The Olympic games of 2018 are over, and we are about to get
back to several of our regular TV shows, including ‘Blindspot’ and AoS. Yay!
…Setting ‘Blindspot’ aside, (it is still a good show, just
not as good as the first 2 seasons had been), AoS has been making noise lately
about them reaching their 100th episode. Well, not just them, but
also Marvel™
proper, one supposes. On Feb 16, 2018, Marvel™ has released the ‘Black Panther’ movie, which has
made its’ own splash, but by now things have died down somewhat so AoS should
avoid any conflict of interest with the movie, (also, ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ has
become available on DVD and Blu-Ray, but after the Kree in S5 – and all of them
died – AoS has probably filled-out its’ alien quota for the season…perhaps).
Where were we?
AoS tried to tap into the African power of the ‘Black
Panther’ movie by featuring Flint, an Afro-American InHuman with limited
telekinetic powers: all he could really do was smash rocks together and throw
them at other humans and Kree with a deadly speed: in the first part of AoS S5
that was all he did and now the agents have left the future and returned to
their own time – the present/past…if they succeed at figuring out just who did destroy the world and blamed Daisy,
then the future of Deke, Flint, Tess and the others will never come to be – and
then what?
And then the rosy finale of the first S5 story arc, where
Tess and Flint sit in a spaceship of some sort, and with sheer adoration and
puppy-like optimism behold the still-ravished planet Earth and hope that
Coulson, Daisy and co. have made it, will never come to be – something else
will. Okay.
Logical inconsistences and twists have plagued AoS since S3,
if not the second half of S2, and real life isn’t much better – Mueller, for
example, has discovered that there was Russian meddling in the US election,
(and US didn’t meddle in politics
abroad? Really?), they were more about discrediting Hillary, not electing
Trump. Trump won largely on his own power, and Hillary lost correspondingly.
Now what?
Well, US will have to admit that it has wasted a year
chasing phantoms that were not there to satisfy their own political issues and
move forwards. The Russian Federation can still be brought to heel, the
European Union won back, and the Asian issues resolved…hopefully without
starting WWIII, nuclear version, because apparently America’s multitasking
skills aren’t sufficient to do all of the above and chase the phantoms, so it will now choose, what it wants to do…if
it wants to do anything at all. It is impossible to predict what America and
its’ people will do next, but…it is obvious to admit that the denial about the
Russian involvement in the American affairs is not helping. US has to recognize
that the post-Cold War period when it safely rested on its’ laurels is over and
begin to do damage control to its’ internal and external problems, because
otherwise? That’s it. The end of ‘Pax Americana’ and everything that it tried
to stand for. Does America and its’ people want that? Since it is impossible to
tell with the Americans, (especially from the outside), who knows…
Therefore, this is it for this time…hopefully, see you later
this week with the returned AoS.
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