VISIONQUEST Star Reveals a Fun Easter Egg You Probably Missed in the WANDAVISION-Style Finale
by Joey Paur · GeekTyrantMarvel went full sitcom madness in the VisionQuestfinale, bringing back some of the goofy television magic that made WandaVision such a blast. The episode takes a wild turn with a sequence called UltraVision, and according to star Emily Hampshire, filming it was just as much fun as watching it.
Spoilers ahead for the VisionQuest finale!
The finale finds Vision and the gang entering his Mindspace, which has been transformed into a full-blown television sitcom. Their mission is to convince Ultron to abandon his plan to unleash nanobots on humanity and take over the world.
Apparently, the best way to stop a murderous AI is to stick him in a sitcom and hope he learns a valuable lesson. Naturally, things go completely off the rails when Ultron decides to take control of the show himself.
The UltraVision sequence is one of the finale's most entertaining moments, bringing VisionQuest back to its WandaVision roots while having some fun with classic television conventions.
Hampshire, who plays E.D.I.T.H. in the Marvel series, told GamesRadar+ that she particularly loved filming the sitcom's opening credits, which feature a few moments that viewers might have missed.
"I loved Ultravision, I loved it so much. Actually, my favorite part of it, though, is the opening credits. 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."
Those opening credits are worth another look. The sequence races through a collection of fictional sitcom episodes, complete with some ridiculous TV-inspired titles, including How I Met Your Creator, Malware in the Middle, and Two and a Half Synths.
It's the kind of wonderfully stupid humor that works perfectly when you're dealing with artificial intelligence trying to figure out humanity.
Interestingly, there's no reference to Schitt's Creek, the hit comedy in which Hampshire played Stevie. However, working on UltraVision did remind the actress of her sitcom days, although Marvel's production was operating on an entirely different level.
"What brought me back a lot was in Schitt's Creek, you open a door on that set, and the walls shake," she laughs. "You go into the Mindspace, there is a working elevator.
“Like when I've had an elevator in a show back in Canada, there are two guys on either side pushing doors closed to make it seem like it works. This was epic. Like everything was practical and you could touch it."
That's a pretty hilarious comparison, especially considering how much of the UltraVision sequence looks like an old-school television comedy.
For all the expensive Marvel production work, the finale's biggest charm comes from something much simpler: watching a bunch of synthetic beings play sitcom characters while trying to prevent humanity's extinction.
It’s funny, and it gives VisionQuest a chance to reconnect with the strange television world that helped make WandaVision stand out in the first place.
If you missed those opening-credit Easter eggs, the UltraVision sequence might be worth another watch. There's more going on in those few seconds than you might have caught the first time.