{"id":46044,"date":"2018-08-06T10:39:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46044"},"modified":"2020-08-08T10:39:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T14:39:21","slug":"cloak-dagger-is-obviously-marvels-c-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=46044","title":{"rendered":"Cloak & Dagger is obviously Marvel\u2019s C-squad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m not going to pretend like I\u2019ve ever read any of the comics, but given the track record of decent television shows, I looked forward to Marvel\u2019s Cloak & Dagger<\/em>, and figured I could figure out what was going on from just the show with no prior familiarity of them from comic books.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, there were some red flags for me that I kind of knew of going into the show, and although I did make it through the first season, I have to say that I\u2019m not really that impressed as a whole, and if I had to rank the show it is a definitive last place behind most all other Marvel television shows out there.<\/span><\/p>\n

For starters, the show aired on the Freeform network.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t even know that that network even still existed; I knew it did at one point, because there must\u2019ve been one show that I saw while channel surfing in the past when I used to have cable television, but for the most part, it\u2019s a no-name cable channel, and it should have been some sort of indication of the quality of the programming, even if it did have the Marvel name printed in front of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Going blind into this show worked against me in this instance, because I lacked any \u201cOh! That\u2019s so-and-so\u201d moments that tended to keep me engaged and interested in just about any other Marvel property show previously seen.\u00a0 That being said, the first two episodes of the show were a complete slog, and I was wholly uninterested in the characters and plot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I stopped watching after the first two episodes, citing a poor mood to be watching new television, and told myself to give it one more episode before giving it the Legion<\/em> treatment AKA walking away before feeling like I\u2019m wasting my time.\u00a0 The third episode was on the verge of making me throw in the towel, but then the plot started to get interesting in the final eight minutes of the episode, which saved it from abandonment, and then the fourth episode finally started to get somewhere and kept it watchable.\u00a0 But with a ten-episode season, it literally takes 40% of the season for it to become watchable.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Overall, the show as a whole feels like a C-squad collaboration from the Marvel team.\u00a0 C-level writing, C-level show running, C-level plot, and C-level acting.\u00a0 If fans love to declare Netflix\u2019s Iron Fist<\/em> as bottom of the barrel as far as Marvel shows are concerned, they should really watch Cloak & Dagger to really put things in perspective.*<\/span><\/p>\n

*Legion is indisputably the worst Marvel property television show in my opinion, but it almost can\u2019t be helped since it was a FOX production<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Aubrey Joseph playing the role of Cloak\/Tyrone Johnson is robotic in his performance, and based on his speech affects, I figured he was born in Europe or somewhere outside the United States, but Wikipedia tells me that he\u2019s a born New Yorker.\u00a0 There\u2019s something really strange about his speaking that I often have to scrunch my brow when listening, and mythical gf kind of hit the nail on the head when she was convinced that I was watching something starring John C. Reilly<\/a>, based on the sound of his voice alone.\u00a0 A black teenager has somehow managed to sound inexplicably like a middle-aged white guy.<\/span><\/p>\n

The one bright spot in the show was clearly Olivia Holt as the role of Dagger\/Tandy Bowen, who unmistakably carries the show.\u00a0 Sure, her character is written to be more streetwise and charismatic in contrast to the dull and hesitant Tyrone, which makes it easier to carry, but her acting chops definitely stand tall in comparison to the C-level performers surrounding her.\u00a0 She\u2019s given more focus than her counterpart, but she also has a way more interesting life as opposed the kind of contrived racial issues that Tyrone is written to deal with.<\/span><\/p>\n

Overall, the show is watchable after the fourth episode.\u00a0 It\u2019s not really a spoiler, but the show is technically a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and a few choice references are made to confirm this.\u00a0 But by making such an association, the show cements itself as the weakest property under the umbrella** in my opinion, and really kind of makes the only reason to watch it as a weak Marvel fix, and\/or just trying to fill all checkboxes of watching MCU properties.<\/span><\/p>\n

**I haven\u2019t watched Agents of SHIELD or Peggy Carter.\u00a0 Something about them being on vanilla network ABC kind of makes me not want to, but I know I really should if I want to really do some comprehensive ranking<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Would I watch a second season?\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 But I wouldn\u2019t really rush into it, or prioritize it like I would most any of Netflix\u2019s Marvel properties, and since it\u2019s a cable show released a week at a time, I\u2019d most definitely let several weeks pass so I could binge it, because the show isn\u2019t strong enough to keep my interest on a weekly basis.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m not going to pretend like I\u2019ve ever read any of the comics, but given the track record of decent television shows, I looked forward to Marvel\u2019s Cloak & Dagger, and figured I could figure out what was going on from just the show with no prior familiarity of them from comic books. However, there … Continue reading Cloak & Dagger is obviously Marvel\u2019s C-squad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[140,83,69],"class_list":["post-46044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comics","tag-observations","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46046,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46044\/revisions\/46046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}