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That she’s got this family who are integral to her story and her being a superhero.
The mom’s the one who sews it, the father’s the one who gives her the name.
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The partition of India is a weighty historical tragedy thatonly comes up rarely in genre fiction.
Not only does the show mention it, but it take us there in the penultimate episode.
How did you all approach that tonally?
We approached it with a great deal of respect and a great deal of tenderness.
We were thinking about our own families, about what are the things that go unsaid?
So as the story goes on, we go up the generations.
There’s some disconnect here.
Thenwhen we go to Pakistan in episode 4, you hear Sana’s version of dealing with this.
That affects her relationship with Muneeba, and then Muneeba’s reaction to that relationship affects Kamala.
It’s really clear that this is an intergenerational thing that’s rippled through history to now.
She’s going to have to step up to the plate in some big way.
It felt really important to us that it’s about protecting someone from within our community.
When she finally embiggens, it’s like, oh, how exciting that she figured this out!
That’s really a physical manifestation of the internal change in her.
Like emotionally, she’s embiggened her sense of self to include community.
ObviouslyKamala’s powers work a little differently in the showthan they do in the comics.
Yeah, I think it’s a really natural evolution.
That was really exciting, finding the way to meld those two pieces together.
In terms of where those powers come from, it’s basically an inheritance.
And then obviously there’s our big surprise at the end of episode 6.
Wouldn’t they have powers too?
That was a question that the mutation will help to answer as well.
That’s exactly what I was going to bring next.
Not because I don’t want to, or I can’t.
I literally don’t know.
Well no worries,we’re all trying to figure out what it means.
How did you decide to bring djinn into her story?
That’s not really how I operate.
There’s such a negative connotation with it.
This is the moment where her fantasy completely collapses.
If Thor turned up here, we’d call him a djinn too."
That is what we do.
That’s how we’d phrase it.
The whole show is about perception, how we perceive stories and what other people say about us.
So thematically, it all linked up.
Guys and girls, everybody.
Everyone’s like, “Yes, we love this girl.”
So like some days, people were Team Bruno, some people were Team Kareem or Team Kamran.
But it was always rotating, and I was always rotating.
I have no idea what team I’m on now, I’m like Team All of Them.
I’m like, “Hey, we didn’t write it, but I like it!”
So there’s lots of that going around.
She’s so radiant.
I think that’s what’s going to make her into a leader.
People want to be with her.
People want to listen, and she wants to hear from people and she wants to empower people.
She’s doing her hero journey and she’s not too concerned about that stuff.
What happens, happens, you know?
It’s a cool energy.
I’m really proud of all the writers in the writers' room, because they work so hard.
I’m really proud of everybody who worked on the show because it really was a labor of love.
I think it comes through in the fabric of the show, how many people love it.
This show exists, and it is not the comic books.
What a fantastic piece of art that we all just adore.
So yeah, I’m just happy to be here, mate!
