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I can understand why Danny cut contact with Sarah a little better now. They just started talking again and she's bringing up their mom at every opportunity.
It's funny that their country isn't a year old and they've already started lying to the populace, for their own good of course.
Liked seeing Danny and Grover hang out, at least someone here likes him a little.
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2 hours ago, possibilities said:
Well, they did it. They name-checked Sylvia Rivera and now they've got me. The show's premise is ambitious but the execution is... thin. But I see what they are doing now. It's like they will sprinkle their oversimplifications and optimistic delusions with just enough representation, tantalizing historical references, and hints about important organizing principles and signposts of recovery, so that anyone who hangs around will get bits to run with.
I was going to give up because I kept laughing at how they were rushing from checkbox to checkbox and it was just too simplistic and obvious.
But: Sylvia Rivera, people! Not everyone knows that reference, and more people should. And they put her right there in lights. And then the fiancee slammed the door in the face of the abusive mother and nobody gave her a second of sympathy or enabling and I thought: well, yes! Hold the line, my friends!
This show lacks subtlety. It is played out like an outline more than fleshed out as a story. But they bought me off with a Sylvia Rivera reference, so I applaud them for that, and I appreciate the effort.
Yeah, at first I was kinda bored, but then when they brought up Alice Paul, Mother Jones and Sylvia Rivera, they got my attention with that. I was impressed that they didn't go for the obvious answers there.
Then there was the scene with Grover burning his house down and I'm not gonna lie, I respected that. If I built a house with my own hands and then the land was taken from me and someone was going to tear the house down, yes, I would burn that shit to the ground first.
The scene with Danny and his mom was really good, not something you see on TV. I like that no one was giving the mom an inch, not even Sarah. She thought one call and one good deed was enough to entitle her to a relationship and that got shut down real quick.
This show is cliche, but the writers can slip some gems in.
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31 minutes ago, Chicago Redshirt said:
Given that Bruce has typically been portrayed as having contingency plans within contingency plans wrapped in yet another set of backup plans,
This is a comics thing that has been flanderized to hell and back, so I'm not really going to blame Bruce for not putting 20 odd levels of security in his already secure Batcave.
QuoteI am just not going to buy that he kept all his Bat-weapons in the Batcave, that Kate in her mental state would have known where to find all off them (remember, she literally had no idea that there was still a Batmobile in the cave)
She was obviously searching around for stuff she could use.
Quoteand had time to destroy/dispose of them, or that Bruce didn't have the ability to obtain more weapons if the Batcave was completely looted, taken over, inaccessible etc.
She had hours in there, based on Ryan getting arrested, taken to GCPD for booking, calling her parole officer, etc.
QuoteEven if we accept that Kate thoroughly looted/destroyed all the immediately available Batweapons, the Batfam should have been able to buy some commercially available devices in the time between Kate's escape and Black Mask shutting off the power.
That stuff isn't exactly off the rack, you know.
QuoteIt's a given that Ryan couldn't stop Kate from taking the Batvillain weapons from Black Mask HQ, and it's a fair point that she couldn't stop them from going in the river in the first place (although I would argue it seems unlikely that she had them all on her physical person when she went into the river).
Why would it be unlikely? We know she had them all on the bike.
QuoteBut what Ryan (and Kate) could and should have done is exert at least some effort to recover the weapons from the river. Maybe they did off-screen, but it is not a good look that a bunch of WMDs were just left there.
When would they have time to do that? The stuff had already floated away by the time Ryan found Kate and Alice on the shore. By the time they could get equipment together to do a search it would be too late.
QuoteSafiyah presumably had the time to meet with Black Mask between when Kate stole the stuff and when Alice stabbed her. She monologued about how she was going to be Queen of the Desert Rose again. It's unclear if she had already put her plans in motion or what. But there was probably IMO time for her to have gotten the Ivy miracle-gro stuff before her confrontation with Alice.
