Marvel Studios’ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law just came out with the last episode of the series revolving around the lawyer Jennifer Walters. The finale not only opened up multiple possibilities for MCU’s future but also seemed to be one of the most unique endings in any of the Marvel Studios’ shows so far. While some fans praised the show’s finale, others, well not so much. This led the show’s head writer and producer, Jessica Gao, to speak up about the ending, explaining how it was perfectly fitting for Jennifer Walters’ character.
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Jessica Gao Defends She-Hulk Ending
*The rest of the article contains spoilers from the season finale of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.*
In the season finale, the green lawyer is seen smashing straight into the 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 him out for trying to take the attention away from the main character in the season finale.
Writer Jessica Gao stated that the main character is “so self-aware and she knows she’s in a show,” fully understanding that someone is controlling her story until the very end and that Jen realized that she does not want things to continue like that anymore.
“She’s so self-aware and she knows she’s in a show, and she knows that there is somebody writing this and pulling the strings for now. Up until now, she always played along because she felt like this is the story that I was meant to live out.’ There was this unspoken assumption that whoever was doing it had more or less her best interest in mind or at least didn’t have any malicious intent. In this moment it was the betrayal of knowing that they didn’t have her best interests in mind.”
Gao defended the season finale, saying that the ending was appropriate for She-Hulk’s character. 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, although the team had made it very clear over the past months what the show would be like, the viewers just didn’t seem to believe it.
Kevin Feige Gave the Ending a Green Light
Jessica Gao reveals that she ended up writing almost 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 be working out as she had thought, that is until she came up with the one that saw the light of day.
“I think I probably wrote like, 20 versions of a finale that went all over the place and I started feeling like, ’Well, this is a Marvel show, I better give them the classic Marvel ending. Big villain fight, big finale. But it never felt right because I was trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.”
While she thought the idea of Jen walking into Marvel Studios was a good idea, she revealed that she wasn’t completely confident with it until she talked to Kevin Feige who made her realize she was going in the right direction.
“(Feige) really opened my mind to the idea that it’s OK to not do that because I was trying to do what I thought was the Marvel expectation of what the show had to be. He was like, ‘Why? No one’s telling you to do that, you don’t have to do that.”
Needless to say, the ending of She-Hulk: Attorney of Law was something completely out of the books for Marvel. While the finale did not include the typical hero-villain fight, it was still quite an interesting watch. Jennifer Walters’ fourth-wall-breaking abilities make her one of the most unique characters in the MCU, it only made sense to expand on that.
All episodes of She-Hulk: Attorney of Law are streaming on Disney+.
Source: The Direct
