In the future, don't say that Marvel is the same. Marvel TV's new drama this year, if you don't watch it carefully, you don't even know it is Marvel.
Half of 2018 has passed. In June, Marvel launched this year's first new super British drama "The Cloak and Dagger", which is far less than last year's "Big Crowd", "Iron Fist", "Inhumans", "Innate Gifts" and "The Punisher". "Leaving Children's League" plus a miniseries "League of Defenders" premiered together.
It is worth noting that this good start is the first cooperation between Marvel TV and Freeform.
The feature of Freeform is that it faces a wide audience and is suitable for family viewing.
The existing Marvel TV universe basically consists of two parts.
Part of the series is a collaboration with ABC station. The plot is linked with the Marvel movie universe, including "Agent Carter", "Agent of S.H.I. If you leave, stay in a state of "try your best to shoot the original".
To be in line with the MCU's 19 movies so far, the space left for TV screenwriters is too small.
The other part is the "League of the Defenders" series in cooperation with Netflix, including "Daredevil", "Jessica Jones", "Luke Cage", "Tekken", "League of the Defenders", and "The Punisher". It is Netflix The Marvel TV universe created.
Jumped out of the restriction, and hit the sky.
Freeform is part of the Disney ABC Television Group, so "The Cloak and the Dagger" is part of the "Marvel Cinematic Universe".
However, unlike the ABC station, the "Cape and Dagger" jointly developed by Marvel TV and Freeform has introduced a brand-new comic character with minimal connection to the movie universe. It can be regarded as Marvel's development of new fields and new styles. explore.
It's a pity that this one opened well and looked like a dark one.
4 episodes are currently aired, and Daju has been scheduled.
Even so, from the current appearance of "The Cloak and Dagger", the stewardess still sees the ambition of Marvel TV: to create a sense of freshness, to relieve the audience's aesthetic fatigue on the traditional super British, and to develop a new style...
This new style may be the reason why the current score is not high and the audience is not paying much attention.
Let's briefly introduce the settings first.
The protagonist of this play is set as two teenagers: a boy and a girl; a black man and a white man; a poor man and a rich man.
In terms of super power settings, the male protagonist Tyrone can form a black cloak outside of his body, allowing him to teleport in a short distance and instantaneously. In addition, he can see the pessimistic and dark parts of others' hearts. The heroine Tandy can generate light from her hand and transform it into a dagger to stab the enemy. She can see the positive thoughts and dreams of others.
Teleportation + light dagger, it is a perfect partner in battle.
In the drama series, Marvel grasped the contradictions set by their identities, and extended from this, made a super-English drama with slow plots, three-dimensional characters, and intense conflicts, vowing to compete with traditional dramas.
The plot mainly revolves around the male and female protagonists discovering their own superpowers, and using this as an opportunity to re-examine the path of life.
The hostess, Tandy, was a child of a standard wealthy family when she was a child. From elementary school to ballet, her parents are happy and the family is harmonious. As a result, her father’s partner played insidious tricks and detonated the rig on the river without notice. The father who was driving was frightened and broke through the railing of the bridge and drove her into the river.
The heroine who studied ballet when she was young was like a little angel.
Her father died, Tandy survived, and was impacted by the energy of the river. Without her knowledge, she possessed superpowers. However, his father's partner took away a large sum of their family's wealth in the name of liquidated damages, which greatly changed the lives of Tandy and his mother. In addition to hoping for "a huge amount of money", the mother kept making boyfriends. This made Tandy almost homeless.
On the one hand, Tandy blamed himself for his father's death and felt that it was him who died. On the other hand, she has no expectations for life. Therefore, in a self-deprecating mentality, Tandy has embarked on the road of street gangsters, fishing for tricks, drugging, robbing a dragon, and taking drugs.
After a miss, Tandy was besieged by the prince who had deceived, and the other party tried to rape her. In this situation, she discovered her superpowers and conjured a bright dagger that stabbed the opponent.
Tandy was faced with a complicated situation: first, he was afraid that he would kill someone and wanted to escape; second, he found that his abilities had an inexplicable connection with Tyrone, and needed to explore; third, he found that he could see through skin contact. Expectation in the hearts of others.
