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Scene N Nerd Podcast

Greetings, nerds! This is Scene N Nerd. Join our dynamic duo, Sarah Belmont and Will Polk, as they dive into the latest in geek culture. Sarah kicks things off by reflecting on how fast the year has flown by and shares her excitement for the upcoming shows this month. (0:00)

We discuss the recent buzz around Josh Brolin being offered the role of Hal Jordan in the upcoming DC Studios series "Lanterns," which is set to be a buddy cop-style show under James Gunn's new banner. Will shares insights about potential dynamics between Hal Jordan and Jon Stewart. (0:50)

Next, we delve into the latest updates on "Superman and Lois," including its new Monday night slot and the reasons behind the CW's scheduling shuffle. (2:50)

Join us as we break down the first two episodes of "Supacell," discussing the setup, character introductions, and the intriguing plot threads that promise an exciting season ahead. (6:50)

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>> Sarah : Greetings, nerds. This is Scene N Nerd. I'm your host, Sarah Belmont. And with

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me, as always, is our mister producer, Will Polk. How are you doing

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tonight, will?

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>> Will: Doing very well, Sarah. Hope you are doing well.

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>> Sarah : I'm doing all right. I mean, it's September.

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>> Will: Yeah, I know. And it's just like, man, where

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has this year here gone? But,

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yeah, looking forward to know. We got quite a

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few shows coming up this month. But, yeah, we're catching

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up on some things that looked interesting this summer,

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such as Supacell So we'll be talking about that.

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And I had a couple, I guess, legacy media items,

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too.

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>> Sarah : Yeah, yeah, Josh. Like Josh

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Brolin being offered the role of Green Lantern.

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How Green Lanterns. Hal Jordan

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and Damian Lindenloff's lanterns,

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which is supposed to be a DC Studios

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series.

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>> Will: Yeah. Yeah. So this is the, this is one of the new

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series that were. Well, there were two of them lit. Green

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lit one that I think that that

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was put to the side, but this one is

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definitely going into production under James

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Gunn's new DC studios banner.

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And, Yeah, Josh Boland was, according to

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Jeff Sneider, who's a well known scooper

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and also another website, I think it's

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called Nexus, also is working that story,

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but, said that the offers is if

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he wants it. And I think the, from what I've, what I've been

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gathering, at least from Jeff Snyder's report, is

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this new lantern series is sort of a, as a buddy

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cop type of thing because the other lantern, of

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course, we saw on the, a key art that was,

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dropped a few months ago was Hal

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Jordan. and then also we, we saw a

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young Jon Stewart. So it looks like they're just doing

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a reverse lethal web is how

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Jordan, who is the old grizzled bet, and,

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and I guess Jon Stewart is playing the Riggs

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role. As far as the younger guy, he's taken under his

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wing.

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>> Sarah : I feel like it's going to take me a while to

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believe that something about the lanterns is really in the work

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just because I feel like we've heard about series and

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movies for a decade.

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>> Will: Yeah, for sure. Yeah. We do know we have at

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least, we at least have Nathan Fillion as God Gardner. So we do

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know we have that one.

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>> Sarah : Okay. Okay. For now, you know, people,

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people have dropped out all the time.

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>> Will: Superman. Superman is rap, so.

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>> Sarah : Oh, yeah, I know that. I know that.

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Supermande as wrapped and,

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Superman and Lois is on a new. Will

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be returning for their final season in

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October, but on a new night. And are they

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moving Thursdays? What night is it?

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>> Will: So they originally were going to be moving to Thursday and they

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were going to come out later in October, but

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the CW has moved their release date up to

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October 7, which is a Monday night,

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and they'll still have the two hour premiere and it

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will proceed the rest of the,

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I guess, ten episode or so run,

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on Monday nights at 08:00 and really,

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the whole thing with this is

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midnight, but ABC also

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was going to be scheduling game shows on Monday night, so.

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So CW was like, well, we don't want to get our game shows

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asses kicked, so we're going to move the game shows a Thursday

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night or one other night during a week, and

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then we'll put Superman and Lois on Monday night since it's

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their last season, so they can get their ass kicked in the

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ratings.

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>> Sarah : People still watch game shows, I guess.

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>> Will: Yeah. Yeah, I guess. Yeah.

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>> Sarah : I totally understand why studios will make them,

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I just. The whole. The viewership

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thing happening, it's beyond me.

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>> Will: Yeah, I guess they still are very

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popular and do well on linear tv, for sure.

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>> Sarah : Yeah. Good for them.

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>> Sarah : so we just had a long weekend. It's, Tuesday, our normal

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recording time, but we did have three days off. Did you watch

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anything over the long. I mean, I know we're going to get

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into supercell, but anything else?

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>> Will: I, finally finished Star Trek discovery, and really

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got deeper into Star Trek prodigy. So those

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are really the only. Other than sports, though,

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that was really the, only, like, scripted shows that I

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watched over the weekend.

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>> Sarah : Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense.

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did take up at least two of them doing

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>> Will: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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>> Sarah : Yeah. So while you were watching Star Trek, I did.

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I did finish the eight episode

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series the Frog on Netflix. Oh.

