Ironheart Episodes 1 - 3 Review

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Just like Iron Heart's hands.
New York is full of heat, girl.

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It's hot.
It is hot.

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Does iron, does the suit have
air conditioning?

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Yeah.
I would think so.

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That's like base.
That's base model.

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That's number one, yeah.
Yeah, I couldn't be.

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That was a stretch of a
connection there.

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But I'm glad you got.
That I really just wanted to

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talk about how hot it is and how
I'm losing my mind.

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Welcome to A Bite of Everyone.
Jesus.

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I'm Derek.
That's Noah.

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Today we are talking about
episodes one through 3 of

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Ironheart.
Yes, the latest, the greatest

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question mark MCU new thing that
came out.

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This has been a long time.
It's already been.

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It was it was sitting on the
shelf waiting to release.

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It's, yeah, we saw footage,
what, 3:00-ish years ago been

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it's been a minute for Ironheart
to get out into the wild.

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I always feel like with these
Marvel properties that it's like

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announced and we're waiting and
waiting, waiting.

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And then one day it's just here.
Yeah, yeah.

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Some of these properties that
have come out recently have had

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struggles and, you know,
pandemics and strikes and

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everything that have halted its
production.

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I was very hyped for this.
So I'm glad it's finally here.

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I'm very hyped to talk about it.
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But yeah, spoilers ahead for
Ironheart.

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I think we jump right in.
Half the series, baby.

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Oh God.
Let's do the intro and I have

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some things to talk.
About OK OK OK, so let us

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officially take a bite of Iron
Heart episodes one through 3

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created by Chinaka Hodge.
RiRi Williams is fresh from her

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international internship and is
back at MIT to fund her work.

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She begins completing
assignments for other students,

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ultimately leading to her
expelment.

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Returning to Chicago, she must
face her past and figure out

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where her morality lies as she
joins a team of criminals in

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order to continue upgrading her
suit.

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Oh, Rhode Island.
Rhode Island.

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What a journey.
Yeah, general thoughts.

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What did you?
What'd you think?

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Let me start off by saying this,
OK?

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The soundtrack is bomb.com.
Holy smokes.

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Like 90s hits, current hits,
2000s hits.

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Every time the music comes on,
I'm like, they even had Alanis

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Morissette.
Yeah, of course they did.

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That's great.
Yeah, very good.

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Great.
Those are my thoughts.

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Soundtrack.
A plus.

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A+ Absolutely.
I mean, I think overall this

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truly felt like an intro to this
series.

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All three of these episodes
really felt like they were

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leading to our mid season
climax.

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And so it really, if you dig
deeper into that, what I'm

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trying to say is that I thought
it was a little bit of a slow

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build up.
I'm glad we're it finally ended

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up, but I thought we've really
had a slog through a lot of

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stuff to set up her story.
I don't know, what did you

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think?
I think that as the episodes

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went on, like I liked episode 2
more than one and three more

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than two and one.
I don't necessarily think it was

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a slog because I did feel that
way, but I didn't feel that way.

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Like I do feel like that's such
like a negative word for me

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personally to use because I'm
liking it.

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I don't love it and I really
want to love it.

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So I'm curious if the
second-half is going to really

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make me is really going to grab
me.

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But I like I think it's a good
entered of true introduction to

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RiRi.
If I have to say something that

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like I want more of just from
these first 3 episodes is the

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crew that she's with with Hood
and all of them.

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I just wish I like I felt like
they were real people when

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they're not on the screen.
I, I'm not getting much from

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them and I want to like be all
in with them and I'm like, oh,

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like they're kind of there on
screen.

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But then when they're gone, I
don't think that they're like

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actively moving and like living
lives, if that makes sense.

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No, that really does make sense.
And one of the things that I

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struggled with was some of the
characters.

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No, no, no, no.
Not characterizations, but some

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of the way the characters were
written, I felt like there was

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depth missing, you know, and
there's a large group of people

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that were writing for here.
I mean, I believe RiRi has depth

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when we learn her back story.
I really like her mom, her best

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friend.
I love Natalie as well.

