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Show was good. Mariner still seems to be a person who fails to realize that she's in Starfleet and not some shady asshole military in a different sci-fi universe. I liked the thirsty farm gals and Boimler being oblivious to them. Kudos to them getting James Cromwell as holo Zephram Cochrane.

Jen's new boss, as far as we know, never let people die. His firm represented a person/entity who let people die. Because it's a law firm. Unless I missed something big.

Jennifer wants to be able to eat, wear clothing and not be homeless, so of course she took the job. It's the job of a defense lawyer to zealously represent their client to the point of freeing someone guilty if possible. Legal ethics have almost nothing to do with actual ethics. Her "terrible boss" is the one who hired her after the She-Hulk incident (when no one else would) and then put her in charge of a whole case division in his firm. That doesn't seem to be all that terrible to me.

Probably Steve telling Bruce, "No, I don't want to risk you turning me into a zygote." Honestly, I was joking about the Wakanda Freeze idea. Steve was really old at the end of Endgame and it's been a few years and Steve is probably dead by now. Bringing it back to the actual topic, I liked Jen fishing for superhero gossip/news.

That kind of makes Bucky a cheating bitch because he was clearly trying to date that waitress is Falcon and the Winter Soldier. And there seemed to be a little something brewing between him and Sam's sister as well. If you must fanfic, how about Steve danced with Peggy and lived a full life with her until she died. He then returned and he's now in Bucky's old suspension chamber in Wakanda until the Wakandans figure out how to use vibranium to cure old age?

Just discovered this on Prime and just finishing Episode 2 of Season 1. I'm at the part where Jack is having to apologize to S.AR.A.H. for being late to dinner.

Well, they didn't put him up against Ben, but if they did another "Beat the Unbeaten" with Ben, I could see them bringing in Jesse because "Beat the Unbeaten" would go both ways.

Badgey was an unfinished/still-learning program that got abused by an impatient Rutherford who wanted to show-off for Tendi (who he clearly likes). Abusing a learning machine means that machine will learn to abuse. But the real deal behind that was to let Jack McBrayer and Noël Wells switch roles a bit as an homage to Wander Over Yonder

Probably. What would be the point of a Star Trek conspiracy board that failed to include Garak?

Jesse's kind of fun as the "Ken Jennings" of FiF.

As ridiculous as it might seem, figure right now Carol's best guess could be that her unknown "superfan" somehow brought her to that room. I looked around the scene when Carol arrived (the same way the camera mimicked Carol looking around at all the art) and I didn't see any pictures of Kamala and especially not Kamala with the Bangle. So Carol's going downstairs to find the fan and/or somebody that can tell her WTF just happened.

People generally aren't coldly logical perception/deduction machines - especially when their kids are missing.

Even in the MCU if some weirdo stranger breaks into your house (or at least enters without your permission) and they're dressed in a Spider-Man costume, are you really going to immediately assume that this is the real Spider-Man? It's not going to be a big thing, but figure in the initial moment Kamala's family is going to be "Who the hell are you and where's Kamala?" After that figure that

Probably not. I think the events of Shang-chi took place weeks/months before the events here. Most likely what happened is that Carol picked up the bangle that was the twin of Kamala's and somehow activated it, causing her and Kamala to switch places in space. It's possible that Carol doesn't fully realize what's happened. All she knows is that she's been teleported to the room of somebody who's really, really into her. Figure Kamala's family will help Carol understand what happened once they get past the "Where is Kamala and who is this strange, costumed white woman coming out of her room?" bits.

Also, figure that even if Kamala had somehow shape-shifted into Carol she'd likely still be wearing her Ms. Marvel costume and at the very least, she'd be wearing the bangle. Note that Carol was not wearing a bangle. Figure that while it likely won't actually be shown in The Marvels before Carol can take Kamala home, Shit Will Ensue per the movie.

Presumably because there was no "handle" round since the "Blacksmith's Knife" was all metal with an integral handle. There's no reason they couldn't have had four contestants and eliminate two at the end of the first round, but they're going to do what they're going to do. I was glad that Felicia won. She was really cute and fun.

Probably? Maybe? I don't really know. Though per the end of MoM it seemed like Strange and his new "friend" had a handle on dealing with incursions. Which further adds to the idea that the Djinn's goals are screwed no matter what. That would be an interesting possible cameo. Dr. Strange shows up along with Captain Marvel.