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>> Will: yeah.

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>> Sarah : I still don't know if I would recommend it.

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>> Will: Okay.

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>> Sarah : It's slow. It's slow. It really kicks

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in. and they do a good job

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with planting a seed or raising

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a question and then, like, really the big

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thing, why the heck is this called the frog? and there is a

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payoff. It is rooted

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in, a

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korean proverb, if you will.

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context, than I think

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a foreigner like myself watching it would understand.

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but I wasn't mad at it by the end of it.

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M. I thought overall

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it was good, payoff, but I still don't know

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if I would necessarily go out and say, no, you have

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to watch it because this amazing thing happens now.

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Nothing crazy really happens.

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Okay. Or, like, you have to watch this.

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So I did that. I'm still,

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timely with this show because they just drop two episodes

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a week. So I'm still watching

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romance next door, which is a different k

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drama, and really enjoying that.

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It's really cute, really fun, very predictable,

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but still. Still love the chemistry between the

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leads and, just the overall characters

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themselves are pretty. Pretty well

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defined. I feel like there was something

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else I watched, but just

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not thinking about it, I talked

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about. Yeah. So.

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make it my way. And then. And then I watched Supacell

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>> Will: So what did you think about it?

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>> Sarah : Okay, so far, nothing special.

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it reminds me so much

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of a different british

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superhero show called misfits.

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misfits?

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>> Will: I have not, but I've heard about it, and I've heard that I've heard a

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very similar,

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viewpoint, as well, that this.

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>> Sarah : Yeah, it's. It's

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nothing. It's

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not one for one. There. There

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is just. And it's more. And it. But it also goes

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beyond. They're just clearly both british

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shows. It goes beyond

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that, too. But misfits, for those

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who do not know what that show is,

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it's essentially you have

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a group of teenagers, young

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adults, who are doing community

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service and end up encountering

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something that gives them powers.

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and I think it goes on for two to three

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seasons. Very well done. There is a

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character, and this is what really sealed

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the deal for me, who.

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And this is kind of a spoiler, but not really a

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spoiler. I have to get this point through, so if you don't want to

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know, just go watch the show.

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But so, spoiler. So,

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by the end of the first season, a girl

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dies, and she was in a

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relationship with one of the other characters who had time

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traveling abilities. So you see where I'm going with

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this. So there. There's a lot of,

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parallels. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. A lot of

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parallels there. And I'm like, okay,

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that whole timeline thing

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very well. And then it just got me thinking

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how. How many shows have

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occurred with this trope of a

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character who

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unexpectedly or gets

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time travel ability specifically,

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and then they end up losing

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someone or have lost someone, and

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then it's, like, it feels like the rest of the show

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is just about them trying to prevent that

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trope, and.

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>> Sarah : Yeah, I,

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>> Will: Yeah, I mean, and I think, you know, and

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I have a very similar view as far as

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this show being the. The

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characters or the superhero powers and stuff being

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derivative of plenty of things that are out there.

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a. The protagonist is having

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to, you know, trying to rescue

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someone that they love and, you know, in

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various macguffins, putting a plate into. Into

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play, as far as obstacles

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to keep that from

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happening, or if he or she overcomes them,

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then they will save that person. But

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cast was very, very

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dynamic and just, really

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drew me in also, whenever. When I

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first time I actually heard the name of the show, supacel, I

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couldn't help but I think I've maybe even

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mistakenly said sickle cell because of just

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the fact that they do make it a

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very, a plot point in

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this. In this story of what about Michael? Who

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is the. Who is the lead character that we're just talking about as far

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as to having the time travel abilities, his,

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mother, you know, carrying that trait and being in. That's

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one that. From an african

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american, and it's people of african descent,

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that is a very, genetic. This

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one of those disorders that,

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is very. It is rare,

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but it does happen. And even when

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I was in law school, I actually had a classmate who,

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she did have sickle cell disease. And

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so some of the things that, while that scene was

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playing out with Michael's mom and all,

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and it is also just some of the things about the disease

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and the fatigue and those

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>> Sarah : Yeah. Question is sickle cell,

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like, it's the full disease name

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called sickle cell anemia?

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>> Will: Yeah.

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>> Sarah : Okay. Okay. Because for a moment there, you kept

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just saying sickle cell. And I'm like, wait, is that something different

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sickle cell anemia?

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>> Will: I mean, I think more people come is more commonly known.

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>> Sarah : Got it?

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>> Will: yeah.

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>> Sarah : Okay. Yeah, yeah. I thought. I thought that was an

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interesting plot point to just go back to the

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time travel stuff. I'm not, like,

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different. but. And it

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goes beyond the powers. but it's

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more of just the.

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feel like anytime time travel is

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like, I mean, think about it. What if there's

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an episode of what if that has a lot of time travel in

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it that we love? And it's not like

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the, doctor strange is

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known for his time travel abilities, but they put him in

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the situation. Of course, it all had to do with. With trying

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to save, his

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girlfriend or wife or whatever her name

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is. And I'm blanking on. so

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it's just like, I feel like whenever

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just time travel is involved in general,

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it's always that, like, trying to

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change it and then nine times out of ten.