Fair enough. I assume she just wanted to talk to Alice first.
QuoteI don't know if the plan to kill Jacob was "stupid," per se. They would have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for that meddlesome Batwoman, and if so, he would be in a position to be 100 percent running the Crows either as the official head or just manipulating things behind the scenes. With both Jake and Sophie gone, there wasn't necessarily anybody of note to stop him.
He would have killed him sure, but I don't know about getting away with it. It was too sudden, not enough planning.
QuoteI guess I have to accept Tavaroff is as smart or stupid as the plot requires, no more and no less. He was clever enough to have found and to run Batwoman's DNA, and to have gotten away with evil Crow stuff for years.
You don't need to smart to find some blood on the ground and do a DNA test, and you don' need to be smart to frame people when you have the weight of the state, big business and people's apathy behind you.
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1 hour ago, Chicago Redshirt said:
1. Ryan gets somewhat of a chance to prove herself truly Batwoman by fighting without the gadgets (for the most part) and the suit.
It was good to see her in top fighting form. But I suppose the question is why she doesn't use the gadgets. Circe clearly couldn't have taken all the Batarangs, smoke bombs, tranq guns, etc. AND prevented them from making more, right?
It's not clear how much equipment they did have. i could buy that Circe either stole or wrecked most of it and they certainly didn't have time to make more.
QuoteAlso, it seems very sloppy of the Bat Fam to have let the villains' weapons float downstream to parts where anyone could get them. I didn't get how the villains' stuff ended up in the river anyway, other than the writers saying "we wanted it to."
When Ryan and Alice rolled in, Roman told Circe to take the weapons and run. She had them on her when they went over the bridge. Nothing that could have been done there.
QuoteWe saw what was supposedly an ivy vine creeping up the shore. Does that mean Safiyah never took the Ivy stuff she wanted to get back in the Desert Rose business or were there multiple samples?
Alice killed her before she got the chance.
Quote2. Ryan gets the Kate Kane stamp of approval rather than time-sharing Batwoman or Kate reclaiming the mantle
There probably was no way to do this to the satisfaction of everybody or maybe even most people in the space of an episode. There are going to be Kate fans or Ryan opponents who want Kate back. There are going to be Ryan fans who are going to think she doesn't need Kate's blessing or who think that she didn't get it enough.
Black Mask said it himself, people can't follow a confusing message. I kinda wish the show had stuck to one thing, either recasting Kate or not, just killing her and moving on.
Quote4. Luke levels up
Happy that Luke has moved on his on hero's journey in some senses, but not so happy in others.
I feel a little insulted that we are supposed to buy that Lucius Fox made a Batsuit with Luke in mind that apparently has the capability of superjumping/flight, and didn't tell Luke, didn't tell Bruce (or Bruce didn't tell Luke), didn't make these improvements for Bruce's suit, didn't have it somewhere the suit was discovered until the middle of a blackout. I would have probably more easily bought that Luke, being a genius in his own right, had been tinkering with his own suit for a while, knew it wasn't quite ready but the anarchy in the streets meant he had no choice but to use it.
I can buy Lucius was working on it in secret and never got around to telling anyone and that Luke never found the thing, because God knows, that place didn't look like anyone had been in there for years.
QuoteFor my money, the show should have established more that Ryan actually wants to be Batwoman and spent less time on people telling her she's good enough, she's smart enough and gosh darn it, people like her as Batwoman. I think we had an unprecedented level of pep-talkiness for the Arrowverse. In addition to Kate, Ryan needed to get the message from Vesper AND half of Gotham that she was valid.
Compared to Flash, I barely even noted this.
Quote6. Snakebite -- the cause and solution to all of life's problems
I will give the writers props because in retrospect it seems obvious that Snakebite could restore Kate's memories, but I at least didn't see it coming and didn't see speculation that it might happen.
Yeah, I can't say this came out of nowhere, unlike Ryan's Desert Rose.
