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The few positive points this series has are ultimately tarnished by the inability of the showrunners to decide a tone for the series. Why? Because the best elements Echo has are the violence, the blood, the intense fight sequences that are hard to find in any other piece of media Marvel (Feige Marvel and Disney Marvel, not Netflix Marvel) has put out. However, these elements are hard to balance with the storyline the show tries to develop; for example: the characters. The vast majority of Maya's family, the protagonist, are way too marvel-ly, too childish, too good-people; the "enemies" instead are actual bad people, criminals, a mafia who controls a city and kill people because they want more power.

So far so good, that's something that you can have on your show and still make a good piece of media. BUT, this is Marvel, a company known for its heroes. However, there're not real heroes in this series, but, sadly, the ghost is still there. Because the series tries to appeal at the same time to a heroic kind of public, who laughs at the bad jokes and is there for the humorous action sequences, and a serious public who expects to see a double faced vigilante taking off the bad guys in ruthless ways, dealing with trauma and such. The result is a show that's divided into two different shows, like if Ms. Marvel and Netflix' Daredevil had a child, a really ugly child.

And at the end of the day, the Marvel side of the show ends up winning and killing all the seriousness the trailers preached this would have and the fight scenes and the Kingpin character tried to build throughout the development of the series but failed misserably.

Lots of filler or material to catch up, basically if you didn't watch the Hawkeye series. A little rushed too, but it's got its positives. The chemistry between characters is really good and I quite like the dialogues. And the fight scenes, the few we got, and the choreographies for such, are great. For this it helps a lot the sound mixing; given the character of Echo is deaf, we get her perspective of the fights and tbh it's really interesting.

So far, the only stuff that has not been convicing is what already wasn't convincing back in Hawkeye. Really hope the creator will turn that around because that series was mediocre at best. No much more conclusions since this was only a setup character.