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Chokes McGee posted:What I took away from this episode: for the love of GOD give a brotha a chance to say something heroic That your car? It was nice.
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Jan 17, 2018 06:56
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tsob posted:Racism is just not a big thing here, because most immigrants tend to be Eastern European (calling that prejudicial problem nationalism seems weird so I'm not sure what you'd call it, but that definitely exists on the other hand) so while I would hope I'm not racist I honestly have no frame of reference to know and watching this might give me at least a tiny bit more education on the matter in case it ever does become relevant. It's still bigotry and racism, you just tend to get racists hiding behind "well technically..." defenses so people play games with how they define things (and in that time the racist has successfully deflected and made their escape). Ethnocentrism, anti-semitism, et cetera, it's all racism with a sheet over it to make it seem a bit more acceptable or at least something that needs to be attacked separately from racism.
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Jan 17, 2018 20:29
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Xelkelvos posted:We probably don't need to know how he started, but it would inform viewers of why he started. Particularly with his specific beef with Tobias Whale and their history. Especially with how Lightning was presumed dead by Whale. We got that. Tobias killed his newspaper reporter father for an origin story, then he started taking out his anger on all levels of the criminals in town which got on Tobias's tits because they were working for him. Then there's a shootout that leaves Lightning bleeding nearly to death in a bathtub, and since he didn't show up anymore Tobias assumed he was dead.
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Jan 18, 2018 05:06
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I think they *could* flesh it out more if they want to, but I don't think it's necessary and I think it would be easy to overdo it like Arrow.
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Jan 18, 2018 05:19
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Rhyno posted:MAKE IT SO. Tyler Hochlin is still 6'0, I think that initial photo had James standing on a step or something.
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Jan 19, 2018 07:01
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Chokes McGee posted:I dunno who's playing Tobias but he's a better Kingpin than D'ofrio. He's played by Krondon, a rapper.
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Jan 19, 2018 23:35
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I tuned in for a superhero show and they're giving me some sort of hard character drama. Those wonderful bastards.
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Jan 24, 2018 07:02
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Is "Blacksploitation" the right term for this show's plot beats? I've never been sure where the actual genre ends and "just slapping it onto any movie with black folks" begins. Or, for that matter, if the term is actually racist and I shouldn't be using it.
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Jan 26, 2018 09:29
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Tiggum posted:Isn't that exactly how mithril armour worked? Well, Frodo got the wind knocked out of him by that cave troll but I think he'd be mashed torso if there's wasn't magic physics-bending involved.
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Jan 26, 2018 09:30
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I dont know posted:There is definitely some blackspoloitation in the shows DNA. But it also seems way more interested in examining and trying to understand violence than sensationalizing it. I personally wouldn't call it a blackspoitation show. Yeah, that's what was tripping me up about it. I'd just call it a character drama (though thinking about it now that term might be redundant with just drama), but I usually don't like character dramas and something about this one has got me.
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Jan 26, 2018 20:28
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Because when I decide to watch national politics, I turn to the CW!
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Jan 31, 2018 00:43
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I thought the older daughter was the one who broke the sink, now the younger one's punching things across the room like she knew it was possible in the first place? Did I miss a reveal, get people mixed up, or did they skip her initial discovery?
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Jan 31, 2018 06:08
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nine-gear crow posted:Mix up. Annessa is the older daughter with the powers (so far). She was the one practicing in the junkyard with the washer. Jennifer is the younger daughter (no powers so far, but it's clearly coming), and she was at the funeral. That'd be it then. I'm slow to learn faces and so hang onto other trappings, Jennifer jumped up so fast for the march that I assumed she was the activist-minded sister from the first episode. It doesn't help that they change hairstyles more in an episode than most TV characters do in an entire show. Bruceski fucked around with this message at 06:53 on Jan 31, 2018 |
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Jan 31, 2018 06:19
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GobiasIndustries posted:How old are the daughters? Jennifer is two years away from college, so 16 or so. Anissa I'm not sure, 25-ish?