QuoteAlong similar lines, Tavaroff should not let that stuff come within a mile of his body, seeing as how he saw first-hand that it turned people into zombies he had to gun down. I can buy that he is a power-hungry bad guy, but nothing about the character up till now has suggested he's crazy or stupid.
He decided to spontaneously kill his boss in cold blood. Guy's a moron.
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14 hours ago, thuganomics85 said:
I know I should feel more for Grover and losing the house, but I'm really not sure what he wanted Sarah to do instead.
Even he understood it needed to happen, he was just emotional about it and I can't blame him. If I actually built a house, I'd be attached to it too.
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What an amazing episode.
This may actually be the best origin story for Superman I've ever seen, anywhere. I love how they mixed Silver Age stuff like Supes' first costume and that phonebooth spin with more modern stories like Superman Smashes the Klan. And just when I was getting cozy, it was actually all in his head, basically the plot of "For the Man Who Has Everything"
Seeing Clark's anger at Edge threatening his family, his pain at losing Jor-El and his anguish when he had to surrender, what an emotional gamut that man has been running. I'm really looking forward to how they're gonna save him next week.
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Just now, Trini said:
Does it, though? And they can always change the rules.
From what we've seen so far, it does and I doubt they will.
QuoteBut back to the original point, I also think it was dumb not to at least save some flowers for Kate, or for the next emergency. I mean, this thing literally cures death; be smarter than Safiyah and save some seeds.
This is exactly why they're getting rid of it, it's too convenient. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that you can't propogate the thing through cuttings (not all plants can be) or that it simply isn't producing seeds right now.
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21 minutes ago, possibilities said:
Yeah-- give Safiyah a cutting or something. Also, didn't Safiyah save seeds? Does this plant not reproduce like other plants?
She put all her budget into her League of Assassins lookalikes instead of you know, urban planning.
QuoteOr, you know. kill Safiyah, what the hell, why are they so good at fighting entire hordes of people, but Safiyah is magically both incompetent and formidable.
They try to avoid killing as a rule, and she had a hostage, plus she was surrounded by goons.
QuoteThey will give up the miracle cure plant in exchange for the psychotic serial killer who killed both Ryan's and Mary's mom, instead of maybe trying feeding some to Kate to see if it reverses her damage.
She was hypnotized, how is the Desert Rose going to fix that?
QuoteI mean, at least TRY it. I bet it would help with Diggle's headaches, too. Because magic rolls that way. So now they will need to go back to Safiyah's and steal back the plant?
The Desert Rose might be magic, but it runs under rules. It's only good for physical maladies.
They've pretty clearly foreshadowed what's going on with Diggle, and it's not an injury, nor it is something that gonna get handled in this show.
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21 hours ago, Trini said:
Aw, Luke! Can we get him more hugs please?? It's insane that all the stuff in these past three episodes all happened in apparently 2-3 days! Anyway, I'm always glad to see Luke out of the Batcave; he always deserves a day off. It was understandable that he confronted Tavaroff, even though he was never going to win in a fistfight. Looking forward to Luke stepping up as a hero.
I liked the poker game, especially the part where Luke straight up started dissing everyone there.
QuoteIt was nice to see Diggle again, and I liked his talk and interactions with Luke; but I really thought that he was going to have more to do. However, I think I would have liked the talk more if Luke heard it from someone who had a closer personal relationship with him. Bruce Wayne would be my first choice, but a Fox family member, or even Ryan would have been better.
He did talk with Ryan, but I thought it was conceivable that he would he would benefit from speaking to a stranger. I did appreciate that this proves that Team Batwoman is mostly unconnected to the rest of the superhero scene with Kate gone.
QuoteWell, Safiyah is kind of a crappy queen if her entire island has "nothing" after one fire. She still has her
LeagueGuild of Assassins, at least, right?Safiyah is so incompetent it's almost breathtaking. She has the most valuable plant in the world, yet she hoards it and does it so poorly that she can't even keep a few safe in a vault or something.
