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22 Mar, 17 tweets, 4 min read
Uh. What?
I don't know if it's the world that's changed or it's me, but I honestly don't know how to react any more to a show whose premise is "vigilante beats up criminals" unless that vigilante is also a costumed superhero.
That is the second of at least three layers of weirdness!

The third being: what the fuck is a kung-fu show doing on the CW?
I have no idea how to react to this at all

The trailer is a bit coy about how wire-fu the show is going to be and honestly that's probably going to make most of the difference.
I don't know. Kung Fu was already an old show when I was a child watching Martial Law

The 90s were weird.
Weird that they cast a guy not fluent in English for an American TV show but also kind of great!

I'm more concerned with the inevitable Riverdale crossover.

At this point I will accept white leads of martial arts shows as long as they hire one who knows martial arts!

To be fair to Finn Jones, they also didn't give him any time to learn.
Well my mixed feelings about seeing Chilling Adventures of Sabrina just got more mixed.

Oh, I have no problem with what Riverdale I've seen. It knows what it is and embraces it whole heartedly. But it also typifies the high melodrama and indistinguishable cast of hot twentysomethings that I associate with the CW and not a martial arts show.

See, I have no problem with that story, as long as it is good and as long as it is not the only kind of story that is available. There's nothing about the techniques of martial arts that is in the blood and the reverse can work.

As in, one can imagine a great story about a non-European learning boxing and participating in tournaments and eventually taking down the champion of the colonial powers. And one can imagine a very bad version of that story to.
Yes, I am repurposing Ip Man's basic throughline which is still fundamentally pro wrestling.

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This is a very, very good thread.
It also reminds me of this incident with my friend, which is honestly one of the things that has affected me most in my life. At some point shouldn't you just get to be yourself and still get important things?

One of the hardest things you can do is change an up-till-now successful course. It's the common thread that makes relationships, businesses, and sports team fail. And of course, its what makes people fail.
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This is what I refer to as a Goldilocks Apocalypse - a massive earth-shattering event that's juuuuuust catastrophic enough to go exactly your way.
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I understand you folks think you can meme a stock into high prices forever, but that's not how any of this works. GME stock chart for the day.
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I really don't think "people only pretend to care about Asians when they are political useful" is the argument Team Conservative wants to raise here.
Yes, I am not only more worried about people who look like my kids getting murdered than my kids not getting into Harvard, I can't even use the same parts of my brain to think about those two problems.

I was going to make a joke about shrugging off racially motivated murder to own the libs but it's actually less surprising when I put it that way.
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I mean they're dunking on it because it's facially wrong enough that you can enforce a boundary against so-woke-you-went-round-the-bend without scoring one for the Jameses Lindsay.
I think it is good to safeguard against Bad Wokism, and by and large the dunking has stayed well on the side of "this is a factually silly claim" as opposed to "words can't infantalize women" which arguably is a victory of Good Wokism.
I would also like to note this has all the hallmarks of the things that are supposed to be scary about the reign of the wokies: a seemingly arbitrary change in the rules that deems your past conduct unacceptable without regard for your intent. And the end result is conversation.
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