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it. the character

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realizes you can't prevent

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it because that's destiny, that's

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fate. And

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usually what happens in that

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scenario, they prevent it only for

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the world to get worse.

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>> Will: Exactly.

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>> Sarah : And then the whole second season is about trying to undo

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it. So we'll see.

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>> Will: We'll see. Yeah. And the show has been. It has been renewed for

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a second season. Yeah.

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And, I know over the weekend I did, when I was

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driving now to, visit my mom, I found

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a podcast where rap man, who is the

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creator and showrunner, director, writer,

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he did it all for show, except for

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maybe. Except for effects. But, he

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did. He was talking about how the show got green lit. And,

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he actually did say that, he actually has three

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seasons in mind.

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>> Will: Four shows. So, too. So you're right.

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So, just so folks know, we're. We're not doing the

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whole season right in this

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episode. We're going to break it up over the next few weeks

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till two episodes.

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>> Sarah : Yeah. One and two. One and two. Tonight we're

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taking our time because we got it. We got to

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stretch it before we can get to Penguin and

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>> Will: Yeah, well, and also we're doing

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what the story did because honestly, I mean, they,

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they. This. This first episode was very

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deliberate as far as just setting up these key. These

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characters, and taking. And taking our time

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with them.

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>> Sarah : I don't know if it was taking its time because I had a

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very different experience. I felt like

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it was very fast in terms

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of sprinkling in

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characters and faces,

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sporadically, very

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conveniently,

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conveniently, and trying to weave

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the web of how these

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strangers end up becoming, who

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they are. Who we see at the end of the first episode

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are in the future, which is a team. And

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so they're no longer strangers. And so they got it.

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also trying to set up that

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universe, that world while

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trying to give each

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character a, small

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insight into what their conflict will be for

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the season, like, their personal story

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as well as. Do they. Are they

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aware about their powers? Like,

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do they have, like. And

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Michael's really the first one we see and we learn

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second episode that Taser has

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actually

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has been aware about his powers, arguably

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longer. Part of me wonders if we're ever going to get

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a flashback to when he woke up. I

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don't think it's needed.

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>> Will: No.

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>> Sarah : But, it is something about trying to

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understand the timeline. because

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then the bigger. There's the bigger seed

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of. Okay, so

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why.

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>> Will: Yeah.

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>> Sarah : because they also all seem to have had

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arguably different ways

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of,

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having their

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powers ignite I or be

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revealed. initially because Michael

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gets stabbed by Taser.

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I think I thought, like, oh, they have to have a near

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death experience. No, no, no, no,

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because Jasmine did not.

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>> Will: Nope.

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>> Sarah : She kind of did because she

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almost gave herself a heart attack. Cause she almost killed someone. But

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whatever.

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so I guess

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my point is I felt

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like it moved very quickly and it was at

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a pace where they knew they had to do a lot

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because the really, to start the

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story is that last ten minutes of Michael in the

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future, everything else is

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just set up and just trying

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to get. Get

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something like some sort of, like,

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name to face started.

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>> Will: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I guess when I says. When I say

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slow, slow storyline, I

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think I

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referenced that by just, you

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know, you know, instead of, like, you know, some

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crazy meteorite or something coming out of the sky and then, like,

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you know, dark matter blows up on the city. And then everybody

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gets these. Only police. Black people get these

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powers.

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well, one, when we

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first get up the cold open from the credit,

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it's like we're in that. We

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see, one of the two people

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that was referenced in the episode,

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she's, running down, broken out

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of her cell, running down a corridor, trying to try to get

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free. And then they had the

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very stark

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situation where, you know, they do shoot her in the back and stuff to keep her

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from getting out and then dragging her with the blood on the floor and

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stuff. And I, you know, so just me as a black man and just

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seeing that, it just. I think that's what?

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Like, was one of those things that just, like,

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pulled me in to this story because

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it was sort of. It was. It was different. It was

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not, it. I don't want to say fresh

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in the sense of fresh, like, oh, this is so

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cool, but fresh in that, oh,

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we're going to like, yes, this. This is a.

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Yes, we see that this is a superhero show,

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but we're going to

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get you. We're going to pull you in

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and take you on a different route than

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a lot of these other things in the genre does.

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And so I. That opening

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pulled me into, like, I was like, oh, I wasn't expecting this

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because, you know, because you're right. I mean,

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there are so many things that we have Scene in this. In

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this genre now. I mean, superhero stuff is here to stay

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and. And we've Scene variations of that.

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But. But to me, that was very reminiscent

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almost of, like, watchmen or something, where it was like,

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oh, there's some things going on here that, That's a little bit

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deeper than what I normally get.

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>> Sarah : I. I understand.

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I I kept thinking

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about during, especially that cold open,

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it was different, but I kept thinking

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about, how much it reminded me of, some of the

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plot threads in black lightning.

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>> Will: That, was another show.

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>> Sarah : Yeah.

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>> Will: especially first season. Especially first season. Black lightning. That

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was. Yeah, in my notes, that was going to be another

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poll that. I completely agree with you that there.