QuoteHey I like Alice as an antagonist; but of all the villains in the DC-verse who not only should, but easily can be shot on sight, it's her; but yet her enemies keep letting her literally walk away when they have her. Her Plot Armor is amazing.
I've been saying it all along, Alice is just benefitting from being a Kane. Without Jacob and Kate around, she'd have been caught or killed ages ago.
QuoteIt's been so long since we've seen Kate, I'm not really sure how I feel about this new version. Although, I thought it was really interesting that they went with the true love trope of "I know you, even when I don't know myself" with Sophie & Kate. I guess the writers are committed to that pairing.
I honestly thought they were trying to set up Sophie with Ryan, but if this means Ryan can start a relationship with that activist lady, no complaints from me!
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This season has been lackluster, but this episode was the best thus far.
Cisco and Camilla were pretty dickish to just spring this on everyone, I have to say but apparently Argus needed Cisco like yesterday. Those guys have a good gig going on, poaching superhero tech support who are field tested and up to date on beyond bleeding edge tech and how to make it practical. I guess that's why Dig and Lyla make the big bucks.
Considering how sappy this show can be, I found it ironic how Barry and Caitlin were trying to keep a stiff upper lip for Cisco and him misreading the signals. Iris' utter dislike of interviews was funny, I mean she doesn't have a Chester waiting in the wings to take over.
Barry and Cisco just being goofy and that scene with Barry breakdancing was the funniest this show has been a while.
On 6/8/2021 at 8:32 PM, cambridgeguy said:Rainbow Raider 2.0 might be the stupidest person in the Arrowverse if she thought dropping a bunch of cash (and very hard jewels) on a crowd of people wouldn't cause a riot and massive injuries.
It's like Karli from FatWS. Rainbow Raider 2.0 isn't really doing anything wrong, so they needed to make her stupid so Barry would have to take her down.
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A really great first episode!
I loved how Loki tried to deal with the absurdist mess that is the TVA. First he played along, then he tried to lie his way out and when that didn't work, he just rubbished the whole thing and did a runner until he found those Infinity Stones in the drawer (I love that scene) and realized that this was real, it was happening and it was beyond his control.
Seeing Loki run through the whole of his MCU escapades was also some fine acting, like the way he flinched away every time he saw the Avengers on screen, or the look on his face when he saw Frigga's death and just couldn't parse it or his plain disbelieving laughter when he saw his death.
I'm really interested in this Evil Variant Loki. His MO is so radically different from the Loki we know with the lack of ego and grandstanding that it makes me very curious what exactly happened to him.
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That part with Luke was actually pretty interesting. As others above mentioned, they subverted the usual trope where people on their deathbeds struggle to live. Luke wanted to die, but ended up coming back anyway. That's got to be a big deal for him. Luckily, Diggle will be there to help him through it next week.
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1 hour ago, arc said:
Even in a world with superhumans and multiverses, I think the default assumption about someone who’s not as dead as the official record says is that person faked their death. Jumping right to “he must be that guy in the suit who attacked Superman a few months ago and that guy is from a different universe” is a wild leap in logic. The writing on this show is so bad.
I can understand the logic.
The Stranger has information and tech that he shouldn't have.
"Marcus" has information and tech that he shouldn't have.
Both of them have an interest in Superman.
They had already floated the assumption that he was from a parallel world as they know that survivors find their way to this world sometimes, but they were also wondering if he was just an illegitimate Luthor. That theory was jossed and Lois finds out that he's actually a dead man, who presumably left behind a corpse. At this point, other universe doppleganger is more likely than someone faking their death.
QuoteAt least those weren’t longtime family farms if the town was only established in 1949.
60 years is more than long enough to be a longtime farm.
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You got me, show. I'm not too proud to admit that. I honestly didn't see the Steel reveal coming, even when the show was dropping hints with his daughter and working for Lex once. I love when a show can genuinely surprise me.
