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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 332402" data-attributes="member: 23">Ms. Marvel Seeing Red / Time And Again / No NormalAs I start to write this, I have watched all but the last few minutes of the series. And when I say few minutes, we’re probably talking far less than that. The app tells me there are 4 minutes remaining, which probably includes several minutes of end credits. Not that this is by choice. I’m not one for watching TV episodes piecemeal. Especially ones this short. And especially when it’s the last few seconds of a season finale when I’ve been binge watching the series. Unfortunately, we lost our wi-fi during Kamala’s chat with her father on the rooftop. It returned an hour or so later and we started to finish it off, but after around 5 seconds it died again. Most frustrating. By the time I post this I hope to have watched that elusive final minute, but we’ll see. In the first few episodes, Ms. Marvel had taken time to establish Kamala’s world in Jersey City - the family dynamics at home; the interactions at school and Kamala’s relationships with her friends; the sometimes irreverent and perfunctory prayer life at the Masjid. It’s a bold move at the halfway point to leave most of it behind for two of the remaining three episodes. Kamala’s quest for truth in an exotic locale reminded me of Stephen Strange’s journey to Tibet, and it’s all added to this series feeling like a traditional superhero origin film. And one of the more enjoyable ones at that.What I’ve really appreciated with this series is that it’s changed locations without losing its voice. There’s still been the vibrance and youthfulness, but the Pakistan scenes have fleshed it out and added depth. I feel the series took a couple of deliberate tangents which have helped add variety stop it feeling too saccharine.Better yet, the fifth episode was essentially a period piece, told mostly through flashbacks of Kamala’s great grandmother Aisha  fleeing the British army, meeting her husband and giving birth to Kamala’s grandmother Sana before being murdered by a fellow Clandestine. It was wonderfully done. I know shamefully little about the Partition Of India, so this piece of history being brought to life in some small way opened my eyes. continued…</blockquote>

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