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• Niq & Jess • Episode 12

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This podcast episode navigates the complex interplay between Sickle Cell disease and the series "Supercell." It highlights issues of medical exploitation, race, identity, and community dynamics, discussing how the show provocatively intertwines these themes with the narratives around superpowers and systemic injustices.

• Discussion of Sickle Cell Disease and its implications 
• Exploration of historical context: medical exploitation of Black bodies 
• Analysis of power dynamics and societal perceptions 
• Examination of the show's portrayal of community and unity 
• Speculation on future plot arcs and character development


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Niq:

hi guys and welcome back to next episode. I'm your host, nick, and I'm jess, and we're going to continue our discussion of the uk hit show supercell, and so we're watching it on netflix. I think some people probably I don't know if everyone's watching it on netflix, but we, we are watching it on netflix. That's where you can currently find it if you are in America. And so one of the characters in the show well, one of the people we consider a character in the show is actually the sickle cell disease. Yes, I agree, and so I want to talk about that. For people who are not familiar with sickle cell, can you give a very general overview of the disease?

Jess:

You definitely should have told me I will try, but it has to be yes I can.

Niq:

Okay. So sickle cell is actually a a response, like a genetic response to malaria, and so malaria is like a blood disease that's found in africa a lot, and so to help prevent malaria, like, there's like a genetic mutation where the blood cells are shaped like a sickle that's why they call it sickle cell, and it's actually like a. It's a very painful disease and so it's typically found in populations of African descent and because of that, there I feel like there's not enough research done worldwide. I don't think that there's a proper treatment. It causes a lot of pain, and people I don't feel like doctors respect the pain, because there's a myth that, uh, people of african descent don't feel pain the way that other people do. I just don't know where that came from Slavery. That came from slavery. I'm a pain wimp. I'm a gentle, gentle girl.

Jess:

Please. That is part of the way that white people justified enslaving Africans is that they don't feel the whips, they don't feel the pain as much.

Niq:

It's an unspoken character in the show. I'm gonna tell you, when um we meet michael's mom and she um suffers from sickle cell. She's got a really bad case of it. Um, and they said that they had a sickle cell treatment center and they were all over the world. I knew immediately there was a problem there, because I'm like when have you guys ever cared about sickle cell Ever?

Jess:

And that's good to say that, because they did not explicitly say that that particular treatment center is connected to the underground observing the supercell people. But I'm like I already know. I already know that it is because y'all don't care about things that primarily affect African descended people, and I feel like what they're really doing with that is that they're using it to research and study, trying to draw out who's going to develop the supercell well, they do confirm it in the last episode.

Niq:

So think about the end of the last episode when the white guy gets fired and the woman takes over. That's that same lady that's in the hospital talking to Michael's mom. It took me two times to watch it because I still didn't recognize her?

Jess:

I still didn't. I knew she's queen evil, but like I did not recognize that's the same one that's talking to Michael's mom, that's how. But I already knew. I knew from the beginning too. I was like, oh no, y'all up to some foolishness and you never started his mama fast enough.

Niq:

Right After they said that, oh, we're going to make sure she's not in pain. And so in this show, in this world, the supercell is a genetic variation from sickle cell. So the people who end up with the supercell powers, their parents, actually have sickle cell or are carriers of sickle cell, and it shows up in the kids, and so I've. Of course, the treatment center to me is, yeah, they're trying to go through the population and they're trying to figure out, like, who is likely, who's unlikely.

Jess:

And how it's happening. It is just research and experimentation on black people.

Niq:

Right, which is very triggering, very triggering to me. But once again, it is common among the diaspora of people coming in and researching and using Black bodies for research and experimentation. And like we can talk about Henrietta Lacks, we can talk about the Tuskegee experiments, and those are just in the US. I'm quite sure Africa has tons of examples and I'm quite sure maybe even in the uk they may have examples too. But what was so like jarring for me was when you see them locked up in the in those rooms and they're dragging taser's mom's body, her dead body, past everybody and it's like a warning I felt like to them yes, fall in line, do what I tell you to do. You have no agency. You are not a person, you are essentially a lab rat.

