When Kamala is reprising the opening to the 1980s film “Adventures in Babysitting” (singing and dancing st her house) I was thinking “She’d best friends with Stargirl”
Maybe she has seen the movie…
P.S. I loved Kamala’s mom after seeing Kamala faint: “Did you not eat enough? Did you eat too much?”
Episode 3:
I love how they show Muslims in a positive light. We see more of that, and I love how Kamala’s parents seem to genuinely want to help her and support her. It’s refreshing.
We got a little more info on the Big Bad. While her motivation may be honorable, her methods are, shall we say, not.
Damage Control tears its head again, but I look for them to be an ally in the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” way, at least temporarily.
No complaints about this episode, and I liked the Erik Selvig reference. I’m not a fan of the “best friend/unrequited love interest is a technological genius” trope, but Bruno isn’t bothering me too much yet.
That wedding was so unabashedly joyful, I nearly wanted to jump up and join the dancing. Well, until the Djinn arrived…
I think I missed something about their motivation, though. One moment, they’re all, “help us to get back to our dimension, pretty please”, and like ten seconds later, it’s “if you don’t help us now, we’ll kill all you love, and oh you’ve betrayed us for some reason”. I mean, I didn’t even get any indication that they might think Kamala wasn’t up to helping them? Was that explained in some more depth?
Also, what’s the connection between them and the ten rings? In the scene in the temple where they recover the bangle, there’s a shot from above and a design on the floor that’s the ten rings-logo. Is the dimension those Djinn are from supposed to be the same mystical dimension featured there? (Ta Lo? Between Shang Chi, Dr. Strange, and Iron Fist, I’m having some difficulty keeping my mystical realms straight…)
And was that supposed to be a Kree arm the bangle was attached to? I think they’re the only blue people we’ve met so far in the MCU, right? Although I seem to remember that the avatars of Hindu deities also typically were depicted as blue-skinned, so maybe there’s a connection there?
seen this a couple of days ago
… and there were so many jerks in msns comment section that it seems they removed it
I think the number of episodes is partly to blame. It’s been a reoccurring problem in that they must cram a good story into just a few episodes. I wish their relationship with Kamala could have been explored more while she thought they were good, and I agree the turnaround to bad guys was abrupt.
I wonder if “Djinn” will turn out to mean “Dire Wraiths”, because THAT would be interesting.
I think so. Since they didn’t remark on it being Smurf-colored it seems they were expecting it?
Bah-editing woes.
I’d heard of the ClanDestine comic, but somehow missed that they were part of Marvel. I just thought they were independent or DC for some reason. I hang my head in geek-shame
Or not.
They could be welding stuff together, perhaps? Like the band is a Quantum band and isn’t intended to send them home, but they want to jury-rig it?
It is interesting that they wanted to avoid the Inhumans so much that they made Kamila a genie.
Also, as not a watcher of the MCU movies, is there something about the MCU Wakanda that made it an inappropriate choice for Brono’s dream school location, replacing it with Caltech?
Understandable, the Inhumans are pretty terrible. I’m pretty sure the only reason she was an Inhuman in the comics was editorial was trying to kill off the X-Men brand because they didn’t have the movie rights.
Turns out that the genies are an even more obscure Marvel property that I didn’t recognize.
I don’t know why they changed it but to me it feels like making it Wakanda would make it too much of an obvious “yes, of course I will immediately go… when does my plane leave?” situation.
You would be correct. This came straight from Ike Perlmutter, who directly ordered the comics division to promote the Inhumans so it would be a viable alternative to the X-Men for adaptation to other media. Almost the instant Disney finally sidelined Perlmutter and put Feige in charge of the whole shebang, the Inhumans were dropped back down to the C-list. It’s totally unsurprising that this new TV adaptation would set up an alternative origin.
But he did have the best line of the night.
“I’m a Djinn” (pronounced “gin”)
“…and tonic?”
Yeah, I know about Perlmutter - when rumors first started circulating that Marvel was killing off the X-Men books, I didn’t believe it at first, because it was so incredibly short sighted. Fox was basically making multiple hundred million dollar commercials for the books, so they stop publishing new ones?
Fucking insane.
What I’m not sure about is the extent to which Kamala’s origin story in the comics reflected G. Willow Wilson’s original intent, and how much was dictated by editorial. Would she have been a mutant? Some other, unrelated origin? Or was Wilson really jazzed about using Lockjaw (objectively the only good Inhuman character)?
I think you may have stumbled on the answer. It’s all about Tuning Fork Dog.
Lockjaw is the most sad inhuman ever.
Animals aren’t affected by the terragen mists. Only humans. Lockjaw was once human, and everyone treats him as a dog.
That might have been Mar-Vell’s arm shown in the flashback.
I didn’t think making her a Djinn was that great of an idea but it does tie into the interdimensional aspects that MCU is delving into now. I’m interested in seeing how it shakes out.