Outbreak
Yeah I bet you can guess why I watched this movie Did I intend to watch this movie? No. Was it apparently the #9 spot on Netflix most popular list? Yes. So did I have to watch it? Probably not. But given the coronavirus going around, I’m 100% sure that’s why the movie is this popular. So I thought might as well and watch the thing. Overview: A deadly disease is affecting villages in Africa as Colonel Sam Daniels and his crew is sent there to assest the situation. Unfortunately, due to external factors, the disease has spread to America, and to a small Californian town. With time running out as the disease spreads and evolves, Daniels fights the odds to find a vaccine before it is too late.
Not gonna lie, when I put it on I wasn’t like 100% focused on it. It was just supposed to be background. But it just sort of…sucked me in as it went on. Especially with that opening of the original virus just killing the soldiers. Also, that’s Morgan Freeman. You can’t just ignore Morgan Freeman! (Also, it’s sort of gotten to the point where all I can see is just Morgan Freeman and not his character.) All the characters were really cool to watch, but I didn’t really care of the divorce side plot. Or, I didn’t at the beginning? It’s hard to describe because I’ve seen that trope of “main protag who is divorced with wife ends up reconciling at the end” in a ton of movies. Even in movies that didn’t actually need divorced couples (looking at you 2012 and War of the Worlds remake). So I saw what was happening a mile away. But it, wasn’t as bad as I thought. Like, Dr. Roberta Keough had her own life and her own work at the CDC, so she had her own reasons to work on the virus. Which, made it work I think. Because she wasn’t constantly forced to be with Sam, it was just part happenstance and part trust.
It was actually really cool that the movie also showed us how the virus spread. They could have just had the virus appeared in California and had the virologists (look I learned a new word) find out the cause. But instead, it showed the whole path with the monkey, and what was going on with the monkey. The movie could have had it add more of a mystery, but by showing the monkey it added more tension! While the scientists were trying to manage the situation, it’s just in the back of your mind “it’s the monkey, where’s the monkey, that monkey is the key”. So not only are you stressing about the monkey, but whether or not they are going to find the monkey.
The virus was also, pretty scary. Like not only did they show the scientific view of how the virus adapts and grows, but also the plan of defense against said virus. You get to see the different levels of clearance the virologists go through with each virus, the level of security and safety they take to protect themselves against said viruses. I mean, they take it to extreme when things really heat up, but it’s nice to get an idea as to how procedure really would happen. image
The movie had some really good military and political critiques too. Like when is the line to draw to follow orders, does power go to your head, when is it right to give all the information and when is it to keep secrets. There was a really great scene where the PR for the white house basically said “if you guys want the president to take the nuclear option, you ALL need to give him your support, to show that there wasn’t any other way otherwise it wouldn’t work.” And part of it is, you can empathize with these people in these positions. You might not like the decisions they take, but you can understand why they took them. This was my first virus disaster film, and given the current climate here with the coronavirus, I’m glad I watched it. It sort of, I don’t know, gives you hope? Like things are scary, and this virus is hurting a lot of people. But there are a lot more people working hard on a vaccine to beat this. Scientists, Governments, everyone doing their part. Like, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. It might take a while, and it’s going to be scary, but we will get there. Stay safe out there
Chapter 7 Page 1(pg 651)
So that is it! Chapter 6 is finally over. And we have reached chapter 7!!
Morrison is using the one off monster characters from early on to add in more drama. Sphinxes as a type of creature? Each with their own powers and rules? Love it. Love the concept. Love the designs, and the very evil/heavy forshadowing.
Like, you know, the town being destroyed.
Isaac is going to be eaten someday. But he’ll live through it so that’s ok.
Lots of little hints to come and bits of knowledge given to us. Isabel’s dad (I think) is still around, who is a kick ass spectral who trains…I think Spender’s sister? Or cousin. Leaning to sister. Who is super powerful given white is BL level.
Zarei is…growing a fish? I guess to just…swim at the bottom of the lake to fish out the treasure/lake monster out.
Hijack is alive. I can’t believe I forgot that you can split the brain and still be alive. So…we have the smart/art sides now.
…please don’t let aliens actually be a thing.
Stephen has a new dog. (I hope the dog is a good guy at best, and a regular dog at worst).
And, Mothman/Bigfoot ship has sailed. And I can’t believe that Mothman actually looks good when he takes those stupid glasses off. Why are there so many attractive people in this comic?
Chapter 7
Let’s take a sneak peak as to what Chapter 7 is going to hold for us.
Diving back to Spender’s Secret Dream Group, with a Kenku Prophet warning them all.
We finally get some knowledge over who the hell King Catnine is, what he did, and how he got into Isaac in the first place.
And looks like we learn the secret of the lake. A lost soul trapped underneath? The former partner of a Spectral?
Either way, given the pouring sand, leaking waters, and jagged clock hands, Time’s running out.
I don’t know whether to kiss Morrison or strangle them. Because they just wrote a hella romantic moment in three panels between Mothman and Bigfoot.
But on the other hand
they just wrote a hella romantic moment in three panels between Mothman and Bigfoot!
