Why do people keep shooting Luke Cage?
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Shades' confessions seem so out of sync. Just an episode earlier he was feeling remorse but now he's all laughing and reveling in all his past crimes. It feels so inconsistent.
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Let's talk about why this scene is messed up. Like many other cop shows this frames folks asking for lawyers or warrants, aka their constitutional rights, as if they are already guilty.pic.twitter.com/BpBPADl4Ev
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How many times have you heard TV cops use the phrase "lawyered up"? These moments are framing the cops as just doing their jobs defending "law and order" and if a suspect asks for a lawyer then they are "clearly guilty".
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Police procedurals too often reinforce that the state and our laws are good and fair and just and that if we ever challenge this system then we must be guilty of a crime. But that's not a true reflection of reality and these harmful myths shape our cultural perspectives.
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ok ok ok so that season finale. guess season three is gonna be all about how power corrupts then. alright. still super not interested in this show, I have no idea why I actually finished watching it.
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U did. While the other characters lifted the show immensely (especially Coleen Wing), Iron Fist failed spectacularly in the one aspect that mattered most: nailing down the title character.
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Not to mention the show had terrible fight choreography, that's almost impressive considering it's about a martial artist.
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Exactly my thoughts. Every time they mentioned "Danny" I was so afraid he'd appear as the rich white saviour dude at some point.
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Really? That's the part you were worried about in case he appeared?
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Yes, because that's a very wide spread theme in mainstream media and I would have been disappointed if Luke Cage had continued that trope.
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It's not really a trope that I've noticed, nor care about. I was just afraid that he was still going to be the unlikable character he was in Iron Fist and The Defenders. I was happy to see that this was the first time I liked him.
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Most of his lines are just flat clichés, a western writer's perception of "eastern wisdom" (i.e. orientalism). That, combined with the white savior narrative, made me stay far away from Iron Fist - and after his appearance here I'm glad I did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_savior_narrative_in_film …
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I disagree with your notion of "The White Saviour" I looked at the Wikipedia page you sent and a lot of the movies it lists are just protagonists being protagonists. I think you are looking at the race of the characters a bit too much.
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Well it's white protagonists who enter "foreign" lands to save people of color who are portrayed as unable to help themselves. Which both stigmatizes POC as helpless & incompetent, their experience nothing but a backdrop, & depicts white "good guys' " intervention as essential .
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Or, it's characters going off on an adventure. From the Wikipedia article you sent me I will agree that some of the movies ARE the white hero, but it's because they are time pieces and it's necessary for the plot to make sense. More often than not, its characters being characters
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You did it’s awful. Watched half of the pilot and stopped it was so so bad.
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Was that her!? I thought she looked familiar when I was watching the Last Jedi
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I meant Force Awakens my bad. Still, that's awesome.
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