Thread: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
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Old 10-24-2022, 03:57 AM   #140
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Originally Posted by Fignuts View Post
If it was just using the netflix menu to get somewhere quick, that would have been great, but it was followed by a giant meta dump that abandoned every plot thread.

She talked to writers in the comics but don't recall her ever doing it for half a damn issue.
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Originally Posted by Destor View Post
The dropping the plot is my issue. Theres no resolution.
Yeah, it was kind of a big "fuck you" to everyone. A bigger one than the sometimes-y jank CGI.

I don't just mean where they skipped the ending and hand-waved it away by literally just saying "... and everything worked out in the end" without actually fixing the intentional car wreck that was going on with the "original" climax, but because of that, the whole show was dangerously close to final season of Game of Thrones. But yeah, that thing where they skipped having an actual resolution was pretty lame. I preferred the bullshit made up on Futurama for "Single Female Lawyer" to this.

Like, half the narrative is about Jen being mousey and not having agency in her life until she becomes Shulkie, but the whole show is simultaneously about She Hulk ultimately not having agency in the MCU.

You have a show like Loki, that is a device to explain concepts like different versions of the same person and introduce Kang as an impending big bad. You have something like WandaVision using the narrative devices of old sitcoms in a creative fashion to show Wanda's simultanious detererating mental state and upswing in magical ability.... but it's like this whole thing was just a setup to establish Wong and Abomination having a relationship (not like that) that might as well have had a big placard in front of it that says "for future movie use" and say "Yeah, we got Daredevil on Disney now, suckas!" She Hulk felt almost like an aftertought in her own goddamn show. Even Cousin Larry Appleton being her dad made him seem like more of a story-essential person than her. How are you second fiddle in your own series?

It was kinda fun at times, but in the end, pretty empty. And from the same place that scrapped Squirrel Girl for being "too gay"... which begs the question, how lazy in the writing department would that show have been?
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