My view of Ms. Marvel

[Hawkee]

As you know today marked the debut of Ms. Marvel on Disney+ and I saw the debut episode this morning and I think this is a show that might show a lot of promise and gain another lucky feather in Marvel's cap. The first few minutes of Ms. Marvel seem like a Marvel version of ABC's My So Called Life that aired in 1994 and of course we meet Kamala Khan who lives breathes and is obsessed with anything superheroes as you can see from the countless posters in her room. Kind of sounds like me don't you think? But there is a Cinderella type of story in Ms. Marvel because you know from reading the Cinderella story that all Cinderella wanted was to go to the ball. Kamala Khan did the same thing but wanted to attend Avengers-Con but despite family rules Kamala bravely takes a chance and secretly does it but ruins it anyway by showing her secret powers. But all and all Disney+ and Marvel will have an impressive hit and Ms. Marvel will be Marvel's first teen drama series in history
Bestie

[DadTheKing]

Hi, Bestie! I am glad you liked Ms. Marvel. Here is a question: The other marvel tv series, Hawkey, Loki, were more for adults. Is Ms. Marvel aimed at children and teens? Do you think this is a risk for Disney? I am curious.
DTK

[TMC]

Ms. Marvel is extraordinary because it treats being Muslim as ordinary

"I felt seen in every bit of Kamala's teenage experience," says Anika Steffen. "She is more than just Pakistani and Muslim. If you swapped out the Marvel posters for 'NSYNC posters, her room was mine as a teen growing up in Michigan. When Kamala asks to attend AvengerCon, her parents responds to her pleas by saying they trust her — it's everyone else they're skeptical of. In that moment, it was as if the show had beamed into the living room of my teen years and recorded my parents who had said the same thing to me many times." Steffen also points to Ms. Marvel debunking the stereotype that all Muslims wear hijabs: "There are about 1 million Muslim women in America, according to one Pew study, and 48 percent — or half a million — don't cover their hair. The choice to veil, or not veil, is a private one," says Steffen. "And yet, putting a character in a hijab has become a sort of lazy shorthand for 'Muslim' in TV and film. Kamala doesn't wear one." As Muslim Today's Rifat Malik explains, that speaks volumes: "Kamala ... represents a huge number of Muslim females who don't wear a headscarf and aren't consumed by angst over their faith - nor do their white friends need to liberate them from the oppressive structural patriarchy supposedly inherent in Islam."

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• Ms. Marvel's origin story echoes others in the MCU, but it also puts its own distinctive spin on a familiar formula: "In its second episode, Ms. Marvel continues to be loaded with references to the MCU, whether through casual conversations about Bollywood star/immortal alien Kingo from Eternals, a returning minor character in Agent Cleary from Spider-Man: No Way Home, or the reemergence of Stark Industries Combat Drones, now under the ownership of the Department of Damage Control (DODC)," says Daniel Chin. "With her relatable fandom well established, though, this week’s episode begins to dive deeper into Kamala’s life as she becomes a superhero in her own right. If 'Generation Why' was an introduction to Kamala and her slice of the MCU in Jersey City, then 'Crushed' is more of an origin story for Ms. Marvel. After worshiping superheroes her whole life, Kamala starts to learn how to become one herself after a bangle passed down through her family suddenly unlocks her superpowers. In the process, she gets the full superhero origin treatment, as Ms. Marvel plays off of familiar tropes of movies past."
• For Ms. Marvel writers, it was important that Kamala's story felt universal: "She's adjusting to the negotiation of being a teenager, where you're negotiating the boundaries with your parents," says writer Bisha K. Ali. "You're not wanting to hurt them, but you're also wanting to stand up for yourself. All of those things are deeply universal and things I think we've all been through. Hopefully we did a good job translating in the script how she's deeply optimistic, and she's so joyful, this character. Her outlook and her psychology and her fantasy life was so vital to bring to life because that's what makes Kamala Kamala, and it's incredibly universal. We have a whole new generation of Marvel fans who grew up on the last 10 years of storytelling, and that's exactly who Kamala is. She gets to represent them, and that's really thrilling."
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