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SO GOOD.

I generally like my superhero shows to be escapism, not gritty realism with superheroes who beat up the bad guys who are gangsters and sex traffickers, which is why I didn't get through more than about half a dozen episodes of Daredevil or Luke Cage and wasn't even game to try The Punisher.

But I'm *loving* this, it deals with the shit black communities deal with, which is not comfortable to watch of course, but the superhero family are awesome and love and support each other but also have to work through all the crap together.

And honourable mention to the elder daughter, Anissa, being out and proud and it not being an issue.

a few random pics )

Titans rec

Feb. 16th, 2019 04:58 pm
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I can't keep up with all the superhero shows, I tend to binge watch several eps of one i like then get distracted by something else, non superhero-related and then forget which one I was trying to catch up on. And when it's a new show I'll watch a few eps and if it doesn't grab me I'll get distracted and have good intentions *shrug* Never did watch more than a couple of eps of The Gifted, The Defenders, Luke Cage, Inhumans, Daredevil, Runaways, Legion etc Unless I get hooked on a show when I conveniently have time to BINGE binge watch. I've just watched all eleven eps of s1 Titans in a couple of days. It's dark. And the mutants are funky. and messed up. And they deal with real messed up issues, like the big tough ex-football player superhero who we meet in ep 2 then you don't see again till ep 9 where the whole ep is just his and his partner's backstory including dealing with the trauma of childhood sexual abuse. Dick Grayson is one of the main characters, he's Moved On from being Robin cos he doesn't like who he was becoming, and then later he gets to meet Jason Todd and there's some amusing replacement-jealousy. Plus I what I'm assuming is a nod to the Batman/Robin shippers out there. It amused me :)
Now I'm watching the first ep of Doom Patrol and holy crap, that's Brendan Fraser, he does not look well. And there's Alan Tudyk and Timothy Dalton and Matt Bomer and I am absolutely shallow and very sad about the fact that Bomer's character's bandaged like a mummy *g*
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A time agent, played by Arthur Darvill (Rory from Doctor Who) collects a bunch of supporting characters from Arrow and The Flash to help him save the future and shenanigans ensue because they have no idea what they are doing and argue a lot but also try to save people and each other and keep screwing up the future and then having to try and fix it again.



I'm only about seven episodes in but it's entertaining and full of pop culture references and in jokes. My faves are Rory and Snart - criminal partners who've been inseparable since they met in juvie when they were 14 years old. They're played by Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller who played brothers in Prison Break. One time Rory is in a Soviet prison and the others are plotting to break him out and Snart is like 'this isn't my first prison break'.

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Binge watching season 3 Agents of Shield, love love love watching all the Shield stuff - invested in all the characters, especially May, Bobby (and Hunter) and Daisy. I am mostly bored by the Hydra plotting scenes but I do enjoy watching Ward in full psycho killer mode...remember how underwhelmed we all were with season 1 right up until the bland generic white guy lead character turned out to be Hydra??? Well played, Marvel.

I adored the episode that was just Simmons trapped on the alien planet. I am now invested in Simmons/Will as well as Simmons/Fitz and have had to check to confirm that Will turns up in another ep, and have looked up Simmons/Fitz/Will fics for future reference in case they actually bring him home.



Oh, HA, Simmons is being all defiant at Ward and Ward is like 'love this whole Furiosa vibe you've got going'

OOOH, back on the planet now, SO AWESOME.

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