"How is she not hearing this... oh my god, I'm sorry..." When someone with a disability is more skilled and capable than most people you'll ever meet, it's easy to forget they have a disability. I've never watched Last Airbender or Legend of Korra, but I've seen clips from those shows in which characters keep forgetting that Toph is blind because she's so good at everything. Sometimes she gets annoyed but sometimes she flips it and plays it for laughs.
As for Kate Bishops "Name" the smash cut to the title card is meant to imply it, but i can see how its not always clear, her name is just "Hawkeye" she is meant to take over and just be Hawkeye.
In the comics sometimes she refers to herself as "Hawkeye" and Clint as "Hawkguy" as a pun. They were both co-leads in the 2010s issues of the Hawkeye comics and they are a delight to read, especially the Fraction/Aja run. Also Fisk's shirt in this is a reference to his attire in a Spider-Man graphic novel.
@@kaiielle please don’t worry or be embarrassed! It’s a very easy mistake to make…especially when, as Adam points out, she proves herself to be VERY capable (in the series AND in real life). And I think you’ll go on to see, assuming you continue to follow her MCU journey, that her character is incredibly strong! It’s clear (no spoilers of course) that Maya, and the lovely actress playing her, Alaqua Cox, is one tough and awesome chick!! 💪 Don’t beat yourself up, is all I’m saying. You corrected your faux pas immediately…also, it’s worth noting that not everyone has the conscientiousness or compassion to be so self aware!! 😊 Your karma is all good! 👍
The Yelana , Kate battle, you aren't wrong about. Obviously it should be pretty one side. I took it more as Yelana just toying with her , testing her out, she likes Kate, and maybe wants to see if there is something there to take her under her wing. A bit mirroring the Nat/Clint relationship.
I agree! I think the reason Yelena didn’t “win” that fight is specifically because she wasn’t TRYING to win! Had she truly WANTED to put Kate down, she would’ve done it easily!
Agreed. Yelena is messing around like with a kid sibling. She takes a breath says "That was fun" and leaves cuz shes done playing around. Marvel just trying to hype the new Black Widow+Hawkeye friendship
That's not how fighting works. You see it all the time for martial arts fights. Kate has been training since a kid as well, that's a foundation that evens things far more than you seem to imagine. Yelena has the experience and so should come through it across an entire fight, but it absolutely should not be one sided unless she has powers - and unlike the comics where Natasha and I assume the others were actually enhanced, in the MCU they are all just normal people. Obviously add in the fact she isn't going for a kill, you could argue she actually found it easier than she should have done.
@@equusfemina1 Kate Bishop's level of fighting ability isn't there yet, but her only strength and advantage is her bow and arrow and she was able to knock both Yelena and Maya simultenously with her sonic boom arrow. Of course you have to admit, Kate is not someone to back down from a fight
One of the MCU versions of Mockingbird. They also had Bobbi Morse in Agents of SHIELD, but neither she or Laura has actually been referred to as Mockingbird in the shows. My personal theory is that Laura was Bobbi's SO/Trainer and passed the codename down to her when she left SHIELD.
Well, kind of. We already have MCU Mockingbird, Adrienne Palicki in Agents of SHIELD. I think Laura Barton is meant to be based on the SHIELD agent Laura Brown, and they gave her Bobbi's agent number, which was not used in Agents of SHIELD. So they basically did an amalgamation of both characters.
You say you can't take the fight between Kate and Yelena seriously but that's the point of it! lol Yelena is literally just having fun fighting Kate, doesn't want to kill or incapacitate her even. They even end the scene with her giving her her notes, compliments, and going "hey that was fun, thanks Kate!" then dipping haha
Especially Kate slapping Yelena in the face, and Kate does't know why, well maybe i think in Kate's mind that she didn't take Yelena's threat easily she gave to Kate in Kate's apartment, so that was like F*** you Yelena
54:47 When Clint says to Kate "You know what, actually, I have an idea." and it's followed by the title of the show, I understood it as she would be taking on the name "Hawkeye."
