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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 328445" data-attributes="member: 23"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">Luke Cage</span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em><span style="font-size: 18px">For Pete’s Sake</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em></em></p> <p style="text-align: center"><em>continued</em></p><p></p><p></p><p>Something this episode does so cleverly is a kind of rotation. Of the characters assembled - Luke, his father James Lucas, Mariah, Mariah’s daughter Tilda - we see every possible combination of two-handers, and so in addition to the detente between Luke and James or the friction between Luke and Mariah, there are also unexpectedly sweet moments between James and Tilda, Tilda and Luke, and even Mariah making sexual overtures towards James.</p><p></p><p>The episode’s showstopper, however, is a terrific scene between Mariah and Tilda which starts off as a quiet conversation, much like the ones already seen in the episode, but develops into an almost horrifying verbose monologue from Mariah in which she not only admits that she killed Cornell, but goes into the reasons behind it, revealing in great detail that Tilda is the product of incestuous rape. Compounding Tilda’s shocked horror Mariah delivers the coup de grâce: she never wanted Tilda, but Mama Mabel wouldn’t allow her to get the abortion she wanted. And every time she looks at Tilda, Mariah tells her daughter, she sees the face of her rapist, Uncle Pete. </p><p></p><p>It’s an absolutely electric scene, with a winning performance from Alfre Woodard. Kudos to Gabrielle Dennis as well, who has minimal dialogue once Mariah gets going, but who does a wonderful job of registering Tilda’s shock and pain, even getting into some messy snot acting as the scene ends. “You’re a monster”, Tilda tells Mariah more than once, but what makes this scene so powerful is that Mariah is not just at her coldest and most brutal, but also at her most vulnerable and honest. We can see and understand both of their points of view. And that’s what makes it so tragic. </p><p></p><p>It’s interesting that Tilda also featured in perhaps my second favourite pairing of the episode in her earlier scene with James Lucas who gives her a warm pep talk when he realises she’s shaking with fear. Reg E. Cathey is wonderful in this episode. Because we’ve been seeing his character through Luke’s eyes, it’s taken a long while for him to click with me, just as it has for Luke to warm to him. I appreciate that the performance has allowed this to be a satisfying and substantial journey.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 328445, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Luke Cage[/SIZE][/B] [I][SIZE=5]For Pete’s Sake[/SIZE] continued[/I][/CENTER] Something this episode does so cleverly is a kind of rotation. Of the characters assembled - Luke, his father James Lucas, Mariah, Mariah’s daughter Tilda - we see every possible combination of two-handers, and so in addition to the detente between Luke and James or the friction between Luke and Mariah, there are also unexpectedly sweet moments between James and Tilda, Tilda and Luke, and even Mariah making sexual overtures towards James. The episode’s showstopper, however, is a terrific scene between Mariah and Tilda which starts off as a quiet conversation, much like the ones already seen in the episode, but develops into an almost horrifying verbose monologue from Mariah in which she not only admits that she killed Cornell, but goes into the reasons behind it, revealing in great detail that Tilda is the product of incestuous rape. Compounding Tilda’s shocked horror Mariah delivers the coup de grâce: she never wanted Tilda, but Mama Mabel wouldn’t allow her to get the abortion she wanted. And every time she looks at Tilda, Mariah tells her daughter, she sees the face of her rapist, Uncle Pete. It’s an absolutely electric scene, with a winning performance from Alfre Woodard. Kudos to Gabrielle Dennis as well, who has minimal dialogue once Mariah gets going, but who does a wonderful job of registering Tilda’s shock and pain, even getting into some messy snot acting as the scene ends. “You’re a monster”, Tilda tells Mariah more than once, but what makes this scene so powerful is that Mariah is not just at her coldest and most brutal, but also at her most vulnerable and honest. We can see and understand both of their points of view. And that’s what makes it so tragic. It’s interesting that Tilda also featured in perhaps my second favourite pairing of the episode in her earlier scene with James Lucas who gives her a warm pep talk when he realises she’s shaking with fear. Reg E. Cathey is wonderful in this episode. Because we’ve been seeing his character through Luke’s eyes, it’s taken a long while for him to click with me, just as it has for Luke to warm to him. I appreciate that the performance has allowed this to be a satisfying and substantial journey. [/QUOTE]
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