VisionQuest: AI not all-inclusive (review)

Visually exciting, full of pretty formal discoveries, the new Marvel series from Disney+ suffers from a confusing narration, which struggles to maintain a certain coherence. But as long as you don’t ask for too many explanations, it can be fun.

But what has happened to Vision since WandaVision?

After the magical Agatha All Along, the Maximoff trilogy ends this week on Disney+ with VisionQuest, a new wacky exploration of a secondary character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe whose origins are nebulous to say the least. Because Vision, at its core, is a joyous tinkering: the matrix of JARVIS (the AI ​​created by Tony Stark) fused with Ultron’s humanoid vibranium body, doped with the Mind Stone, then destroyed by Thanos before being rebuilt in the laboratory, this time without the Infinity Gem. The Vision of VisionQuest is therefore not quite the one we knew in the MCU… but still a little bit, since he retains without his living memory the memories of this strange life which was his, before Wanda lost her temper. It also hosts in its processors the other artificial intelligences encountered throughout the Marvel films, from FRIDAY to EDITH, without forgetting… a certain Ultron, which it keeps deep in its database. In short, a big artificial mess that doesn’t really help our synthetic creature know who it is…..