Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. At least the Asian
giant hornet threat has been semi-debunked, as people are beginning to realize
that these insects probably will not be invading North America any time soon.
Pause. I mean, that they are
invading, in a manner of speaking, but not
uncontrollably – people have handled them back in 2019, and they can handle
them now. What next?
Well, I tried to catch up onto my ‘fiction’, in order to
escape reality, and it was a mixed bag. First, I got to watch the SW: CW finale
and all I can say is how ‘Solo’ the 2018 movie fits with all of that? As we
remember from that Disney/SW flop, amongst other things, it showed that Darth
Maul was relatively alive and well at that point in time of SW-verse, and that
point in time was closer to the original trilogy than to the Clone Wars series,
so hah? What gives? Is Disney/SW no longer in control of their expanded
universe? Oh dear, and what with COVID-19 this might CW/’Solo’ be harder to fix
than it would be ordinarily.
Second, I watched the last DC animated, straight-to-video,
film, and all I can say is ‘hah’? The JLD: A film feels like a reboot/stand
alone, rather than a conclusion of a series – it had nothing in common with the
initial ‘Justice League Dark’ film, and on the other hand – everyone died. No,
not because Darkseid was able to kill them all, (he almost did, with his new
Parademon/Doomsday hybrids), but because the Justice League itself did. To wit,
this DC universe seems to have been created by the Flash in the animated ‘Flashpoint
Paradox’ film, in which the superhero in question tried to save his mother or
something, and as a result, an entire new DC-universe was created. Yes, it is
also a comicbook adaptation, but the point is that this entire DC animated
universe was an ‘Elseworld’, an experiment in ‘what if’/’what could’ve been’,
put otherwise. Must admit that is
pretty clever – wonder as to what team DC will do next, now that this exercise
is over…
Back in the real world, president Putin declared that the RF
will begin to return to normal starting tomorrow, May 12, 2020. I knew that the
world was going to begin to return
normal on this date, but still, given that it is RF, aka Mother Russia, it is
only a question of ‘how’ the country will screw it up. It is not a question of
intent, it is a matter of consistency – everything in Russia, (especially
everything important), is done through the ass. By contrast, the U.S. have only
started to utilize this maneuver recently, around 2016 or so, and already, in
just 4 short years, they managed to undo many of their achievements in the
1990-2014 time period. Some sort of an anti-record this is, and the RF have
been doing it far longer…
…No, it will not be the opposition’s doing – most of them
can only criticize Putin’s government and often their styles of doing so are
either unimpressive or pitiful. No, it will be the Russian spirit itself that
will rise against Putin and make a mockery out of him. Anything else?
Hard to say. On one hand, I wanted to revisit the kangaroos,
the real-life alien-looking mammals of Australia, but on the other? I do not know
if we have talked about Boba Fett coming to the second season of ‘The
Mandalorian’, but apparently, returning to SW he is. Yes, initially he had
survived the Sarlacc pit from the SW6 film, cough, but then it all was declared
a part of SW: Legends instead, and the SW fandom split… and we have talked
about it in the past. In the present, Boba Fett returns to the galaxy far, far
away after his Sarlacc-related misadventure after all, so this means that the
entire schism of the SW fanbase by the ‘Legends’-related decision had been
completely unnecessary and fully avoidable, but Disney wanted to part with the
Lucas-connected time period of Lucasfilm™…
and it achieved that – hence, the schism. Frankly, real life sucks, and real
life humans, (myself included), are hardly any better…
…You know what? For now, this is it. We will talk more about
them kangaroos later. See you all soon instead!
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