Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks, so let us talk about MK. Only, it continues to travel down Mr. Riordan’s ‘Kane Chronicles’ trilogy, so here isn’t much to talk about either.
No, really, throughout the trilogy, (especially in the
second and the third books), Carter and Sadie Kane regularly travel into the Egyptian
Afterlife, to converse with their father, (who is also the avatar of Osiris),
and for other goals as well – and here we get Oscar Isaac’s characters, who do
exactly that.
The Kane siblings travel usually on a magical boat,
clearly associated with the ‘authentic’ slash ‘original’ myths of ancient
Egypt; and in this week’s MK episode, ‘Afterlife’, we got the same thing, save
that apparently in MK’s case the magical boat is the hospital/mental asylum
that Marc and Steven found themselves on/in…which doesn’t make much logical
sense, but this is MCU, where logical sense doesn’t always exist…where are we?
Ah, yes, Tawaret. In this week’s episode, she is the
one doing the judging of Marc and Steven, and finds them wanting. This isn’t
too surprising – since the series’ premiere, MK was all about ancient Egypt,
ancient Egyptian myths, and especially the ancient Egyptian afterlife & the
myths about the afterlife, but, again, I repeat – the ancient Egyptians’ judge
of the afterlife was Anubis, or/and Osiris, not Tawaret, who is more associated
with childbirth and fertility instead; Mr. Riordan played fast and loose with
her role in the ‘Kane Chronicles’, but MK has him beat easily.
Again, not an issue, but for the statement that DCEU’s
WW84 did not do Egypt and its’ culture much respect; compared to MCU’s MK, WW84’s
treatment of Egypt was tasteful and restrained instead. Ouch! Anything else?
Yes, back in the real life, we saw a live raccoon in
our local park; given that it was a sunny afternoon, this makes it unusual, as wild
raccoons are more active and bold during night-time instead; we didn’t approach
it, as though it is smaller than a coyote is, a wild raccoon is still
formidable and powerful and must be treated with respect, but it was certainly
an event that was more exciting – and important – to me in my life than
anything than MK can throw at me at this point, all of MCU’s pageantry and
spectacle aside. Ah well, real life sucks, but sometimes it does deliver a gem
instead.
Well, this is it for now, though. See you all soon!
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