Jess:

That's why I actually turned off the show initially. So like I tried to watch this a few months ago just on my own, before we decided we were going to review it, before we decided we were going to do a show, but I could not get past that initial scene of seeing that Black woman's body being dragged through that I was like I just can't. I just can't do that today and that was so hard, it was defunct. I think yeah, because and like you said, there's so many real world examples of us knowing that that's exactly how they treat us. The whole field of gynecology in the US is based on them experimenting on enslaved African women.

Niq:

Yes, absolutely Absolutely, and so it was. Once again, this show is based in reality. It feels so real because would you expect any other response if Black people started developing superpowers, other than the fact that the government would immediately, as fast as possible, try to locate as many as possible, try to start experimentations? Because I wonder if the organization's long-term goal is to try to figure out how to harness the ability to create powers so that they can give powers to white people Because, yeah, because they would be superheroes.

Jess:

If not, they would already have suits and be Superman if they were white.

Niq:

Right, and so it's like it's immediate. How can we exploit this?

Jess:

For our own benefit, our own gain. How can we other them? How can we other them? How can we, yeah, divide and conquer all the stuff that they typically?

Niq:

do Right, and yeah, that's definitely something that I want to talk about. So think about this Like Black people all of a sudden are getting superpowers right Immediately. That puts them at a higher, more elite, superior level than white people who control society. So that's an instant fear, that's a problem. You know what I mean. Like this minority community all of a sudden has a way to be superior. So what do they do? They infiltrate the community. They find supers and they immediately start having them hunt other supers, creating a divide so that there is not unity in the community, right?

Jess:

And if that is not something, that and access, they give some of them salaries, yeah, and they target the supers who have difficult situations. So they target crazy because he has a 35-year prison sentence. He also has the power to steal other people's powers, so that's very useful to them. Right, and talking about your powers being connected to who you are yeah, thievery, that makes sense with him.

Niq:

But also just using. Do you remember he had that conversation with Taser and he said to Taser oh, you know, you were like my little brother. And Taser said, no, you just used me to do the stuff you didn't want to do, and that is so true.

Jess:

Even more true when you know that Crazy is actually a part of the organization. And even more true when you know that Crazy is actually a part of the organization and that he's the front person for the hooded people. You knew the whole time that Boyz Mama didn't abandon him.

Niq:

Right, but also, did you see, did that catch you off guard when you found out that Crazy was a part of the organization it did?

Jess:

because I don't feel like they foreshadowed it a lot If it was him getting out that crazy was a part of the organization. It did. Because I don't feel like they foreshadowed it a lot, like the only like okay, if it was him getting out that 35 year prison sentence, because that's the only thing that could have been a clue. But yeah, it did surprise me. But it surprised me like I felt, it felt thrown into me. That did that. Didn't feel like it was like foreshadowed enough or even alluded to.

Niq:

I did not see it coming, which is strange because we are twists like we see a twist coming. I did. I also did not see it coming, but it felt right once I went back and looked at it, because it makes I do like, well, I'm gonna tell you this for the show, but I I feel like they could have foreshadowed it a bit more.

Jess:

I feel like they could have alluded to it. I don't feel like they did.

Niq:

Okay, so I'm going to tell you where I see the foreshadowing. Yes, the first foreshadowing is that he got let out of that 35 prison, 35 year prison sentence and he's just like oh, I just had a good lawyer. That was crazy. But also the way he conducted himself when he was out of prison. You just got off of a 35 year prison sentence, yet you are openly dealing drugs.

Niq:

Remember we were talking about the trap house, which was like a compound. It was so blatant, it was not a secret and how are you going to operate like that unless you know you are untouchable. He immediately started going out and doing high level gang activity in broad daylight. He, he, he was walking through the world as if he was untouchable. And that, to me, was. It was the foreshadowing, but it was subtle and well done because it was like once I knew I could see it, but I was not looking for it because there was so much stuff going on. There was, they did so much in these six episodes and in, I feel like, even if crazy did not have powers, even if crazy was not a part of the organization, he was still enough to be the big bad that I wasn't looking. I wasn't looking for more because I'm like this man will. Before he ever had powers, he was already a monster, so I was not even looking for him.

Jess:

Crazy was born a monster. There was never any hope. Now he was a baby demon.

Niq:

Yeah, definitely a baby, so I wasn't looking, I wasn't looking for, I wasn't looking for it. But once I knew, I went back and re-examined it and I'm like, okay, that was subtle foreshadowing, which I love, because you don't like I said you, it's hard to catch us.

