Second episode was also great.
Interesting that they’re giving her….gifts….or something. Curious how they explain that one.
I’m only 2 episodes in and I thought it was obvious. Her ancestors are “watching over her” (I hate that crap…but it’s a minor gripe)
I mean, I guess? But Marvel has been pretty good at avoiding stuff like that. Even in What If, they got their power from the tesseract. Why would ancestors only watch over her? A criminal trying to murder a bunch of people and give her powers? It's just a bit weak if ALL it is, is her ancesters are watching over her. I get that that's how she's going to see it from the beginning, but I'll be pretty disappointed if that's all it is.
I'm only through ep. 2 as well, so this is all guesses and not spoilers, but here's my take so far:
-I kind of get the sense that her ancestors weren't all pure and had a dark streak as well. I have nothing concrete to definitively base that on, but just little hints of things in those flashback scenes that make me go "Hmmm." So them choosing her, despite her dark path, might not actually be incongruent.
-As for "why her?" specifically, I think maybe there are some hints there as well. Judging from things the grandma has said, I think there is something "special" about her family, and maybe the ancestors choose to reveal themselves to certain people in that specific family, so Maya would not be unique in that regard. And with Fisk having his hands in the tribal dealings in that town in Oklahoma, maybe the angle they are going for is that Fisk and his organization are corrupting the tribe, and Maya, with her personal feud with Fisk is perfect (from the ancestors' point of view) to be the liberator that ends that.
A couple of other stray thoughts so far:
-As much as I want to get through this series, I'm kind of glad that circumstances have made it too hard to just binge it, and that I am being forced to take my time digesting it.
-That train sequence was SO dark. I literally could not tell what was going on at all at first and had to crank of the contrast on my tv and go back and watch it again.
-I like the pacing. Given that there are only 5 episodes, it's slightly anxiety inducing at times to see the show taking its time and not moving more directly toward an obvious resolution. But ignoring that we only have three episodes left, and giving the writers the benefit of the doubt that they know what they are doing and won't rush the ending, the pacing actually feels good. Not too fast; not too slow. There were times during the first part of episode 1 where they were leaning heavily on flashbacks from Daredevil and Hawkeye where I found myself getting a little restless, given how long that was. But I get what they were going for with the Marvel Spotlight stuff trying to NOT rely on folks having seen everything that came before in order to be able to keep up, and I think it actually worked quite well. I have no idea whether there actually are a significant number of fans watching this who didn't watch all of Hawkeye AND all of Daredevil that needed to be spoon fed the background, but I think how it was done would have worked well for that segment. For those that do have the background, there was sufficient new material to still make it interesting and engaging, and to tie it all together into a meaningful background for Maya. Overall, I thought it was a pretty good way of laying a lot of background for the character and why the particular story of this series is being told. So even that part where, in the moment, the pacing may have felt a bit slow and felt like they were doing a bit
too much background was actually really good in the grand scheme of things.
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