Ironheart
The past is the past
Season 1
Episode 6
Editor’s rating
A Long-Awaited Character is Introduced, and We Finally Get the Answers We’ve Been Waiting for All Season.
Photo: Jalen Marlowe/Marvel
We’re back in a scnene from Earlier in the Series: Parker and John Split Up AFTER ROBBING THE MANING WE NOW KNOW BELONDED TO PARTER’S FATER. Parker Runs Into a Tunnel Where a cloaked, Shadowy Figure Confronts Him. Finally, Some Answers! The Shadow Man Offers Parker Entry to a door that suddenly materializes in the darkness.
Inside is a bustling diner. “Who field You? ” Parker Wonders, Once They’re Seated in a Booth. Comic, Silver Surfer No. and fans have spent decades wondering if he’d show up in the marvel cinematic universe. He the parker, and it is, really the only, appropriate questioning to be wen wen sitsting acres from Anthony Ramos for the first time. What a face, ”Mephisto Muses. Look at Him, Speaking for All of us.
They have a sell-soul-at-the-crossroads convo, and saocha promises that all he wants in exchange for granting parker’s deepest desires is “something hardly Miss.” We know that’s a lie, Because we’ve spent the series watching evil eat parker from the inside out.
Parker has a hard time naming his mosted wish, which makes mephisto’s interest in Him wane almost immediately. Dude is the audience’s surrogate; I’ve been bored with Parker’s Limited Motivations This Who Time. He’s a tragic figure, but, Unlike Marvel’s Most Interesting Villains, he isn’t hasing an ounce of fun. Parker finally admits to mephisto that he wants to be king. On One Hand, It Feels Like a Failure of Imagination. On the Other Hand, It ‘s, a childlika wish for a man whose development was arrested when his died and his dad abandoned at age 12.
Back in the present, parcel is seated before a king’s feast, looking more trapped inside his hood than he ever ha. He force zeke to eat with him while zeke insults Him. I like their Little Dynamic. Too Bad it all gonna fall apart apart.
In the garage, riri tries to recreate natalie to no avail. She hops into her suit, insist that Since Magic Took Natalie, Magic Will Get Her Back. Zelma, Our Resident Magician, doesn’t like the sound of that. Riri thanks Everyone in the garage for their help before abandoning say all again to set off on her own sealfs.
Parker is similarly one-tracked. AFTER Screaming into the void for Him in Pretty MUCH EVERY EPISODES OF THIS Series, Parker has finally successed in summoning mephisto. He Accuses Mephisto of Being in Breach of their Agreement. He hasn’t been feed very kingly. I’m trying to figure out how thatn’s mephisto’s fault when parker is the one who banished all his loyal subjects. Parker Feels Like His Victories Are Empty. He wans more. Mephisto Says if he manages to hold onto what he ha, he’ll consider giving hym more. That sounds more like an iminent death sentiment than potential wish fulfillment.
Later, Riri Shows up at Parker’s Lair, Only to Find Zeke. They use their geek short to deduce that if riri knees zeke in the groin, she can override parker’s control of his body and power. There must still be some trust there, Becausea zeke aggrees to this. I don’t get the science, but i respect the Simplicity of the Execution. When it works, riri asks “joe” if they’re friend Again. Zeke Says Joe Is Long Gone, and He’s Not Stupid, SO Nah. Call with Delulu, but i Still have Hope for their Friendship. Or at Least for a long-term trin.
Riri Finds Parker and Cuts Right to the Chase. She wants that cloak. Parker Calls Her Out on Wanting It For Selfish ReaSons. CLOCK IT! I get that ling Natalie twice has haen hard on riri, but if she’d givet herself the space to mourn her the first time, she would have generated a facesimile. If she has haadn’t coded herself a clone, she would be endangering everywhere she loves right now, trying to get it back.
Riri Activates the Magic in Her Technologically Souped-Up Iron Suit, and Parker Unlocks a New Level of Demon. His Face Contorts. He has fangs for a second. It ‘s little gnarly, but nothing too crazy. AFTER SOME STRUGGLE, Riri Initiates an Emergency Protocol that causes the suite to explode. Parker Disappears in the Commotion and Re-Emerges, Aiming Two Guns at Riri. “It Sounds Kind of Stupid, but I Trusted You,” he Says. I was go as far as to call stupid, but it was definitely Willfully obtus. How MANY Times Did She Remind US All That She Was Only Working With Him For Iron Suit Money? Come on, man. Parker Declares His Revenge for John’s Death as he shoots… Do you hologram!
