Quarantine entry #89 - June 18

Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. During the last Canadian election, I have voted for Mr. Jagmeet Singh and his NDP, so that the Canadian politics would change, and what had happened? 

Spoiler alert – same old, same old. The Liberals are still steering, the Conservatives are still opposing, and the NDP seems to be a non-entity – until now. Now, Mr. Singh got into a pissing contest – I mean, a confrontation – with a Bloc MP, and got kicked out of the Commons for calling RCMP racist. Sigh. Does Canada have to imitate U.S.A. so completely? I would say ‘no’, but no one cares about my opinion. Ah well, that is real life, so what else is left?

Well, over in AoS/AC ‘crossover’, there are rumours that part of the reason as to why Daniel Sousa was introduced so that Melinda May would have an opposite number. Whatever it was that went behind the scenes in AoS, was clearly bad, as the Phil/Mel ship seems to have been put out into the docks at least for now, the FitzSimmons aren’t doing much better, and Daisy & Deke… I do not even want to go there, of all of Daisy’s relationships, this one is the worst.

…Yes, a TV series, especially a comic-based sci-fi series such as AoS, (or AC, for that matter), should not be real, (realistic is another thing entirely). However, in that case, it should be detached from real life as well, but instead in the case of AoS, we got real life poking from behind the metaphorical curtains here, there, and everywhere; the only difference here is that the rest of MCU influenced it. In AC before it was cancelled, the titular heroine was being maneuvered into becoming the love interest, (if not something more), of Daniel Sousa – but then AC ended after its’ S2, Ms. Atwell briefly returned to the U.K. (in the real life) to star as the female lead in the latest, (and very bad), version of ‘Winnie the Pooh’, but she did keep a toehold in the MCU, voicing agent Carter in various Marvel cartoons, video games and so on.

Then ‘Avengers: Endgame’ was aired, and it was revealed that captain Steve-O went back to Peggy in the 1940s, (i.e. the time period where the team Time Bus of S.H.I.E.L.D. was hovering just now), and apparently they married, (changing the timeline?), leaving both Daniel Sousa and Sharon Carter, (who’d been initially set-up as captain Rogers’ new love interest), up for grabs.

Well, Sharon Carter will be appearing on ‘The Falcon and The Winter Soldier’ Disney+ show, eventually, while Daniel Sousa seems to be moving out of AC and onto the AoS now. Considering that he is an original MCU character, (unlike Sharon Carter, who had had a long presence in the Marvel Comics before MCU), that is not so bad. Anything else?

Just a mention about ‘Mother Russia’ in MCU, or more precisely – in AC & AoS. In AC, the U.S.S.R. was designated to be the main villain, or rather – the Leviathan was, just as Hydra was in AoS. (Cough, WWII associations, cough). However, by AC S2, Dot, (the Leviathan assassin), became more of a semi-ally to Peggy Carter and co., and now? She is gone, and we move onto AoS.

In AoS, ‘the Russian influence’ was something else – there were some digs at ‘Putin’s Russia’, (ha-ha, the real life is laughing now), and then there was Anton Ivanov, a yahoo of a minor character in AoS’ S4 & 5, who was a poor version of Grant Ward, period. Not that S7’ human villains – various members of the Malick family – are any better: it had been too long, both in AoS/MCU and in real life, since a Malick was a ‘proper’ villain on AoS/MCU, so right now, the AoS’ non-Chronocon villains, (rip-off Kree, basically), are a poor show.

On the other hand, any Koenigs right now are a no-show – apparently, the actors who played them on AoS are done for now, so after all the ‘investment’ in the 1940s’ Koenig in the S7 premiere was wasted. Ah well, that is a typical flaw of AoS, but we'll talk about it some other time.

For now, this is it. See you all soon!