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>> Sarah : Yeah. And then I also. And maybe it's

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a Netflix saying, I kept thinking about,

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they cloned Tyrone. Yeah,

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they're similar. It's very

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similar. And it's not just because of the

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black aspect. It's just

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like the story points.

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Ah. And they do deal with powers,

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and it's specifically black people getting

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powers and. And the

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oppression of. From how these powers

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are given due to

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oppression from white

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supremacists, mainly. So,

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I don't know,

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I see the potential, but I'm not there

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yet. with them taking

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an entirely fresh take

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on this genre specifically. And maybe

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that's just also because the genre

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itself, there's been so much.

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>> Will: Yeah, yeah, well, yeah, you're right. I

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mean, and, like, you know, as was preparing for

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tonight, the black lightning was definitely. Cause, you know, it's

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funny, you know. Cause a lot of, you know,

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dialogue that's out there is how

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Freus got a hundred percent rotten tomato critics

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score and stuff. So I just, you know, so it's one

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of those things where I. It's like, part of me is

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sort of like I've you know, you and I have talked about a

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lot of different shows and stuff, and you making that black lightning

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poll, and also they clone Tyrone, which we watched last summer,

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is great examples of, like, how

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I pat ourselves on the back, quite frankly,

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that we don't get stuck into the DC Marvel

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route that a lot of the larger channels and larger

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commenters do, because.

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Because I think this

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show is one that, you know, to

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me, needs to be.

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There's some. There's some things about it. I think if,

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that, yes, it is in a

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sandbox that we play in, but I think there are some elements

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there that they're pulling on, that, and

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we'll see how the series progresses. But there is the potential to

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really go take. Take this well worn Tropez

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and well worn genre into. Into some

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new and different places that, yeah, it may be

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influenced by other place, other things, but

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I think what they're doing here with the characterizations and

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really dealing with the everyday struggles of these

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characters and a good cross. Cross

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section of characters. I mean, we have, you know, Michael, who's just a hard working

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guy, delivery driver. Sabrina, she's a

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nurse, you know, Taser. Yeah. he's the

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stereotypical, you know,

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gangbanger. Rodney's

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the mixed kid with trying to, like, you know, become a

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pusher. And Andre, the ex con. So,

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you know, all these little stories that they're

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unfolded here so far has, like, gotten

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me intrigued as far as where they.

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Where they're gonna go with these characters. And

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it's not that they are, you know, they got

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these. They met m these superpowers, like you said,

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manifested themselves in different ways. And so I'm

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just curious to see where this show goes with

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that.

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>> Sarah : Right, right. Like I said, we were talking

501
00:23:08.742 --> 00:23:11.294
about the first two episodes. First two

502
00:23:11.334 --> 00:23:13.606
episodes. A lot of setup, a lot of

503
00:23:13.750 --> 00:23:16.352
just being, introduced to the characters,

504
00:23:16.520 --> 00:23:19.368
the threads. You can tell in the second episode,

505
00:23:19.408 --> 00:23:22.192
though, that there is potential that they

506
00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:25.168
may have started at, ah, places

507
00:23:25.208 --> 00:23:28.140
that were familiar, seem a bit like deja

508
00:23:28.164 --> 00:23:30.888
vu, or we've seen this before,

509
00:23:31.388 --> 00:23:34.172
but that they're willing to take it into some

510
00:23:34.220 --> 00:23:37.220
different directions. Because initially, from the

511
00:23:37.244 --> 00:23:39.708
get go, what I appreciated about the second episode

512
00:23:39.748 --> 00:23:42.602
was, was Dionne. Dion was like,

513
00:23:42.650 --> 00:23:45.282
no, no, no. You disappeared.

514
00:23:45.410 --> 00:23:48.210
Yeah, we were. We were in the

515
00:23:48.234 --> 00:23:51.058
middle of list, and you literally disappeared. This

516
00:23:51.098 --> 00:23:53.398
ain't right. Like, she was

517
00:23:53.478 --> 00:23:56.224
terrified. and I found that to

518
00:23:56.256 --> 00:23:58.704
be very original because we

519
00:23:58.776 --> 00:24:01.624
never. Because. Because, I mean, if we

520
00:24:01.656 --> 00:24:04.480
think about it, majority of the time, they do

521
00:24:04.504 --> 00:24:07.400
the whole secret identity. Like, my loved one can't

522
00:24:07.464 --> 00:24:08.000
know.

523
00:24:08.144 --> 00:24:09.068
>> Will: Exactly.

524
00:24:09.488 --> 00:24:12.280
>> Sarah : That's not the secret in this relationship. There is a

525
00:24:12.304 --> 00:24:15.216
different secret that kind of is repetitious.

526
00:24:15.272 --> 00:24:18.006
But still, how do you

527
00:24:18.072 --> 00:24:19.442
tell someone that?

528
00:24:19.610 --> 00:24:21.238
>> Will: Yeah, exactly. Yeah,

529
00:24:22.258 --> 00:24:25.050
exactly. Yeah. Because when Michael goes, it's like, you know, goes to his

530
00:24:25.074 --> 00:24:27.930
friend's place and, like, you know,

531
00:24:27.954 --> 00:24:30.722
tries to. Tries to tell him. And then, you know,

532
00:24:30.810 --> 00:24:33.810
he's like, you know, this happened to me. It's happened to me then. And we

533
00:24:33.834 --> 00:24:35.722
do get. He's like, well, show me.

