THE VISION
I didn’t care for Avengers: Age of Ultron. Clunky performances. Cliche dialogue. Disappointing bro-humor. I watched it twice and still don’t understand Ultron’s deal. The only character in the movie that stood out for me was The Vision, who I never really cared about at all before.* He delivered, what I thought was the one great line of the film:
“I’m not what you intended.”
Which should be sort of terrifying. The a self-aware robot – a staple of science fiction – usually heralds in a rise-of-the-machines a style mankind-ending apocalypse.
Our self-aware creations would undoubtably see us as broken and stupid. Which we are. There’s no denying it, even on our best days. We can only grasp at self-awareness in a limited, subjective sort of way. Luckily for us, The Vision, who can scan us up and down and see all our meaty flaws, finds value in the absurdity of the human condition.
Instead of a superiority complex, his own super-human self-awareness has resulted in empathy, which, let’s face it, is probably the last thing his creator “intended.”
I think The Vision is refreshing. Despite being cast in a flawed, violent, BAM SMACK POW genre, he can glide through humanity’s detritus unfazed.
by Rogan Josh
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(*I’m also reading the excellent Vision series by King and Walta, which has made me care about the character 100x more.)
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Those Celestial Bodies 