![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gridlore. . . but last night kshandra and I caught up on episodes of 2 & 3 of Ms. Marvel and finally watched Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Yeah, we meant to go to the theater for that one, but things kept getting in the way.
We're loving Ms. Marvel because Kamala Khan is a person. This is Marvel's strength. you care about their characters as people first. Seeing her at the run-down mosque, navigating high school, and developing a serious crush has been so much fun. But it's also a superhero story, so we see her learning to use her powers, and then having to rescue a kid doing a Bram Stark in the mosque's minaret. Which only increases the government's shadowy Office of Damage Control's interest in finding this new metahuman and bringing her in.
To make things worse, she's now tied to a group of exiled djinn, who see Kamala as their only way home, and they will do anything to make that happen. What's a girl from Jersey City to do? I do love how they are portraying the Pakistani-American community in the show. In one scene, her best friend is running for the Mosque Council and at a street fair celebrating Eid al-Fitr, the friend divides her canvassers between groups like the Mosque Bros, the IllumiAunties, and others. It's really fun, and I'm looking forward to the second half of the series.
Now, Dr. Strange. Wow. It was a roller-coaster ride as Strange tries to help America Chavez, a person who can kick star-shaped holes between dimensions, escape a mysterious pursuer.
Who turns out to be Wanda Maximoff, who after all the trauma she's experienced has gone off the deep end, gotten possession of the Darkhold, a tome of power and evil, and needs America's powers so she can find a dimension where she and her twin boys can live.
I'll be honest, a lot of this movie was fan service, bringing in characters from the animated What If? series and tying things together with an appearance by Charles Xavier. A number of these really high-powered characters existed solely to show just how powerful the Scarlet Witch really was, establishing her as a real threat to the multiverse. It set up an ending that was tense, very good, and had just that touch of humor.
4.5 penguins out of 5.
kshandra and I caught up on episodes of 2 & 3 of Ms. Marvel and finally watched Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Yeah, we meant to go to the theater for that one, but things kept getting in the way.We're loving Ms. Marvel because Kamala Khan is a person. This is Marvel's strength. you care about their characters as people first. Seeing her at the run-down mosque, navigating high school, and developing a serious crush has been so much fun. But it's also a superhero story, so we see her learning to use her powers, and then having to rescue a kid doing a Bram Stark in the mosque's minaret. Which only increases the government's shadowy Office of Damage Control's interest in finding this new metahuman and bringing her in.
To make things worse, she's now tied to a group of exiled djinn, who see Kamala as their only way home, and they will do anything to make that happen. What's a girl from Jersey City to do? I do love how they are portraying the Pakistani-American community in the show. In one scene, her best friend is running for the Mosque Council and at a street fair celebrating Eid al-Fitr, the friend divides her canvassers between groups like the Mosque Bros, the IllumiAunties, and others. It's really fun, and I'm looking forward to the second half of the series.
Now, Dr. Strange. Wow. It was a roller-coaster ride as Strange tries to help America Chavez, a person who can kick star-shaped holes between dimensions, escape a mysterious pursuer.
Who turns out to be Wanda Maximoff, who after all the trauma she's experienced has gone off the deep end, gotten possession of the Darkhold, a tome of power and evil, and needs America's powers so she can find a dimension where she and her twin boys can live.
I'll be honest, a lot of this movie was fan service, bringing in characters from the animated What If? series and tying things together with an appearance by Charles Xavier. A number of these really high-powered characters existed solely to show just how powerful the Scarlet Witch really was, establishing her as a real threat to the multiverse. It set up an ending that was tense, very good, and had just that touch of humor.
4.5 penguins out of 5.