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“… I guess I’m, like, a superhero or something …”
Life as a teenager is difficult — even moreso when when you’re a celebrity literally made of light, your mom’s an overbearing attention-seeker … and your dad’s a supervillain! But, such is the life Lia Nelson in b>THE FLASH #1! And things get even worse when Nightwing puts out a hit on our favorite celebutante, and all she wants to is go the movies! It’s slapstick teen comedy in “Premier,” brought to you by Todd Dezago, Gary Frank and Cam Smith.
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NEXT TIME: We go under the sea (do-do-do-do) for SEA DEVILS #1
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Whoa, I’ve fallen behind on these! Time to catch up!
This episode made me doubly happy, because Lia is my favorite Tangent character–and you guys just knocked it out of the park here. I think I finally re-learned how to breathe after the re-telling of the story, because you went classic 90s “girl power” for the music in the background. (And then industrial metal for Nightwing, courtesy from Rammstein…)
But unfortunately, you overlooked one detail about Lia herself. Yes, she’s obsessed with fashion (poor Michael and his trauma over her clothes –understandable, though) and seems to prefer going shopping rather than being a “prim-and-proper” superhero, but she’s also smart? This is the detail that even non-podcast reviewers seem to overlook and I can’t understand why: just like her mother who used to be an engineer before Lia’s birth, Lia is also a semi-engineer of sorts. She’s adept at tinkering with and creating machines. Even if it was for a movie, she was the one who advised on the technology used AND also created the technology possible for the film to be in “oooh holoscopic vision.” I don’t know about you, but that strikes me as being smarter than she looks.
Maybe I just love her a lot and I’m biased so I want to defend her good points, but that’s in the dialogue and it’s the one thing people don’t say about her. Other than that, I loved the episode. I laughed a lot and even with my nitpicking, you guys respected her as a character more than others have, and I appreciate that.