Jess:

I do like subtle. I just don't feel like it was. I don't feel like there was any indication that that's who he was, that that's what it was. I'm like okay, I can say I can argue that I missed the 35 years since being commuted, like I noticed it, but I didn't see that as foreshadowing until after.

Jess:

I knew and went back, but I didn't see any other foreshadowing because Krazy was going to do that anyway. That's who he was when he was a kingpin before he went in. He's going to be a kingpin when he go out. Krazy ain't going to nobody's job.

Niq:

Right, but you know normal kingpins move in silence and violence. He was very much yelling out loud and he was not like he, like he, he just like I said it was. The foreshadowing was subtle, but it was there. If you think about how you saw the other supers commit crimes and never get caught because they were supers like sabrina.

Jess:

Sabrina killed Kadeem, andre robbed the ATM, but Rodney was running all over town pulling drugs With killing Kadeem because Kadeem was a super with a tracker and they were trying to pull Kadeem off the streets, not because they were trying to protect Sabrina.

Niq:

No, I feel like if Sabrina would have killed a civilian, they still would not, because none of the supers. They were watching them all with cameras, but they were not. They saw them commit crimes and they never picked them up. The police were never involved, because they were. They were researching and protecting them. So if you think about how that, how they were doing that for the other supers, that's how they were doing crazy. So, like I said, it was not blatant foreshadowing, it was very, very subtle and I I don't know if it was guessable, maybe maybe some people guessed it. But, like I said, I was so distracted by the actual story because, once again, this show is only six episodes and it is jam-packed, but I still think it was.

Jess:

Long term it's a good choice for the show.

Niq:

But it felt like they just dropped that in yeah, but I, what is the show trying to say? Because it like using sickle cell, the way that it is, um, and and bringing up all of the like, common, like historical things that have happened to black people, as far as, like, government intervention and experimentation. What do you think the show is trying to say?

Jess:

I think it's just trying to bring all that to light and how differently like it looks if we developed a superpower for someone else, like even in that, like any other community would have been to bring themselves up in and just kind of benefit the whole community. But they immediately start trying to tear us down and use us, and they do that even with our natural abilities and our natural superpowers in real life, because you know what I mean. Like I believe not not no weird science fiction kind of way, but we are just a beautiful, just talented people throughout the diaspora and so all of those things that we just naturally have and naturally possess, they constantly look for a way to suppress and exploit and or exploit.

Niq:

I agree, I absolutely agree that there is a lot of suppression and exploitation and there's like a across the world, like PR campaign against us, right?

Jess:

which I've never for the life of me and I'm going to stop trying because I'm exhausted. But like I, for the life of me do not understand. Especially non-Black people of color believe in that crap because they say horrible things about you. You don't think that the same group that lied on you might lie on someone else? And at the end of the day, for the most part, we are not the ones who came and disrupted whatever your situation was. Historically, we're not. That's not usually us. There's one group who disrupted everybody, but you want to be them.

Niq:

You're not mad at them. That's what I was going to say. So the way that white supremacy thrives Is that they make people feel incremental Better than the next. So if you, even though you're a minority and you're treated poorly Well, at least you're not black. So you're a minority and you're treated poorly well, at least you're not Black. So you're slightly higher on the rung, even though you'll never reach the top, at least you're not on the bottom rung. And I think that is what they do and that's why they will believe it, because they want to be in that slightly higher tier yeah of everybody.

Jess:

Even within the diaspora. Honestly and truly, I feel like a lot of these diaspora wars are just. I just want to feel like I'm better than somebody, because it doesn't make any sense. There's no reason for us to fight each other.

Niq:

But if you even like we can get specific, even in the American community, just even American Blacks, there's classism within us. If you think about it, you know what I mean. So maybe it's a natural thing that no one wants to be on the bottom, so you're always trying to look for someone to put beneath you. You know, because suburban Blacks feel like they're better than urban Blacks. You know, urban Blacks feel like they're better than rural Blacks.

Jess:

I still feel like we have more A sense of community.

Niq:

Overall, yes, because it's like this is the thing you can talk. I can talk about you, but no one else Can. So if you, when it comes to it, like, yes, we're going to come together, but within our community, and that's the thing.

