Marvel Studios’ She-Hulk: Lawyer just released the latest episode of the series revolving around lawyer Jennifer Walters. The finale not only opened up multiple possibilities for the future of the MCU, but also felt like one of the most unique endings of any Marvel Studios show thus far. While some fans praised the show’s finale, others, well, not so much. This led to the show’s writer and head producer, Jessica Gao, talking about the ending, explaining how it suited Jennifer Walters’ character perfectly.
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Jessica Gao defends the end of She-Hulk
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*The rest of the article contains spoilers from the season finale of She-Hulk: Lawyer.*
In the season finale, the Green Lawyer is seen walking straight into Marvel Studios and coming face to face with a robotic version of Kevin Feige, KEVIN. She is seen standing up to the robot and calling it out for trying to distract the main character in the season finale.
Writer Jessica Gao said the main character is “so self aware and she knows she’s in a show“, fully understanding that someone was in control of her story until the very end and that Jen realized she didn’t want things to go on like this anymore.
“She’s so self-aware and she knows she’s on a show, and she knows there’s someone writing this and pulling the strings right now. So far, she always played along because she felt like that was the story I had to live in. There was this unspoken assumption that whoever was doing it more or less had their best interests in mind or some least had no malicious intent. Right now, it was betrayal to know that they didn’t have his best interest in mind.
Gao defended the season finale, saying the ending was fitting for the character of She-Hulk. She went on to say that while it might not be the right ending for every show, it was the right choice for this one, and that while the team made it very clear over the months what the show would look like, viewers just couldn’t seem to believe it.
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Kevin Feige gave the green light at the end
Jessica Gao reveals that she ended up writing nearly two dozen versions of the season finale, saying the big villain fights Marvel is so famous for just didn’t seem right for the show. No ending seemed to work the way she had thought, that is, until she found the one that did.
“I think I probably wrote 20 versions of a finale that went all over the place and I started like, ‘Well, this is a Marvel show, I better give them the ending classic Marvel. Big baddie fight, grand finale. But it never felt right because I was trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.
While she thought the idea of Jen going into Marvel Studios was a good idea, she revealed that she wasn’t completely confident until she spoke to Kevin Feige who made it clear to her that she was heading in the right direction.
“(Feige) really opened my mind to the idea that it’s okay not to do this because I was trying to do what I thought was Marvel’s expectation of what the series had to be. He was like, ‘Why? Nobody is telling you to do this, you don’t have to do this.
Needless to say the end of She-Hulk: Lawyer was something completely off the books for Marvel. Although the finale didn’t include the typical hero-villain fight, it was still a pretty interesting watch. Jennifer Walters’ fourth wall breaking abilities make her one of the most unique characters in the MCU, it made sense to expand on that.
All episodes of She-Hulk: Lawyer are streaming on Disney+.
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