Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. Now onto the main
event.
We are back. We could not talk about the opening two
episodes of C&D S2, so what about this one ‘Shadow Selves’? It is focused
primarily on detective Mayhem or, more correctly, on her two halves – the detective
and Mayhem. The former is a goody-two-shoes. The latter is a variant Jessica
Jones, who herself is a variant Faith the Vampire Slayer from BtVS, as we have
talked earlier. Together, the two make a very convincing Ying-Yang metaphor,
which is, as people know, two halves of a whole, light and dark. Not
surprisingly, C&D corner of MCU deals a
lot with this imagery, (and keep in mind, that the halves have dots of
contrasting color, to point out that even villains can be redeemed, and heroes –
corrupted. Cough, AoS, cough). Also not surprisingly, many of C&D villains
have something similar going on, especially with light and dark. We are
talking, of course, about the ‘rebooted’ C&D comics. In ‘Shades of Grey’
story arc, Ty and Dy had to deal with their former friend, Grey, who became
some sort of a variant vampire with vaguely Killgrave (from Netflix JJ) powers.
In ‘Negative Exposure’, they had to deal with a much more better known and
established villain – Mr. Negative, who had made a deal with some sort of a
Lovecraftian Old One, and helped him to try destroying the world in exchange
for Dy. To complicate things, Ty and Dy were on outs in both of those arcs, and
got together only at the end of NE. Yay!
By contrast, in the TV series, Ty and Dy are not together
yet, (though they already have amazing chemistry together). They have grown
more powerful and skilled in mastering their powers, and they need them to
manage Mayhem. They do not do a very good job, and ‘Shadow Selves’ introduces
(sort of) a further complication – a sex-trafficking ring that C&D should
handle, because they are something of New Orleans vigilantes. If they do not,
Mayhem will, and Ty, at least, is not happy about her take on things. Yes, Ty
and Dy are beginning to squabble, (sort of), but it is either them or having
them make out like a pair of horny teens – and if they do that, a lot of fanfic
authors will be out of jobs. Metaphorical jobs, but still.
Speaking of jobs, father Delgado was fired – he was shown
fired in ‘Shadow Selves’ – and is now a street preacher. Again, he is shown
being mostly behind the scenes, but he is playing an important role, as do Ty’s
parents, as do his streetwise friends, cough – one of them is in the
sex-trafficking ring, and it’s up to Ty, (maybe with Dy’s help), to save him.
Maybe. If he wants to be saved, that is. Between his own evil self, Mayhem’s
take on things, (her better half still needs to regrow her lost backbone, it
seems), and everything else…yes, the survival of Ty’s friend is not very high.
In the background, we got the police investigation into
Connor’s disappearance; in the foreground – Dy’s possible corruption by Mayhem
and her attitude/take on things…mainly crime. Fun. C&D S2 is shaping to be
very interested…and very different from the mainline MCU. There is no mention
of the Avengers, or the dusting, for example. Ah well, as we’ve seen from
C&D S1 finale, they’re there, maybe the snap has just missed them, or
something. It is still going to be a very interesting S2. Hopefully, we will be
around to see it too.
…This is it for now – see you all soon!
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