Welcome back to New rockers I’m Jessica Clemens and this is a breakdown of Ekko episode 2 where we get first hints of Maya’s a magical lineage ooh this episode had one of the coolest train Heights I’ve ever seen in a TV show but it also left me concerned for the safety
Of my poor sweet baby boy biscuits let’s dive in for all the Easter eggs and details and references you might have missed but first don’t forget to check out nerd rot. shop where right now you can find merch inspired by the echo series including a shirt featuring the
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1200 ad this is around the same year that the chiefs of the five irin nations met in what would become New York State and agreed to unite after years of Waring from the concept art they labeled this as Cahokia the largest city built north of Mexico before the colonizers
Arrived it’s a huge huge major city until about 1350 Ekko visits it in the comics traveling backwards in time where she meets her ancestor AO yoa the host of The Phoenix force during that time time period in addition to the concept art looking pretty spoton to what we see
In an interview with Seth Fairchild the executive director of cultural Services he mentioned Marvel created The Village in Stick ball field and made it 100% authentic to what the chak tribal members asked for they’re traveling by canoe and Dugout canoes were widely used pre the arrival of the Europeans the
Attention to detail here is just all remarkable like in the water when they’re canoeing past the shoreline we see this freaking alligator snapping turtle native to the Southern United States dive into the water another shout out to Ekko and the team really just standing on their business to be
Culturally authentic as possible this is 1200 ad 1200 ad none of us have lived during that time we’re showing you things we only know from stories and artifacts and that just really gets me because it’s really important people are arriving from all over to take part in watching public sportting event this is
Chak toas sbar isoli which is similar to modern day lacrosse Chaka stickball was played often in Oklahoma until the early 1900s and helped keep Warriors in shape for Warfare but also was seen as an alternative to war between tribes in a recent interview with the chatan nation
Chief Gary baton makes note of some of their tribal members being the actors and actresses in the show this stick ball game is played by real stick ball players for 2 days in the heat they played actual stick ball and used a lot of that footage amongst the ones you
Know obviously choreographed but this is all impressive incredible and just completely awesome to me here we find out that the outcome of this game will determine which team is banished from these lands forever two teams play their hands forearms feet lower legs and lower part of their faces are painted red and
Blue they speak to this man in Cherokee he has blue paint on so the colors could signify their tribe they keep score with sticks painted in the same color and it’s the first to 10 wins there’s one woman on the red team Lok and she’s
Crushing it she’s the MVP the score is 5 to1 in favor of red but then the blue team decides to send in the ringer this big beefy dude who seems to have a history with Lok she trash talks him a bit but her teammate tells her to not
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Again he intercepts the ball right in front of her face and she is pissed the score is now tied 9 to9 the next Point wins the teams get into a scrum in the midst of the chaos the woman starts having flashes of her ancestors and she sees the glowing spiral on her Palms
Similar to what Maya sees later on in this episode The Woman leaps over everyone and Scores And The Crowd Goes Wild in present day Maya wakes up to the light in her room flashing to indicate that someone is at the door she has two text on her phone from her cousin
Biscuits reading I’m here and brought some stuff there’s a notepad next to her phone with a list it says four rolls of duct tape 15 glow sticks this is a party and I want to be invited small lanterns drill Sledgehammer carabiners climbing rope harness just harness sealant Vienna
Sausages is this a child or a kidnapper biscuits brought Maya some Essentials in a postal carrier box which we later find out is Grandma cholas along with her truck he’s driving Maya ominously ask him if he ever takes the truck off-roading and he gives an enthetic never because grandma would kill him and
He’s not good with the steering wheel on the wrong side it’s on the wrong side because she’s a US postal worker and she uses the truck on her postal route in the Box he’s got Doritos fions strawberry poptarts pasteurized processed cheddar cheese and that’s a good cousin right there he’s got all the
Staples and is really a sweet dude who we see later is willing to do some crazy stuff for his cousin Maya hands him a supply list of things she needs and he says it’s not illegal is it and she just hands him a lot of cash and doesn’t
