#so it doesn't really connect to the outer mcu

[nerdgirlriot]

so I did a perusal of Echo's wikipedia page and saw that there are Indigenous and also Deaf individuals on the production staff, mostly in the writers' room. Most of the episodes were directed by an Indigenous woman (Sydney Freeland) and the production worked closely with leaders from the Choctaw nation to assure that their culture was represented authentically in the show.

Probably the bits of the show that felt out of place to me were included by the Disney/Marvel overseers/execs but it looks like the production went out of its way to attempt authenticity, which I appreciate.

It does devolve a little in the finale because you have to have the climactic battle where the MC is able to tap into their newly discovered powers to defeat the bad guys but this has become such a superhero trope now. Like, I KNOW that this is where it was always going to end up, doesn't mean that I like it (it's gotten predictable) but I can't sincerely come up with something better and I guess the writers couldn't either?

Also its a little sad that the top GIFset on the echo hashtag right now is the Matt v. Maya fight which...hahaha... I know we all love our broken Catholic son (I mean I DO too) but Maya is a disabled Indigenous young woman who kicks so much ass and she deserves so much more love than she's getting rn

hi it's me the one who complained that The Marvels wasn't getting a lot of love either