Real life sucks. Thus speak the political specialists as
they discuss the current election in India. And then there is C&D, whose
last scene in this week’s episode, ‘Blue Note’, talk about suicide in real
life. Since S2 began, C&D episodes often finish with an appeal to their
real life audiences with some real life message, something that AoS, as an
example, never did.
Why AoS? Not because of S6, which has begun to run earlier
this month, but because of S2. Yes, it is about Kara and Bobbi and Grant and
the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D – and how C&D responds to it. ‘Blue Note’ is
inspired by AoS’ ‘villain flashbacks’: from S1 onwards, AoS tried to show
backstory of various villains, one per season. S1 – Grant and Garrett, S2 –
Melinda May…something that demonstrated loud and clear that AoS was having
major restructures behind the scenes, something that continues even to this day
– you noticed how Yo-Yo is no longer with Mack, but with a new agent, Keller? Odds
are, this was supposed to be Deke and Daisy, but instead we got no Deke, (Jeff Ward).
It is as if he got cut out of the show so far. Ouch! And after all the trouble
they went to keep him on the show in S5! Seriously, just let him remain in the
future, that is the end, but no. They brought him back to the past, actually
did a decent job of integrating him into S.H.I.E.L.D., and now there is neither
hide nor hair of him. Ouch!
And on the other hand, there is C&D, who actually keep a
tightly knit cast where everyone often goes somewhere and know what they are
doing. Sadly, Connors’ plot line is kind of veering around – even if Adina, (Ty’s
mother), did kill him, this still is not fully convincing…but we are
digressing. The point of tonight’s speech is this: Mayhem points out that
people (characters) like Lia, Andre, Connors, are victims but also villains and
should be treated accordingly. This is a direct indirect reference to Kara,
Ward, maybe even Werner and Ruby from AoS who had no redemption, no nothing. (Framework
Ward was no more Ward than Hive had been). To this Tandy replies with hope and
mercy, compassion, and so Lia is brought to a hospital instead, where Lia had
worked before she met Andre and was mentally enslaved by him. Mercy won, at
least for now, and yes, Lia just might die in C&D S2 finale, but this was
still better than how AoS has treated Kara in S2, period.
As for Andre himself…yes, he is a genuine villain, even
though he is sympathetic on occasion, though he is an atypical one – he succeeds
through music. He is a psychic vampire, a pimp, and a very bad person
altogether, but you have to admit – he has style, imagination and thinks
outside the box. Mayor Willikins from BtVS gives him two thumbs up! (If he
still has thumbs, that is). Ty & Dy fail to stop him; Andre has ascended,
and became a god slash loa of some sort. Let see them stop him now!
…Yes, they are going to, because otherwise, C&D are
done, and that is not going to happen, so go our dynamic duo! In addition, apparently
Lia is inspired (let us call it that) by a canon C&D comic villain, some
sort of a demoness that tried to manipulate Tandy (the comic version) without
much success. That I do not see – it is more likely that C&D is trying to
act cute, in the manner of AoS, AC, even the now-cancelled Netflix shows (aside
from others), C&D is trying to remake original Marvel characters with mixed
success: Andre and Lia are well-rounded characters – but original characters,
there’s nothing decisively demonic about them, especially in a literal sense: MCU/Freeform should have just kept them OCs and be done – they would remain as
good. However, apparently, this is not how it is done in MCU – and now we got
some useless trivia/Easter eggs about Lia – and plenty of very important
backstory in this week’s ep. Will it prove to be important in the season’s
finale? Namely, will Ty & Dy be able to defeat Andre with Lia’s help in the
loa world? We will just have to wait and see.
This is it for now. See you all soon!
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