This week. Real life sucks. It sucks for many reasons,
including, sometimes, your own stupidity and, maybe, arrogance. Sometimes you
just fuck up your own life yourself, and if you are lucky? You are lucky and
there is not fall-out to bury you, (which it could, otherwise). Needless to
say, I hate my life, and I hate other people, and I also hate myself – and then,
some day, (like today), you get to see some birds, a duck in a puddle that it
just deep enough to drown a sparrow, (maybe), a couple of adventurous
cottontail rabbits, an American toad, (that is what the species is called), and
you realize that sometimes life isn’t so bad, and you aren’t desperate enough
to do something truly desperate yet – so let’s move on to C&D.
In this week’s episode, ‘Rabbit Hole’, we…get a pun, sort
of. On one hand, Ty leads his mother to one of his hideouts, aka a rabbit hole,
(while spouting a bunch of New Orleans’ historical facts in the process), while
Dy goes down a more metaphorical rabbit hole, (think ‘Alice in Wonderland’ the
original novel), going after Mayhem – and Connors. The man is alive, rather
insane, and Dy gets to save him from Mayhem, while experiencing flashbacks from
her childhood, (and yes, she and Ty are just young adults, but still). Fun!
…On the other hand, Ty has to outrun police and gangsters,
while taking care of his mother, so he is not bored either. The gun-wielding shmuck
that we have seen in the last week’s promo? He is the most pitiful gangster
that I have ever seen, and the least intimidating one. True, more kudos to
C&D for depicting oodles of real-life stereotypes, (yes, that is an
oxymoron, but still), but …
…The truth is, is that the actors are one of C&D’s
strongest assets. So’s the plot, of course – so far C&D is unique and apart
from AC, AoS, ‘Runaways’ and even the Netflix crowd, (which is gone, but
still), but it’s the actors who carry it forth and make it convincing…with
minimum special effects, as opposed to the later seasons of AoS, cough. The sad
thing is, C&D’s numbers are low, and that is sad, because it is a great and
enjoyable TV series, especially in the current season. Of course, so was AC,
and it is cancelled, but still. C&D is still going forward, still
enjoyable, and Ty & Dy, in particular, have a strong fan support, but…
…It is also true that it is still largely detached from the
greater MCU, even moreso than ‘Runaways’ are, (in my opinion). AC was an
extension of AoS and MCU, so fans trickled down to it, no problem. C&D does
not have this advantage and has to make it on its’ own. Sadly, the greater fandom
does not seem to be obliging – so far, they are more interested in GoT, and, well,
MCU. Since the former is in its’ final season, (and it is living to its’ hype),
and the latter has ‘Endgame’ the movie coming forth, this understandable; sad,
but understandable. Anything else?
…Actually, no. C&D is a fun show to watch, but it is
uninspiring, unlike, well, AoS, for example, or ‘Blindspot’, (especially the
first seasons). This is its’ flaw, and it’s a big one, and C&D is unable to
deal with it, at least not yet – but this is a topic for another discussion.
This is it for this time; see you all soon!
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