Your complaint about screens is still valid. If the post-production team is putting in the screens later, why are they not bothering to format the screen in a way that makes sense for what the actors did on set?
This whole series is one of my favorites of the Marvel shows. I love the mix of humor and action, Yelena is literally my favorite MCU character, Jack was an unexpected delight and KINGPIN.
I dunno if anyone brought this up, but in the fight between Yelena and Kate, Kate is doing everything in her power to stop Yelena from hurting Clint. Yelena is doing everything in her power to stop herself from hurting Kate. That's why they're almost evenly matched. It's like that scene in Iron Man 2, in the ring, where Natasha fights Happy. She could kill him, but she is trying to just be a civilian, not an assassin. Also, in regards to the Xmas tree and the owl, this is a reference to a real event. Every year, a Norwegian Spruce is donated to the Rockefeller Xmas tree site. Only one year, a small owl was accidentally transported from upstate NY to Manhattan, and was found in the tree (his name is Rocky).
Also, he is part of Hawkeye's origin story in the comics. Swordsman is the one who trains a young runaway, Clint, to use bladed weapons, while Trick Shot teaches Clint archery.
I wouldn’t call it an introduction so much as an Easter egg. I think Marvel Studios is well aware they will never get to a character that far down the list, so they can repurpose it in a new way as a nod to the fans. They’ve done this before (eg, the Leader in the Hulk film).
@CaptainEnglehorn The original Trick Shot was named Buck Chisholm, who worked at the circus and taught Clint archery. He becomes a villain who fights against Clint. He eventually dies of cancer but warns Clint that his brother Barney Barton is dangerous. Barney later becomes a new Trickshot (different spelling).
I do like how the only reason Fisk lost to Kate was because he kept underestimating her. He was clearly stronger and more capable, but his mistake was he didn't just fight her, he kept trying to walk away, giving Kate time to improvise a plan. It keeps Fisk being dangerous & intelligent, while also giving Kate her first win against a supervillain
Supernatural powers is not what makes a character a superhero/ supervillain. Even if it was, most human “superheroes and supervillains” have a skill set and/or intellect that puts them so far ahead of the average- above average human, that you can say they do have super powers. For example, Clint doesn’t miss or (oh, I don’t know), how Fisk had the strength to rip off a car door and the durability to withstand being hit by a car or being blown up and just walked away. So maybe he in fact IS a “Supervillain”.
Yeah, after Civil War, Nat wouldn't have had contact with Clint cuz he was under house and she was keeping a very low profile in Black Widow arrest and Nat wouldn't have had time to take a picture with Yelena then she went off to reform the Avengers then the blip happened but at least she got to talk about Yelena before she sacrificed herself 🥲
Just from what I picked up during this show, what I gathered about the watch is that Laura was a shield agent (I think her code name was Mocking Jay but it's been a while since I looked it up to confirm my theory) and that's likely where Laura and Clint met. She probably retired so they could start a family, which also explains why she trusts his judgment so much and also why she knows so many languages, and why she was so accepting of Nat, enough to make her Aunty Nat.
Mockingbird is the codename of Agent 19 aka Bobbi Morse in the comics and she was an ex of Hawkeye - Morse is in Agents of SHIELD played by Adrianne Palicki but is not referred to by that codename and is an ex of Lance Hunter rather than Hawkeye; they were going to do a spinoff show with her that would have had her take that name but I believe it never got past the pilot, and most of the stuff associated with AoS specifically has basically fallen into a continuity black hole and nobody seems in a rush to change that. Having Laura Barton as a retired Agent 19 basically closes that loop, as at the time Marvel seemed to have limited intentions to continue using certain stuff from before the film and TV divisions merged post-Phase 3.
