Hello everyone, I hope y’all are doing great.
So, the first season of Ms. Marvel is finally over and I am gonna share my thoughts on the same in this very blog. But before I get started, kindly note that there are spoilers for Ms. Marvel Season 1 ahead.
So the series starts with Kamala recording and editing a video for her youtube channel named "Sloth baby productions". Guess what, this channel really exist in youtube.
Even the clip that the series starts with is in this channel.
We are also been introduced to her family. Her brother is pretty religious (as per his first appearance but nothing regarding that was been explored later) and is getting married. Her farther seems to be a pretty chill person while her mother is quite protective. She goes for a driving test and fails after she hitting her test instructor's car(poor guy had to walk home that day). We are also been introduced to her closest friends Bruno and Nakia. Nakia is basically her best friend and Bruno is her guy best friend who is expert when it comes to tech. By the looks of it, I think that Bruno has a crush on Kamala, but then again, I haven't read the comic books so everything I know about these characters are based on what I saw in this series. We are also introduces to Tik-Tok star Zoe. Zoe seems to Kamala's bully in the first episode but experiences a change when she gets saved in the Avengers con by Kamala. Kamala had been planning to go to Avengers con, however she doesn't gets permission from her parents to do so. Her grandmother sent a package from Pakistan that has several old stuffs that Kamala's mom calls junk. this also included a really old bangle that belonged to Kamala's Great Grandmother. Her mother conciders this as junk as well and therefore placed the packaged in the store room. Kamala plans to sneak out to Avengers con, however she first needs something to add to her Captain Marvel costume as the competition that she was going to enter required her to bring a twist to her costume. She searched the package sent by her grand mother and takes the bangle. When she wears the bangle for the first time, she briefly goes to another dimensions that I believe must be the dimension of Clandestines.
When I first watched the trailer for Ms. Marvel, I thought that this bangle is the source of her powers and that's what it seemed based on episode 1. In Comic books, Kamala is an Inhuman and that is how she gets her power. I do not know who are Inhumans but it seemed pretty obvious that she will not be one of them in MCU, at least not at the moment.
As the story proceeded, we get introduced to another character named Kamran. Kamaran and KAmala have crush on one another and Kamaran even teaches her driving. Bruno doesn't really like Kamala hanging out with Kamran, however he doesn't objects. Bruno also gets selection for further studies in Caltech. We are also introduced to sort of main villains of the series "The Department of Damage Control" in the end credit scene of the first episode who suspect that Kamala can be a threat and therefor tries to locate her. Kamala also gets the name "Night Light" and tries to save a kid from falling however fails to safe land the kid due to which the kid gets injure, however he does gets saved. DODC then tries to catch her, however she gets some help from Najma who turns out to be Kamaran's mother and Aisha's(Kamala's great grand mother) friend.
Bruno already revealed to Kamala that her Great Grand mother's bangle is not actually the source of her power, her power comes from within her and the bangles just unlock them. Najma reveals that she has those powers(called the Noor) as they are Clandestines (a.k.a Djin) just like the rest of them. I was like "really? of all the classes they had all they got for Ms. Marvel was Djin?". Anyways, the series gets much more interesting from here as it turns out that the Clandestines are desperate to go back home and do not care if it destroys the reality. They even brought chaos in Amir's wedding where Kamala had to fight back, Bruno gets injures, Kamaran gets abandoned by his own mother and Kamala's secret identity gets revealed to Nakia. In the fight, Najma strikes the bangle that then shows a vision of a train going to Karachi during India-Pakistan partition. By coincidence, Kamala's grand mother also gets the vision and then she calls Kamala and her mother to visit Karachi. Kamala's mother is a bit angry with Kamala activating the fire alarm in her brother's wedding unaware of the fact that she did it to protect them. To Kamala's family, Kamala is becoming more and more rebellious everyday.
Kamala and her mother leaves for Karachi where they meet Kamala's cousins as well as her grandmother. Her Grandmother reveals that she already is aware of the fact that they are Clandestines and that she already revealed the fact to Kamala's mother who refuse to accept it and still considers it a lie made up by Kamala's grandma. Kamala goes out exploring the city and then reaches Karachi railway station where she gets attacked by a guy named Kareem who turn out to be someone from a secret organisation named "The Red Dagger". They are sort of the enemy to the Clandestines. During the fight against Kareem, Kareem says "Do all masked American have super powers?" to which Kamala responds "Well, how do you know that I am not Canadian?". A bit later I realised that Iman Vellani(the actress who plays Kamala Khan in MCU) is Pakistani-Canadian in real life. Kareem then takes her to the Red Dagger's headquarters I believe, where she meets Waleed(played by renowned Indian actor Mr. Farhan Akhtar) who guides Kamala. They are eventually attacked by the Clandestines. The Red Dagger tries to make sure that Kamala escapes safely. Waleed dies in the process of protecting her. Kamala and the Clandestines come face to face where Najma again strikes on the bangle due which Kamala gets sent back in time to the day when her Great grandmother disappeared forever and her grandma (as a kid) got lost in the crowd, somehow reaches her father and leaves with him for Pakistan.
We then see Aisha's back story and it turns out that she handed over the bangle to her daughter(Kamala's grandma) and gets killed by Najma. It also turns out that Kamala was the one who helped grandma that day to reach Hasan (Kamala's great grandfather). Kamala then gets sent back to her original time where a portal to Clandestine's dimension opens. The Clandestines try to enter the portal, however they get disintegrates as soon as they enter. Kamala tries to stop Najma from entering the portal, however she proceeds in order to close the portal, transferring her powers to her son, Kamran. Kamala's mother traces her location and arrives the scene thereby revealing Kamala's secret identity to her. Meanwhile, Kamran manages to escape DODC and approaches Bruno for assistance. Bruno takes him to his home where they are attacked by DODC drone(probably the same Stark drones that they acquired in Spiderman No Way Home). Kamran accidentally uses his powers for the first time in order to avoid the attack and in turn the whole building gets blown up. Kamala arrives back to her home where her family are now aware of her powers and her mom gives her a superhero suite. Kamala tries to locate Bruno and Kamran who are on the run trying to escape DODC. They temporarily hide in the Mosque where Nakia tells them to hide in their school instead. DODC follows them to the Mosque, however everyone manages to protect them. The two of them then meet Kamala after which Kamala acts as a distraction to DODC while Bruno and Kamran are escaping to their school. the three of them meet in school where they are joined by Nakia, who forgives Kamala, as well as Zoe and Amir. Agent Deaver then refuses to obey her superior's orders and send the agents to catch Kamran. Kamala prepares an escape plan for Kamran with the help of Kareem and they try to escape. In the process of escaping, Kamran learns that his mother is no more and then starts going out of control. DODC starts attacking Kamala and Kamran and they fight back. At the end, Kamran goes out of control and goes all out. Kamala creates a dome using her noor and manages to bring him to senses by informing him how his mother sacrifices her life for him. and then helps him escape. There is a part in this fight where Kamala uses a word "Embiggen" and unlock her true potential. Later, Kamala's father reveals the reason for her name and thereby gives her the name "Ms. Marvel". Kamala also turns out to be the first officially revealed mutant(the brief 1990's X-Men theme was an evidence). In the post credit scene, Kamala and Carol(Captain Marvel) switch places or something? not toot sure what exactly happened there. It must be revealed in the upcoming movie "The Marvels".
Anyways, overall I really enjoyed the series and would give it 9.5/10.
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