534
00:24:35.890 --> 00:24:36.458
>> Sarah : Right?

535
00:24:36.578 --> 00:24:38.998
>> Will: And then he's like. And he just. Whatever.

536
00:24:39.498 --> 00:24:42.466
He just can't perform. But don't. Don't, you

537
00:24:42.482 --> 00:24:45.372
know, which, you know. But it's also cool

538
00:24:45.420 --> 00:24:48.308
interesting, too, to see, like, how people, like,

539
00:24:48.348 --> 00:24:51.252
for example, taser. Yeah, he was. He was. He was aware, you

540
00:24:51.260 --> 00:24:54.260
know, we learned in the second episode that he had been aware about a

541
00:24:54.284 --> 00:24:56.984
week or so prior to him getting stabbed by, Chuck.

542
00:24:57.056 --> 00:24:59.268
Chucky. That,

543
00:24:59.988 --> 00:25:02.924
he, you know, that he knew he had disability and stuff. And

544
00:25:02.996 --> 00:25:05.520
so, you know, so he's clearly, you

545
00:25:05.544 --> 00:25:08.512
know, has some more control over it.

546
00:25:08.520 --> 00:25:11.096
And he uses that to his. To his benefit in the second

547
00:25:11.152 --> 00:25:13.578
episode, whenever. After he is,

548
00:25:13.870 --> 00:25:15.736
cornered, by Chucky and his gang.

549
00:25:15.832 --> 00:25:18.278
>> Sarah : And, so he's

550
00:25:18.358 --> 00:25:20.982
also gonna quickly realize, though,

551
00:25:21.110 --> 00:25:24.014
he may have that ability, not everyone in

552
00:25:24.046 --> 00:25:26.918
his team does. Like,

553
00:25:26.998 --> 00:25:29.654
he's one. He's not.

554
00:25:29.806 --> 00:25:32.614
So. So it'll be interesting. Especially the way

555
00:25:32.646 --> 00:25:35.484
they leave off the second episode with, Was

556
00:25:35.516 --> 00:25:38.428
it crazy who was coming? Cause I

557
00:25:38.508 --> 00:25:40.580
got confused by some of the names.

558
00:25:40.684 --> 00:25:43.368
>> Will: Yeah, so crazy. Yeah. So Chucky was the.

559
00:25:43.468 --> 00:25:45.714
The rival. The, tower.

560
00:25:45.826 --> 00:25:48.714
So, yeah, so, yeah, so

561
00:25:48.746 --> 00:25:51.570
we got the. The sixers. Was Chucky the young. The

562
00:25:51.674 --> 00:25:54.570
guys who came to the party and they always.

563
00:25:54.634 --> 00:25:56.758
You know. And too, Z was always like,

564
00:25:57.338 --> 00:25:59.938
yeah, yeah, yeah. Who was, like,

565
00:26:00.018 --> 00:26:02.588
rapping. That was crazy.

566
00:26:02.748 --> 00:26:05.676
Yeah. So crazy was the major drug dealer

567
00:26:05.732 --> 00:26:07.882
that is all over south London.

568
00:26:08.020 --> 00:26:10.934
>> Sarah : Okay. But the Tower boys, they

569
00:26:10.966 --> 00:26:13.726
were not involved with drug dealing.

570
00:26:13.862 --> 00:26:16.614
But now Taser realizes, like,

571
00:26:16.726 --> 00:26:18.350
they need money, power, respect.

572
00:26:18.454 --> 00:26:20.246
>> Will: Okay, exactly.

573
00:26:20.422 --> 00:26:23.382
>> Sarah : So something I was

574
00:26:23.430 --> 00:26:26.374
not expecting from the Taser storyline

575
00:26:26.566 --> 00:26:27.846
was the grandma.

576
00:26:27.982 --> 00:26:29.126
>> Will: Oh, yeah. Yeah.

577
00:26:29.222 --> 00:26:30.738
>> Sarah : Because that scene

578
00:26:32.518 --> 00:26:35.092
was, very. I don't

579
00:26:35.140 --> 00:26:37.988
know how to describe it. I was watching it. I'm

580
00:26:38.028 --> 00:26:40.854
like, oh, is she really, I was

581
00:26:40.886 --> 00:26:43.686
waiting for it to be revealed that she's really running

582
00:26:43.742 --> 00:26:46.694
the Tower boys. Because the

583
00:26:46.726 --> 00:26:49.222
way he treated her, I was like, man,

584
00:26:49.310 --> 00:26:51.942
okay, you're gonna. Wow. Give.

585
00:26:52.110 --> 00:26:55.030
Jeez. But. But I just. I

586
00:26:55.054 --> 00:26:57.830
found that. So I'm glad that they put that in there

587
00:26:57.894 --> 00:26:59.968
because arguably,

588
00:27:00.088 --> 00:27:02.904
Taser is not the most appealing

589
00:27:02.976 --> 00:27:05.592
character so far that we've been introduced to,

590
00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:08.664
but you can see his love for his grandma.

