocasta and later Ultron fighting Virgil in his family home with Virgil getting the upper hand after he fatally shoots and kills Jocasta with this being something that sets Ultron off an reaffirms his belief that all humans are bad as he then sets about killing all the human race with it only being Vision who can stop him not by punching or kicking him but by talking to him and helping his father through his own grieve and who better to do that then someone like Vision who did loose Wanda with that whole sequence of them talking and having a battle of the minds being something that does help to set this episodes action apart from anything else seen in the show thus far with the rest of the shows action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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Overall this show is so good even if your not the biggest Marvel fan and just want to see what the fuss is all about this is a show that I could easily recommend as it does give you all of the things that you expect from the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the show itself being really good and fun to watch in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very show in this very review and as such that really does mean that this episode really does earnt itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 and the show as a whole earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images hat I personally used in this very review from IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.