Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks, so let us talk about the fifth and sixth episodes of VisionQuest instead? Fair enough, though from Vision’s point of view (pardon the pun), the situation is not much better – Ultron and Jocasta are tangibly in love. Pause?
No, not particularly – Vision might be the titular
character of the show, but the show is about Ultron too – the original MCU synthezoid/robot/A.I./whatever
is learning how to be more humane too. He is learning what it is like to have
family and friends (tentatively, with many caveats, despite his intentions, but
still), and now he is learning what it is like to have a love interest…while
remaining himself. At least that is what I am assuming, ‘cause we still have
two episodes to go, and maybe Ultron will end up a toaster instead. Who knows?
Well, not Vision (White Vision) – the younger synthezoid
is flying blind, he’s one step behind the good ship Ultro-Jo, and he’s kind of
almost constantly flat-footed here, even as the other villains of the narrative
are getting their own things together. On the human half of the VQ, the Paladin
just cannot catch his own break, no one seems to like him, and the sixth episode
of VQ introduced Raza, a member of the 10 Rings, as ‘the bloke who would replace
Paladin’, so the latter is on the run himself.
…We talked about the Shang-Chi movie on its own
merit, I hope. That was not a bad film, and it should be noted that the 10 Rings
acquired new management at the end of that film, so there is that also, which makes
me wonder about Raza’s place in this organization. However, right now, Raza and
the 10 Rings serve as an extra tie of VQ into the greater MCU, and that is
important.
…Yes, again, AAA (or WonderMan, for that matter),
had no particular tie-ins to the MCU – you could watch it or you could skip it,
and there would not be problems in understanding further MCU material. VQ is
different – there are connections to
MCU, and there is no homosexuality or
any sexual minorities at all; all of the relationships we saw (so far) in VQ
are between males and females, both human and A.I. Pause?
No, not really – for the moment, Disney is done with
sexual minorities (in all their versions) in all of its branches. VQ is an
important part of MCU? (Let us assume so). Then there will not be any sexual minorities.
AAA has to have sexual minorities as ‘gender-bending’ Wiccan could cause its
own fall-outs? Then it is not an important part of MCU. (Neither is WonderMan,
BTW). It is like a hole in a wall – it is either there or not, and WandaVision &
VisionQuest on one hand and AAA & WonderMan land on two different sides of
it. Anything else?
Anything else? Not particularly, though this is not
happening just in MCU – look at Disney’s other properties. I.e., Mr. Riordan
finally released a new book, ‘The Wild Zone’, alongside Ms. Oh. It is the same
story as in MCU – Will and Nico’s novels, ‘Sun and Star’ and ‘The Courts of the
Dead’ were all about a same-sex couple – Will and Nico. Now, in ‘The Wild Zone’,
there are no couples, and the potential couples are heterosexual, with few nods
and winks in the background to keep the alternate lifestyle people appeased -
allegedly. If they do not, well… too bad for someone – ‘The Trials of Apollo’ pentalogy
really wrapped all up, and Riordan-verse is de-facto done. Will and Nico tried
to push it forwards, they succeeded, but since they are a same-sex couple
existing in a Republican USA, Disney decided that the situation needs to
change, and just re-set the Riordan-verse instead. Disney already did it with
SW, and now that universe is just
stuck in a dead end. What will happen to Riordan-verse is not known yet. Moreover,
MCU is moving forwards – in a decidedly heterosexual direction. Real life really
does suck sometimes.
Well, this is it for now. See you all soon!
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