I mean, I enjoyed the episode and it's not like the episode is boring or anything.
It's just that it's mediocre and the story isn't that good.
After Moon Knight's finale, I realized I've been way too generous with these MCU D+ shows and I shouldn't give them that high of a rating when they're decent at best and they all fail to wrap up the story in a natural way in the finale because they have to be only 6 episodes.
So I'm not excited about anything from Disney Plus anymore.
But I'd say this once was decent and the main actress did a good job and the creators also did a good job of introducing us to her family and making her character likable and not cringey. And thank God they didn't make one of her school friends into a horrible school bully cliché (yet), because I'm tired of it and they did that recently in Stranger Things season 4.
The main problem is with the story and the dialogue, because the dialogue, especially between Kamala and her parents, doesn't feel natural and is there only to further the plot and feels artificial. And not to mention that there seems to be something mission between these dialogues because they just jump from every conversation to her mother telling her how disappointed she is in her and stuff. There's just something missing between these that makes it less natural.
And those scenes with her parents are so overdramatized that it's kinda goofy at times. But I kinda get it, I'm from a country where most parents are like that too, so it's not that weird or exaggerated to me.
Another problem with Kamala's character is that her whole motivation and origin story is "I love Captain Marvel because she looks cool, and now I randomly get superpowers because...?" But that's on par with The Marvels! Captain Marvel was also someone who randomly got powers with the worst origin story in MCU, or Monica even.
But at least Kamala has more personality in this 45 minutes and shows more emotion than Carol Danvers did in the entire 2 hours of Captain Marvel.
I'm not saying don't make a Kamala Khan tv show or movie, but at least give her a better origin story or tangible struggles like Peter Parker. Because it makes us question why some more beloved and well-known characters with far better origin stories haven't made even a cameo in the MCU, but she gets to have a show before them.
Also, how do people know what Drax actually looks like or even know who he is? Did Scott Lang describe him that good on the podcast that he has fans now and they know what he looks like?
It's just that it's mediocre and the story isn't that good.
After Moon Knight's finale, I realized I've been way too generous with these MCU D+ shows and I shouldn't give them that high of a rating when they're decent at best and they all fail to wrap up the story in a natural way in the finale because they have to be only 6 episodes.
So I'm not excited about anything from Disney Plus anymore.
But I'd say this once was decent and the main actress did a good job and the creators also did a good job of introducing us to her family and making her character likable and not cringey. And thank God they didn't make one of her school friends into a horrible school bully cliché (yet), because I'm tired of it and they did that recently in Stranger Things season 4.
The main problem is with the story and the dialogue, because the dialogue, especially between Kamala and her parents, doesn't feel natural and is there only to further the plot and feels artificial. And not to mention that there seems to be something mission between these dialogues because they just jump from every conversation to her mother telling her how disappointed she is in her and stuff. There's just something missing between these that makes it less natural.
And those scenes with her parents are so overdramatized that it's kinda goofy at times. But I kinda get it, I'm from a country where most parents are like that too, so it's not that weird or exaggerated to me.
Another problem with Kamala's character is that her whole motivation and origin story is "I love Captain Marvel because she looks cool, and now I randomly get superpowers because...?" But that's on par with The Marvels! Captain Marvel was also someone who randomly got powers with the worst origin story in MCU, or Monica even.
But at least Kamala has more personality in this 45 minutes and shows more emotion than Carol Danvers did in the entire 2 hours of Captain Marvel.
I'm not saying don't make a Kamala Khan tv show or movie, but at least give her a better origin story or tangible struggles like Peter Parker. Because it makes us question why some more beloved and well-known characters with far better origin stories haven't made even a cameo in the MCU, but she gets to have a show before them.
Also, how do people know what Drax actually looks like or even know who he is? Did Scott Lang describe him that good on the podcast that he has fans now and they know what he looks like?