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Star Trek Strange New Worlds
I'm pretty new to Star Trek, having only starting watching it with Discovery. So it's not that easy to appeal to me by hitting on the nostalgia button. Nevertheless SNW really hit the spot; with overall excellent episodes and characters. It's not without some minor points that failed. A couple of episodes weren't as good as others, I was disappointed that we didn't get more episodes centering on Una or Ortega; and it's been also disappointing that asides from a blink-and-you'll-miss it nonbinary character and bisexual Chapel; the show has been lacking in queer content. At least it's on point in term of slashiness, with La'an (my favourite so far) and Una having some very interesting chemistry. The final of the season was a bit too referential to really work for me, but was still solid enough. I very much look forward to a second season (although so far, I still prefer Discovery as it is after it went through its growing pain).
Ms Marvel
I only read the first few issues of the comics before I ended up giving up on comics altogether about that time. I remember liking it a lot and finding it surprisingly relatable. The series has been following in those footsteps very well; being an overall excellent, heartwarming series centering on an awesome character and having a lot of relatable moments (American Jews might not understand why bitching about the female partition at your local religious center being such a second rate emplacement is such a relatable moment, but oh yeah). It suffers a bit from lacking focus however, and the Clandestines overall didn't work for me at all as an antagonist, from their overly sudden shift to extreme violence to their leader's eventual overly sudden shift to, errr, suicide and giving up her path. I felt pretty meh about tying them with such a broad and common mythology as djinns, though it worked a bit better latter where it seemed more that the myth predated them and just were assigned to them by locals. The whole passage in Pakistan, and lengthy flashback, while interesting in its own right, sucked the passing right out of a too short series to contain them. It also broke us from too many of the supporting cast that was allowing the show to shine. In the end the heart of the series were in the family and community relationships, though, and those really shone all the way through and including in the ending.
In the end, none of the MCU series have been perfect, but I'll have a hard time picking my favorite between MsMarvel, Hawkeye and WandaVision.
Obi Wan Kenobi
This one is a bit older and I think I have less to say about it. I'm not really sure where up to I am in term of my Star Wars fanishness. It's never been one of my big fandom; but I did read a few Obikin fics back in the days on the down low, and I tend to consider Obi Wan my favourite Star Wars character from that context. Yet I obviously felt like a stranger to most of the fannish reactions I saw to the series. I did enjoy it. It especially shone thanks to the actors. Little Leia being amazing, Ewan McGregor being Ewan McGregor and therefore amazing. And so on. Lots of solid character work overall. I actually really like Reva's character arc and found its conclusion very moving and interesting. The storytelling wasn't quite as good and honestly felt a bit meandering. I feel this series could have been a bit shorter actually, and that there were a bit too many episodes with unlikely rescues. But overall a solid series.
I'm pretty new to Star Trek, having only starting watching it with Discovery. So it's not that easy to appeal to me by hitting on the nostalgia button. Nevertheless SNW really hit the spot; with overall excellent episodes and characters. It's not without some minor points that failed. A couple of episodes weren't as good as others, I was disappointed that we didn't get more episodes centering on Una or Ortega; and it's been also disappointing that asides from a blink-and-you'll-miss it nonbinary character and bisexual Chapel; the show has been lacking in queer content. At least it's on point in term of slashiness, with La'an (my favourite so far) and Una having some very interesting chemistry. The final of the season was a bit too referential to really work for me, but was still solid enough. I very much look forward to a second season (although so far, I still prefer Discovery as it is after it went through its growing pain).
Ms Marvel
I only read the first few issues of the comics before I ended up giving up on comics altogether about that time. I remember liking it a lot and finding it surprisingly relatable. The series has been following in those footsteps very well; being an overall excellent, heartwarming series centering on an awesome character and having a lot of relatable moments (American Jews might not understand why bitching about the female partition at your local religious center being such a second rate emplacement is such a relatable moment, but oh yeah). It suffers a bit from lacking focus however, and the Clandestines overall didn't work for me at all as an antagonist, from their overly sudden shift to extreme violence to their leader's eventual overly sudden shift to, errr, suicide and giving up her path. I felt pretty meh about tying them with such a broad and common mythology as djinns, though it worked a bit better latter where it seemed more that the myth predated them and just were assigned to them by locals. The whole passage in Pakistan, and lengthy flashback, while interesting in its own right, sucked the passing right out of a too short series to contain them. It also broke us from too many of the supporting cast that was allowing the show to shine. In the end the heart of the series were in the family and community relationships, though, and those really shone all the way through and including in the ending.
In the end, none of the MCU series have been perfect, but I'll have a hard time picking my favorite between MsMarvel, Hawkeye and WandaVision.
Obi Wan Kenobi
This one is a bit older and I think I have less to say about it. I'm not really sure where up to I am in term of my Star Wars fanishness. It's never been one of my big fandom; but I did read a few Obikin fics back in the days on the down low, and I tend to consider Obi Wan my favourite Star Wars character from that context. Yet I obviously felt like a stranger to most of the fannish reactions I saw to the series. I did enjoy it. It especially shone thanks to the actors. Little Leia being amazing, Ewan McGregor being Ewan McGregor and therefore amazing. And so on. Lots of solid character work overall. I actually really like Reva's character arc and found its conclusion very moving and interesting. The storytelling wasn't quite as good and honestly felt a bit meandering. I feel this series could have been a bit shorter actually, and that there were a bit too many episodes with unlikely rescues. But overall a solid series.
