Cloak & Dagger: Princeton Offense
June 29, 2018 4:32 PM - Season 1, Episode 5 - Subscribe
Tandy pours herself into the Roxxon investigation. Ty's basketball team plays the State Championship.
I didn't go with the official episode description since it... didn't really make sense.
The title refers to a well known basketball offensive strategy that relies on reading the defense and does not have a set pattern, controlling the tempo and usually results in low-scoring games. This seems to reference how Tandy is approaching her takedown of Roxxon, and of course ties into an actual basketball game on the show.
The show feels like it's getting into a groove and the pacing is ramping up. I'm glad Tandy has a clear focus now, but at the same time it feels like Ty is not. He's not really trying out his powers and seemed to have handed off his hunt for Connors to Detective O'Reilly.
I was taken aback by O'Reilly casually sleeping with another officer and straight up doing coke. Although the latter is to entice Connors, and the former is her own business, I didn't get a sense from the previous episode that she's not such a straight arrow as a detective. Perhaps I missed something, which is possible. Also, she mentioned coming from Harlem, which is a neat Easter Egg to connect that this show exist in the same universe as Luke Cage (in the current season, Detective Misty Knight casually mentions at one point that O'Reilly moved to New Orleans, don't worry, this is not a spoiler).
I had to go back and check, but that is indeed the same guy pouring water when they're waterboarding Tandy's father in Ty's vision. A lot of them kind of look alike to me in those vision scenes, so I couldn't remember. Actually Peter Scarborough from the vision and from the news article on her tablet didn't look like any of the guy that was in the photo she looked at with Ty at the party. But I know I'm slightly face-blind, or whatever it is where you can make out a face, but you're just bad at recognizing different/same faces.
The basketball dropping into the party out of nowhere was kind of hilarious, but it's a great demonstration from the writers that Ty's power lets him transport objects, not just himself. And I can't wait until he's learned more control and is just going to be fighting like a badass. That said, I really appreciate that they're easing him into this power instead of having him suddenly Mary-Sueing his way into a superhero. But his characterization is so great, with him immediately feeling guilty for creating fear in the other team and the ref, and letting the other team win. I'm impressed though that Evita picked up on that. He hasn't revealed his powers to her yet right?
I'm also enjoying seeing these traditions that I never had, probably due to cultural differences between regions. I think I'd heard of athletes bestowing their letterman jackets to cheerleader/girl as a symbol, but here it seems more official to show that they're dating.
I didn't go with the official episode description since it... didn't really make sense.
The title refers to a well known basketball offensive strategy that relies on reading the defense and does not have a set pattern, controlling the tempo and usually results in low-scoring games. This seems to reference how Tandy is approaching her takedown of Roxxon, and of course ties into an actual basketball game on the show.
The show feels like it's getting into a groove and the pacing is ramping up. I'm glad Tandy has a clear focus now, but at the same time it feels like Ty is not. He's not really trying out his powers and seemed to have handed off his hunt for Connors to Detective O'Reilly.
I was taken aback by O'Reilly casually sleeping with another officer and straight up doing coke. Although the latter is to entice Connors, and the former is her own business, I didn't get a sense from the previous episode that she's not such a straight arrow as a detective. Perhaps I missed something, which is possible. Also, she mentioned coming from Harlem, which is a neat Easter Egg to connect that this show exist in the same universe as Luke Cage (in the current season, Detective Misty Knight casually mentions at one point that O'Reilly moved to New Orleans, don't worry, this is not a spoiler).
I had to go back and check, but that is indeed the same guy pouring water when they're waterboarding Tandy's father in Ty's vision. A lot of them kind of look alike to me in those vision scenes, so I couldn't remember. Actually Peter Scarborough from the vision and from the news article on her tablet didn't look like any of the guy that was in the photo she looked at with Ty at the party. But I know I'm slightly face-blind, or whatever it is where you can make out a face, but you're just bad at recognizing different/same faces.
The basketball dropping into the party out of nowhere was kind of hilarious, but it's a great demonstration from the writers that Ty's power lets him transport objects, not just himself. And I can't wait until he's learned more control and is just going to be fighting like a badass. That said, I really appreciate that they're easing him into this power instead of having him suddenly Mary-Sueing his way into a superhero. But his characterization is so great, with him immediately feeling guilty for creating fear in the other team and the ref, and letting the other team win. I'm impressed though that Evita picked up on that. He hasn't revealed his powers to her yet right?
I'm also enjoying seeing these traditions that I never had, probably due to cultural differences between regions. I think I'd heard of athletes bestowing their letterman jackets to cheerleader/girl as a symbol, but here it seems more official to show that they're dating.
ahh I didn't pick up on that. Admittedly it was kind of hard to make out what was happening in his visions with the ongoing make-everything-super-dark scenes that plagues these shows. I remember the coach and at least two of the kids being threatened, but I didn't correlate that their fears were immediately about the game rather than just overall fears.
posted by numaner at 5:11 PM on June 30, 2018
posted by numaner at 5:11 PM on June 30, 2018
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I think that what was going on with the basketball game was that the referee was obviously favoring Tyrone's team and when Tyrone touched him, he saw his fear of being hurt by the people behind this. With the players, Tyrone saw that one had a father who would beat him if they los the game, and I don't recall what he saw about the other one or two players. The main point was that the other team was the underdog from a poor neighborhood, the ref had repeatedly made bad calls in Tyrone's team favor, and Tyrone saw how important the win would be for the other team. So he intentionally missed his shot.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 1:16 AM on June 30, 2018 [1 favorite]