It's worth remembering that the occasionally disjointed nature of the film and TV side of the MCU from 2012 to 2019 was the result of film and TV divisions of Marvel not being overseen by the same people - Marvel TV was run by Jeph Loeb, a comics writer and producer who worked on Smallville and Heroes, and Agents of SHIELD specifically was run by Joss Whedon and a bunch of his usual collaborators, and they didn't answer to Fiege but instead to the then-head of Marvel Enterprises Ike Perlmutter, who among other things was resposible for a lot of the less popular creative decisions made early in the MCU's tenure, including how long it took to get a solo female/POC film. Add to that that prior to D+ all the shows were on different networks and platforms due to the internecine nature of network deals, and you end up with situations where stuff like the Inhumans, which should have massive global implications in the MCU, basically barely registers because they're a nothingburger of a property and the budget to produce their show ended up being about the price of a hamburger and fries.
@@radicaladzAnd still the shows were more impactful than the massive budget D+ shows And unfortunately they didn’t look at the Marvel TV shows closely enough- AoS did the imposter story at least 3 times and each was much more tense than the whole of SI
I know the word "partner" was thrown around a lot in this series, but in the end my take-away is that Kate is his replacement. She was trying to come up with a super hero name, and I was under the impression that Clint just wants her to be Hawkeye.
The thing you might not have noticed during the Roger's musical number is that they had Ant-man there, but during the invasion of New York in the original Avengers movie, but he time travelled there during Endgame.
One thing I've noticed about MCU properties since phase 3 ended is that they like to use interesting and unusual cover songs. The Puppini Sisters version of "Mele Kalikimaka" is an excellent holiday selection in episode 4 of this series. In Loki season 1 (no plot spoilers, don't worry) there's a bossa nova lounge cover of "Wonderwall" in the background of one of the weirder scenes in episode 5. It doesn't have anything to do with the scene, but it somehow fits the strangeness of the situation. It's performed by a group called The Mike Flowers Pops, and it was released in the mid-90s when music was having a genre free-for-all, and suddenly varieties of popular jazz from the 40s had a revival, ushered in partly by the fact that third-wave ska produced a new generation of young people playing brass instriments.
One thing I think is good to remember whenever you wonder why a show is a certain number of episodes or why some characters aren't in certain movies is the availability of the actors. Florence Pugh or Jeremy Renner aren't always going to have enough time in their schedule to commit to a longer series or another movie.
This was one of my "biggest surprise" shows. I didn't have any expectations either way, went in for the ride and enjoyed it more than my neutral expectations.
More people need to react to that movie, period. But they have to get the DVD and not use the sanitised Disney version which messes up the best line in the movie.
I loved the way your face lit up at the end of Episode 5! Kingpin's appearance was huge for long-time Marvel fans when the episode hit the Internet. We suspected Fisk might arrive after he was teased in Maya's backstory, but with the confirmation that her boss really was Vincent D'onofrio's Kingpin, some fans went absolutely bonkers! I can understand your muted appreciation for Hawkeye's show. There have probably been multiple factors affecting the quality of Marvel's TV shows, the pandemic not least among them. However, I like the story for what it is -- in large part, it's an explanation of how the torch will be passed, and why. Which leads to the relationship between Kate and Clint. It may seem odd for Hawkeye to accept someone so green as a partner, especially after having spent so much of the series pushing her away. However, I think that in the end he came to appreciate Kate's presence in his life, and acknowledge her raw skill and tenacity. Also, I suspect that Clint sees the need to pass on the mantle of Hawkeye to someone younger -- he knows he's getting on in years, he's breaking down physically, and would much rather spend time with his family. So if he must take on a protege, perhaps he figures it might as well be someone with a base level of requisite skill, and who's actually eager to learn from him. And since you mentioned the comics: Yes, Kate Bishop is very much a canon character. She was introduced in the "Hawkeye" limited series, written by Matt Fraction and David Aja. In fact, from what I've heard from other fans, the TV series is based largely on that comics run. If you decide to check it out, please enjoy!
After getting to know Kate during the "girls night" I think Yelena didn't WANT to hurt Kate, Yes she could easily kill or incapacitate her if she wanted to but Yelena sees her as a fairly innocent kid that has just unfortunately been wrapped up in some pretty horrible business...not too dissimilar to her younger self, Natasha & countless widows. She was definitely taking it easy on her no doubt. Clint was her only focus/objective...and being a trained assassin, she would probably want to minimise any unnecessary collateral damage or possible evidence if she did end up killing Kate.
