Yes, that was great!
Comparison? Ms. Marvel’s first Big Bad in the comics was a Thomas Edison/cockatiel hybrid who weaponized sewer alligators. Wolverine guest-starred in that story arc.
https://screenrant.com/ms-marvel-had-the-weirdest-villain-in-all-of-comics/
Also, as mentioned before, there is a dog with a tuning fork on its head.
Sorry. I mean that I have no awareness of the comics to compare to. Other than what has been linked to here. For me and maybe a few others this gets judged on its own merits not on how well or accurately it compares to the comics.
I know, I was giving examples. But just comparing the series to the series, leaving Jersey City was a total shift in both visual style and tone—and not in a good way.
I think that, structurally, it was the weakest of the five episodes we’ve been so far. But it was still enjoyable.
Little details I liked:
- the microchip line
- the “find my phone” bit
- Kamala’s necklace breaking, and making the symbol she uses on her actual costume
I also like that her mother found out that she has powers. It’ll be interesting to see an “overprotective mother/superhero teenager” relationship form.
That is Lockjaw and he is adorable.
He’s also not unique to Ms. Marvel. He goes all the way back to Stan & Jack Fantastic Four. How adorable he is depends on who’s writing him.
I agree that the premise of this episode seemed a bit confused. The trip to Karachi and the time travel seems like a big veering away from the story that was being set up in the first few episodes. So now I guess we’ve got one episode left to wrap up things with Damage Control, plus see whether Bruno decides to go to CalTech or stay around and fess up to Kamala that he likes her.
I’m hoping they’re going to get a season 2. Lately, Marvel has the issue where many of their series could and perhaps should have been movies, and their movies could and perhaps should have been series. A Multiverse of Madness series could have been great, and FATWS could have been tightened into a movie.
I’m hoping that as well, even though I have found this first season a bit lackluster. Iman Vellani is a find, and hopefully has a great career ahead of her.
Yes all around there have been some pretty solid performances, but she’s certainly amazing.
Almost to the point that I wonder whether it was just some unused script one of the writers had still lying around, and decided to just ram it in there edgewise, papering over the cracks with chewing gum and toothpicks.
Anyway, I’m not sure where that leaves us. The djinn-threat has been resolved, as has the past of Kamala’s family, which leaves the only left over plot thread that initiated in this episode when Kamran gets powers because his mother… wished very hard? And it’s going to be the season finale, right?
I am enjoying this show and I am appreciating how it is teaching me about aspects of Indian/Pakistani history I knew nothing about. I will say this story seems a little over stuffed and I think the show would have been better served to save the trip to Karachi for a season two.
I was also a little confused about the Clandestine leader’s quick change of heart. When she said she had a way to close the portal I thought for sure she was going to try to sacrifice Kamala to do it.
Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey.
In addition, there’s a moment when Mom and Grandma arrive to find Kamala, and mom’s reaction to “Hey, my daughter’s okay, and has powers” is interrupted by a “Wait a minute - there’s a boy here!” reaction, which was pretty amusing.
Don’t get me started.
My impression of the series is that it’s far more interested in telling the “Pakistani-American teenage girl growing up in a family with intergenerational trauma” story than in the “new superhero saves the world from yet another interdimensional menace” one, and I’m not sure that was a bad call as long as it does move on now that we’ve resolved the whole Kamala/mother/grandma tension thing. The whole “Cometh the hero, cometh the existential threat” narrative can get tedious, given all the superhero shows out there.
But the “Najma died on the way back to her home dimension” quip is a fair point. It was all rather…abrupt.
And the comic is more “Girl who happens to be Pakistani American protects her home neighborhood of Jersey City from petty criminals who are often goofy.” It is much more slice-of-weird-life and much less World Risking Existential Threat. And she is Pakistani-American but it isn’t about being Pakistani-American. Her identification is almost as much about being a fan-fiction writer.
The TV series is like you had an Irish-American hero and the writers said “How about he has his powers because he’s really a pooka! And he time-travels back to the potato famine!”
In fairness, you did just post a page from the comic with Wolverine, a Canadian superhero whose power is health care.
Not at that time.
Of course, before Ms. Marvel there was a Marvel superhero from Afghanistan whose power was being sand.