Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks – I just lot quite a bit of important data; it is important to me, anyhow, so its’ loss is being felt. By me, but still.
What is next? ‘Daredevil’ S2 is proceeding apiece; yesterday,
two episodes aired. Fancy that! Looks
like MCU might be in a hurry to get through their latest show; I wonder why.
The ‘Supergirl-2026’ movie is a strong contender; so
far, it shows itself to be a thorough adaptation of a Supergirl comic book arc, one that was a one-time
rather than a part of a greater continuum. In this one, Supergirl is not as
wholesome as she usually is, but perhaps her newfound heroics, newfound friend,
and the need to save Krypto before the latter dies, will change her outlook.
Given how DCEU/whatever already tried to introduce a Supergirl in the Ezra
Miller ‘Flash’ film, I am thinking that the odds of it are quite good.
The trailer itself… it is what it is, apparently. The
other characters are one-shot themselves, the odds of them dying by the end of the
movie (antagonists), or just vanishing afterwards (protagonists) are quite high
too; the creative team here brought Lobo along for the ride; the main man of
the DC comics appeared in various DC-based media since Superman/Batman Animated
Series of the 1990s, so by now he’s tested and relied upon, at least in a
certain sense of word. He just might liven up the movie and make it into something
more than a by the numbers antihero journey, where Kara becomes a hero, or at
least begins to become one. Pause.
In S2 of ‘My Adventures with Superman’, Superman,
Lois and Jimmy had to deal with a Kara/Supergirl who was manipulated by Brainiac
into becoming an oblivious villain, and who remained one for a long time – and that
was only a part of Brainiac’s greater plan. Put otherwise, Supergirl is known
to be going dark in the DC multiverse by now, eh? This version of Supergirl is
relatively mild still. What next?
Well, I wanted to speak about the upcoming
(Christmas-2026) HP TV series, how people are wound up about it, and perhaps –
even the racial issue.
…And then I looked at the Nat Geo Animals YouTube
channel, and what did I beheld? An ‘episode’ where Mr. Boone Smith held a ‘sport
competition’ between African lions, tigers, and cheetahs. Pause.
First, the monikers. Modern DNA analysis showed that
the Asian lion is a part of the same lion subspecies that still lives in
Western and Central Africa too. (The lions of Eastern and Southern Africa are
the other subspecies). Tigers, on the other hand, are divided into two
subspecies, with both the Bengal and the Siberian tigers being a part of the
same – the mainland - subspecies, and the cheetahs are tentatively partitioned
into several subspecies, one of which lives, or lived, in Middle Ease, or Asia,
rather than in Africa. So, if the lion is the African lion, then so’s the cheetah,
while the tiger is something of the odd one out.
From the genetic/biological/evolutionary p.o.v.,
however, the cheetah is the odd one out. From the human p.o.v., the big cats –
the ‘roaring cats’ – are the oldest modern cats, (as opposed to Smilodon and
other alternate models that are not around anymore), while the ‘newest’ models
are the domestic cat and its’ immediate kin; the cheetahs are not close
relatives of lions and tigers, but proportionally are closer to them than they’re
to the housecats. However, lions do kill cheetahs when they can, while the
tigers… they and the cheetahs live, or lived in different parts of Asia… where
are we?
When Mr. Smith compared lions, tigers, and cheetahs,
he compared two close relatives, and an outright outsider. Lions and tigers are
not as closely related as they look, (the same under the skin), there branches
are separate – one is lions, leopards, and jaguars, the same is tigers and snow
leopards, and the third is clouded leopards. The cheetah is related to the puma
and the jaguarondi instead; the latter looks like an anti-cheetah, but that is
not the point – the point is that the comparison was flawed: the cheetah’s too
different, the lion and the tiger – too similar to each other, so the show just
was not too satisfying to watch. (The tigers won, BTW). What else?
For the moment – nothing. DD is still a technical
masterpiece, but so are Ms. Haynes’ books, as I wrote before. They are enjoyable
to read, but nothing more, and DD S2 is enjoyable to watch, but nothing more. The
data that I lost… might be recovered, in part, but nothing more. Real life
sucks, eh?
Well, this is it for now. See you all soon.
