VisionQuest Episode 7 ‘Immolation’ delivers the emotional gut punch this show has been building towards. Sure, this isn’t over yet. There’s still the matter of what’s going to happen to Vision (Paul Bettany) and Jocasta (T’Nia Miller), and who really is behind it all. But it’s hard to care about the ending when this hour gives us Vision allowing himself to feel the grief, and thanks to that, accepting not just himself, but Tommy (Ruaridh Mollica).
There has only ever been one Vision , and this episode sees him realize that the disconnect he felt between memories and feelings was just… a mental block, a protection. If I tell myself this didn’t happen to me, that I don’t “feel” it, then I don’t get to feel the good, but I also don’t get to feel the loss. And Vision has suffered terrible loss. Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) is gone. He believes Billy (Joe Locke) is gone. And the possibility of never having them again is enough to make him not want to be the Vision.
But what is grief if not love persevering, and in this episode we see Vision accept the grief because his love for Tommy demands that he does. There’s no way to save his son, the one he has tried very hard to keep at arm’s length,...