Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. In addition, no, I
am not talking about the Donald and his impeachment, which goes nowhere fast –
Ms. Pelosi was able to use the hoopla surrounding it to prevent the Democratic
party from breaking apart into several new parties, (all of which just as
hostile to each other as they are towards the Republican party), so that’s it.
She did the best of a bad job, but it was still bad. North Korea is still
mocking USA, whereas Russia…
Well, the Russian bear had been insulted badly by WADA’s
decision, and if it did want to abide by the Western rules, now would be the
perfect time for it to start to come to its’ senses – but the problem that the
RF’s president Putin doesn’t care about this at all – he just wants to bring
the West down, and so he’ll continue to drive his country in this direction
until he dies of his own causes, i.e. old age or he is offed. There had been
variations of this chiaroscuro conclusion of the Russian rulers’ life, but not
many and very rarely, so it is safe to say Putin will rule until he dies
himself, or he is killed by someone else who’ll succeed after him… or not,
because there’s always the Revolution. Contemporary Russian government is
deathly afraid of the Revolution of 1905 and 1917, which is why they lost their
shit over Ukraine when it experienced its’ own… hybrid of Revolution and
Perestroika… but what does the West do?
Begin to dismantle NATO, that is what. Somehow, in all the excitement
of the Russian bear getting punched in the face – hard, and the Donald being
insulted by Korea’s great steersman of the state – comrade Kim – also hard, it
was overseen as to what happened in Denmark. Something is rotten there, it
looks like…but it is the U.S., again. An American critic of the Donald and his
regime was supposed to participate in the NATO summit there, so the U.S.
Ambassador to Denmark told him (it was a man), that no, you are no longer
invited, period. Harsh! Moreover, the government of Denmark told Mr. Ambassador
this, on top of ‘if this is how you’re behaving, then we’re done with NATO for
now’ – and now there is not a peep about this piece of news on news’ channels
and websites. What gives?
…EU has achieved the next stage of its’ being
self-sufficient and independence from the U.S., that is what. NATO, just like
UN, is still largely an American organization; EU is not. While WADA was
punching the Russian bear in the muzzle, the leaders of France and Germany talked
to Putin of RF and Zelensky of Ukraine with nary an interest in WADA. WADA is not impotent, but it is limited, it looks like. Now what?
Well, firstly, Putin fears EU the way that he does not the
U.S. He has no interest in instigating WWIII – yet and so he is willing
cooperate with EU at least to a point in a way that he is not willing to with
the U.S. The problem that on the other side of the coin EU is not a big fan of
the U.S. anymore – just read the news. While they have little to no in common
with the regimes of North Korea or Iran, (China is different, let’s be fair
here), again, they are also fed up with the way that the American government
was doing things… since the infamous 9/11, while the U.S. sent its’ troops into
Afghanistan and beyond. Surprisingly, cough, the only other major Western power
that supported them properly was Great Britain. (Again, let us keep Israel out
of the equation – but yes, it makes the situation more complex). These days,
not surprisingly, Great Britain actually wants to leave the EU, (and remind me
as to why did they want to do that in the first place, since obviously that isn’t Russia’s fault, even the Brits
themselves admit it), and they got problems, again. I.e. Epstein was very much
an American, not a Russian double agent or anything, and also? Prince Andrew of
the U.K. was a good friend of his, apparently. The Royal family and co are
denying everything, of course, but his highness was kicked out of the family regardless,
his children – princess Beatrice and princess Eugenie – aren’t keeping the stiff
proverbial upper lip either and the clouds are gathering over the fair isle of England
and co. all the same. What is next?
As above as below, as in big things, so in the small – the actor
who played the husband in the Peloton ad, (we have talked about it earlier this
month) has received death threats, and his female counterpart, who played the
wife, (aka Grace from Boston), did not fair too well either. The Hell? Yes, the
ad was insensitive, stupid and vapid, but nothing more, and – death threats?
People have time for this sort of thing. On with the show?
Yes, since the ad brings us back onto the other side of the
silver screen, and to the upcoming ‘WW84’ movie trailer. What can be said about
it?
It is funky, it is DC’s response to MCU’s ‘Captain Marvel’
film (set in the 1990s, remember?), and it got content. Most important, it got
two new villains for WW to defeat – one is her archnemesis, Cheetah, aka Dr.
Barbara Ann Minerva. The second is not as clear-cut: he’s Maxwell Lord, sort of
a rip-off Lex Luthor in the original DC comics.
…Yes, there was a Maxwell Lord character in the first
seasons of ‘Supergirl’, maybe there still is one, but by now it’s obvious that
whereas Marvel is bringing all of its’ depictions to one source, DC doesn’t. There
is a Maxwell Lord from ‘Supergirl’, there was a Maxwell Lord in the ‘Smallville’
TV series, there’s going to be a Maxwell Lord in DCEU, and so on… but he may not
be the final big bad of the movie. Why?
Because this is how it went down in the first WW movie,
where the final villain was Ares, the god of war, aka a male deity. Yeah,
deities have a different relationship with gender than us mortals do, but in
the first WW movie, Ares was very much male. And, since in this movie’s trailer
we already see WW riding lightning, maybe we will get a visit from the old Zeus
himself? First WW film – Dr. Poison, her German handler, Ares. Second film –
Cheetah, Maxwell Lord, Zeus? And keep in mind, that as far as villains go,
Maxwell Lord is usually a telepath/mental controller of some sort. Bring on
Orwell’s 1984 dystopia!
No, seriously, one of George Orwell’s best novels is ‘1984’,
and it was a Stalinist dystopia. These days’ people do not differentiate
between communism, Stalinism, Trotskyism and socialism on top of it…plus they
are beginning to thaw towards Russians again, so we probably will not get any
Cold War vibes from the second WW movie. That said, we do see her destroy a
camera as she is fighting, cough, a couple of robbers in a 1980s’ shopping
mall, and later on she’s fighting more people in the White House, so – ‘big
brother is watching you’, maybe? Something is rotten in the state of Denmark…
and this brings us back to real life. It sucks, unless you are Bianca Andreescu,
who had won another tennis trophy. You go, girl! Show the world what Canadians
and Canada have!
…Apparently, it is just the right scenery for the upcoming ‘Ghostbusters:
Afterlife’ film, which was shot, in part, in southern Alberta. Already it is
shaping up to be a different film from the previous ‘Ghostbusters’ reboot,
which it ignores, at least in this trailer. It will be interesting to see as to
how this particular film will unveil
itself… especially since Warner Brothers’ ‘Kong vs. Godzilla’ movie has hit yet
another snafu – some photos were leaked, (mostly of Kong fighting Godzilla on a
ship), so now team WB is doing its’ best to bring them all doing, citing
copyright and what else have you. How great for them. Did I mention that real
life sucks?
…This is it for now – see you all soon.
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