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But you're right, when it came
to those other characters, they

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kind of just felt like rough
drafts of characters.

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People who, you know, I think we
talk a lot about showing versus

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telling.
They're telling us a whole lot.

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Well, I feel like they're not.
I don't think they're really

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showing us or telling us
personally with this.

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It's only because I don't know
anything about Slug or the Blood

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twins or who Clown.
I don't know anything about

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them.
And I don't know if that's by

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design, but it's not the worst
thing because everything else

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that I'm seeing, all the stuff
with Rhode Island, Rhode Island,

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all the stuff with stain, we
know is now a stain and all of

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that.
Ezekiel and her mother and

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Natalie, I'm loving all of that.
So it's almost like, would we

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have lost some of that if we
focus more on these people that

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who knows, Ultimately, once the
Robin Hood stuff is done, is it

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going to matter?
Yeah, so maybe I should retract

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my statement or rewrite it.
It seems like every episode

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they're telling us the same
thing about them, right?

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It's like I'm clown.
I love fire.

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Guess what?
I love fire.

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It's so that to me seems very
base level, telling us over and

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over the same details about
those characters.

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And maybe it's because they
really didn't give them more

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than that.
I I hope the next three episodes

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will get more, but I don't know
where that's going to take us

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just because of the cliffhanger
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So I'm not sure, like, is there
room to really flesh some of

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this stuff?
Out and I think I think part of

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my problem with that is that I
want to know more about them

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because when we look at this
really awesome diverse in so

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many ways group it's like I want
to live with them I want to know

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who they are you know seeing
Shay Coulay here you know

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playing slug what's slug's back
story We hear something about

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when they get paid they want to
go back home and create a

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Michelin star lounge all right
so do they like food do they

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want to be a chef How did they
get here you know so those are

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the things that I think I'm
missing from there.

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Yeah, I agree.
As far as RiRi goes, anytime

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Dominique Thorne's on screen
dynamic, amazing, stealing all

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the scenes when Natalie comes
into the picture, it's

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fantastic.
I want a little more of Xavier.

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Just, you know, there is some
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they really like each other.
Do they like each other?

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I'm getting the same vibes as in
the comics a little bit.

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I wanted more of him in the
comics.

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And it's funny that it's still
happening now.

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And so I'm just curious if
Xavier's always just going to be

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relegated to just popping up
occasionally.

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But I'm liking some of the
changes that they're doing with

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her story for the MCUI.
Think it makes sense.

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Her AI in the comics is Tony
Stark, like that's who her AI

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is.
So I like that they changed it

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to Natalie, who is a big part of
her story.

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Also, I don't think they're
going to Robert Downey Junior to

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be Iron Man and Doctor Doom.
That just blow the budget out of

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the water, I think.
But I'm really liking the

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changes of that.
It feels fresh and it feels nice

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to be with, I don't know, not
like giant steaks, but I'm

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getting like Miss Marvel vibes
in a way of like I'm liking like

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the town that I'm in.
I'm liking being with this like

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community of people.
I'm hoping that carries through

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to the second part.
Yeah, I think I agree with.

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I really, really like Natalie.
I loved that kind of flashback

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of them sitting on the steps,
you know, just being teenagers

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at that point in time.
And then of course, everything

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goes topsy turvy when Riri's
stepdad and Natalie are

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murdered.
And when I realized that Natalie

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wasn't going to be there
anymore, I was actually really

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disappointed because I thought
that her chemistry and Natalie

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and Riri's chemistry was really
wonderful.