591
00:27:08.816 --> 00:27:09.264
>> Will: Yep.

592
00:27:09.336 --> 00:27:12.216
>> Sarah : And his pain for what happened with

593
00:27:12.272 --> 00:27:14.944
his parents. I mean, I think they only mentioned the

594
00:27:14.976 --> 00:27:15.480
mom.

595
00:27:15.624 --> 00:27:16.232
>> Will: Yeah.

596
00:27:16.360 --> 00:27:19.168
>> Sarah : So Lord only knows when we'll find out about

597
00:27:19.208 --> 00:27:22.072
the dad and that relationship. So. So the kid

598
00:27:22.120 --> 00:27:25.064
has a bunch of trauma that he. He's really not

599
00:27:25.096 --> 00:27:26.668
dealing with well, so. So

600
00:27:28.128 --> 00:27:30.704
I guess, again, more potential

601
00:27:30.856 --> 00:27:33.800
for it to not go the cliche route and

602
00:27:33.984 --> 00:27:36.822
for, the character to grow overall,

603
00:27:36.910 --> 00:27:37.938
so. Yep.

604
00:27:38.798 --> 00:27:40.898
>> Will: Agree. Yeah, yeah,

605
00:27:41.918 --> 00:27:44.870
yeah. And, yeah. Speaking of other

606
00:27:44.934 --> 00:27:47.734
folks dealing with. Not

607
00:27:47.766 --> 00:27:50.582
dealing with a secret identity trope, it was like rod

608
00:27:50.670 --> 00:27:53.576
and Spud. his. Is

609
00:27:53.632 --> 00:27:55.948
his friend and dealer partner,

610
00:27:56.518 --> 00:27:59.350
you know, with. With, you know, ended up in Scotland

611
00:27:59.414 --> 00:28:01.818
because of transportation issues whenever he.

612
00:28:02.198 --> 00:28:05.166
Trying to make a drug deal and trying to catch busts, and next thing

613
00:28:05.182 --> 00:28:07.984
you know, he's, like, in Edinburgh. But, Rod

614
00:28:08.056 --> 00:28:09.068
is honest.

615
00:28:10.808 --> 00:28:13.624
>> Sarah : I just want to be honest about Rodney and my

616
00:28:13.656 --> 00:28:16.576
feelings. Very tempted to fast forward through all

617
00:28:16.592 --> 00:28:17.588
of his scenes.

618
00:28:18.418 --> 00:28:19.618
>> Will: I like Rodney.

619
00:28:19.778 --> 00:28:20.758
>> Sarah : I don't.

620
00:28:21.258 --> 00:28:24.066
>> Will: There's something about Roddy, but I think, too. But getting back to

621
00:28:24.082 --> 00:28:26.828
Taser real fast, whenever, I said I still thought

622
00:28:26.868 --> 00:28:29.630
about that, whenever two z was like, what

623
00:28:29.654 --> 00:28:32.566
the. What the hell is in his fucking weed? Whenever he

624
00:28:32.702 --> 00:28:35.590
disappeared for the first time, that was definitely, like, the

625
00:28:35.614 --> 00:28:38.526
line of. The line of the first episodes for me,

626
00:28:38.542 --> 00:28:41.284
at least. Crack. I literally, like, just

627
00:28:41.316 --> 00:28:44.082
busted out laughing whenever he, whenever he saw Taser go.

628
00:28:44.130 --> 00:28:46.970
Disappear. But, yeah, but getting back to

629
00:28:46.994 --> 00:28:49.824
Rodney, I, see where you. I see why you want to fast

630
00:28:49.864 --> 00:28:52.616
forward through some of his scenes, but I don't know. It's just something

631
00:28:52.680 --> 00:28:55.680
like, he's, like, the lovable knucklehead of the

632
00:28:55.712 --> 00:28:58.168
group that just kind of, like. I don't know. I just feel

633
00:28:58.216 --> 00:29:00.720
like there's something about him. I just,

634
00:29:00.752 --> 00:29:03.584
like, there's, like, some. A charm about

635
00:29:03.624 --> 00:29:05.764
them, about him that I just. That. That

636
00:29:06.864 --> 00:29:08.284
keeps me from doing that.

637
00:29:10.714 --> 00:29:13.706
>> Sarah : I like Sabrina. I like. Now it's

638
00:29:13.730 --> 00:29:16.710
her sister. Right. And we found out her younger

639
00:29:16.782 --> 00:29:17.374
sister.

640
00:29:17.534 --> 00:29:17.958
>> Will: Yep.

641
00:29:18.006 --> 00:29:20.444
>> Sarah : Who, with chanel.

642
00:29:22.744 --> 00:29:25.632
Yeah. Yeah. I think they said it,

643
00:29:25.688 --> 00:29:28.444
like, once. Who has a thing for Michael.

