Ironheart

I like it, rooting for the young queen to win...I love the Chicago feel.

I might do a "review" for this after the final three episodes release. Right now it's a 7/10 for me but I'm giving it a 10/10 to offset the obvious review bombing.

Y'all ain't serious with those 1/10 ratings.

It is at least a 5/10 right now.

The complaints I've read around the block literally amount to:

1. The comic was bad!
2. She disrespected Iron-Man!
3. She's just an Iron-Man replacement!
4. She sold finished school projects! Tony never did that!!!

In other words, it's embarrassing.

Three episodes into Ironheart, and Im left with that all-too-familiar Marvel sensation: theres something interesting buried in here, but its surrounded by noise, tropes, and characters Im apparently supposed to care about before theyve earned it.

Lets start with the good. The AI storylineeasily the most compelling part of the showis handled with more nuance than I expected. Riris deceased friend Natalie, now an experimental consciousness preserved via brain scan, is the closest this show gets to grappling with real questions: what are the limits of memory, identity, and emotional continuity? Is this really Natalie, or just a ghost built out of familiarity and grief? Its heady stuff, and the show mostly lets those questions breathe with...

It is very clear that they held back in the final two episodes for some bigger story in the future, but this kinda hurt my overall enjoyment, dropping it from a 7 (and possible 8) to a 6. Yes, don't reveal everything right away if the story isn't finished, but there should've been way more destruction from the fights. And the heart part of Ironheart ended up being only a sob story (which a teared up for very briefly). But when do we get to love the hero for her current actions rather than her past? Based on the ending, never.

Also, the reveal of the main villain was meh. Someone like him should really send chills down your spine, both in excitement and for fear of what's to come for MCU heroes.

But just like the protagonist, I felt no...

I didn't expect much from this show in the first place because these days, writers are terrible. The so-called progressives in Hollywood are so convinced of their white superiority that they confidently wrote a story where a girl genius can only be a criminal because of the color of her skin-the hard bigotry of low expectations. Only an actual racist can think they have it better than someone due to the color of their skin. Liberals are the actual racists on the planet because they actually believe they're inherently better. These actors deserve better representation. Unfortunately, this is how Hollywood sees them.