@@kaiielle They definitely could've done a better job to showcase some of these facts/feelings for sure though! I enjoyed the series, but it definitely wasn't perfect by any means. 🙂👍
Kate Bishop's level of fighting ability isn't there yet, but her only strength and advantage is her bow and arrow and she was able to knock both Yelena and Maya simultenously with her sonic boom arrow. Of course you have to admit, Kate is not someone to back down from a fight
Crazy how different opinions can be because Hawkeye is definitely in my top 3 MCU shows with Loki and Wandavision. I found it really funny and down to earth and it made me fall in love with a character I didn’t really care all that much about. It also has one of my favorite post credit scenes (the other one being the Shawarma scene from Avengers)
I do get where you're coming from on wishing that the series had done more and that the last half was much better than the first half. On the whole, I really did enjoy it, flaws and all, because it really respected how Hawkeye is in the comics, hearing impairment and all. Guy's been through the wringer in a big way. As for Kate, her comics name, which Clint mentioned when she was trying to spitball names, is Hawkeye.What's more, she's part of The Young Avengers, which each of the shows have been establishing characters for. Wanda's twins, Isaiah Bradley's grandson Eli, Kid Loki... heck, even Sylvie, and Kate Bishop are all members of the Young Avengers.
Kate Bishop's level of fighting ability isn't there yet, but her only strength and advantage is her bow and arrow and she was able to knock both Yelena and Maya simultenously with her sonic boom arrow. Of course you have to admit, Kate is not someone to back down from a fight
Awesome reaction to a very great show. I think that the fighting sequence between Yelena and Kate is misunderstood. Remember the first time they meet. They both agree that if Yelena would want to kill Kate, that would have happened the second she got through the door. So they both have that clear. That fighting sequence is just Yelena trying to save Kate's life, to keep her out of her way, because she likes Kate (they may become friends in the future, who knows).
The top reason why your MCU reaction is one of my favorites is you aren't a sucker for Hollywood action-comedy. You don't just love every movie/series, and you aren't embarrassed or ashamed to say when you don't love something.
Yelena is such a mood in this show most of the time. Lol. Like just acting very every day like 80% of the time, then the other part trying to kill Clint. Yeah. Rewatching with you, this show is still in my top 2 at least for MCU shows. :)
Pacing has been the mayor thing that has kept good MCU shows from being great. The six episode format makes the finale feel too rushed too often. Kate Bishop is directly from the comic run that this show is adapted from. And I am glad that we should see more of her. 😎😎😎
Kate Bishop's level of fighting ability isn't there yet, but her only strength and advantage is her bow and arrow and she was able to knock both Yelena and Maya simultenously with her sonic boom arrow. Of course you have to admit, Kate is not someone to back down from a fight
Yelena clearly wasn't going all-out in her fight with Kate (as she said earlier, she could kill Kate easily if she wanted to), but I think you're right that Yelena should have been able to subdue her much more effectively. Some peoplle think Yelena just liked fighting Kate, and that's why she let it go on. A decent number of people actually ship Kate/Yelena, heh.
Kate Bishop's level of fighting ability isn't there yet, but her only strength and advantage is her bow and arrow and she was able to knock both Yelena and Maya simultenously with her sonic boom arrow. Of course you have to admit, Kate is not someone to back down from a fight
Great reaction. Wish someone hadn't spoiled that because I was really wanting to see how shocked you would be. Fyi, in the comics, Clint started as a villain as part of the Carnival of Crime. Jack was known as The Swordsman, a villain and Clint's mentor.
Loved the reactions for Hawkeye. I remember watching the show and enjoyed it, enjoyed it more than Falcon and Winter Solider but Loki season 1 was my favorite of those first batch of shows. Looking back, having Hawkeye be an episode or 2 longer would've been a good thing.
