So, ‘Runaways’ have reached their S1 finale on TV this week, so let’s talk about it freely.
Karolina’s mama is a llama!
…No, but Jonah does come out as her father instead, edging
out Darth Vader (from the initial trilogy) as the father of the year material.
Seriously, even Vader and Palpatine did not eat people to survive, (though no
one would put it past Palpatine), but Jonah does. Jonah and his team are evil, it’s just that the cast and
crew of ‘Runaways’ were that good in presenting them, including Jonah, (at
least to a point), as sympathetic all the same, and now-
And now Leslie is setting up the rest of team PRIDE to kill
Jonah instead, and the Yorkes think that they might have an idea as to how to
do it, but-
But Yorkes are already suspect because they’re evil, and had
had Gert and Molly run rings around them with minimal effort, plus there’s no
indication that Jonah’s magical cure-all for Victor had any connection to him, biological
or otherwise-
Wait. Let us rewind a bit. Firstly, Jonah is the ‘angel’ of
the church of Ghibborim of the Dean family. (Leslie, Karolina and, maybe,
Frank). Jonah even had his own mural in the church, where he was depicted in a
typical angel fashion, complete with wings, but also with his color scheme,
revealed in the S1 finale, when he and Karolina had their face-off and tested
each other’s mettle. Jonah won, but seeing how he needs a new sacrifice soon,
it was close and it took a lot of out of him – but that is not the point. The
point is that Jonah, (and to a different extent – Karolina), is a being made
out of pure energy, (remember the X-Ray look made by Chase in the S1 finale
episode?), so whatever he gets out of those sacrifices is what makes him look
human on one hand, and on the other, he doesn’t have any biological processes
that earthlings, (whether human or not), have. Whatever the Yorkes will cook up
won’t truly work on Jonah because he has no veins, no blood, no organs as
Earth-native lifeforms have, so the children will probably have to save Earth
in general and their parents in particular, because it’s doubtful that Jonah
will enjoy treason lightly, the Yorkes’ concoction will piss him off and make
him crazier than before, and, well, the Runaways’ parents did die saving them
from the aliens, the Ghibborim in the comics, so the odds are stacked against
team PRIDE here. Anything else?
…Old Lace is stealing the show; she is as good as any of the
dinosaurs in the JP-franchise. Alex made a deal with Darius, who actually saw
the big parents-children confrontation through a hole in the fence in person,
and has apparently forgiven Alex for shooting Andre in an earlier episode, (did
the latter have any particular importance, or was he just a foil for Alex?).
This can be important, because for the titular heroes? Their parents’ shadows
are never far behind; of all the supervillain brands, the Wilders’ were good
old-fashioned criminals, and in the comics they were all the most formidable of
the Runaways’ opponents, including, well, Alex, who seems to be walking his own
path in the S1 finale…as do his parents. This brings us back to PRIDE, and how
they all appear to be angry with Jonah for treating their children so roughly and
it is important. In the comics, the Deans were an equal part of the PRIDE
alongside everyone else, working for the Ghibborim – but here Jonah appears to
be THE Ghibborim, and everyone is apparently working for him, and he has
reached the final stretch of his plan, and he’s about done being nice with
everyone because he doesn’t need to anymore. Villains can be nice, villains can
be redeemable, but at a certain point of their lives, they either stop being
redeemable or stop being villains, and it is anyone’s guess where the various
families of PRIDE will end up.
…In other news, the children are finally running and living
up to the show’s name, Jonah’s endgame seems to include an earthquake and some
sort of a kaiju monster that has been living beneath LA, and things are getting
closer to the initial comic canon. So far, now, this is it. We will just have
to wait and see as to who will make it.
This is it for this time; see you all soon!
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