Hawkeye Season
1, Episode 1
Disney Plus,
Release date: Nov. 24th, 2021
After watching the first episode of Kate Bishop’s Hawkeye on t Disney + Network, the one thing I can say the creators retained of the legacy Hawkeye character is the color purple.
- The color purple is often associated with royalty, nobility, luxury, power, and ambition.
Before Jeremy Renner ever shot an arrow there was an orphaned outcast who donned a purple and black cowl named Hawkeye in Marvel Comics.
Trained to be a Master Archer by the villain Sword Master and guided by his quest for love and acceptance, traveled from team to team in an attempt to make a family or find a home.
In contrast, Kate Bishop is born to an ultra-wealthy parent, who loses her father in the battle for New York.
- The expression “purple speech” is used to describe profanity and bad language.
But the biggest question you will have for most of the episode is, who in hell are these people?
We are introduced to Kate Bishop as a small child. As her parents argue the Battle of Manhattan breaks out and her father is killed sitting at his desk in his office.
But Kate only needs to glimpse Hawkeye shoot an arrow to decide how she will honor her father’s legacy.
Become a World-Class Dancer, Equestrian, Martial Artist, Gymnast, Fencer, and of course Archer. And she plays soccer too.
This girl is so talented athletically, metals fall out of her butt as she is talking to her mother who comments it's time for a new trophy case, for all of the butt medals.
Other meanings associated with the color purple:
- The phrase “purple cow” refers to something remarkable, amazing, unique, stand-out, eye-catching, or unusual.
There is a lot of attention paid to Kate’s Wardrobe.
In Haley Seinfeld’s first scene in the series, she is attempting to ring a bell with an arrow.
When she removes her overcoat, she is wearing a black and purple one-piece jumpsuit. But the scene is shot in the dark and hard to make out.
Traditionally, this would be the skin-tight suit to get the guys more involved in a female hero.
But it's 2022 so a fourteen-year-old boy is the body type of the day.
In another very confusing scene, Kate is at a cocktail party.
Kate’s mother provides her a dress for the occasion but not this rebel! She can pick out her clothes!
Or can she?
Kate is confused for a waiter immediately because, she is…wearing a tuxedo?
But… she’s not. Her coat is black, her shirt is black and her pants are black, she’s just
wearing black. Okay, let it go… but wait!
A character who introduces himself as, “Don’t you remember me? You used to have dinners with me!”
(Again, who the hell are these people!?)
Asks, “Are you attending your mother’s wedding?”
Kate is completely unaware her mother is getting re-married?
Then he remarks, “But you won’t be wearing that tuxedo, will you?
So, that’s was a tuxedo is now?
Yeah, the tuxedo scene… haunts me.
- The term “purple prose” is used in reference to large exaggerations, lies, and highly imaginative writings.
If you look up Kate Bishop in the Marvel Wikipedia you are told: Kate Bishop is the daughter of Derek Bishop and Eleanor Bishop and the sister of Susan Bishop. [1]
That’s it. This is because Kate Bishop is no one in the Marvel Universe before the events which occur in the Young Avenger in 2005
Much like Re Re William, the young, female Iron Man. Kate’s origin story is, well, she stole it from the Avengers headquarters.
Donning the gear of Mockingbird and Hawkeye, as well as what may be Swordsman's sword and Black Widow's belt, Kate Bishop’s Hawkeye was born!
With character depth like this, how could you go wrong?
Clint Barton’s Hawkeye, on the other hand, has two pages of character description in the Marvel Database and key storylines over the last 60 years.
And the show stays true to form for the origin story of the new M-She-U – Kate steals the Ronin sword and costume from an underground auction.
- The saying “purple haze” refers to confusion or euphoria which may be drug-induced.
Next, we are introduced to a very grey and depressed Clint Barton who is fostering some Eastern European Children and a special needs kid.
I am assuming this because we were introduced to Hawkeye’s family in Avenger’s End Game. They disappeared during the Snap…I cried for those people!
These are not those people.
These kids look like they escaped from a Russian Ballet Company. And the kid with the Bow Tie? You got me.
- Too much purple brings out qualities of irritability, impatience, and arrogance. Too little purple brings out feelings of powerlessness, negativity, and apathy.
The addition of the dog to the story is inconsequential.
Classically, the dog saves the lead character and therefore owes a debt to the dog and cares him back to health.
Nope, this dog is getting hit by a car when Kate flips over the dog and scoops him up… basically on accident.
But that’s enough for Kate to bring him home and call him, her own. (That’s so Kate!)
It is also an accident how Kate steals the Ronin sword and costume!
She did not go to the cocktail party to procure it.
She has not come to a hurdle she can’t cross unless she has the costume and sword.
She just happens to end up with them.
I got a suit and a sword. I’m already all trained up! Might as well become an Avenger!
That works at Comic-Con but not on Disney plus.
Unlike shows like Falcon and Winter Soldier where Disney took established characters and twisted them to suit today’s Political Pop-Culture, Kate Bishop has no past to distort.
She is a blank slate with no character motivation, no foes, no allies, no purpose but to pull Jeremy Renner out of Avengers retirement so people will watch.
But with no Mythos to destroy the “Creatives” at Marvel Disney seem plumb out of ideas!
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