Really, this show is just getting more and more excellent by the day. Just brilliant. I really liked how Jordan tried to power through his superhearing training and kept failing, until of course he manages it by spying on his crush. That's so teenagery it almost hurt, especially the hypocrisy he showed to Jon there. I'm glad the show gave him a win when he saved Clark, he needed it.
Edge is real nasty piece of work the way he keeps manipulating all the women around him, even that poor assistant of his. She really came through for you this episode, Edge. Treat her a little better than that.
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8 hours ago, Chicago Redshirt said:
The show gets so many things right. Like Clark's characterization as himself and Supes is pretty close to perfect. And I think in the few episodes so far, there has been far more success in creating the right amount of balance between showing him as a badass while presenting him with actual challenges in a way that neither Supergirl nor Flash have ever really demonstrated.
This show has so much heart to it, and I love that it's centred around Clark being a dad, being a son and being a member of a community. That stuff informs his superhero career every day and it's great that the show is leaning into that.
QuoteI am tired of Kyle's raging man-crush on Morgan Edge, so I enjoyed that he got blown out thinking that Morgan was going to hire him to be his right hand guy and getting passed over for Lana. I put the over/under on how many episodes before Edge makes a pass on Lana at 3.
The look on his face when Edge passed him over was something else. 😁
I would ask if Edge would be so dumb as to mess up the works by screwing around with an employee at this sensitive stage in the game, but hey, he's Morgan Edge after all 😅
QuoteI am officially at the point where I am tired of Jonathan being the good son and getting crapped on. Give him his own powers, let him sulk for more than a scene about how he has gotten royally screwed. Have Jordan be the supportive brother for a change.
I agree. Seriously, give the kid a win for once, show!
QuoteI know that kids will be kids, but in this particular case, Jordan and Jonathan really should have listened to their dad and stayed out of sight since there was a superhuman who was potentially stalking them. Although in fairness, Supes should have stashed them in any of the million places that Tag would likely never have thought to look for them even with super-speed, instead of just leaving them at the hotel with the Smallville football team, the same team Tag was a part of and could easily learn what hotel they were at.
To be fair, Clark was going right out to deal with Tag, so it wasn't an issue.
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10 hours ago, Primal Slayer said:
When I tell you that I am OVER Khalil....I am over him. I couldn't do it anymore so I just fast fowarded through his scenes. This is the last season and we have so much focus on him?????
I've been enjoying Khalil so far myself. His show needs all the help it can get to be picked up, so he needs to be seen as much as possible.
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13 minutes ago, Chicago Redshirt said:
It's understandable that no one wants to be the bearer of bad news to Black Mask but it should have been obvious even without knowing the side effect that messing up the drug could lead to customers not caring, customers dying or getting sick, the authorities taking a harder line on the drug, etc.
All of these are valid issues, but they still don't trump being killed by Black Mask today, especially after the trouble they went through with Ocean and Angelique.
QuoteFair enough that Ryan picked out the Crows. Not sure if that says Ryan sucks at judging characters or if the Crows she picked were just the best of a bad bunch.
Ryan didn't pick the Crows, she wouldn't even know who to pick. She told Sophie to pick them and to stay in command at all times. Sorry if I gave you the wrong impression.
QuoteI don't think it is the same day, but regardless, in the real world officers are going to be put on leave immediately, not sent back out on patrol. Yes, it's not the real world, but still.
True, I think it might have been the day after. Regardless, they're not cops, so I don't think the same rules apply.
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22 minutes ago, Chicago Redshirt said:
True, Ocean told them that. But one would think that when the drug is a different color than it's supposed to be, someone might say "Huh, we probably fucked this up."
We've seen how Black Mask treats people who tell him what he doesn't want to hear. Why would anyone care that they fucked it up, especially when the clients don't care either?
QuoteIt is probably the first time when someone without superpowers or tech literally was said to have been a few chest compressions away from dead minutes or hours earlier to serving as a nurse himself.
