western-series

[tacit basin]

Isn’t there gonna be a frozen 3

[valid thunder]

This is gonna save mcu icl

[dim hedge]

Movie night to watch the first 2 cuz i didnt💀

[tacit basin]

New Jurassic world who’s excited

[dim hedge]

New spiderman got a name???

Yk what

[tacit basin]

Oh shi

[dim hedge]

I will watch these films

[dim hedge]

Only you

[tacit basin]

Bruh

[dim hedge]

Jurassic movie in big 2025

[tacit basin]

yes.

[dim hedge]

I need my next kaiju movie

Kong x godzilla go to space

[tacit basin]

wtf

[valid thunder]

Should probably watch thunderbolts before the avengers movies

[dim hedge]

Idc enough

[tacit basin]

I want them to remake jurassic park but make it BOOK ACCURATE

[tacit basin]

in reality you should watch the entire MCU before the new movies but then again who has time

[dim hedge]

I remember watching all mcu movies before endgame

[tacit basin]

Same here

[dim hedge]

Good times

[valid thunder]

No but i am pretty sure thunderbolts is pretty important for the new avengers

[tacit basin]

Covid times… was forced to watch every one…

[dim hedge]

God help me if i ever try to go through post endgame movies and shows

[tacit basin]

Probably I haven’t seen it yet

I’ll watch on Disney plus when I care

[dim hedge]

New avengers?

[tacit basin]

Whenever the next avengers drops

[sage remnant]

MCU

[dim hedge]

Ill put it on in the background while i study

Like i did with the new captain America

[tacit basin]

MCU was good when Ultron dropped

[tacit basin]

It was alright

[dim hedge]

Oh it was great fun when i wasn't paying attention to it

I look up and see some bonkers shit happening with no context

Im like yeah this a good film

[sage remnant]

😭

[valid thunder]

As long as u dont pay attention

[sage remnant]

what's wrong with your generation mirio...

look at pants

[dim hedge]

What

[valid thunder]

This is the optimal way to experience brand new world

[tacit basin]

||Samuel Sterns’ reveal was cool I’ll admit, I liked that part|| brave new world

[dim hedge]

Hell yeah!

[valid thunder]

Because if u pay attention

[dim hedge]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-thinking-monkey-scratching-head-gif-4604657710219044245

Wait who

[tacit basin]

||creepy brain guy|| brave new world

[dim hedge]

Sorta remember that

[sage remnant]

😭

[mild seal]

You still gotta tag the movie

[tacit basin]

sorry

[modest canyon]

Mistborn 1 is COMPLETE @sage remnant @copper phoenix

[wintry jetty]

Hey

[sand cypress]

thoughts?

[modest canyon]

Loved it. 8.5/10

[sand cypress]

More peak ahead

[modern lichen]

Harry Potter show

[south hatch]

https://tenor.com/view/dog-dog-staring-at-sun-cute-dog-dog-closed-eyes-dog-staring-at-sunset-gif-10310895250239531072

harsh let it go, why u veven bother with Harry Potter n shii

[sage remnant]

he got the hater energy in him

[south hatch]

movies were good when they lasted, so many memories watching the last 2 parts in theatres years ago.

[south hatch]

mf jus hating is that it. WEAK.

[sage remnant]

not really

This new project has 0 reasons to exist

other than studio trying what worked and milking it

Harry Potter in itself is a very weak fantasy story

It got a great job at introducing people to fantasy, and did some slightly new works as well, but tons of better story have been made already

[south hatch]

that's like why I said to not even bother with this bs

just give us the next fantastic Beasts movie or sum

[sage remnant]

why

don't give us anything HP related

[south hatch]

tv shows for everything is wasteful

[sage remnant]

even if we just take Reddit's top fantasy series list, there's 8 not adapted series ranked higher than HP

[copper phoenix]

lmao this guy

[sage remnant]

Gimme Mistborn movie

or Stormlight TV series

We are finally getting a First Law adaptation

so atleast that's good

Rebecca Ferguson in the lead role

[copper phoenix]

wild how pisskiller is still in that top list

[sage remnant]

it's 2023 list

though it might probably still be lol

Book 1 is still one of the best magical academy book

[copper phoenix]

you'd know it

[sage remnant]

you liked it too didn't you

book 1

not book 2

[copper phoenix]

it's good but I dont know many magical academy slops to judge

surely there are better stuff out there

[sage remnant]

the ones I have read have been bad

tried popular ones even

[copper phoenix]

