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Friend of mine saw it first and it had him in stiches.

 Lance845 wrote:
She is not a Black Widow in either comics or the MCU. And her Father was Immortal because of the Bloodstone. Comics wise, her father had his blood stone embedded in his chest Tony Stark ark reactor style.

When his Blood Stone was removed he aged to his appropriate age (thousands of years old) and turned into a pile of dust and bones.

With her long absence and her combat training, I was wondering if she had been fallen into the clutches of the Widow program and had been recently freed.

MarkNorfolk wrote:

 Lance845 wrote:
She is not a Black Widow in either comics or the MCU. And her Father was Immortal because of the Bloodstone. Comics wise, her father had his blood stone embedded in his chest Tony Stark ark reactor style.

When his Blood Stone was removed he aged to his appropriate age (thousands of years old) and turned into a pile of dust and bones.

With her long absence and her combat training, I was wondering if she had been fallen into the clutches of the Widow program and had been recently freed.

We do not have anything to indicate to us that that ever occurred. Especially because the widows are taken as children and Elsa seems to have run away as some kind of adult after getting lots of training from her father/step mother.

Story wise it takes away a lot of her agency of having made the choice to leave her family's bs behind if she was just kidnapped by the Red Room.

Her character doesn't read as someone who's been ripped away from the bosom of her family and has rushed back to them at the earliest opportunity, only to be devastated that they're too late to be reunited with their father.

Clearly this was styled after the original “The Most Dangerous Game” which is also about 1 hour long. I recommend it.

Fun stuff. I'm not sure I want them to do anything more with it, as its kind of perfect exactly as it is.

Apparently the She Hulk finale this week is a record breaker, for being the shortest finale of any D+ Marvel series so far.

Not really a surprise given the run time of most other episodes, but feels like there's a lot of threads to be gathered up in that time, especially given with what's already known to be in it.

The end of the last episode winkingly already felt like they just hacked off the start of the next for some reason.

I know a lot of the show was revised in post, like the whole car crash scene with Bruce explaining how Jen got her Hulk was supposed to be a reveal a lot later on, only to have it changed to be part of the opening episode, so it's distinctly possible, they'd have just needed a few reshoots for the "why hasnt the episode ended?" break to make it work.

She-Hulk finale has me in stitches. This is fantastic silliness!

I for one can’t wait for the 3 hour youtube videos from those who resolutely fail to get the joke breaking it down whilst saying nothing at all.

Mm. Nah. Didn’t care for it. The forth wall thing was Too excessive for me. I would rather it had just happened in the show instead of having to have the explanation of it beat me over the head.

After the first half of that episode they really need to re-title the show to "She-Hulk: Poisoning the Well". Have I said that already? I feels like I have.

Anyway, that uhh.. did not go where I was expecting it to.

I mean breaking the 4th Wall is one thing. Breaking out of the show, into the D+ menu, getting into a fist fight with Disney Studios security personnel in the Marvel Studios office and then facing down a GLaDOS-version of Kevin Feige... I mean... what?

And then Skaar. And Blonsky. And Daredevil literally falling in from no where. It was a fun episode. A total mess from start to finish, and generally didn't pay off anything the show set up (not talking about the blood-plot), and it wasn't funny... again... but geeze, it was creative! I'll give it that.

I really enjoyed it. I think She Hulk is one of the funniest things they have managed to put out so far. I am going to go back and rewatch in 3ish episode chunks. As I said, I think the show will probably come across better in a binge. Lots of fun. Can't wait for more. fething Skaar man.

Anybody else catch that the centre of K.E.V.I.N's office space is the Imperial logo from Star Wars?

Plus they gave us a proper hallway fight without the misdirect, however brief.

She-Hulk finale…. Well Mrs. GG and I did not see that coming. The show has been mediocre up to this point but this episode finally got some laughs out of me, largely because it was just plain crazy in how much it makes fun of itself, the MCU and the industry itself. K.E.V.I.N was absolutely brilliant. Not sure it was worth it in the end to have watched the otherwise disappointing show given there is so much out there to watch but at least it ended with a laugh.

