VisionQuest has concluded the WandaVision trilogy. But it wouldn't be an ending without some acknowledgement of the trilogy's beginnings, and VisionQuest episode 8 harks back to its roots in a very fun and unexpected way, correcting a WandaVision mistake in the process.
Warning: spoilers for the VisionQuest finale follow.
In the VisionQuest finale, after a brief punch-up, Vision changes tack and decides the best way to stop Ultron from unleashing nanobots on the population of London is to take a page out of Wanda's book and trap him inside a sitcom of Vision's own creation. That sitcom, UltraVision, quickly unravels as Ultron has more control over the 'show' than Vision expected. But it's a welcome callback to how the WandaVision trilogy started, and unlike WandaVision, it makes the sitcom device central to resolving the season's central conflict.
"All good endings touch upon the beginning," VisionQuest showrunner Terry Matalas said at a post-finale Q&A attended by GamesRadar+. "The big swing on this was UltraVision and going and going back to that instead of doing a big CGI rock 'em sock 'em, robot. We said, 'Well, let's do that first. Let's do the Marvel popcorn, and then surprise with a sitcom.' That's the big swing of it all."
WandaVision infamously ended with Wanda and Agatha throwing CGI magic spells at each other in the sky, abandoning the ingenious sitcom premise that hooked audiences from the beginning. It's easy to see the VisionQuest finale, which admittedly features a futile burst of Synthezoid fisticuffs, as learning from the mistakes of the WandaVision finale in the way Vision uses a sitcom (complete with a Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez theme!) to dissuade Ultron from his catastrophic course of action.
"I think that was the way of honoring the beginning that I think was the most pressure," Matalas adds. "But also the most fun to make." Separately, GamesRadar+ caught up with E.D.I.T.H. star Emilly Hampshire – no stranger to sitcoms as one of the stars of Schitt's Creek – who spoke about filming UltraVision. "When we were shooting those opening credits, we got to do all that fun stuff that you see for a blip. I don't think you see much of it, but it's like Vision and E.D.I.T.H. having a birthday party and doing things that they've never done before, and it's so sweet."
The eventful VisionQuest episode 8 ending saw Vision and Tommy finally reunite with Billy, and there was even a hint that Wanda could complete the family reunion one day. As for what's next, while VisionQuest season 2 has yet to be confirmed, Matalas and star Paul Bettany have "lots of ideas" about where to go next.
VisionQuest is streaming now on Disney Plus. For more, check out our VisionQuest post-credits scene guide, and how VisionQuest episode 8 could set up Avengers: Doomsday.
