Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks, but then the trailer for the ‘Venom II: Let there be Carnage’ movie came out, so let us talk about it and the initial movie ‘Venom’ as well.
Where to begin? The initial ‘Venom’ movie, released back in 2018,
was flawed. It had problems, and while I have enjoyed it, this enjoyment didn’t
conceal the facts that ‘Venom-2018’ had been rewritten and remade a couple of
times; it was more compact than the final 2 episodes of WV were, for
comparison, but regardless, it lost characters at about ‘Riverdale’-level bad.
…Yes, I know that ‘Riverdale’ is not a part of the Marvel™ franchise, but it was
still a good TV show premise that went bad in a hurry; by the S3 finale, I
simply could not watch it, but we are talking about ‘Venom-2018’ here instead.
‘Venom-2018’ suffered from unnecessary character killage,
from the fact that SUMC’s take on Ann Weying was to focus on Michelle Williams’
arse and legs; they are wonderful, of course, but somehow Ms. Weying comes
across as having less personality than Dr. Skirth was, and the latter died in
the movie, so that’s saying something. Yes, Ms. Weying was the She-Venom for
one brief moment in the movie, but then she went back to normal… but now that ‘Venom
II: Carnage’ is coming out later this year, (in theaters only, so says Sony),
maybe she’ll get to reprise this role somehow? Pause.
Let’s be clear – yes, that is speculation: so far the
trailer only showed us Eddie trying to live his life with Venom in it, (and
that’s not easy), Cletus Kassidy getting obsessed with Eddie somehow (and who
knows for what reason, because he’s crazy), Shriek (a villain and an ally of
Carnage in the Marvel™
comics, cough), having a cameo in the trailer, there’re a bunch of other cameos
in the trailer, including Mrs. Chen, who was kind of important in the original
trailer, and this is it. We get the general feel of the upcoming movie; it will
be all about Venom vs. Carnage, but nothing else. The showrunners have done
their job well. What is next?
Hard to say. The trailer is
exciting and it will be fun to watch
the actual movie, but it looks as if Spider-Man himself will not be in it, or
in SUMC, period. IGN, who is willing and able to work as a mouthpiece for
various companies for money, has talked for about 4 minutes about how Venom has
de-facto parted ways from the old Web-Head in the comics for a while now, so there
is no reason as to why this cannot happen on the big screen either. Fair
enough, and again, we need to get through Marvel’s M.O.D.O.C. the TV series
first.
Yes, it has been confirmed that this series takes place on a
‘separate Earth’ yet again – Earth-1226, if my info is correct, so it is not a
part of MCU. This means that whatever happens there, whoever gets depicted in
it, (and we know from the trailer that it includes S.H.I.E.L.D. the
organization and Tony Stark the Iron Man at least), it isn’t MCU canon, though it is some sort of
canon all the same.
…Pause. Here I feel like bringing out that MCU canon is a
tricky thing on its’ own – ‘Helstrom’, the previous Marvel series that were
made by Hulu, just as ‘M.O.D.O.C.’ is, was supposedly a part of MCU, until it
isn’t, and instead became its’ own separate universe, ‘Earth-TRN836’, so there’s
that. You never know what and when everything will turn out in the world of
Marvel™ & MCU.
The Disney/SW merger is much more predictable; the second episode of ‘The Bad
Batch’ has already featured a mixed-race family – so woke! All that is missing
is an actual human/Twi’lek baby, and we will be all set! …In reality,
interracial children are an even more complex issue than interracial couples
are, especially by the standards of the American elite, so here Disney/SW is
messing around with topics that is has no ideas about – again. At least now, they
are avoiding everything that came during the SW Sequel Trilogy, and instead focusing on the space between SW movies
3 & 4 instead. Fair enough, and is there anything else left?
No, not this time, sadly. See you all soon instead!
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