Obligatory disclaimer:
real life sucks, and you can always count on your family to make it worse –
especially for you. I am almost done with everything and everyone, and that thought
is scary as fuck – I do not want to go, but I do not want to stay either…
On a more cheery note –
the latest ‘She-Hulk’ episode, ‘The Retreat’, is out, and… how is this more cheery,
exactly? Let us elaborate.
If last week our
titular character tangled with Titania, this week the Abomination is back, and he
is getting therapy? Therapy for super-villains (and others?) is a thing now?
Then where it was in AoS – both Grant and Daisy could have used it, (even if
for different reasons…
Why am I returning to
AoS this time? ‘Cause ‘She-Hulk’ is showing us the Abomination going through
his redemption, apparently… In the Marvel comics, the Abomination is a
monstrous, twisted mirror of the Hulk, while the rest of the characters that’d
appeared at the titular location are nowhere near as powerful, but here, in
MCU, he’s one of the gang, and-
-And the show is about
J.W., because she is the titular character instead – in this episode, she
learns to let go and deal with rejection thanks to one therapy session. Of
course she does. Did the showrunners and co. think that that would make their
titular character slightly less Mary-Suish, maybe? If so, then congrats – they went
down the other way and made her the ‘pathetic forerunner to a Mary-Sue’ cliché:
J.W. genuinely does not do anything on the episode, she just is! This has rather
happened already, in the episode 1x05, but there we had Molly Book and co. to
carry the day, (metaphorically), here – not even that.
In addition, we got
MCU’s Wrecker, from MCU’s Wrecking Crew, in the same place, also going for
therapy. Does it mean that MCU’s Wrecking Crew is done and gone? In Marvel
Comics, the Wrecking Crew was competent and powerful enough to fight the
Avengers regularly enough; here, it is a joke, just as everything and everyone
that becomes associated with MCU’s ‘She-Hulk’. El Aquila can’t be taken
seriously because he is a swashbuckler? So’s the Swordsman, technically, but
MCU’s ‘Hawkeye’ (the series) has given him some respect at least.
Actually, maybe ‘Hawkeye’
warrants some more mention here. The first MCU property that went into outright
comedy territory had been… WV, actually, but that show quickly began to evolve
past that in its’ fourth episode. ‘Hawkeye’, on the other hand, never took
itself too seriously… almost. Once Yelena popped-up, then things began to
sombre up, but the new Black Widow did only come and go… Pause.
Yeah, that ‘Secret
Wars’ trailer – it starred Nick Fury and Maria Hill… and only them, really. You
would think that some of the AoS characters, good or bad, would appear, but apparently
not – clearly, Disney is done with that show.
…Yeah, I remember that
‘Hawkeye’ was also the show that brought back S.H.I.E.L.D. as Ms. Barton’s
watch – but after the initial fandom’s excitement – clearly, they aren’t done
with AoS, it all died down very fast, meaning that Disney/MCU have no intention
of pulling SW – to wit, the latest installments in the SW franchise deal in the
period set in the original trilogy, and not going into ‘the future’ anymore;
they’re flat-out pretending that the sequel trilogy doesn’t exist, and also
wait for the fandom to forget all about it, before going into the future once
more. Barton’s watch might have been their attempt at doing the same thing with
AoS, only it failed, so no more S.H.I.E.L.D in the MCU for real.
…Actually, the same
might be said about S.W.O.R.D. as well – it’d been set-up in WV, true, but
earlier in 2022 we had ‘Ms. Marvel’ and there was no sign of it either;
instead, we had Damage Control, who did the same thing that S.H.I.E.L.D. and
S.W.O.R.D. did, and there were no Skrulls either; given how the ‘Captain Marvel’
film was almost all about the Skrulls, this is just weird – but how does that
connect to ‘She-Hulk’?
It does not, not really.
There were some post-credit pics of J.W. working with folders that have the
S.H.I.E.L.D. eagle logo on it, but nothing else. That is good, because everything
and everyone associated with ‘She-Hulk’ becomes downgraded.
…Therefore, for now, let
us wrap it up. MCU is having problems, and it had them for a while, probably
because of RL issues. Did I mention that real life sucks and blows? Then I am repeating
this, and I will see you all soon instead!
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