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This past weekend at DC in D.C. John Ridley was featured in a panel called The Many Shades of Heroism: DC Heroes Through the African-American Lens. Despite Ridley quickly shutting down the request for more details on his upcoming project, the 45-minute panel is well worth the watch. The panel starts at 52:40!
 
samson1701 said:
This past weekend at DC in D.C. John Ridley was featured in a panel called The Many Shades of Heroism: DC Heroes Through the African-American Lens. Despite Ridley quickly shutting down the request for more details on his upcoming project, the 45-minute panel is well worth the watch. The panel starts at 52:40!
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What is John Ridley up to? There's been constant talks of him producing a Marvel TV show for ABC the last few years, but nothing has come of it.
 

WB's exhilarating new trailer for Tomb Raider staring Alicia Vikander as British archaeologist-adventurer Lara Croft.. Yo when can I cop those advance tickets?
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ColiBreh1 said:
Y'all thoughts on the "Black Lightning" series premiere that aired this week?
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I thought it was a better version of what I expected it to be. You can really tell black people wrote the show. That's a good thing.

Wish they would've kept the throw back costume from the flash backs, though. All in all, so far so good. Really doesn't feel like any of the other CW superhero shows. It's a 9pm show and it feels like it More serious. I hope they keep that tone.

You can really tell black a black woman has some authority over casting, not a light skin chick in sight. They went for straight chocolate with this one. None of that Iris, Vixen butterscotch yellow, shit. ...lol
 
ColiBreh1 said:
Y'all thoughts on the "Black Lightning" series premiere that aired this week?
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samson1701 said:
I thought it was a better version of what I expected it to be. You can really tell black people wrote the show. That's a good thing.

Wish they would've kept the throw back costume from the flash backs, though. All in all, so far so good. Really doesn't feel like any of the other CW superhero shows. It's a 9pm show and it feels like it More serious. I hope they keep that tone.

You can really tell black a black woman has some authority over casting, not a light skin chick in sight. They went for straight chocolate with this one. None of that Iris, Vixen butterscotch yellow, shit. ...lol
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As someone who has watched a ton of CW shows over the years, this is 1 of the main things I noticed. The daughters are nothing like the black females in the various CW dramas I've watched over the years.
 




DC Comics has now announced two new ads, each spotlighting different titles from the New Age of DC Heroes line, to run on TV networks across North America.
 
samson1701 said:
I thought it was a better version of what I expected it to be. You can really tell black people wrote the show. That's a good thing.

Wish they would've kept the throw back costume from the flash backs, though. All in all, so far so good. Really doesn't feel like any of the other CW superhero shows. It's a 9pm show and it feels like it More serious. I hope they keep that tone.

You can really tell black a black woman has some authority over casting, not a light skin chick in sight. They went for straight chocolate with this one. None of that Iris, Vixen butterscotch yellow, shit. ...lol
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Lmao @ butterscotch.
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ColiBreh1 said:
As someone who has watched a ton of CW shows over the years, this is 1 of the main things I noticed. The daughters are nothing like the black females in the various CW dramas I've watched over the years.
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Which shows me this ain't for comic fans its for black girls who may or may not be into comics.
Honestly I wasn't to keen on all the hood stuff but I get its place just hoping more for suburban or Midwestern vibe like Smallville if they had to put a hs in it
 
ColiBreh1 said:
Mara Brock Akil (The BW who created/produced/wrote "Girlfriends", "The Game", & "Being Mary Jane") & her husband are the showrunners on this "Black Lightning" Show.
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samson1701 said:
Ugh ... So, we're doing it to ourselves. Makes it that much worse. it's like that's all we are. That's all we can imagine for ourselves.
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The Dark King said:
Typical that even bw can only see us one way. They would NEVER do this to a story starring a black woman.
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RicardoCooper said:
The original Black Lightning comic had to do with the streets, gangs and drugs, though.

Falcon and War Machine in the Marvel movies have nothing to do with ghetto issues, they're world-savers. So there's that at least
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An update. According to Wikipedia, Mara Brock Akil is just an Executive Producer on "Black Lightning". Her Husband Salim Akil is the Developer, Showrunner/EP, Head Writer, & even he even directed the Pilot.



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The Dark King said:
Wow a black guy with powers in the ensemble cast. Guarantee you gay love interest
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He's bi in real life. So, yeah, it's coming. Also,Constantine is a bi character. So, there's that.

I'm just holding out till' Marcell returns in The Originals. So far, he's been the lone brotha' fuckin' girls on The CW shows I watch.