Try watching Arrow.
QuoteI don't know that the officers who ran over Wolfspider were "handpicked."
That was Ryan's stipulation for their partnership.
QuoteBut there's a few differences between hitting a criminal and leaving him to die on the one hand and shooting to kill drug users who can't help themselves., I think
Not very many.
QuotePlus Sophie (or someone) got the former people fired. No one took any action against the Crows who gunned down the Snakebite Zombies, even though at least in the real world, the practice would be for officers involved in any shooting to be on administrative leave for weeks.
It's literally the same day. They probably will get put on leave, they'll just come back after some weeks of paid vacation.
QuoteIn the previous episode, the people who were against the community center were part of the prison-industrial complex. Their motivation was that if the community centers succeed in lowering crime, there would be fewer prisoners and less of a need for prisons. The same logic doesn't really apply for individual police officers or the police department as a whole. Police officers get paid regardless of what they do.
Police officers often have quotas for how many people they arrest, so they could have a reason not to want the community center to get going.
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9 hours ago, Chicago Redshirt said:
Remember when the show made a big deal about Ocean and Angelique being forced to do a tutorial on how to make Snakebite? Because the show expects you didn't.
Ocean literally told them that there was more to making Snakebite than just watching a DIY video, but they didn't care.
QuoteRemember when Jake was seemingly on death's door from taking Snakebite? Because this episode had him not just make a full recovery, but get to the point where he was helping around the clinic.
This isn't the first, nor will it be the last time we see people recover from what should be crippling injuries with ease in the Arrowverse.
QuoteRemember when the Crows were supposed to be a quasi-military organization with Sophie second in command? Because now the writers want us to believe that an agent can dis his commanding officer in public and disobey direct orders and not face any real blowback for it.
This isn't the first time it happened. Remember when Sophie's hand picked officers ran over Wolfspider and left him to die in the street? The show has consistently shown the Crows breaking the law when it suits them, from Jacob straight on down. This is a learned behaviour for them, and extreme situations like zombie outbreak are a perfect excuse for them to get away with it.
QuoteI know the show wanted to make the points it made about police brutality and all that, but couldn't they do that without stretching things? From the start of the cops breaking up a fundraiser for a community center (which the cops are against why?)
That's not anything out of the ordinary. Besides, we already saw how they were being targeted in earlier episodes.
QuoteAnd Sophie, after her talk about how she can make change from the inside, just walking away? Not even attempting to make the Crows pay for gunning down however many people? They didn't go out in the field equipped with tasers or other less than lethal weapons, or they just didn't choose to use them?
She's been trying, but she's just tired of it now. Even if she tried to take them to task for gunning down those people, they'll just use the "I was scared for my life!" defense and they'll get away with it. She knows it too, that's why she's just done with it now.
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2 hours ago, salaydouk said:
Honestly I don't know about the inter-workings of the CIA, but I do know that the CIA does pull resources from United States Special Operations Command which comprises all of US military branches special forces divisions. So it is very possible to be active duty member of say Army Delta or Navy Seal teams and be temporarily assigned to a CIA operation and take orders from a CIA handler. But you cannot be active duty military AND a member of the CIA at the same time.
I was thinking that he had left the Marines at that point to join the CIA's Special Activities Center or something, or maybe he was on loan.
Quotein that same sequence Bryan and another guys were walking around with baseball caps on... yeah ah that is a big fat no...
I got the feeling that was based on some movie I can't really remember...Jarheads, maybe?
QuoteI am pretty sure that the audience would understand it if they just said they were going to try him for Murder. Explaining UCMJ, yeah forget about that...
Yes, but then you'd have people going "bUt THeY weRE TerRorIsTs" if they charged Bryan with murder. War crimes sounds more serious, gives more of an impression he did something wrong.
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I have seen a number of backdoor pilots on the CW, but this was state of the art, the absolute bleeding edge.
