Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks, so let us talk about the trailer for the upcoming ‘She-Hulk’ series; even as a trailer, there is already controversy surrounding it, as some people have called it ‘woke crap’. To this, sirs and madams, I can reply with this repartee: and what is so woke about it?
What does the trailer actually depict? The titular
character, of course, albeit in her depiction as a metahuman lawyer, rather
than a vigilante or anything like that. This was a period in the She-Hulk’s
comic life, though the last time I saw her, her character was redesigned, and
she was working with the Avengers’ in her cousin’s place, while Bruce Banner
did his own thing, with his own crew, as the Immortal Hulk, or something to
this extent. Consequently, in the trailer, we see the She-Hulk mostly in her
lawyer incarnation, we see her interacting mostly with Bruce in his green state
and with her bestie, (an unnamed white female lawyer), and some shots of the
Abomination as well.
What else does the trailer tell us? Why, nothing – it shows,
not tells, just as the ‘Ms. Marvel’ trailer did. Only, in case of Kamala, we
also learned that Disney/MCU has redesigned her character; in the comics,
Kamala is an InHuman – her powers come from inside, from her DNA. In MCU,
Kamala is not an InHuman – her powers will come from some cosmic bracelet
instead. This is not surprising – between AoS’ InHumans being all over the
places, and the ‘InHumans’ 2017 TV series being simply insipid, Disney/MCU
doesn’t want to bring back the InHumans at all, (which makes bad news for Chloe
Bennett’s Daisy/Quake character, but I’m done caring about her by now), so
naturally Kamala is getting a redesign… just in time to meet her S1 archnemeses…
who appear to be bland corporate types. Right. Where were we?
Right, the trailer for ‘Ms. Marvel’ was rather insipid
in its’ own right, and the trailer for ‘She-Hulk’ is the same. Both trailers
show the titular characters doing things, such as acquiring their powers, but
nothing to little else. This is frustrating to the viewers to say the least,
and so, naturally, they begin to accuse the two shows of being ‘woke crap’ –
but there is nothing ‘woke’ about either ‘Ms. Marvel’ or ‘She-Hulk’ – the two
trailers are just crappy, and that is that. Whether or not the same can be said
about the actual shows remains for the future, when they will come out onto the
streaming services…
For now, this is it. See you all soon!
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