Jess:

If it comes to it, there are certain things that happen. There are certain things that happen to us. If it comes to it, we don't have to that happen. There are certain things that happen to us to where, if it comes to it, we don't have to have that conversation, we don't have to dissect. We already know who's for us and who's against us, like you know what I mean. Whereas, like within the diaspora, it's like you're treating like we're your enemies and we have not done anything to you. We really haven't done anything serious to each other, but talk shit quite honestly. And we really haven't done anything serious to each other, but talk shit quite honestly and we're really carrying other people's issues. Absolutely. But if it goes down and yes, what you said about the US is true, but if it goes down, for the most part we're going to band together as we have.

Niq:

So think about it. You know how. You have those cousins that you grew up with and they're your aces, and then you have that cousin that you haven't seen since y'all were like a child and so, even though y'all were like close when you were really little, they're essentially a stranger. That's me, I think. Like when I think about the diaspora, that's what I think it is.

Jess:

It's like we know we're related but like my cousin, because I am that cousin, I am that cousin, ain't nobody seen. But at the end of the day, if you really threaten my cousins, yeah, I may not come to the family event but I will come to open up a can if I need to.

Niq:

You know, I got cousins, and then I got cousins, and then I got cousins, and then I got cousins. You know what I mean. And so, yes, I have the cousins that I will ride for. I also have some cousins that I got something for when I see you, and so you know, no, you're not even around them enough to even have that.

Jess:

No, I mean, I have cousins that I would ride for I would.

Niq:

Yes, no, I mean like I would.

Jess:

I don't have cousins that I got something for, because I'm like I just not deal with it.

Niq:

That's what I'm saying that's what I'm saying. You're not around them enough to even have beef. I ain't got beef, I ain't got chicken, I ain't got sausage no, like essentially like we kidnapped you and we integrated you so deeply into our family that you ride for my cousins most of it most of it, and you were grandma's, one of grandma's favorite grandchildren, cousins, most of them, most of them and you were one of grandma's favorite grandchildren.

Jess:

I was and I'm not her grandchild, but I was one of the favorites you were one of the favorites.

Niq:

So you know, I mean, I honestly I wish that we could mend the fences within the diaspora, because this is the thing like, there is so much cool stuff out there. Like I, one of the things I love to watch are like wedding ceremonies in the different countries, like like a Congolese wedding versus like a South African, like a Zulu wedding versus like a ebo wedding, like in nigeria, or like the ghanaian, like the. The. The fits are beautiful, the customs are amazing and there's so many you know, just beautiful things that I think that we could be focusing on instead of like who? Like which one of us best? Please?

Jess:

white people, girl and that's and that's, I think, my point. I don't even know how I got to diasporas, but like that is my point we are for why are we fighting over stereotypes that white people made up?

Niq:

so I'm, I'm hoping, like going forward, like we can move past that, you know, because I think if we, if we learned nothing, we we learned that we are for us. You know what I mean, and no one else is going to be for us the way that we are. So let's all join together.

Jess:

We can have our different flavors and our different individuality, but come together when we need to come together and realize we are not each other's enemy.

Niq:

Right, definitely not. And can I tell you one of the things I really liked about the show and I know it's gonna sound so trivial, but one of the things that I loved were the accents in the show, and by that I mean, whenever you hear a jamaican accent in american tv or a haitian accent or any other like a, they are always terrible, the patois is always awful and I'm like the accent is good, the patois is good just hire somebody jamaican or caribbean descent.

Jess:

but I do think that the jamaican accent is one of the hardest ones to imitate, like I've always felt like that it is, it is layered, it's got a lot of stuff in there, so I think it is really hard to come from the outside and imitate that. So just hire someone.

Niq:

I agree, but I think it's obvious that they did.

Jess:

Oh yeah, absolutely you know what I'm saying, and so I'm like why can't we do that?

Niq:

Why do we have? Because I'm going to tell you like, for me, of course, it course, it's always like a Haitian accent. They are always so terrible and I can't even speak Haitian Creole with a good accent because I didn't grow up speaking it, but the accent is very, it's very particular. It is very particular and I I don't know what they put in America TV. It is always the worst. And so, hearing people speak in accents that were authentic and, like I said, when they were speaking like the Patois, the Patois was real, I'm like that is so nice, like I love that, you know, because we don't get that here in America very rarely they do it well no, because here's the thing they did not.