Answer Biscuit Goes to scully’s pawn shop to get me or her list of stuff and I called the number on the sign in there and sadly it was not in service so you don’t need to do it I called like most of the numbers in this series and none
Of them are in service I was hoping for a personalized screening from Kingpin himself cuz that’s exactly what I dream of and what I want Scully store sells Native American Goods among other things and we get this hilarious scene with these two clueless wasps who get talked
Into buying a bunch of stuff from Scully who’s obviously used to dealing with these type of people the the D by the dam Thing by the dam thing oh All My Relations yeah and in case you can’t tell what he’s saying he’s chanting by the damn thing over and
Over again but they clearly hear what they want to hear the was want some Navajo rugs that are a little more Southwest D but biscuits talks them out of anthropology and they leave Scully decked in The Fringe vest and bolo ties biscuits says this oh you guys can drive
Over to anthropology and get your Navajo rug but that’s all stuff from Mador we saw Mador and Falcon and the Winter Soldier with Baron Zemo Sam Wilson and Bucky went to Mador to meet the Power broker AKA Sharon Carter it’s full of the world’s shadiest criminals and this
Is also a playoff the you know made in China kind of Trope on the way out the white woman says you Ki which is chocked up for thank you and she was probably so proud of herself for that and then biscuit says this I don’t know why you
Got to be all somehow I just helped you with that sale with the noos noos which is chocked out for white people Maya’s grandma is helping a plan for some type of festival and the diagram they look at has a similar layout to the one from the
Opening scene with the chak to stickball game someone in the group accidentally spills the beans that Maya’s back in town and they spotted her talking to Henry at the roller rink and you just know that Grandma Trolla isn’t mad she’s just disappointed biscus brings everything he got from skullies over to
Maya’s house and she peer pressures him into skipping dinner with Chola to take a ride with her instead and I’m afraid for biscuits at this point going forward he’s just easily peer pressured just like me grandma Chola goes to the roller ring to talk to Henry about Maya being
Back in town and I love that song everyone is skating to it’s the 1998 All My Life by Casey and Jojo I was listening to it because I love this song so much it’s just such a good roller skating song they’re always playing those 90 ballads at roller rings
CH is worried that Maya will cause trouble while she’s in town and her fears are totally founded because immediately we found out that Maya has been planning this whole time with a list of supplies and it’s a dangerous ass train Heist I don’t even know if
It’s a heist more than is a horrible terrorist attack Maya ropes biscuits into helping her with this too and he brings along Billy Jack and I love him and was so concerned for his safety for everything that follows but spoiler alert Billy Jack is totally fine since I
I’ want to know that before going into this so you’re welcome Maya goes all Mission Impossible and jumps onto a moving train and I love that this isn’t graceful or easy like she almost falls off and it’s a lot of hard work to get herself back up her whole Life’s a
Struggle but that’s when she goes hard it’s not the usual action movie type scene it’s brutal and she’s getting beat up doing all this stuff it kind of reminds me of the awesome Daredevil season one hallway fight scene where you saw every bit of effort that fight took
Matt to accomplish and he was bloody and battered and breathing hard the entire time this scene switches from this loud train to Maya’s POV silent calm still even as the crazy chaos is Raging around her she jumps over the head of the armed guard without him noticing and then
Gives a yeah I just did that smile back that’s just awesome once she’s underneath the train she drills up into the container d9x and puts a small camera she had biscuits get her up in there to look around biscuits is frantically trying to keep up with Maya
And the train and Grandma chol’s truck and Chola Calls him right as this is happening Grandma’s always know when you’re up to no good even her look on his phone looks disappointing I’m also starting to get a bad feeling that biscuits is going to die before this
Series is even over like he’s always just too sweet and Maya keeps putting him In Harm’s Way and it’s all just doesn’t bode well with me Maya enters the container d9x and opens a box but we don’t get to see what’s inside of it which is very pul fiction she puts
Something in the box then seals it up with sealant spray after she’s done what she’s come there to do she’s back on top of the train and miscalculates on a jump crushing her prosthetic leg in a horrible way I hate this scene I hate it
I don’t ever want to see it again in a moment of pure panic when she’s trying to free her leg Maya sees a vision of low walk the dick ball playing woman from the beginning of the episode then she sees the woman from episode one who became the first Chaka Maya’s hand glows
