Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks, so let us talk about MK instead.
Sadly, here is not too much to talk about either,
except… for the Egyptian mythology: in this week’s MK episode – ‘Tomb’ – we get
to meet Tawaret at the very end of the ep. So what?
‘The Kane Chronicles’ by Mr. Rick Riordan, that is still
what’s up. In the second book of that trilogy, Carter and Sadie Kane – the titular
characters – get to go to the Egyptian underworld, (because of Osiris, cough),
where they meet Tawaret, aside from the other characters, (including the moon
god, Khonshu). Here, in ‘Tomb’, Marc and Steven seem to be trapped in some sort
of a limbo, depicted as a mental asylum, but that… is nothing new in the world
of comics, DC’s Batman got trapped in this sort of thing quite regularly, for
example, and they meet Tawaret.
To add injury to insult, Carter and Sadie encounter
Tawaret who works in a retirement home for aged Egyptian gods, i.e. an
alternate medical facility to the mental asylum that the Moon Knight, (Moon
Knights?), has found himself/themselves in. I.e., Mr. Riordan associated
Tawaret with a medical profession, and ‘Moon Knight’ seems to be running with
it. Given how MK’s cast and crew reamed Gal Gadot and Patty Jenkins in regards
to their treatment of Egypt in WW84, this dependence on Mr. Riordan’s works
seems strange, almost hypocritical. Anything else?
Aye, ‘The Secrets of Dumbledore’ movie. I have seen
it, and found it to be disappointing. Why?
Let us start with ‘The Book of Boba Fett’. Unlike ‘The
Mandalorian’ series, ‘Boba Fett’ was less of a success because whereas ‘The Mandalorian’
series moved the entire SW universe onwards, ‘Boba Fett’ did not. Well, technically,
it did, as the SW universe has the entire linear time concept, but you have to
admit that ‘The Mandalorian’ also developed and expanded the SW universe in
content, whereas ‘Boba Fett’ did not.
But the same can be said about ‘The Secrets of
Dumbledore’ – it didn’t really introduce anything new into the wizarding world;
the story did move forwards at a livelier pace than the ‘Boba Fett’ series did,
but whereas MK has Tawaret, ‘The Secrets’ had a qilin.
A qilin is a mythical Far Eastern animal that is
supposed to appear before a birth or a death of a great sage or a ruler, but to
the Western audience/readers, especially the baseline members, a qilin is a Far
Eastern analogue of a unicorn instead. Consequently, the use/participation of
the qilin in ‘The Secrets of Dumbledore’ and the election that was the climax
of the movie, transformed the election from, well, an election, as conceived by
the Western audience into something more among the lines of ‘and the hand of
God chose the rightful king and cast the pretender into Gehenna’ – this sort of
thing. Given how the elections are a big deal in RL – maybe even an even bigger
deal given the RF’s assault on the Ukraine – the way that ‘The Secrets’ handled
the elections’ concept is outright insulting!
In addition, since we are going back to real life,
people have already talked about the nearly complete absence of Tina Goldstein’s
character from the movie. The team behind ‘The Secrets’ did not even try to
explain it – they could have made Tina pregnant, or ill, or something, but no –
and therefore, people are believing that she’s avoiding J.-Ro because of the
latter’s transphobic statements. Fair enough, though it is weird – J.-Ro had no
problems with Dumbledore being gay so that she could court the sexual
minorities for her novels, or Hermione being a person of color so that the real
life people of color would like her works before, so why the abrupt change of
tune? Ah well, it is her life, her choice, and nothing else. Is that it?
Yes, pretty much – MK continues to be largely divorced
from the rest of MCU, the occasional nudge-nudge wink-wink Easter egg aside,
the Donald seems to be preparing for the 2024 election after all, and if he
does win it, then the rest of the West will stop looking at the U.S. as their
spiritual leader for sure, and – that is it.
See you all soon!
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