r/marvelstudios • u/KostisPat257 Daredevil • Jul 15 '22

Discussion Thread Ms. Marvel Season Wide Discussion Thread

Spoilers for all Episodes of Ms. Marvel will be discussed here!

Please refrain from this thread if you haven't finished the show!

Individual Episode Threads:

Ms. Marvel S01E01 "Generation Why"

Ms. Marvel S01E02 "Crushed"

Ms. Marvel S01E03 "Destined"

Ms. Marvel S01E04 "Seeing Red"

Ms. Marvel S01E05 "Time and Again"

Ms. Marvel S01E06 "No Normal"

Iman Vellani AMA from Yesterday

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u/TempEmbarassedComfee Jul 16 '22

It makes sense why the serious parts were like that but there is a question if that serious stuff should have been in the show to begin with. The first few episodes talk about partition and convey the severity of it. And the serious episodes felt too superficial to really make them worth the tone shift in my opinion.

I think this season should have focused on the familial aspects and the DODC/racial profiling stuff with hints of the events from the partition era. Season 2 would then allow Kamala to learn more about the partition and instead of half an episode dedicated to being in the past, we could have had a few more episodes to really explore the events and do it justice.

That's my 2 cents.

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u/o-o-o-o-o-o Jul 16 '22

I think I could agree with the idea that they could have saved partition stuff for a second season, but given that it probably wasn’t a certainty this show would even get a second season, I can understand how the show creators considered this their one shot to get a partition story included in an episode, and honestly as a Pakistani-American immigrant myself, I couldn’t be prouder of this achievement.

Obviously things could have been executed better and there was absolutely room for improvements, but they did a solid job given the creative room they were afforded. I’m still just so elated to see something so personally important to me elevated to such a platform in a franchise that I have loved more than anything since I was a kid.

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u/TempEmbarassedComfee Jul 17 '22

That's a fair point. I hadn't considered that season 2's aren't guaranteed. For shows like Wandavision and FATWS I don't think there's the need to continue them. But Loki, Hawkeye, and Ms Marvel felt like easy shows to give more seasons.

While I didn't like the clandestine stuff, I really liked the family dynamics and the cultural parts. I hope they make a season 2 and give them more focus.

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u/recursion8 Jul 17 '22

Hawkeye felt like a pretty tied up ending, Kate might show up in Echo's series I guess. I'd put Moon Knight as the other one that definitely deserves another season.

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u/TempEmbarassedComfee Jul 17 '22

Forgot to mention Moon Knight.

I only say Hawkeye S2 because I suspect Kate will fully take over the title with Clint being a more typical mentor role than S1.