The whole trip and the introduction of the Red Daggers should all have been season 2, maybe season 3.

Great analysis. All of these things are choices made.

You can do a lot with fixed budget if you are smart with your story and you keep the budget in mind. The show had far more characters and locations/sets than it really needed.

The show needed someone to come in to fix the scripts and keep the creatives in check. They just jump around from idea to idea like someone with ADHD, occasionally hyperfocusing on a story element before abandoning it for the next shiny thing.

It doesn’t need more episodes, it needed someone to come in and focus the story.

Marvel really needs to get some good script doctors in to clean up the shows. All of them could have used one or two more passes before production. Ms. Marvel really needed another pass at the script to tighten up not just individual episodes, but the series as a whole.

Over half the episode devoted to a flashback just showing us the details of things we already knew in outline, leaving an extremely rushed “oh hey, there’s a Tear, no wait, oops it’s gone again, haha”.

Even strong shows have bad episodes, and this was the worst one for this series.

We essentially learnt nothing we didn’t already know (or couldn’t have guessed from the last episode’s time-travelling cliff hanger). As a result, it served as a mostly pointless side-quest involving characters we don’t know to show us…

What the hell was all that talk about Aisha being the great family shame? She kept her head down and was a basic housewife for five years. As far as anyone knows, she was just left behind and probably died.

While this episode wasn’t as bad as the previous one, they take away a lot of Kamala’s agency. She gets…

But it never says that. At 40 minutes, the shortest episode so far, they could have spent 60 seconds elaborating on why she didn’t want to do it.

So that whole time Sana had the bangle she never used it even though she knew it was special and that her family was “magical?” For someone who was so keen on preserving the memories of pre-partition and her mother it now seems an odd choice to just throw the bangle in a box and send it to Kamala.

“The distinct visual style of words and images being found in the characters’ surroundings, which we saw so strongly in the first two episodes, has slowly dissipated.”

Don’t think that the show is too long; just that they went too big too fast. Should have kept her story smaller for the 1st whole season. DD and JJ had their share of drag too not just the other worse Netflix shows; hours of Karen crying / Nuke storyline.

Yep and I think it’s been used to great effect on the Star Wars side of the mouse house. I love that Mandalorian episodes are each chapters in a story and their run times vary from under 40 minutes to over and hour 

Wasn’t a main criticism of those shows that they were too long?

What are the odds that there would be not one, but two great shows set on Indian reservations, starring Zahn Mclarnon?

- When we first saw Aisha last episode, she seemed like a strong, determined person. In the opening, it’s like she’s been held captive for months. She’s wary, skittish, and almost traumatized. It’s like they’re tearing her down to make him seem greater.
- So nobody notices those glowing discs of light?
- Why is it…

Allegedly, Disney/Marvel has told the producers/showrunners of most of the series that they can be as long as they want. The Moon Knight showrunner said it was all his choice. 

‘B-’ feels like a very generous grade for an episode as underwhelming as this one. Everything felt rushed: the romance, the superhero stuff, the Kamala family stuff... Worst, the episode was quite short, which makes me wonder if something more ambitious was left on the cutting floor.

and the episode began with a 20-minute sequence in pre-Partition India