I really like season 2 of Stargirl so far….but in terms of the screentime of the masked heroines….we got pretty little in the first 4 episodes.
Luckily there is plenty of Stargirl, Wildcat, and Dr. Midnite in this one! 🙂
In this post, you will find 2 videos with over 7 minutes of the masked ladies.
There is even a 2-minute scene with the unmasked Stargirl where she talks to her dad.
And when she isn’t wearing her mask…the scene doesn’t fully qualify for this blog 😉
Preview:
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I really like the dark horror atmosphere that is building up this season.
And from what I heard….there is much more to come 😉
It’s very interesting how Eclipso lets them face their worst fears to manipulate them. I wonder how they will deal with that in the future!
I expected Wildcat to unmask herself as the loud noise was tormenting her but I’m glad that she had enough self-discipline to NOT take her mask off as that would be quite dangerous even at night in the school, someone could show up or cameras could be in place.
It still annoys me that basically everyone they encounter does know who they are under these masks….but well, hopefully, some folks will show up that don’t know their secret.
And still, even the bad guys know….I hope for a scene in which someone would unmask Stargirl or Wildcat…just to show them that they are “superior” or because they wanna see the unmasked face.
The storyline with Cindy wanna recruit Mike for the bad guys is promising, that could become potential pretty…..disastrous….. for the Whitmore family.
What is also interesting is that you now have basically 3 “camps” of villains right now:
Eclipso, the big, all-powerful force.
Then we have the Shade, who seems very much afraid of Eclipso.
And there is also Cindy and her new recruits.
I have the feeling that these 5 episodes of the season were only the foreplay and now things will really come in motion 😉
Here is the trailer for episode 6:
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What do you think of this episode and the season so far?
Sorry, due to some technical difficulties 1080p+English isn’t available for this blog right now (just for this scene).
But I’m sure you can live with it well.
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WATCH the video before you go on!
Well, that was a pretty close call for the Nightwatchman!
I love how he demands her to unmask herself! Luckily she won’t give up easily.
It’s great how the situation even gets more dangerous for her as the Sheriff sneaks up on her and holding his pretty big dagger to her throat. His diabolical smile…. is awesome!
Now she is really in big danger, every second a hand could reach for her masks and begin to UNMASK her.
I just love the tension in such scenes….really well done here!
In my version, a hand would actually start to yank on her mask but she would then escape the danger quickly.
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I do have one more scene with the Nightwatchman…..and that is the best one, you might imagine why 😉
Time for another scene with the Nightwatchman in action!
I intended to post 2 scenes today…but the 2nd one was problematic. The audio switched to german every time, even I selected to use the English one.
Even there isn’t much dialogue in this scene, I want the damn program to work and that you all can watch the scene with English dialogue for the best experience.
But, don’t worry, I will upload scene 6 next Thursday, so you won’t have to wait for long.
And the BIG, last scene 7 will then follow on a weekend.
Preview:
Time to put on these masks again!
Trapped!
And the evil Guy of Gisborne just outside the door!
I really like this scene big time! By this time I care about her in the show a lot and really rooting for her. She gets trapped in that room, the evil Guy of Gisborne is just outside the door, breaking it down pretty quickly. With the axe and the damaged doors he somehow reminds me a lot of a certain Jack N. in “The Shining” 😉 , especially as he is watching her through the damaged door.
You can see the fear on her face, she is breathing heavily through the cloth cover above her mouth. She now she can’t escape….he is outside the door and there are plenty of guards there as well.
A great setting!
As soon they rush in they would overpower her sooner or later and then would UNMASK her! Her life as well as her father’s life would be in grave danger as the Nightwatchman is a big enemy of the Sheriff. He would also find the woman that he loves under the mask….but she is in love with someone else…..
The way he sneakily attacks her with that dagger….wow….worthy of a real villain.
Of course, she survives that in the end, even she actually seemingly dies.
But that was revealed one episode later….providing a major cliffhanger.
As I already knew she would be in season 2….I wasn’t surprised….but imagining watching the show back then when it first aired….they surely tortured the audience quite well. 😉
I made an update on the Batwoman post below this one, check it out!
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So, time to talk about episode 3 of Stargirl (season 2)!
After very little of Stargirl and her team in episode 1 and no scenes with them at all in episode 2….we FINALLY get a solid screentime with the masked ladies!
