Echo

The first episode reminds us of the golden days of the Netflix Daredevil, beware, from the production of my favorite canceled division Marvel Entertainment, unfortunately and unsurprisingly with worse choreography, but at least with blood and sweat. Generally, I support the Marvel Spotlight initiative outside the MCU canon and I am glad that these street heroes will not be constantly dealing with Thanos' snap in the future and will solve their own stories without saving the world. I also include Moon Knight in that retrospectively. Unfortunately, I was not interested in the Native American theme at all, and from the first episode, which I ended up enjoying the most, I hoped we would rise higher, but the creators perhaps did not really know where to go, and there was probably quite a mess in post-production, even with the number of episodes. Echo as she was did not bother me so much in the end (although they could have skipped the magical abilities, although of course they have their comic book basis, but who knows her comics?), I greatly appreciated the return of Kingpin in a larger role, although it still seemed to me that it was too short, and the final 5 episodes are just right. And now give me that fourth season of Daredevil and I will be most satisfied. (01.02.2024)

As with Ms. Marvel, it's a shame this series didn't maintain the quality of the first episode, but sort of petered out over time. That doesn't mean it's bad, but that it could have been better. Like Ms. Marvel, Echo has an absolutely great heroine, played brilliantly by the likeable Alaqua Cox, and it makes a really honest effort to distinguish itself from the rest of the Marvel output (and not just with blood). Still, rather than being important to the development of the MCU, Echo is mostly important to the disabled and to the descendants of Native Americans. But that's not a drawback, on the contrary, I applaud the series for that! (24.01.2024)

An uninteresting visit to Oklahoma without any supporting idea, and it’s essentially pointless. Soulless. The inconsistency in the writing of the characters is almost frightening. For a while, Maya seems to want to liquidate Fisk's empire and no one wants to help her, then she doesn't want to liquidate the empire, but the same people tell her she has to. I still don't understand what the main character was up to, and her behavior towards her loved ones and the Kingpin lacks logic. Alaqua Cox's performance is odd, but I could only tell when she was angry and when she was confused. Vincent D'Onofrio plays his part, though the script doesn't make it easy for him. Charlie Cox doesn't have much to do and the action is alright. An incoherent mess, with no emotion and no point, and really weird dialogue. (09.02.2024)

This was very strange. I was expecting an original story from a Hawkeye character and some sort of feud with Fisk, and through all the Fisk – Hawkeye – Daredevil – the Punisher  interconnectedness I was hoping for some sort of fan service, action, fights or whatever, but this was a story stretched into four hours that could be summed up in a 20 minute short where Maya attacks a train with Fisk's goods and he retaliates. Well, revenge... How about that, it's hard to tell if you can call it revenge when there are two cheap action scenes in the whole series. So the only thing I can highlight about are the flashback with Daredevil, where the action busted my balls and gave me hope for a good rest of the series, but the opposite is true and the rest is more or less a fiasco. Fisk is miraculously alive after being shot in the head, the lack of emotion and inability to play any kind of mental interaction in the first episode is frighteningly blatant, and I don't really understand why the origin of a character named Maya is being pushed on us so forcefully in the form of the power of her Native American ancestors, which is so terribly uninteresting and ordinary that I'm surprised the creators literally filled maybe a third of the series with it. Well, a diametrically different experience than I expected. I wanted a Fisk-Maya fight and development, instead I got a soporific soap opera about Indian ancestors with one good action sequence and zero forward movement of the entire Marvel story. (12.01.2024)