I dont like the genre

anything school related is a tired ass trope

[sage remnant]

yeah fair

[south hatch]

what is the problem

[sage remnant]

your taste

[south hatch]

asked

[sage remnant]

Also sad that 4 series in this list have gone so many steps for adaptation close to being made and still failed lol

Malazan, GBS, Mistborn, Stormlight

[copper phoenix]

its risky business

10% chance its good

wot was a one in a generation chance

[sage remnant]

Green Bone Saga can be good. It's Urban fantasy but like set in fantasy Hongkong and set around gang wars and shit

They could just do Mistborn TFE as a movie

[copper phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/sleep-gif-12944899486400191725

[sage remnant]

can't see Stormlight as anything other than animated

[copper phoenix]

animation is getting too niche nowadays

[sage remnant]

TWOK || https://tenor.com/view/anime-fight-shardblade-assassin-in-white-szeth-son-son-vallano-stormlight-archive-gif-5539898782518010624 ||
Atleast we got great fan animation

[copper phoenix]

everything must be live action

[modern lichen]

[south hatch]

https://tenor.com/view/listening-staring-thinking-confessing-nodding-gif-14457723

mfs y'all do realize they are going to go ahead with that HBO series right, jus saying those funds could be directed elsewhere WITHIN the same franchise

[modern lichen]

we will never get a fantastic beasts movie because its a failure of a franchise

that's how it is

[white smelt]

Stormlight above Tolkien

https://tenor.com/view/speed-dad-laughing-speed-dad-crying-speed-speed-ksi-speed-trying-not-to-laugh-gif-1466628274697419264

[south hatch]

nah nah nah nah nah

[sage remnant]

man who has only read Tolkien

[south hatch]

JRR >>>>

[sage remnant]

dw Wanze the list is probably a lot different now

[white smelt]

You couldn’t pay me to read fantasy

[sage remnant]

Malazan is the current community's fav there

[modern lichen]

harry potter should be replaced by earthsea or farseer

[south hatch]

HBO, Warner Bros wanna make monkey with JKR okay do it, but why another tv series slop, mfs wildin on this tv series bs .. netflix and chill or whatever that mfuthafuckin bs was.

what happened to good old cinema

[modern lichen]

bro what are you saying

[white smelt]

But I’ve read earthsea and lotr

[sage remnant]

I would just respect your taste

and say I disagree

[sage remnant]

for adaptation?

or in that list

[modern lichen]

on that list

[sage remnant]

It's just a list of what community voted lol

[modern lichen]

r/fantasy is not an arbiter of taste either so i'm chilling knowing there are better series

harry potter might have one of the poorest built and reinforced worlds

[sage remnant]

here's the current list

it's crazy how much DCC has risen in popularity

[main lion]

tv series adaptation of books makes more sense than movie adaptations, considering runtime

otherwise you need to cut out a lot to squeeze it into a movie, and it becomes a different product

[south hatch]

Considering runtime yes, but the alternate is to have movie installments that worked out pretty well too (big profits there as well). They wanna monetize (advert) more and lower budgets imo, many studios pushing into this tv format.

[main lion]

you can't really do that cause there would be no appropriate climax for a movie. You'd be left with half a movie

or well, realistically, 1/3rd of a movie probably

Harry Potter books are written as entire, complete books start to finish for example

A tv show can cover 1 book per season

splitting that into 3 movies doesnt have the same effect

[modern lichen]

that's the problem with the hobbit films

they split a small children's book into 3 epic films

that tanked everything for those films

[main lion]

(Im not saying this adaptation will be good btw Im just defending tv show adaptations of books conceptually regardless of if the production team pulls it off or not)

[south hatch]

oh yes like going part by part, movies do need that climax to drive them to profitability and be box office hit types. But for a series and it's ratings that holds true but there is more runtime for that setup ig .. 10 episodes at 40 mins vs a 2-3 hr movie.

[modern lichen]

the initial plan was to make 2 movies based on the book, which would've been a better plan, depending on the length of each film

[sage remnant]

Initial Harry Potter books were the length of a movie, no? Atleast could be made into one without substantial amount being cut

it's only the later ones which required a show for proper adaptation

[main lion]

literally just a haikyuu season 1-4 vs haikyuu movie situation, without mentioning any details

A 10-12 haikyuu season usually covers like 45~ chapters. Thats 4~ hours worth of content at perfect pacing.

