‘C&D’ continues with its’ regularly scheduled
programming. ‘Reverie’ did not. No, seriously – this week it took time off, and
it is coming back next week. Considering that its’ numbers are still low, this
might not be the best strategic choice for ‘Reverie’, but who knows? Maybe it
is.
As for ‘C&D’, this time around, in ‘Funhouse Mirrors’,
Ty and Dy met some new people, or – not so new ones. Firstly, Dy the Dagger met
the scientist that was introduced to us in the previous week’s episode, Nina
Hess, and she is a racial stereotype. She is also a social stereotype – the idealistic,
tough, self-sufficient, independent, intelligent, modern scientist who is only
loosely associated with Roxxon, and who doesn’t fit in with them. No, really – ‘Mirrors’
also showed Nina’s Roxxon boyfriend, and they have nothing in common, not at
all. This might be ‘C&D’s’ point – one of them – and the main reason as to
why Nina and her father are P.O.C’s from China, rather than WASPs, as of Roxxon’s
employees seem to be. Can you go even more cliché?
Yes, as Ty reconnects, or tries to reconnect, with one of
his late brother’s friends, who is now a drug runner minion of the Corrupt Cop.
The latter sets up Detective Mayhem to shoot him, which she does, while the Corrupt
Cop goes chasing after Ty, who oversaw it all, and escaped only via his
teleportation powers. This is wonderful, yet, oddly, the Corrupt Cop seemed to
be only shaken after seeing a teen disappear into thin air in mid-stride. Yes,
this is the New Orleans and all, but so far only Ty and Dy showed to have any
over powers; yes, there’s Ty’s girlfriend and her auntie the voodooists, but-
On one hand, they were in this episode too, as they did a
Tarot card reading regarding the past, present and future. Having done them – Tarot
readings – myself, I’m not sure just how they relate to the voodoo culture, but
let us be honest: this version of ‘C&D’ seems to be mostly about original
content, while ‘Runaways’ were more balanced, (but they are better established
than ‘C&D’ is also), while AoS and AC never had any canon content, not
initially, (and apparently not now either). ‘C&D’ seems to be caught in the
middle, and it has problems with the cast.
No, let us not talk about how a Sino-American family seemed
to have acquired a last name of Hess. (It sounds European, not Asian, so maybe there
is some backstory that would be helpful if it ever came out?) The point is that
both Dy’s mom and father Delgado have vanished from the show at the point, and
Ty’s girlfriend and her auntie have minimal roles, especially in this episode. We
have seen this before, especially in AoS, when the show’s crew could not keep a
full cast full on and had to juggle plot lines and cast characters from one
episode to another. The fact that AoS began to hemorrhage cast members from the
second half of S2 onwards did not help, while the fact that ‘C&D’ currently
are not experiencing this is a good
thing, yet they are beginning to juggle characters too all the same. Considering
that this attitude cost AoS numbers in the long run, it is doubtful that ‘C&D’
will handle it any better, since they are nowhere as well-off as AoS had been
in its’ first season. Where were we?
Detective Mayhem killed the ex-friend of Ty’s late brother,
as the Corrupt Cop might have expected her to. He is not a supervillain, but he
is a competent villain all the same, and the two of them are currently equally
matched to decide the winner right now.
Back to Dy? If Ty’s revelation with straightforward – this could
have been him, if his parents, (and especially his mother), did not get him a
better life, (and these characters are absent for this episode too, incidentally),
then Dy’s is not exactly so. Her father might have been the boss of Mr. Hess,
(now comatose to a point that not even cookies with cardamom can snap him out
of it), but Dy herself never wanted to be a scientist; she wanted to be a
ballerina, a point that was clearly told to the audience especially at the series’ premiere. If things have gone right, with
the rig and all, then Dy and Nina would still be two very different people,
and-
And Dy’s father did not die in the explosion: rather, due to
a collision, their car fell from a bridge in an accident, where Dy met Ty when
he dived after his shot brother will into the water himself. Dy and her family are
not tied to the rig and its’ explosion directly, which raises the possibility
that team Roxxon are just cheap assholes who looked for an easy scapegoat, and
Dy and her mom were just that – easy and convenient, only now this karma is
coming back to bite team Roxxon in the ass, for if Dy and her mom hadn’t been
reduced to being white trash, Dy would never go on her crusade against Roxxon as
soon as she had anything, (and someone), in her corner. Rather, she would have
been a ballerina, the end. Thus, she and Nina do not really match up – not as each
other’s ‘reflection’, not as anything. It seems that somewhere – and we are in
the mid-point of ‘C&D’ S1 – ‘C&D’ had to reset its’ script and
backstories on some level at least. AoS did it repeatedly, and it harmed,
rather than helped that show. We will just have to wait and see how ‘C&D’
handles it.
Well, this is it for now; see you all in the future instead!
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