In its most extreme form, yeah, I mean stuff like this. See also “coyotes” and “snakeheads” selling people into closed factories, or sex slavery.

This sounds great except for a couple details that worry me: T’Challa’s “suit seems to almost dissolves away to become the Black Panther suit” and “Okoye throws her spear into the ground, and a car crashes into it, almost splitting in two.”

Based on conversations with a couple people I know who’ve worn these professionally for such purposes, the mic on all the time. Not only do you not want to have to touch them, but you effectively get a second set of ears listening to your environment, and there’s a recording should it be needed for later review. …

While your supports are true and abhorent, they don’t amount to “slavery hasn’t been banned. It still exists.”

Yep. I didn’t even watch it becuase I don’t come here for video and am not interested in video: there are video sites for people who want that. I only scrolled down to star all the posts complaining about it... and to read about any interesting content that it might contain. Becuase I’m here to read.

Just to get this out there pre-emptively and in addition to Ernekid’s comment:

This brings to mind the alternative history fiction I’ve always wanted to see:

Patience, yes.

I suspect the difficulties of wrangling the cast forced a shorter season for the team show. but as you said- as long as it works. Because if it does, I hope they can see that and import it to the other shows (which I have no news of).

I share your esteem for writers, but keep in mind that improv can be great beyond the funny things that others have pointed out. M*A*S*H made TV history and earned Emmys with improved drama episodes. Woody Allen very often has only a very loose script, or tells his actors to ditch the script: instead he works from…

I’d skip the first three episodes entirely, then watch the rest with an open mind.

Finn Jones’ Danny Rand is pretty much CW’s Oliver Queen in terms of acting. He’s growly, glaring, and just in general upset all the time.

This is the only place where I’ve really seen hatred for Finn, mostly from the writers.

(Danny Rand), I’m assuming, will grow into his persona once he figures out his confidence as the Iron Fist. At least, that’s what I’m hoping for...

I agree with you that his acting wasn’t bad- the writers gave him an almost impossible job. Their screw-ups are all over the place, and the farther the series went, the more I could see what they were often flailingly trying to communicate, and the more respect I had for what Jones did with that material.

I wonder if they will ever realize that 13 episodes are way too much for their kind of stories at Netflix.

Whew- thanks for giving me that more reasonable reading.

Even that attempt would seem to me to betray what we saw in DDS2. Every superhero or anti-hero has that one thing that makes them special. I think the show made a very strong case, laid most bare in Frank’s pre-emotive denial of PTSD, that what makes him special is a one-in-a-million psychosocial state. What…

Well, they’ve said as much, so there’s that.

I’m pretty confortable accepting that many, many things just aren’t for me. And this might be one of those things. The very idea of Castle getting a blow job for any reason at all is kind of baffling.