"At least one of your parents had sickle cell... or they both had the trait. And supacell is a mutation of sickle cell. It's very rare, and even if you have it, it can lay dormant in your body forever. But it can also awaken, given the right conditions. Close proximity with another activated supacell is most common."
SUPACELL
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I've got some Supacell stuff queued up for tomorrow, but since I've also decided I'm going to talk about it for a video later, I just feel like sharing these miscellaneous thoughts as well.
Somewhat random, but as a short older sister myself, I have to wonder, am I the only one who kept getting surprised by how small Sabrina actually was compared to the guys? For some reason it didn't fully hit me, until she stood next to Rodney at the hospital. Maybe it's because most of her scenes were with her sister or patients lying down, but the actress definitely makes Sabrina feel like a taller person. And then you see her scolding Tayo...
Also, obviously in season one Michael and Dionne's romance was at the center of the story, which I loved, but to put my shipping goggles on for a second for potential other couples, I kinda could see some seeds planted for Sabrina and Rodney. Mostly because their personalities would balance each other out, and I feel like they ended up being alone together multiple times in the latter half of the season. Plus I enjoyed how he cheered her on for being violent. IDK, maybe that's just me as well.
Lastly (for now) I'm definitely interested in the potential dynamics between Andre, Tazer, and Rodney, because the three of them definitely have to deal with class in a different way than Sabrina and Michael, and since Andre is a father, Tazer kinda serves as a cautionary tale for him and his son AJ. And, because we know Rodney's mother is white, that means his missing father was the Black parent, so how they'll relate to each other could give us some good stuff.
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I had a discussion a few days ago with @geekynichelle about how/why Tazer's power manifested as invisibility, when that's... maybe not the most useful power for a street gang kid.
But on the other hand, a street gang kid whose mother 'abandoned' him, who's lost the leader/what passes for a father or leader figure of a sort he had in Krazy and is seeing his influence on the world wither as other gangs encroach on what he sees as his territory -- well, that street kid might feel very, very invisible indeed.
What if we apply that kind of logic to the other characters and their powers?
Andre is pretty basic in that regard... he wants, no, needs to be a strong man for his son, and he gets to be. Literally.
Rodney needs things to go fast. He's running out of time and out of patience for making enough money so he can provide for himself, his mother and probably also his sister. He's also running himself ragged doing it. (It's not a realistic wish, but it does appear to be a genuine one). Everything needs to move faster. So now he does. (Looking at it this way -- this kid is young. My initial estimate of 22 may be overestimating it)
Sabrina has her hands full all day, taking care of her patients and her sister. She's putting in lots of overtime and doing a lot of extra work. She could use an extra pair of hands. Or just not needing to use her hands to lift her load at all.
Now, Michael... he's actually a bit harder to explain in this kind of logic, especially because he activates before that great time-jump.
If the time jump had been his first activation, I might have said that at that exact moment, he's at the happiest he's ever been and he'd want freeze time there, to preserve that moment forever. But he activates a few hours before that, when he's still anticipating that perfect moment.
But maybe that's enough. Maybe he's anticipating it so strongly... and then he gets stabbed. Can't let that happen. So he gets to turn back time.
What that doesn't explain is why he also gets teleportation along with the time-travel. Yes, yes, space-time is one thing, Time and Relative Dimension in Space; I don't have a TARDIS as my profile pic for nothing. But that's a different show and it's not even on Netflix. :D
And the time-freezing is actually even weirder. Because it's highly localised. We see other people watch Michael move around the frozen people on cameras. If he'd really frozen space-time nobody but Michael and/or whoever he brought along should even know anything happened. I think this is also how Michael's power is different from Hiro Nakamura's. Hiro could freeze time entirely IIRC.
In a fully frozen-time world, Michael moving around while nothing else is could look like teleportation without being it. But no, he's actually teleporting, not freezing the world while he takes a walk.
In the rest of the show, Michael's powers manifest a lot more as teleportation and local time-freezes than actual rewinding or travelling in time. And sure, those fit with the fact that he's a delivery guy (but that's his job, not his personality), and possibly even that, after what he found out in his time jump, now he really does want to be everywhere at once in order to stop what he (thinks he) knows is going to happen. But at that point he's long-activated. Did it still influence his powers?