Echo

 This series feels more like a throwback to Netflix marvel than to anything that the MCU has produced in the last couple of years. And I don't have any particular problem with that. It's serious without being somber, it's enjoyable without being flippant. It does tend to rely on the magic Indian trope. But the main character was pretty confident before she discovered her magic powers. I'm going to spoil the ending here to talk about it because I really liked the way it was handled. Echo has a chance to destroy her enemy and instead of doing that she tries to help him heal and even though they have a big problem with each other it is clear that they both care about the other. I like that a lot because in many of these shows and movies it seems like the lesson is if you punch someone hard enough they will learn the lesson they need to about life, and that's just not how it works. And by no means is this a new stylistic choice, but I really like how sometimes the action is heard or not heard from Echo's perspective. She's deaf and then there's no sound. It's also really interesting how big of a role sign language plays in the plot. I liked it, it is 1,000 billion times better than the last Marvel series I watched, which was Secret Invasion.

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