There’s so much I wanna talk about right now, and I want everybody to hear this. KlicKNet is officially planning to a special Wkly Hit List livestream celebrating 10 Years of this brand, and the last five of them being spent on YouTube. We had promised last year the return of Wkly Hit List LIVE this year, and while this maybe the only one we do this year, we gonna try and make it our best one yet. In other news, KlicKNet Productions is still looking for funding for Rhodey, NY and we’ve been asking around for anyone who can help, but I think we’ve managed to find some. Which is why there will be no Wkly Hit List post next weekend, as we need some to think about how can we move forward with Rhodey, NY, specifically we wanna try and move from pre-production to production. While we try to figure that out, why don’t you see if this week’s 5-Day Rounder makes any sense to you.
KlicKNet promised new episodes of FakeTV Box this summer and boy oh boy, have we delivered. Pretty soon, we release the last two episodes in our multi-vlog series, FakeTV On Deck: The Sequel, detailing our adventure on the Royal Caribbean Odyssey of the Seas for the second year in the row. But this week, we released a brand new FakeTV Box where we did a double reaction to the final trailers for DC Studios’ Superman and Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps. One of these movies is in theaters now, but since it’s early and not many people have seen it yet, I guess you could still call this a Sneak Peek of the Week, so see how interim FakeTV Box host Omari Alexander react to two Super Fantastic trailers.
Our Inside Scoop this week is about the last two episodes of Marvel Television's Ironheart that dropped about a week ago on Disney Plus. In a month where Phase Six of the Marvel Cinematic Universe begins with The Fantastic Four: First Steps, I believe that Phase 5 doesn't end for KlicKNet until we talk about the last two episodes of Ironheart on this blog, so here we go. WARNING: This piece may contain spoilers, so if you haven't seen Ironheart Episodes Five and Six yet, stop reading now. If you would like to continue at your risk, then be my guest.
We find Riri Williams at a White Castle with Zelma Stanton, they are talking about Parker Robbins' hood and speculate that the cloak came from Dormammu, ruler of the Dark Dimension. Everybody who has seen Doctor Strange in 2016 knows who Dormammu, but is he truly the one behind the hood and all of Parker 's actions throughout the series. While Riri and Zelma are eating and chatting, N.A.T.A.L.I.E. and the suit have been captured by Slug in their truck, a member of Parker's gang. As soon as Zelma leaves Riri alone at White Castle, more of Parker's gang show up in the form of the Blood Siblings and Clown. They have come to kill Riri who manages to fight them off on her own, and she also manages to tell Clown that one of the previous gang members, Stuart, was killed by Parker's best friend John because he had outlived his usefulness. Slug pulls up on Riri in the truck, just as N.A.T.A.L.I.E. manages to bust out with the suit and save Riri in the neck of time. After taking care of Slug, N.A.T.A.L.I.E. admits that she's still angry at Riri for considering the idea of deleting her. She turns herself off, meaning when Riri takes flight in her suit and something strikes it, Natalie doesn't answer. This could not have come at a really bad time for Riri who finds her ambushed and attacked the "new and improved" Zeke Stane, if you want to call him that. He is now bionically-enhanced and can zap electricity from his body, and with all of his strength, he destroys Riri's suit.
But then, he makes the decision of letting her live as long as she agrees to leave Chicago before Parker finds out that she's still alive. Riri takes the busted up suit to her apartment asks her mother Ronnie for help, and during the conversation, she reveals that she created the suit, not because she could do it, but because she wanted to do something that can help people after losing Gary and Natalie. She wanted to create something that could have helped them the night they were killed, so Ronnie tells her that making everyone safe is not Riri's responsibility alone, and says that this time she will help her fight back, N.A.T.A.L.I.E. hears all this and decides to stop being mad at Riri. Meanwhile, Zeke and Clown lie to Parker that Riri is dead, and at the same time, Parker's gang turn on him for having Stuart killed, so in return, he fires them all. He then takes control of Zeke's upgraded body to break into the home of his wealthy father Arthur Robbins, who has a controlling interest in the companies Parker targeted earlier on in the series, and then forces him to sign over everything at gunpoint, pretty sick if you ask me. Moving back to Riri, Ronnie, and Natalie, they head to Gary's old garage and with the help of Xavier Washington, Zelma and a boy named Landon, they build a brand new suit using a car that Riri and Gary had worked on in the past. I gotta tell you, this new suit looks so amazing that it resembles the one Riri built against Namor in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. But when Zelma powers the suit with magic, something goes wrong and N.A.T.A.L.I.E. is deleted despite of Riri's best efforts to save her.
