Episode 2:
Blonsky! You're not supposed to talk about fight club!
Emil Blonsky: "I could swear that I saw a dude looking like Bruce Banner at that place!"
Felt that the episode was too short.
I thought that the episode was an improvement over last week's. Though, I still have no idea where they're going. Who is the big bad? Mr. Holliday?
Jennifer objects to being called "She-Hulk". If the episode was longer, and allowed for more serious drama, they could've done more with that. Jennifer is the cousin of Bruce Banner, who've been known to be the Hulk for ages. I want to know how this has affected her life. Has she been on dates, where the dude was more interested in asking questions about her cousin? Perhaps similar situations, with people around her? Was Jennifer under surveillance, while Bruce was on the run, pre-Avengers? Has she had to live in his shadow, basically her whole life? Because there's a lot of dramatic potential. Jennifer has always been in his shadow: first she was the cousin of Bruce Banner, the scientific genius. Then she was the cousin of the Hulk, the superhero and Avenger. She worked hard to get out of his shadow, and forge a place for herself... then she gets some of Bruce's blood, and everyone instantly throws Jennifer back into Bruce's shadow, by calling her "She-Hulk". Where is that story in this episode/show?
In one scene, Jennifer questions if the Avengers offers maternity leave. In a way, that would be a fair question. However, at this time, the Avengers have been disbanded. There are no Avengers organization, so there is no one to offer maternity leave to female members. And when the Avengers existed, its female members were Black Widow (who was subjected to forced sterilization as a child, so she couldn't have children) and Scarlet Witch (who was in a relationship with an inorganic being. Her "children" were magical constructs, who aged themselves from newborns into ten-years-old in one day). Neither of whom would be in need for maternity leave.
When you look outside of official Avengers members you've got Gamora, Nebula, Wasp, Captain Marvel, Valkyrie (should I count Pepper Potts?), Kate Bishop, and Yelena Belova. Gamora was involved with a man, from another species (might therefore have been unable to reproduce). As for the rest... Nebula, Kate Bishop and Captain Marvel are completely devoid of a romantic or sexual life. As is Yelena (who has been subjected to the same thing as Natasha Romanov, and thus unable to have children). Wasp's involvement with Ant-Man is vague, and undefinied. Haven't seen Love and Thunder, but I can't find any reference online to Valkyrie now being in a romantic relationship (especially one that could lead to her getting pregnant, and needing maternity leave). The only female superhero with a child is Pepper Potts/Rescue. And she didn't don the armor (which, thus far, appears to have been a one-time thing, rather than Pepper is still active as a superhero), until her daughter was like five (way past the point of maternity leave), and is a billionaire (thus able to afford a nanny). Where are the female superheroes, in the MCU, who'd need maternity leave?
If Jennifer is to bring up the issue of having children, wouldn't her main concerns be more of a medical one? Can she have children (or did the infection of Bruce's gamma mutated blood render her infertile)? If she gets pregnant, what possible effect might her gamma mutated blood have on the embryo, and eventual child? These are the types of questions that she should ask her, not if a no longer existing organization (that only ever had two proper female members, neither of whom could get pregnant, for different reasons) offers maternity leave.
Blonsky! You're not supposed to talk about fight club!
Emil Blonsky: "I could swear that I saw a dude looking like Bruce Banner at that place!"
Felt that the episode was too short.
I thought that the episode was an improvement over last week's. Though, I still have no idea where they're going. Who is the big bad? Mr. Holliday?
Jennifer objects to being called "She-Hulk". If the episode was longer, and allowed for more serious drama, they could've done more with that. Jennifer is the cousin of Bruce Banner, who've been known to be the Hulk for ages. I want to know how this has affected her life. Has she been on dates, where the dude was more interested in asking questions about her cousin? Perhaps similar situations, with people around her? Was Jennifer under surveillance, while Bruce was on the run, pre-Avengers? Has she had to live in his shadow, basically her whole life? Because there's a lot of dramatic potential. Jennifer has always been in his shadow: first she was the cousin of Bruce Banner, the scientific genius. Then she was the cousin of the Hulk, the superhero and Avenger. She worked hard to get out of his shadow, and forge a place for herself... then she gets some of Bruce's blood, and everyone instantly throws Jennifer back into Bruce's shadow, by calling her "She-Hulk". Where is that story in this episode/show?
In one scene, Jennifer questions if the Avengers offers maternity leave. In a way, that would be a fair question. However, at this time, the Avengers have been disbanded. There are no Avengers organization, so there is no one to offer maternity leave to female members. And when the Avengers existed, its female members were Black Widow (who was subjected to forced sterilization as a child, so she couldn't have children) and Scarlet Witch (who was in a relationship with an inorganic being. Her "children" were magical constructs, who aged themselves from newborns into ten-years-old in one day). Neither of whom would be in need for maternity leave.
When you look outside of official Avengers members you've got Gamora, Nebula, Wasp, Captain Marvel, Valkyrie (should I count Pepper Potts?), Kate Bishop, and Yelena Belova. Gamora was involved with a man, from another species (might therefore have been unable to reproduce). As for the rest... Nebula, Kate Bishop and Captain Marvel are completely devoid of a romantic or sexual life. As is Yelena (who has been subjected to the same thing as Natasha Romanov, and thus unable to have children). Wasp's involvement with Ant-Man is vague, and undefinied. Haven't seen Love and Thunder, but I can't find any reference online to Valkyrie now being in a romantic relationship (especially one that could lead to her getting pregnant, and needing maternity leave). The only female superhero with a child is Pepper Potts/Rescue. And she didn't don the armor (which, thus far, appears to have been a one-time thing, rather than Pepper is still active as a superhero), until her daughter was like five (way past the point of maternity leave), and is a billionaire (thus able to afford a nanny). Where are the female superheroes, in the MCU, who'd need maternity leave?
If Jennifer is to bring up the issue of having children, wouldn't her main concerns be more of a medical one? Can she have children (or did the infection of Bruce's gamma mutated blood render her infertile)? If she gets pregnant, what possible effect might her gamma mutated blood have on the embryo, and eventual child? These are the types of questions that she should ask her, not if a no longer existing organization (that only ever had two proper female members, neither of whom could get pregnant, for different reasons) offers maternity leave.
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