Warnings, spoilers ahead. Turn back, or go forth – we begin.
Firstly. FH has made a new declaration/promo – we see some Knights,
(and maybe Vikings), in some Middle East land, complete with palm trees, and
one of the Knights is about to be hit in the face with – a falchion. Not a
nodachi, which is a sabre-like blade itself, but a genuine falchion, and the
hand that holds it, seems to be dressed in some sort of Middle East fashion
too. Neat!
…Or maybe it is a pirate – you know, XVII century pirate,
armed with a cutlass. In DW, the pirate was
the knight’s opponent, and the knight was armed with the weapons used by the
team Knight of FH – the sword, the Morningstar, (in FH, it is called the flail
instead), the halberd, (the poleaxe in FH, but the principle is the same).
Ergo, it is possible that we are going to get pirates out of the PotC
franchise, but that would mean official firearms – black powder weapons, but so
far, FH did not have even those, so most people think that FH is introducing
Saracens, or maybe Mamluks, next instead.
That makes more sense than PotC-like pirates do. Not only we
are talking no firearms, (no more so than the Knights, who are out of the
Crusade/pre-Crusade era than from a later time), but it would take care of the
South neatly too. The Knights are the West, (Europe, that is), Vikings are the
North, (just ask Thor from MCU), and the Samurais are the East, (duh). This
leaves the South, and whom can you choose?
Africans, (not
Afro-Americans, BTW)? In DW, in S2, the Zande warrior defeated the Aztec jaguar
knight, even though the Jaguar knight had the deadliest weapon in that episode –
the maquahuitl. Bet that you cannot say that word three times fast, but it was
a greatclub, studded with razor-sharp flakes of obsidian, and it could
decapitate a horse, yet the Zande warrior prevailed still – his other weapons
carried him through, especially the kpinga, (one wonders what the Black Panther
would think of that), points-wise. As it was written before, DW had a problem
with its numbers/experts in some of its’ episodes, but in this one? Everything
was fair, the experts were detached and reasonable, and the Zande warrior won.
Only… he had no armor, and in S1, when Shaka Zulu went against William Wallace,
he lost.
True, Shaka Zulu lost because he used a spit of poison
against William Wallace’s spiked buckler and dagger combo, but the lack of
armor did not help either, (DW S1 had been weird like this). FH has its
characters all armored… the Gladiator has no armor, but as we’ve discussed it
in the past, a gladiator was no knight, he was a pit fighter from the Roman Republic
& Empire, which was located in southern Europe… right. Southern Europe is
still Europe, and strictly speaking, south is either Africa, and the using of
its’ native people by Westerners can become a PR nightmare very quickly, or the
Mesoamerica, which brings us back to the Aztec jaguar knight – it was this guy
and his friends. They were armored, but their armor was padded cotton mostly,
so it just is not up to the standards of the armors used in FH, and they are important – just look at all the
weekly FH updates and their pretty colors, would you?..
Nope, neither Africans nor Mesoamericans really function in
the FH world, so we are probably stuck with Saracens, Mamluks, or whatever FH
will call them. Maybe they will be Pirates instead, but it is too
much of a stretch, actually. Anything else?
Couple of other points. One is that ‘Solo’ shows that Disney
has maneuvered the SW universe, (at least its’ movies) into an area not unlike
the one inhabited by such TV shows as
‘Roseanne’, ‘Gilmore Girls’, even ‘Fuller House’ and ‘Girl Meets World’ – they tried
to coast into new glory on the back of the old, and it backfired on them; ‘Fuller
House’ seems to have gotten over it somewhat, ‘Girl Meets World’ has ended on a
higher note, ‘Roseanne’ – let us just not go there, and ‘Gilmore Girls’… not so
much. ASP, who invented them in the first place, may not be a supporter of the
Donald, but she clearly had ideas of how GG should end, and it showed in their
four-part reboot, which did not quite mesh with the series’ initial finale, and
it hurt the GG franchise. Not as much as Roseanne’s twit (or whatever) hurt the
‘Roseanne’ franchise, but it still rankled to a point where no next sequel is
in plan for them. Will SW end up like this? We have discussed this already and
will have to see what happens after ‘Solo’…
And secondly, in ‘Cloak & Dagger’ we’ve got the
detective Brigid O’Reilly, and it matters not that she’s yet another
stereotype, (even ‘Blindspot’ got over them in S3, regardless of its own
problems), but she seems to be destined to become a vigilante from ‘Cloak &
Dagger’ comic series named Mayhem. Considering that for now Marvel™ is downplaying the
comic side of the ‘Cloak &Dagger’ equation, this statement might be
somewhat premature to tell, we will have to wait and see what the future
episodes of this series will bring us…
This is it for now…see you all soon!
PS: And ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ movie will be
discussed some other time.
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