Tom was such a great character, I'm praying right now for his show to get picked up, literally praying.
His conversation with Nick was just gold, I have literally had that conversation with a guy at my work who was side-eying my lineup when I got a new fade, so that hit more than I expected. In fact, I can't even remember the last time I even heard the word "lineup" on my television (that wasn't related to jail). And that stuff about Harry Potter just brought me back too. So great.
Nick has really been getting some good lines recently, last week and then this week. I really hope the show keeps it up. George has been shining as well. It's good that the show is not letting their relationship fall into a rut.
Kudos to the wardrobe team on Tom's outfits. They're doing some damn fine work there. In fact, everyone's wardrobe has been improving.
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2 hours ago, jaigurudeva said:
Definitely weird that the CIA would take Beneventi into their ranks after screwing up so bad in the Marines, though, specifically on a CIA op. There's definitely more going on there. Interesting that the credits audio referred to him as "Agent Beneventi" and not "Sargeant Beneventi," it means that the incident in question happened when he was in the CIA, not the Marines.
1 hour ago, shapeshifter said:Can a CIA agent be undercover in the Marines?
And/or, can the CIA recruit an active Marine to work for the CIA?The CIA does have a division for paramilitary operations. He could well have been working for them.
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On 5/11/2021 at 10:16 AM, salaydouk said:
The explanation of Bryan's war crime does not make any freaking sense. He and his team are hunting for insurgents and they run into them in a cave and he goes nuts and kills them... but they are a special set of insurgents working with the CIA... and he was going to be charged with a war crime for killing them?!?! Ah that is a load of just crap... US soldiers looking for insurgents, finds them and kills them this _not_ a war crime. If they were women and children and they kill them yes that is a war crime. But not what he described here. Would the CIA be POed heck yeah, could they have tried to get him strung up on charges perhaps. But here is the deal, the US military would not charge a US service member with war crimes. The service member would be charged with the specific article/crime under the UCMJ(Uniform Code of Military Justice) they are alleged to have committed, ie with Murder, Dereliction of Duty, and the catch all Conduct Unbecoming, etc. But US does not charge its own with the the blanket charge of "war crimes."
Apparently these were different insurgents. You're right about how the show presented what happened with Bryan, but I'll assume they went with something the audience would find easier to understand like war crimes, rather than the UCMJ.
QuoteGeorge driving himself across the country?!?! Huh? Why wouldn't Garcia have gone with him? I mean slap on some colored contacts!
Garcia doesn't seem to like him very much, plus he has other work to do.
QuoteAnd what is the deal with him needing aluminum foil?
He's still paranoid.
QuoteWhat I am still trying to figure out though is why would Maddox getting out from being charged under the UCMJ be enough for Bryan to say that Maddox saved his life. What else happened that this episode did not show what other events are they connected by? Was the purpose just for us to see the point where the two of them met? And yes I would have definitely been more interested in knowing the reason for the shots..
They seem to be saving the shots for later. I'm actually wondering if they were going to give Bryan over to the Afghan government or something.
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This episode really could be billed as an extended Legends interview for Brainy and Nia. They'd fit right in, I'm sure. This episode was even more late 2000's than the last, or was it just the music; can't remember the last time I heard Paparazzi 😅
I wonder what it says about this Kara's previous love interests that Kenny has beaten all of them in the span of 2 episodes? I hope this isn't the last we see of Kenny.
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S01.E05: The Criminals It Deserves
in The Republic Of Sarah [V]
Sarah really should have just copypasted the New Hampshire laws and changed what needed to be changed, rather than trying to redo everything while depending on the obviously out of date town charter.
I had to laugh when the reporter called Sarah a dictator because frankly, he has a point. She only goes to her cabal of childhood friends and former students for advice and assistance running this country.
It's also amusing how quickly she resorted to political shenanigans like colluding with lawyers on a matter she should have remained neutral on.
I honestly had no clue she was married at all before this episode.