I'm watching these back to back and they are all just blend together and I can't distinguish what happens in one episode or the other. I feel like Episode 2 and 3 could be joined together to create an actual "court room" episode for Abomination's case. I have no idea why Marvel would split 1 40 min episode into 2 20 min ones, it's a bit waste of time. Thankfully I waited until the entire season was released to watch these, otherwise it would have been unbearable.
Lets get right to it then, I just think it's tiring reiterating what I find to be the beats this show is going for. You can predict everything, and I mean everything. And for some reason the show's humor is grounded in some commentaries on certain toxic Marvel fans, fans of superheroes in general and the premise of the show itself. The show is so surface level entertainment that it's hard to take any of it seriously. The humor doesn't work, like, the timings are all wrong and yet they are there. Emil's case was so "came and went", no lawyer-show shenanigans, complications of any sort, they even cut away Wong's explanation of how he so unusually liberates a villain monster with no remorse nor apparent complex reasons; or if there were they were, not only were they never disclosed in front of the law, but he suffered no consequences whatsoever. Just for the punch line of "oops, time for me to leave through my portal and not deal with the consequences of my actions" and let's not talk about it ever again. So my question is: is this happening in the MCU? Like, is this the same MCU where a megalomaniac titan killed half the universe and where a superhero act was imposed to superheroes to lead them to a Civil War; where the multiverse was split by outwordly magic, where aliens attacked big cities,... And now we have some magic people doing bad things and "we are just gonna let him go, but hey, don't do it again ey!".
I know the show is trying to take itself very very comedically, like, insanely comedically. Like even the news reporters don't seem serious at all about any and all repercussions of the current state of circumstances. I'm all for new genres and filmmaking styles in the MCU but if this show is going to function so closely to the "main MCU events and storyline", like, this is happening in LA of all places. Then I might need a little dose of reality. Also, curiously, I heard of the twerking scene and I know its purpose is comedic and actually a commentary on social media trends... But it actually happened "after the credits" so, even though it still happened and is a crime against humanity, I don't know, it's still not in the main episode runtime. It seems like an afterthought. So I guess I can excuse it, I literally had no idea there were after credits scenes in this show until now tho.
Overall, meh. I am waiting for when the show gets good I guess. Though it may never be. It just feels like a series of skits and gags one after the other, just scene building after scene and comedian cameos coming in and out. I guess I like the quirky characters, but they are like cartoon-level one dimensional. They are just a quirk. Is not even sitcom level anymore, every court case is like how I assume I would write court room scenes given my zero expertise in law or law-related shows. I just feel bad for the She-Hulk fans who were expecting more out of this show, i would have like to pat them in the back and tell them to join the club of disappointed new-phase-4-Marvel-state of the MCU.
Lets get right to it then, I just think it's tiring reiterating what I find to be the beats this show is going for. You can predict everything, and I mean everything. And for some reason the show's humor is grounded in some commentaries on certain toxic Marvel fans, fans of superheroes in general and the premise of the show itself. The show is so surface level entertainment that it's hard to take any of it seriously. The humor doesn't work, like, the timings are all wrong and yet they are there. Emil's case was so "came and went", no lawyer-show shenanigans, complications of any sort, they even cut away Wong's explanation of how he so unusually liberates a villain monster with no remorse nor apparent complex reasons; or if there were they were, not only were they never disclosed in front of the law, but he suffered no consequences whatsoever. Just for the punch line of "oops, time for me to leave through my portal and not deal with the consequences of my actions" and let's not talk about it ever again. So my question is: is this happening in the MCU? Like, is this the same MCU where a megalomaniac titan killed half the universe and where a superhero act was imposed to superheroes to lead them to a Civil War; where the multiverse was split by outwordly magic, where aliens attacked big cities,... And now we have some magic people doing bad things and "we are just gonna let him go, but hey, don't do it again ey!".
I know the show is trying to take itself very very comedically, like, insanely comedically. Like even the news reporters don't seem serious at all about any and all repercussions of the current state of circumstances. I'm all for new genres and filmmaking styles in the MCU but if this show is going to function so closely to the "main MCU events and storyline", like, this is happening in LA of all places. Then I might need a little dose of reality. Also, curiously, I heard of the twerking scene and I know its purpose is comedic and actually a commentary on social media trends... But it actually happened "after the credits" so, even though it still happened and is a crime against humanity, I don't know, it's still not in the main episode runtime. It seems like an afterthought. So I guess I can excuse it, I literally had no idea there were after credits scenes in this show until now tho.
Overall, meh. I am waiting for when the show gets good I guess. Though it may never be. It just feels like a series of skits and gags one after the other, just scene building after scene and comedian cameos coming in and out. I guess I like the quirky characters, but they are like cartoon-level one dimensional. They are just a quirk. Is not even sitcom level anymore, every court case is like how I assume I would write court room scenes given my zero expertise in law or law-related shows. I just feel bad for the She-Hulk fans who were expecting more out of this show, i would have like to pat them in the back and tell them to join the club of disappointed new-phase-4-Marvel-state of the MCU.