‘Reverie’ is back this week. Yay!
Well, it is ‘yay’ because otherwise, there is not too much
left to talk about. Well, we can talk about the ants in the Marvel™ franchise, more
specifically – in the Ant-Man and Wasp movies, (there are two now), how they
can fly. The twist is in the ants themselves.
…As far as insects go, ants’ closest relatives are bees,
wasps, and the like. In many of those insects, there are three adult morphs: the
worker, which is technically female, but is actually sexless, the male, more
usually known as the drone, and the queen – the fertile female. The ants have
all of these morphs, but only the drones and queens retain their wings…for the
mating flight. After that, the males die, and the fertile female queens go
underground and start new ant colonies – sir David Attenborough showed all of
this in one or another of his specials. (The termites are something else, not
very closely related to the ants, and so we will discuss them another time).
What interests us now, if we have no life, is does the Ant-Man fly an ant drone
into battle, or an ant queen?
…And now that we have acknowledged that, we have no social
life, back to ‘Reverie’? In this week’s episode, ‘Pas De Deux’, we encounter an
ex-ballerina, who has lost everything in a bicycle accident, (including her
unborn baby)…and then regained it all in the reverie, with the usual twist: she
is dying in the real life, and has to be brought back, or else.
In a secondary twist, Alexis seems to have changed her
attitude towards other people a lot, and now does not take their attempts at
impromptu suicide by the reverie lying down: if Mara doesn’t get them out of
there nicely, she will pull them out of it manually, by physically unplugging
their machine parts. That course of action is fraught with its’ own risks, but since
it was allocated only a single scene, we cannot really talk about it very much –
not right now.
The other plotlines include Mara’s ex-fiancé, (and it’s a
man, not a woman – there aren’t too many same-sex plotlines going in ‘Reverie’
yet, but this is just their first season, this may change in the future), who
is also the doctor, (psychiatrist) of the ex-ballerina, so there’s some tension
as well. In addition, Mara is continuing to confront her inner demons, but,
presumably, the main point of PDD is that the ex-ballerina has accepted her
fate and will continue teaching her sister’s children’s ballet school, while
the latter is quietly dying from multiple sclerosis. Have I mentioned that PDD
was especially dark even for a ‘Reverie’ episode? No? Then did I mention that
PDD was based on the AoS plotline where Mack refused to leave the framework because
he had his daughter in there, (she died a long time in real life before the AoS
S1 events began)? Also no? Well, now I have, and I will say it again: ‘Reverie’
has taken that plot line and dealt with it much better than AoS had done, so
there.
Anything else? Before ‘Reverie’ had taken their week off
last week, their numbers have actually gone up slightly, so that’s good news…provided
that their week off didn’t bit them in the proverbial foot this time – so far
it is too early to tell about the numbers. ‘C&D’ are… still doing worse
than ‘Reverie’ does, even though they are really trying to do something about
it…but that is a talk for another time…
However, for now, this is it. See you all soon instead!
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