This seemed less like a complex unorthodox story and more like bad writing in the end though. That whole exchange with Monica was just weird as well.
"I'd do the same"
"They'll never know what you did for them"
Like...what?
She'd enslave and torture an entire community...to bring back her mom...and it's played like a positive moment between the two. That moment should've been scored with villainous music
and then this same person gets enlisted to join the new Avengers
Completely agree with your review though, the Sword scenes felt like they were part of a completely different show. From writing to editing to acting it was all so inferior to what was happening in the bubble.