Echo

Episode 1: This was a really great start to a show & character that I had little interest in. I liked getting more on Maya's backstory, setting up what this series is going to be about --> "Kingpin had his empire, now it's time for a queen"!!! YES (now, I'm not familiar with Echo, is she a good person, bad person, or an anti-hero?) <--, and revealing answers to questions we were left with from the last time we saw Maya/Echo. Also, I love before the start of this show, many crybabies were whining (without proof) about how Echo would handily defeat Daredevil in their fight (which she didn't). & it's like, "People! If you legit look at all of Disney's content where you're complaining that women have easily defeated men/your favorite characters, then you see that either 1) that isn't what happened (a lot of people will point to Rey defeating Luke in TLJ, & if you actually pay attention while watching that movie, that's not what happens), or 2) they did defeat them, but it makes sense story wise for them to do so (like Captain Marvel being so super powerful that if she were to lose to the men trying to fight her, then it would make absolutely no sense)". Anyhow! Here we have a case of Maya not defeating Daredevil, but clearly, with enough training, they could be tied or she could squeeze out a win. Episode 2: OOOOOHHH!!!! That opening was FASCINATING!!! I hope this is a recurring thing in each episode, flashbacks to the indigenous people, their ways of life, and the ways they'd do things! From what I googled, in the comics, Echo's "power" is duplicating any physical action she sees (which is pretty cool), but it seems that this show is giving her actual superpowers, and I'm all for the, I'm just hoping that come the finale, they'll explain what exactly this power is & what Maya can do it with it (which I'm sure they will, I just wanna know now!😅😂). I quite enjoyed the train sequence, and I'm intrigued to see what Maya's bombing in New York has in store Tamaha. I think the only criticism I'll have is in regards to the character herself (which wouldn't necessarily be a problem if I had an answer for my question from Episode 1, & even then, i wouldn't consider it a "criticism" really; more of a personal opinion nitpick), but it's the fact of Maya's stubborn hard-headedness "They hit me, so I hit them back...I decide when it starts & stops, that's not chaos!" Like, I'm SURE you think that, but this is the SAME thing that you were having struggles with in New York just 5 months ago!! You're so narrow-sightedly focused on one goal of yours that you're not seeing the damage you're setting up & causing for those around you. It's an annoying thing that I hate characters being like.... I'm hoping that characteristic of hers can be deadly with by the end of the next episode🤞 Episode 3: Another fantastic opening, to me! A bit of a side note from talking about Echo specifically, but I'm assuming that "The Lighthorsemen" were an actual group in American history (as many can guess our public schools don't teach NEARLY as much about our history as they should...), and if so, I'll be honest, I would LOVE to see a film or series about them!! I heard the fights weren't good in this show, but I gotta say, I'm quite enjoying them. While I probably wouldn't put them quite on the level as Daredevil's fight sequences, I'd still say they're pretty well done! On top of that, with the limited amount of MCU shows that there has been, I'd put this in the upper half of them (I'd still put Hawkeye, Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, & WandaVision above it... for now, but I'm much more on the "like" side than "dislike" for this show!). Also, I too had a jump-scare moment when they showed Kingpin randomly next to the house😅, but what else is to be expected when there's only 2 episodes left. Lol Episode 4: My biggest takeaway from this episode is that I REALLY want the tech to be able to hear sign language spoken to me! Don't get me wrong, I'd love to learn sign language myself, but as a "worst case scenario" I'd like to have that tech on hand. Lol Also, I find it interesting that they've touched on these flashes of past lives that Maya is seeing, yet still haven't given us a full explanation as to what's going on with her. I mean, I'm assuming that she's able to experience the abilities that the past generations had, and then "echo" those abilities to her advantage (seeing as how her grandma called it "echoes of past generations"), but I'll guess we'll see with this finale.... Episode 5: As soon as Biscuits said, "I got something better" in response to "Do you have a weapon?" I knew we were in for a treat, and he did not disappoint! Haha!! I also need to know what this "noholo" word is that he used because if it's something like "asshole", I wanna start using towards people😅😂 While we are given more explanation to Echo's powers in the MCU, I'm still a bit confused as to what she can actually do..... like, clearly (as I assumed) she can access the "abilities" of those that came before her, but she can also pass abilities on to others (or, at least, others in her bloodline)? I'll need Marvel/Feige to clear a bit more of that up! & OMG, we about to get Mayor Kingpin, & moreso, a Trumpian version of that by the looks of it ("...an outside person who can take down the establishment")🙈🙈🙈 Good luck Spidey & D.D.!! You gonna need it! Overall, I quite enjoyed this series/mini-series/season. I'd still put it in the same placement that I mentioned earlier, but I fall on the positive side of this show than the negative. I do find it interesting that people were saying things like "This is gonna be its own separate thing, not connected to the MCU" when that seems very much the opposite with all the flashbacks and connections the series seemed to show throughout, connecting not only the MCU, but other potential "universes" as well, but I guess we'll see about that when Born Again finally premieres...