Niq:

They were not casting a here in America Very rarely they do it well. No, because here's the thing they were not casting a Jamaican person. It wasn't a Jamaican character, this was just her parents. You know what I'm saying. They just happened to be Jamaican people, whereas in America it's like the character is Jamaican, now we have to force it and it's weird.

Jess:

That's true. That is a difference.

Niq:

You know what I'm saying. Once again, I love the realness of the show. I feel like I understand what South London is. I also like that in shows based out of the UK. I feel like I understand what South London is.

Jess:

I also like that in shows based out of the UK, people look more natural. People are not overly done. They look like real people.

Niq:

Real bodies, real bodies over there, and even though the sisters were very fit like petite women, still like real butts, real boobs, and a lot of times the makeup was very, very natural looking. Because here's the thing, like the like I said, like the uk girls, they put that on like they. They do their makeup, their makeup. They do it differently than we do, but they have like their own makeup styles. They're like their own glam styles and stuff like that. But you really didn't see a lot of that in the show. It was very much everyday, like looking normal people, still beautiful people, but not like overly made up, and I love that about uh, like they show like people looking real these are people going about their daily, regular life and something fantastic happens to them.

Niq:

You know right, I'm still sad that I didn't get my superpowers like. Okay, so question if the superpowers are based on who we are, what would your superpower be? Or what do you think my superpower would be?

Jess:

Well, you, know I want to be able to teleport, which makes sense because I like to travel and I always want to be somewhere else. So teleportation, actually, I want Michael's powers, I want both Michael's powers, and to be able to stop and freeze time. What would yours be, goodness? Okay, so are we basing on the powers?

Niq:

not the powers in the show just based on, like, who we are as people too late.

Jess:

I've already done it. You would have Sabrina's powers. Yes, if you could move stuff or bring stuff to you without having to get up.

Niq:

I'm going to tell you what I think that I would have. Okay, I think that I would have mind control. Oh, because I think I think you should be. I think because one of the things I think that I'm good at is like having empathy for people, like putting myself in other people's shoes, you know, like I feel like I have naturally good like customer service, like skills, like I'm a I'm good with when I want to be I'm good with people, you know. I mean I can get in people's heads and kind of know what they want, and so I think that that would lead to mind control. Mind control, mind reading, that kind of stuff I don't want you to have either of those things.

Jess:

I want you to have superpowers, but you know how I feel about people being able to read my mind.

Niq:

I'm nosy.

Jess:

Yeah, it gets scary in here sometimes. Nobody needs to know the full details.

Niq:

It's okay, I wouldn't mind control you, though I wouldn't read your mind. Yeah, no, no, I don't want you to have a superpower.

Jess:

I want you to have a superpower. I do Just not mind control or being able to read people's minds, but I can see why you would gravitate to those things. I still think you would telekinesis.

Niq:

So now I'm going to challenge you. What superpower would you have if you could not have one that was already on the show?

Jess:

It has to be based on who you are as a person If it's based on who, but it's still on the show Because I'm like the other one. That makes sense for me as a person is the ability to disappear.

Niq:

But you could be like a chameleon, where, instead of disappearing, you blend into the background.

Jess:

That was me through high school and my early career. Yeah, I was like that job I had for the longest, the longest period of work I had. Uh, part of the reason why I know where the bodies are buried is because I blended into the paint like I wasn't. You know what I mean. I was so quiet back then that people would forget I was in the room and just say everything I don't know.

Niq:

I would see something where you had like the power to like acquire wealth. I don't know what that would look like as a superpower, but that's I'm teleporting into the bank vaults.

Jess:

I'm going into the bank vaults she's like no, I trust me, no matter what power I have, it's going to lead to wealth and that is true because, like when I tell you, I understood, rodney, that in that five minutes or less I'm like because you got to make it work for you yes, right, I I'm sorry, like with even with andre, when he hit that atm machine.

Jess:

I probably would have hit a couple yeah I think I'm not three, I ain't, yeah, no, I was thinking the same thing, because when his friend and his friend's name is john, by the way, which is yeah, that's why it's hard to remember and when john told, him, you gonna hit another to hit another ATM. I was like no, no, no, that makes sense. That's the only time you said something that makes sense.

Niq:

Let's not get excessive. Maybe one a month. Just for a little bit, go out of your regular place. I would get a little prosthetic face mask so I look like a white person.

Jess:

I would have makeup on your skin.

