Ok - I decided to knuckle down and watch the video - all of it. I normally **HATE** doing this because I can read a lot faster than I can watch something, and I can process the words better when I read them than have to listen to someone talk and throw images at me.
Couple things - one, she's got a thing about She-Hulk. I would remind the woman in the video that She-Hulk has been around for forty years, and yeah, may have been CREATED to satisfy some social need - just as LOTS of comic characters were, after forty previous years in a genre totally dominated by male characters (and villains). But She-Hulk has been around, and has been in TV and animated series before. And they did actually cast an actress with some seriously impressive creds - Tatiana Maslani, best known for Orphan Black, where she played five major characters and several lesser ones, at the same time.
I've seen the new series - and if you've watched it, it's largely comedy. So a lot of hey there's a girl Hulk is played for laughs, because a reluctant hero - unlike many of our Avengers and wannabe Avengers who fight crime WILLINGLY - is what she is. She became a superhero by accident, unlike say, Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye or Black Widow who not only do it for a living, they chose the life.
But I WILL say, there's been entirely too much wokism and tokenism which makes the resultant character that emerges - bland. Jodie Whittaker's Doctor is almost unwatchable, although this may be partly due to the WRITING, where especially in the first season, the stories were huge social commentary with a big club on the head. Her insertion into the show was pure tokenism, and we've not only seen that some future Doctor will be a black woman (because the Doctor is, after all, a time traveler) - the NEXT Doctor is going to be a gay black man. I am not kidding. "Ghostbusters" was a fun, interesting and classic movie - its female redux was dumb and forgettable. Recasting or rebranding a character JUST for the sake of changing the race or sex of a character is going to lead to dull characters UNLESS you write them well - case in point - Nick Fury in the comics is white. Samuel L Jackson does it so well, you'd never know it.
But she's right about several other leads - Captain Marvel, Rey - they're boring characters. Actually I think all of the subsequent Star Wars movies are dull, and only serve to be entertaining WHEN THEY SHOW the original cast members.
