I understand. It’s just that I thought Hippolyta did decide to go back and only learnt she didn’t come back from the podcast and then my main reaction was OMG poor Dee.

It is important for parents, especially mothers, to be allowed to also be people and not just be defined by their roles to others. Hippolyta shouldn’t only be wife of George or mother of Diana. This is why it’s so elating to see her bestow her own title on herself - Discoverer. They discuss it in the podcast too.

I pretended she was Garnet from Steven Universe, which is ridiculous but brought me joy. 

They went hard for iconography over story telling. And Hippolyta’s journey was even more disconnected from main story than the other increasing disjointed story lines already were.

So many images from Hippolyta’s journey reminded me of Ava Duvernay’s A Wrinkle in Time.

I loved everything about this episode. I thought about my mother and other Black girls who grew up in the 50s and 60s who never got the chance to self-actualize. The visuals and storytelling are stunning and the critique on modern society is just EVERYTHING! One of the best hours of television I’ve ever experienced.

That was a great, great episode. One that I argue is more transcendent than the previous great episode, “Strange Case.” I may not grasp the full history of what was shown to Hippolyta (thanks for all the explanations!), but I did understood the emotional contexts and developments behind her struggles to understand…

Neat, I found Steven Colbert's burner.

I love how the attitudes towards magic are embodied by Leti and Ruby. The sisters have very different experiences with it and represent polar opposites in how to perceive it. For Leti magic is all monsters and death (including her own) so it represents danger and horrors. And the people who wield this powers are even…

As a black woman who grew up loving math and science, science-fiction and horror this episode spoke right to my soul. Thank you for an incredible writeup on the depth of meaning presented...I am...

Thank you for this review every week.

I just appreciate that even tho you said “Professor mode: Deactivated”, you still spent the next dozen plus paragraphs taking me to school. These pieces have become essential companion reading for me, thank you!

I really loved this recap! I’ve read a few because I was in the same camp as your BIL. I was definitely thinking as I was watching that I must not be as into sci-fi as I had previously thought. Because it was pretty complex. Plus, I had zero knowledge of Afrofuturism aside from knowing the name.

This was such a beautifully written review. Thank you.

Thank you for these articles. This series has taken up residence in my brain for the past several weeks, but there is so much going on in this show that I don’t know what to make of it sometimes. It’s great to have someone with better knowledge of the themes and history being explored to lay it out.

Kinitra, I had been waiiiiiiiting for this episode ever since I saw an image of Hippolyta with her shining helmet on, and after finally watching it (twice!) I had to know what you thought about it. Hippolyta’s warrior lewk gave me serious Beyonce - Girls Run The World music video vibes, and every scene with her was…

Took reading this for my dopey self to recognize that she turned into Orithyia in the end. Great episode. 

After watching that episode, I cried. I felt Hippolta deep in my soul. It brought out my creativity, my joy, and most of all my rage. Truly a gem of an episode.

Gonna watch again for context....(Admittedly woke from a "football & Crown Peace-induced semi coma" to the breakfast scene between Montrose and Sammy.🤣)

I loved Ruby’s episode, Strange Case, for the examination of the intersectionality of race and gender. Hippolyta’s episode, I am, blew me away with the focus on Black women and the use of Afrofuturism as a means of Hippolyta becoming this fully self-actualized woman and, in context of an episodic show, a character…