I completely agree with your overall review and personal taste towards the end. Hawkeye was entertaining, but it didn’t come close to my top 3 MCU TV shows during that pandemic era. So, I’m keen to hear other views, but for me the phase 4 MCU TV Show list went as follows… (1) Loki, (2) Falcon & The Winter Solider, (3) WanderVision, (4) Moon Knight, (5) Hawkeye, (6) What If, (7) Ms. Marvel, (8) She-Hulk.
When Yelena throws Kate over the edge and Clint sees the way she's hanging, you are right that it reminds him of Natasha. But what you missed is that the music playing in the background is the same music when Nat sacrificed herself in Endgame. Once you know that it makes it more of a moment. I wouldn't beat yourself up too much about thinking Maya should have heard all of that. That's a testament to how well she's playing the role that you forget she's deaf. As far as Kate-Yelena fight. Yes Yelena could take Kate but Kate was trained as a child in Martial Arts. So she could conceivably hold her own for a little while with Yelena holding back. Also, Yelena is trained to focus on the target and she mentioned over and over she didn't want to kill Kate but could if she wanted. This show is based on the Matt Fraction comic run so if you read that, you may feel a little better about the direction they're going with Kate.
My favorite MCU Show was and still is Agents of Shield. I just love nearly everything about it. But in the modern Disney+ Marvel Shows Hawkeye is probably my 2nd favorite only after Loki. The show was just so fun and wholesome in a feel good way. I loved that. I agree that the ending was rushed and Kingpin and Yelena would have benefited from another one or two episodes, but that doesn't undermine the good time I had with the show.
"This connection makes me appreciate Kingpin more". The thing is that his talk of family and what Maya means to him is just part of his manipulating her. In the comics Jack Duquesne better known as "The Swordsman" started out as a villain and later became a hero and an Avenger. So even people familiar with the comics weren't sure if he was going to be the good guy version or the villain. Because both Hawkeye and Black Widow were enemies of the Avengers (particularly Iron Man) for a long time before becoming heroes and that past was not used in the MCU of course. So they really could have had him be the actual villain of the show, or a hero ally. And it wasn't like some other characters that comic readers had some inside knowledge that they were a bad guy before it was revealed.
Noice! The conclusion of an excellent series, and it really delivers. I like that it kind of ties up Clint's story (unless they decide to pull at some threads). 20:01The chemistry between Hailee Steinfeld and Florence Pugh is brilliant, can't wait to see them team up as the new Hawkeye and Black Widow. 🤞 Also, I love that Jack turned out to be a Good Guy, he's consistently friggin' hilarious.🤣 Cheers and Happy Weekend Kaiielle, and to all Y'all out there. 🥃☮❤
In the main universe comics known as the 616 universe Clint use to be married to Bobbi Morse Shield Agent 19 who used the superhero codename Mockingbird. In the Ultimate line of comics which the MCU draws a lot from Clint was married to a woman named Laura and had kids. The tv show Agents of Shield which canon to the MCU is now is question. Marvel Studios seems to be ignoring it as the show was made by the former Marvel TV division. But in that show a main character for a few seasons was Bobbi Morse who used the codename Mockingbird on the show. The Hawkeye series decided to give Laura the Agent 19 moniker as a nod to the comics without flat out calling AoS not Canon.
So the pattern to the Disney+ TV shows is: If it’s 9+ episodes it’ll be 20/30 minutes and categorized as a “Comedy” If it’s 6 or less episodes it’ll be 40+ minutes and categorized as “Drama”. I’m sure you’re ahead on patreon so you might have noticed already. But they’re planning to change this pattern for newer shows and Daredevil is most likely the first to see this change, hopefully for the better 🤞🏾
I think one thing to remember, despite the serious moments, topics, this is much like what we see in the comics, at it’s core, a Christmas Special. It was a bit lighter, introducing Kate, Kingpin etc… & of course the musical. Kate is from the comics, talented, skilled, but in this show and the comics she isn’t Clint’s peer, he is a much more aged, skilled, veteran. I don’t think they wanted to portray them as equals although as they age they will get closer in ability, if not experience. Clint’s wife (in the comics) was a SHIELD agent. In the comics the Mia Kingpin confrontation happens. The Swordsman was originally introduced as a villain & one of Clint’s mentors, great to see him in swashbuckling action! I’ve tried to be vague & spoiler free, great reactions again. Oops I should add, Kate was a Young Avenger in the comics, many, many of these you have already seen, sneaked in by Marvel. I think it’s inevitable we’ll see them, but with that it’s also worth remembering Marvel is spreading its wings trying to hit wider audiences. Part of that will be the next generation of heroes. My daughter loves them, even though she hasn’t read the comics. I love them, but they aren’t why I love Marvel, if that makes sense!
