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On 5/4/2022 at 11:34 AM, Diapason Untuned said:
I'll have to strongly disagree with this. Jonathan lying about the incident with Candice did harm his family, particularly their reputation in town and caused not insignificant problems for the, not to mention the football team for example.
Jonathan and Clark's lies both hurt their family, the only difference is who the lie ended up protecting in turn.
How did it hurt the football team? The whole XK thing was exposed because the original quarterback (who looked more like a left guard and didn't throw the ball very well, but was starting because... he could bench 300lbs?🙄) got sick, he was using before Jon even knew about it, that revelation would have what got the games won forfeited and season cancelled, not the fact that Jon was covering for Candace. I'm kinda perplexed as to why he didn't reveal where he was getting it himself, I don't know why he would have proteced Candace, they really should have offered an explanation for that.
A lot of hate for Canace on this forum, and her being a "drug dealer". But it sound like her family was pretty desperate, and once she was in her supplier wasn't about letting her out.
I'm not sure it's even established that XK is a controlled substance. If it is, John Henry and Nat were doing some serious law breaking when they went to go grab some of their own. You can hem and haw over "but they are using if for good purposes", but to a kid who is forced to worry about her family losing their home or putting food on the table, those might be pretty good purposes on their mind.
For that matter, is it even on a banned substance list of PED's for sports organizations? Because trying to retroactively penalize a player or team for using something that wasn't actually explicitly banned for them to be using is not going go fly if that player or team has any desire of challenging decision.
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1. Damn, not much in the way of comfort from Lois when her son gets dumped by his first girlfriend, that he thinks he's in love with. She is a hard ass.
2. Sara's family continues to have a really inflated opinion of her and what she deserves. Which I get, you always want your kid go know you're on their side, but considering how the Kent/Lang family are supposed to be pretty friendly with each other, Sara's parents don't seem especially supportive of her relationship w/ Jordan. I hear a lot more of "he doesn't deserve you for x reason" talk than "he's a good kid, be patient and maybe you can work things out".
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On 3/25/2022 at 11:45 PM, WatcherUatl10 said:
And, apparently, sometimes Kryptonians HAVE no powers. Jonathan, for example. This show is just so ridiculous. And, again, Jonathan is not LYING to anyone, and if his parents had any knowledge of who he is and how hormones work, they would simply confront Candace, the only person from school who has ever set foot in the Kent home with Jonathan. It's NOT rocket science.
Also, Clark has no business trying to guilt Jon for the football season being cancelled. Let's remember how the X-K was discovered in the first place- the "starting" quarterback was getting sick from his use, that revealed X-K use on the Smallville team, and his participation in all those prior games would have led to the forfeits. Its the whole reason they came to the school looking for it(rolling my eyes at the X-K sniffing dogs and having the... county sheriff? doing a search for space rocks that turn people into superhumans instead of a federal agency). I can see some town people blaming Jon if the believe he was dealing it, but Clark knows that is not case.
For that matter, why is the other quarterback not revealing his source? The sheriff didn't go directly to Candace, so he didn't name her. I bet a visit from, idk, Super-fucking-man asking him to do the right thing might convince him that he should come clean.
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On 2/23/2022 at 3:46 PM, Chicago Redshirt said:
Usually I have more nitpicks for episodes than this one. But I finally came up with one:
Previously Jordan seemed to at least somewhat hold his own with Tal-Rho for a few seconds before T-R was able to take him down. Seems to me that given that he was at that power level then and before that he broke Jonathan's arm, even skirmishing with Jonathan would be a bad idea. Sam shouldn't have allowed it, especially not knowing about the XK.
And even on XK, it seems like he shouldn't have been able to put such a hurt on Jordan.
I think my bigger nitpick is that, Jordan having displayed a notable level of power previously, neither Sam nor Jordan seems to be all that curious about or shocked by the fact that Jon kinda just kicked Jordan's ass. Boy, that's hard to explain.
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On 3/2/2022 at 2:33 PM, CountryGirl said:
I am so over Brida. But happy the show is coming back for a final season.
Honestly, I just don't get why anyone is following Brida. I don't buy her as a strong warrior or military leader, she's not portrayed as particularly charismatic or cunning. Why is anyone following her orders?
