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Message: <blockquote data-quote="satori01" data-source="post: 3833625" data-attributes="member: 7859">Wow, just Wow.  Far be it for me to argue about the social importance of racial casting in TV and how people interpret it but I think Don and others are missing the intent of the show.   Micah if anything is mild mannered, non aggressive, and certainly not gangsta.By making the cousin outworldly an annoying, boorish figure it illustrates how difficult a transition this is.  It would be unrealistic to not show some alpha male behavior occurring between the two.  I am never going to convince someone to not be offended, so I will just say you bring up an interesting perspective, but one for me personally that at this time does not have as much resonance, though it is something obviously to watch for.As for people talking about Claire & Mr. Bennett 'mistrusting' each other.  Claire is lying to her dad to see a boy.  Yes it is really that hard to conceive that a 17 ish girl would lie to her parents to sneak off and see a boy....must never have happened in the history of the world <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.   Claire is trying to protect her dad by refusing to bring West over to meet Mr. Bennett.   As for Mr. Bennett, a leopard apparently can not change its spots.  Nothing has really changed from last season, other than he is not using the Haitian to wipe his family's memory.  On the surface he is living one life, but in reality his goal is something else.  Ultimately I would say the character is morally suspect, we know he is comfortable with a certain " gray "area in moral behavior, namely killing people, and the character is basically selfish.  Sure he will justify lying to his family as protecting them, but funny how Mr. Bennett just does what he wants.  No person is so evil as to not have a reason for what they do.BTW is it me, or did anyone else see the "Godsend" sign on the back of the Girls Check board uniform just under where Micah put his hand.  I slowed it on Tivo and clearly saw it, but it took me pausing the screen and outlining it to my wife for her to see it.</blockquote>

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