It's BEEN A WHILE, chevre! Look, in my defense, I'm bad at doing things. Let's make up for it with a double-header.
This'll be looking at Marvel Rising: Battle Of The Bands and Marvel Rising: Operation Shuri. Despite their themes of communication, neither of them featured ALL that much smartphone usage, and a few places that struck me as notable exceptions. Also, the phone colors are still shifting, but seem to be less so, which lets us keep our sense of how much they care about the phones in particular. (But gosh DARN give me back Squirrel Girl's green phone! She looked good with it!)
(Also, unrelatedly, I LOVE their casual-hero outfits in Operation Shuri. Ghost Spider's GOGGLES?? GREAT.)
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Battle Of The Bands, thematically, picks up where Chasing Ghosts left off -- with Gwen's individualist-insistance-on-compartmentalizing and lack of communication. It specifically uses her cellphone as the meeting-point, the place where she tries to keep all her separate lives organized and distinct, and it is through that that the separate lives intersect and interrupt each other. (As opposed to, for example, showing it like Mrs. Doubtfire did, with the character having two commitments at th
Operation Shuri doesn't have much -- possibly, if we read her hologram-bracelet as a smartphone, at least some of the stuff it does (e.g. being the instrument) can be thought of as apps, but even then it doesn't really play into any themes.And lastly. of course. #BringBackSquirrelGirlsGreenSmartphone2020 . I'm fine with most of the other changes, I guess, but DANGIT.
Playing With Fire came out a few days ago (and it was GREAT), and I've already got it jotted down, but let's pace this out. It'll go up... probably when the next few episodes get announced and given dates. Something to tide us over while we wait in anticipation to find out who America Chavez is in lesbians for.
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