Spoilers Marvel's Ironheart

[Turtletrekker]

A character that we've seen a couple of times so far on billboards and one television clip is the CEO of "Artworks" who is quoted as saying, "These are simply petty thieves trying to make a buck using cheap tricks. They will be caught and brought to justice swiftly". It was after seeing this quote on television that Parker decided to do the job on Heirlum despite John's warnings.

The television clip simply identifies this person as "CEO Artworks", but one of the billboards that we saw him on identifies him as...

Spoiler: CEO Artworks

... Arthur Robbins, father of Parker Robbins, AKA the Hood.

The plot thickens and his motivations start to come to light. Thank you, New Rockstars, for your deep dive.

 

[eschaton]

A character that we've seen a couple of times so far on billboards and one television clip is the CEO of "Artworks" who is quoted as saying, "These are simply petty thieves trying to make a buck using cheap tricks. They will be caught and brought to justice swiftly". It was after seeing this quote on television, that Parker decided to do the job on Heirlum despite John's warnings.

The television clip simply identifies this person as "CEO Artworks", but one of the billboards that we saw him on identifies him as...

Spoiler: CEO Artworks

... Arthur Robbins, father of Parker Robbins, AKA the Hood.

The plot thickens and his motivations start to come to light. Thank you New Rockstars for your deep dive.

This just makes the decision to cast Anthony Ramos even stranger, TBH. Supposedly they came up with a whole backstory that he's from Humboldt Park, since it's the one place in Chicago you can find Puerto Ricans in large numbers. But I don't see how he can simultaneously be a working class Puerto Rican kid and

Spoiler

the child of a billionaire. Unless he's a love child or something, I guess. But in that case, why would he share the last name?

 

[Turtletrekker]

This just makes the decision to cast Anthony Ramos even stranger, TBH. Supposedly they came up with a whole backstory that he's from Humboldt Park, since it's the one place in Chicago you can find Puerto Ricans in large numbers. But I don't see how he can simultaneously be a working class Puerto Rican kid and

Spoiler

the child of a billionaire. Unless he's a love child or something, I guess. But in that case, why would he share the last name?

Tune in next week!

 

[CaptainWacky]

First 3 episodes were decent overall, with the third being by far the best. It has that feel of being one long story sliced up into six parts rather than being properly episodic, which makes sense as it was made back before Marvel decided to make their tv shows like they're tv shows. The MIT stuff seemed rushed (why bring back Jim Rash and not give him anything comedic to do?) and I'm not sure why Riri can't patent one of her great inventions and make money that way? Seems like something Shuri could help her get done.

I liked Riri more here than in Wakanda Forever where she just felt like a plot device, but Natalie was definitely my favourite character. The part where she was like stuck in a Window on a monitor and learning how to text and stuff was really fun. The heist crew were pretty meh: there were too many of them, for one thing (though I guess 2 are dead now! And I agree it's weird killing Eric Andre off-screen after giving him barely anything!) so it was hard to remember their names or one character trait. I thought John's actor was way more menacing than the guy playing The Hood though I suppose Hood's actor could step up in the last 3 episodes now he's getting more demon-influenced. The tunnel heist was pretty silly - the security guards didn't have guns? Except the one at end? The greenhouse stuff was more fun.

I liked Ezekiel but he is so far very disconnected from the rest of the show.

So it's not bad, pretty good a lot of the time, and obviously doesn't deserve review bombing (hot take: nothing does!) but I can't see it finishing near the top of my list of Marvel tv shows.

 

[Anwar]

So I finished all 3 episodes last night, and I really don't get the complaints. I mean really, if we can handle all the "Kids from the wrong side of the tracks" movies from the 80s and 90s I don't see why folks can't handle this.

And the complaints about why Riri turned to a crime gang over a regular job, that was explained well too.

I loved Alden's surprise character too