Full spoilers follow for VisionQuest Episodes 3 and 4, which are streaming now on Disney+.

VisionQuest is turning out to be quite the pleasant little surprise. What initially seemed like an obligatory but unneeded follow-up to a loose end from WandaVision is rapidly developing into a series with plenty of heart, soul, and depth of its own. It never pays to count out Paul Bettany's synthetic hero.

Mind you, entertaining as the first two episodes were, my one real reservation with VisionQuest out of the gate was that it was a bit difficult to connect with this version of Bettany's character. As he himself says, he has all the memories of the original Vision but none of his soul. Given how poignant and utterly human Vision was in his past MCU appearances, seeing a cold, aloof, emotionless copy of that character takes some getting used to.

But that problem quickly starts to fade in Episodes 3 and 4. Already, White Vision is making great strides in terms of understanding his emotions and internal conflict and embracing this side of himself he doesn't quite understand. Compared to the Loki series, which basically relied on a quick-and-dirty speedrun to transform the 2012-era Loki (Tom Hiddleston) into something more resembling his post-Thor: Ragnarok self, this feels like a more coherent and purposeful way of bridging the gap between two wildly different versions of an MCU character.

Certainly, Bettany has a lot more to work with in these two episodes, both comedically and dramatically.

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