Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. True, the young
striped skunk that I came across earlier this week might disagree – when I
found it, it was dead, and judging by the snarling expression on the corpse’s
muzzle, it had not been a happy death either. Of course, while it probably came
from natural causes, it possibly was not the obvious natural cause: while our
park has coyotes and red foxes, as well as some semi-feral cats and dogs, none
of them will willingly go for a skunk; only the great horned owl does, and I
wouldn’t put anything against the northern goshawk either, but there was never
any evidence of them living in our
park; and the red-tailed and the sharp-shinned hawks that do live there aren’t interested in skunks, even young ones. I’m
leaning towards the theory were the skunk youngster perished in one of the
recent rainstorms – they can be very bad, and our park gets semi-flooded
regularly, and skunks aren’t good swimmers… so there. There are plenty of big
holes in this theory too, the main one being that I found the dead animal on
the ‘high ground’, which does not get flooded, actually, but still. The skunk
is dead, and I am not, not yet, so let us count our blessings and move on to
C&D.
This week’s episode, ‘Alignment Chart’, brought…a real life
message aimed against human trafficking, which is one of the main elements of
C&D S2: Tandy has been taking them on with help of Tyrone and Mayhem, but
this time she went alone, and got captured, after her new friend – Mikayla or
someone like that – tazed her in the back. Ouch. MCU – and C&D is recognized
as a part of it, unlike, say, ‘The Gifted’ - does love a good betrayal. Next
week, it seems, Tandy will be for even tougher times, but Tyrone will help.
…Yes, this is the stable of C&D – Ty and Dy are
inseparable, metaphorically speaking. On their own, individually, they are
defeated easily enough, together – not so much. The Runaways managed it, sort
of, in the comics, but these days both them and Ty & Dy are having their
own reboots in the comics, going in two very different directions with two very
different depictions. The Runaways – in the comics – are trying to get their old
gang together, but keep ending up with a new one, featuring new people, such as
the Doombot, (a robotic rogue version of Dr. Doom), while Ty and Dy have
already gotten together and are
established heroes, while the Runaways are move of Avenger-Ish these days.
Back to the TV version of C&D? Unlike ‘Runaways’, it
takes less liberty with its’ script, regarding TV vs. comic-verse, but again,
it is less exuberant than the ‘Runaways’ are. Not unlike AC in the past,
C&D works with a small, tight cast with a small, tight budget, so – no showy
special effects as they are in the ‘Runaways’, ‘the Gifted’, and especially
AoS. Did people notice that there were no AoS representatives at the red carpet
premiere of ‘Endgame’? They were at CM, but at ‘Endgame’? No. Guess now that
they were brought back into the fold, (hopefully), they are not interesting
anymore. Of course, I, for one, will try to watch them once they come back in
May 2019, but real life being what it is, I make no guarantees.
Back in C&D, Brigid seemed to have gotten some of her
mojo back, Tyrone hadn’t killed Connors, (who seems to be genuinely repenting
for now), and C&D in general tries to compensate for the lack of showy special
effects by having plenty of non-showy ones. Since its’ numbers in S2 remain
low, it does not seem to be working. Of course, the fact that it is a YA
adventure/drama may have something to do with that – not everyone likes MCU’s
take on it, especially with AoS still running around and not down for the count. Pity, because C&D is enjoyable to
watch, with just enough sci-fi/supernatural elements, (Ty seems to be using
voodoo to find Connors’, for example), to make it different from most
police/detective adventure/drama TV shows as well as the other MCU shows,
including ‘Runaways’, so there!
…This is it, for now. See you all soon!
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