Hawkeye 1x05
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Hawkeye 1x05
I’d say this was a weirdly paced episode. Not bad exactly, but weird. And I mean that both within itself and in this position in the series; although in the second case I’d say it’s more worrisome. I think I liked it, but not necessarily as a penultimate episode.
After some consideration, I think I will leave my thoughts on this format of storytelling until I’ve actually seen how this story ends. I’m apprehensive right now, but it’s not impossible for this to justify itself. And fortunately unlike most of the other shows that Marvel has done this year, I do at least *want* to see how it wraps up (even if I think I’ll have plenty to comment on once I’ve seen it).
On a related note, one thing I found myself thinking during the fight at the car lot, was that I kind of appreciated that this show kept its stakes fairly small instead of feeling the need to inflate it to some big Avengers scale event. And that’s party where I have some concerns about bringing Kingpin into this. He’s still a crime boss rather than a threat to the world or reality itself, but it is still upping the scale of the conflict pretty close to the end of the series (series? season? I’m starting to think it will have to be season).
In an odd sort of way leaving off the talk about format makes me feel like I don’t have a lot to say, which doesn’t seem right either. But I don’t really want to talk about Yelena’s stuff, which takes up a pretty good chunk of time in the episode. Nor do I really want to talk about the action; it’s a little better here than it has been in some of the other episodes, but it’s still not interesting to me.
I guess I could talk about Kate’s family stuff, but it was always pretty suspect that her mom was involved, and all through this episode I became pretty sure of it. I think it’s well done; I can believe that Kate wouldn’t see it, so much easier to suspect Jack than her mom, but it does make total sense.
Then again, I come back to structure. Because by having the escalation on that front come in so late, I don’t feel like we’re going to get a lot of reaction to the reveal. We don’t have time to see Kate really struggle with the revelation, no more than one or two stages of grief to come to grips with what’s going on.
I’m also a little bothered that Kate didn’t call Clint straight away after Yelena left. I could buy it if she was a little unsure if she believed what Yelena was saying, but that’s not something we see Kate grapple with the next day.
Wait, is the implication then that Kate’s mom put out a hit on Clint after finding out that Kate was working with him? Because as I was watching the episode my assumption was that the attack was tied to what happened at the end of Black Widow. And given how this episode opens with Yelena’s story, I figured it was somewhat clunkily pulling her into a plot where she was just an added complication. On the flip side, if she’s being fed the line about Clint ‘being the reason Natasha is dead’ (specific wording is technically correct) and then she gets the opportunity to take him out through a separate set of circumstances, that’s almost as coincidental as her just happening to show up during this other plot.
Well, if I’m feeling so much like this is forced out, maybe I should just move on and see the finale so I can probably write a massive reaction to it.
Hawkeye 1x05
I’d say this was a weirdly paced episode. Not bad exactly, but weird. And I mean that both within itself and in this position in the series; although in the second case I’d say it’s more worrisome. I think I liked it, but not necessarily as a penultimate episode.
After some consideration, I think I will leave my thoughts on this format of storytelling until I’ve actually seen how this story ends. I’m apprehensive right now, but it’s not impossible for this to justify itself. And fortunately unlike most of the other shows that Marvel has done this year, I do at least *want* to see how it wraps up (even if I think I’ll have plenty to comment on once I’ve seen it).
On a related note, one thing I found myself thinking during the fight at the car lot, was that I kind of appreciated that this show kept its stakes fairly small instead of feeling the need to inflate it to some big Avengers scale event. And that’s party where I have some concerns about bringing Kingpin into this. He’s still a crime boss rather than a threat to the world or reality itself, but it is still upping the scale of the conflict pretty close to the end of the series (series? season? I’m starting to think it will have to be season).
In an odd sort of way leaving off the talk about format makes me feel like I don’t have a lot to say, which doesn’t seem right either. But I don’t really want to talk about Yelena’s stuff, which takes up a pretty good chunk of time in the episode. Nor do I really want to talk about the action; it’s a little better here than it has been in some of the other episodes, but it’s still not interesting to me.
I guess I could talk about Kate’s family stuff, but it was always pretty suspect that her mom was involved, and all through this episode I became pretty sure of it. I think it’s well done; I can believe that Kate wouldn’t see it, so much easier to suspect Jack than her mom, but it does make total sense.
Then again, I come back to structure. Because by having the escalation on that front come in so late, I don’t feel like we’re going to get a lot of reaction to the reveal. We don’t have time to see Kate really struggle with the revelation, no more than one or two stages of grief to come to grips with what’s going on.
I’m also a little bothered that Kate didn’t call Clint straight away after Yelena left. I could buy it if she was a little unsure if she believed what Yelena was saying, but that’s not something we see Kate grapple with the next day.
Wait, is the implication then that Kate’s mom put out a hit on Clint after finding out that Kate was working with him? Because as I was watching the episode my assumption was that the attack was tied to what happened at the end of Black Widow. And given how this episode opens with Yelena’s story, I figured it was somewhat clunkily pulling her into a plot where she was just an added complication. On the flip side, if she’s being fed the line about Clint ‘being the reason Natasha is dead’ (specific wording is technically correct) and then she gets the opportunity to take him out through a separate set of circumstances, that’s almost as coincidental as her just happening to show up during this other plot.
Well, if I’m feeling so much like this is forced out, maybe I should just move on and see the finale so I can probably write a massive reaction to it.
