This week had been weird…for ‘Blindspot’, as the script
writers not only have tangled up Patterson, Zapata and Reede, but also have
tangled this episode, and the 100th episode from two weeks ago, when
Patterson fell into a coma…and had a groundhog day like syndrome. Somehow, this
carried onto this week, when Borden, the former double agent for the former
Sandstorm, is back. Why?
…Well, in part ‘Blindspot’ is weird in S3 – Crawford is a
clear substitute for Sandstorm for the first two seasons, (complete with a new megalomaniacal
plot to take over the world, with Roman as the Pinky to his Brain, it seems), while
Rich Dot Com became a semi-regular character on the show…even though this wasn’t
necessary. He is a wonderful foil and comic relief, but this doesn’t make him a
necessity for the show; are the scriptwriters trying to make the cast an even
half-dozen or something? Is someone from the crew/cast of ‘Blindspot’ have a
real life numerical fetish? Who knows…?
And then, on the other hand, we had AoS’ ‘The Devil Complex’
episode, which shows that…Anton Ivanov is back, of all people. Seriously? At
the S4 finale, Coulson made a big point about how Quake and the Ghost Rider
teamed up, how badass it was, and…what? Ivanov still survived. Yes, he is an
LMD/robot/cyborg/android/etc. now, but still. Quake and the Ghost Rider are
supposed to be ‘heavy hitters’, and he…took them on and won, by default, maybe,
but still. Ouch. And he works with General Hale, her family and team, and they
all work for Hydra, and-
And the AoS team decided to bring in some real life elements
of their own. May accused Ivanov of being yet another Russian who meddled in
their democracy; General Hale’s mysterious superior mentioned a Confederacy a
couple of times. Let us rant.
Firstly, yes, Mueller did establish that the Russians
meddled in the last presidential election…to discredit Hillary, not to elect the current president. That
is it. If the Americans had gotten their shite together within the previous
year (2017) and impeached the current president, this would have been the end
of that…but this means that Mike Pence would take over, and people like him
even less, so instead…it became a long, drawn-out, bloody fight between the
Republicans, the Democrats, and everyone else. The Russians are there, out
there, but they are doing their own thing, (whatever it is), and using the
American internal fighting to their own benefit, rather than to meddle in the
U.S. proper, because they do not have to. Go U.S.
Pre-WWI, there was a comic, in which Uncle Sam gets high in
an opium den, and imagines himself being the king of the world – and then he
sobers up, (or whatever the proper term for the experience after the high ends
is called), and realized that he’s a mocking-stock of everyone. The comic was
not Russian, (Russia at that time did not really have comics, period), but
rather it was Canadian, cough. But then again, whenever U.S. and Canada went to
war, Canada would defeat its’ southern neighbor soundly, so there is that. The
comic is apparently coming true, and the U.S., is going crazy while being
caught in a self-fulfilling prophecy. It happens, they say – just ask
Voldemort.
(Yes, there is a new Newt Scamander movie coming forth to
the cinema screens in the future; the first one was very good, so let us wait
and see what the second one brings).
And as for the Confederacy reference, John Oliver once did
an episode on his about the Confederacy, and made a big deal about how it
really was about slavery, not separatist tendencies. Here is the truth – it was
both. Slavery was one of the worst inventions of humanity; even those
apologists of the Confederate way of life admit that slavery destroyed the
humanity of both slaves and slave-owners; the social problems that plague U.S.
even in modern times have their roots in slavery too. But! For every ‘Uncle Tom’s
Cabin’ (Harriet Beecher-Stowe), there is a ‘Native Son’ (Richard Wright), which
makes something of a diptych. UTC is about the fate of Afro-American slaves in
the pre-Civil War south; NS is about their descendants in the American north;
UTC is rural, NS is urban…plus some of its’ characters are genuine communists,
and not exported from the USSR – homegrown in the U.S., so not surprisingly, NS
isn’t as popular among the lay people as UTC is…so what’s the point?
AoS is not succeeding in real life; last week’s episode, ‘Principia’,
was not the lowest episode yet, (this goes to ‘Life Earned’ episode), but it
was certainly in the top five. Almost from the beginning, AoS did its’ best to
appeal to critics, not to the audience, and it shows. So now AoS is trying to
be edgy and have some sort of a connotation with real life…never mind, that in
real life not everyone agrees with the statements that the Russians have
meddled in the last elections, (they had, but the Americans themselves made it
much worse for themselves, and they are becoming of aware of this…slowly), or
that the Confederacy was bad, (it was. Slavery’s bad, period, but the U.S.
Civil War was about prevention of separatism as well), and so it is unknown if they
will continue to watch AoS after such politically approved bon mots.
Regardless, good luck to AoS – by comparison, ‘Blindspot’ is succeeding without
such blatant statements, but then again, it actually respects its’ characters.
Well, this is it for this time, see you all soon.
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