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Spoilers DC's Legends of Tomorrow - Season 2

I'm actually enjoying this season more than the last one because they aren't bogged down with the whole Vandal Savage/Hawks saga, so they can just have wild, comic-booky adventures throughout history. (Hmm. Wonder if anyone is doing LEGENDS tie-in novels yet?)

Though, yeah, they should probably just drop the pretense that they're trying to "protect" the timeline since they routinely step on butterflies everywhere they go. At this point, all the earnest dialogue about "not changing history" is like the Prime Directive on STAR TREK; it's a storytelling inconvenience they pay lip service to before blowing up a shogun or freeing a bunch of slaves or whatever. :)

On the ninja front, I'm not surprised that Golden Age Vixen was dubious about the notion. As far as I know, ninjas were not a matter of common knowledge back in the 40s, let alone a staple of pop culture. ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE NINJA was not a thing. :)
 
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Greg Cox said:
On the ninja front, I'm not surprised that Golden Age Vixen was dubious about the notion. As far as I know, ninjas were not a matter of common knowledge back in the 40s, let alone a staple of pop culture. ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE NINJA was not a thing. :)
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She wouldn't know about Romero "zombies" either. The word would mean something rather different to her.
 
 
Greg Cox said:
Yep. At best, she'd think of voodoo myths and legends, or maybe some old b/w horror movies like WHITE ZOMBIE or I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE. Not brain-eating ghouls.
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Particularly since vodoun is derived from West African religion in the first place. Although if the fictional land of "Zambesi" is near the Zambezi River, that would put it in southeast Africa, a different cultural region. Then again, I think it was unusual for slaves in the US to come from east Africa, although Brazil started getting slaves from there in the early 19th century.
 
Christopher said:
Particularly since vodoun is derived from West African religion in the first place. Although if the fictional land of "Zambesi" is near the Zambezi River, that would put it in southeast Africa, a different cultural region. Then again, I think it was unusual for slaves in the US to come from east Africa, although Brazil started getting slaves from there in the early 19th century.
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In the comics ( per Wiki) Vixen's powers come from Anansi, who is a figure in West African myths and folklore. He created the totem at the request of Mari's ancestor Tantu. Anansi's stories were brought to the Americas ( including the Caribbean) via the slave trade.
 
Nerys Myk said:
In the comics ( per Wiki) Vixen's powers come from Anansi, who is a figure in West African myths and folklore. He created the totem at the request of Mari's ancestor Tantu.
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Ah, of course. I did have the impression that her culture was supposed to be West African, but that makes it odd that its name is just one letter off from the name of a southeast African river. But then, American media have always tended to treat Africa as a single uniform place (usually populated exclusively by grass-hut villages and wild animals), even though it's the second-largest continent on Earth and the most geographically, ethnically, and culturally diverse continent on Earth. (The animated X-Men work of Craig Kyle has been particularly bad at this. An episode of X-Men Evolution plotted by Kyle portrayed a houngan -- from West African culture -- as a longtime mortal enemy of Storm, who's from Kenya and grew up in Egypt, both in East Africa. And an episode of Wolverine and the X-Men plotted by Kyle basically treated the whole continent as a single, fairly small and primitive region that could be destroyed in its entirety by one really large storm.)
 
dodge said:
You mean the idiot that let Vandal Savage out of his cell previous season? :D
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He's smart enough to build a super-suit but dumb enough not to have any back-up plan for if the super-suit gets stolen by a technological ignoramus (other than the theoretical possibility of hitting a piece of the armor in a way that will cause a giant explosion but somehow(?) not kill anybody outside of the suit).
 
Yeah I have no idea why he didn't just password protect it. :p Or lock it to his DNA or something.
 
Christopher said:
Ah, of course. I did have the impression that her culture was supposed to be West African, but that makes it odd that its name is just one letter off from the name of a southeast African river. But then, American media have always tended to treat Africa as a single uniform place (usually populated exclusively by grass-hut villages and wild animals), even though it's the second-largest continent on Earth and the most geographically, ethnically, and culturally diverse continent on Earth. (The animated X-Men work of Craig Kyle has been particularly bad at this. An episode of X-Men Evolution plotted by Kyle portrayed a houngan -- from West African culture -- as a longtime mortal enemy of Storm, who's from Kenya and grew up in Egypt, both in East Africa. And an episode of Wolverine and the X-Men plotted by Kyle basically treated the whole continent as a single, fairly small and primitive region that could be destroyed in its entirety by one really large storm.)
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Mali and Malawi are only two letters off. Doesn't stop them from being on opposite sides of the continent, either. Not to mention Zambia and Gambia or Guinea and Equatorial Guinea or Togo and Tonga.
 
It's hard to judge a move to 17 episodes. That's not exactly a standard full season. It could just as easily mean the network wants the show to wrap-up gracefully.
 
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Yeah, I too would be more worried that might be the case had I not come across an article a few days ago that mentioned that the DC TV* shows bring in over 1 billion dollars in revenue a year.
So now I think the show is safer than the ratings would indicate. :techman:

*(that's all DC based TV shows, not just the Arroverse)
 
Snaploud said:
It's hard to judge a move to 17 episodes. That's not exactly a standard full season. It could just as easily mean the network wants the show to wrap-up gracefully.
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A number of network shows are getting shorter seasons these days, while cable and Netflix series tend to have seasons from 7-13 episodes. Heck, that's been the trend for decades -- in the '50s, a season could be 30-some episodes, by the '60s it was typically 26, and in the '90s it went down to 22.
 
Christopher said:
A number of network shows are getting shorter seasons these days, while cable and Netflix series tend to have seasons from 7-13 episodes. Heck, that's been the trend for decades -- in the '50s, a season could be 30-some episodes, by the '60s it was typically 26, and in the '90s it went down to 22.
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As they've cut down the number of episodes, they've cut down the the running time for those episodes so they are producing even less.
 
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