How do y'all feel about Jimmy Olsen fuckin' Lena Luthor? I'm not with it because she's not as hot as Kara. Plus, she's a Luthor so you know it's about to be some bullshit.

I'm looking for things to change on all the Arrowverse shows. Women are in charge of them, now. So, it will be interesting to see how that's going to effect them.
 
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He's bi in real life. So, yeah, it's coming. Also,Constantine is a bi character. So, there's that.

I'm just holding out till' Marcell returns in The Originals. So far, he's been the lone brotha' fuckin' girls on The CW shows I watch.

How do y'all feel about Jimmy Olsen fuckin' Lena Luthor? I'm not with it because she's not as hot as Kara. Plus, she's a Luthor so you know it's about to be some bullshit.

I'm looking for things to change on all the Arrowverse shows. Women are in charge of them, now. So, it will be interesting to see how that's going to effect them.
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I wrote about that in the IR on TV thread, I preferred they bring Lucy back, although things seem good with him and Lena she is a Luthor.
 
samson1701 said:
He's bi in real life. So, yeah, it's coming. Also,Constantine is a bi character. So, there's that.

I'm just holding out till' Marcell returns in The Originals. So far, he's been the lone brotha' fuckin' girls on The CW shows I watch.

How do y'all feel about Jimmy Olsen fuckin' Lena Luthor? I'm not with it because she's not as hot as Kara. Plus, she's a Luthor so you know it's about to be some bullshit.

I'm looking for things to change on all the Arrowverse shows. Women are in charge of them, now. So, it will be interesting to see how that's going to effect them.
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Well I'm a businessman I get it change or die just sucks that black men are often left out or don't get to experience heartthrob status like our white counterparts. Also I get annoyed with female lead writing because they write as women first and not actual fans of the genre they take charge of.
Hopefully it gets better. I'm willing to give anything a chance at this point.

Lena Luther with Jimmy is meaningless to me it only counted when him Kara were in play. The way they friend zoned him after she pined for dude the entire season was lame and unforgivable. One kiss and she sees him as a pal seriously name even one other instance where a main character pursued or pined that hard someone and then said nah after finally getting them. If they even gave us a damn arc where they tried and things didn't work out I'd respect it more but nope one kiss and he's her little brother now that she scolds for trying to fight crime.
 
I actually find Lena Hotter personally....The issue is going from fucking Supergirl, main character and alien with godlike super powers to Lena....one keeps James close to the main plot the other doesnt the only positve of banging Luthor is she is rich if you look at it from the real world prospective....

Marcel on the one the other hand gets to bang the main Female Original Vampire.
 
The Dark King said:
Well I'm a businessman I get it change or die just sucks that black men are often left out or don't get to experience heartthrob status like our white counterparts. Also I get annoyed with female lead writing because they write as women first and not actual fans of the genre they take charge of.
Hopefully it gets better. I'm willing to give anything a chance at this point.

Lena Luther with Jimmy is meaningless to me it only counted when him Kara were in play. The way they friend zoned him after she pined for dude the entire season was lame and unforgivable. One kiss and she sees him as a pal seriously name even one other instance where a main character pursued or pined that hard someone and then said nah after finally getting them. If they even gave us a damn arc where they tried and things didn't work out I'd respect it more but nope one kiss and he's her little brother now that she scolds for trying to fight crime.
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I believe they did that because how corny and bad the writing was leading up to their chemistry. Whether on purpose or not(I think it was on purpose.) they made James standoffish to Kara while she was pursuing him, there were times where he looked at her very clueless you can see the actors struggling which showed that it was bad writing. The main character involved in IR romance especially if the main character is a white woman is still kind of taboo in the entertainment industry, some producers don't want to normalize IR between bm & ww, but don't mind making it in subplot. This is America where white people are still the majority and want to dominate over everyone. To some of these white supremacist in the industry having the white main character on a popular TV show in love with a black man and going on ahead with that romance to them destroys the "American White Female Image" that those in hollywood likes to put above everyone else. Can't have IR taking over that image. They are scared to death of that.

But they are being challenged with shows like Life Sentence and Cloak & Dagger on the horizon. Remember supergirl is a highly political, liberal feminist show as well. Which goes to show that some of the females in Hollywood wants to uphold that image too. But remember it's a POPULAR tv show, POPULAR actress. That word is what Hollywood is about. So therefore the white supremacist wouldn't want to make IR between a black man and white woman... POPULAR.

and they will fight those in some way that are trying to.
 
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