644
00:29:32.294 --> 00:29:35.166
so I like

645
00:29:35.230 --> 00:29:37.804
them. Sabrina is a bit reserved, a bit

646
00:29:37.844 --> 00:29:40.772
quieter, so it'll take a while to

647
00:29:40.828 --> 00:29:43.306
understand more. But I. We found out she's the

648
00:29:43.330 --> 00:29:45.254
oldest, hard working

649
00:29:45.714 --> 00:29:48.590
nurse. feels like she has to take

650
00:29:48.622 --> 00:29:51.600
care of everyone. but. So she's

651
00:29:51.632 --> 00:29:54.324
really just trying to find someone to take care of her,

652
00:29:54.724 --> 00:29:57.494
essentially, so. And that is not Kevin.

653
00:29:57.614 --> 00:29:59.154
Okay. Not

654
00:30:00.494 --> 00:30:03.350
at all. Not the one. And then

655
00:30:03.382 --> 00:30:05.814
there's AJ, who. Or not AJ,

656
00:30:05.894 --> 00:30:08.848
Andre, whose son is named AJ,

657
00:30:08.976 --> 00:30:11.576
who might be. Might end up making

658
00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:14.674
some. Repeating his father's, mistakes,

659
00:30:15.374 --> 00:30:18.220
which we kind of. We don't know the

660
00:30:18.252 --> 00:30:20.828
details, but we know

661
00:30:20.996 --> 00:30:23.534
Andre has had a rough few,

662
00:30:23.860 --> 00:30:26.114
years. Divorcee,

663
00:30:27.434 --> 00:30:30.354
and trying to make child support, and

664
00:30:30.434 --> 00:30:33.326
just. It ain't happening. And. And he

665
00:30:33.350 --> 00:30:36.054
gets. Has run in with an ATM machine

666
00:30:36.174 --> 00:30:39.142
and ends up breaking it and. Damn

667
00:30:39.158 --> 00:30:40.034
it, Andre.

668
00:30:41.254 --> 00:30:43.974
>> Will: Damn it. Yeah, the ATM mission lost,

669
00:30:44.094 --> 00:30:44.464
but yeah.

670
00:30:44.464 --> 00:30:47.350
>> Sarah : Ah, I just took the

671
00:30:47.382 --> 00:30:49.990
money and I'm sitting there, like, really,

672
00:30:50.102 --> 00:30:52.974
really there. So there just so happens to be no one

673
00:30:53.014 --> 00:30:55.926
around witnessing this except for.

674
00:30:55.950 --> 00:30:58.724
>> Will: Those omnipresent cameras that just happen to be everywhere

675
00:30:58.764 --> 00:31:00.556
when somebody's power manifests.

676
00:31:00.660 --> 00:31:03.404
>> Sarah : Yeah. Yeah. Well, that

677
00:31:03.444 --> 00:31:06.224
all goes back to the cold opening. And

678
00:31:06.604 --> 00:31:09.164
that's another thing they had to figure out a way

679
00:31:09.244 --> 00:31:11.684
to subtly put

680
00:31:11.724 --> 00:31:14.060
in the

681
00:31:14.172 --> 00:31:17.028
big. The overarching

682
00:31:17.196 --> 00:31:19.860
bad corporation or

683
00:31:19.972 --> 00:31:22.940
people who. But not.

684
00:31:23.012 --> 00:31:25.980
But reserve that mystery. and and I

685
00:31:25.996 --> 00:31:28.796
can appreciate all of the threads. I especially like

686
00:31:28.844 --> 00:31:31.772
the one with. With Dionne, who. Who

687
00:31:31.852 --> 00:31:33.432
appears to be a journalist.

688
00:31:34.252 --> 00:31:37.156
>> Will: Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah,

689
00:31:37.244 --> 00:31:39.692
because I like. Yeah, because. Yeah, because she was talking about

690
00:31:39.732 --> 00:31:42.700
the woman who we saw at the beginning. And

691
00:31:42.716 --> 00:31:45.540
then there was also the young girl that we also saw in the

692
00:31:45.556 --> 00:31:47.582
cell, in the,

693
00:31:48.412 --> 00:31:50.112
holding facility. Yeah.

694
00:31:50.462 --> 00:31:53.290
>> Sarah : Jasmine. Jasmine. A

695
00:31:53.306 --> 00:31:56.234
few weeks ago. And then they make sure

696
00:31:56.298 --> 00:31:59.218
we are. We're aware that that is one of the people we saw

697
00:31:59.250 --> 00:32:00.122
in the cells.

698
00:32:00.242 --> 00:32:03.186
>> Will: Yep. Yep. And also. Yeah, and again, just again,

699
00:32:03.234 --> 00:32:06.026
getting to the societal things as we talked about. Just like, you know,

700
00:32:06.074 --> 00:32:08.986
the. You know, if she's blonde, then the

701
00:32:09.074 --> 00:32:11.882
Internet goes crazy, but otherwise, if it's a young black

702
00:32:11.922 --> 00:32:13.182
girl and, you know,

703
00:32:15.212 --> 00:32:18.142
it takes somebody, like, a dion to, like, look out for that. But,

704
00:32:18.092 --> 00:32:21.028
but, yeah, Yeah, I think she. Yeah, so I think she does appear

705
00:32:21.060 --> 00:32:23.852
to be a journalist. And then, yeah, I really

706
00:32:23.892 --> 00:32:26.836
like. You're right. That was one of the things that definitely did stick out to

707
00:32:26.844 --> 00:32:29.500
me, too. Was this her reaction when Michael did

708
00:32:29.556 --> 00:32:31.432
teleport in front of her? And

709
00:32:32.252 --> 00:32:34.964
that was a welcome scene

710
00:32:35.028 --> 00:32:37.548
to see, you know, see

711
00:32:37.620 --> 00:32:38.232
someone,

712
00:32:40.402 --> 00:32:43.186
you know, how. How a real person probably

713
00:32:43.234 --> 00:32:46.102
would react if they saw someone they loved disappear like that?