Well that ended kind of daft, but was harmless enough, although KEVIN should have sounded like Stan

I felt the She-Hulk finale was in line with the series: enjoyable, amusing, occasionally eliciting a laugh out loud, but not top-tier MCU material.

I actually went backwards, and have started watching Agent Carter. The first few episodes have been pretty strong, and the time and place are super solid. Way better than Agents of Shield started.

Left to come this year…

Wakanda Forever. Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.

Also What If?… season 2 allegedly, but that requires the website I’m looking at right now to be up to date.

If for nothing else the recreation of the 80s Hulk intro (Savage She Hulk) made the episode worth watching.

That was a thing of beauty. The “special effects” for her hulk form were *chef’s kiss*.

This show was completely all over the place for me. I hated episodes 1, 3, 5 and 6, but thought the rest were quite good. I have no idea how to score the show as a whole. Really dug the finale, but I suspect it will be hugely divisive.

 Ahtman wrote:
If for nothing else the recreation of the 80s Hulk intro (Savage She Hulk) made the episode worth watching.

That was exceptionally well done. It was nearly frame-for-frame perfect.

Overall I found it an ok enjoyable series. Not great, not bad, but definitely in the lower half of the MCU series to me. The Savage She Hulk opening to the finale was a nice touch, but it was otherwise the worst episode imho, the only one I actively disliked, and the resolution makes little sense to me.

She hulks out, goes into apparent rage and smashes stuff and scares people. But I was set up and embarrassed/provoked by this secret cabal of dudes! Don’t care, you hulked out and smashed stuff and scared these people, no more powers for you. What if I told you the leader of the Cabal was this specific dude? Oh, ok, all charges are dropped then, don’t worry about it.

Why did they even show up to arrest him? Is what he did, once you erase the blood plot and him gaining powers, something they immediately send out cars for and arrest him on your word alone? Absolutely take him to court and sue him for all the money, but the arrest seems odd.

I also didn’t care for the breaking out of the show bit. It just went on too long and I would rather they had simply done and shown her version of the resolution instead of explaining it and beating you over the head with it.

Lastly, why’d she rat out Blonsky for violating his parole? He wasn’t doing anything evil with his powers, and when there was a fight he immediately used them to try to protect her. Sending him back to prison for ten years over thats kind of harsh.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:
If for nothing else the recreation of the 80s Hulk intro (Savage She Hulk) made the episode worth watching.

That was exceptionally well done. It was nearly frame-for-frame perfect.

Ah, I forgot to mention how much I enjoyed that. 👍

She Hulk was nice.

I mean I could offer a more cohesive opinion but nice about covers it.

The 4th wall breaking was clever when Mel Brooks did in Blazing Saddles, fun for Moonlighting and Ferris Bueler and of course the 80 John Byrne She Hulk comics, but 30-40 years later it's... nice.

kickwd off spooky season with Werewolf By Night, suitably silly monster mash and Ms Bloodstone is very much ones cup of tea

 AduroT wrote:

Lastly, why’d she rat out Blonsky for violating his parole? He wasn’t doing anything evil with his powers, and when there was a fight he immediately used them to try to protect her. Sending him back to prison for ten years over thats kind of harsh.

She is a lawyer. Who cares about the law. She spent the entire show trying to handle things legally with the court system. And then during her 4th wall break talked about how she wanted to handle the ending with the law. And Blonski to take responsibility for his actions.

She used her Hulk powers while she wasn’t supposed to either, why does she get a free pass?

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
The 4th wall breaking was clever when Mel Brooks did in Blazing Saddles, fun for Moonlighting and Ferris Bueler and of course the 80 John Byrne She Hulk comics, but 30-40 years later it's... nice.

Good thing that she was breaking the fourth wall since the late 80's in her comics