And we get some action and peril as well….but check out my 2 videos first!
Preview:
Time to face a….
….evil dude!
Trouble!
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I really like The Shade as a villain so far….we know not much about him yet, but I like his style. And he surely seems to be pretty powerful that he could easily defeat the whole team.
They will have to find ways to defeat him…..and he won’t be the only villain they have to face.
The episode was pretty good, I could go without the whole magic pen and the Thunderbolt figure….but ok, I guess that might be an important factor later on when the bad guys wanna win him over to the dark side 😉
I read that this season will get pretty dark and I’m excited about it. I want the team to get tested to their limits and I prefer the dark(er) shows anyhow.
Of course, if I would be him and would have pinned them down like that….I might use these powers to yank their masks off as I am verrrry curious 😉
But on the other hand, it’s good to have a villain here that doesn’t know their secret identities from the start, I do hope that it stays like that for a while.
Perhaps later on he wants to find out who is behind these masks….and then PLEASE…..by removing their masks and not by some silly discovery as it happens WAY too often.
Or how about he attempting to unmask Stargirl or Wildcat? That would be quite awesome as well 😉
Looking forward to seeing how the plot unfolds. So far, we practically can only guess what the evil plan of the villains will be and how it all connects.
But with this episode…the season has really started for me!
Finally, season 2 of Stargirl has now started and I wanna make my short review of episode 1!
Preview:
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The bad guys have been defeated at the end of season 1 and are either dead, in prison, or missing.
Much like this entire episode, things are rather quiet now in Blue Valley.
Stargirl, Wildcat, Hourman, and Dr. Midnite are still patrolling the streets at night but there is nothing to do at all and all (except Stargirl) wanna take a break from superhero life.
The episode focuses on building around the personal problem of each of them.
Courtney (Stargirl) is so focused on being Stargirl and finding other ISA members that she fails at school.
Yolanda (Wildcat) is haunted by the death of Brainwave who she killed in the season 1 finale. But she can’t speak to anyone (outside the JSA) about it as that would endanger her secret identity.
Beth (Dr. Midnite) finds out that her parents are seeking a divorce and is troubled by not being able to interact with Charles, the AI from her goggles.
Rick (Hourman) is occupied with providing food to Solomon Grundy who is living in the woods now.
Building these backstories to the characters is important and I liked them except the one with Rick as I don’t understand why he is now caring about the monster that killed his parents. Yeah, he saw a “good” site on Solomon in the season 1 finale…but it’s still hard to believe how he changed from wanting to kill him to now providing buckets of chicken for him.
I love how passionate Courtney is about being Stargirl. She fully embraces her role.
Maybe a little too much…. as her school and social life comes too short.
There is very little action in this one….but well, it’s a typical first episode to a season.
Green Lantern’s daughter Jade has her first appearance in the only real action scene. So far hard to tell, how big her role will be.
I hope she will be a good addition to the good side. Of course, I also hope that her costume will include a mask….but we will see.
So, in terms of action or peril, the episode delivers very, very little. But it was an important one for the storyline.
And this connects me to the characters and is very important for the “immersion” (in my opinion).
If I don’t care about the characters…it’s a massive minus for a movie or TV show.
This episode was a good start, but certainly not one of my favorites.
Hopefully, the action will start rolling in episode 2.
So, what’s interesting about this “Nightwatchman” character in this TV show? And how it is relevant to this blog?
Well, what only some folks in the show will find out is…that this masked vigilante is actually a WOman. So the correct title would be NightwatchWOman 😉
I keep referring to her as the “Nightwatchman” because it is the name of the vigilante.
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This one is actually one of the very best recommendations that were ever made to me! THANKS a LOT!
It will lead to an entry in the “Hall of Fame” in the next weeks 🙂
I somehow totally missed this TV show and in the end, the recommendation lead to me buying every three seasons of it on Blu-ray.
Each season has “only” 13 episodes but they greedily split each season into 2 blu-ray boxes with just 2 discs each. So I had to buy 6 Blu-ray boxes to get all 3 seasons.
But since the show isn’t new anymore…it wasn’t very expensive (besides the very last box).
This one is another perfect example while I love such characters in (long) TV shows. You really get connected to these characters and every scene has much more intensity for me than it would have if the character would just appear in some minutes during a random video. The character has much more depth and I am much more interested in what will happen to him/her throughout the show.
