Another fantastic episode that neatly balances the cultural elements (I especially loved the entire wedding sequence!) with the supernatural of whatever the origins the bangle
might be.
To be certain, I don't think we've reached the full truth of the situation. While the motivations of the jinn/Noor/Clandestines are clear, I still distrust who they really are. I think they're still holding back on particular information and I wouldn't be surprised if Nani will provide some insights if and when Kamala goes to Karachi.
Nakia is understandably upset that Kamala didn't tell her about alter ego (yet told Bruno) but hopefully any tension between the two of them doesn't last long and Nakia will quickly see that Kamala was scared and uncertain of what she was doing.
Certainly some mixed messages on the lore front. Blue arm suggests Kree, which leans towards the Inhuman connection (or I guess just a relatively fresh-ish human corpse could be that colour.) While the ten rings site plush the magical accessorising and the people from another "dimension" (pet peeve I know, but it always bugs me to hear the term so misused) leans much more towards the 'Shang-Chi', both of which would appear to be mutually exclusive.
I mean I guess totally-not-sinister-train-vision person could have been lying and Kamala's great-grandmother wasn't one of them, but an Inhuman they they duped into leading them to a temple with a Kree artefact. But then how does her grandmother get the same vision all the way over in Karachi without the bangle? That seems like more of a "Jinn" type of thing.
Side note; how many damn pocket dimensions are there in Asian filled with crazy immoral martial artists?! I count three so far: K'un-Lun, Ta Lo, and now Noor? (Also; honourable mention for Kamar-Taj, I guess?)
Speaking of which; if Noor is the "Light Dimension", does that relate at all to 'Cloak & Dagger'? IIRC the "darkforce" that Cloak uses (which also showed up on AoS & AC) comes from the Dark Dimension (home of Dormammu), so does that mean Dagger's 'lightforce' comes from Noor?
Hmm, maybe the whole "we were exiled from Noor" story is total BS. If Jinn is a synonym for 'demon', and we already know at least one demon comes from the dark dimension (clue is in the name, no?) so wouldn't it track that they're actually from there and they're trying to break *into* the light dimension, because: demons?
We've also seen people attain effective immortality by drawing on the dark dimension before, so that appears to track.
Definitely a rabbit hole of possibilities but I imagine your theorizing about the possible Light and Dark Dimensions aren't as connected as it could be. I suspect some of that is purely coincidental or just repetitive, so I'm not going to worry about that too much, no matter how much I want Cloak and Dagger to return.
As for a lot of pocket dimensions in Asia, I see no problem there. One it's a very big place and with a wide variety of cultures and histories. Contrast that with the many, many,
many things that occur just in New York City.
Curious how there seems to be conflict of the nature of the blue arm (I didn't even think of Vishnu, just immediately assumed Kree for obvious reasons), but I also didn't even notice the Ten Rings reference either.
But in the end, I imagine some of these possibilities are just red herrings and aren't quite as convoluted as it might initially appear. I think at this point, Feige and company are well aware that fans are going to deep dive
everything they see at this point. Why not send us down some dead ends on the way to the truth?
ClanDestine? Clan-fricking-Destine? Who the hell had (admittedly a majorly changed version of) them on their list of characters likely to show up in the MCU?
Never heard of them. So what?