@@kaiielle Kate is not there yet when it comes to fighting, plus keep in mind Kate is not an assassin, her only strength is her bow and arrow and she knocked out both Yelena and Echo at the same time from killing Clint. Kate is not the type of person to back away from a fight
@@kaiielle Yelena doesn’t want to hurt Kate. She’s not a target, and Yelena kinda likes her. I know this is a comic book story, but any sort of “put someone down so they can’t get right back up” move in real life is a “maybe kill, or at least put someone in the hospital” move.
I didn't realize until about a year or two ago that Vincent D'Onofrio, Kingpin, also played the Bug in the Edgar Suit in the first Men In Black. What a great actor.
I really enjoyed this series, and I love Kate and Hawkeye so much, but I also just love those actors so much so I felt quite biased in that sense. I wonder if you watch this around the holidays it would change your opinion at all, or keep it the same. Your criticisms are valid. I do wish we would stop with the 6 episodes, its far too short. I rather prefer like, a 3-part, 90min "mini series" or something in the 9+ episode range. Same goes with the Star War mini series too, its just not enough time spent with all these new characters!
Wandavision was more episodes, but those episodes were shorter, so the total runtime was still almost the same. (4 hours for Hawkeye vs 4.5 hours for WV)
Hey Kaielle. I appreciate your love for Clint, but I would have assumed you would have liked Kate a little more. You seemed to not understand that he’s passing the Hawkeye title down to her. As well, you weren’t supposed to take the Kate/Yelena fight in the office seriously. It was played for comedy. ( You really don’t like MCU comedy). Yelena likes Kate and doesn’t want to hurt her and Kate is just trying to slow her down and get in her way. Only the MCU shows that were under 30 minutes per episode were 9 episodes long. The show with episodes over 30 minutes per episode were series of 6 episodes.
I like MCU comedy when I like all the characters involved. If I'm not particularly drawn to a character, then the comedy will feel more annoying and tiresome to me. I'm sure I'm not the only one who is that way.
Great reaction! 👏 Love this show, it is so criminally underrated! Just one tiny correction, you mention during the finale episode that Clint was introduced in Avengers (2012)…he was actually introduced in Thor (2011)…it was a cameo but still. 😉 Sorry, I’m a real sucker for details when it comes to the MCU! 😂 I also wanted to point out a helpful tip, and that’s that this is one of the few Disney+ series that is FULL OF EXTRAS on D+! Definitely worth checking out if you haven’t already! There are several deleted scenes and even a gag reel! One deleted scene in particular is really good, it’s several minutes long and shows a young Clint with his mother, it details a lot of backstory of his character! I highly recommend it! 👍 Can’t wait for your next Marvel reaction! 💜 EDIT: Just checked & the specific deleted scene I mentioned (because there are TWELVE altogether!) is titled “You Never Miss.”
This series was a really fun watch. While I did prefer Wandavision and F&WS, I was glad for Clint to get some justice(/proper send-off?) and in a fitting way. I loved that the threat was all kept at "street level" with no overarching mystical or scifi elements too. The silliness of the tracksuits allowed Kate to train in and be effective without disrespecting Clint's original Avenger cred. Kate was great, hopefully we'll see her return in a new gen of heroes in whatever phase they have planned. I was very excited to see Fisk return for the first time since Daredevil. My only minor gripe is that he's a bit more MCU on this portrayal than the much grittier/groundedness of the Daredevil series (I can't see anyone tanking an explosion/car crash like that in the original show like he did here, for example, and they gave him a bit of super strength with that car door rip) but Vincent D'Onofrio is just so excellent in the character that I easily overlook it. Very excited to see how you find him as you progress through DD. And I was also glad when Jack being a bad guy was a fakeout. The Dalton charisma is way too strong.
