Disclaimer: real life sucks. First OO is gone, and then HH, so now king Hades has to call queen Persephone to help him deal with the double emergency. Now onto the F4-2025 movie?
Hard to say. RL was not idle recently and CB
unleashed the host species of their upcoming to be resurrected giant moa
species – the greater tinamou and the emu. Why? Because among the ratites, the
tinamous are the closest relatives to the extinct moa, whereas the emu…
CB also proclaims that the emu is a close relative
to the moa birds. It is not – the two ratite lineages were quite distant from
each other. However, it is the biggest modern ratite (and modern bird overall)
after the African ostriches, so it is reasonable to theorize that CB is going
to ‘augment’ the emu DNA with that of the tinamous and see what happens. In
case of the wolves, this strategy worked… supposedly. Lately the trio of Romus,
Remulus and Khaleesi vanished from MM, you know? The point, however, is that
for most people grey and dire wolves are just… wolves, they expect them to be
externally similar to each other, so when they see… well, wolf puppies, they
don’t really care just what kind of wolf puppies they are – if CB says that
they’re dire wolf puppies, they’ll believe CB, period.
With the birds, it is more complex, especially with
such a unique species as the South Island Giant Moa: physically, it is quite
different from both the emu and the tinamous. Whether CB will augment an emu
with tinamou genes, or vice versa, the result will not be a moa, even if CB will
successful. What will It be, (and that is a big if), is another question…
In addition, yes, again, the emu is not the best
candidate for a resurrected moa – the moa preferred to live in forests, and the
emu lives on open plains instead. Even behaviourally, the potential new hybrid
will not be like the original species. The cassowaries, who are the emu’s
closest relatives, do live in the forests, but they are smaller than the emu,
and much more aggressive. Naturally, CB will not have anything to do with them.
What else?
Well, the F4 film. To me, it feels like a successful
reworking of the 2000s F4 films, which worked. This puts ‘First Steps’ miles
above the ‘Ironheart’ mini-series, which is forgotten already.
Why?
Because ‘First Steps’ is a soft reboot of sorts: it
takes place in a completely different universe from ‘the sacred timeline’ with
completely new characters – and it is a success. Now Disney/MCU can make more
Marvel adventures in this universe with an occasional something or other taking
place in the original MCU timeline as well.
‘Ironheart’, on the other hand, takes place in the
MCU, just as Disney/MCU lose interest in it. ‘Ironheart’ is better than
SW-2025, (but that is a low bar), but worse than 2024 ‘Kraven’. It is not a
mash of two different movies, more like a failed case of having its’ cake and
eating it too. ‘Ironheart’ fluctuates from being depended on Tony Stark and his
legacy in the MCU world, to being completely detached from it. The cast, the
crew, everyone else did not really know what they were doing, and they did not
care about it either. The result? ‘Ironheart’ is almost forgotten by now, as is
MCU itself by now – somewhat, but that is another story.
For now though, this is it. See you all soon!
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