I tried to think why Ms Marvel annoys me so much, and this episode really cements it. It's US imperialism in televisual form.
In the comments on the last episode I mentioned it was a small mercy that everyone in 1948 wasn't speaking English. 6 years earlier, apparently, they were. Marvel could introduce the sounds of a beautiful, poetic mellifluous language to the world... Or just have characters inexplicably speaking English to each other. They chose the latter.
This isn't representation, this is appropriation and exploitation. Put ideas and concepts into the Marvel grinder and get generic Marvel sludge out the other end.
The image I can't get out of my head is Reverend Lovejoy talking about "Christians, Jews... and miscellaneous." That's all this series treats its characters, settings and concepts as: miscellaneous.
Shout by tesbreagBlockedParent2022-07-21T15:25:59Z
I tried to think why Ms Marvel annoys me so much, and this episode really cements it. It's US imperialism in televisual form.
In the comments on the last episode I mentioned it was a small mercy that everyone in 1948 wasn't speaking English. 6 years earlier, apparently, they were. Marvel could introduce the sounds of a beautiful, poetic mellifluous language to the world... Or just have characters inexplicably speaking English to each other. They chose the latter.
This isn't representation, this is appropriation and exploitation. Put ideas and concepts into the Marvel grinder and get generic Marvel sludge out the other end.
The image I can't get out of my head is Reverend Lovejoy talking about "Christians, Jews... and miscellaneous." That's all this series treats its characters, settings and concepts as: miscellaneous.