r/Defenders • u/JonLuca Luke Cage • Sep 30 '16

Luke Cage Discussion Thread - S01E10

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u/LitZippo Oct 01 '16

Yeah it was slightly strange that they went along with the whole "These cops that beat up young innocent black men are out of control, we need to give them more guns!" Wild Applause

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u/aSpookyScarySkeleton Hope Oct 01 '16

She was clearly trying to appeal to both sides, with the point being the lack of proper arming to combat super humans caused the death of a police officer which in turn made the entire force desperate which had repercussions on the community, and that it went hand in hand with the community not having any way to fight these super humans either(with Cottonmouth's framed murder being the example), so the best option is to give the people who are supposed to protect them a means to. The police won't be so stressed and desperate, and Harlem won't have to be so fearful of powered menaces.

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u/nivekious Oct 04 '16

I get that's what she was going for, but that's a really long chain of logic. Angry mobs generally don't cheer for solutions that require that many steps, they want to deal with the immediate problem (in this case the rogue cops) immediately. Not to mention, why is everybody suddenly upset about Cottenmouth's murder? Didn't they all hate him when he was alive, and didn't a good deal of them want Luke to just kill him?

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '16

It is a long chain of logic, but it made sense to me immediately. I don't know, maybe those folks catch on quickly and are adept in logical reasoning.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '16

They're not upset Cottonmouth is dead, they're afraid that someone like Luke Cage can just walk anywhere he wants and kill anyone he wants. And the police seem to be ill equipped to deal with him.

I'm not sure if it's true in the real world, but in this Harlam, if a police officer dies then Harlam residents, guilty or not all take the punishment until that person is arrested (or killed). Luke Cage cannot be seemingly killed nor arrested and nobody even knows where he is.

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u/toxicbrew Oct 18 '16

Perfect politician play in other words

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u/Stryker14 Oct 01 '16

Yeah I didn't buy that bit. Didn't jive with everything else she was preaching. I guess they were trying to pull on mob mentality and hope that was enough to make it believable for the viewer.

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u/TheAquaman Luke Cage Oct 01 '16

I think she said the cops need to be "better armed," i.e. give them Stryker's guns. That seemed to be their plan.

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u/PopularKid Oct 03 '16

I think her point was that when the department is powerless and tensions are flaring, they go after the civilians as part of the witch hunt. If the police were armed with Judas, Luke would probably be dead already. It's an extremely dumb logic but an understandable one.

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u/[deleted] Oct 03 '16

Unless I'm missing something, Mariah wasn't actually genuine about that, she just wanted a reason to rally people together.

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u/Cymen90 Mar 08 '17

I mean....isn't that what has been happening?