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Ok, I thought I noticed something in episode 6, wondering if anyone else did, or if I'm even correct
SpoilerDid Gina Torres(Keeper Yennen) use a few lines straight out of her speech as Jasmine on Angel the Series? When I have time, i will rewatch both and compare, but it sure sounded familiar. Anyone else think so?
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So, I had noticed before on previous watches that the bus driver's neighbor/lover was played by Kristin Dattilo, who played the estranged wife(Harry) of Charisma Carpenter's co-star/love interest Doyle on Angel. But this is the first time it struck me that the bus driver's name was Ed... DOYLE. That can't have been a coincidence😮🤔😁
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God damn, I love Veronica, but this episode really hammers bike that she is an awful friend. The SPRING dance is going on during this episode, and she asks Wallace "you're on the basketball team, aren't you?". The season has been going in since probably November, and she's not even sure if he's been in the team, much less gone to a game to support him(realistically, the season should be over by the time of a spring dance)?
I've always gotten a kick out of the next episode and how Veronica gets to see the view of Wallace from kids at another school when she goes undercover and realises he's kind of a rock star, but on this rewatch I just really notice the timeline more and how late in the season this is taking place. Now I really wish they had been able to drop this and the following episode into the season earlier, like around Christmas or right before, then it kind of becomes cute that Veronica doesn't know that what she views as her dorky best friend is really a basketball star, and it would make sense that she hadn't been to any games, with her not exactly being someone who's had a great experience at Neptune and feels the need to show a bunch of school spirit or is interested in sports. But for the entire season to go by with her seemingly not even knowing Wallace is playing, or if she thinks he might be not going to a game, really sucks on her part.
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On 1/29/2022 at 7:47 PM, For Cereals said:
It’s quiet in here. I feel cheated by the US educational system. We were never taught to tie knots!
For once a show acknowledges the existence of zombies and hambies.
SpoilerWe might not tie knots as well, but I'm confident we would come up w/ a simpler yet infinitely better and less gross looking plan for using the bathroom. I'd start with not dismissing the completely logical suggestion of having the boys pee out the window.
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Can this show please just stop with any high school football related story lines? They do them so badly, I can't imagine any of the series writers ever played a high school sport.(To be fair, few television shows portray high school sports w/ any accuracy).
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On 7/11/2021 at 4:06 PM, Affogato said:
If Matt survived Elektra could have survived.
I really don't understand the underpinnings of the story. Ok, this has happened before, Pompeii was mentioned. So is this because dragons live near their food supplies (cities) and die there and get buried over the centuries? Or did the magic city bury the dragon remains all over the world, with the magic 'key'? Because why was the magic lock in new york? Why did they have to dig the hole and did the 'dome shape' happen when the remains were teleported there? I just don't get it.
I don't see how "food supply" would have anything tho do w/ it, according to Gau dragons roamed the land ages ago and these bones are fossilized, they are clearly there long before New York City was even a glimmer of an idea, probably thousands of years. We don't even know if these dragons ate people, for that matter.
I took it as the dragons lived and subsequently died in different places all over the world(I didn't get the impression the bones were transported there), and sometimes cities would happen to rise over or near their remains, close enough to be destroyed by their excavation(Chernobyl, Pompeii). There may just as well have been some sites where the Hand found deposits over the years that were less populated and whatever destruction the excavation caused was less extensive or well known.
That said, there is just a lot that doesn't make sense about the plot. Why elders of Kun Lun decided to create some kind if barrier around this set of bones but apparently not around any others in the millennia since the Hand has been seeking them out gets no explanation. The best head cannon I can come up with is, that having seen the devastation the removing these bones can cause and seeing the growth of one if the worlds largest cities directly in top of some, they took steps to protect they city from the Hands eventual pursuit of them sometime in the last few hundred years or so. That doesn't explain why they wouldn't have done the same for Chernobyl, considering that was fairly recent.
