Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks… but we will be talking about it regardless, it looks like.
Why, you may ask? Because SI continues to… not
deliver: whereas AoS was all about ‘pieces solving a puzzle’, to quote Skye, SI
is just mostly about Nick Fury, running around the world trying to stop the deviant
Skrulls, yet almost never engaging them directly. Meanwhile, both Talos and Ms.
Falsworth seem to be doing their own thing and so does G’iyah the Skrull-girl…
who seems to be a rip-off of Skye/Daisy Johnson/Quake. Pause.
Let us try again, without going too far into an
AoS-rant. Initially, AoS was supposed to be a big deal, as the above-mentioned
character of Quake was an important character in the Marvel comics for a while,
she even ran S.H.I.E.L.D., in one of the comic universes. Sadly, whatever the
show’s intent was, it quickly went off in a completely different direction and
from S4 onwards it became an outlier of MCU; now, there is no mention of S.H.I.E.L.D.
or S.W.O.R.D. in MCU – but we have discussed that earlier. Now, let me just stay
that it is MCU’s loss, as out of the two shows, SI is the lesser one, and not
just because it is 6 episodes long, while AoS had been 7 seasons long instead –
both quality and quantity matter here.
AoS issues aside, so far SI seems to be mostly laying
a groundwork for the upcoming MCU… elements, making the deviant Skrulls the main
villains of MCU to come, as team Fury still doesn’t appear to have gotten their
shite together, while the ‘evil Skrulls’ appear to have done just that. Therefore,
let us leave them for now, go, and face reality.
What do we have there? As a California condor has
proclaimed – “Carrion, of course!” The dead squirrel/skunk is gone from the
road, the dead Norway rat/house mouse is… mostly gone from the street walk, but
while those remains are few in number, (mostly the tail and some bones), they
still fill the streets with the stench of ripe rotten meat… and since we got
wild coyotes, (red) foxes and raccoons going around the neighborhood on one
hand, and pet dogs, as well as cats, and human children on the other… the
locals should really go an extra mile here and get rid of all the carrion,
before something bad happens – but that’s just a condor’s perspective.
Done with the dead, onto the living. We have seen a
couple of eastern cottontail bunnies feeding around, and they are both adorable
and super-fast. However, quite a few people have seen rabbits or hares in their
lives, either wild, pet or feral, so let us leave them aside, (for now, maybe).
What we have also seen are mergansers.
What are mergansers? They are ducks, just as the
mallards are, only not. The mallards are an example of dabbling ducks: they
feed on the water’s surface, their bills are long and broad as they filter food
from there; the Shoveler duck has a bill that is especially adapted for
filtering; maybe not as derived as a flamingo bill, but still there.
A diving duck, on the other hand, dives. A dabbling duck
may briefly turn downside up on the water surface before returning into the
air, but a diving duck can soundlessly slide beneath the water’s surface just
as a loon or a cormorant does. Moreover, just like them, diving ducks, such as
mergansers, have long, thin bills designed to catch fish. Unlike loons or
cormorants, however, a merganser’s bill, (there are several species, but all
look similar enough to each other not to be distinguished without a bird
guide), has serrations in it to better grasp and hold onto a slippery fish,
while loons and cormorants don’t have them. Moreover, as in all of the ducks,
male and female mergansers look different from each other, (though the female
mergansers are much more colourful than mallard females are, for example),
while loons and cormorants don’t have that. Put otherwise, the mergansers were
amazing as they fed in shallow waters, (it was a female with ducklings, though
a male was nearby – maybe a father of the family, maybe not), submerging and
emerging with ease that a fabricated sub could only dream off. Anything else?
No, not really. The point that is being made here is
that while usually real life sucks more and imaginary life sucks less, sometimes
the reverse is true.
This is all for now, see you all soon!
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