Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks on so many levels.
With that out of the way for now, ‘C&D’ adventures continue this week,
and-?
And in this week’s episode, ‘Call’, T&T, the titular
characters, spent getting to know one each other, while – in flashbacks – the audience
could see just what their lives are are…normally. Without any supernatural
cloak and dagger powers. Shall we discuss it?
Well, we certainly could,
there are plenty of topics of discussion, from Tandy’s hypocrisy regarding her
condition – yes, her assailant deserves to go to jail, but so’s she, he’s an
aspiring rapist, she’s a practicing thief with a drug addiction problem, and
detective Mayhem, (no, that’s not her name, but that is what I’m calling her
until the show proves that she isn’t
that comic character), is an idealist enough to demand that if Tandy wants her
help, she’ll need to come clean too. As ‘Call’ showed, Tandy hates that idea,
and if she doesn’t, her previous tentative relationship with the detective is
over – astrology-wise, Mayhem looks like a Solar Leo, the sun lion, which means
that on one hand, she loves helping people, for it feeds her inner ego, and on
the other, if she ever suspects that anyone is taking advantage of her, she’ll
turn on them immediately, for she hates being fooled more than anything else. Where were we?
Another theme that rose in ‘Call’ is the role of mothers:
Tandy’s mom is a more passive version of Tandy herself, complete with the drug
addiction but minus the dagger powers; without her cleaning her act, Tandy will never succeed. …In fact, if it was
not for the mom discovering her belongings and went on a binge with them, Tandy
would have split and left New Orleans back at the series premiere, as soon as
everything hit the fan at once. And, considering that Tandy did take to hide her belongings in the
first place, means that her mom was, or is, actively looking for them too,
which is a different level of wrongness entirely than just stumbling upon it;
and once Tandy figures it out, she’ll…have to be the hero, here, take the moral
high ground…or she will lose it, and go directly onto the dark side,
Sith-style, (she already got the swords/daggers/whatever). Go team Tandy.
On the other hand, we got Ty and his mother, who pulled him and his father out of squalor and
ensured that they are people to be respected and reckoned with, at least by
material standards. Materialistically, Ty is better off than Tandy is, but this
does not change the fact that he is still angry at the world for its unfairness…
but then again – off topic – the world is
unfair, it always is unfair, and all the attempts in real life to change it
into a fairer one did not work, but rather backfired. The USSR was one of those
events. The current version of USA is another…only now the backlash is
beginning. You can rush headfirst
into a utopia and think that everything will work as planning and that everyone
will be happy, but the actual result? You can see it in contemporary real life
America for yourself – just read the current news.
Back to ‘C&D’? Ty is trying to overcome his innate fears
of cops as he goes to meet detective Mayhem in regards to Tandy’s case,
(without knowing all of the details, mind). Judging by the promo ad at the end
of ‘Call’, it will be a mixed success, at least initially. Considering that Ty
is still cautious around cops, this can still go south, and considering that
his arch nemesis the crooked cop will probably be around the precinct at just
the right time to overhear him for plot progression, and…we’ll just have wait
for the next week’s episode to see if it happens.
Anything else? ‘Luke Cage’ S2 is airing today on Netflix™, and compared to ‘C&D’,
it is the better Marvel™
show. Why? Because it is.
Facepalm. Phrasing. But! If ‘C&D’ was supposed to
address the various ills of the contemporary American society, and show it in
all of its’ glory, then the various Marvel™ Netflix™
shows did it too, and for much longer; all of them have at least one season under their belts, they have
more experience than ‘C&D’ does, and it shows. Plus - Marvel™.
It may sound like something uttered by Captain Obvious, but
part of the reason why the viewers want to see all of these shows and movies is
because MCU is building upon the well-established comic franchise. People
already know Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, the Runaways and so on, and
they want to see them live on TV too – and Marvel™ obliges, on its own, or in partnership with various
other companies, including Netflix™,
and now, in case of ‘C&D’, Freeform™.
Only, in case of ‘C&D’ and Freeform™,
where is the Marvel™?
Oh, it is there, to be sure, but so far? It is more of a
salad dressing, as the ‘C&D’ cast and crew are concerned, apparently, but
that is not what the viewers want…as the numbers show. They did get better
after the previous episode, ‘Stained Glass’, but are still very low, lower than
for AoS’ S5. Considering that we are talking about a seriously low bar here,
the failure here sucks even more. Anything else?
Again, ‘Jessica Jones’, for all of its’ own problems, began
to tackle the gender inequality problems in the U.S. society before ‘C&D’
did; ‘Luke Cage’ does the same for racial inequality, and as its’ S2 shows, the
folks at the Netflix™
and Marvel™ tandem
took notice of ‘Jessica Jones’ S2 problems – lack of a coherent villain, lack
of ties with the general ‘Defenders’ universe – and fixed them. Good for them.
And ‘C&D’? So far we got nothing specifically Marvel™ aside from the titular characters, (and maybe
detective Mayhem, cough), and that is not what the viewers want. Not from a
technically Marvel™
show, anyhow. If they wanted something else, there is plenty to choose from on
TV, and that is what they do – they watch
something else, which is not what ‘C&D’
needs, after all…
Well, this is it for now; see you all soon, hopefully!
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