Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks, but the solar eclipse-2024 deserves a special mention, (and not just because X-Men ’97 are not all that either).
Where to begin? On Monday, April 8, 2024, the sky
where my family lives – southern Ontario – was overcast. The people of science
claimed that the skies will clear up because of the eclipse-2024 and all, but
in reality the cloud cover just wasn’t breaking-up, not at all.
We went for a walk. The weather was quite cold, even
if it was just early spring – the days before and after it were much warmer, in
fact – and there were relatively few people outside. Still, we walked around,
had our daily exercise, and returned home before three o’clock in the
afternoon.
At 3:10 pm, it began to get dark, so we turned on
the lights. By 3:15, it was as dark as it is in evening, about 20-30 minutes
after the sunset. By 3:19-3:20, when the solar eclipse was complete, and it was
as dark as… during an especially heavy local thunderstorm, when it come become almost
as dark as night for a few minutes. Here, it was the same, as immediately it
began to clear up, and by 3:25 or so, it was daylight as usual, or even more,
as by 3:30 the sky actually began to clear-out from the clouds, and by 4:30 pm,
it was clear completely. Mother Nature, (or God, or etc.) has trolled us.
On the other hand, the people who went to Niagara Falls,
either from the Canadian or the American sides, got to see the same sight, (in
a matter of speaking); only they paid several thousand dollars for this, so our
family isn’t complaining too much. Real life sucks, as this blog mentions regularly,
but sometimes it also rips people off.
As for this week’s X-Men ’97 episode ‘Remember’…
listen. Magneto is dead – apparently. Gambit is dead – apparently. Uncle Ben
Parker says hi and promises that they will be back. Cyclops still likes
Madeline better than Jean even though the ‘real’ Jean is back. Can we bring
back the JG/Wolverine relationship back, then? No offence, but now that the
initial excitement is slowly wearing down, it is becoming more evident that the
X-Men ’97 aren’t delivering anything truly new, but the same old delivered in a
new way – not through comics, (ink and paper), but through cartoons, (2-D style,
rather than the 3-D). Hooray for those who really love the X-Men franchise, for
everyone else – not as much. (Not to mention that character deaths in cartoons
just are not the same as they are in live action).
Anything else? Aye, the JP’s Joker part 2 is coming
to movie theatres in October 2024. Already it promises to be something different
from the regular Joker and Harley story. We will have to wait and see just what
it actually is.
For now, though, this is it. See you all soon!
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