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    S02.E06: Tried And True

    in Superman & Lois

    5 minutes ago, Chicago Redshirt said:

    I went back to S1.E2 Heritage to look at what actually was said.

    Jor-El: You brought your son to me. Why?

    Clark: Because, unlike we thought, Father, he is manifesting abilities.

    Jor-El: Well then, it is possible for us to further our Kryptonian heritage after all. And you, Jordan, you will be the one to do it.

    In a later scene:

    Jor-El: And you're certain he's displayed abilities?

    Clark: Absolutely, sir. Why?

    Jor-El: The photo-nucleic effect appears to be insignificant. 

    Clark: Insignificant? How can that be?

    Jor-El: His cells can only store minimal amounts of energy from the sun. 

    Clark: But he's released an ocular blast.

    Jor-El: Only once, and he's since then been unable to repeat it.

    Clark: He has elevated strength.

    Jor-El: For his size, perhaps, but nothing extraordinary. He doesn't even have 1/100th your strength. 

    Clark: Let's test him again.

    Jor-El: There is no reason to do so. These have been random occurrences. He'll never have enough power to produce these abilities on command. His human DNA is too limiting.  

    So to recap: Clark and Jor-El did not think it likely that Jordan or Jonathan would be able to display powers, and Jor-El had come to the conclusion that the human DNA was too limiting for them to show powers by the tests performed. Sounds like Jor-El had come to the conclusion that human DNA predominates over Kryptonian DNA, at least in so far as granting powers and as far as those terms make sense in this context. 

    Now indeed, it turns out that Jordan has been getting stronger with his powers (though I think it is a stretch that he only beat Tal-Rho due to inexperience.) But again, we don't know if Jordan's abilities have gotten stronger purely because of the genetics or because of any number of intervening factors (such as the need to purge him of the Kryptonite sickness he suffered helping to jumpstart things or his being possessed by an xKryptonian).

    The point is that Jor-El was wrong. And you have what I said about Tal-Rho backwards. I said that Tal-Rho was only able to beat JORDAN because of the latter's lack of inexperience and training.

    But we're clearly never going to convince each other at this point, so let's just call it a draw and move on. What do you say?

    S02.E06: Tried And True

    in Superman & Lois

    7 hours ago, Chicago Redshirt said:

    The fact that Jonathan does not have Clark's powers and that AI Jor-El  predicted that neither would manifest powers strongly suggests that Clark's genes are not the dominant ones for the purposes of this show. 

     

    But Jor-El was wrong. Jordan DID manifest Kryptonian powers. Moreover, what Jor-El actually said was that whatever powers Jordan has will never be at Clark's level because of Jordan's half-human heritage. And from what we've seen so far, Jor-El was even wrong about that. Jordan's powers are growing stronger as he learns how to use them. Remember that the only reason he lost his last fight against his uncle Tal-Rho was that Tal is older and more experienced in the use of those powers. Jordan's not there yet, but he will be eventually.

    S07.E13: Knocked Down, Knocked Up

    in Legends Of Tomorrow

    9 hours ago, Lantern7 said:

    Speaking of . . . .is this it for Nate/Nick? I've never disliked the character. Yeah, the whole hemophilia thing was swept under the rug after the second season, and budget constraints forced Nate into less awesome roles, "Hey-World" is also something I try not to think about. But I felt Nick did his best, and he rolled with the show's "go for broke" direction. And hey . . .we could get RoboNate back one day.

     

    Yeah, this is it. While the showrunners have said that the door is open for Nick to come back if he wants to, he himself has made it clear that leaving was his decision. He just felt that it was time to move on to new things, so this particular exit for Nate had been pretty much planned from the start of the season.

    Now, what I want to see is how Alun is going to be integrated into the Legends. His is going to be the most difficult adjustment we've seen so far, since he literally just came aboard the Waverider from 1916 after narrowly escaping what was supposed to have been his demise. How do you process the fact that (a) you were supposed to have died in battle; (b) your boyfriend (who is technically from nine years in your future) invented time-travel specifically in order to prevent (a) from happening; (c) you are now on what to you is an alien spacecraft located somewhere outside the time stream and are surrounded by perfect strangers who are known only to your boyfriend; and (d) you've just been arrested for something called "time crimes" -- whatever THAT means!

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    S02.E06: Tried And True

    in Superman & Lois

    8 hours ago, blackwing said:

    Jonathan and Jordan don't have to share the same DNA.  They are fraternal twins.  In an individual, 50% of DNA comes from the mother and 50% of DNA comes from the father.  The way the two halves of the DNA combine is what makes each person unique.  The source of their DNA is identical but the way the DNA combines is not.  So Jordan's DNA, maybe his combination is a way in which Clark's genes are dominant and his powers have been inherited, and with Jonathan, maybe they haven't.  I see it as the same way why two parents with brown eyes but both carrying the recessive gene for blue eyes can have a set of twins, one of whom has brown eyes and one of whom has blue.

