Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down
She Hulk Episode 7.
It's full of easter eggs, hidden details and a lot of callbacks to the comics that we're
gonna be breaking down in this episode.
After the Daredevil tease in Episode 6 we were hit with an inconvenient Wedding episode
that made me want to become the Joker.
All in all She Hulk is just another Marvel show teasing a devil and we're gonna put that
to the side and take this for what it is.
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episode 7
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Now the entry is called the retreat and it centres on Jen getting in touch with her inner
she hulk at Blonsky's meditation clinic.
However it could also be used with Josh as well to show how he retreats away from She
Hulk after getting her goods...like her body fluid...sorry like her DNA potentially.
We start off with a birds eye view of Jen's bathroom and similar to Ms Marvel we get the
texts presented in an animated form.
She's talking to Josh from last week and we get a split second shot of the conversation
in which he says talks about how hot her body is.
Just kidding, just kidding he is constantly asking her where her address is and hinting
towards finding out where she lives.
He's revealed to be part of the intelligencia which we theorised back at the wedding.
He gets it and shows up to pick her up sitting on the car like its a classic date movie.
Got Top Gun Maverick vibes from this and she's clearly fallen for him.
Jen seems really happy and she plays No I'mn in it by Haim and walks around her apartment.
Think this might be similar to the music video for the song which used similar shots.
At work she talks about getting fries with him and the pair ate them at the wedding last
week.
This is something Jen has constantly done with dates and she also got fries to go in
episode 4 after the date.
Surely fries are like the side course I dunno, get a burger or something but either way they
constantly keep dating but Jen teases him and doesn't let him come into the house to
penetrate her with his needle.
Eventually she doies though and she stays in the Jen form not having to revert to She
Hulk.
This was a big part of the comics too with her feeling like she couldnt be with men as
how she truly was.
Man does the smash and dash and ghosts her like Ant-man and the wasp.
At the end of the episode we learn the truth of what really happened and watch as he copies
her phone.
Just in the same way we had triple emojis earlier when she hulk was at work we get them
here too.
It's clearly suggesting that he took her blood and if our thoughts about the leader being
behind this are true then I think Josh is one of his minions that has potentially already
taken her blood or he's just doing recon to show when she's most vulnerable.
I think stabbing her might make her transform into she hulk so he may not have done it but
let me know your thoughts below.
Either way she's clealry hung up on this too as she's constantly pining after him like
I am with Daredevil.
Even getting nominated for female lawyer of the year doesn't help though we all know
she would easily lose to Kim Wexler.
There's talks about going to a Gala and I'm guessing that will be where the finale takes
place due to the sparkly dress scene that pops up in the trailer.
Intelligencia is once more a conversation topic and Nikki also bringsu up a welleness
retreat foreshadowing what's toi come.
Much like the deleted Yoga scene from the incredible Hulk we watch as Jen tries to take
her mind off not getting a reply but like Miss MPiggy in a cell she can't escape the
traps in her mind no matter how many bars she can bend or how many bars she goes to
on a bender.
She does however get a call from Blonsky's parole officer Chuck Donelan.
This could be a reference to Charles Donelan a marvel comic book artist who helped to pioneer
the genre.
Blondsky's inhibitor has had a malfunction and Chuck wants to go in with some back up
in the form of She Hulk.
She travels out in the wilderness and I got a lot of flashes back to the opening of the
series with her and bruce travelling down the road.
She's listening to Hansom even though she can't get her mind off the Handsome josh cos
she wants that Mbop...whatever that means.
Needle joke was better but the pair meet at Summer Twilights.
Everything seems like it's ok with Blonsky saying he jumped it on an electric fence for
his chicken silk feather.
Now at this point we meet two new characters in Man Bull and El Aguila.
(ogula)
As Man Bull says he was created in a lab and the comics had him kidnapping people off the
street for a man named Mr. Kline.
Kline was carrying out experiments in order to transform people into animals.