Yeah, it costs a lot of time to watch all these episodes, but it was more than worth it in the end. And not only for the Nightwatchman scenes, I enjoyed the whole show quite a lot…especially seasons 1 and 2.
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In total, I have not fewer than 7 scenes with the Nightwatchman, today I wanna present the first two.
Here is the first scene as an appetizer….
Preview, scene 1:
Robin Hood chases…
…the mysterious masked vigilante known as “Nightwatchman” (and nearly impossible to get on a proper screenshot in this scene)
Even this video with less than 2 minutes wasn’t welcome on Youtube, so I had to go with plan B…. even that means that I have to make these posts without any videos on my Youtube channel. 🙁
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Yeah, not much to see her as we get only some glimpses on the Nightwatchman.
But it is her first appearance and her background is explained to Robin and us.
And the next scene will be verrrrry interesting 😉
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Preview, scene 2:
Lurking in the woods (and with leaves blocking the camera)
Let’s start with the costume: At that time only very few sexy fabrics were invented/in use.
I think they make a LOT out of the available materials. I like her leather top that….if you get a good look…. clearly gives away that the Nightwatchman is a woman ;-), even she tries her best that no one notices that with her costume.
I LOVE that she really takes a great effort to hide her identity. Actually, her whole masquerade has 3 items! The hood hides her hair, the rather big eye mask is concealing her face alongside the scarf that covers the lower part of her face.
She has so much to lose if someone would figure out who she is, and she does everything she can to protect her secret identity. A+
If you have seen at least one of the 3652 (or so) Robin Hood movies…you know that Marian is his big love. And that makes his reaction to the unmasking so pleasing to me.
He thinks the Nightwatchman is some kind of murderer (“he” is not) and finds Marian under these masks…. I love such a constellation!
The unmasking is filmed quite….odd. He pulls back her hood …but then she quickly decides to unmask herself completely. Well, it makes sense as they know and love each other (most of the time). As she realizes that there is no escape for her, she rather unmasks herself than letting him do it.
I would have rather preferred her to defend her mask and to put up a fight in a scene before he pins her to the ground, but well she will have some thrilling fights with others ;-).
And this was only the beginning…soon the evil “Guy of Gisborne” will try everything to stop the Nightwatchman.
Guy is also in love with Marian….. and really HATES the Nightwatchman at the same time.
Again…I LOVE such constellations! 😉
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Wanna know from which episode of which show this is?
Don’t know why I didn’t post about this one earlier, as I know this movie for some years now.
Today I wanna present a movie that I was waiting for quite some time. It took some time until it was finally released after some issues.
I could post a LOT of scenes from this one as the movie is about a woman becoming a masked vigilante….but that would be problematic.
I wanna show you one good scene as an appetizer….if you like to see masked women in action….you have to see the whole movie 😉
Preview:
They don’t look too friendly…
Out heroine is ready! Time for some….
…action!
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And here is the video:
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Pretty good action scene…especially if you are considering that this is a low-budget flick.
But it’s a low-budget flick from Asia …and very often they can achieve really good fights with little money.
I’m not a big fan of eye masks, but at least she has that hood that adds a little extra concealment, even it quickly get out of position during the action.
Her costume overall is pretty solid, the costumes from the henchwomen could have used a little more money or time. The chick with the golden wig, Batgirl logo top, and ballet skirt looks like a cheap Harley Quinn rip-off 😆 . But I like that they are masked as well.
I do like how the three fight against the heroine. They manage to deliver some good hits but the well-trained heroine keeps the upper hand.
Perhaps I will post more scenes from this when I’m really low on material to post.
Overall storyline:
Man recruits girl under the guise of making a movie, while really trying to turn her into a masked vigilante.
I was watching the latest Black Lightning episode and wasn’t really thrilled about it as there wasn’t much action in it and not anyone in costume in the whole episode.
But then, right before the end…. a really cool scene developed!
Preview:
Blackbird
Grace (I guess her masked persona doesn’t have a name yet)
A very rare sight! 3 masked women 🙂
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And here is the video:
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Yeah, it’s only a rather short action scene and there is “mask action”….but to have 3 masked women in one picture is already a great feature! 🙂
I really like Blackbird’s mask as it is designed very well for me and also disguises her identity really well in combination with that hood.
Would love to see someone yanking that mask off her face at one point!
