VisionQuest

I am genuinely glad to finally see *Not Vision* and Paul Bettany return, but seriously, like this? Queue the vague trying-to-be-spoiler-free criticisms of every episode! -- Episode 1: ♪ Tell me why! - Everyone inside, but not the guy outside? Really? Did he even need to be there? Had he not been there, it'd seem less stupid. - Is all of it gonna be this nonsensical? Episode 2: ♪ Let the baddies hit the floor! - I think someone forgot the s'mores. Methinks there's enough glass on the ground that they could make glass angels together! - There's also enough baddies on the floor that they could make baddie angels together, but no, nope, nein! Gotta keep the stupid flowing! - I've got a legitimate question. How is this Paladin still alive? EPISODE PENDING: - ...

It is obvious they had a goal in mind but it's like they decided to get to that goal in the dumbest way possible. Very mild, inconsequential spoilers but at this point who even cares. They wanted to bring Vision back, ok, fine - they want to bring Ultron, ugh, ok sure, fine. Everything else is a waste of time and potential. While episode one was interesting, soon you realize they really have nothing going on and it's all stupid. Show literally flips a switch and forcefully convinces itself (and us) that Vision is all of a sudden old Vision and some random guy is actually his kid and that's it. There were so many ways to accomplish Vision and Ultron comeback and this is what they went with? I don't know, maybe this is strictly made for small children and I'm asking too much, for a show to be plot driven and not stupidity driven. But that is maybe a tall order for a guy who written Picard, one of the worst TV shows ever made. I hoped after first episode that at least mystery man was actually real Vision, trapped on some S.W.O.R.D. server, wanting it's body back and it's a tug of war between new Vision, old Vision and backed up Ultron who faces deletion. But no, just some guy, nanobot swarms and some asshattery. Not to mention soft retcons via unecessary backstories and new characters that serve only for the stupid plot to go on. They had MCU toys, good actors and much better ways to make things happen by just utilizing those, they went on adding a bunch of dumb stuff and more pointless disposable characters like all the AIs, "tHe bUTcHErBiRD", Paladin, "Tommy" and that chick. This all leads into Avengers: Doomsday, which is a movie, nay - a hasty expensive project - Disney hopes will get people hyped up again for MCU, but brother, this show is so not of any consequence, they should've left Vision dead instead and never mention it again.