Oduro A-Boateng (Afrykana)

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It may not be "Must See" TV but I'd bet my Eternal Life, God Must Be Watching Halo!! Master Chief is humanised in a way that gives the series life; he's re-learning the full complex spectrum of what it means to be Human, and what/who is worth fighting for. Throw in a magic space rock and you have yourself a damn good recipe for God's favorite Thursday Action Series!! True some of the story beats derail the A plot, but show me a show that doesn't have irritating filler arcs...😏 TL;DR:. Halo Deserves a second Season, specifically, Master Chief deserves to have his story told to its natural end.

#Captain Marvel, Disney/Marvel's first female lead comic book adaptation is NOT worth the GHc 30+ per ticket or a 2hr run-time. I strongly recommend skipping this movie and waiting for Avengers: Endgame where Carol Danvers will inevitably introduce herself to the remainder of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, and in all likelihood her brief introduction to the team will be a much better origin story than we have been given in her title movie (“Captain Marvel”). Disney/Marvel sold Captain Marvel as a feminist anthem and yet the character we are presented with is little more than a dimensionless tool, presumable crafted purposefully as a means of contesting the raw power of an Infinity Gauntleted Thanos. The movie faults itself in a plurality of ways but the most significant of them is in the diminishing of Carol Danver's relatability as a human being before Her ascension to messianic Her-O. .Problems MCU movies suffer when a movie's creative team sacrifices good storytelling to bash audiences over the head with an idea because of it's relevance to the MCU at large. “Thor: The Darkworld’s” hyper-focus on the "Ether" (reality stone), Ant-man & the Wasp word-of-the-day challenge for the word "Quantum", which was literally mentioned in every scene, made these two of the weakest movie offerings in the MCU continuum because they started on a significant idea and then had the plot circle around that idea for the entire run of the movie to prepare audiences for a larger MCU event; unfortunately Disney/Marvel appears to have stepped into that self-same vortex with Captain Marvel. The movie can best be described as a power-point presentation explaining the significance of Carol's glowy fists: 1. They Glow 2. They can blast space ships 3. They can blast trains 4. Her powers come from the space stone 5. Her whole body can glow In between points 1-5 the movie tries to piece together an origin story, and fails to develop the protagonist. The main plot takes place over the course of a few days, Carol is not given enough time acclimate to life on earth, she doesn't build anything more than a working relationship with Fury, and she barely has a chance to revisit her past. We are blinked through Carol's past, robbed of the opportunity to relate to her humanity, in service of the introduction of the Kree and Scrull alien race to the MCU. There is little else offered of the two races because that's an idea that will likely be explored post “Avengers: Endgame” so the movie hurries us along through a sequence of meaningless young Nick Fury scenes all the while trolling us with the event that causes Fury to loose an eye (it was the cat). By the end of the movie Carol discovers, about as unceremoniously as anyone could, that she's a powerhouse and proceeds to demonstrate said power. The post credit scene for Captain Marvel suggests the audience should be excited to see the power we witnessed in the movie return to earth to face Thanos. And to be honest it is an exciting prospect, Captain Marvel, like Wanda Maximoff (the Scarlet Witch) utilizes the power of an infinity stone, and in “Infinity War”, preceding the arrival of missed-the-head Thor, Scarlet Witch is the only hero able to match Thanos in a fight. Having another, presumably more powerful, stone powered hero would improve the Avenger's odds of defeating the Mad Titan. Fans maybe disappointed in the lack of any character development in her first solo outing but we are excited to see Captain Space-stone-glowy-fists in “Endgame”. Ultimately that is the problem with this movie, Captain Marvel, the feminist anthem, is only significant in the context of the big Fanboy movie it precedes. “Captain Marvel” fails to excite me about how a female lead could reorient the super hero landscape. Carol Danvers is not presented to us as a character but rather as the big glowing stick Marvel/Disney intends on using to poke Thanos in the eye.