Can I just confirm that based on your presented stance here, do you think that people can only formilate opinions until the whole show is finished? And that reacting to the information available is categorically wrong? Because otherwise I really struggle to understand your point here. I mean is there a point to have…

The way Black Widow shrugged off the fact that they blew up a building filled with people is genuinely one of the most astonishing things about that film.

Oh, I completely get why Maya gets the screen time she gets, I just feel it is currently to the point where it is actively hurting the story. If they were leaning more on her being Kingpin’s heavy and building up for this big confrontation in the final episode, then it would be easier to roll with it, but they did…

True. Additionally if it felt like they were building her up as a heavy for Clint or Kate to overcome. If they established that Kingpin has this seemingly powered enforcer, then it would make sense for Clint/Kate/Yelena to seemingly have difficulties with her as at least it would be building for something.

But that first line is my whole issue.

Oh, completely true, but it just all feels so unnecessary. Here’s an easier solution: Yelena knows that Clint was Ronin, as she actually seems to be aware of. There was a newsitem about Ronin appearing in New York. Yelena goes to New York.

But here’s the thing, Clint wasn’t misled into killing those people. He would have done the exactly the same thing if he got a tip from another source.

Pugh plays a character who essentially shows up at the final minutes of episode 4, is forced into a muddled fight scene that had to include another new character and is not allowed to have a badass scene of her own.

Two things. First, I knew that Echo/Maya was getting her own show. Second, that doesn’t address my criticism at all. Like in anyway. Unless the show’s full title is: ‘Hawkeye: Man Maya is the bestest’. The forced inclusion of Maya is still hurting the overall show for me.

But that’s not the scene being discussed here. The movie ends with Val approaching Yelena and asking her if she wants to deal with the person who killed her sister, with that being Clint. This episode has Yelena sending Kate a message that she found the person who hired her to kill Clint.

As a sidenote that opening scene once Yelena returns from the snap amused the hell out of me. Just the almost casual nature the other woman greets Yelena after she walks out of the bathroom despite it being a monumental occasion as those snapped are coming back was something. It didn’t detract from anything, just made…

But what the hell would even the time window for that be? I mean Clint has been in New York for, what, four days now? Especially since it didn’t seem to be winter wherever Yelena was Val approached her.

I realize that this is on me for thinking for a moment that Marvel wouldn’t wuss out hard, but man did I groan at that Clint/Maya scene and the informant revelation. It was such a bizarre approach of trying to shift the focus away from Clint being actively the person who killed Maya’s dad.

Yelena made my heart soar even more than I thought possible in this episode, to the degree that I am even sadder that she’s being wasted as a side player on a Clint Barton series. That Yelena/Kate scene was not just my favorite scene in this series, but it might be one of my favorite scenes in Marvel shows so far as…

I don’t think in this particular case it is the diversity as they could have made her a self-insert who fits those vague background settings and is African-American. They specifically spoke of wanting the character to be this layered person while also self-insert, which does not god damn work. It doesn’t matter if the…

While not touching the racial aspects, although those quotes were cringy as hell, there are a lot of aspects of the trailer and the explanations that are making me worried about this game. For example the layered, raw character who is simultaneously somehow a relatable self-insert.

Except the main character being discussed here is from New York. Which means that this isn’t discussing what race means in a fantasy world, but rather how was this character by her experiences in this world.

Yeah, that walk quote was really something.

Not necessarily even relating to this particular game, I am somewhat confused by your argument here. In that you are taking the fact that you prefer the ability to character, which I can’t push back on, and seemingly asserting that the same narrative rules that apply there should apply to games with set characters. At…

Torn on whetever or not be excited by this. As a concept I like this and it’s nice to see approaches to the Bat-canon. There’s a lot of potential there, to succeed or fail to be fair, so it would be interesting to see how it plays out.