Enjoyable series, but has its share of flaws and inconsistencies. Every time they mention using the last of "the substance" (ugh, they couldn't give a name after thousands if years? They could have given it something, maybe in another language, that would have still concealed its true nature for the same effect) on Electra, I I cringe, because clearly Bakuto died LONG(Claire's ongoing story through Daredevil, Luke Cage, and finally Iron Fist gives us a timeline to measure of sorts) after Electra was killed and her body placed in the blood-filled resurrection chamber, I can only assume there was some left for him.
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Anybody else ever wonder how awful the All Valley Tournament has been over the three decades between the movies and the show? None of the other dojos can manage to get anyone past the quarter finals against these 3 dojos full of students who have been training for just over a year at the most, many significant less. I know the whole mythology is built on the bullied outsider/underdog defying the odds, and I could accept Daniel, Miguel, and Robbie as exceptional students who went through intensive, one-on-one training(or close to it) with true karate masters. But when it gets to the point of Kenny making the semifinals, A 100 lb 13 or 14 year old kid w/ like a month of training against nearly full grown 18 yr olds who I'd imagine have years of experience, it's really starting to cheapen the the victory for whoever wins, imo. It just no longer appears to be a very competitive tournament. It would probably work better for me if the tournament had age brackets and maybe a novice division(something such a tournament would certainly have, in addition to having a girls division long before now), that way you you could still have these characters winning matches and scoring points for their teams without diminishing the accomplishments of any of the older, more experienced victors.
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10 hours ago, bettername2come said:
How did I end this ep feeling bad for Stinkray?!
I have no idea. He just assaulted his sister's defenseless neighbor. The only thing that made his presence remotely tolerable was seeing him get run out of the dojo or beat down. The only times I have ever been on the side of Kreese or Silver. He's a creepy weirdo. I just want him to go away forever.
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4 hours ago, Chicago Redshirt said:
I have to admit that I thought that there would be Cobra Kai cheating but that either Eagle Fang or Miyagi-Do would overcome it to win the "soul of the Valley." I like that they averted the Miguel/Robby rematch that seemed a near-certainty and that Hawk got the title. I'm surprised that Tory "won." and I wonder how many know that Silver bribed the ref besides the two of them and now Tori. I look forward to it getting out that Cobra Kai cheated. I imagine at some point either Tori will let what she overheard slip, or an electronic paper trail will out the bribe or something.
It seems somewhat weird that the tourney organizers gloss over the notion that so many of their competitors have criminal records/suspensions for the big karate fight, and that there was specific beef between Sam/Tori.
I don't know if I like that Daniel is planning to immediately go back on his word just because Silver and Kreese are scummy. I guess if Chozen takes over Miyagi-Do, then Daniel probably lives up to the technical agreement that he would no longer be a sensei. But still....
I don't like how Miguel went out though. Like I could buy that he got (misguidedly) pissed at Johnny for carrying more about winning than about his welfare. (And I wished that Johnny would have explicitly told him "I care way more about your well-being than this trophy or not teaching again.") I could get behind him being depressed at not being able to come through for Eagle Fang, or something along those lines. But I don't think that not showing up to let people know that he wouldn't compete is in his character. I don't think him not watching Sam in support is in character. I don't think suddenly bolting to Mexico to try to find his father is in his character. That doesn't even begin to touch on the logistics of how he would find his father and make his way across a border and back as an unaccompanied minor, and why he would choose that particular time to do it.
The Silver/Stingray setup is crazy if you think about it. Stingray voluntarily (after a bit) let himself get ass-whupped to an apparent coma so that he could get back a bunch of high school aged pals and street cred. Even putting aside the sociopathy that would be required to go along with this scheme, I would think that he would have to wonder about whether it would work to get him what he wants (the appreciation and the approval of the current Cobra Kais). Kreese basically pissed all over him being a Cobra Kai and not one person among them stood up for Stingray rejoining the Dojo. It seems unlikely that even with Sensei Silver saying that he be part of the Cobra Kai family that the students would welcome him. Presumably, some of them are going to be in disbelief that their sensei would have done this to someone as pathetic as Stingray. But even among those who believe Kreese did it, aren't most of the current Cobra Kais going to look down on him as an old overweight loser? Shouldn't he seek out the Eagle Fang people, who were most of the old Cobra Kais who were actual friends/acquaintances? Or does the name Cobra Kai mean that much to him? And as for Silver, are you going to really rely on this manchild to try and carry out your evil scheme? Will whatever story he tells hold up under repeated questioning? What if Kreese has an alibi for whenever Stingray says the attack occurred?