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So having her back, you know,
kind of in this AI all knowing

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sort of, you know, still human
emotion versus fully computer

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rice personality is really nice
because I think that they play

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off of each other really well.
I'm almost curious to see how

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far this goes and if we are
going to continue to get Natalie

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after the series is done because
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Natalie and she's acting like
Natalie as if Natalie was

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actually there.
And I don't know if the way that

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RiRi is acting is because
they're not supposed to act that

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way or because it is the face of
her friend that is no longer

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there.
So I'm I'm curious to see how

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far this will go.
Like is that is there that kind

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of the pseudo mystical part to
it of like the technology took

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on a mind of its own?
I know it's AI, but it does seem

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like a different layer of like,
how does she know all of these

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memories?
Granted, she got them from

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brewery, but there's that level
of how spiritual are we going

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with this?
I'm curious so.

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Are we, are we wondering that in
the sixth episode there's going

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to be a tearful goodbye to
Natalie where the AI

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disintegrates into the ether?
I hate that I don't want that to

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happen only because I'm so
attached to Natalie and RiRi

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now, and I like the idea of the
suit being a character on its

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own and not just like a thing
that RiRi uses, right?

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So I'm liking this dynamic,
right?

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I do feel like that
distinguishes a little different

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from Tony Stark, who, I mean,
this is a legacy character,

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right?
Although we're getting magic in

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here somehow.
I don't know how that's going to

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weave into the suit.
We've seen it in the trailers

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that magic gets into the suit
somehow, or it's used in some

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sort of way.
So I do feel like they're trying

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to like, yeah, she's, you know,
going in Stark's footsteps, but

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in her own way, she's taking her
own path.

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And that's one of the things I
liked about this show is that

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it's showing like, you know,
Tony Stark and all the other

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heroes, it's like billionaires
and they they were able to just

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make the thing and be the hero.
So I'm liking that re re story

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is like, what if you don't have
that?

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Then how do you do this?
Because you're capable and you

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can build those things, but when
you don't have Wakanda's

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resources or Tony Stark's
funding, how do you do that?

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So now we have the story of
like, how bad is bad and when is

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that good and how far can you
actually go?

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Right.
I think, you know, one of my

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favorite things about this
series is having the lead be a

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black woman in STEM, right?
And she, no one is ever

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questioning Riri's intelligence,
which is also something that I

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love.
She's a genius.

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They know she's a genius.
And even, you know, one of the

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things that I really love about
this world is when you're

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looking around at the details of
the world, right?

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This set that they have, and
when you're in Riri's bedroom,

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you know, yeah, there's a really
cool desk with painted stripes

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on it, but there's also like a,
a wall of like, tools and

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circuits.
And, and it, it seems that RiRi

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has always been supported in
this.

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And, you know, when we look at
Riri's stepfather, who was an

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engineer, right?
And then we look at Riri's

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mother, who is an artist.
The two of them have come

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together to create the RiRi that
we know and love, you know, And

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you can see both sides in there.
And I think, you know, this

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question of what is Riri's
journey here?

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You know, she comes back home
and it's almost like she had.

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She's being forced to face the
thing she's been trying to

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forget, you know, burying
herself in her work, not

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thinking about the loss of her
family.

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And he or she is back again with
no other choice to do so.

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But what does she continue
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She keeps burying herself in her
work, but is kind of going over

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to the dark side while doing it.
You know, she's kind of blind to

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that because her end goal is to
keep working.

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And So what is she willing to do
to do that?

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Yeah, I, I liked, yeah.
I just want to talk for like a

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second before we get into that
about the three episodes,

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because I have a point on why I
want to bring that up.

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I think the three episodes is
bullshit.

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I don't like when they're like
dumping the entire series in two

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weeks.
I think that that doesn't really

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foster conversation for these
things.

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Echo was probably the worst
example of this, dropping all

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six episodes.
Anyway, I think these three

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episodes, they do work.
It just does make me sad that

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next week it's going to be done.
And then how long are we going

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to have to wait?
Not like we deserve to see her

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immediately, but when are we
going to see her again?

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And I think that's one of the
issues with the shows and what

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Marvel was doing is that they
they have all the stuff that's

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coming out and it's like, OK, so
now what?

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Like, when are we going to see
Moon Knight again?