Under the name William Taurens he came face to face with Daredevil who managed to stop
him.
However Kline wanted blood and as a punishment for his failure he forced William through
the experiment which changed him into Man Bull.
Man Bull is played by Nathan Hurd who you might recognise for his standup comedy stuff.
Now as for El Aguila this once more brings mutants into the MCU after Immortal man showed
up last week.
Born in spain he ended up travelling to america and under the name El Aguila he became a crimefighter
for the poor.
He was recruited by numerous government agencies over the years though it was believed that
he lost his powers on M day.
However he kept getting work and we learn that both are here to work out their anger
issues.
Because El Aguilar is similar to a matador it represents the people that have tried to
oppress him.
Jen's car is destroyed and Tim Roth just constatnly cracked me up with his new found positive
outlook.
Though he wasn't announced in the thunderbolts announcement I am hoping that they held him
back because they wanted to keep it as a surprise due to the show still airing.
Would love to see him pop up in that film and work off the rest of his parole.
I think Abomination is too good of a character to leave here so hopefully val pops up in
a post credits tease.
Jen says she needs to get some work done but she's clearlyu just trying to get reception
and wi-fi in the hopes that Josh texts her.
She wanders the retreat to the sonjg peppers and onions by Tierra Whack and eventually
stumbles across a therapy session.
This is the Abomaste which is of course a play on namaste the calming phrase that Blonsky
said earlier in the season.
It means greetings to you and we can see it's a self help centre almost elevating him like
a cult like figure though the guy seems too chill to be worshipped....even with his seven
wives.
They have several objects here that help to keep people calm and even what I think is
a swear jar to keep this show PG.
Reminded me a lot of the group therapy session from wreck it ralph with lots of characters
all giving their truth about how it feels to be an villain that wants to change.
We also meet Procupine a character from the comics who was a scientist that worked for
the united states army.
He built a battle suit that contained razor sharp spikes and this suit is caple of shooting
the needles from it whilst also making him very difficult to hit.
He thought the suit would bring him a fortune but the government refused to pay him and
thus he turned to crime.
He pretty much suffers from the fear of leaving his suit here and refuses to take it off.
Next is Saracen who in the comics was a mercenary figure who faced off against the punisher
several times.
To the best of my knowledge he was never a vampire though they could be using him here
to foreshadow the arrival of blade.
Jen doesn't want to get involved but we overhear the issues that they go through and decides
to open up.
El Agula hates that he's constantly seen as a matador when really he wants to be noticed
for who he truly is.
Lastly they are joined by none other than the Wrecking Crew Leader Wrecker.
Jen lashes out on him but we learn that h'es a changed man.
This could explain why Josh wasn't with the orgiinal group and he may have no replaced
Wrecker in the team.
He talks about his magic crowbar and incase you don't know in the comics the group all
held onto one as it was struck with lightingin.
This gave them magical abilities whereas here they stole them off an asgardian construction
worker.
He's going Deep on himself and is a changed man who's taking accountability.
Jen tells the group about Josh and we discover that she's now playing directly into letting
Josh take the upperhand by texing.
My man Saracen actually cracks the case but he's shut down like a tweet I dropped in august
saying Hugh Jackman would come back.
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Also I was right yeah, f**ks I was right!
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Either way this insecurity has made her think that shes basically constantly losing out
to She Hulk as Jen.
Nice little detail they have here that only me and quentin tarantino noticed is that she
doesnt have shoes on.
She would of course destroy her shoes transforming so nice they kept this in.
The whole situation with Josh has made her feel even more worthless.
However the group lift her up and you know what, for a stone faced as I've been throughout
she Hulk, my man Saracen had me laughing out loud with this bit.
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Jen realises that maybe Josh isn't for her but that there are men who will genuinely
like her and it's a wonderful wonderful scene that actually explores both sides of the character.
