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Survive and Advance. On to the next one.

Well that generation grew up when 15% was the standard and 20% was outstanding. So they are tipping more than what they considered normal in their working years.

Now 18-25% is the range and that's ridiculous.

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Think of the type of people rushing out to see this and take their views with a grain of salt.

I saw a clip of the usual woke suspects trying desperately to defend this movie and all of them said the same thing...."it's not THAT bad"....that was about as passionate and over-the-top they could muster.

If it wasn't a waste of time and actual good?

Reviews wouldn't be mixed due to the side the media is on over the controversy.... It would've been hailed as better than sliced bread.

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Honestly, the only reviews that should matter are those of the target audience -- Moms and Daughters. So, if the mommy bloggers like it, it hit the mark. It was never going to be the technical marvel the first one was. It was designed to be a good and safe movie for moms and daughters.

If adult males go to see this movie alone, they either are on a watchlist or should be.

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The system isnt' making him a criminal, or making him starve. His lazy bum stupid career criminal arse is. He sits there and lies about stealing shite, then says we are going to spend more money to incarcerate him than what he stole to try to justify him being a fricking criminal. frick you Leroy, and frick you Disney for putting this stupid arse shite in this show when it has absolutely nothing to do with the premise of this show. That was a waste of 10-15 minutes of this show that could have been spent on actual Daredevil/Kingpin/Punisher shite instead of trying to say we shouldn't punish petty crime and the system is keeping the black man down.

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The title of the episode was "Sic Semper Systema" roughly translated to "All to the System". Both Fisk and Matt became constrained by the System in different ways. Fisk couldn't exercise absolute power in getting his port project pushed through and was forced to work within the system and that resulted in his return to his Kingpin persona. Matt's attempt to work in the system to do what he perceives as good was illustrated Bradford.

The duality of Daredevil has always been Matt's bleeding heart vs Daredevil's brutality and conviction. Daredevil is the aspect of his personality that allows him to go to any means necessary while Matt is more restrained. Without Matt, Daredevil would be the Punisher in a red suit.

Leroy Bradford was the straw that broke the camel's back in a sense. Anyone that has been caught up in the criminal justice system has sympathy for Leroy. Yeah, he's a petty criminal and a not so good person, but he's been helped down the path of becoming a career criminal by the SYSTEM. But he's a petty criminal. Trespassing, panhandling, shoplifting, parole violation etc. I don't think Matt read off an assault charge or anything that rose to physical violence. I could be wrong.

But why Leroy doesn't deserve sympathy, empathy may be in order. Without help or a good support system, getting out of the Criminal Justice churn of offend and reoffend is almost inevitable. Catch a small charge, get on the cops radar, get shaken down every time they see you, every time you get in your car, you get pulled over and your car tossed, your late to work, you lose your job and now you've violated your probation and you're tossed back in jail for a couple of weeks, now you lose your apartment, so you panhandle and steal and get picked up and violated again. This is not uncommon and wholly believable.

It's also completely understandable that someone like Leroy who has been powerless for so long will take power wherever he can, like on the attorney that HAS to represent him, so, he lashes out at a captive audience.

This is all completely believable. Leroy is not a respectable person, but he is believable as the reason Matt dons the mask again. The System is grinding down a weak man while real criminals walk free -- because it's easy to grind the weak. And that pissed him off.

Scene made complete sense in the context of the story. The only thing that made no sense was his insistence on probation rather than 7-10 days to the door. No criminal wants to be on probation rather than spend a week in jail because of the potential to get violated and do a longer sentence and the cycle to start over.

Also, they wouldn't have put Leroy on screen for that long if he won't have an impact later in the season in some way.

JMO

Also, Santa Clarita Diet.

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The audience is those who lived through it and know first hand, but also everyone else.

What you're missing, with respect to the comment about Poland, is the historical significance of Pope JP II, Lech Walesa, the fall of Communism. and Reagan's support in seeing that all happen during his time in office.

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For frick's sake, no one -- especially me -- is saying Reagan wasn't a great and impactful president. I SAID THE MOVIE SUCKED! The movie does SUCK!

Jesus titty fricking Christ on a Pogo stickl. What is wrong with you?

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Yes. I thought he was alive?

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Wow, he is. I thought he died unexpectedly after Judge Dredd for some reason.

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NBC really went all in on fantasy/epic miniseries in the mid-late 90s.

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Not necessarily Fantasy but I still watch Young Indiana Jones about once a year. That show is my canon and frick everything after Last Crusade.


ALSO!, same studio...StoryTeller!

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This is what happens when you get writers, showrunners, etc. with a God complex to adapt a beloved IP to the screen. They decide they can make it "better" without even understanding why it did so well in the first place.

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Wheel of Time and Song of Ice and Fire really sum up my growth as a reader. When I started reading them in middle school, I thought they were the best thing ever written. By the time I was in college and later, Book 8 and 9 were coming out and I realized they just weren't very good. They were verbose tomes sold by the inch rather than the word. Which one was it? Book 7 that was over 110,000 words and took place over ONE WEEK, and Mat (the best character) did not feature at all?

Martin and Jordan did one thing for me: They made me realize less is more. They made me appreciate writers like Zelazny and Bester than could convey a complex narrative in less than 40,000 words.

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It's thematically based on Ambrose Bierce's Occurrence at Owl's Creek Bridge, which itself is based on the native American concept of 'the dream before dying.'

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I do love that you brought this short story up. I feel like there was a time where every 6th grader read this story and loved it, and now, no one knows about it.