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That was years ago, right?
So I think not having us be able

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to like sit with these
characters and talk about it

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weekly kind of diminishes some
of the magic that this the show

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has.
I think, you know, upon

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reflection, I think it is very
disappointing that two female

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leads, BIPOC leads had their
shows completely just dumped out

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at once.
It seems like they're not

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willing to give it the full
time.

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It's like they make it, but then
they are already telling us they

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have no faith in it or they
don't believe in it.

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And you know, you brought up
Moon Knight, who is also person

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of color, and you bring up like
a character like Chung Chi who

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got an amazing movie and has
been where.

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Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I, I think that like

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part of that is just they did
too much and they know that.

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That's why they're like scaling
back and they're like, OK, let's

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do like 1 here, 2 here,
whatever.

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But I do think that hopefully
they realized it and now we're

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starting to see like slowed down
Marvel, which I'm excited for,

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but it does make it
disappointing and confusing when

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their release schedules are like
never the same.

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And I don't know if that's like
a conversation for just the

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greater streaming platforms that
are out there.

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Netflix kind of ruined it for
everybody in that aspect.

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But I do miss the weekly stuff,
right?

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I think like even when we're
covering these shows weekly,

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it's fun to be in those
mysteries and questioning things

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or theorizing.
And so they kind of took that

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away.
But I will say that with these

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three episodes, where it left
off was nice because it was nice

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to go from one to the other.
And I know this is kind of

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sounding contradictory, but with
these episodes leaving where it

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did with a like a mystical note
as opposed to all this

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technology that we've been was
kind of cool.

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Just thinking like, OK, we're
not going to dump the whole

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thing.
Where can we separate it and a

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clean clean down the middle?
Now, what do you think of Riri's

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journey that she's on?
It's kind of journey of

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morality.
I think it's fine.

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I think it could go bad and it
could go good.

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Where it left off.
They really raised the stakes.

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I think when we're on this
journey with this, this group of

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people that we don't really know
too well, but we're here for

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RiRi and questioning how far
she'll go.

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But we didn't really see
anything that was going to.

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I don't know make things
terrible, right, But now she we

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have Ezekiel Stein, who is
probably going to get found out

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because she left her technology
and also the hood's, you know,

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relative is like gone that and
she's a direct result of it and

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he knows about that.
So I think the stakes are really

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raised for that, and it does
make me feel bad.

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But I like this part of her
journey because we're seeing

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that, like, you know, you tear
the hero down before they rise

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to the occasion.
But I do always find it really

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interesting when a hero has
somebody's life, you know, kind

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of let on their hands.
Yeah, yeah.

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I didn't want to use that word,
but like, I guess, yeah, that's

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the the right word.
So where she goes from here is

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going to be interesting.
Yeah, you know, in in that third

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episode when she is at Ezekiel's
house and he says to her,

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promise me you won't let
anything happen to my tech.

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And she says, I promise in that
moment, I'm going, that is a

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check you cannot cash.
You know, we as the audience go,

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oh, no, Rhode Island, Rhode
Island.

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You keep, you keep making these
promises.

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You keep making these agreements
for things that you really don't

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know.
I think she she wants to.

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And if she would just for two
seconds, like, I don't know, ask

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for help or like she could have
asked for Natalie's help a

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little more.
Even Xavier, He he there's a

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conversation that they have and
he's like, tell me we're we come

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from the same streets.
And she's like, no.

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So it's almost like she needs
to.

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That's part of that hero
journey, right, Of not being

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able to just do it for yourself,
but ask for help when you need

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it.
Yeah, I think she needs to.

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I think the scary part, though,
is that, you know, she's dealing

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with, like, tried and true
criminals here that also have,

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you know, demons whispering in
their ears that all these people

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that she's surrounded by, that
we love can get hurt by them,

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you know, and be used as tools
to hurt her.

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And so that scares me a little
bit.

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One of the things just in
regards to this magic and

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mystical thing, I don't know if
this is an Easter egg.

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I don't know if this is them
playing with us again.