With the same swirling circles as loax did and she’s able to pry the train cars apart to free her leg then we get this awesome moment that we saw in the trailer where Maya jumps from the moving train to the truck biscuits is driving and again this hits hard biscuits checks
To make sure Billy Jack the dog is okay and again that’s exactly the first thing I would have done too we see the New York skyline but specifically the view from the Freedom Tower in Manhattan which is away from a Avengers Tower that’s Uptown so we’re not seeing
Avengers Tower yet in this shot it turns out that Maya rigged the box with explosives so that when it reaches the end of the line and the workers open it it just blows up in their faces it’s hard to tell what’s in the crate before it explodes but it kind of looks like
Weapons it’s also hard to tell what the bomb is made of but it does look like a homemade bomb and none of the ingredients look like they were on the list Maya gave to biscuit so maybe he’s not an accomplice to the bombing itself the items she had biscuit acquir were
Just a break into the train I’m not a lawyer but hopefully that holds up in court because I love biscuits don’t want him in trouble anyways it blows the hell out of that warehouse and this is some real anti-hero right here and I mean M could have just taken out any
Innocent person who happened to be walking by not to mention the fact that probably not all those dudes there were like bad and deserve this it’s giving it’s giving us agent Henry has three phones and all of them ring at once he’s clearly being told about the train car
In the warehouse but he hasn’t yet put two and two together to know that may had anything to do with this but then he realizes which container BW and he text her we need to talk now and you know that if there’s periods at the end of
Sentences in a text that person means business they’re mad Maya goes to Scully to get her prosthetic leg fixed up and I love how everyone in her life just knows American Sign Language and it isn’t presented as like a big deal Scully immediately knows Maya’s up to some crap
When he looks at her damaged leg and she shows him the new leg she wants I was kind of thinking of that shotgun leg that Rose McGowan has imp planted Terror during this scene but Ma’s probably asking for something a little more practical then we get this cool Montage
Of Scully building the leg very reminiscent of Tony Stark building his suit out of the box of scraps box of scraps and just like Tony’s first suit this leg is temporary the real one will take some time for him to make Maya takes Henry the hit me I hit back and
Damn girl don’t put that stuff in a text that’s how they nail you Henry takes back they’ll know this was you you can’t take on fist’s Army alone and she responds they can’t do much with their Armory melted m is a statue of the woman from her vision the first chaa and
Scully tells her that her grandmother can trace her Roots back to the very first Chaka and the ancestors would look out for the family in times of need so I guess that explains the glowy hand thing speaking of grand Maola the look that biscuits gives her when he knows he’s
Busted for messing up her truck is amazing he just drives by I just love this scene it’s it’s very funny biscuits is going to be one of our favorite characters biscuits takes the truck to Snake Creek Salvage and gets on the CB to try and sell his PlayStation 4 for
Money to get it fixed up he asked for 125 her best offer and right now use PlayStation 4 goes for around 175 on GameStop Bonnie hears biscuits on the CB as he slips and says that Maya’s in town again not to curse biscuits but this dude is definitely going to die before
This series is over he’s just too sweet and naive Henry Compares Maya to Fisk saying she sounds like him and we know from the trailer that Fisk himself will make this comparison at some point Henry also says Maya needs to lay low and that people close to her always get hurt and
Oh yeah someone’s going to die if not biscuits maybe Bonnie or Grandma Chola and I’m going to be crushed no matter what cuz none of these people deserve to die they’re all innocent Bonnie texts Maya are you here in town why wouldn’t you tell me this is just as Maya is
Looking at the swing set where they played when they were little she flashes back to their sleepover in the tent the night her mom died and these memories have baggage because in the present day she shoots up the swing set the gunshots are intercut with more scenes of Maya’s
Ancestors the woman in the cave looking back at her and then a black and white shot of a woman we haven’t seen before she’s holding a shotgun and has braids and a cowboy hat and this is the image we go out on and that’s it for my
Breakdown on episode 2 of Ekko I’ll be back tomorrow for my breakdown episode 3 follow me on Instagram and Twitter and follow new Rockstar subscribe to new rockstars for more analysis of everything you love thank you Gina for writing this episode it takes a village to make these videos and Gina wrote this
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