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godofwine said:
The military looks at disobeying direct orders in wartime is cause to get you fucked up and rarely is there someone there to go to.

Its fucked up. I've been in fucked up situations and have been told about fucked up situations. It sucks, but you either do it and face your conscience or don't do it and face the consequences

There are no other options

Not familiar with this at all

My father did the same with us. He beat the shit out if us.

He would forget things, like put us on punishment for 3 days, then forget the length of the punishment. When we reminded him he would either whoop us or extend the punishment until he FELT like letting us off, and for something minor

He once took away (hid) our transformers for an open-ended punishment (which ended up being over a year) because we didn't clean up the play room before dinner

Reminding him that he forgot was a personal affront that he saw as an attack and he responded violently on my mother, brother and I, so I get that

I was just trying to understand the point of the gay shit. If it has a point we've yet to see, fine. But I cant see the reason for the gayness thus far

In The Old Guard with Charlize Theron, they added gay shit for no reason, and it didn't move the story forward. It's beyond the fact I don't like seeing two men kiss. If it has a purpose I'm okay with it, but who am i?

Admittedly I don't like seeing man-on-man sex scenes or effeminate men. And the drag show was unnecessarily gratuitous as if to push an agenda.

I admit, the afrofuturism aspect was super dope. The Dahomey Amazons and Bessie Stringfield were things I had no idea of them or the meaning until @NightMare Paint said something
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He's gay lol.
They exist
That's the gay shit lol.
Like it's not about promoting or any agenda
Dude is in the closet like most were in the 50s lol

And he's probably not tics dad
He asked if his mom knew
He said yes

She was his beard
 
largebillsonlyplease said:
He's gay lol.
They exist
That's the gay shit lol.
Like it's not about promoting or any agenda
Dude is in the closet like most were in the 50s lol

And he's probably not tics dad
He asked if his mom knew
He said yes

She was his beard
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I feel like its being WELL DONE

and its PART of the OVERALL story

self discovery

Identity

TRUE freedom

At lest to me it doesn't feel FORCED or EXTRA

that hallway scene?

Yo that was STRONG WORK

it resonated.

and addressed a WHOLE LOT of issues

they ain't lost me

again yeah its a little "much" at times..

but I am RIGHT HERE for it.
 
playahaitian said:
I feel like its being WELL DONE

and its PART of the OVERALL story

self discovery

Identity

TRUE freedom

At lest to me it doesn't feel FORCED or EXTRA

that hallway scene?

Yo that was STRONG WORK

it resonated.

and addressed a WHOLE LOT of issues

they ain't lost me

again yeah its a little "much" at times..

but I am RIGHT HERE for it.
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What's much?

It's just a show
It's not like this is pose
 
largebillsonlyplease said:
What's much?

It's just a show
It's not like this is pose
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No not the gay stuff

(even thought the spit ball was extra)

I mean some of the story seems RUSHED its trying to do SO MUCH I feel like it needs to breathe a little, like the second episode had too much it was bursting

But at the same time I UNDERSTAND the storytelling style

I wish this was one of those shows that got an automatic second season immediately

so they can take some time.
 
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largebillsonlyplease said:
How can you say something incomplete doesn't make sense?

You haven't finished the season lol
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Truth be watching the show like this. Fam gonna need a recap.
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Man I'm loving this show....

At first I had the same complaints that I see others have.....ie. It seemed disjointed, the plot is advancing too quickly, the Tones and directions are too stark...

My perception changed after reading about the Source material and discovering that it was written in an anthology style with different interconnected stories.

So now instead of looking at it through the lens of a typical series with each episode being a continuation of the previous episode....

I look forward to each episode and seeing what type of Genre/ Film style I can expect each week. Who's character am I gonna get to see more deeply.....Its a Genre bending show.....We've had elements of monster horror, paranormal horror, slasher, social thrillers, fantasy, adventure, a Korean Horror set in Korea, etc.

This and the constant breadcrumbs that get dropped in each episode that open my eyes and make me as a grown ass man learn new shit about my people and start researching subjects ( the same way watchmen did). give it a win in my book.
 
godofwine said:
Is anyone else failing to see how the gay shit affects the story at all in Lovecraft country? How does it move the story forward?