Everything involving Stingray is pretty cringe. Let's not forget he was just on probation, and if there is not a warrant it for his arrest I will just be pissed. There is no way his sister's neighbor didn't file assault charges against him.
That whole scene just made all the high school kids look like assholes, too. Cheering for this old weirdo while he assaulted someone who can't defend themself. Yeah, I get the guy was going go shut down their party, but these kids are way to desensitized to violence, even the ones that have nothing go do with Karate.
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14 hours ago, Bill1978 said:
I may have laughed out loud when Maya killed Kingpin (presuming he is dead - I don't know anything about him I didn't even know he had superstrength etc). Only because people were so excited about his return and then the MCU is see ya later. Still doesn't mean I care about Maya's story going forward.
I may have laughed out loud at the idea that anyone believes Kingpin is actually dead. Even w/o any knowledge of the comics or the characters or relevant storylines, it is just basic television storytelling. No actual visual confirmation, no body... almost certainly no death.
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Tom Welling returns to Michael's podcast.
Couple of interesting things to note.
1. They talk briefly about the animated Smallville project they are developing and will be pitching next month. But a bit later Tom mentions that they have 2 projects that they are working on together. They never discuss the second one.
2. At the end if the interview, Michael asks Tom if he would be interested in playing Superman now (a live action version, one would assume, since we know they are already developing the animated version). Tom actually seems like he would very much be interested in playing that role now.
Could these two be trying to generate some interest in a live action Smallville revival project?
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42 minutes ago, Morrigan2575 said:
No she didn't and she wanted him, I doubt she would have told him if she knew. In all honesty this way she gets to remain a decent person instead of a lying, backstabbing witch..so good on the writers 😁
But i think the key is that she IS a decent person, probably the most decent if all the mages we've met, and she absolutely would tell Geralt that Yen was alive if she knew that he had been looking for her. I highly doubt that she would have even propositioned him if she knew that he was mourning the death if someone he loved just weeks earlier, whether if had been Yenn or anyone else.
I can't find any reason to doubt that she would have told him.
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2 hours ago, kariyaki said:
No.
And Geralt hasn’t seen Tissaia since she found out Yennefer was alive.
I'd be fine w/ it if they didn't keep moving them close to it and them steering away.
Triss starts listing off the names of dead mages an Geralt stops her before she is done and he can learn Yennefer is not among them.🙄
Geralt talks about being at the aftermath of Sodden and is clearly affected by it on a personal level, but Triss doesn't seem curious why.🙄
Triss puts the moves on Geralt and he rejects her, she's hurt by it, but he doesn't explain that he just lost someone he loves days earlier.🙄
It's already a little silly that be wouldn't ask about Yenn, he knows Triss would be aware of her fate even if he doesn't know that they were actually friends, and his assumption that she is dead was based on the fact that he couldn't find her in a mass of like 30,000 bodies from the numbers we heard. How long did he look? But I can accept that. But then putting them into situations where if they just asked that one more question or said one more thing... that is just a it much for me.
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Omg, did Christmas just come early!?
I'm 5 minutes into the episode and please tell me they just showed us Wilson Fisk!!!! 😃😃😃
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On 11/26/2021 at 5:00 PM, Zuleikha said:
I am here with the important question:
Is it actually okay for a dog to eat pizza? (I know Pizza Dog is from the comics, but comic reality and TV reality are different.)
The show's pacing is weird for me. I get that we're in the set-up phase, but I don't feel like set-up is happening. I feel like events are happening. It seems almost absurdist with catastrophic event leading to catastrophic event and no sense of who any of these people are or how/why they really got involved... like does the Tracksuit Mafia actually have the watch? What happened to it? Why would making a bell ring destroy a clock tower?
At the same time, I'm oddly drawn in by it. Although Jack Duquesne's accent is distracting me. (I know Tony Dalton's worked in Mexican film, but he's from Laredo, TX. Does he have an accent in real life? Is he trying to do a French accent but sliding into a Spanish-influenced accent?)