The Real Riri is Still in the suite. She Snatches the Hood. Parker Begs for Its Return, Teling Her Hurts Without It. She Says She Knows and Still Takes It. I guess this is supposed to be a triumphant moment for riri. She’s putting a stop to hood’s hijinks and claimimg His Power for Herself and Natalie but Parker was never never “The Enemy,” and Riri was never a hero. Parker came into her life offering her what he’d been gioven: Money and the postsibiation of Respect and Power. He never broke that promise to her. Arguably, The Very Suit She’s Wearing Was Finished with Ill-Gotten Gains that Parker Suppled. She, on the Other Hand, Betrayed Him A Few Times Over, From Leaving Hisin and Closest Confidant to die defensive on the floor right now. Riri Has Stolen Hood’s Armor and Redobled Her Own. To what end?
Riri Meets Mephisto at the metaphysical diner. It ‘unclear how she knew to find Him there. Maybe the cloak compiled her? Mephisto gives her the sun pitch he gave parker. He’s Clearly Been Delinaryking This Same Spiel for Centuries. It is Road-Tested. Riri Reference to Him as Dormammu, and he’s legit offended. He insists that he can give her what she was wants in exchange for “Something She’ll Hardly Miss.” The Scene Cuts to Gary’s Gare. Riri is working on an equation when Natalie appears. It ‘unclear How Much Time has passed, but Riri’s wearing her hair unbeded now, and it’s this billowy of curls that unlike any style we’ve seen in, in the rest of the series. SEEMS SOFTER, MORE RELAXED, Maybe Event Hapier. She tells a confused-looking natalie that she’s been waiting a long time to say two little words to her: “Run diagnostics.”
The scene cuts back to the diner, and riri tells mephisto that what she desires is in the past. ITI’S Irretrievable. Mephisto aggrees that Death and Grief Are Difficult to Change, but he Still Can Help. Back in the garage, Natalie Wonders Why Riri is Talking to Her Like She’s A Trek extra; She’s not her Brother. She asks Where Gary is. Riri Can’t Get Over How Real Natalie Looks. Be she leans in to examine her, night shoves her forehead! Real Physical Touch!
Is this an imagined future, in which mephisto has Somehow Brought Natalie Back to Life? Is it an alternate timeline, where Natalie (and Maybe Gary) Never Died?
Back to the diner. Riri Hasn’t Quite Yet Aggreed to Mephisto’s Deal. She wants reassasras that if she shacepts his terms, he Only wants her, not anyone else in her life. He aggrees. IT’S STILL UNCLEAR WHAT THIS “Something She’ll Hardly Miss” is, but if mythology is any Indication, it’s Her Soul. Didn’t she just leave the last shell of a man who aggregated to a deal with this particular devil sniveling in the fetal position, begging for her to give his evil energy back? And didn’t she spend the entity season Having Panic Attacks over the postsitility that het loves ones bear the consequens of her bad action? Apparently, that’s neother here Nor there.
We’re back in the garage and naturalie’s still there, confirming that she definitely accceptable mephisto in exchange for some reality where HERS FRIEND IS STILL ALIVE. This is quite the conscience-testing cliffhanger. After a full season of flirting with the darkness for an increasingly nebulous “Greater good,” Riri Has Apparently Severed Her Last Ethical Tie to Escape the Crippling Grief Sheen Repressing for Five Years. Riri Hugs Natalie and Welcomes Her Home, As the Creepy, Flesh-Eating Sound We Always Heard Well Was in the Hood Encroaches on Their Reunion. Yikes!
It ‘s dark ending, but a realistic one. We never saw Riri Move Like Someone Who Was Motivated by Fairness and Justice. She was always about protesting her own loves and her own inventions. GIVEN The Opportunity to Continue That Self-Interest, after Reaching the Limits of Her Own Ability, She’d Accept it. IT’S JUST UNNERVING TO SEE IT HAPPEN, IN PART BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT NO ONE SHOW WOULD BE ON BOARD WITH THIS. Not Ronnie, Xavier, or Natalie. None of say asked her to change the past; They Only Asked Her to Accept it.
It’ll be interesting to see Where this series will go to the renewed. We always expert a clear-cut Redemption arc we can be heroes out to the extent that riri has this season. But it’ll be interesting to see what that love Like for a hero who cours dark magic and sells “something hardly miss” to the actual devil. Fingers Crossed that we get to find out!
In a post-credits Scene, Parker Encers Stanton’s. He as Kass Zelma for Help Finding Heavy-Duty Magic and Wants to See the Shop’s Backroom. Surprise, Surprise: Judging by the bewitched look on her face, zelma is no more immune to the Allure of Anthony Ramos than any of us. I’m relieved to see that he’s not down for the count.
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