The big question remains of how much this latest MCU series will focus on finally giving Hawkeye his due as against serving as a Kate Bishop origin story. Where I draw the line, however, is at how that conspiracy happens to be directly linked to Clint’s past as Ronin, beginning to catch up with him. I’m fine, for example, with Hawkeye-obsessed-hero-in-training Kate just finding a villainous conspiracy in her backyard. I just wish doing so didn’t require so many contrivances. With our two archer heroes established-the retired hero and the rookie he inspired, all that's left is to concoct a fun adventure to force them together. Instead, a character (in this case his young daughter) must come out and tell us what he’s feeling and why he’s feeling it. And yet, once again, the series refuses to let him have his quiet moment. When Natasha Romanoff’s (Black Widow) death plays out on stage, he steps out onto the road to take a moment, as he relives the loss of his best friend who gave her life to save his. Though I fail to understand why Clint would ever agree to watch it in the first place. Easily the best sequence of the otherwise unremarkable pilot episode, it’s everything you’d want from a campy, hilarious Avengers musical theatre show. Maybe we should just be grateful that young Katie didn’t see The Hulk on that rooftop corner, or else she’d have asked her mother for anabolic steroids and green face paint.Ī post shared by Marvel Entertainment in the family time is watching an Avengers-themed broadway musical.
It’s an entirely unnecessary exchange that's inserted to ensure that what should have been an underlined subtext, slaps us square in the face. In the very next scene, after witnessing her home and city battered and in pieces, we see young Kate at her father’s funeral telling her mother she needs a bow and arrow. The young girl in question is Kate Bishop, who, on that fateful day, joined the ranks of heroes and villains (Spiderman Homecoming’s Vulture) whose origin stories stem from the fallout of the battle of New York-the incident that first formed the Avengers. If only how it’s told wasn’t so on the nose and watered down. It’s a very promising idea and a great foundation for a story.
Her need to protect her loved ones become her identity, with that image of the heroic archer giving her an ideal to aspire to. On a rooftop corner in the distance, she sees a hero with a bow and arrow doing his best to fight back and protect the city and its people. Crippled by fear, as one of the alien creatures charges towards her, her life is saved by an arrow. A young girl sees her entire world change in an instant when creatures from another world appear and start laying waste to her New York-penthouse, and city.