Ironheart

The moral of this show, is you don't have to earn anything.

Riri is amazing, apparently, because everyone says so, but why? Nobody knows, just keep saying she's amazing and it'll stick.

She didn't earn the suit, she's not strong, funny or cool. She's just feels like an NPC who stumbled upon Excalibur laying on the floor and claims she's the king of the world. She helps her fellow students cheat on their tests and projects, seeking her out just to use her to not fail. So she didn't earn anything and she's surrounded by people who didn't earn anything, in fact everyone is just ripping off everyone else, just like Ironheart is a ripoff of Ironman.

Imagine if you went to the valedictorian of your class and said "make this work for me or I'll fail". What kind of message does that send the audience? That it's okay to get by in life if you just let somebody else do your job for you?? That's insane! Tony Stark was the head of a massive successful business and one of the smartest minds on the planet and he didn't need everyone telling him he's amazing. He built a giant mechanical suit in a cave with junk! He made a tiny reactor to keep his heart from getting shredded! Riri simply stole everything! It's like saying "I'm an architect" just because you can put legos together. Awfully terrible start to a mediocre show.

I am a black woman and marvel fan from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. I tried to give this a chance when RDJ gave her well wishes on someone's show. This didn't keep my attention at all. The story doesn't make sense or add up. I left it alone thinking maybe I was already preoccupied to give it my full attention. That wasn't it! How are you doing crimes in a suit that more than your college, neighborhood, colleagues, the news, family, and random people on the street know about? Marvel throws people together.... I love me some Manny Montana (Good Girls- iykyk) and Anthony Ramos is cool but who are the rest of these people? It seems like Marvel falls short when it comes to women in their movies (Captain Marvel, Madame Web) besides Wanda and Widow. Anyway... I have no plans to finish watching it and removed it from continued watching on Disney plus. It's a No for me!

This show suffered from writers who don't understand what makes something dramatic and or interesting, so the writing just drones on and on and on with underwhelming scene after underwhelming scene. There are so many opportunities to make this extraordinary but these people would have to understand enough about creating drama to know how to do that, and they simply do not. This is at every turn, in every scene, and on and on. They seem to believe that savvy tech, and concepts alone will make it interesting, but it doesn't.

I hope they get better writers, soon too, because the basic premise perhaps could be interesting, if . . .

I'll start off with 1 positive: visual effects were not too bad. Um, now here we go...the acting was horrendous, the storyline appears to be written by a 5 year old; predictable and basically non interesting to watch. It's frustrating to me that people got paid for putting out this garbage. I can't imagine that this was screened in advance for consumer feedback. If you write garbage, then that is what you will see on the screen. I think that any run of the mill marvel super fan could have put together a way better storyline that what was produced. The acting is terrible, I don't expect this series to continue...

As a lifelong Marvel fan and someone who genuinely admired the growth and sacrifice of Tony Stark, watching Ironheart feels like being spat on for caring.

This series doesn't just fall short - it disrespects the legacy of Iron Man to artificially inflate a character who hasn't earned the suit, the tech, or the respect. Instead of honoring Tony Stark - the genius, billionaire, philanthropist who sacrificed everything - the show takes every opportunity to undermine his legacy. There's a line where Riri says Tony was "nothing without his money." Excuse me?

Tony built the Mark 1 in a cave, while dying, with scraps.

He survived PTSD, took responsibility for his past sins, created new elements, mentored Spider-Man like a father, and saved the entire universe in Endgame. He was more than his money - he was his mind, his heart, and his growth.

This show acts like we forgot that. But we didn't.

Instead of showing Riri Williams learning from Tony's legacy, or striving to live up to it, they turned her into a smug, ungrateful replacement. A character who walks in, acts like she knows better, and immediately claims the spotlight with no build-up. That's not inspiring. That's forced.

You want strong new heroes? Great - earn it.

Let Riri grow, make mistakes, struggle, and rise. Let her respect the ones who came before her. That's called storytelling.

But this? This was lazy writing, weak character development, and an insult to everything the MCU built over 10+ years.

You can't just write off legends to make room for new ones. That's how you lose your audience.

This wasn't a tribute to Iron Man. It was a hit job.

And for that, I'm out.

1 star. And that's generous.