The male protagonist, Tyrone, had a kind-hearted brother when he was a child. One day, my brother was owed wages for helping someone install the car stereo. Tyrone wanted to help his brother steal the stereo back. My brother stopped him and wanted to put the things back. As a result, he met the police on the road, and the other side, indiscriminately, determined that the two were criminals, and shot them, and his brother fell into the river after being shot.
Tyrone jumped into the river to rescue his brother, only to find that his brother was dead. This river was the one where the rig exploded, so Tyrone was also hit by energy, gained superpowers, and saved Tandy who was trapped in the river.
Later, in the face of Tyrone's parents, the police shielded each other, falsely claiming that the policeman who opened the gun found no such person. Tyrone's brother drowned after taking drugs and took out a video of Tyrone stealing audio. This made Tyrone's parents lose confidence in their children. They took care of Tyrone very strictly, but even so, they felt that he would always go on the path of crime.
Through his own ability, Tyrone saw the pessimistic imagination in his mother's heart that both children would leave this home.
By accident, Tyrone discovered his cloak ability. The cloak led him to encounter the policeman who killed his brother in the past, and let him discover that the police had been protecting each other all the time.
As a result, Tyrone has been awakened by the darkness that has been implied for many years. He needs to fight against the instinct of revenge and hatred. He also needs to find a way to let go of the past and let his parents let go of anxiety.
In general, the whole series will tell the story of two teenagers (very slowly) exploring themselves and the world, and how to get along with the world.
At the same time, the series also discusses social issues, involving capital collusion, racism, police corruption, religious beliefs and other topics.
Speaking of this, one must boast: Marvel is indeed very determined in diversification.
Moreover, "The Cloak and the Dagger" is easily overlooked as a Marvel drama. So that it is a bit similar to the new YouTube drama "Pulse" that is out of reach.
"Pulse" is a female lead drama that tells the story of Henry, a high school girl who was nearly sexually assaulted. Henry, who was unfortunate as a child, was very rebellious and had a terrible relationship with her mother. When she resisted rape, she activated her inherited teleport ability, and while escaping home, the sexual assailant was also hit hard. She has to deal with her various relationships with her mother, stepfather's family, rapists' family, police, etc., as well as the sequelae of her sexual assault.
Among them, the hostess's uncertainty after the accident, grew up facing the rapist's family, accepted the help of the stepfather's sister, and explored the emotional line between the mother and the hostess, which constituted the main content of the first three episodes.
"The Cloak and the Dagger" is a double protagonist line. The heroine Tandy's line is similar to "Pulse". She is also facing the consequences of stabbing her sexual assailant. She is also exploring the relationship with a "failed mother". Build a good relationship. And how the heroine gets out of childhood trauma is also an important aspect of the first four episodes.
Based on the connection with Tandy, the male protagonist Tyrone saw in her illusion the past that she could not let go of-her father was framed by a partner, which indirectly led to death.
The line of the male protagonist Tyrone tells the story of a "problematic teenager" from another angle. He needs to fight against the society that looks at him with tinted glasses, he also needs to fight against his parents who are anxious that he will go bad, and he needs to fight against the darkness in his heart.
Instead, in Tandy's hallucinations, she saw Tyrone killing the policeman who shot his brother over and over again.
At that time, the flight attendant's evaluation of "Pulse" is that when the drama is okay, and if you want to watch superpower battles, just take a detour (see: YouTube has a Hollywood-level big production, you can score a few points ). It seems that the same evaluation can be applied to "The Cloak and the Dagger" now.
Previously, Marvel TV also produced works such as "Black Lightning", in which the plot also divided some attention, discussing campus life, youth growth, racial discrimination, etc., but the focus of the whole drama is still on the use of super Ability to solve various problems.
However, "Cloak and Dagger" is still completely different, because the use of superpowers is only a driving force for the protagonist to understand themselves and solve the growth problem. The focus is not on superpowers, but on the growth of young people.
Maybe it is too far away from the audience's expectations, which makes the IMDB score of "Cloak and Dagger" very ugly, but Marvel's diversified attempts are worthy of praise.
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