OK, as you've seen above from the publicity, Olivia Holt is gorgeous. And she is definitely portrayed as an adult...living independently, drinking, taking drugs, etc. She is 20 years old, has a career performing pop songs, and was an actress on some Disney productions. So go ahead and have a crush, it's alright. If you've seen Powers, she'll probably remind you quite a bit of Olesya Rulin. And if not, she has that typical Disney look anyway.
As for Aubrey Joseph, I'm not sure if the ladies would be into him or not - he is portrayed as athletic but also socially awkward and buttoned-up and very dutiful to his parents, so I have no idea if that combination is attractive or not.
The fact that the socially 'expected' scripts are flipped here (the black guy is the relatively respectful and well-behaved individual, while the white girl is the arrogant, criminal mess) seems to be intentional by the writers as well. They have done a good job of 'de-thugifying' any possible preconceived notion of Tyrone. I don't know if they're intentionally following the social-justice procedure of making the woman as independent, bad-ass and outspoken as possible while keeping the black male rather low-T and submissive, but that's what happening here so far.
I feel like there's a fairly new style of superhero-show filming that's being used in this series (I don't know how many Marvel Netflix series also look like this?). Instead of over-the-top colorful action and camp and bombast and violence like in the CW shows...the story here unfolds very slowly, with the two main characters still barely aware of their powers by the end of episode 2, with lots of slow character development and a lot of the scenes feeling very dreamy like they're shot within a hazy imagination. There's more happening in people's heads than there is actual action. Not sure if that style is going to turn people off or not. Are people used to that from other shows? (like for example is it similar to Stranger Things, which is very popular? I've also heard that Legion is like that as well.) Is this a style that attracts a young audience?
There are changes that might be a little weird for comicbook fans:
1) There is no drug dealer antagonist for them to rebel against. In the comic books, the two characters represent the Drug War and the drug culture of America gone awry. But because in this series, they get their power from the explosion of an experimental Roxxon oil rig (as far as I know they have no connection to Roxxon in the comics), there's no serious connection to the drug world other than Tandy taking some drugs here and there.
2) Tandy's father isn't alive in this series - he dies in the accident that gave her powers. Also her mother's not a supermodel - she's more like washed-up trailer trash.
3) The show is set in post-Katrina New Orleans, not in New York City (so they won't meet Spiderman, etc). But as of yet, we don't really see anything distinctive that makes the city very specifically New Orleans [Mardi Grass, jazz, Cajun culture, Anne Rice vampires, etc.] - it's just a generic dark-ish place. There's no clue as to whether they'll encounter any of the foes that specifically center around New York City, like Silvermane or the Maggia.
4) Tandy does live an abandoned church, but there is no pastor figure to guide her..in fact, the pastor in this case is actually part of the Catholic school where Tyrone goes, wearing his pristine school uniforms. Whether that will be Father Delgado is unsure.
5) In this version, Tandy isn't totally alone - she has a loving boyfriend who cares a lot about her while assisting with her crimes, but she rejects him.
And Tyrone has a cute black girl at his Catholic school who crushes on him hard. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out, if the two characters actually gravitate towards each other romantically.
6) There's a female detective who is investigating the crimes surrounding Tandy and her boyfriend, and from what I see on Wikipedia it's clear that she is named Brigid O'Reilly like in the comic books, but it's unclear whether she is going to become the vigilante Mayhem. It's also unclear whether Tandy and Tyrone will be engaging in lots of viglilantism themselves, which is another main theme of their comic books.
7)I don't see any evidence that there'll be the serious kind of costumes the characters wear in the comic books, let alone Dagger's normally tight and revealing outfit. Remains to be seen whether that will happen.
On the Freeform site, I was only able to get through the first two episodes before they start asking you to subscribe. Will have to see if I can continue watching it on another source. In the meantime, post your opinions if you're watching the series. It's definitely slow going. And as I've mentioned above, there are so many inherent changes to characters and setting that it almost doesn't seem like the original characters. I'm sure the vast majority of the audience isn't familiar with Cloak and Dagger from the comics so that won't matter. But will it find some other audience?
Also..Marvel is smart enough to have started a brand-new Cloak and Dagger comicbook series recently. I will have to check it out as well, and see if it jibes with the facts of the series, or whether it sticks to comic book origins.
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