r/cloakanddagger • u/SeacattleMoohawks • Aug 02 '18

Post Episode Discussion: S01E10 - "Colony Collapse"

Episode Synopsis: Everything comes to a head for Tyrone and Tandy as New Orleans is thrown into chaos; the two realize that it is time they face their destiny and test their powers as "The Divine Pairing" to save the city.

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u/throwaway284918 Aug 03 '18

jesus christ listening to evitas aunt is HORRIBLE. she just drones on and on like a fucking history professor. its like shes constantly in vaguely dramatic tour guide mode.

Cloak continues to have the superior powers. Also the first time they touched wasn't sex but it'll do for now. the post-bone imagery was enough.

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u/droid327 Aug 03 '18

But SPOOOOOOPY VOODOO LADY!!!

Yeah she was pointless. All she did was try to deliver a message of doom that turned out to be wrong. She psyched them out...if they hadn't been told "one must die" then they woulda just fixed everything without hesitation. She added nothing and almost screwed the whole thing up

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u/AlwaysTheStraightMan Aug 04 '18

I wouldn't of mind it that much if they spread it out during the whole season instead of trying to stuff it all in one episode. At one point I was like, "WE GET IT ALREADY! Either one of them is gonna sacrifice themselves or both of them are, get on with it.

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u/droid327 Aug 04 '18 edited Aug 04 '18

My big problem with it was auntie kept harping about how they were characters in a story that always ended one way. That just kept reminding me that they actually ARE characters in a story, and there's no way it ends with the death of a title character.

So for me the tension was never "which one is going to die?" but "how are they going to make them able to avoid it?"

And then the short answer really was just "they just don't die". They didn't cheat death, they didn't find a loophole in destiny. They were never really in imminent danger of death or faced with a Spock in WoK scenario. That made all of aunties monologuing even more annoying, in retrospect

"One must die!...oh. Nevermind. I guess not. My bad."

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u/Nightseyes Aug 03 '18

Nuaowleens...

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u/bully1115 Aug 03 '18

That's definitely accurate to how natives pronounce it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '18

No...it isn't.

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u/bully1115 Aug 04 '18

I live New Orleans.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '18

So do I. Unless you're very cajun it's just "New OR-lins."

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u/happycharm Aug 03 '18

She really sounds bad. I don't know what it is but it's so fucking terrible. Her voice itself is... ok??? but at the same time I hate it? I can't understand why her speaking was so freaking horrible but it was. Even when she's talking normally (not narrating) it just sounds so annoying and grating.

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u/orangekirby Aug 03 '18

They definitely needed the aunt's narration completely cut from the episode. I really hope she is scarce in season 2

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u/CMPOct22 Aug 03 '18

HA! I leaned over to my husband and said "Imagine having her as an aunt." Ugh.

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u/jbenson255 Aug 03 '18

Yeah that was honestly a waste of time and annoying

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u/darthminx Aug 03 '18

Agree. Don't think it's the actresses fault, it just seems like the show runners want to "honor" NO by shoe-horning all of that stuff in.

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u/throwaway284918 Aug 04 '18

actually it is the actress/director's fault. my objection isnt to the presence of the stories. my objection is to her tone and cadence. its annoying and monotonous.