Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks, and in this case, I mean that I have developed issues with my cell phone. At least the big dead rat is gone – hooray for small mercies. In other news, D: BA is back with two new episodes this week, so yuppie? Right?
Eh, the jury is still out here. In the episode 1x05
we re-met Yusuf Khan, who’s Kamala Khan’s father or elder brother, I don’t
remember which one. Sigh. MM was swept under the rug when in RL Pakistan, (the
homeland of the Khan family in MCU) helped the Taliban topple the pro-US government
in Afghanistan, and the follow up ‘Marvels’ movie didn’t really go anywhere
either. And in episode 1x06 Jack the Swordsman from ‘Hawkeye’ reappeared; in
RL, the actor who played Hawkeye suffered a bad accident a while back, so it is
unknown if Kate Bishop will return – so far there’s no sign of her in the ‘Thunderbolts’-related
material, so there’s that.
Easter eggs aside, Disney/MCU is doing a good enough
job of integrating the ‘Daredevil’-related characters into the overall MCU,
(and Muse has appeared as one of the lesser-bads of the show, so extra kudos
here), and overall this TV series is better than the 2025 Snow White film.
Listen, you know what a hack job is? Snow White 2025
is an example of this. When they were making it – and they took their time
making it – Disney could’ve gone with a number of options; they narrowed them down
to two: either a by the numbers re-make of the original 1937 film, or a more ‘upgraded’
version, where Snow White becomes either a Maid Marian or a Robin Hood
character. Then, some higher-up in the Disney hierarchy had a bad brain, and
the studio mashed both of these versions into one film.
Listen. In 2024, Sony has released its’ ‘Kraven’ film,
and it was also a mash-up of two films, essentially: the first would have been
about the childhood of Kraven, his brother, his (eventual) love interest and so
on. The second would have been Kraven travelling the globe, killing various
criminals, up to the Foreigner and the Rhino who by then had had enough of his
own XP to give Kraven a proper challenge, (i.e. a lion fighting a rhino and
realizing that he needs help winning this one, maybe?). Instead, we got a
mash-up of both, and people believe that Sony’s Spider-Man related films are
finished, most likely. Pause.
…‘Kraven’ is still a better film than Snow White
2025 is, because the former is a mash-up of two related films, and the latter
is more disjointed: Sony at least tried to stitch its’ chimera up appropriately,
and Disney didn’t. Instead, we got an almost unending barrage of bad PR from
both RZ and GG, as well as the crap about the seven dwarves, the overall bad
CGI and anything else that could, and did, go wrong. Given that the amount of
money Disney invested into Snow White 2025 could have possibly bought the peace
between RF and Ukraine – it was such a huge sum – this is just sad. However,
this is real life for you, people. It just sucks.
This is it for now. See you all soon.
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