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Jan 31, 2018 09:32
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nine-gear crow posted:Jennifer said she was 18 in this episode I forgot about that and pinged off the parents saying "in a couple of years she'll be off to college" so I guess I interpreted couple too literally.
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Jan 31, 2018 09:47
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RandomBlue posted:That's the same type of suspension of disbelief that virtually all super hero shows have relied on, Superman/Clark Kent being the most egregious example. Supergirl too. She doesn't even wear her glasses half the time and nobody's put 2 and 2 together.
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Feb 8, 2018 08:06
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That was a rather abrupt ending. I was surprised they were showing a preview for the next episode (in two weeks) during the show, and then annoyed that the news was interrupting before I caught on.
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Feb 14, 2018 07:02
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Oh, no episode tonight? Boo.
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Feb 21, 2018 05:07
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TwoPair posted:I'd imagine after the first guy that tried to leak information got murdered for it, I'd stop trying. At least back then when newspapers and TV were the way to deliver news. This excuse isn't really valid anymore once the internet existed and he could've leaked it himself on the internet. With things like Eva's comments about his "retirement" and telling Tobias "you're not supposed to be here" I'm guessing they know drat well who leaked to the reporter, and any attempt to leak it again will have... consequences. If he truly thought the Green Lightning stuff was done, he could have rationalized it as not being useful info.
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Mar 18, 2018 18:19
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STAC Goat posted:Aww, crap. My bad. Guess I was just filling in the blank everytime someone said the name. Same here.
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Mar 18, 2018 20:39
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"Imagine that, Black Jesus."
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Apr 4, 2018 05:43
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I assume the quota is to give an excuse for her to notice Jennifer's powers and try to kidnap her.
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Apr 4, 2018 21:31
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Phenotype posted:Did anyone else think Tobias' actor probably should have tried to hit the gym here and there since being cast in a physically-menacing role on a primetime show? Dude had some serious manboobs. At the end when Harry's telling Jefferson "don't get in a physical fight with him!" I couldn't stop thinking "why the hell not? Go crush that pansy." I'm not into bodyshaming, but jeez. They should have made sure to keep his shirt on fulltime if he's got basically no muscle definition whatsoever and he's supposed to be someone who can physically threaten Black Lightning in a fistfight. The battle of the dadbods.
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Apr 11, 2018 16:39
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Rhyno posted:The side effect of the serum is eternal dad bod.  BL's got the same thing going on.
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Apr 11, 2018 23:39
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I look forward to seeing what Tobias does with Marcellus Wallace's soul. And my vote for best line of the night has to be  "Wow."  I'm easy to please.
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Apr 18, 2018 06:01
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I assumed media exposure allowing her lab to publicly take the victims to care for and try to help. But that's guesswork, not subtle clues or anything.
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Tiggum posted:Well, that was an absolutely terrible end to the season. It's like they only just realised they were on the last episode and had to suddenly wrap everything up. The early episodes were really good, but the season as a whole was just a lot of wasted potential. Most of what happened ended up being irrelevant, and after holding off on explaining the bad guys' powers all season they just suddenly go "it's super-expensive cutting edge technology - yes, even the guy who died and came back to life with magic hallucination tattoos". And it ends with a big fight between all the good guys and all the bad guys, and somehow rescuing the metahuman kids off-screen and without explanation. quote:And the main bad guy they beat wasn't even the one they spent most of the season building up. I know they want Tobias to still be around in season two, but the guy they actually ended up beating was just some ridiculous caricature that seemed more like one of the lackeys the Green Arrow defeats in a single mid-season episode before he figures out who the real bad guy is. quote:And what was the point of Black Lightning losing his powers if he was just going to get them back again as soon as he needed them? What was the point of him being in a coma for half the episode when it didn't actually change anyone's plans? Was it just so they could shoehorn the flashbacks in? What did the flashbacks even tell us that we didn't already know? This episode was both rushed and padded. "What makes a hero is what they do without their powers" is a trope as old as time. He loses them so that he can make a heroic sacrifice to save his family, which spurs Jennifer to give them back. And the coma/flashbacks are for the aforementioned theme of exorcising old demons.
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