Now, if Uncle George had an affair with Montrose' wife and is really atticus's father because Montrose was secretly gay the whole fucking time and not fucking his wife and that was the way they kept it under wraps

THAT would make sense them inundating us with all this fucking gay shit. Outside of that I see no fucking purpose to it whatsoever. Is anyone else with me?
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The purpose is to further demasculate black men,when was the last time you see black lesbo sex scene
 
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"Lovecraft Country" Episode 7 saw Hippolyta blasted through time and space, including a passage that saw her dancing with the real-life icon Josephine Baker.
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Lovecraft Country Episode 7 was the trippiest episode yet of the HBO show, with Hippolyta Freeman (played by Aunjanue Ellis) heading through a crack in time and space and into what seemed to be a very Afrofuturist future. Just as she got used to this strange new future, however, she found herself on stage with none other than Josephine Baker (Carra Paterson), the 1920s screen icon.
In the latest episode of Lovecraft Country, we see Baker on stage in a nightclub in Paris, but dancing was just one of the many things the Missouri-born woman did in her 68 years on this earth. She was also the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, a medal-winning French Resistance agent and a civil rights activist.
The most enduring image of Josephine Baker in the popular culture is the costume she used to wear while dancing in Paris' Folies Bergère in 1927 (the same year she made her movie debut): a skirt of artificial bananas and a beaded brasserie. This outfit caused a sensation in Paris, where she had moved in 1925 after a successful career in the U.S.

In America, she was named, "the highest-paid chorus girl in vaudeville" for her act, which saw her pretending to mess up the routine throughout the night before perfecting a more complex version of the dance at the encore.




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The real-life Josephine Baker performing on stage. 'Lovecraft Country' Episode 7 paid tribute to the Black icon in a scene that saw her dancing on-stage with Hippolyte.GETTY

Her success in the U.S. led to her touring in Paris, where she would eventually move and become a citizen after marrying a French industrialist. She was such a success in pre-war Paris, in fact, that she made money from skin-darkening and hair products that allowed fans to emulate her look.
She became so tied to France, in fact, that she worked in the Resistance during the Second World War after the Nazis invaded the country. She smuggled secret messages on her sheet music using invisible ink, and hid Jewish refugees and weapons in her 24-room mansion in the southwest of France. After the war, she won numerous medals for her work in the Resistance, including the Croix de Guerre, the Médaille de la Résistance, and was also made part of the country's prestigious Légion d'Honneur.


However, she also played a part in the American Civil Rights movement. During the March on Washington in 1963, for example, she was the only official female speaker, and after Martin Luther King's assassination, she was offered a leadership position in the movement with she declined of fears for her children's safety. She adopted a total of 12 children in her life, as well as a number of exotic pets including a cheetah.
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In 1975, she celebrated 50 years in showbusiness with a revue financed by celebrity fans like Grace Kelly and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, with the opening night attending by a whos-who of celebrities at the time including Diana Ross, Mick Jagger and Liza Minelli.
Four days later, however, she would be dead of a cerebral hemorrhage, with biographers reporting she was found in a coma surrounded by positive reviews of her revue. She would later die in a Paris hospital at the age of 68.


At her funeral, 20,000 people came onto the streets of Paris to watch the procession, and she was also the first American woman buried in France with full military honors after she got a 21-gun salute.
Lovecraft Country is far from the only piece of culture to pay tribute to Baker. In 1991, Lynn Whitfield played her in the HBO TV movie The Josephine Baker Story, while artists like Rihanna, Beyonce and Diana Ross have paid tribute to her on stage.

 
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LordSinister said:
Was I the only one trying to find those coordinates on the model?

I tried long and lat, right acention and declination. The only thing I could see is a spot in the midwest if -95.159492 is that degree west. 39.805499 would be the number for north looks like a place outside of Kansas city near Lawrence
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I have a question for you, or anyone that might have a theory. Tic was in St. Louis when he got the call from Leti about Hippolyta's whereabouts. Assuming, she was in Mayfield, KS, how the hell did Tic get there so quickly (keep in mind St.Louis to Mayfield is about 477 miles away, and at least a 7 hour drive)?
 
RUDY RAYYY MO said:
The purpose is to further demasculate black men,when was the last time you see black lesbo sex scene
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ithere was females making out on the j.baker part.
November 17 said:
Christina told Ruby that the book involved her family. Is that because Leti maybe pregnant with Tic's child or is there an ancestor and connection we are not aware of?
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its cause she's pregnant bro he bust in her both times they banged.
 
NightMare Paint said:
Every week it's ENTIRELY WAY TOO FUCKING MANY hot takes about some agenda to make niggas gay over the airwaves while the many messages of empowerment through intelligence and education are barely acknowledged if at all.
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For as much as they claim to despise it, these niggas are fixated on homosexuality. That's why they continuously zero in on a few seconds of queerdom in oppose to anything else that's shown or conveyed.
 
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