That was retconned away - see this article.
Was there no post-credits scene after episode 3?
I’m enjoying this series a fair bit. It’s all good appealing fun, and I think they’re mostly hitting the mark of respectfully showing Muslim culture without being preachy, pandery, worshipful or condescending.
That said, one thing I thing was silly this episode was Kamala asking the Imam some questions that basically shouted “it’s me! I’m the superhero!”. I mean, everyone should be looking side-eye at her anyhow, as there can’t be THAT many girls approximately the right age and size, at that mosque, who happen to be absolutely mad for superheroes. Someone should at least jokingly accuse her.
The ominous way the other Djinn were shown-in darkness with glowing eyes-makes me think that they may not be “lost exiles” to be pitied and the rest of them may not be so great either.
And wow I hope Iman Vellani never changes. She just seems like such a fun charismatic person.
One presumes exiled to an alternate dimension as punishment for crimes.
Could be. Of course, we only have their word for any of it, and a sob story sounds good to a kid like Kamala who’s grown up hearing about people losing their homes from her parents. I’m thinking we get an alliance between the Djinn and Damage Control as the show goes on.
It was used in The Nevers during the execution scene. Was that what you were thinking of?
if i remember Arabian lore werent genies and dijin and such evil people who were cursed that way to serve forever …?
Yep, that’s it.
Nope.
Thanks, CMKeller. Didn’t know that.
I like the sad version, better, though.
I thought that was pretty obvious from their “there’s a slight delay? lets fucking murder her whole family” reaction…
I thought it was pretty obvious from the moment the guy rose from the swimming pool that he was the antagonist (or antagonist adjacent). They might as well have tattooed it across his forehead.
I sure hope that a show about Muslim protagonists wouldn’t give them opponents who are Hindu gods. That would be inflammatory.
My cousin’s daughter (17, Indian-American (Hindu)) doesn’t like this show. She says it “goes overboard” with the South Asian stuff.
Well, yeah. That’s what the show’s teenage protagonist thinks about her parents, too.
Well, in her experience, Indian-American parents aren’t that overboard. But she also complains about the intensity of all the cultural stuff: clothing, music, the whole Desi-ness of it all. Of course, that’s her own experience. Certainly, south Asian culture in the New York-New Jersey metro area can be intense in a way that isn’t universal.
And I can see that. I have never met anyone as steadfastly traditional as her older brother in the show. That doesn’t mean such people don’t exist though. But she’s a stubborn teenager and she loves tearing apart stuff, which I can relate to.
Hmm, I may have missed this, but was it indicated somewhere that the blue-skinned arm’s erstwhile possessor was an antagonist?
Otherwise, the MCU has often been eclectic with its mythology. In Wakanda, they apparently worshipped both the Egyptian goddess Bastet as well as the Hindu deity Hanuman, and the men T’Challa ‘saved’ Nakia from were depicted as Muslim (in a, shall we say, less sensitive manner than on Ms. Marvel). And of course, there’s a literal Norse deity palling around with the self-professed Christian Captain America; so I wouldn’t think a bit of syncretism to be all that out of the ordinary.
There was no confirmed identity in the episode but based on the rest of the MCU it could be speculated that the arm belonged to a Kree.
When did he ever profess something like that?