I never was thrilled about Thunder’s mask as it is only an eye mask that practically covers nothing. And it also didn’t help that the character has now this short haircut.
Grace looks really good with that leather mask that she debuted in this episode. I hope that she will have more appearances alongside Blackbird in this final season!
And of course, you can find more scenes with masked heroines in practically every episode of Black Lightning, starting in season 2.
I posted “just” the highlights on this blog so far.
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This is the episode in which you can find the scene:
This one was a lucky find I stumbled upon by pure luck.
I saw this poster, and of course I HAD to watch the movie 😉
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As you can see the poster is strangely cut at both sides, but well, the most interesting part is there to see.
Quite interesting is that the hero is in the background while the masked woman is in fact the “right hand” of the movie’s villain.
But I guess they thought it would help to put an attractive, mysterious woman right in the middle of the movie poster 😉
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Let’s move on to the movie, here are some pictures as a preview:
There she is, the masked villainess!
The villain and his right hand
She enjoys torturing people
She seems …afraid…
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And here is the video:
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I really like the idea of having such a masked villainess in the movie! It is a rare thing in a movie even today, but especially hard to find such a character in a movie from 1959!
Her movie role is quite odd, naturally to the age of the movie and the way women were portrayed…..she doesn’t actively fight, but rather tortures and kills people from the distance or by backstabbing them (literally). She fights with an epee for about smashing 5 seconds, but we will come to that later on.
Now to the video above: The ending is bitter sweet for me. It’s great that he rips her mask off in such manner. Sadly…we can’t see it as the movie shows it from that perspective. And she runs away without allowing us to see her unmasked face. What a wasted opportunity!
And it’s also sad that she actually never puts on her mask again througout the movie. 🙁
She always is wearing that outfit, where she covers her hair completely. Ok, that could be seen as some sort of disguise, but well, doesn’t really work for me 😆
The movie had also a german audio track which I used as I watched the movie. And as you can possibly tell when you know german TV it was a german TV airing (MDR is the channel).
Interestingly the german dialogue is quite different. As the movie is italian, both english and german audios are dubs from the original language.
In german the villain approaches her and says “….say that you laugh at me under your MASK….” in translation.
Here is the scene for those of you who can understand it:
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So, you may wondering what happens to her at the end of the movie?
Well, here is her ending:
[Watch the video first before you continue!]
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After another sneaky murder she meets her final fate as some random soldier kills her with a banner pole!?!
Quite an odd way to finish her off. Especially as it should have been the hero’s job to do that and get his revenge on her after all the things she had done to him, his father and friends.
Interestingly we finally see her hair, she is finally fully “unmasked” in these seconds. A continuation error as we never see that cloth coming off as she still was standing.
Fittingly she has red hair….which was/is a popular hair color for showing evil/crazy women 😉
And here is a promo poster for the movie where she actually shows her hair (which she never does like that):
This one was recommended to me, so THANKS to the guy who did it!
My knowledge of asian movies is rather limited as they often don’t make it to europe and they never get subtitled or dubbed.
I only skipped through this one as it doesn’t make much sense to me to fully watch a movie where you don’t understand the language (unless the language isn’t….necessary 😉 ).
I found two scenes where the masked woman appears, although it seems really odd that she is only in these scenes.
But if there are other scenes with her, they can only be some seconds long.
Preview:
A promising start!
….and it gets even better!
Who is hiding under….
….this masks assortment?
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And here is the video:
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Well, I don’t have any clue about what is really going on there, who she is and why she is masked in the first place….due to the language barrier.
However her masks assortment is pretty unique.
I’m not the biggest fan of eye masks, especially when they are out of plastic. But this masks-combo incl. the nylon half mask does conceal her face just enough to make it interesting.
Her costume is quite sexy altogether. 🙂
And the 2 stage self unmasking is done quite well.
Would be nice to understand the language to get the background story. That would certainly improve these scenes with the masked woman.
The movie is one crazy mess, but this scene has certainly something 🙂
Preview:
Villainess VS
Heroine!
Who will win?
And who is behind these masks?
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And here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue reading!
Well, a shame that the villainess wasn’t unmasked, even she is only wearing a one dollar Halloween mask. But it did hide just enough to make me curious.
The unmasking of the heroine is solid. Good to see a villain(ess) who cares enough to unmask the hero(ine).