I know I've been constatnly ragging on this show for how hollow it feels but ey this moment
was really well put together I think and in the end it inspires porcpine to finally remove
his mask.
Smells like crap though cos the guy hasn't washed but ey you seem like a nice guy.
Jen accepts Josh isnt worth her time and deletes his number in the end.
As the car is towed away we can also catch the name Slott on it and this is a reference
to Dan Slott who created the she hulk comic book run that the series is based on.
I think the driver might even have this on his name badge but it's a bit too difficult
to fully makje out though it does begin with a d.
The gang...sorry group say their goodbyes and she rides home to a bit of Dua Lipa.
However the episode isn't over and we see the other side of the Josh thing with us seeing
what really happened.
Now the Intelligencia are probably gonna tie into further things down the line and I suspect
that they're gonna be popping up in Captain America New World Order.
The leader has been confirmed as popping up in that movie and the idea of a new world
order of course ties in with the illuminati.
This is the idea that I feel is also behind the intelligencia.
This supergroup of super smart villains all pooled their resources and started to control
events behind the scene.
It seems like Marvel is doing a comment on the internet and message boards being used
to indoctrinate young men and I think that the Leader might become a figure head for
this.
I doubt that the Intelligencia are gonna be completely introduced and defeated in the
time we have left in the season so I can see it more being a lead in.
This will likely set up events for the future and it is a bit weird that they're going after
She Hulk.
Guessing it's just commenting on men hating women with powers and this will then spiral
off into other things.
Marvel seem to be trying to handle way more social issues than before so it's a bold move
cotton lets see if it plays off for em.
Now the members we know are coming into the MCU are Modok and The Leader and we know they're
coming soon.
Modok will be in Ant-man and the Wasp Quantumania and I'm guessing we will get a tease soon.
There's also Todd who judging by rumours on the show will be popping up again further
down the line, potentially next week.
We've constantly talked about him for ages now and the very fact that they have a vibranium
needle makes me think that he had a hand in this.
I've played the voice comparisons a tonne of times so go watch our older breakdowns
if you wanna hear it but I think he and the wrecking crew member are one of the same.
The needle was of course bent and then on the date he ended up asking about the Vibranium
one.
This will be able to draw out more hulk blood and potentially go direct to the leader.
We saw in the incredible hulk how hulks blood ended up making him go through a metamorphasis
and I thin kthat he wants to creat his own legion of hulks through Jens DNA.
This idea was set up all the way back in episode 1 and it's nice that they have this through
thread from there.
Anyway after the josh reveal we cut to the credits and as always get some court drawings
that sum up the episode.
These include My man El Aguila matadoring in college as a joke and also jen meditating
in the weat box.
Lastlyl we have porcupine taking his costume to the dry cleaners whilst we can clearly
see that it stinks.
Anyway that ends the episode and as much as I've been s**ting on the show I really enjoyed
this episode.
Was nice catching up with Abomination but also getting the focus solely on Jen rather
than her getting half the episode divided with characters like Mr. Immortal and some
costume stuff.
This really ticked all the boxes for me with it having good jokes, some nice side characters
that complimented the plot and also Jen actually going on an arc where she learns and grows.
Myh problem in the past has been that I've felt something is missing from the show and
in comparison to the comics it's been very surface level.
I felt like it was a dumbed down version of the source material but here they really hammer
home the cost of being she hulk on Jen rather than everything just falling into her lap.
I don't think it was a complete home run and whether it saves the series for me or not
is unlikely but this is an episode that sets out to do a job and I think it pulls it altogether.
I said this on twitter last week and people were going off at me and saying I just want
Cameos but I really don't care if they're telling a good story.
I think that was the case here and though I had another youtuber text me immediately
after and say the episode sucked, I thought it was alright mate, I thought it was ok.
Might even say good you know.
Maybe I've learned to grow myself and you know what, I've deleted my Incelligencia account.
Either way that's my thoughts let me know yours below and hopefully I see you on the
next one.
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