Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks, so let us… still talk about it, in a manner of speaking. First, in regards to PBS Nature: if their first, rhino-based episode was a product placement without any product, their second episode, which talked about Madagascar’s lemurs was a complete opposite – it delivered. It talked about Madagascar and its’ rewilding programs, in terms of lemur return (to the wild), in general terms – such as the replanting of the bamboo that the lemurs eat (the episode was de-facto about the greater bamboo lemur), and also – about the wilderness education of the Madagascar people. There was very little aesthetics, plenty of authenticity, and the only unnecessary element, in a manner of speaking, was the gender issue – this online show is about women taking care of the wild, but taking care of the wild and humanity’s social gender politics do not really overlap…
Speaking of humanity’s (ok, the West’s) social
gender politics? Let us mention Ms. Lindsey Nicole. I’m probably not the
biggest fan of her – this driven and determined young woman wants to get ahead
of her competition, and remain afloat; in particular, when Biden and the
Democrats were in charge, she made a point of mentioning her alternative sexual
orientation, (but nothing more, nothing concrete). Now that we got a ‘new’ U.S.
president and his Republican political party, all of her mentions of her
alternative sexual lifestyle are gone – LN wants to stay afloat… and she’s
succeeding: just last week she launched into yet another online series, this
one a collaboration with another YouTube channel, a series that deals with mass
extinctions… it is essentially a re-telling of Animal Planet’s™ ‘Animal
Armageddon’ series. You have to give LN her credit though – she is a great populizator,
her aggressive ‘shock and awe’ delivery style works, and she is always open to
collaborate with other people – she really wants to be successful, and so she
is. Kudos and a shout-out to her.
In addition, what about this week’s D: BA episode, ‘Art’?
It works about as well as you would expect it to work: this season’s mini-bad,
Muse (a male villain) is dead already since the season is done in another
couple of weeks, and on its’ own, D: BA works just fine. As a part of the
greater MCU, however…
‘Mayor’ Wilson Fisk has introduced the
Anti-Vigilante Task Force, or AVTF. Um. While we acknowledge its’ connections
with some RL issues in the U.S., what about the Sokovia accords? In the ‘She-Hulk’,
Matt himself says that they are done and gone, so shouldn’t AVTF be outdated or
something? As the Kingpin, Fisk did not care about popular opinion, of course,
at least not too much, but as a mayor of NYC, he should, and he is intelligent
enough to recognize this fact.
Listen, in RL, analogues of AVTF, such as ICE, exist
because people – some people, including some of the Americans, and quite a few
of them – approve of them and their actions; numbers matter, and if enough
people approve of them, these ‘analogues’ will stay and even flourish, and
propaganda – especially the mild one delivered by Disney and its’ daughter
organizations – won’t be enough to see them off.
…Not to mention that even internal American
propaganda has its’ limits, as the outcome of the elections-2016 showed, for
example. However, Disney and co. cannot learn, or do not want to learn and
accept, or something. Since they do not, their promoted values do not stick, as
the companies cannot change and adapt – it could cost them money in the end,
and they do not want that. Much better just to do a token service and be done
with it. The viewers and the public will not object too much – they can adapt,
on the other hand, as demonstrated by Lindsey Nicole… Real life certainly can
suck, and it does.
This is it for now – see you all soon!
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