Niq:

Yeah, oh yeah, but I would be once a month. I would hit an atm machine. I would just be like maybe, because you know it's very easy to travel there. So I'm telling you like maybe the next one I'm getting is in scotland. Right, I'm taking the train to paris. I'm hitting one over there, like I. I would never hit another one in south london, but once a month I would be taking me a little trip, a little trip, a little trip, you know.

Jess:

So listen, what's the point of being super and still being average what you gonna do with your mind control powers that dick become, probably become president, either that, or the CEO of a fortune 500 company like I'm coming up in the world.

Niq:

I'm not right. I may try out a few different things, you know but yeah. I'm going to come up of the US right now?

Jess:

definitely, and it would take my but yeah, I'm going to come up Of the US right now.

Niq:

Definitely president, and it would take mind control for me to get in the office. That's how well Qualifications be damned, you know. So yeah, whatever. Yeah, with mind control, I'm using it to come up. I'm going to be honest and say, like I don't know that I'm necessarily Joining the superhero team, unless they need something real specific for me. But I'm not out in the field Punching folks. Maybe I can get them to punch themselves, but I'm not trying to get out in the field.

Jess:

Okay, I was right, because whatever it is you decide to have, it's not you physically getting up and doing nothing no, no, don't give me super speed, don't waste your time, do not give me super speed or super strength, because you're like, I'm not punching anything, but.

Niq:

I don't open my own car door, I don't take out my own trash. Why would you give me super strength?

Jess:

You don't have telekinesis, so you can just draw the things.

Niq:

You know what I'm saying. Please don't waste your time. Please don't waste that mutation.

Jess:

I was just like the teapot going by itself. I was like, oh, she's making her tea from upstairs.

Niq:

No, that would be cool. That would be cool. You just see the tea floating up the stairs. But if I'm still working my job, I'm not using my superpower right, that's true. That's true. I get it Because I need to find some way to super sell my life if I got a superpower you know how they say like if you win the lottery, I'm not going to tell you, but there'll be clues.

Niq:

You know that when people say that, like if I win the lottery, like I'll never tell, but there'll be clues. If I get a superpower, I'm not going to tell you, but there'll be clues, you need to tell me. I mean, of course I would tell you, but I'm not telling the general public, but there will be clues. You need to tell me. I mean, of course I would tell you, I'm not telling the general public, but there will be clues.

Jess:

You know I'm telling you first thing. Yeah, just tell me. That way I get the thing to put over my head. So you can't read my mind.

Niq:

If you walk around with a magneto helmet, girl, first of all, I'm going to walk around with a magneto bonnet, and you better know it. I would die. I would die. There can't be anything. There's not too many things locked up in there that I don't already know, so please don't walk around looking like the tin man in a bonnet it don't matter, like sometimes it's not even about secrets, like just some, you know, you just get them thoughts that don't make sense.

Jess:

I don't want people to know those things.

Niq:

The intrusive thoughts. Yes because yeah, no, no, my intrusive thoughts freak me out sometimes exactly I'm like no, because the people think I hate them.

Jess:

That I don't hate, it's just stuff just floats through there no like.

Niq:

And I'm gonna tell you when my intrusive thoughts were the worst, like postpartum, like right after I had the baby crazy, crazy intrusive thoughts, like they just don't make sense, yeah, and I'm just like they need they. They I feel like they should. Everybody should have meds when they go home. Everybody should, because I'm like this, this is crazy, you know. So, yeah, I, I understand and I would not be like, I would not go and dig in because, honestly, like my, I would try to control it, so that I'm only because, once again, these powers exhaust you. So I would only want to use the powers when I needed to use the powers. I wouldn't just want to to be running willy nilly through people's minds.

Jess:

That would be kind of gross. However, I would be teleporting on the daily.

Niq:

And then knocked out On the Amalfi Coast. She said I'll be knocked out in a Range Rover, our squad as superheroes would be so hilarious okay, so we don't have to identify who would have what power oh my gosh, let's see. Oh, that's hard to say. Okay, hold on, let's think, knowing that, okay, so the superpowers are based on their personalities or who they are as a person. That is really hard, do you have?

Jess:

an answer for one for our little cousin okay, what is it? You know that thing where people can blink and destroy people like they disintegrate? Yes, I see her with that one.

Niq:

The scary thing is, I feel like she would use it and be like ooh, maybe I went too far.

Jess:

She gonna feel bad after. But some people get disintegrated.

