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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 314994" data-attributes="member: 23">Hawkeye Never Meet Your Heroes / Hide And Seek / Echoes continued I knew the series was really working for me from the beginning of Episode Two. With Clint and Kate brought together, I found myself invested in their relationship. I found myself willing Kate to explain more than she did so that Clint would understand what I knew to be true. And I wanted Clint to understand how important meeting him was to her. And when that didn’t happen immediately, I felt a frustration that was almost thrilling. Their bonding has been very enjoyable and the chemistry works really well. As antagonists go, the combination of Maya, Jack Duquesne and the Tracksuit Mafia (along with Armand in the first episode) all works. Arch as he is, Jack is the most fascinating of these, and I’m hoping all the threads tie together. The series’ action scenes are also working for me really well. Episode Three’s car chase was genuinely exciting. In less cheerful news, my throat-clearing phobia is being tested with this series. Kate’s averaging two an episode. There have been one or two from Kate’s mother. And Missy, the ghastly LARP woman only had about four lines but seemed to do more hacking than speaking (to my horror, while looking up her name I’ve just seen she’s going to be in two thirds of the remaining episodes). But this is my only complaint about the series. I found myself unexpectedly moved by the scene in which Clint speaks to his son on the phone with Kate writing little flashcards to translate because Clint unable to hear due to the loss of his hearing aid. The staging of the scene effectively got across the frustration and isolation a hearing impairment can cause and it took me by surprise. The talk about Clint’s branding has been fun, because it shone a light on a number of discussions or thoughts about both MCU Hawkeye’s different look and about the changing tastes of filmmakers and audiences. Kate commenting that the dark, low profile look was out of vogue and people wanted something to celebrate (I forget the exact wording) felt quite meta. The discussion of Clint’s branding has taken an obvious path with her doodling the comic version of his costume as a suggestion. This made me think of what [USER=5079]@Crimson[/USER] said about Phase Four running down what’s come before, as it implicitly tried to gain points by having screen Hawkeye sneering at the Hawkeye I knew growing up (just like Wolverine’s “yellow spandex” line in the X-Men film). However, it does seems as though some change towards something a little closer to original recipe Hawkeye might come out of it. Clint might have rejected Kate’s suggestion of the purple costume, but the images used to represent the series on Disney+ don’t exactly hide the outcome of the “branding” storyline in spoiler quotes. Clint might be having a branding crisis, but the series itself certainly doesn’t. I absolutely adore the Hawkeye logo used, the style of the retro credits - which have been different every time - and the accompanying vintage Christmas song.Setting the series over Christmas gives it a special identity as well. On paper, six episodes set over one holiday might have seemed a bit much, but with how quickly the first half of the series has gone that’s certainly not likely to be the case. I have a feeling I’ll be left wanting more.</blockquote>

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