Sep 11, 2026 07:06 PM
(This post was last modified: Sep 11, 2026 07:07 PM by C C.)
Well, we finally watched the next three episodes. While judgement on the whole season is yet up for grabs, I have to differ on the "so far". The sheriff is anything but some pejorative meaning of "girlboss" (i.e., arrogant and lecturing). She's way more tolerant and accommodating to this eccentric and annoying duo than what the classic Hollywood stereotype of small-town law enforcement would be (as males).
And it is a kind of two guys snarking at each other "buddy procedural" where they outwardly talk and act like they despise each other, but privately it might grudgingly be the opposite. Where even back in the late '80s and '90s you might have some tension remarks thrown in there without it being a blatant promotion of agenda, as in later Woke or the year 2016 that events are largely set in.
In the third episode that elaborates on Stewart's life history and why his father "was too afraid to qualify for the ring", you do have his family that exaggeratedly acts like it is still the 1950s rather than the early 1990s. But that's hardly unreal for a presumably Black Democrat family (living in a neighborhood that is not dilapidated) when considering the propaganda that conditions them to have deep fear of violence from white people and grievance toward them. The Jim Crow days are depicted as eternal (systemic oppression) in that everyday political narrative; it's like PDK's "the Roman Empire never dies" no matter what the temporal progress. It's vital rhetoric for keeping marginalized population groups addicted to Democrat teat. So Stewart's family is not an outlandish fictional possibility. You can interpret it as much as revealing "party brainwashing" as promoting party ideology.
And Macron's Native American wife that he freely allows Stewart to cuck him with is actually an alien shape-shifter imposter. So the whole "tyrannical white man" rant by her in the second episode was actually disingenuous camouflage.
Now, barring episode four, it definitely has not been much of an action thriller. The assessment of "dull" in that context is close to dead on. But the show claimed to be a "detective story" among a dozen other genres, so is it really surprising that the overall adrenaline pace is a modest bump above flat?
And given Hal Jordan's constant mind games with regard to his apprentice and others, it wasn't incredibly astonishing negligence on his part to leave the lantern behind. He deliberately wanted Stewart to go back and fetch it, which plot-wise also facilitated Stewart encountering the alien hunters searching revenge-wise for the shape-shifter.
And it is a kind of two guys snarking at each other "buddy procedural" where they outwardly talk and act like they despise each other, but privately it might grudgingly be the opposite. Where even back in the late '80s and '90s you might have some tension remarks thrown in there without it being a blatant promotion of agenda, as in later Woke or the year 2016 that events are largely set in.
In the third episode that elaborates on Stewart's life history and why his father "was too afraid to qualify for the ring", you do have his family that exaggeratedly acts like it is still the 1950s rather than the early 1990s. But that's hardly unreal for a presumably Black Democrat family (living in a neighborhood that is not dilapidated) when considering the propaganda that conditions them to have deep fear of violence from white people and grievance toward them. The Jim Crow days are depicted as eternal (systemic oppression) in that everyday political narrative; it's like PDK's "the Roman Empire never dies" no matter what the temporal progress. It's vital rhetoric for keeping marginalized population groups addicted to Democrat teat. So Stewart's family is not an outlandish fictional possibility. You can interpret it as much as revealing "party brainwashing" as promoting party ideology.
And Macron's Native American wife that he freely allows Stewart to cuck him with is actually an alien shape-shifter imposter. So the whole "tyrannical white man" rant by her in the second episode was actually disingenuous camouflage.
Now, barring episode four, it definitely has not been much of an action thriller. The assessment of "dull" in that context is close to dead on. But the show claimed to be a "detective story" among a dozen other genres, so is it really surprising that the overall adrenaline pace is a modest bump above flat?
And given Hal Jordan's constant mind games with regard to his apprentice and others, it wasn't incredibly astonishing negligence on his part to leave the lantern behind. He deliberately wanted Stewart to go back and fetch it, which plot-wise also facilitated Stewart encountering the alien hunters searching revenge-wise for the shape-shifter.