Niq:

Yeah, but I feel like it's gonna be the lady at Publix that did not make her sub right.

Jess:

It had to have been. She had told that lady so many times.

Niq:

What about our little sister? What power would she have? What?

Jess:

power would she have?

Niq:

I think she would be able to drive people crazy, oh cause she likes to play mind games with people.

Jess:

Yeah, I was thinking like the glimmer magic you know what I mean like where you can change somebody.

Niq:

Yeah, not quite mind but you can make them see what you want them to see. Yeah, I can see that. I can see that. I can see that because she loves to like mess with people's minds. She likes to pull like little frames, and she would do it both ways it would be both positive.

Jess:

and then, when she was feeling devilish you know what I mean like she's going to put you in a better mood when you're down, she's also randomly going to make you cluck like a chicken.

Niq:

Right, absolutely, absolutely. Us trying to fight crime would be hilarious. We wouldn't, we wouldn't, no, we would get out there and we would be telling so many jokes and laughing and the criminals are like are we gonna do this? And we're like hold on, hold on. And we're like belly, laughing and running around we're not listening.

Jess:

We're gonna make ourselves rich, we're gonna secure our own position, and then we're just going around the world doing whatever the foolishness we want to do. We are not about to be superheroes no, and you know what?

Niq:

honestly, I think that that's really a healthy attitude, because I feel like a lot of times, black women feel like we have to be the saviors of everybody, and so for us to be like you know we're gonna get superpowers and be completely silly and selfish with it and just have joy, I think that's gross, honestly we would be like, okay, I'm gonna teleport us to um, this, this place this weekend and we're gonna have a girls weekend and we just gonna wreak havoc on this town and then go back home like we didn't do nothing right, okay, yeah, I would love we should have superpowers.

Niq:

When's the next time they have one of those red suns? Maybe we didn't do it right, probably not. We gotta figure out. We gotta do a little bit more research so we can get those red suns. Maybe we didn't do it right, probably not. We got to figure out. We got to do a little bit more research so we can get another red sun. So what are you looking for in season two? What am I looking?

Jess:

for in season two Just more character development and growth, which I think they did a great job, but, of course, I just want to see more. Season one felt like it's really setting up the world and setting up the superheroes and introducing us. So I think, season two, I'm expecting to see just where they go from here, how they grow, as they grow with their powers, as they have different life experiences. So I just want more of all of them. I'm excited to see where they go. I want to know more about the organization. What does it see as its purpose and are they going to take it down, because I need them to take it down.

Niq:

Right, I would love to see more of the stories of the hooded Supas, because I know that, yes, they are working for the organization. I know that, yes, they are working for the organization, but I also know that there was a lot of coercion in it, so I want to hear about them, their stories. How do they feel about working for the organization? Because, once again, they see how other people are being treated and do some of them want to defect over to the other side? Because here's the thing Technically they're the bad guys, but I don't see them as bad. I see them as captured. They've been captured and so I hate that. Even some of them died fighting the other team, because I'm like man, they probably don't even really want to be doing this, except for, okay, I need to talk about andre.

Niq:

When andre was briefly working for the organization and they were like you get a bonus for every person you bring in, andre was hilarious because he's like these are my friends. I don't want to hurt them. He was like but I need to take a body and I need a paycheck. My life bill is due. He was like hey, just open up a portal, let me slide him on in. He was about to have money.

Jess:

But you remember what we said before though Andre is good at his job. Whatever his job is, andre is good at it. So he said listen. They said bring the people in alive. They said a bonus for each one. Alive, right, no value to us dead and we can't go back empty handed. Open the portal. And they kept ignoring him. He's like open the no, we got the bodies, you get. The first thing you do is you get the body.

Niq:

He was like let me, let me, I need to drag the body in. If I drag the body into the portal, I get the money. I think Andre loves a commission based job. He does, he loves a commission based job. He was like open the portal, I need to get this body. The paychecks are going out Friday. This is the last. This is the end of the pay period he was trying so desperately. Let me just drag somebody who is breathing through the portal. I need this money by tomorrow. And I was literally laughing and I know it was supposed to be like the big fight scene, but I was dying laughing because I'm like that man needs some money.

Jess:

Okay, Thank you so much for joining us today. We had a great time talking with you about Supercell. Join us next week as we start our next series, Crossed.