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With the weather being as shitty as it sometimes gets in the peak winter months, I\u2019ve been resorting to getting my cardio in via the treadmill as opposed to going outside to run and walk.\u00a0 That being said, treadmill time opens the door for me to catch up on watching shows from the seemingly endless queue of titles that are added more frequently than they are crossed off.<\/span><\/p>\n Over the last few weeks, I\u2019ve actually managed to cross two titles off of the list, them being Marvel\u2019s season 2 of Loki<\/em>, and the presumably standalone season of Echo<\/em>.\u00a0 In the past, I used to rush Marvel properties to the top of the list and watch them as soon as humanly possible, because the internet and social media are terrible things that have a tendency to spoil things.\u00a0 But over the last few years, life, time, apathy, the algorithm, and a ridiculous oversaturation of content has shied me away from keeping up with the Marvels, and they\u2019ve just instead sat in the queue to when I had the time, and shits to bring myself to start watching them again.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s actually kind of interesting to watch certain shows once a significant passage of time has occurred, because a lot of things can happen in the course of a year or two.\u00a0 Like watching Loki S2, where Jonathan Majors\u2019 Kang is so very much a major player in not just this show, but at the time, the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it was almost a shame to watch a show filmed at a time when he was still this guy knocking on the door of cinematic stardom, because I think he really is a talented performer, not just as Kang, but I also enjoyed him tremendously in Lovecraft Country<\/em>, and now in spite of his role in the MCU, is basically for all intents and purposes, cancelled.<\/span><\/p>\n Echo, was short and sweet, being just five episodes, but again, when the show dropped, there was no news that the, for lack of a better term, the Daredevil\/Kingpin universe was going to be reset, although I suspect that such was probably brewing in the background considering the direction they went with the Kingpin himself.\u00a0 I did appreciate that Charlie Cox had a part in Echo, naturally doing one of his ridiculous one-take extended fight scenes, and good on Alaqua Cox for having the skill and stamina to keep up with it.\u00a0 But again, it was another show watched long after its drop date, and a lot of things in the background have changed, and kind of alters the perspective on the show as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n Staying on Echo though, I have to say that of many of the Marvel television shows, I would put Echo up among the top of the rankings when it comes to music selection.\u00a0 All throughout the MCU television universe, there have been some real banger soundtracks, and Echo\u2019s is right up near the top as far as my auditory preferences are, along with Luke Cage and Punisher.\u00a0 The song, Burning<\/em> by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs was one that I liked tremendously, and I rarely skipped the opening credits<\/span><\/p>\n Here’s the thing though, among the changes that have occurred within Marvel itself, are the changes to the world as a whole that really make watching \u201colder\u201d things like Loki and Echo and presumably any other Marvel property that lets 2-3 months surpass kind of are, and yes unfortunately I am referring to things that are occurring on account of the shitty political wasteland \u2018Merica continues to slide down, mainly the unfortunate mass abolishment of DEI policies.<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s no sugarcoating it; Marvel has been doing a pretty good job of organically adhering to the inclusion of diversity throughout the years.\u00a0 Loki excels at having a diverse cast, and I was tickled to see Ke Huy Quan show up as a key character in S2, and I love how Data is becoming a commodity in Hollywood in general.\u00a0 Echo was basically a DEI jackpot, with the titular character Maya Lopez, being of indigenous descent, who also happens to be hearing impaired, and oh yeah has a prosthetic leg.<\/span><\/p>\n It was still a great show that definitely highlights indigenous culture, but I can\u2019t help but wonder if shows like this will actually see the light of day in the rapidly devolving \u2018Merican ecosystem, and if Disney themselves will fall into the ranks of other notable companies, and eventually scrap their DEI initiatives, and gradually we the viewers start to see less and less diversity in future projects.<\/span><\/p>\n All the same, maybe I\u2019m just thinking too much about it, or perhaps the state of the world is permeating into my headspace, no matter how much conscious effort I put into avoiding the news.\u00a0 Both of these shows were still enjoyable, and at least while they were produced prior to the last election, I can still look forward to Agatha All Along and any other rando series and films that I might\u2019ve missed before I eventually expend the effort to catch the new Captain America flick.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the weather being as shitty as it sometimes gets in the peak winter months, I\u2019ve been resorting to getting my cardio in via the treadmill as opposed to going outside to run and walk.\u00a0 That being said, treadmill time opens the door for me to catch up on watching shows from the seemingly endless … Continue reading Catching up on Marvel shows long after the fact<\/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":[140,100,41,83,165,89,69,190],"class_list":["post-50424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comics","tag-comparison","tag-movies","tag-observations","tag-politics","tag-racism","tag-television","tag-white-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50424","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=50424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50426,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50424\/revisions\/50426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}