Cloak & Dagger - March 20

…To continue the theme of real life sucking, today we learned that one of the last northern white rhinoceroses has died. It leaves the white rhinoceros subspecies in question being represented by only two specimens, and both are very likely to follow the deceased animal – Sudan – before too long. This sucks, because the rhinoceroses as a whole are in trouble – the so-called western black rhinoceros subspecies has died out already, and the Sumatran rhinoceros – also known as the two-horned Asian rhinoceros – may not be far behind either. Considering that the latter is the last living relative of the already-extinct woolly rhinoceros, losing it would be a double-whammy to animal conservation beyond the obvious. Anything else?

Well, Marvel™ has released the first official trailer for ‘Cloak & Dagger’ TV series. So far, it only further develops what we have seen in the preliminary material: the titular characters, college students rather than high school, (as they were in ‘Runaways’), dealing with many issues, from being an Afro-American man and an Anglo-American woman, (the name ‘Tandy’ does not really sound European, you know, and neither does ‘Tyrone’), to being some sort of supernatural entities, maybe even superheroes, but this we’ll have to wait until summer 2018 to see. What next?

Nothing else; we do not even know just whom they will be going up against, unlike the ‘Runaways’, where they had to deal with their parents, the Pride. Cloak & Dagger do not usually come pre-supplied with archnemeses, Freeform™, who will be airing this version of ‘Cloak & Dagger’, (as opposed to, say, the cartoon version of 2010s, Earth-12041), may have to come up with their own villains, and since in their S1 Cloak & Dagger will probably be just figuring as to how they work – as individuals, heroes/villains, Americans, as a couple, etc. – some sort of a generic low-key villain is probably what they need: at the end of their S1, the Runaways were completely overwhelmed by their adult counterparts and had to run-away and to rethink their strategy. But…

But the Runaways, again, are the more defined and better-known superhero team out of the two, so they had it easier, while Cloak & Dagger will have it easier in getting away with original content – in ‘Runaways’, it was noticeable, while in ‘Cloak & Dagger’ it will be not so much. Anything else?

No, not at the moment, when we have a single trailer and a brief two-minute clip (aired in 2017) to go on – and on the other hand, we got the rhinoceroses, which appear to be going the path of the terror birds into extinction and oblivion: not much to go on either, so…

…So this is it for now, see you all soon!