I'm sorry to be the guy who kvetches about everything, but as much as I want to like this show, I don't get how the writers can not see how flimsy and senseless all of this is.
Why didn't Ezekial immediately turn Riri in for a plea bargain? Having some weird rubber is not a crime. He can just say that he gave it to Riri with no idea what she was planning, which is true and almost certainly be out on bail that afternoon. Does richboy not have a lawyer or anything?
Why did he break out? Again, where the fuck is this dude's lawyer? Don't trust the magical man in the cloak! Did you learn nothing from your last betrayal??
And then you go so far as to let strangers do crackhead backyard surgery on you?? What is this guy's fucking malfunction? It's such a flaw in the writing that he appears to have no friends or family at all. He doesn't get out of jail and find anyone he can trust? He just learned how untrustworthy strangers are and he's lying down in a surgery machine with a bunch of creepy criminals who look and sound just like Riri at the controls and he's going to let them slice and dice him with no protection or anyone he trusts even watching? This guy is going to be lucky to wake up, let alone wake up without his brain in a jar.
Also, the sorcerers are like, 'Riri, this is dangerous as hell! Any smart or caring person would immediately dispose of it! Good luck finding such a person!'
If someone brought me something like that, I'd immediately take care of it. Why did they make it her problem? Aside from obviously the plot seems to demand a ton of stuff happening with no justification at all.
Follow-up mention to Riri introducing that guy to his dead sister's AI hologram. Bro, what the fuck did you expect?
Also, Riri's friends and family suck. Intervene! What kind of mom puts up with this? What her family should be saying is 'Sweety, I've been very forgiving of you having obviously joined gang as soon as you got kicked outta school but now you're clearly tits deep in high-level supervillain bullshit. Go call the Avengers or get the fuck outta my house.' And: 'Oh my god I thought I was having trouble healing from the death of Natalie but you've won the trauma olympics. Here's your medal now pack your bags for therapy and not the voluntary kind.'
Fuck, it makes me mad and sad that they're doing this with a good character in a show that had so much potential.
I'm sorry, but I've got more.
Parker and the gang are like, 'Wow, sure is weird that a stranger's gear showed up in our heist. Seems like Riri had an outside partner she didn't tell us about, and also brought some gear she didn't tell us about to the mission that wasn't part of her assigned job. And also snuck off to the room where John was killed. I guess the world is funny like that!'
The story doesn't even need magic to explain why Parker knows Riri killed John. What they do need to explain is why Riri would imagine that they all wouldn't know that she killed John after her betrayal and fingerprints are on the evening news.
Also: this show has too many faceless deaths. Parker in particular has murdered a lot of faceless guards in cold blood, and Riri is very okay with that. Riri, you should be in jail. You are so guilty of those people's deaths. Maybe you can feign ignorance before it happens, but afterwards if you show up to the gang meeting when you know this is the kill-kill kind of street gang and not the simple muggings and beatings kind, that's on you. You're signing your approval to this guy making widows and orphans. Those security guards aren't AIM or Hydra, those are blue collar Chicagoans who have been the victims of inexcusable violence.
This show needs a superhero to fight Riri, because she's a bad, bad, person.
"You just busted down my door like the Kool-Aid man" 😂
I like Zelma. Seriously, they're introducing some great characters here. Her mother magically shushing her though 💀
What I like about this show is that it really seems grounded in the MCU as a fictional universe. It's not throwing completely new stuff at us, instead relying on tech, magic, locations and connected characters that we already know. Some other Marvel movies and shows have struggled with that aspect - mainly handling it like they're in our universe and then dropping some shoutouts to the Avengers here and there.
That ending of the episode seemed like they chopped up some originally longer sequence.
The Hook/Parker backstory tease! I really thought we'd get more than a minute, I hope we get more in each of the two episodes, although I expect the biggest reveal will be saved for the finale, whatever it is.
Inexperienced witch is my new favorite character. Strange & Wong are experts and even while training Stranger was too good. Agatha All Along gave us some witch/magic learning but even they were were pretty good at it. But this new girl? Just trying magic out and seeing what works. Messy is much more fun.
Also Ezekiel should probably password protect his... science body? Whatever is being uploaded to him or something.
