Watched all eight episodes of Season 1 of Poland's 2022 _Cracow Monsters_. Professor Zawadzki gathers nine, psychic university students in a private dormitory a la X-Men and the Spirit Questors. They hold night classes, but their encounters are mostly with mythological creatures illustrated in ancient documents in the professor's possession, as in _Grimm_. The ninth recruit is Alex, a female freshman, who is the protagonist in this series.
A good screening, but for the most part not very easy to follow. The movie hinges on keeping the viewer clueless as to what is going on, most of the scenes are dimly lighted, and I had no choice but to go with trickling exposition and just wait for the next monster to appear round the corner. There is not much character differentiation among the professor and the other eight psychic students--as though a single character was merely split up into nine performers for the sake of forming a group. In addition, those sparkly deity robes were quite laughable, for we can only wonder what kind of designer in the underworld fashioned them.
Interesting creatures in Polish mythology. Those body marks also reminded me of Afro-Caribbean ajitenas.
For the Spirit Questors only; others, do NOT read further:
Note that the key found in the leather bag, which the characters identified as an "axis mundi", is similar to the top portion of the A.T.A.R.D.A.R. Wand, which is a key in itself.
While the term "axis mundi" (when Google-searched defined as the "line or stem through the earth's center connecting its surface to the underworld and the heavens and around which the universe revolves") is typically applied to planet Earth, it can be applied to individual countries as well. It is said that the axis mundi of the Philippines is Mount Balatukan, in Misamis Oriental. Another source, again when Google-searched, pinpoints Marinduque as "the geographical center of the Philippine archipelago by the Luzon Datum of 1911, the mother of all Philippine geodetic surveys".
The district of Cubao itself has its own axis mundi. Using two rulers on the map you can locate its center--it is, strangely, a residence on 12th Avenue and very near the bend of 11th Avenue. (Why does 11th Avenue not go all the way to P. Tuazon Boulevard?): https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cubao,+Quezon+City,+Metro+Manila/@14.6186516,121.0484207,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x3397b7eadd63a1df:0xa6f6a02c480fc32c!8m2!3d14.6177663!4d121.0571541.
Your house has its own axis mundi. Are you able to find it yourself?
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