Now we come to the sixth and final episode and let me just point something real quick, this is the episode where find out who is really behind Parker's actions. That being, the extra-dimensional demon known as Mephisto, Marvel fans have wanted to see him the Marvel Cinematic Universe for years, and now they finally have their wish, but it's gonna come at a cost for the characters in Ironheart. This episode starts off in flashback mode, where a younger Parker Robbins is seen breaking into his father's house trying to steal from him. He tries to escape through a tunnel underground but finds himself cornered on both sides by security guards. Then all of a sudden, he runs into Mephisto who helps him escape and takes him to Pizzeria. Mephisto offers to help Parker achieve his desire for power, respect, and wealth, Parker accepts and is given Mephisto's hooded cloak, which turns out to be quite the curse. Fast forward to the present, Parker accuses Mephisto of not fulfilling his end of their bargain and Mephisto offers him more power if Parker can retain the cloak, this is a mistake that is going to haunt Parker later on. We now head back to Gary's garage where Riri is unable to recreate N.A.T.A.L.I.E., she is very distraught about it to point where she ignores her family and friends' advice and goes to Parker's hideout, without coming up with a game plan to stop him. Once she arrives, he fights Zeke who has no control of his body anymore, but Riri manages to free him from Parker's control and confront The Hood once and for all. Parker has become fully corrupted by the hood, and fights Riri in battle of Tech vs Magic, and I would like to say that this as a decent battle even thugh it doesn't come close to some of favorites like Thor vs Loki, Spider-Man vs Mysterio, and Captain America vs Red Hulk.
Now, it looks as though that Parker is gaining the upper hand on Riri, but she dupes him with a trick of her own, she uses holograms fake his victory and takes off the hood leaving him desperate and powerless. When all of that is over with, Riri is confronted by Mephisto in what looks to be the same Pizzeria from the flashback scenes. He reveals his identity to Riri while claiming that he is not Dormammu, but he is someone who's just as, if not more than, worse like Dormammu. Mephisto has spent his whole existence getting people to make deals with him in exchange of making their dreams come true. He certainly has a deal that Riri finds hard to refuse and personally, when I watched this scene play out on Disney Plus, I thought for sure that she would refuse but I was wrong. Riri does the unthinkable and accepts Mephisto's offer on the condition her loved ones are left alone. We then head back to the garage where Natalie appears in the flesh, this is due to Riri wishing that her best friend be restored to life and she hugs her as the marks of Mephisto spread across Riri's arm, just as they did to Parker. Speaking of Parker, he appears one last time in the mid-credit scene where he visits the Stantons' store and asks Zelma for help in obtaining some big magic. My overall thought about Ironheart is that I thought the beginning of the series was superb as we saw Riri kinda down on her luck with building a new suit from stratch which led to her relationship with N.A.T.A.L.I.E., but then N.A.T.A.L.I.E. disappeared heading into the finale. This led to Riri making I think is a big mistake, I believe that the last scene before the credits doesn't make becuase how could Riri be so quick to give into Mephisto. I can only wonder where does Riri goes from here and if we will ever her decision play out in the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With Avengers Doomsday being filmed right now, and a Young Avengers project in development, not to mention Avengers: Secret Wars coming in two years, it's safe to say at this point that anything's possible.
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