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I'm not a fan of time travel stories in general, so this wasn't my favorite episode.

Also, something about the tone of this show is off. Lovecraft stories take place in an indifferent universe filled with cosmic monsters that are totally indifferent to human life. But this show is trying a little too hard to be "positive". It even had the characters praying during the firebombing scene. Turning Lovecraft stories into a battle of "good vs evil" doesn't really fit, to me.
that is ultimately, my biggest problem with this show; i was expecting lovecraftian storytelling from a black perspective, but really the show feels like it was created by someone who heard about lovecraft right before they pitched it to HBO. maybe the book it's based on is more like that, but i didnt read it.
 

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that is ultimately, my biggest problem with this show; i was expecting lovecraftian storytelling from a black perspective, but really the show feels like it was created by someone who heard about lovecraft right before they pitched it to HBO. maybe the book it's based on is more like that, but i didnt read it.


I think "Raised By Wolves" is actually more "Lovecraftian" than Lovecraft Country itself:

CAMPION: I've learned now that this world isn't like Mother and Father.
It doesn't care if we're happy, and it doesn't get sad when we die.
We don't really matter to it at all.

At first this sounds like a metaphor, but
Later on we find out that "This World" referred to in the above quote might actually be a sentient Lovecraftian deity that is using the beings trapped on the planet in order to create giant blood eating snake monsters.
 

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It was implied HEAVY. When Montrose breaks the news to Tic about George possibly being his father. Tic in shock asks "Momma CHEATED on you with Uncle George?!" :damn:

Montrose responds by saying something like "you dont know the bond those Tulsa riots created between us 3" or something to that effect.
you took from what you quoted, that they had a threesome?
you're being serious right now?
 

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I think she’s been invulnerable for so long she has forgotten how to have emotional attachments. Sacrificing others to achieve goals means nothing to her now.

I think Ruby did get through to her but in her messed up mind that meant hurting herself instead of just showing basic decency.
I won't give Christina that out. Plain and simple, she's just white and doing what most white people do. They've shown throughout history that in general they lack basic human decency or the ability to empathize with anybody else's plight unless they look like them. I don't think it has anything to do with invulnerability.

The "All Lives Matter" crew ain't invulnerable. Neither are the "An education is payment enough for these these ungrateful b*stards" crowd, up until Johnny Manziel was talking that same talk. Then it was a bunch of understanding and think pieces on how the college amateurism rules need to be re-evaluated because athletes are getting exploited while all the (majority white) adults getting rich.

Or how about the "War on drugs" that has led to me mass incarceration of black males and stereotypes of cracked out welfare queens raising crack babies, as opposed to the "opiod crisis" complete with heartfelt cries for help to save the children being attacked by big bad pharma and ads for peaceful, tranquil, spa like therapy centers for those that have been harmed by this crisis to get their lives bank on track.

None of these situations, or countless other examples throughout time, have needed a spell of invulnerability to be true. Just a very non-magical cloak of privelege is all that has ever needed to be present for them to shroud themselves in self importance and unempathetic behavior.

Oh and fukk Ruby and all the bytches and bytch ass nikkas like here that have rode (literally and figuratively) these despicable people for their own personal gain and tried to point out to their own people the good in these white folks actions. They're even more dangerous than the white people they worship.

I was watching that scene hoping for a magical spell misfire like a jammed gun, and that pasty, demonic bytch would be left at the bottom of the lake Jason Voorhies style, except never to rise again.
 

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I won't give Christina that out. Plain and simple, she's just white and doing what most white people do. They've shown throughout history that in general they lack basic human decency or the ability to empathize with anybody else's plight unless they look like them. I don't think it has anything to do with invulnerability.

The "All Lives Matter" crew ain't invulnerable. Neither are the "An education is payment enough for these these ungrateful b*stards" crowd, up until Johnny Manziel was talking that same talk. Then it was a bunch of understanding and think pieces on how the college amateurism rules need to be re-evaluated because athletes are getting exploited while all the (majority white) adults getting rich.

Or how about the "War on drugs" that has led to me mass incarceration of black males and stereotypes of cracked out welfare queens raising crack babies, as opposed to the "opiod crisis" complete with heartfelt cries for help to save the children being attacked by big bad pharma and ads for peaceful, tranquil, spa like therapy centers for those that have been harmed by this crisis to get their lives bank on track.

None of these situations, or countless other examples throughout time, have needed a spell of invulnerability to be true. Just a very non-magical cloak of privelege is all that has ever needed to be present for them to shroud themselves in self importance and unempathetic behavior.

Backing off the real world for a a second.

This is a character on a fictional show. She’s a manipulator. She’s got two dead bodies in her basement. One of which was her lover who she’s using to manipulate others. Christina openly admitted only wanting William to teach her magic to get at her father and then for herself.

At no point have we ever seen her address any kind of sympathetic relationship to anyone(white or black)

Ruby said her and Leti’s mother was a manipulator. So while she’s right to come down on Leti taking advantage of her, Ruby is still attaching herself to a manipulator.

on the real world stuff. Yeah it reminds me of performance allyship. But their wasn’t anyone around to witness it.
 

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that white bytch needs to die, she is not needed. lets see the other lodges talent
Isn't whole point of her character is that they aren't? Pretty sure in an earlier ep she or maybe the last one she explicitly stated that the lodges are just filled with white men interested in money and political power...aka they're small minded. Her father was one of the few actually reaching for something big (eden) but even then he couldn't see how or accept how talented (and manipulative) his own daughter was.
 
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