Supacell Review: Episodes 3-4 & Tribute to James Earl Jones

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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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CW originally had game shows scheduled for

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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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That makes sense. It's three days, and we both

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did take up at least two of them doing

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stuff.

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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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So it's. There's more cultural

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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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And I'm pretty

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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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So just. Just

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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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Yeah, pretty sure that's what it was called. You have you Scene

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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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I've Scene this, and, misfits executed

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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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from purring.

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>> Will: Yeah. Yeah, it's. It's a. Well, yeah, it's a well worn

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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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even, you know, 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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So, that's. But I think, for me,

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what got. I really got invested

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with the show, because of the

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cast and

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this and also just the story, even though I've Scene

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this, like you're saying we've Scene this story before where

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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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I think for me, it was that. And then

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also, I think was the

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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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issues. yeah, I

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was very familiar with it. Yeah.

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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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than the one that has

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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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interesting to see which way they go with

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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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I mean, so clearly, we're just getting started.

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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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Agatha.

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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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But they also. It was

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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

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about the first two episodes. First two

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episodes. A lot of setup, a lot of

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just being, introduced to the characters,

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the threads. You can tell in the second episode,

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though, that there is potential that they

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may have started at, ah, places

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that were familiar, seem a bit like deja

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vu, or we've seen this before,

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but that they're willing to take it into some

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different directions. Because initially, from the

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get go, what I appreciated about the second episode

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was, was Dionne. Dion was like,

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no, no, no. You disappeared.

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Yeah, we were. We were in the

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middle of list, and you literally disappeared. This

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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.

754
00:34:35.516 --> 00:34:38.418
you know, Michael still hasn't figured out how to, how to make his

755
00:34:38.442 --> 00:34:41.332
stuff work. Sabrina, I guess, well, you know,

756
00:34:41.444 --> 00:34:43.900
I know each episode, subsequent episode

757
00:34:43.948 --> 00:34:46.644
has the character's name as a

758
00:34:46.660 --> 00:34:49.512
title. So, so we'll, you know, I guess we'll

759
00:34:49.544 --> 00:34:51.916
see her get more

760
00:34:52.756 --> 00:34:55.668
confident in her powers and as far as, you know, being able to

761
00:34:55.692 --> 00:34:57.932
use them at will as well as the other

762
00:34:57.964 --> 00:34:59.876
characters, as we go forward.

763
00:35:00.576 --> 00:35:03.346
>> Sarah : Yeah, yeah, we got six

764
00:35:03.386 --> 00:35:06.266
more episodes. And I'm sure by

765
00:35:06.306 --> 00:35:07.194
the end of.

766
00:35:07.250 --> 00:35:10.162
>> Will: The eight episodes, we'll understand it's only

767
00:35:10.194 --> 00:35:10.986
six episodes.

768
00:35:11.106 --> 00:35:13.466
>> Sarah : Oh, it's only six episodes. So we got more

769
00:35:13.506 --> 00:35:16.010
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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m o n t. Please follow our crew on Twitter at Scene a Nerd friend

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but most importantly, rate, follow and comment on Apple

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Geek out. You're welcome.