Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. In this particular
case, you can ask the folks down in the island nation of New Zealand – that was
just wrong as to what went down, it was just wrong. Admittedly, I do not know
as to why Andrew Scheer is under attack – his statement is as politically
correct as it comes, but that is real life politics for you. What next?
No, we are not going to discuss the upcoming ‘Avengers:
Endgame’ movie, because by now it has been established that people love or hate
the MCU films (and associated franchises, aka Sony), but they will still go to
watch them, which means that they spend money, which means that Disney makes
money, and that, in the end, is what counts for Disney. Disney is not
progressive or regressive, it just wants to make money, and it is really good
at doing so, and it is almost just as good at detecting factors that hinder it
from doing just that, aka controversy. This time, in ‘Captain Marvel’, the only
twist was making Skrulls the good guys, but…
But if you’ve watched AoS, you would’ve seen that while,
admittedly, in S1 the Kree had been mentioned as ‘blue angels’ and their blood
helped S.H.I.E.L.D. to create the GH formula which was an important factor in
S1, but from S2 onwards AoS cast Kree as villains, up to S5, where they were
the Big Bad in the first half of that season, so here ‘Captain Marvel’ wasn’t
exactly coming out of the left field either; we’ll need to see any follow-up to
this movie, (and yes, it includes A:E, let’s be honest here), before making any
final conclusion as to what goes where in Earth’s position of the Kree-Skrull
warfare.
Anything else? The ‘Boom Buffy’ comic series have begun to
come out already, (I think that this series is on its’ third installment
already), and… so what? Yes, the obvious part is that the BtVS-verse was
rebooted: Anya, (or rather – Anyanka) is running the Magic Box in Sunnydale
already; Drusilla is much less insane than she was in the canon and is more of
a straightforward, stereotypical villain; Buffy and Spike got chemistry
already, (seriously?); and Willow and Xander seem to be more street-savvy and
vampire-savvy to begin with. That is fine, but so what? The previous comic incarnation
was working just as well; ‘Boom Buffy’ does not appear to be bringing anything
better to the table.
...Yes, all of those DC and Marvel reboots/re-incarnations
that are the same old thing in a new package (and maybe new depictions) are
annoying, but ‘Boom Buffy’? This was fixing what was not broken, and kind of
reminds of the new ‘Charmed’ reboot – yes, it is going for its second season,
but somehow it is not talked too much anymore, and people just are not as
excited about it as the big wigs who brought it back to begin with thought that
they would. Sometimes reboots work, other times people are just mystified: what
was the reason behind this decision? Just ask the Disney/SW merger – that seemed
to have backfired in a bad, sad way. ‘Boom Buffy’ is not as bad as that, but
neither it seems to be flourishing – the old guard are not exactly happy with
the reboot, (or at least – not unanimously happy), and the new aren’t so
interested in the reboot to begin with. Whether ‘Boom Buffy’ will flourish or
not – we will just have to wait and see.
Anything else…no, this is it, actually. With ‘Captain Marvel’
out, MCU is taking a deep breather before unleashing the next ‘Avengers’ movie,
and C&D S2 are coming out only next month. Real life being what it is,
there’s no guarantee of steady updates of it – or AoS S6 – yet, and with ‘Aquaman’
being out and ‘Shazam’ only coming forth, the same can be said for DCEU as
well. Therefore, see you all next time!
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