Paladin

Okay.

And basically, we get to see Paladin.

You know the class of Paladin?

Yes, yes,

yes.

So, somebody's hired the Paladin.

to find White Vision.

So Paladin now gets these coordinates.

So yeah, I'm enjoying at least getting more Ultron out of it.

And Paladin surprises me.

I like the actor a lot that plays Paladin.

I do.

Terribly forgot to write his name, but I love that actor.

That

gets us pretty much to the end of the first episode.

We have Vision getting kidnapped by Paladin, and Vision, quote, sees Thomas in custody.

And then basically some bad dudes roll up to the bar and just fucking murk his boss, don't they?

Yeah, there's this dark web hunter called the Paladin who's got that one British chick who does...

What's her name?

Phoebe Chunk or whatever.

It gets the job done.

But yeah, there you go.

And then Paladin's like, hey, I got your son.

Then he's

It really is.

It's titled Who is Vision Quest's Paladin? His Marvel Comics History Explained.

And, you know, Diaz has this incredible knack for zeroing in on the structural paradoxes of these legacy characters.

He

really does.

And Paladin is perhaps the most glaring paradox of them all.

OK, let's unpack this, because taking a character who functions entirely as a question mark in a 1978 comic panel.

Right.

the SWAT team guy

yeah so that's Paladin

OK.

He's from the comics.

I'm not counting Luke Cage, but yeah.

But yeah, so he was the thing.

Paladin shows up, Heroes for Hire, also like that.

And honestly, the whole time we've been doing this Marvel thing, I've been like, what the fuck is Paladin? Like, Paladin normally would show up in like a Daredevil type show or some shit like that, or Luke Cage or Iron Fist.

He handles them quite easily, of course, and then as he's leaving, he sees this guy standing outside.

And this is the Paladin, who we learn has been hired to...

So there's a bounty on Vision's head... and i'm not sure it's like is he is he being hired by the person placing the bounty or is he being hired by someone trying to collect it's unclear and i suspect yeah it's a reveal is gonna be a

thing like maybe vision did it to himself or ultron did it or like i think there was

not, you know.

Um, anyway, but this person apparently has been using sword encryption, uh, leading us to think maybe it's someone from sword, um, which could also be just a red herring.

Um, Ultron tips off Paladin, uh, as to Vision's whereabouts.

Paladin, or at least how to contact him.

like, my big thing is, like, I want to know who the benefactor is.

Like, you know what I'm saying? I know Paladin.

Like, I'm very invested in it.

That's because Paladin sucks so much.

No, it don't.

But Paladin is always a mercenary for hire.

That's what I'm saying.

So I guess maybe because I know a little bit about the

Basically, the first episode is setting all of this up.

It culminates with Ultron sending an email off to a dark web group that is a bounty put out for the search and retrieval of Vision that sends a villain that we know only as Paladin who initiates an attack on Han vision at the bar while he's talking after hours shoots the, the owner of the bar vision escapes.

That's kind of where we end that first episode, but that is the groundwork for episode number one, gentlemen, your thoughts on this first episode so far.

So it's good.

It's good.

It really is because I, I, and I love Paul Bettany and, and I think he's excellent.

Um, I do like the, I didn't never, I'm not sure who the actor is that's playing the Paladin, but I really like his interaction with the, with the female, uh, that he has, um, sourcing his network too.

I think that's an interesting thing.