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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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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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The final episode of the season reinforced my main criticism of the show. A 2 second fight scene with Darna's arch-nemesis who gets knocked out by one kick; followed by a 5 second fight scene against the main villain. I've not watched the episode properly, just skimmed through it after downloading,...

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Is it just me or is this version of Valentina weak as hell ? Every time she has an encounter with Darna she gets punched or thrown around quite easily. For someone who likes to see superheroine peril this has been one of my main complaints of this show. Darna is a family show, on a mainstream netwo...

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Some caps from last night's episode. For some reason, they like showing the more interesting scenes along with the opening credits... There was also a lot more bullets 'n' bracelets in episode 61, so our friend at Facebook will no doubt be all over social media complaining. :D Reports about the sec...

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Two problems: the kiss is accompanied by overwhelmingly loud romantic music (a trope in these telenovelas, I guess) and it's also filmed awkwardly - Narda really doesn't look like she's into it. She seems to have anxiety and shyness which doesn't allow her to fully express her feelings. So, that's ...

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This is a question I've asked myself, given that I have an interest in characters from around the world, and therefore run into a lot of potential superheroines. I also blog about these superheroine characters, and make videos about them, so I'm forced to make decisions about whether a given charact...

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Hoo boy - Episode 55: not much going on (unless you're into watching two dudes fight in an elevator) but definitely don't miss the end! One nice little touch for transformation fans is when Regina is kidnapped, as the chloroform soaked rag is held over her mouth it is clear from her eyes that she's...

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I actually kind of doubt she's going to name any of her snakes in this series, because she has about seventeen of them. Actually there are five dominant snakes that actually do have names. They introduced themselves to Regina as the voices she hears in her head, and the subtitles actually name them...

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But I have some questions: 1) Why did the X-Triad invade the hospital in the first place and cause everyone to cower in fear of them? Are they just 'living in a society', or was there an actual purpose to their mayhem? It was either the hospital, Narda's home, or the Mayor's office. There's only so...

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The rematch...

That's three major fight sequences, and the week isn't even over. (Our friend at the FB group isn't going to be happy to see the bracelets in action again.)

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If you want to see more of these videos, thank this post so I know if there's a demand.

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I'm a little bit behind watching with the English subs, so I've only just discovered Valentina's snakes each have their own names: Varda, Corra, Berlie, Mokie, and Stontong.

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In the red corner, the People's Champion of Nueva Esperanza... Darna..!! In the black corner, the Terrors from Marte...Xandra and General Borgo..!! Now we want a good clean contest. No turning invisible; no duplicating yourself into clones; all laser shots should be above the belt.The first one to t...

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That's also true. I am not aware of the Darna's league of villains but outside of Valentina I don't believe there is a villain noteworthy enough to carry a full season so maybe they'll just keep her for season 2. Babaeng Lawin (roughly Hawk Woman or Lady Falcon): one of Darna's oldest foes. She's a...

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Not a spoiler as it’s just my guess but it seems obvious Valentina will turn good again once she learns the truth about her dad. Either she’ll take a bullet for Darna and die or they will use Borgo’s weapon to extract the green crystal from her. My theory, possibly a spoiler... Borgo keeps saying h...

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Quick update, and a question. It seems that the Borgo storyline will be ending with episode 70. I'd previously commented that if this was the end of the series then that would make it incredibly short by telefantasya standards, for example the previous Darna tv series, 2009's Marian Rivera outing, h...

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Speaking of bullets and bracelets, it does make no sense that in one episode she's impervious to bullets, then in another, she has to rely on her bracelets to deflect them. Though on the other hand, the inconsistency in power levels is not really exclusive to Darna alone. I think we can assume that...

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And don't forget to post a comment about how much you lo-o-o-o-o-o-ove it when Darna does the bullets and bracelets routine, and how she should do it in every episode. :laugh: R5 Yeah - the guy who runs the Mars Ravelo's Darna fanpage on Facebook seems to think that if they got rid of all the bulle...

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Also...if you are a Darna fan, I highly recommend you follow this fan page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marsravelosdarna/ It gives even more of a blow-by-blow of the new show's episodes than I'm giving, plus the writer is rather critical on a regular basis. He'll ask questions like "w...

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Darna takes on Steel Man (aka Glass Jaw) from the latest episode.

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^Stossium - from what I gather, Borgo is building a device which can extract the magic stone from Darna, and stossium is the only component missing. So it's gonna be some sort of "kryptonite" for Darna, I guess? I sure do hope so. 😁 I'm a week behind, as the English subtitled episodes now...

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From last week...

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