Finally, she uses the “e” word! (Which I was waiting for.)
The other word used in this episode, I was not expecting. If you have seen it, you know the word I mean. It was a big word to be using.
Oh, and there is a mid-credits scene, where she gets a visit from Chuck Cunningham.
I quite enjoyed that post-credits scene, but, then again, I’d watch Brie Larson read the phone book. Not even out loud. Just her sitting in a chair while flipping silently through the white pages. I think she’s that gorgeous.
I also loved the little moments that having overprotective (in fairness, I don’t know if this level of protectiveness means that she has overprotective parents, or if teenage girls in Muslim families are normally watched this closely) parents can influence. Towards the beginning of the episode, she’s running above ground on the platforms she creates, and she stops at an intersection until the light turns green. That was a nice, subtle touch that adds to the character’s depth.
The show started out great, and ended up just good. I enjoyed it quite a bit.
I cackled at the “word” being used and the little musical sting. I don’t know that it needed a “one week later” bit, though. That felt like a last-minute addition. And the mid-credits scene was hilarious. An off-screen reaction would have been perfection.
All in all a pretty decent ending. Wouldn’t have minded Zoe and Nadia getting together like in the comics but I get they didn’t have time.
Giving two episodes in the middle to a different director who more commonly does documentaries was taking a chance that didn’t quite work: they did not flow or transition well. I liked those two episodes, and I liked the Jersey ones. But they were less for being mushed into one show.
It reminds me in a very roundabout way of Full Metal Jacket in that way. I know Kubrick did the entire picture, but the tonal shift after the Marines leave basic training makes it feel like a completely different film. Same thing with Ms. Marvel, and those middle two episodes.
I felt the whole “town surrounds the hero and protects her from the authorities” thing was a bit trite, but aside from that, I liked the episode. Her mother giving her her costume, and her family knowing overall, is good…hiding the powers from the family has been too long a trope of the teen (or younger) hero genre, quite frankly, it’s usually more trouble for the hero than it’s actually worth.
The post-credits scene seemed to me like some sort of homage to how Rick Jones and Mar-Vell used to exchange places using wristbands, but Carol Danvers has never been shown to have a corresponding one, right? And did anyone catch what she said at the end?
I think Imani Vellani does a fantastic job and I look forward to seeing more of her on screen.
My only complaint, in the end, is I would have liked to have heard a bit more Bon Jovi music.
No, she hasn’t. And they never really brought up the other bangle again, did they? I think she says something like “Oh, crap!”
The closed captioning said that she kept repeating “no, no, no”
And who could possibly forget The Arabian Knight
This is a departure from the comics. The comic series started in 2014. Her father didn’t discover her identity until 2019 (though her mother knew earlier). He took it…poorly. That story arc ended with aliens mind-wiping both her parents’s knowledge of her identity, which is the situation till this day.
So the Red Daggers were a whole secret society dedicated to fighting just a small group of (pretty unimpressive) people for hundreds of years?
I would just like everyone to know that the trains in Jersey City are well maintained and not covered in graffiti. That is all.
Maybe they were good at hiding. That one guy killed like three himself.
Yeah, we never really got much story as to why the Blandestine were so dangerous.
Unless I missunderstood something they were dangerous because their method of returning home would not send them there but pull their reality here which would be bad.
You’re correct. I suppose I was just being snarky because I felt their menace wasn’t built up very well. Perhaps if they’d been after her or contacted her from the beginning then turned bad the punch would have been greater.
But this was also supposed to be a lighter series as opposed to the others, so it makes sense they wouldn’t have the same weight as the TVA, for example, or the bad guys from CATWD.
Sorry to seem pedantic, but do you mean Falcon and the Winter Soldier (FATWS)? The double typo confused me.
Dangit! I really need to stop posting from my phone. And also to review my posts better I suppose.
Some other geography nitpicks:
If you said to someone in Jersey City to go to “the harbor” they would probably have no idea where you mean. There are a couple of marinas that have weekend sail boats and such but nothing you could call a harbor.
When Kamala was chilling on the street lamp it looked more like she was in Hoboken than Jersey City. This one goes back to the advertising before the show even aired since they used that image.