Also, exactly how old is that pizza? Kate has been at school. Kate got into town, told her mom she was going to make a quick stop by her apartment and then come over. That led straight into the party and the rest if the nights events. Did Kate, during her quick stop, order a large pizza and eat all if it except for one slice? Possible, but when she is looking for something to feed the dog, I get the distinct vibe of "I wonder what I have in here, oh, just this old slice if pizza", which I would assume she would know already if she had just ordered and ate it and then put the leftovers in an otherwise completely empty fridge.
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Just looking at this title makes me all kinds of sentimental. Not because of anything to really do w/ the show, but because I used to have a Corgi mix named Calisto❤
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17 hours ago, Dani said:
The opening shots was of medals and trophies that she had already won. So she was involved with martial arts, fencing and archery before 2012. Endgame was set in 2023. Based on @AimingforYoko’s post this in Christmas 2025 making it a little over two years after Endgame. Putting it after all the other movies and tv shows by a good bit.
It really was.
Which does beg the question, why does she need to tell her mom she needs a bow at the funeral? I would assume if she were that involved with and accomplished at archery, she would already own one.🤔
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Not sure how I feel about Julia's heel turn. I had been kinda suspecting it coming for a few episodes, but her stated motives for turning on Spike were nonsense.
1. She was offended by the notion of Spike believing Vicious's words about her choosing Vicious. Seriously? You were willingly involved with Vicious for quite a while it seems, and appeared completely happy with the relationship. I don't think it was portrayed and being any kind if secret what Vicious did for The Syndicate. Now, just because you happen to see one instance of his violence in person, everyone should assume that there is no way you would willingly choose to be with him?
2. She's angry Spike didn't come back for her? Wtf? Ignoring the fact that it is completely plausible that she chose to be w/ Vicious, as stated above, Spike and her were romantically involved for... one day. Literally, one day.
So she's mad that a guy she hooked up w/ once didn't mount a suicide mission go rescue her from a relationship that he had every reason to give she was happily in? Anna even told Spike that Julia was happy when he asked about her.
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On 10/10/2021 at 8:30 PM, roctavia said:
I assume as others have said that Vampires as a lore don't exist in this world, hence nobody saying, Gee, I think this is a vampire! but also, that means this vampire doesn't have to follow any rules that we normally associate with vampires... They didn't have to be invited inside homes to get the other islanders out to kill them either.... so definitely there are some missing bits of lore...
As far as the Pruitt's change of heart, I think it's related to Bev taking things farther than he wanted. It seemed to me that he wanted to share this with people, but wanted them to be willing. Things got way more violent in the church than I think he was planning and then when Bev let everyone out and they ravaged the rest of the people in the town- people who hadn't chosen to be with them.... I think it was too far for him and not what he had planned.On 10/7/2021 at 3:48 PM, tennisgurl said:Is this show set in a universe where vampires were never a part of pop culture, the way The Walking Dead is set in a world without a concept of zombies until they showed up? Otherwise I have no idea how no one ever said "is it me or do these things totally seem like vampires?' especially as the blood started getting sucked. Overall I liked this show, even if I think it was rather flawed, especially the ridiculous amount of monologues. They weren't even bad monologues, most of them were well written and performed, but there were so damn many of them that you just wanted them to stop with the one man show and get on with the story. I don't mind a slow moving story, but this show had a LOT of padding with all of the speeches, showing tons of church services, I know that this is a Mike Flannigan thing, but it can get old, especially if the atmosphere isn't working for you.