     

    Clark doesn't have any human genes, so your analogy to the recessive genes that produce blue eyes doesn't work. Clark can only have given Kryptonian genes to both boys even though they are fraternal and not identical twins. And the fact that Jordan DID inherit Clark's powers to me demonstrates that Clark's Kryptonian genes are the dominant ones. I've never yet seen a full-blooded Kryptonian who didn't possess the full range of Kryptonian powers on Earth under normal circumstances.

    2022 Beijing Paralympics: Still Swifter, Higher, and Stronger -- Together!

    in Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games

    · Edited by legaleagle53

    So is anyone watching the Paralympics? I'm watching the opening ceremony now, and the biggest news today is that Russia and Belarus have both been completely BANNED from participating due to their invasion of Ukraine. That means no "RCP" or "BPC" Paralympians are here. The IPC apologized to the athletes but told them point-blank that their leaders were to blame.

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    S07.E13: Knocked Down, Knocked Up

    in Legends Of Tomorrow

    6 hours ago, thuganomics85 said:

    Glad Gwyn was able to save the real Alun and that he will be sticking around as well.

    It's going to be interesting seeing them both adjust to being full-time Legends. Neither of them really has the slightest idea of the full-on insanity that awaits them, and Alun in particular is going to have a hard time processing everything that happens (as well as coming to understand that he now lives in a world where his relationship with Gwyn is not only going to be accepted, but even celebrated!).

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    S07.E12: Too Legit To Quit

    in Legends Of Tomorrow

    3 hours ago, Zonk said:

    Good thing Gary is an alien. I don't think anybody else could survive being spaced temporalzoned.

    To be honest, they had me there for a good long while. I don't follow the meta of most shows I watch and I thought this might be a series finale. It wouldn't have been a bad one, to be perfectly fair.

    Looking it up now: while the showrunner "debunked" a leak, that legends was already renewed, I'm inclined to believe that the initial leak was in fact correct. They would have to know by now and them saying "oh we don't know one way or the other" seems fishy.

     

    There's still one episode left in the season, so this couldn't possibly have been any kind of finale.

    S02.E05: Girl...You'll Be A Woman, Soon

    in Superman & Lois

    1 hour ago, PAForrest said:

    The X-K should be allowing Jon to tap into dormant powers he may have exhibited eventually. That's what they SHOULD do. However, I still don't believe the showrunner is going to allow two Superboys in this universe, even though by deciding the Kents were to have twins, the logical thing would be for the powers to be split between them.

     

    Except that that's not how the laws of heredity work. Splitting the powers between them so that neither of them gets the full range of Clark's powers would be like giving them each one brown eye and one blue eye. Because they both have equal amounts of Kryptonian DNA in them (since that's all that Clark could give them, because he has no human DNA to give them) and children inherit the dominant traits of their parents, they should both have inherited the full range of Clark's powers, so they both eventually manifest the full range of those powers.

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    The Office (US) - General Discussion

    in The Office (US)

    3 hours ago, Stacey1014 said:

    I don’t know about friendship, but there was somewhat of a mutual respect that started to show once Michael left. It was shown occasionally in the beginning (Jim knowing Dwight’s middle name at the hospital and Dwight remodeling their kitchen), but when Michael left the show, their interactions together were so much better. They looked to each other when they realized Deangelo wasn’t going to work out, the arc in Tallahassee was wonderful, the final Christmas episode where Dwight was upset that Jim wouldn’t be there for Dwight’s party, and Jim was genuinely happy with Dwight being manager. Even the way he “fired” them in the finale showed that there was somewhat of a friendship and a mutual respect. 

    And that extended to Pam as well. I was floored when Dwight specifically called her his best friend in the finale, considering that she and Jim had spent the previous nine years making his life hell (and vice versa).

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    Figure Skating

    in Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games

    11 minutes ago, KaveDweller said:

    But I think it is nice to see the athletes when they are super happy. You don't get to see people that legitimately happy in too many circumstances. It is much nicer than when you have to watch them sob over losing (or even getting second).

     

    Yes, I have to wonder what Trusova will think of herself 20 or 25 years from now when she watches her meltdown over not winning the gold medal in 2022.

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    Figure Skating

    in Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games

    10 hours ago, ChicksDigScars said:

    So, Alysa was invited to the gala, but no routine. No dress. Enter Ice Dancers. 

    Red dress belonged to Olivia Smart. Madison Chock did her hair. Madison Hubbell did her make up. Jean Luc Baker helped create a routine on the fly. 
     

    Her father probably hated it. LOL. 
     

     

    It's great the way her teammates had her back and helped her put something together at the last minute. That's what being part of a team is all about!

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