The movie is an hour and a half and as a result an entire chapter can get adapted in a single minute

[main lion]

something being cut is still something being cut, ultimately

even if its only "more minor" scenes

[modern lichen]

a relatively short length percy jackson book was adapted into a full season of TV

and they're continuing with the same season per book model

and its working

for the entire series

[south hatch]

TV show adaptations for certain books can be nice ngl, esp if there is only enough to turn it into a movie, ig depends on the books in question, with each HP book there was enough to like push it into a movie despite the cuts and everything and have that punchline to VS contrast this to GRRM - GOT that would not have been good in movie format, they did it way better by turning it into a TV series of 73 episodes lol, and each season still does not necessarily have a climax to have that hit, BUT the episodes in themselves fared pretty well.

[modern lichen]

all of the books are relatively on the shorter side on page count

[sage remnant]

I think Lightning Thief was like around double of Philospher's stone?

[south hatch]

u shillin Haikyuu I can sense it but yeah, seasons betta there.

[sage remnant]

I have forgotten the length of those books

[south hatch]

https://tenor.com/view/good-idea-smart-good-thinking-i-see-you-ricky-gervais-gif-17046418

Red never wasting an oppurtunity icl.

[sage remnant]

Haikyuu is a good example for that case

[tawny parcel]

Have you no joy

[unkempt agate]

Have you no whimsy

[autumn basin]

No magic, no elves, no epic quest?, How sad your bookshelf must be dressed.

[white smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/speed-dad-laughing-speed-dad-crying-speed-speed-ksi-speed-trying-not-to-laugh-gif-1466628274697419264

[sonic tree]

W for no other reason than this means you don't have to read Brandon Shamderson

[naive juniper]

does anyone have any book recommendations?

[sage remnant]

There is a list in pins

Compiled from users here

If you have any specific fantasy or scifi req, I can help with a recommendation

[naive juniper]

yeah scifi

[sage remnant]

Murderbot Diaries is a series of Slice of life comedy scifi with one of the best main characters I have read in recent memory

Psalm for the Wild Built is a queernormal slice of life scifi set in a solarpunk world.

You could try Philip K Dick's Books for classic Scifi. A Scanner Darkly would be my suggestion.

Blake Crouch writes super fun Scifi thrillers. Like perfect one sitting reads with fun concept to steer the plot along. Shouldn't really expect much deeper characters (tho they are relateable) and complex philosophical debates. My suggestion would be Recursion and Dark Matter.

[south hatch]

one good recc is Frank herbert - DUNE.

[naive juniper]

thanks🙏

[sage remnant]

Parable of The Sower is a social scifi set in 2024 (written in 1990s) about a world affected by climate change. Some insanely accurate predictions. A really good philosophical scifi

John Scalzi is another author who writes fun schlocky scifi

[valid thunder]

Red rising

[burnt lake]

The Phoenician Scheme || https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:exxdcplb2ozev5lvw5ohnejq/post/3lq4jos7ihc24 ||

DiscussingFilm (@discussingfilm.net)

First poster for Tom Hanks and Bryan Cranston in Wes Anderson’s ‘THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME’

Read our review: bit.ly/DFScheme

Likes

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Bluesky · May 27, 2025, 1:23 AM

First poster for the new Wes Anderson film

June 6th

[leaden bramble]

Its fucked up that Earthsea doesnt have a good adaptation

[sage remnant]

Mid

[sage remnant]

Goro Miyazaki's movie

[leaden bramble]

I havent bothered watching it

I cant bear it

[valid thunder]

Better than tsa

(Jk)

[sage remnant]

Then I would never know

So mid I dropped like less than 100 Pages in

[valid thunder]

No way that starting prologue is so good

|| " i would have lived in peace. But my enemies brought me war " || red rising start

U telling me thats not hard ?

