MCU Vision is not Ultron. Never was.
Killian being a villain wasn't a twist. Im pretty sure anyone woth half a brain-cell knew that he would turn out to be a baddie. I mean, the dude is called "Aldrich Killian", being evil might as well have been on the guy's birth certificate. The twist I was referring to, was The Mandarin being fake. I expected Killian and The Mandarin to maybe be in kahoots or something, but I never in a million years expected The Mandarin to be a complete fabrication, especially not as goofy as it was.
The canonicity of the MCU's shows outside of D+ has been in question, in my mind, for a while.
Ike Perlmutter being a racist POS, and the shit-flinging contest between him and Feige thanks to Perlmutter being a racist POS, rendered AoS non-canon. Along with the other shows and Netflix Marvel. Perlmutter retained creative control over the television stuff while Feige had creative control over the films, after the 2015 Marvel Studios restructuring that saw Feige reporting directly to Disney. Hence Daredevil and Jessica Jones season 1's referencing the Avengers whereas everything after it had no MCU tie-in, whilst MCU tie-ins on AoS ended mid-season 2 and Agent Carter was only minimally tied into the MCU.
The more interesting story is how SWORD managed to wrestle a few billion dollars' worth of vibranium in the form of Vision's "corpse" away from Wakanda.
It's possible they made the claim they "owned" vision(the SWORD director more or less said this when Wanda confronted him) and somehow made it work legally(Don't ask me how that works), or they offered Wakanda some kind of sweetheart deal in return.
I guess it was because I just didn't know the character and the character is what you'd think he was if you didn't know the character.
See I'm guessing they offered aid. I mean Vision is dead in Wakanda, but so is Black Panther, Shuri, the Queen, half of the Wakanda's armies, etc...
Reminding his agent he actually has a movie deal so why would he waste his time on TV?
Honestly my thought was money is money, and they simply didn't have the budget to afford him, even for a 1 episode cameo. Its why I never thought they'd get Patrick Stewart or James McAvoy, just getting them on set would have broken the bank for a subscription service streaming show.
I'm sure they are and I bet you do. I'm not walking around with a sandwich board telling people Disney is cancer, even if it spreads like one.
It's always money. They already tried to get A-listers on Agents of Shield and the most they could swing was 2 minutes of Nick Fury. Look up the TV interview where the Coulson actor pitches the show to RDJ & co. It's embarrassing.
Which is a shame because if anyone doesn't need to worry about money, in an MCU star. Robert Downey Jr has more money that the entire lifetime's networth of everyone on this forum combined, he doesn't need to act a single second ever again and his great great great grandchildren will still live comfortably. He has hundreds of millions of dollars, and knowing Hollywood financing its mostly in secret holdings in barely legal off shore accounts on some small island nation that exists purely as a tax haven.
I think it's less about the material need for money and more of a status thing. Robert Duvall always tells the story of why he refused to return for Godfather III: not because he wasn't offered a shit ton of money, but because Pacino was given 5 times that. How much of a slap is it for TV actors when a guest star makes more money in an afternoon than they do all year working the same venue? And how humiliating is it for the star to have people either think your movie career is over or that you're contractually obligated to fly-bys like some kind of party clown? Also, the real money in TV is the backend. Notice how any show starring a big shot is almost invariably exec produced by that big shot, either because they want to break into creative work and/or they get to work on their own terms, something Disney would never allow.
I realize that a TV show that budgets Patrick Stewart as its main draw and focus has a much bigger PS budget than an third rung Marvel show, when Patrick Stewart isn't even in the MCU.
