Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. In my case, it was more
of a family emergency than anything else, but it does not hide from the fact
that life as we know is ending, and we cannot do anything about it, thanks to
the lockdown/quarantine/etc. G.W. was an asshat, but odds are that the
world-wide emergency brought that out to the fore before it was time, and
people know have to live with the consequences of his actions – or not. The
lockdown’s effect on COVID-19 itself is ambiguous, its’ effect on the rest of
the global society – obvious: everything is falling apart, and many people are upset
about it, and are clamoring for the lockdown to end. What this will all amount
to is up in the air. Anything else?
Well, I wanted to talk about the urial for a while, but then
the DA website officially exclaimed that its’ old version will permanently end
in May, so I do not really want to talk about real life for the moment. Pause.
What is an urial, BTW? It is a subspecies of a wild mountain
sheep, or rather – a common name for about half a dozen subspecies of the wild
mountain sheep in question. They all live in Central Asia rather than in North
America, so few Americans have ever heard of them. Does not stop their IUCN
status from being officially ‘Vulnerable’, it seems. Real life does suck, so let
us talk about something else.
...Well, the ‘Venom 2’ movie is delayed until the year 2021,
apparently. On one hand, that is sad, on the other – it allows the Sony/Marvel
team to work out any flaws that it might have. The original ‘Venom’ was not too
bad, but the thing is, it was an origin story, and somehow, it came across as
rather lackluster, plus-
-Plus some things did not really make sense, for example,
Dr. Skirths’ rather ignominious end – she was being set up as being fairly
important in the movie, and then she just got killed by the alien symbiote, the
end. Kind of a letdown, you know?
Or take Riot… from the ‘Venom’ movie, because there are
several characters with the same name in the Marvel universe; Carlton Drake’
symbiote, in particular, seems to be based on the Marvel comics’ character
named Trevor Cole, who only got the official name of Riot in part due to the
fans’ popular demand at least, and that is sad, but it isn’t the point. The
point is that in the first ‘Venom’ movie, Riot demonstrated most of Carnage’s
best tricks – i.e. limbs into bladed weapons – so what will the actual Carnage
do in the second movie to top that – is an open question.
…Actually, speaking of Carnage, I must admit that I am not
so certain just how successful ‘Venom 2’ will be as a movie because of Carnage.
As a villain, the latter is just interested in killing people – human and otherwise
– the end. In the recent past, the Marvel comics had a major comic arc that had
Carnage – and some other evil symbiotes – trying to bring back their god (?!)
back to the world of living. Sadly, this was when Sony and Marvel had a
falling-out over ‘Spider-Man: Far from Home’ success, so the entire arc got
even more confusing and kind of fizzled-out, with Carnage being defeated by the
Spider-Man & Deadpool duo.
Disney/Marvel bought-out Fox, so it now owns Deadpool too,
so why can’t he team-up with Spidey? We will just have to wait and to hope. What
next?
…The latest DC stand-alone Batman movie is having its’ own
problems and is delayed because of course it is. When team DC hadn’t had
problems? Yes, I am talking about Ezra Miller getting into a fight with some
fan, but this appears to have ended for now, so let us not provoke it! Team DC
already had to re-cast their Batman; do they really need a new Flash too?
Probably not, but, hey, real life is confusing and tangled – for example, the
urial subspecies’ complex is primarily untangled via where each subspecies
lives, so only professional biologists and zoologists care about this mountain
mammal, really. Considering that ordinarily humans hunt mountain sheep and
goats, maybe this lack of attention and common knowledge is for the urial’s
betterment.
…This is it for now. See you all soon!
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