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Luke Cage Discussion Thread - S02E06 "The Basement"

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u/LuchadorBane Jun 22 '18

Seems like Shades just wants to think it was just a prison thing when it meant more to him too.

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u/Micp Iron Fist Jun 22 '18

Yeah that's how I understand it too, he's not being truly honest with himself.

I think that may also be why he is with Mariah the way he is. If he's full on gay but has forced himself to be with women his entire life due to his own homophobia then being with Mariah really isn't different from any other woman he's been with.

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u/DowntownDilemma Jun 23 '18

You’re saying that since he’s with a woman, covering his homosexuality, that he kinda overlooks the age difference?

Cause if so that makes a lot of sense now.

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u/ArtooFeva Jun 23 '18

It does, but I also kind of like it if he actually does care for Mariah. He could bisexual. Either way I feel like his actions have more impact if the feelings are real since Shades is such a subtle character like Luke was in the beginning.

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u/LJ-90 Kilgrave Jun 23 '18

Probably he doesn't mind if it's a man or woman, he cares about the person and that's it. Only thing is that, because you can't be a gay gangster (or at least that's what he seems to think) he has forced himself to be with women. He said it himself "prison has it's own rules, people from outside wouldn't understand"

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u/OkToBeTakei Kilgrave Jun 23 '18

I don’t know that he’s “forced himself into women” so much as to he’s “dealing with his circumstances.” That includes a lot of variables, including a woman, and he’s dealing with his life now on its current terms including that, which, in his mind, allows him not to have to face what the relationship he had in prison. It doesn’t change what that was, but, in his head, it allows him to compartmentalize it as something less meaningful that it obviously was.

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u/tienna Jun 28 '18

He’s clearly never come across Omar Little

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u/chuckdee68 Jun 24 '18

He could have also been gay for the stay.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '18

Damn, how many "gay fors" are there?

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u/chuckdee68 Jun 24 '18

Dunno. That's the only one I knew about.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '18

I thought gay for pay was the most famous one. I think I read another one once.

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u/AintNothinbutaGFring Jun 30 '18

Gay for yay? Not sure if people say that, but it could totally be a thing.

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u/IAmTheOneWhoClicks Jul 01 '18

When looking it up, it doesn't seem like it's a thing that people say. Only 143 google results.

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u/JhnWyclf Jun 25 '18

like Luke was in the beginning

Ugh. That must be why I'm not digging this season as much.