Most of it is I don't specifically seek out those shows. I'm mostly in the Marvel/Star Wars/action-adventure groove. Still, I'm 53 years old with probably a good 45+ years of TV watching. And yeah, first time I recall a positive use of "Allahu Akbar." I'd expect the Kree to show back up in The Marvels movie. Meanwhile, there's no real organic connection of Kamala to the Kree. It's not like she told Brian "It's not the blue girls from Jersey who save the world." Sure, they could have done something with "We want our thingie back." But that can also happen in the movie. Beyond that, think about the Kree strike team from Captain Marvel. Do we really believe that Kamala could handle a force like that as she is now? Probably not. Sure the Clan Destine Djinn are a theoretical threat to the world (though realistically if they did try to tear down that dimensional barrier, Wong and Dr. Strange would show up to magically bitch-slap the lot of them to the bottom of the Marines Trench), but they're also a threat that Kamala can reasonably defeat as she is now. This season is her Kamala centered around her history and culture in a way that sort of maps onto the original comic character (half "alien" exposed to something of her heritage that awakens her powers). Figure there'll be plenty of time for Kamala to get involved in the wider MCU later.

What would count as a "great resolution" in your opinion? To me the show is doing what it needed to do: introduce the character of Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel to the MCU (and the adorable young actress Iman Vellani to the rest of the world). It's doing it in a fun, interesting way that's giving some much needed positive exposure to Islam as a religion, Muslims as other decent human beings and Pakistani culture. None of those three things have been super-common in Western entertainment for the past 20+ years. The previous episode of this show has pretty much been the only time I've heard the phrase "Allahu Akbar" spoken on a Western fiction program by someone other than a terrorist. Could the pacing of things been better? Sure. Are the Djinn great antagonists? Not really (though I'm glad Ms. Marvel didn't end up fighting some kind of super-powered extremist Muslim terrorist or some crap). But if those are the main flaws (and they seem to be) then I say the show's been doing a really good job.

With Damage Control you have several things going on at once. First, Kamala Khan isn't Peter Parker. She's not a white kid from Queens who became an Avenger and Tony Stark's surrogate son. She's an unknown brown person with weird (AKA threatening) powers. So when pursuing her, the DC agent weren't firing at a "child." They were firing at a target, trying to take her down with overwhelming (but basically non-lethal) force and hoping she wouldn't turn out to be willing and able to disintegrate the lot of them if that didn't work. So there's the "militarized police" aspect to Damage Control. Which seems likely to backfire on them when they inevitably do encounter someone both powerful and hostile. Prior to that we had the mosque visit with the camera focused on the (jack?)boots that the Damage Control agents did not bother to remove. So right there you have a combination of aggression and indifference toward the people from whom they'd like to gather information. And then they exacerbated the situation with the attitude of "Don't you want to be one of the "good" Muslims?" Five'll get you twenty that if someone on the show hasn't personally experienced that situation, they're close to somebody who did. They're probably not former HYDRA agents because, honestly, I think HYDRA agents would be smarter than that. Damage Control is likely a bunch of ex-cops/ex-federal law enforcement folks who've been given a lot of ill-defined authority, a big budget and a bunch of toys (that they likely stole from Stark Industries). Right now because they really don't know any better, they're falling back on "flash-the-badge" intimidation, the fact that they likely have oversight that's murky at best and (what they hope is) overwhelming force in any kind of confrontation. They'll abuse a lot of rights, scare a bunch of people and ultimately run into someone (Dr. Doom, Magneto) who'll just eat them.

I think one problem that Marvel is having is grasping the difference between a TV show and a movie. You can't really cut a movie into six parts and call it a TV series. Well, obviously you can and they did and that's part of the problem. But this episode as maybe 5 of 8 or 7 of 10 would likely have worked better. As for the big stakes, screw it. I'm completely fine with seeing this particular brown girl from Jersey actually save the world.

I think one key bits about the Djinn's heel turn was Kamren's mom saying something like "We're out of time." She covered it with "We need to go home." but there might be more to it than simple eager. I mean at the start of the show they had Kamala and the Bangle right there among them at close quarters. They could have just grabbed/forced her then. Instead they tried to persuade her and let her go. I think something changed. Maybe the Djinn have other enemies that are after them and they need to get back home to be safe from whatever is hunting them.

As someone who has watched every episode of every MCU Disney+ show so far, Ms Marvel is the best of them. Every other series has had a kind of "saggy middle" around episodes 2-4. Unless something drastically changes (and I don't think it will) nothing like that has happened here. The acting, directing, cinematography, editing, fight choreography, dance choreography... all of it has been top-notch. I've had to stop watching Obi-Wan Kenobi for now because this show made that one look so cheap, shoddy and amateurish by comparison.

Well, I guess I missed a bunch of extra content because the only times I recall end credits scenes were in the very last episodes of each series. To my knowledge Ms. Marvel is the only MCU Disney+ series to feature an end credits scene in its first episode.

Why not? Per Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings