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Btw, I was digging up some further details on this show for a possible blog post and was looking back over some of the contemporary forum posts from when it aired thanks to archive.org. For those folks here for whom this idea floats their boat: apparently over the course of the 13 episodes, Super Kl...

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Some Darna 2022 galleries on ArtStation: episode 56 and episode 127.

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Episode 127- Valentina holds Darna in the air in a bite-hold/chokehold, but when her snake comes into contact with Darna's neck, for some reason she starts sensing flashbacks to when Narda's mother was incinerated and when Narda first became Darna. Valentina becomes shocked and ashamed at realizing...

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You can see the plan they had from the start with some of the villain characters. Regina was a tragic figure who is manipulated and lied to by the man she thinks is her father, is too proud to accept the help of those who care for her, rejects the help of the only genuine friend she has, and ultimat...

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Here's James Gunn's original announcement:

The Superwoman details are about the 4:20 mark.

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This show has been such a disappointment on the superheroine side of things (apart of the costume). It's like they realized they had no worthy foe for Darna throughout the whole run so they just throw all those weak villains together to make it feel like Darna is in actual danger and call it a day....

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Thanks! This is a great find. I never got to watch full episodes, but from the few scenes I saw earlier in the run, I remember there was a scene when she was not yet aware of her invulnerability, so she actually raised her hands when goons pointer their guns at her, but she was shot anyway, and was...

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brdiy wrote: ↑1 month ago Where did you find this?

Someone sent an anonymous AMA to my Tumblr blog with the link. Don't know who it was, but I'm grateful.

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See... it isn't a hoax... the show did exist..!

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I have two questions about this, though: 1) Jay Cayabyab's Facebook mentions something about a "comeback". Does that mean that either of them had already portrayed those characters *before* in this series? For example, was Ralph (drag Darna) involved in the "Darna vs Borgo-Darna"...

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I wish the 2005 version came out on (HD) DVD. While the story may be no better, at least it had more peril for our superheroine. And Angel did look fantastic as well. Unfortunately for us, Angel Locsin transferring to the rival network killed any chance of that ever happening. Okay, first, the 2005...

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At the end of the episode, there's suddenly a Nueva Esperanza Cosplay Festival, hosted by an MC dandy with a pink shirt. There are two cosplayer actresses dressed up as Darna and Valentina simulating a battle while a crowd cheers them on. (The Darna cosplay is wearing the *exact* Darna uniform, so ...

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If the screenshots of the show I've seen are true, where the whole body of Darna is blurred out, I am not surprised. I was actually more surprised that they actually aired it there in the first place. The ANTV episodes are up at Vidio, which is an Indonesian streaming service used by several of the...

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Further update: one person in Indonesia is claiming that ANTV (the Indonesian broadcaster that started airing Darna a couple of weeks ago) has stopped airing the show . First it was moved from 7:30pm to 10pm, and now the latest episode wasn't shown, leading to speculation that the show has been pull...

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ABS-CBN staff (according to bio!) are posting on social media that 25th January is the last day of taping for Darna. The series will end in February.

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Speculation on Facebook is, based on latest preview videos, that Luna is to make a comeback. That said, Facebook said that the series would end after 120 episodes, yet we seem to be ramping the action up and adding more and more characters with only five episodes left, so I'm wondering how accurate ...

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vnv7272 wrote: ↑2 months ago That's how episodes start?!!

One word: cliffhangers.

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Ep 109.

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Need to catch up on this week's episodes - I've been watching The Rig instead (although I don't know if that was such a good idea). I'm up to ep 105 in the subs. The fights have largely been skirmishes between Darna and Valentina that are very repetitive, so I've not been posting videos. This week ...

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^you misunderstand. The show I was referring to was "Ang Probinsyano", a totally different genre from Dana, though. From what I read, the new show will star the same actor. But that show was the longest running non-anthology show in Pinoy tv history, according to Wikipedia. What's the usu...

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QUESTION TO ALL I have a question... (and it has nothing to do with Christmas or Jesus.) Earlier I posted two near identical clips of Darna/Valentina's fight at the Gala, the first without English subs and the second with. Checking the stats, I see that the second video strongly outperformed the fi...

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There is vanishingly little doubt that Jesus existed. He is confirmed by a multiplicity of non-Christian authors, most relevantly Josephus. (EDIT: Forgot to note, I think we largely agree...) The most detailed Josephus reference in Testimonium Flavianum is generally considered by scholars to be a l...

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It's a Christmas episode! There's no intro this time. Instead, it's a happy village Christmas celebration in Nueva Esperanza, as the family and friends take a holiday group selfie. Why they would release a Christmas episode on December 30, I don't know. Christians, look away now... Christian holida...

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Don't make her angry. You wouldn't like her when she's angry.

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I've now watched the English subs version. .. Sad scene with Ali packing up all of Regina's law books in her office, as Valentina shows up to threaten him for "betraying" her. She's really off the edge now - so much so, that she goes to rescue a female victim from three male attackers, and...

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The extended action scenes here feel much richer than the very brief scenes from the Supergirl series. Wish they were close captioned. Be nice to know how good the verbal sparring is. Thanks for sharing. Had to wait for the English subs versions to be available in a way I could download. *** Abridg...

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- Why would Valentina leave Narda lying there on the hill injured, instead of just trying to kill her? < snipped > - I'm starting to wonder what the purpose is of the five individuals who inhabit the restaurant across the street from the Custodio residence. They always talk about what's going on bu...

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Looks like the cat's out the bag for Regina. Or perhaps that should be the snake..?

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You mean FIFA telling countries not to wear rainbow patches, or breaking their word about drinking in venues? FIFA like the IOC head are vile supporters of war criminal states and human right violators as long as they get bribed enough Yup. But they don't "dictate to this continent what we can...

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BTW FIFA don't try to dictate to this continent what we can do in the stands FIFA is an international umbrella governing body that looks after the overall rules of the game on the pitch, and runs international tournaments like the World Cup. Local bodies govern things like the stadiums and ticketin...

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But seriously, besides all the loose ends we also have the continued existence of Borgo and Xandra in their secret spaceship base in the woods which somehow nobody has found yet. Ultimately, will Darna ever get around to dealing with the malevolent alien presence in her backyard, and will Luna retu...

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So, Brian finally knows who Narda really is, Darna finally knows who Regina really is, and Noah is finally out of the picture as a potential love interest for anyone... seems like all the loose ends are starting to be tidied up. The only major story line that isn't moving forward is Brian bringing t...

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EP85 was somewhat of a lackluster conclusion to the week as not a lot happens other than soap-opera stuff until the last few minutes. You can probably skip it. Episode 85 was probably intended to be episode 83, until two recap episodes were inserted. If so, then 87 was the intended weekend cliffhan...

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It is a myth that studios pay attention to overseas markets when deciding the content of their films. Star Wars always bombed in China, but neither Lucasfilm nor Disney ever tried to make the franchise more popular by altering the content of the movies. Domestic box office, domestic Blu-ray, and dom...

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We haven't had a video for a while, so here's the feature length battle from episode 80.

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FYI: episode 83 is a brand new episode.

There may be further recap episodes in the near future, but I suspect they'll be spaced out so they don't go too long without a fresh episode. We'll see...

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According to the Google translate of the ramblings on at least one popular Darna Facebook group, the show has started to run repeat episodes. This is perhaps because Jane De Leon is sick with dengue and a unitary tract infection, and they don't want to shorten the delay between filming and broadcast...

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Creating a part for Kira isn't a bad thing, it's just that it didn't seem to go anywhere. They had a gap in the schedule after season one ended. their main villain is supposedly dead, and Valentina is a slow burn story line, so they needed someone new to fill the gap while the Borgo and Extra plots...

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Luna leaves in her spaceship. Why was she even there in the first place? She didn't help Darna in any battles. Her costume was OK, but it wasn't really sexy. She has a brief flirtation with Richard, but nothing comes of that. Not sure of the purpose of this character who only lasted a couple weeks....

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(Goes from bright afternoon to dusk in about 30 seconds -- the perils of having to shoot to meet a five-episodes-a-week schedule.)

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No sooner are Borgo and Ishna safe and sound at Rex Vanguardia's pad..then Borgo abuses his assistant again, this time holding Ishna's own knife to her throat! And she just stands there and takes it. When is she going to stop doing that? I'm a little behind with the English subs. Doesn't Ishna know...

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Immediately upon waking, she describes the dream to Luna, mainly because *they are now sleeping in the same bed*. Attention Batgirl1969 for lesbian fantasies that will never happen: it's perfectly acceptable in the Philippines to depict a badly made-up transvestite, but apparently not to show two b...

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shevek wrote: ↑4 months ago So pumped to keep following the Darna saga, especially with the addition of this great new superheroine character.
Can anyone confirm: is Luna a brand new character in the Ravelo-verse? There's no listing at all for her on the Darna Fandom Wiki.

She appeared to be an original for this series.

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Yea thanks for the video! So season 2 started straight away??? No gap between s1 and s2? Tis always the way in these telefantasya series. :D Darna 2005 had two seasons, 70 episodes each IIRC, and they were screened back to back. For 'season' read 'chapter', were one set of storylines comes to a clo...

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Season two kicks off with a big fight, and the introduction of a potential new heroine ally.

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Random questions I have after watching Darna: How big is Nueva Esperanza? It seems to have a healthy population (judging by social media), a good sized police department, its own mayor, and yet only one tv news reporter. He not only reports stories in the field, but acts as news anchor and presumabl...

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Nobody answered my question yet about the word 'hindi' (no, not, isn't). Why does it appear at the beginning of sentences so often in the dialogue? I think Tagalog/Filipino is one of those languages where the ordering of words is very different to English depending on the context. For example the p...

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