…With only episodes left in S1, ‘Cloak & Dagger’ are stepping
up their game and most of their cast is back – only father Delgado is absent.
And the Voodoo priestess. And her niece, but – with master Jip lurking in the
wings, it probably is only a matter of time until they reappear, because ‘Cloak
& Dagger’ might be going into the more supernatural side of Marvel, due to
the fact that in this universe the titular characters’ powers’ origin is more
mystical – in the original comics they became, well, Cloak and Dagger by being
experimented upon by a mad scientist type – kind of how it went down with Luke
Cage, for example too – and here, on TV, we have a bunch of underwater scenes,
and some black-and-white oily powers, and who knows what else – very different.
Go, Ty & Dy!
Speaking of Luke Cage, or rather – ‘Luke Cage’ S2, Danny
Rand, or rather – Iron Fist, will be airing his S2 soonish as well. So far, we
know that this time the villain is someone called the Steel Serpent, but-
But there are at least two canon characters who are named
that, so…it’s going to be rather how ‘Luke Cage’ S2 went, with one its’ main
villains being the Bushmaster, (are ‘Luke Cage’ crew and co. will be putting
the titular hero against snake-themed villains from now on?), the only thing is
that it was the ‘other’ Bushmaster, in comics this name is usually used for one
Quincy McIvor, while John McIvor is more of a runner-up. With ‘Iron Fist’,
though, the situation is reversed – the Steel Serpent who is going to appear is
the regular, a bloke named Davos, while the runner-up – the master of the death
touch – will appear at a different time, if ever. We will have to wait and see
just how MCU’s version of Davos is different from the comics’ version…
Back to ‘Cloak & Dagger’? This episode – ‘Ghost Stories’
– marked a milestone for the characters. On one hand, they have succeeded: Ty
the Cloak got the Corrupt Cop put away, while Dy the Dagger confronted the
chief of Roxxon over her dad’s death. On the other, they failed: Dy discovered
that her late father wasn’t as good as she assumed in her idealism; in
particular, he’d seen nothing wrong in some good old fashioned domestic abuse
with her mom on the receiving end of it…so she’s going to take Roxxon’s hush
money, and-
And nothing. So far Dy is back to hiding her cash in remote
places, saving it for later. Mind you, saving money for later is a good thing,
but in that case, Dy should have figured out a scheme to legitimize this cash in
put in the bank under percentage or bonds or whatever, because just hiding the
money does not work, the last time her mom discovered it and spent it all on a
drug binge. Wonder what will happen to this cache of Dy’s cash?
Onto Ty? His main big scene will happen next week, and this
week’s episode ended when Detective Mayhem comes home and discovers that her
obligatory love interest – another cop, who appeared about once per scene every
few episodes or so – is dead and stuffed in the fridge, with everything else in
it pulled out beforehand to make space for him. This is ‘Godfather’ done in an
obsessive-compulsive way; maybe it is master Jip finally making his own move?
Otherwise…no, this is it. ‘Ghost Stories’ was another good
episode, masterfully done and with plenty of action and drama that was so
lacking in the first few S1 episodes. Sadly, the numbers for the show still
remain low, and with AoS’ remaining Disney/MCU’s obligatory supplement canon TV
show, while the Netflix crowd is still more successful than ‘C&D’ are, the
future of ‘C&D’ is still up in the air.
…Well, this is it for ‘Ghost Stories’; see you all next
time!
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