As many of us MCU fans await the hopefully correctional 'Phase 5', as the next installment in the overall universe of Marvel, behind the scenes of an included project hints that it might not be as good as they had hoped.
ECHO, which is one of Marvel Studios' upcoming Disney Plus shows, seems to be a very ambiguous case out of all the other announced projects we will be getting in the near future. With many fans questioning the existence of this show in the MCU, others like myself are remaining confident of the quality.
However, in a recent podcast known as "The Writer's Panel", the head writer of the upcoming show and former writer on the hit series "Better Call Saul", 'Marion Dayre', explicably shared her experiences when asked about 'ECHO'. Here is what Marion had to say:
“It was really about finding a process in the moment that allowed me to get to some deadlines and, you know, be a little more flexible than I would have been if, you know, if I had all the time in the world I would have done it a little bit differently.” - Marion Dayre
That last line is hardly reassuring at all, as it is a clear indication that the writing process for Marion and her team was not as ideal as they had hoped.
Dayre then went on to say:
"Yeah it, it was kind of a crash course, you know, because I came in as a co-EP and then changed… that changed a little bit, and so I didn’t start there at the ground level, but really like shifting and changing a process to work with deadlines. Like, Better Call Saul very much uses a brick-by-brick process where we essentially break each episode three times. You do sort of a general overall break, and then we lay out some arcs, and then we go back in and brick by brick." - Marion Dayre
In simple terms, from her time on "Better Call Saul", she and her team were able to structure the episode more in a strong format-like way, using the brick process. If she was given more time for ECHO, she would definitely take more pride in her work.
We as an audience are very quick to judge content from the moment we are given some, and right now, nothing concerning ECHO has been released to the general public as of yet.
I am still remaining optimistic about the show, and hope that whichever work she and her team did is at least decent.