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VisionQuest opened with a heartfelt look at what love, care, loss, and grief truly mean as you make yourself anew. The story hinges on the well-known and viral quote from WandaVision, “What is grief if not love persevering,” and I ain’t mad at it! While the beginning half of the new series boasts what feels like a bit of gratuitous violence and action sequences, it also provides emotional support that builds investment for the rest of the season. But the emotional mysteries uncover a lore we all are hooked on. For what is fandom but hyperfixation persevering?
Sonny The series takes on a popular new wave of film and television, portraying genre rather than pumping out the average superhero action plot, summary, and pace. We’ve seen this more notably in DC’s newer IP with Penguin as a mobster drama, Lanterns as a true crime program and Clayface as body horror. What superhero films and series seem to have done to survive the ‘superhero fatigue’ is remember that films existed before their mega-million-budgeted, decade-long connected films and universes did. There were horror films, dramas, comedies, murder mysteries, romance films, and so much more. These genres gripped people through their storytelling and characterization. Much like comics and graphic novels. The wow factor of superhero films has long been overworked, and people are consistently looking for more. Are we all glad they have delivered? I think time will tell. While Taika Waititi brought comedy to the MCU with …
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Aisha Jordan
Aisha Jordan is an Actor, Writer, and Producer in new media with a B.A. from The New School and M.A. in Arts and Politics from NYU. She’s a Podcast Producer on I Love a Lifetime…
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