Hawkeye - Disney+ (***Spoilers***)

And confirmed in the end credits with his name appearing now.

Of course, those who aren't familiar with the Netflix shows are probably wondering who the blurry picture is of.

One thing I'm liking with these series is showing blip returns. Liked the method they used here.

Funnily enough, when I returned to the Disney+ home screen, one of the Star Highlights is The Royal Tenenbaums.

I’m 3 hours away from sitting in the cinema to watch Spiderman No Way Home and I’d bet my life on Charlie Cox being in it now. I love that they are sticking with the Netflix actors to play the roles (at least for Kingpin so far).

For me it doesn’t matter if the Netflix shows are mcu prime universe or an alternate universe. With the creation of the multiverse in mcu canon it makes everything canon. AOS can be a different universe but the actors (apart from Coulson) can all turn up in the mcu now just like J Jonah Jameson has and play almost exact versions of themselves. Seeing Chloe Bennetts Daisy Johnson again in a D+ show would be great.

AOS spoiler

Just on J Jonah Jameson he might have the same actor but he's very different.

It'd be nice to see Chloe Bennett get any sort of work, anywhere. She pulled out of Powerpuff Girls, the official word was to work on something else but so far nothing has been announced and some of her instagram pictures from earlier have me concerned for her health.

Anyway, tonights episode. Enjoyed that. I know someone above said that they hope Yelena loses the accent. I hope she doesn't. It got a bit jarring when eastern block characters like Wanda became all American all of a sudden. Anyone familiar with She Hulk actor's, Tatiana Malsaney, work in Orphan Black will remember Helena from that show. The Ukrainian accent was a big factor in that character as was the accents of all the Project Leda clones.

5: Nooo! Stop ending episodes like this!

Good episode all the same.

God I’m loving that there Incorporating the Netflix actors into MCU. Hopefully we’ll see Charlie Cox now as well shortly in the movies. Daredevil was too good of a show not to go further.

Yelena is a good addition but there seems too many characters in this show now. Too many enemies and they still have the useless Russian gang wasting screen time.

You know the character is deaf right? She didn’t hear them being taken out. The first time she cops on is when she looks between the cars and notices her goons are missing and she immediately pulls a gun out. So she does react.

As for the casting…. I’m going to agree that I haven’t warmed to her yet as she’s only been allowed to play the role of “angry female who can fight” up to now. However, it’s one of her first, or maybe first roles, she’s actually deaf in real life, and I think it’s a good thing that they cast actors with real disabilities for characters with the same disabilities.

I’d say she has a range we aren’t seeing yet. I’ll hold judgement until her own series comes out.

Best Marvel TV series on Disney. Beats Wanda Vision, Loki or Winter Soldier series hands down imo. Really enjoying that it's set over a 5 or 6 day period in the run up to Christmas

Thoroughly enjoying this show.. but it’s still coming in a close 2nd to Loki….

the Loki soundtrack was absolutely epic….. I actually got a new sound bar & woofer the week of the episode where they are on the wasteland planet with all the other Loki’s, and mother of god that intro nearly shook the house down!!!!

Better see more kingpin. Would have to imagine Echoe will feature him. I hope. Please.

Finale of action

Aren't the LARPers all first responders? So why not dress in their uniforms? Why would the people obey them in cosplay?

I don't think the watch in the wrong hands actually put anyone in danger, it's just one of those "because the lady loves..."

May we have a moment to remember Bobbi Morse as played by Adrianne Palacki. The official MCU Mockingbird from 2014 to 2021.

Anyway moving on, Loved that. There was no rewrite of Kingpin, still the same Daredevil Nemesis. Hailee Stienfeld impressed me a lot and I hope Kate Bishop makes the big screen soon.

I loved episode 6. Good action scenes and character stuff it also moved at a cracking pace. The cast was top notch great chemistry.

Such a consistently good series. I would happily watch another, I'm sure Kate Bishop will pop up in other places at least.

The mid credit scene was fun too.

I loved loki and wandavision but didn't find either as consistently good.

wow they really dumbed down Kingpin for this show. He was not the complex sophisticated version from Daredevil tv show but closer to the dumb one from the Daredevil movie. Also surprised Yelena took so long to get to the truth of her sisters death.

Thoroughly enjoyed that - better than Loki even

Really liked the Kate/Yelena scenes!

Bitterly disappointed with that. I thought it was dreadful.

The first 30 minutes or so were played for far too many laughs. I felt like I was watching one of the Hot Shots movies. The stuff with Yelena and Kate just seemed far too goofy for the stakes involved. Why is Kate being so quirky and zany over a woman coming to kill her friend? If the characters aren't taking the threats seriously, how can the audience? Clint in the tree, Kate on the wire, Jack with the sword, the LARPers, it was like they were trying to cram in a gag every minute. I no longer cared what would happen to the protagonists because the writing meant it didn't matter.

Some of it made no sense. Why did the tracksuits that went for Kate have guns but the ones that went for Jack were unarmed? That was convenient. Why was Jack seemingly unfazed by what had been done to him by Kate's mother? Why were there no police on the scene, helicopters mobilised etc. when Yelena and Clint were fighting? This was a good while after the initial commotion.

Kingpin...wow. Talk about making this guy look like the most pathetic bad guy of all time. This was almost as bad as what they did to The Mandarin first time round. He gets his ass whooped by the sidekick? Really? That's like having Joker get thwarted by Robin. I couldn't believe what I was seeing with this. I'm assuming he wasn't shot at the end or else it wasn't fatal but they may as well have done it because he looks so weak now. Clint didn't even give a damn about him when it was over. Such a waste.

I've said plenty about the wooden, charisma vacuum aka Maya but she was particularly bad in this episode. The actress just can't act. Period. Her 'sad face' in the death scene was basically her pouting angry face but slightly scrunched up a tad more. Abysmal.

It was predictable that Yelena wasn't going to kill Clint after but the manner in which the fight stopped was terrible. A whistle? That's what cuts through with her? The writers thought this would be some powerful moment but it just felt forced and lame. This whole plot point has been a big disappointment. They could have perhaps had Yelena be misinformed all along about what happened and then discover the truth. The audience would relate to that more. Her motives for this arc haven't felt at all proportionate or believable and it ended up so underwhelming.

I had enjoyed this show for the most part and would have rated it about an 8/10 going into this, but this episode was diabolical. I'd rate this episode about a 4 at best. I normally think Marvel endings suck because they go for the CGI crutch and shoot special effects up the wazoo, but that wasn't the problem here. The problem here was the writing sucked. The characters didn't see what was happening was a big deal, and, ultimately, they were right. It wasn't. This was more Pinkeye than Hawkeye. Thumbs way down.

Ha yeah Maya,probably went to the same hairdresser as Yelena. It did bug me that right after kingpin told Maya that she was bringing a,spotlight on his activities through her public fights he decides to send hundreds of goons against a rich party in a hotel in the Rockefeller centre. Probably the dumbest plan in mcu history. All he needed was a big bomb.

I think it's unfair to say about how Kingpin was beaten by the sidekick. She shot him in the gut with an arrow and he pulled it out and kept attacking her. But he got hit by a car (travelling at a ridiculous speed with no run-up) and he kicked the crap out of Kate until she literally set off an explosive at his feet which threw him across a store. And he still walked/limped away.

Daredevil would have taken him down pretty easily too if he hit him with a car and threw a grenade at him.