Heading back to AoS, things don’t look so good for our
heroes: the episode before this one, ‘Life Spent’, has the lowest numbers ever
of an AoS episode – and the show is doing all it can do everything right.
The villains are completely unsympathetic; Kasius is a pretentious
brute that probably not other Kree can stomach, while his ‘girl Friday’,
Synera, is a heartless bitch. (Well, she is). In this week’s episode – ‘Life
Earned’ – she has defeated May, (who had a handicap: arriving in the future
hurt her leg…in a manner reminiscent of how Grant had shot Bobbi in the leg at
the end of S2, remember?). Unlike Ward and Kara Palamas, no one is sympathetic
to the Kree, and-
And no one cares for them anymore; there is no fan party for
the sake of Kree, no controversy, no anything. On one hand, this is good; AoS does
not really need more of the above after the entire Grant (& Kara) mess, on
top of the Hydra definition mess, on top of Cap vs. Tony mess. On the other, there
is no excitement, no conflict of interest; right now, AoS is very heavy on the
dystopia drama, to a point where Coulson, (well, Gregg) breaks the fourth wall,
(sort of), by claiming that all the dystopian clichés are complete: by now
humans aren’t even able to reproduce by themselves anymore, and have to have
cloned babies, (produced by the Kree) to propagate their species.
This is very horrible…and does not quite mesh with the
human-Kree interaction in the GotG movies, (which really are the only MCU
movies that featured Kree, seriously). There were some Kree in the previous
seasons of AoS, but they were only episodal characters, though generally
unpleasant. In particular, in S2, one of them was able to overpower lady Sif of
Asgard and give her temporary amnesia, but S.H.I.E.L.D.’s plucky and determined
heroes put everything right – and lady Sif, or rather Jamie Alexander, left MCU
to be the female lead in ‘Blindspot’, which is a better, more realistic take on
S.H.I.E.L.D. and especially on Grant and Skye’s relationship; the fact that
Luke Mitchell, (Lincoln Campbell of AoS) is playing the main villain on ‘Blindspot’
now only adds to that realization; right now, ‘Blindspot’ is in its’ third
season…
Here is the punchline: MCU in general is going through a
reboot fuelled by real life: Disney, (which already owns the main Marvel
franchise), just bought 21st Century Fox, getting itself the rights
to the X-Men and co. corner of MCU (‘Gifted’, ‘Legion’, etc.), and it has,
conversely, severed ties with Netflix, so it’s anyone’s guess as to what will
happen to the ‘Defenders’-related shows; the only holdout left, (so far), is
Hulu – (‘Runaways’, 2018 – ‘Cloak and Dagger’). So?
So on the other hand we got ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ movie. It is a
reboot of ‘Thor’ franchise of MCU, as most of the characters starring in the
previous ‘Thor’ movies are gone. Sif is gone, (see above), Jane Foster, Darcy
and Dr. Selvig are gone, Odin is gone, the Warriors Three – ditto… These
characters – and the actors who played them – are not coming back to MCU in a
hurry, one bets. Things are getting shuffled and reshuffled at Marvel’s corner
of Disney…and where does it leave AoS?
Nowhere good, apparently, as ‘Life Earned’ has even lower numbers than ‘Life
Spent’ had. AoS has learned how to do things ‘right’, but it might be coming
too late for the show, and with its’ ‘fall finale’ coming up next week, things
won’t improve soon, most likely.
…That is it for now, see you soon!
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