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    I watched the first episode of Ironheart today and thought it was dire. Everyone is just speaking in exposition, telling each other things they know. Riri is thoroughly unlikeable and – admittedly I’ve not watched Wakanda Forever since it was in cinemas – I don’t get why she can’t just go back to Wakanda to make her super great AI suits that will save people. The connection to Stark and Iron Man is so tenuous (not helped by them not explaining/reminding the audience that her MIT scholarship was the Stark fellowship until about halfway into the episode, unless I missed a line at the beginning) that it feels pointless. They want the character to be this self-made Stark without generational wealth, but they’ve kinda screwed that up already by having her go to MIT for free (which they got her out of by having her being awful) and making her friends with the Wakandan royal family. For this “Stark’s legacy” nonsense to actually mean anything, they should have actually put her with some Iron Man characters or concepts – have her mentored by Rhodey! Make her an intern at Stark Industries constantly clashing with Happy! Have her go work for a recently paroled “reformed” Justin Hammer! Something more than just a college drop-out with a chip on her shoulder seemingly obsessed with the legacy of someone she never met or had anything to do with.

    On this episode alone, I’d say it’s easily the worst of the D+ shows.

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