Oh, how my hopes were up. After the way the previous episode ended I thought "Okay, maybe the slacking off part of the show is over, let's get to the meat of it all". They set up some evil people who wanted to steal her blood, they teased the appearance of Daredevil, they even have a character moment for Jen in the trademark courtroom scene.
Well, the episode starts by telling us this is some sort of wedding "filler episode" of some sort, which works in other comedy shows but doesn't in this show because it was never exclusively comedic or there were any story or character development we were following; and also the lawyer scene with the paralegal friend with the immortal dude and the whole "you don't know how to have an argument with your partner" gag... Did not do it for me. Unless the backstory to this immortal man ends up being super wild, I have zero interest in anything to do with this subplot. I don't even see what it has to do with She-Hulk's story, it's literally filler. Or worse, a social commentary with no purpose in the current story but a throwaway woke thought. Okay...
And wow, this episode is the final proof I feared I would find. The reason why this show was deemed feminist and man-belittling. Between the lawyer subplot with the immortal man and the way they portray men in the wedding with the whole "the groomsmen got their suits wrinkled because they were playing videogames" it's completely denigrating and uncalled for. Every single man in this episode is either stupid, childish or completely oblivious. And that's a bit much, even if it's for the punchline of a joke. I know there were some dumb men in the show but this is a new low. I mean, I don't mind a bash on our gender and bad behaviors but this is too much.
Everybody is drunk in this episode, and not to be amusing or trigger any sort of plot thread or start a new character conflict. Even the one thing Jen wasn't supposed to do, which was turn into She-Hulk, when she did there were no consequences because... people were drunk! Oh my god, there's just no logic to this show. No structure or endgame of its own, it really just wants to be shallow entertainment, bare bones characterization and narrative.
Trolls, reddit-bootleg version, memes that lead to death threats. I feel there is a way of going about the way society and social media work these days, to actually create conflict in the narrative. But man, everything they use them for is surface level and just a woke-attack. Is it so hard to have them coherently use or excuse their use by creating something actually constructive for the show rather than having another banter or hit at men and toxic fans. Not that I am defending trolls or toxic fans, but I want to believe they aren't just using their mention in the show just to have a hit at them.
I have no idea what they plan to do with this, but by god it better be at least cohesive. So far it's loosing me.
Well, the episode starts by telling us this is some sort of wedding "filler episode" of some sort, which works in other comedy shows but doesn't in this show because it was never exclusively comedic or there were any story or character development we were following; and also the lawyer scene with the paralegal friend with the immortal dude and the whole "you don't know how to have an argument with your partner" gag... Did not do it for me. Unless the backstory to this immortal man ends up being super wild, I have zero interest in anything to do with this subplot. I don't even see what it has to do with She-Hulk's story, it's literally filler. Or worse, a social commentary with no purpose in the current story but a throwaway woke thought. Okay...
And wow, this episode is the final proof I feared I would find. The reason why this show was deemed feminist and man-belittling. Between the lawyer subplot with the immortal man and the way they portray men in the wedding with the whole "the groomsmen got their suits wrinkled because they were playing videogames" it's completely denigrating and uncalled for. Every single man in this episode is either stupid, childish or completely oblivious. And that's a bit much, even if it's for the punchline of a joke. I know there were some dumb men in the show but this is a new low. I mean, I don't mind a bash on our gender and bad behaviors but this is too much.
Everybody is drunk in this episode, and not to be amusing or trigger any sort of plot thread or start a new character conflict. Even the one thing Jen wasn't supposed to do, which was turn into She-Hulk, when she did there were no consequences because... people were drunk! Oh my god, there's just no logic to this show. No structure or endgame of its own, it really just wants to be shallow entertainment, bare bones characterization and narrative.
Trolls, reddit-bootleg version, memes that lead to death threats. I feel there is a way of going about the way society and social media work these days, to actually create conflict in the narrative. But man, everything they use them for is surface level and just a woke-attack. Is it so hard to have them coherently use or excuse their use by creating something actually constructive for the show rather than having another banter or hit at men and toxic fans. Not that I am defending trolls or toxic fans, but I want to believe they aren't just using their mention in the show just to have a hit at them.
I have no idea what they plan to do with this, but by god it better be at least cohesive. So far it's loosing me.