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But I think it was in the second
episode or.

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Yeah, It's right before she has
to go to the show with Xavier,

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and she's talking to Natalie,
and they're talking about, like,

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who she's mixed up with.
There are posters on the wall

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behind her, and the posters say
Faust on them, which, you know,

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I'm a little bit of digging.
Faust is related to Mephisto in

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the comics.
So are they finally going to do

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it?
I know.

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I mean, yeah, from one division
to now, from your lips to

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Dormamo's ears.
I yes, I mean, they could,

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right?
We we have a character that has

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an object that could literally
be imbued or connected to power

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to anybody in the comics.
There's been some other things.

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It could easily be connected to
Mephisto.

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I'm at this point.
Sure, why not?

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I don't know what the point then
would be.

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You know what I mean?
Like, OK, Mephisto what?

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So that's if it is Mephisto, I'm
really interested to see, but

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then really curious to see how
that impacts the MCU as a whole.

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Because Mephisto is not
something that you just

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introduce and you just leave and
you never mention again.

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Because we're I mean, we're
talking about Mephisto here.

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We're talking about like the an
entity, a God like character.

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So it's going to be fun.
If it's in this show, I don't

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know.
We'll see.

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We'll see.
I'm very excited for this.

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Like techno magic, mystical
thing being intertwined here.

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I'm just hoping that we don't
get it like towards the end,

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like just because I want more
and like I'm really interested

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with that.
So I want to see it.

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Yeah, I mean, I'm wondering.
To me it seems like, right,

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Rhode Island.
Rhode Island now has a piece of

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the hood, so maybe she can imbue
the suit with that piece of the

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hood in some way while she's
experimenting.

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But how many episodes will it
take her to do that when she can

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finally actually use it against
Hood?

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Yeah, I there's something
that's.

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Yeah, I mean, I maybe that's how
she imbues her suit with magic

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in some way.
She's summons something.

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I don't know.
Who knows?

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I feel like she's going to mess
with things more that she

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shouldn't be messing with
because the Hood is doing that

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and Parker should not be messing
with the the forces that he's

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messing with.
One thing that I really like,

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and I know, I know I had already
talked about parallels, but

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something that happens in the
third episode and we kind of see

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in the second one and we see a
little through all of them is

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her, her mental health.
And I like again, they're,

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they're connecting it to Iron
Man, but not in an overt way.

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Because after The Avengers, Tony
Stark dealt with panic attacks,

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he dealt with his mental health
because he realized he's just a

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man in a suit.
So there's a lot of cool

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parallels there that she's
again, on the same journey as

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that, but also the Hood and
Rhode Island, Rhode Island are

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kind of similar in that he has
something that makes him greater

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than who he is.
She has a conversation, I think

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with Natalie maybe, and she's
like, he's just a guy.

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Like once you take that away,
he's just a guy.

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And it's like, well, that's also
Rhode Island, Rhode Island.

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Obviously Rhode Island, Rhode
Island can handle herself from

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hand to hand and she's super
smart, but that's also the same

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thing with her.
So I'm liking the storytelling

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in that way.
I just hope that.

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You know, it pays off it it
continues to to do it well.

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Yeah, yeah.
And, you know, I do hope that in

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these coming episodes, I'm
curious about how Parker comes

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to have the hood right, 'cause
when we meet him, he just, or he

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already has it right.
And we're, we're getting small

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clues along the way, right, of
something happens to his body.

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It's like transformed.
Every time he uses the power of

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the hood, it doesn't seem to be
a good thing.

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He has to cover it with tattoos.
He keeps it away from everyone

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else.
And now we know that it whispers

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to him and he shows him
premonition.

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Well, not premonitions.
It could show him things.

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So I want to know the story of
how Parker came to be with the

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hood.
Yeah, I like the visual of, you

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know, re re suit being opened
and seeing all the wires and

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everything and then it goes to
the hood and you kind of see the

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same thing, but organic,
mystical versus technology.

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So I I like, I'm liking those
parallels.

