And so, with 1x09 ep done and gone, “C&D’ are at their
S1 finale. In their penultimate S1 episode – ‘Back Breaker’ – aka this one,
things are looking ambiguous for our duo: Ty is feeling down and empty as Hell…
and so’s Dy, only she has figured out that she can do an energy vampire sort of
thing and get high on the hopes of others. This is not very heroic…which is why
Ty straightens her out during this episode – sort of.
Let us try again, with less rambling. Firstly, 1x09 gave
father Delgado something to do – he talked about heroes in literature at
length, about their narratives and what will you. This is very impressive, very
expositional, but we already went through this sort of thing with Hank Pym in
the first ‘Ant-Man’ movie, where Hank became an expositional machine to be
justified to be staying in the movie at all, period. It is sad, and father
Delgado’s situation is just as sad. His role is to be a spiritual guide to Ty
(and maybe to Dy, if he ever meets her), but this is probably the second
episode that he has been in so far. Regardless, good luck to him – he needs it.
Secondly, aunt Voodoo and her niece are back. Aunt Voodoo
appeared mainly in the episode’s prologue, where she apparently had laid a hex
on Roxxon’s pipe network and it worked, as two new Roxxon minions, (male, of
course), got contaminated by something that came through the pipework and now
they are after Mina – that girl just cannot get a break: first Dy has
apparently eaten her happiness, and now this.
Yes, Dy can now eat the hopes (and happiness?) of other
people; Ty, maybe, can eat their fear (and despair?) – something like that. This
is bad, of course, but the voodoo niece now knows that Dy is the other half of
the Divine Pairing or something like that – bring on the fan-shipping. The fact
that the two lead actors got amazing chemistry with each other does not hurt
this show development at all either. More importantly, the two heroes of ‘C&D’
are down in different ways for different reasons and need to get back up,
because more corrupt cops are coming after Ty, while Roxxon’s CEO sent an
assassin against Dy’s mom…because he’s a heartless, brainless, greedy sod, who
just cannot let it go…and the assassin isn’t much better off – here’s to her
getting skewered by Dy’s daggers in the S1 finale next week. Of course, to make
things worse for Dy her Roxxon hush money is missing, as is her semi-boyfriend,
Liam, who both stole the money and got out of New Orleans ASAP, or the assassin
has already captured/killed him and secured the money – ‘Back Breaker’ is not
clear on this point. It does not matter to Dy, nor to Ty, who needs to make his
great escape. Since he is the night, he’s cloak, he will make it.
…So, ‘C&D’ are playing a tight ship – much more like AC
than AoS, for comparison – and are not afraid of a little fourth wall breaking.
The catch is that that tightness makes the wall breaking unnecessary – unlike AoS,
there are no unexpected twists in the narrative, and everything is quite
predictable and enjoyable. So was AC, for that matter, so kudos for ‘C&D’
for imitating it in this way.
Meanwhile, detective Mayhem is having her problems – her boyfriend
is dead, and the Corrupt Cop is out and has already beaten her badly, with no
one else stopping him. Of course, since she is a ‘hero’, she will still do the
right thing, (in the next episode/S1 finale) and become Mayhem proper, as it
was implied in the Comic-Con promo. Odds are, she will go full vigilante as
well, since her stint in the police did not work out – not in New Orleans, and
not in NYC, (from which she had transferred down to New Orleans). In addition,
there may be claws. The original Mayhem didn’t really have claws, but the TV
version is different, so why not claws?
Anything else? Well, apparently, there is yet another teen
Netflix movie going down, ‘To All the Boys that I Loved’ or something like
that. Considering that Disney is airing its’ own teen movie – yet another
version of ‘Freaky Friday’ later this summer, I am guessing that there may be
some sort of a competition going on, but who knows? And more importantly – does
anyone care?
Well, this is it for now – see you all soon!
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