And the smoking hot Carmen Electra does look better without that weird metal thingy.
The stunt/fight coordinator is sadly on the same level as the person who designed the mask….
However it is a very rare sight to see two masked women fighting each other….+ one of them is Carmen Electra….. 🙂
A new, interesting video from Bluestone is now available to buy!
This one would actually fit to both of my blogs 🙂
Official description:
Natasha returns as Dark Bat! She has finished the night’s patrol, removes her mask, and relaxes at home. Too late, she smells the gas! She rises to shut it off, but it has already taken its toll and she weakens and passes out.
A Gatekeeper carries her into the bedroom and tosses her on the bed. Then, he takes instructions to gas her to death. In the meantime though, she has recovered consciousness. Dark Bat takes the fight to him, knocking him about and dominating the fight, but eventually he gets in a few good shots and manages to turn on the gas again and don his gas mask. Dark Bat knocks the gas mask free, and both struggle to reach it before the other one.
In the Peril version,
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she dons the mask and defeats and kills the Gatekeeper!
In the Extreme version,
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the Gatekeeper pulls Dark Bat away from the gas mask and eventually dons it himself, and strangles Dark Bat to death as the gas steadily weakens her!
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Check out the preview images for starters:
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And here is the trailer:
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As you can already see on the pictures the heroine isn’t masked for long.
This video is (for me) all about a sexy heroine fighting over one gas mask with a villain to stay alive. And I love that! That struggle about being able to breath air instead of gas.
Even it isn’t actually shown on the pictures above….you can get a glimpse on that in the trailer:
(Screenhots from the trailer – click to enlarge)
Natasha looks great in her costume and that stunning pantyhose!
Seeing her fighting against the bad guy is really something. 🙂
As always the fight scenes in Bluestone videos are done really well for such a genre video.
The same can be said about the acting. There are not many dialog lines, but Natasha does a good job as she has to play the struggling heroine, which isn’t easy to perform convincingly.
Regarding the different outcomes of the video: Personally I prefer the “peril version” (see description above) 😉
I would love to see one of the Bluestone heroines in the Batgirl cowl fighting with such a gas mask. The villain would try to gas her to knock her unconcious. She is prepared and puts on such a gas mask over her mouth and nose. His goal would be to unmask her and tape that on phone. That way the heroine would fight for her cowl AND her gas mask to keep her secret identity. 😉
They would struggle a long time while they are getting the upper hand on the other one for several times.
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Here are the links to get one (or both) of the 2 versions of this new episode of Dark Bat:
I didn’t have the chance to watch the (shorter) season 2 of this show but this will be my last post from season 1.
In this one, we have a villainess in red leather and an eye mask to fight the Supah Ninjas!
Preview:
There she is…the villainess of the story!
Busted!
But she now has….
….the female ninja!
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And here is the video:
….you are too late, had to remove the file…. sorry.
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As you should know by now I’m not the biggest fan of eye masks, but this one is pretty good as I like the material (leather) and shape of it.
Also, the scene where she has the female ninja at her mercy is quite sexy. Damn, I wish she would have been curious to see who is underneath that ninja mask.
An “unmasking-duel” between those two would have been the proper ending for the episode in my opinion 😉
But I really like the last scene here, having two masked women like these two fightings each other….. is always interesting to watch!
A new, interesting video from Bluestone is now available to buy!
In this new installment of the Teen Bat series a new Bat has her debut mission….and of course….she runs into trouble! 😉
Check out the preview images for starters:
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And here is the trailer:
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I watched the video and really enjoyed it!
The new actress does a good job and plays the heroine much better in comparison to most fetish productions.
She looks quite stunning in her costume with the boots, pantyhose and the rather big cleavage!
I’m not the biggest fan of her eye mask, but at least it’s one of the bigger versions that actually hide a little more of her face than the usual alibi eye masks.
As you can see on the images she gets unmasked. But, I was surprised how that in this video there is actually quite a struggle as he starts to yank on her mask.
Mostly the mask comes off easily as the producers often don’t really care about the unmasking (sadly).
In this one she actually struggles and tries to keep her mask on to preserve her precious secret identity! And this struggle is quite long! 🙂
I love that scene as it shows that she actually cares about her mask. An aspect that many other videos of this genre don’t have.
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Here are the links to get one of the 3 versions of this new episode of Teen Bat:
