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Never heard of that. Is it legit?
Very legit.
The ads per page are agregious, but the vast majority of every comic I've looked for is there, and in a respectable resolution/size per image.
Never heard of that. Is it legit?
Very legit.
The ads per page are agregious, but the vast majority of every comic I've looked for is there, and in a respectable resolution/size per image.
Do they have Groo The Wanderer? X-Men vs. Teen Titans by Walt Simonson?
Are y'all cranking up The Halluci Nation after watching this?
Right? The actress IS deaf and missing a foot. The fuck are they supposed to do about it?I just don't understand all of those Youtube channels claiming woke? Where is the woke? Their schtick is lame and tired.
Right? The actress IS deaf and missing a foot. The fuck are they supposed to do about it?
I need to watch episode 5 still, but overall I really liked seeing the Choctaw tie-ins. My wife is Choctaw . . . I'd ask her to watch it, but she's not a huge Marvel fan.dude I literally did lol
I actually thought of you several times while watching the series tbh. I was like I gotta get on Sherdog and see what Spam thinks. I have many many thoughts myself
I was hoping for your take on it, these parts are actually some of the reasons I’m excited to see it.I'm gonna have to deliberately hold myself back from uncorking a monster rant, so let me just say a few things off the top:
The basic plot premise if forgettable, I don't think Alaqua Cox is a particularly good actor (at least in this role, and with this writing), and I think the character herself is extremely unlikeable. Like, very unlikeable. I'm not even sure what kind of character they are trying to write.
However, and this is a big however, I'm extremely glad this show exists. You can tell that they didn't simply consult with the tribe (one of my own tribes) but had tribal cultural and historical resource staff actually drive the writing of those parts of the show. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the opening of the second episode, and the pow wow going on in the final episode. I was fucking blown away by both of those things. The opening of the second episode had the Native historian in me literally flabbergasted; I don't think I can recall ever seeing that kind of historical representation of a pre-contact tribal society, fictionalized or not, on a screen anywhere. As for the pow wow scene, well, for my non-Native folks hanging out. that was basically like just an actual pow wow. That was real regalia, real drumming, I mean it appears as though the tribe just had what was essentially a part of a pow wow (or at least grand entry) and then the show people worked with it to film what they needed. It was fucking COOL. On that note, I was extremely uncomfortable with the idea thata huge gun fight was going to break out during a pow wow, and thank the good lord they had sense enough not to try and make that happen
I just don't understand all of those Youtube channels claiming woke? Where is the woke? Their schtick is lame and tired.
I'm gonna have to deliberately hold myself back from uncorking a monster rant, so let me just say a few things off the top:
The basic plot premise if forgettable, I don't think Alaqua Cox is a particularly good actor (at least in this role, and with this writing), and I think the character herself is extremely unlikeable. Like, very unlikeable. I'm not even sure what kind of character they are trying to write.
However, and this is a big however, I'm extremely glad this show exists. You can tell that they didn't simply consult with the tribe (one of my own tribes) but had tribal cultural and historical resource staff actually drive the writing of those parts of the show. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the opening of the second episode, and the pow wow going on in the final episode. I was fucking blown away by both of those things. The opening of the second episode had the Native historian in me literally flabbergasted; I don't think I can recall ever seeing that kind of historical representation of a pre-contact tribal society, fictionalized or not, on a screen anywhere. As for the pow wow scene, well, for my non-Native folks hanging out. that was basically like just an actual pow wow. That was real regalia, real drumming, I mean it appears as though the tribe just had what was essentially a part of a pow wow (or at least grand entry) and then the show people worked with it to film what they needed. It was fucking COOL. On that note, I was extremely uncomfortable with the idea thata huge gun fight was going to break out during a pow wow, and thank the good lord they had sense enough not to try and make that happen
As far as wokeness goes this wasn't the worst wokeness Disney has done by a good margin actually I think they toned the woke down in this (granted not saying much as it's Disney an messaging is #1 over entertainment now) .If the actress wasn't Native American, deaf and an amputee, the series probably wouldn't have been made. In the comics, Echo is a B-lister at best. We're not talking about the kind of fan base that Spider-Man, Daredevil or Punisher have. Hell, the Kingpin probably has more fans than Echo.
That said, I didn't have a problem with the show being Woke. I had a problem with it being poorly written, paced and acted(with the obvious exception of D'Onofrio of course).
As far as wokeness goes this wasn't the worst wokeness Disney has done by a good margin actually I think they toned the woke down in this (granted not saying much as it's Disney an messaging is #1 over entertainment now) .
Biggest issue is the annoying audio or lack of and all sign language and subs which really got annoying when story slowed.
Kingpin and Green are the highlights of series as Vinny nails it everytime 100. .
In the comics, Echo is a B-lister at best.
D-lister at best.
Besides that 6-issue arc she had in '99-'00, and later being in the New Avengers, she's not even had her own series that was cancelled after a few issues because it didn't sell.
And I say that as someone that views her as not even getting her due respect & reaching her full potential within the Daredevil/street-level universe.