It’s so weird seeing Tony Dalton in TV shows bc I first saw him in a telenovela back in 2006 and his character was disgusting so I can’t not think about that when he’s playing other characters, maybe it’s a childhood trauma 😂 but it’s great to see that the actor is thriving!
Hi Kaiielle, I really enjoyed your reaction to all episodes of Hawkeye🏹 Haliee Is amazing Kate Bishop , It's great to see Florence Pugh as Yelena and Alaqua cox As Maya I can't wait to see your reaction to her show echo someday and Vincent is amazing as the kingpin.
I haven’t read through all the comments for these episodes or the previous ones but I will say that in my opinion Vincent D'Onofrio has done an amazing job as Kingpin and I’m curious to see your reaction to the rest of the Netflix Defenders saga which I’m glad is now cannon in the MCU. Also looking forward to seeing your reaction to the Echo series as well. Lastly Daredevil Born Again aka Season 4 could not come out soon enough
My favorite series. Best new characters: Maya and Kate. Both have extensive fight training. Best guest appearances: Yelena and Kingpin 2nd best side characters: LARPers. (Nobody beats Luis from Ant-Man) Most anticipated pairing for the future: Kate and Yelena. ...and do diligence done to Bart Clinton to give him the depth and meaning we waited for.
Yes I loved this show so much I got it on DVD and you get to see what happens to king-Pin in Echo and you can see more of Kate in the Marvels cool stuff I would also watch more Daredevil if I were you
If you ever decide to get into the comics, I suggest Hawkeye 2012 by Fraction and Aja! It inspired this series, and it's an absolutely phenomenal run, Kate and Clint are sooo fun together, and I think it's really great!
Idk if someone maybe already said this but Laura's watch was a nod to Clint's long-time partner and wife in the comics Bobbi Morse/Mockingbird aka S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 19. Laura and the kids are completely original characters that aren't in the comics so personally I think it was really cool for them to hint to a past when Linda Cardellini's Laura Barton was a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent herself, especially when Mockingbird and Hawkeye's relationship/partnership is so significant in the comics.
I'm so glad to read that about Daredevil being your favorite MCU show so far. That series really was on a whole different level from any Disney+ Marvel shows that would follow in the recent years. Seasons 2 and 3 get even better, if I may say so myself and thankfully Disney has stopped messing with the new Daredevil show they're making. They originally planned not to bring back certain characters and actors, but now they do. It's just a shame that those reactions are only on Patreon, but I totally get it. Not all of the content can be on here.
In my opinion, one of the things that made the Netflix Marvel shows better was their "gritty realism". Netflix gave them license to be visually brutal, have complicated overlapping plots, and swear. Disney will never allow those things because they require two things from their media (typically): be as inoffensive as possible, and be understood by/appeal to as many people as possible. I like to use the term Lowest Common Denominator Entertainment to describe this.
Yeah, I think because Covid threw off schedules on most of these shows, we didn't get full value from them. I love this show, but I agree that it could have been improved with three more episodes.
Yelena could take out Kate easily but she was going easy on her, and playing with her. She still likes Kate so she doesn't want to be mean and give her a hard smack down. It's big sister energy. Think of a young kid and an older MUCH larger sibling. They could punch their lights out with one big swing. Instead they do the hand on the forehead holding them at bay. It's funny, it's slightly humilating/teasing, but it doesn't actually hurt them.
