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The moral of this show, is you don't have to earn anything.

Riri is amazing, apparently, because everyone says so, but why? Nobody knows, just keep saying she's amazing and it'll stick.

She didn't earn the suit, she's not strong, funny or cool. She's just feels like an NPC who stumbled upon Excalibur laying on the floor and claims she's the king of the world. She helps her fellow students cheat on their tests and projects, seeking her out just to use her to not fail. So she didn't earn anything and she's surrounded by people who didn't earn anything, in fact everyone is just ripping off everyone else, just like Ironheart is a ripoff of Ironman.

Imagine if you went to the valedictorian of your class and said "make this work for me or I'll fail". What kind of message does that send the audience? That it's okay to get by in life if you just let somebody else do your job for you?? That's insane! Tony Stark was the head of a massive successful business and one of the smartest minds on the planet and he didn't need everyone telling him he's amazing. He built a giant mechanical suit in a cave with junk! He made a tiny reactor to keep his heart from getting shredded! Riri simply stole everything! It's like saying "I'm an architect" just because you can put legos together. Awfully terrible start to a mediocre show.

It looks slick but it suffers from the same issue all the new marvel stuff does.

It's emotionally flat as a pancake and doesn't connect with the people watching.

It makes the same mistakes of going for making a statement at the cost of the story and characters.

Neither the character development or the story are developed remotely enough to make us care and in fact do the opposite much of the time.

Someone likely realized this which is why it got shelved so long.

It's not acolyte or snow white levels of bad its just meh.

It's a shame really the people involved deserved better but they may have already know it was bad.

This is literally the only Marvel thing to not have a single positive character going for it. Riri has been a miscast since Wakanda Forever, but now she has a terrible personality and a pile of terrible decisions just forever nuking the character of Ironheart from ever being viable as anything but a mean, angry villain.

With the exception of Natalie, Clown and Sasha Baron Cohen, this show gets nothing right. The Hood Gang are cringe, Hood himself is this pathetic model, Joe is unlikeable and idiotic, but worst of all none of the motives work for any of these people and none of the plotlines are resolved well, things sort of happen. Even with the dry turds that make up the script so much more could have been made, so much could have been said about the nature of people, the yearning of ambition and the seduction of undoing the past, but NONE of that is truly present.

This so bland, it should never have been made. A failure so complete it makes NWO look alright.

I honestly don't get how anyone's hyping this up. They killed off Tony Stark for this? To put a kid in a plastic suit and call her a genius just because the script says so?

Tony built his first suit in a freaking cave, with junk, and carried the whole MCU emotionally and narratively. And now we get... a teenager with no charisma, no real arc, everything just handed to her. The story feels flat. The emotions feel forced. And the suits? They look like something from a kids' cosplay contest.

The whole thing feels like a cheap knockoff with no soul. Marvel either doesn't know what it's doing anymore - or just stopped caring.

If this is what the "next generation" of heroes looks like... then yeah, maybe Endgame really was the end.

I'll start off with 1 positive: visual effects were not too bad. Um, now here we go...the acting was horrendous, the storyline appears to be written by a 5 year old; predictable and basically non interesting to watch. It's frustrating to me that people got paid for putting out this garbage. I can't imagine that this was screened in advance for consumer feedback. If you write garbage, then that is what you will see on the screen. I think that any run of the mill marvel super fan could have put together a way better storyline that what was produced. The acting is terrible, I don't expect this series to continue...