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I said it 10 million times
already at this point.

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So I guess you know, kind of
wrapping up like final thoughts,

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right?
Is there like what did you is

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there any stand up moments from
these three episodes?

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And then what are you hoping for
or looking forward to in the

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second-half of the show?
I, I think a standout moment for

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me is was the whole greenhouse
scene.

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I, I also liked kind of Natalie
and RiRi working in tandem in

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that sense, right?
Of like they can kind of do a

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cloak and dagger kind of thing
of being in one place and being

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in another place, but nobody
really realizing it.

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I thought that was really cool
and really smart.

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So I hope that they work
together more because it's

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showing us that the more they
work together, the better off

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they are.
Not just Rhode Island, Rhode

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Island on her own and going
forward, you know, I'm, I'm

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looking forward to the arc of
Rhode Island, Rhode Island kind

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of dealing with her past and
realizing that she can be

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powerful, but do things the
right way and count on those

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around her.
Yeah, she just unfortunately,

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like most of us have to do it,
not how the system wants us to,

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because everything's expensive
and these systems suck.

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They sure do.
Just.

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Putting that out there, That's
right.

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Yeah.
I think.

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Oh, yeah.
I think the third episode was

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really great, particularly.
I know it's like the terrible

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moment for her, but when she's
realizing both things that she

446
00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,280
did and Natalie Zucker, are you
good?

447
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,360
And she's like, no, no, I'm not.
I think it's a really powerful

448
00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:50,240
moment.
And I'm.

449
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,320
I like those because it's not
just the invincible superhero

450
00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:55,720
that never has emotions or
anything like that.

451
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,080
We're getting some layers here.
I'm very much looking forward to

452
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:05,360
where this puts RiRi, right?
I know we we've seen that the

453
00:23:05,360 --> 00:23:07,560
Young Avengers are being made in
some way.

454
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:11,880
So at the end of this, are we
going to see one of them, Kate

455
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:15,680
Bishop or Kamala Khan, show up
to RiRi and be like, hey, you

456
00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,520
want to come with us?
Which would be very exciting,

457
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,800
but again, when are we going to
see something like that?

458
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:23,800
Because we have huge Avengers
movies coming.

459
00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:27,640
But yeah, I'm, I'm very excited.
I think it's a good start.

460
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:28,880
I'm liking it.
I'm liking it.

461
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:30,680
I'm hoping by the end of this I
love it.

462
00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:35,320
Yeah, I'm with you on that.
I think it was a slow start, but

463
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,240
it got to a good place.
And I'm, you know, I'm hoping

464
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,000
that the rest of the series
delivers it.

465
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,520
Also looks fantastic for ATV
show.

466
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,600
I know we've had like some
spotty CGI, even some

467
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,680
choreography with some things.
This.

468
00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:49,200
I've had no issues with
anything.

469
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,920
It all looks fantastic.
The suit looks phenomenal.

470
00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:56,320
There has not been a scene where
I question that looked weird or

471
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,000
that took me out of it.
Not a single one.

472
00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,880
Yeah, I'm with you on that.
I think the Fight Courier has

473
00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,440
been really, really strong, so
hopefully more of that going

474
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,440
forward.
Yeah, and hopefully Shea Coulee

475
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,720
is in it more.
No, it would just be nice.

476
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,080
I mean, who doesn't love Shea
Coulee?

477
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,000
Yeah, I do love Shea Coulee and
the nails have been on point so.

478
00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:18,240
OK, so next week we'll do the
second part to Ironheart.

479
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,160
We'll have the full series so
far and then the final thoughts

480
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:22,600
then.
But let us know what you thought

481
00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:26,040
down below or whatever at us,
whatever you want to do.

482
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,960
Second part to Ironheart.
Yeah, that was great.

483
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:30,120
Day.
Cool.

484
00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:32,880
It's very hot here.
Melting.

485
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:34,920
Yeah, very much melting already.
OK, goodbye.

486
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:35,600
Bye.