3/10
Daddy issues: The episode
9 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
This episode is basically a revenge fantasy for adults with minds of goth preteens. Hela, a quite complex character in the comics, is a spoiled, shortsighted and unlikeable brat with character arc consisting of "daddy doesn't love me, but everyone else is handing me opportunities left and right despite my constantly hostile, negative and deceptive personality that no one would ever be smitten by in reality". Odin is all powerful until he has to be nerfed drastically for the right outcome for Hela. Wenwu is a firm and principled leader until Hela's plot needs him to be a simp and a sidekick for a woman that didn't have a single instance of honest respect or gratefulness towards him. Well, at least not before she deemed him useful for fighting her daddy. There is a hilariously shallow "lesson" in the laundry hanging scene where, instead of learning about herself and why she needs to change, she is actually encouraged to be primarily guided by rage and vengeance. Everybody is amazed by an angry, arrogant, deceiving, opportunistic and powerless big mouth that learns nothing from her anger and tantrums, and barely achieves any character development and maturity. Well, until the plot needs her to suddenly be compassionate and mature at the very end in order to get everything from evil daddy. I am giving this a three because the animation was good.
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