However, despite its flaws, I still liked the show and I think that it ended on a strong note. I didn't expect just about everyone to die except for Leeza and Warren to die, but I think it worked, it turned out to be quite emotional, I admit to getting a lump in my throat starting when Erin started narrating about returning to the cosmos to the vampiric townsfolk realizing what they have become and accepting their fates. Especially when their singing cut out as they burned, that was chilling. I know that this show is going to inspire dozens and dozens of think pieces about whether this is pro religion or anti religion and a lot of that will probably come down to the individual and their personal experiences, but I think it was mostly a show about forgiveness, faith, and extremism. Forgiveness is probably the most obvious theme, with Riley finally finding peace with his family and with the girl he accidently killed right before his death, Leeza forgiving Joe for shooting her, Father Paul apologizing for bringing the vampire to the island and for not being there as a father for Sarah, and the townsfolk realizing that, like Riley, they had to hope to find forgiveness for what they did by accepting that they have to die, and like Riley they got to die with a certain amount of peace. Unlike Bev who could never acknowledge that what she did was wrong so died screaming and pathetically trying to burry herself in sand while everyone else died with dignity. You can probably make a case about what this is saying about organized religion, but I think it was more broadly about faith and how it can lead to good and bad things. Faith gave Erin hope when she lost her baby and when she was dying, waiting to become one with the cosmos and see her lost loved ones, but faith also led the Monsignor to radically misinterpret the monster he met in the cave and bring it back to gift its "miracles" to his people, out of deeply misguided but genuine desire to help the islanders and the woman he still loves, which was an utter disaster. Then you have Bev and Annie, who are sort of two sides of religion, the good and the bad. Bev is self righteous, petty, judgmental, racist, cruel, and eventually becomes outright murderous. I think Annie hit the nail on the head when she said that Bev hates the idea that God loves everyone as much as he loves her, she absolutely needs to feel superior. Annie isn't a perfect person, but she is a very compassionate person who loves people, flaws and all, tries not to judge others, even resisting the urge to drink blood when she became a vampire. Religion led to the fervor that got the entire island killed after half the population became monsters, but it also led to them realizing that they were wrong and gave the people of the island some comfort in their last moments, with Hassan and Ali doing one last prayer and the townsfolk singing a last hymn. This all leads to the other theme, extremism. Mike Flannigan said that the angel vampire represents extremism, which I can totally see. It shows up and spreads extremism like it passed on vampirism, passed from one person to the next until the whole town is infected, and everyone only comes to their senses once its gone. It makes people act out of character and way more intense and violent then they used to be, bringing out the worst in people, until everything erupts into violence.
If nothing else, Bev is a pretty amazing villain, I have rarely seen someone so punchable on my screen who I was still entertained by. Her miserable final moments were very satisfying. I stand by my earlier statement that even the scary vampire angel was a more likable character than her. And probably a better conversationalist.
I was really hoping that Sheriff Hassan and Erin at least would make it out, but at least they found some peace before death. Its like Mike Flannigan heard people complaining about the ending of Hill House and was like
Like I said, the show was flawed but I really did find a lot of good stuff to chew on. I think it could have been better, especially with less padding and speeches, but I am really glad I watched it. It had a very Stephen King vibe that I enjoyed a lot, with a whole lot of extra religious horror and Mike Flannigan metaphorical genre mixing with a lot of great performances, I am glad I watched it. Not as good as haunting of Hill House or even Bly Manner, but I was sufficiently creeped out and challenged.
When Sarah is describing EPP, the disease that makes people extremely photosensitive and iron deficient, she suggests it is responsible for myths, which I take as a clear allusion to vampire lore. I don't make much of the fact they they can go into church or homes uninvited, or aren't burned by crosses, etc. Plenty of vampire fiction picks and chooses what attributes to portray as "true" and "myth" when it comes to vampires within a specific universe. We've seen plenty where they aren't burned by sunlight(Dracula, Twilight), even though that is one of the most commonly found attributes. I feel like the writers choice to avoid using the word vampire was purely stylistic, even though at some point it becomes just too odd that no one just blurts out ,"jfc, its a vampire! "
S02.E11: Truth And Consequences
in Superman & Lois
I was referring as to why the former starting quarterback didn't finger Candace as his source. Clearly he had revealed that he had been using it, thus the search of the school w/ the... XK sniffing dogs. And I'm not sure how Jon dealing it would be a tipping point, the participation of an ineligible player(one using PED's) would be the rationale for forfeiting games. As soon as the original starter's use is discovered, those games are essentially forfeit, it's just a matter of doing the paperwork and making it official. I don't know if Jon had even played in a game up until the point he took over the starting job. I don't see how if would be any different if the quarterback had just been getting his XK directly from Candace's supplier.