714
00:32:47.322 --> 00:32:49.994
>> Sarah : Or or how, like.

715
00:32:50.098 --> 00:32:52.938
Like, even too z and his line that

716
00:32:52.970 --> 00:32:55.902
you like about, like, like, how

717
00:32:56.282 --> 00:32:59.274
it is a rarity where we see some authentic

718
00:32:59.338 --> 00:33:02.178
reactions of someone you've

719
00:33:02.290 --> 00:33:04.712
known for forever,

720
00:33:05.132 --> 00:33:07.588
suddenly you question if they're

721
00:33:07.620 --> 00:33:08.172
human.

722
00:33:08.332 --> 00:33:09.072
>> Will: Yeah.

723
00:33:10.332 --> 00:33:13.316
>> Sarah : And you're like, am I in a dream? Like,

724
00:33:13.404 --> 00:33:14.552
it is a very,

725
00:33:16.812 --> 00:33:19.668
very, perplexing thing. And so

726
00:33:19.740 --> 00:33:22.708
I'm glad we got to see that. It's

727
00:33:22.740 --> 00:33:25.148
important for these characters to have somewhat

728
00:33:25.220 --> 00:33:28.068
secrets because that allows mystery and

729
00:33:28.100 --> 00:33:31.072
also the opportunity for tension and,

730
00:33:31.632 --> 00:33:34.019
and you need that for drama. So, so it makes

731
00:33:34.075 --> 00:33:34.667
sense.

732
00:33:34.819 --> 00:33:37.593
>> Will: Yeah, I was Wayne. exactly. Yeah. I was. To that

733
00:33:37.617 --> 00:33:40.609
point, I was just like, whenever Michael and Dion

734
00:33:40.665 --> 00:33:43.495
were, sitting on the couch and, you know, he was dancing

735
00:33:43.535 --> 00:33:46.143
around the whole thing about the future and,

736
00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:48.809
and what he saw, and I was like, I was like,

737
00:33:48.897 --> 00:33:49.685
okay,

738
00:33:51.425 --> 00:33:54.145
please. I was like, don't, just tell her. Just tell her

739
00:33:54.185 --> 00:33:57.094
just for once, break the mold. But they didn't. And

740
00:33:57.110 --> 00:33:59.586
I was like, damn it, we gotta wait till another episode.

741
00:34:00.046 --> 00:34:02.896
>> Sarah : Yeah, yeah. she's gonna

742
00:34:02.936 --> 00:34:04.432
figure it out eventually.

743
00:34:04.584 --> 00:34:05.808
>> Will: Yeah, yeah.

744
00:34:05.952 --> 00:34:08.888
>> Sarah : If, and it takes her too long, then she

745
00:34:08.912 --> 00:34:11.504
loses IQ points for thought, right?

746
00:34:11.560 --> 00:34:14.560
>> Will: Yeah, well, and also. Yeah, and even,

747
00:34:14.728 --> 00:34:17.664
but also another to your point about how people react to

748
00:34:17.680 --> 00:34:20.156
me, she, you know, with, with

749
00:34:21.216 --> 00:34:24.032
Michael and Taser, she's like, look, every time your

750
00:34:24.064 --> 00:34:26.792
powers manifest itself, I mean, she's thinking like, it's, you know,

751
00:34:26.824 --> 00:34:29.612
tasers to issue. Right. So

752
00:34:29.684 --> 00:34:32.436
again, so it's just, you know, just what those

753
00:34:32.476 --> 00:34:35.296
triggers are and how people perceive them.

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you know, Michael still hasn't figured out how to, how to make his

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stuff work. Sabrina, I guess, well, you know,

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I know each episode, subsequent episode

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has the character's name as a

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title. So, so we'll, you know, I guess we'll

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see her get more

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confident in her powers and as far as, you know, being able to

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use them at will as well as the other

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characters, as we go forward.

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>> Sarah : Yeah, yeah, we got six

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more episodes. And I'm sure by

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the end of.

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>> Will: The eight episodes, we'll understand it's only

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six episodes.

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>> Sarah : Oh, it's only six episodes. So we got more

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episodes. Yeah, we got four more

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episodes. And I'm sure that by the end of it, we will

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know, understand the critical

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praise that it's been receiving so far. and

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it definitely has potential, so we'll just

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speed through, and

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we hope everyone stays and also,

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watches it along with us. So, on that note,

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Will, why don't tell our listeners where they can find you.

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>> Will: Yes, you can find me on, x, formally known as Twitter at,

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Will and, Polk. W I l l m,

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Polk.

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>> Sarah : And you can find me there too, at sjbelmont. Sjb e l

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