VisionQuest “Forever” Review

Season 1 Episode 8 – “Vision’s quest to embrace his true identity comes to a close.”

Please note that our reviews are based on likes and dislikes. These contain significant spoilers. If you haven’t already watched the episode, we recommend that you click off the article and come back once you have watched the episode. Enjoy!

Highlights

1. The opening of the episode sees the man who Ultron based his avatar off, Virgil Horton, speaking with Jocasta and Vision. He mentions that Ultron will not shut up, so he has put him on mute. Virgil was Jocasta’s husband, which is the big connection between the two. Vision also learns that Friday may have been destroyed by Ultron.

2. Tommy realizes what he has to do. He has to try to come close to drowning so that he can be connected to Billy. Tommy walks through a door and meets Billy. Billy tells Tommy that he is in New Jersey. Lisa begins to understand the drone outside of the window, which is actually the two AIs from within Vision.

3. I loved the scene where Lisa and Paladin hype up Tommy. Telling him what to do with his plan and Lisa explaining to him who he can be; he can choose to be who he wants to be. She asks him who he is, so he says, “Tommy, Tommy Maximoff”. Absolute cinema.

4. Vision uses himself to make Ultron stop using his nanobots to kill everyone. Vision’s life stops while Tommy is trying to save him; Billy returns and helps out with bringing Vision back to life. Vision embraces both Tommy and Billy as his “boys”.

5. The post-credit scene shows Wanda bringing down the tower on herself at the end of Multiverse of Madness. We then see Doctor Doom lift up the rocks and wake up the Scarlet Witch to take her power.

What Didn’t Work

1. Paladin. How did this guy survive the explosion? The explosion pretty much rocked his world last episode, so without a proper explanation, this is something I disliked.

2. I get why they did it, a callback to WandaVision, but for me personally, I do not like how it went into the TV Sitcom storylines. I feel like this really took it out of the episode.

Standout Character

Vision gets this for me in the finale. He was great. The moment he suits up in that brand new suit, fights Ultron and then goes into the mind with him to change Ultron’s mind was superb.

Favourite Moment

My favorite moment would be when Virgil shoots Jocasta, and in her dying moments, she throws Ultron into the machine, which causes him to create a brand new body. Ultron then comes alive and absolutely crushes Virgil to death. Vision transforms into his new look while he and Ultron fight it out with each other.