[7.2/10] Not a bad episode by any stretch of the imagination, but I think I was just expecting more somehow. It’s cool to get backstory on Kamala’s great grandparents and the path that led them to the famous family story. But their romance was somewhat cliche, even if the actors had good chemistry. You can only do so much to tell the story of courtship and starting a life together and raising a child in twenty minutes or so without falling back on cliches, but still, the whole thing felt a little underbaked.
And yet, I still choked up a bit when Kamala takes her great grandmother’s adage that “What you seek is seeking you” to heart and helps the lost child who will one day become her grandmother find her father. The poetry of Kamala finding out that she is the impetus of the family legend comes with a certain circularity and power. One generation saves the other. The way the magic works is still a little fuzzy, but the emotions of the moment work.
The same goes for the return in the present when Kamala confesses to her mother about her magical powers, gives her great grandmother a photo of her parents purloined from the past, and a game of intergenerational apology and forgiveness takes hold. It puts Ms. Marvel squarey in the newly robust genre of immigrant families saying they’re sorry from one generation to the next, but it still tugs the heartstrings.
It’s also nice to get a quick hit history lesson on the human cost of partition. I’ll confess, I know the basics of the situation, but not much of the details, so it’s compelling and enlightening to see the event dramatized like this. Seeing neighbors turn on one another is angering and heartbreaking. And the direction and sheer energy of the train scenes is impressive. You get the atmosphere of chaos and desperation that came with such a significant and unwanted change.
I can’t say I’m terribly excited for the last episode. The most important stuff has already been resolved, from Kamala closing the stable time loop with her great grandmother, to the new understanding with her mom and grandmother, to the ostensible villain sacrificing herself to close “the veil”. Sure, she seemed to give Kamran sossme powers, and maybe even possessed him. Plus, there’s still Damage Control to worry about. But none of those things are as interesting as the resolution to the issues in Karachi. Hopefully the show still has one more ace up its sleeve.
Overall, a good episode that was, perhaps, not as engrossing or exciting as it could have been given the time-traveling premise, but which still warmed the cockles of my heart in its biggest moments.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2022-07-07T02:44:38Z
[7.2/10] Not a bad episode by any stretch of the imagination, but I think I was just expecting more somehow. It’s cool to get backstory on Kamala’s great grandparents and the path that led them to the famous family story. But their romance was somewhat cliche, even if the actors had good chemistry. You can only do so much to tell the story of courtship and starting a life together and raising a child in twenty minutes or so without falling back on cliches, but still, the whole thing felt a little underbaked.
And yet, I still choked up a bit when Kamala takes her great grandmother’s adage that “What you seek is seeking you” to heart and helps the lost child who will one day become her grandmother find her father. The poetry of Kamala finding out that she is the impetus of the family legend comes with a certain circularity and power. One generation saves the other. The way the magic works is still a little fuzzy, but the emotions of the moment work.
The same goes for the return in the present when Kamala confesses to her mother about her magical powers, gives her great grandmother a photo of her parents purloined from the past, and a game of intergenerational apology and forgiveness takes hold. It puts Ms. Marvel squarey in the newly robust genre of immigrant families saying they’re sorry from one generation to the next, but it still tugs the heartstrings.
It’s also nice to get a quick hit history lesson on the human cost of partition. I’ll confess, I know the basics of the situation, but not much of the details, so it’s compelling and enlightening to see the event dramatized like this. Seeing neighbors turn on one another is angering and heartbreaking. And the direction and sheer energy of the train scenes is impressive. You get the atmosphere of chaos and desperation that came with such a significant and unwanted change.
I can’t say I’m terribly excited for the last episode. The most important stuff has already been resolved, from Kamala closing the stable time loop with her great grandmother, to the new understanding with her mom and grandmother, to the ostensible villain sacrificing herself to close “the veil”. Sure, she seemed to give Kamran sossme powers, and maybe even possessed him. Plus, there’s still Damage Control to worry about. But none of those things are as interesting as the resolution to the issues in Karachi. Hopefully the show still has one more ace up its sleeve.
Overall, a good episode that was, perhaps, not as engrossing or exciting as it could have been given the time-traveling premise, but which still warmed the cockles of my heart in its biggest moments.