''She-Hulk: Attorney-at-Law'' Season Finale - Perhaps Disappointing as a 'Common' Superhero Story, but PERFECT as ''Exactly What It Is''
@mythociate (21437)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 13, 2022 11:54am CST
I saw the "SHE-HULK: Attorney-at-Law" season-finale this morning (yes, I 'staked out' my Disney+ service this morning like a ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW fan waits in line for the midnight showing), and ... I'll try not to 'spoil' the specifics, but ... well ...
People have been complaining that 'Phase 4'-heroines are getting treated with "kid gloves" due to the "toxic wokeness" (that says 'white man = bad, & women are always perfect,' where their abilities don't seem "earned," but just 'delivered to them and fully developed').
And it LOOKED LIKE She-Hulk was going that way---whereas Hulk had to develop his understanding & use of his powers over YEARS, She-Hulk-just 'got some of his blood in her system' & -could outperform him almost instantly! But in the last few episodes, we're seeing that she DOES have struggles adjusting to her new dual life (and in following seasons we COULD ret-con some of the struggles she went through to get her attorney-at-law degree & position while dealing with her family's genetic rage-problem 
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But that's not even 'the best thing!' What's best is--as has been hinted at a little where she 'broke the fourth wall' in earlier episodes--She-Hulk totally tore the fourth wall down ("SHE-HULK SMASH!") and rebuilt it the way we Millennials want it.
She stopped the story, crawled through the Disney+ menu-screen to the SHAAL writers'-room, and they tell her they can't change the story---that it's controlled by KEVIN. So she makes them let her see KEVIN, whom she (and all of us) thought would be "Kevin Feige" (the producer of SHAAL and -of most other MARVEL productions.
But it's NOT Feige, it's a computer---the Knowledge Enhanced Visual Interconnectivity Nexus (K.E.V.I.N.) And it had calculated the perfect algorithm for superhero-drama.
But luckily, SHAAL isn't a superhero-drama---it's a courtroom-comedy (or "superhero law procedural comedy").
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But that's not even 'the best thing!' What's best is--as has been hinted at a little where she 'broke the fourth wall' in earlier episodes--She-Hulk totally tore the fourth wall down ("SHE-HULK SMASH!") and rebuilt it the way we Millennials want it.
She stopped the story, crawled through the Disney+ menu-screen to the SHAAL writers'-room, and they tell her they can't change the story---that it's controlled by KEVIN. So she makes them let her see KEVIN, whom she (and all of us) thought would be "Kevin Feige" (the producer of SHAAL and -of most other MARVEL productions.
But it's NOT Feige, it's a computer---the Knowledge Enhanced Visual Interconnectivity Nexus (K.E.V.I.N.) And it had calculated the perfect algorithm for superhero-drama.
But luckily, SHAAL isn't a superhero-drama---it's a courtroom-comedy (or "superhero law procedural comedy").1 response
@sulynsi (2671)
• Canada
15 Oct 22
When I saw the preview while scrolling idly around the Disney channel, I thought, 'boy, they are really stretching for material' and out of curiosity, watched part of the what I think was the pilot - I could barely manage 10 minutes - not only did it seem to be rehashing well worn ground (it immediately made me think of Shrek) it was just plain silly.
The only thing close to an epiphany it inspired was that there is little creative about the film industry - its all about making lots of money. Find what people watch, no matter how ridiculous, package, repackage, sell, repeat.
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
15 Oct 22
I guess I watch it more as 'friends sharing their speculations about odd situations' (someone thinks "wouldn't it be weird if ..." and then imagines what would happen.
This one was probably for MARVEL-fans (who mostly KNOW all the stories up to this point), and it was sort of 'a step above fan-fiction.' The story idea being 'what if She-Hulk KNEW she was part of a MARVEL adventure-series?' Kinda like DEADPOOL, except ... no, more-or-less EXACTLY like DEADPOOL (but with she-hulk instead of deadpool).