Yelena threatening Kate in Kate's apartment was really harsh, i'm thinking that when Kate slapped Yelena in the face, that was like F*** you Yelena. They do chemistry there, i think Ms. Marvel is more fitting to get along with Kate Bishop
The character of Jack is based loosely on the Swordsman from Hawkeye and Avengers comics it seems. Also, I just found out a few days ago that the actor that portrays the kingpin is the same that played the main alien villain in the first MIB movie, and he also was the mechanic that resembled Thor in Adventures in Babysitting...
About you maybe being interested in the comics: For Hawkeye I cant reccomend enought the series "Hawkeye" by David Aja and Matt Fraction from 2012. Its a great read and one the best Marvel comics. About Ronin I dont know about any remarkable run, but I could just be wrong. If you want more Kingpin you are in luck, Daredevil is without a doubt the most consistently well written character in Marvel. Just start at the Frank Miller run and follow through, there is so much great stuff there, so many great artists and storytellers. My favorite is the Ann Nocenti run that follows Miller. If you want to read it Comic Book Herald has many great reading orders and they have one for Daredevil too. For mkre Kate I would suggest starting at the previously mentioned Hawkeye and also check out Young Avengers from 2013, another great read by Kieron Gillen
37:46 Actually (pushes up glasses), Hawkeye was introduced in the first Thor movie, a year earlier. Please don't take my lunch money and stuff me in a locker. 🤓 39:22 Kaielle is so much the Smitten Kitten. 😻 (can't blame her though) 40:04 Once again, Marvel really needs to get these two back together, and soon. 🤣
I like the Hawkeye show just fine, but I agree that six episodes are not enough, that's my main problem with the Marvel Disney+ shows. Jeremy Renner is in another really good show called: the mayor of kingstown, and in an awesome movie with Elizabeth Olsen called: Wind River, I think you'd like the show and the movie a lot.
Love your reaction. That being said, I'm sorry. I had to watch the "How is she not hearing this?" part twice. That surprised me. Clint was actually introduced in Thor. It wasn't a big role at the moment.
From a purely narrative standpoint, the twist of Jack being a good guy is kinda convoluted, and if I was teaching creative writing to a class and a student wrote this twist, I might push back a little. HOWEVER, in the context of this show, I kinda love it. Partly because it's impossible not to love Tony Dalton, so it just works that we love Jack by the end of the series.
With regards to your opinion about the fight between Yelena and Kate, did you not remember Kate was a karate/Judo champion/black belt? She ACTUALLY knows how to fight!? She may not be as strong as Yelena, but she's not a scrub when it comes to hand to hand combat
Kate is not the type of person to back away from a fight, her strength and advantage is her bow and arrow and is able to knock out both Yelena and Maya from killing Clint
You know what I do dislike about more recent MCU shows? Characters knowing things the audience knows is just taken for granted. Clint talks about "the shot he didnt take" and Kate immediately knows that hes talking about Natasha Romanoff. How would she know that he spared her? How would she even know they had history together before the Avengers formed? I find it hard to believe that either of them started to write a biography about their lives before Endgame. Stuff like this just takes me out of a scene.
You remember that Natasha dumped all of S.H.I.E.L.D./Hydra's files out into the world in Winter Soldier, right? I don't think it's a stretch that someone like Kate who idolizes Clint (and who had access to her mother's security firm's files for even more in-depth info) would have read everything that mentioned his name...and they even pointed out in Winter Soldier that if Nat released the info, everyone would know about her past... I'm sure the details on the op where Barton was supposed to take her out would have been included (and part of any government agency's red tape is going to be after-action reports from involved parties...so she likely got to read it in his own words...where he likely would have had to answer for why he disobeyed orders and went off mission.) Not saying that your gripe is completely unfounded...but...we do live in a digital age where you can often find out where your fave celeb had dinner last night...and you can bet that the society depicted in the MCU is just as obsessive about the heroes in their world. My guess is, there are entire websites devoted to searchable archives of every little thing that was ever mentioned about them anywhere. It doesn't require much suspension of disbelief...especially in comparison to the rest of the MCU...that regular civilians would know a lot about the Avengers...and that someone who likes Hawkeye as much as Kate does would know even more.
