The adventures of Marvel’s ‘Runaways’ continue. We learn
more of Wilders’ past, (before Alex was born, presumably), and we see the
ramifications this has had on the present. Alex, in particular, met Darius and
his posse and saw how the ‘other half’ lives – it is certain that there was
some socio-racial commentary in it as well. …Yes, ‘Runaways’ are trying to be
modern and edgy and introduce viable social (and etc.) commentary of the day,
which is fine, and it also doesn’t ruin the plot of the series.
…The children have come together as a team, however
problematically, and they were able to rescue Alex from Darius. Spoiler alert
though – Alex might still be evil as he was in the comics, but the viewers will
have to see the future episodes to learn whether this is real or not.
…The show introduced Jonah, who might be Karoline’s true
father – or her mother has slept with two men, which isn’t a ‘nice’ thing, even
in modern times, so hopefully ‘Runaways’ will keep sexual deviations here to a
minimum. Jonah himself might be the counterpart to the giant aliens from the
comic series, (the Gibborim), and if not, he is still a stereotypical white man
villain – ‘Runaways’ isn’t against using racial stereotypes either, it seems.
Of course, Old Lace was there too, however briefly, and it
certainly counteracted whatever flaws ‘Kingdom’ might have had as a TV episode.
By fictional dinosaur standards, Old Lace is just as realistic as anything that
we have seen in the ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ for example. The Baryonyx
was just disappointing, as dino-fans admit unanimously; the Carnotaurus was
taken straight out of Disney’s ‘Dinosaur’, (a fictional movie with talking
dinosaurs who have to find the promised land to escape extinction – the ‘Land
Before Time’ franchise should’ve sued), and then there was some pale theropod dinosaur,
which might’ve been a Metriocanthosaurus, or an Allosaurus, or even an
Indoraptor, which still hasn’t made a proper appearance.
…Again, this can be considered a reference to the initial ‘Jurassic
Park’ novel by Michael Crichton. Yes, it is still fiction, but Crichton went
the rhetorical extra mile to flesh it all out in RL facts; he even named Rexy,
well, Rexy…who wasn’t helpful at all in the novel, but behaved rather as the
JP3 Spinosaurus did, and was the second worst dinosaur in the entire park. (The
raptors were the first, dilophosaurs and compys tied for the third) – but the
novel itself was very different from the movie, as it is known by now. Also,
the point is that the franchise continues
to plunder the novels, (especially the first one), even now, years after it got
published – so from this sort of a viewpoint, Old Lace, and the rest of TV-/Web-series
‘Runaways’ franchise are actually very good. They are both original and fairly
true to the canon comic plot line, (though the family life of Karoline and her
family? Yeesh!)
Anything else? Chase and Victor’s plotline has revealed that
Victor has cancer and he has an impromptu time machine that works as often as
it does not. Also, last week, on ‘Fifteen’, we learned that so far the titular ‘Runaways’
are not so much the heroic half dozen of children, but the victims of their
parents’, (and Jonah’s?) plot – ‘project Runaways’: sacrificed children/young adults/teenagers
that will never be missed. Again, some RL social commentary here, but it still
works…
…And this is it for the moment; see you next time!
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