[sage remnant]

It's good. I grew disinterested the more I read it, and I usually like more worldbuildin in my stories than what it gave

Plus I didn't vibe with the narration and prose

[valid thunder]

Thats fair also the first book is a VERY bad representation of the series

[sage remnant]

I am not picky at those beyond just vibing

[valid thunder]

|| you know theres only one pov through thr first three books ?|| red rising

[sage remnant]

|| Vines adjusting according to her thoughts So Connection due to Luhel Bond at play. I wonder how this looks in Cognitive Realm || Tress/Cosmere general concepts

Tress || Oh god I'd kill for Tress controlling vines and absorbing all the rain drops and like usingb vines like her hundred arms ||

But Brandon's a hack so
@sand cypress

Wait wait. He might actually do it
Tress/RoW
|| The trials at Midnight Sea seems like ones perfect for the spores. Idk about Midnight essence creatures, but she's could use vines to capture the metal knights and again use vines to scale the tower (Indestructable metal? A GodMetal like Raysium?) ||

[sage remnant]

Ye

[valid thunder]

Probably not for u then tbh because i am a huge fan and even i dont particularly like the style of the narration of the first three books

[sage remnant]

There's just a lot of things to read to read a scifi battle shounen that I wasn't liking mirio

I have so much of Cosmere to shit on !

[valid thunder]

Its not a battle shounen 🙏

Thats the first book only

Its actually a bit similar to tsa in scope after the first book

[sage remnant]

Regardless lol

I might get to it some time later

My sister loves the series

But she is also a Dresden fan so....

[valid thunder]

Good taste

[valid thunder]

I tried the first two books ....

[sand cypress]

Interesting thoughts

[sage remnant]

Liking Dresden sadly invalidates any taste mirio

[valid thunder]

Those first two books are colleen hoover level slop

[sage remnant]

Might finish it today Azua since there's no cricket today

[valid thunder]

I will probably try it again i heard it gets good at 3

[sage remnant]

Steelheart by Brandon is even worse

Steelheart /Dresden || The MC of Steelheart would make Dresden seem feminist ||

[valid thunder]

Lmao

Its not just dresden, the prose, the plot, the humor everything was just really really mid.

[sage remnant]

And Harry Dresden is like High school DxD mc level of horny there

[sand cypress]

Do it

[sand cypress]

Wtf you read steelheart? That's like bottom tier Sanderson

[sage remnant]

It's like among my lowest rated books

1/10

[sand cypress]

Surprised you even tried it

[valid thunder]

Patrick rothfuss gave it five stars 🥀

Motherfucker really likes sexist books

[sage remnant]

Dude's fav series of all time is Dresden

😭

[sage remnant]

I think I has read MHA just before it

And was in a superhero mood

So Superhero and author of Stormlight, seemed a great combo

If only...

[valid thunder]

Not even hiding it atp

[modern lichen]

Rothfuss is a fraud

[raw gate]

Asoiaf || https://fxtwitter.com/westerosies/status/1927744812112826771?s=46 ||

westerosies (@westerosies)

George R. R. Martin addresses the criticism he has faced, the untrue perception of how he spends his time, and outrage regarding ‘THE WINDS OF WINTER’ in new blog post:
︀︀
︀︀“Some of you will just be pissed off by this, as you are by everything I announce here that is not about Westeros or THE WINDS OF WINTER. You have given up on me, or on the book.  I will never finish WINDS, If I do, I will never finish A DREAM OF SPRING. If I do, it won’t be any good. I ought to get some other writer to pinch hit for me… I am going to die soon anyway, because I am so old. I lost all interest in A Song of Ice and Fire decades ago. I don’t give a shit about writing any longer, I just sit around and spend my money. 
︀︀
︀︀I edit the Wild Cards books too, but you hate Wild Cards. You may hate everything else I have ever written, the Hugo-winners and Hugo-losers, “A Song for Lya” and DYING OF THE LIGHT, “Sandkings” and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, “Thi…

FxTwitter · May 28, 2025, 3:12 PM

[sage remnant]

wut

[copper phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/i-am-a-surgeon-dr-han-the-good-doctor-discord-bubble-discord-speech-bubble-gif-1845193550933450334

[vast imp]

So a nothing buger

[south hatch]

grrm rant continued ... ||BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, “This Tower of Ashes” and “The Stone City,” OLD MARS and OLD VENUS and ROGUES and WARRIORS and DANGEROUS WOMEN and all the other anthologies I edited with my friend Gardner Dozois, You don’t care about any of those, I know. You don’t care about anything but WINDS OF WINTER. You’ve told me so often enough).

Thing is, I do care about them.

And I care about Westeros and WINDS as well. The Starks and Lannisters and Targaryens, Tyrion and Asha, Dany and Daenerys, the dragons and the direwolves, I care about them all. More than you can ever imagine.

I loved “A Dozen Tough Jobs” the first time I read it, ages ago. I loved Howard too. It saddens me that he did not live long enough to see the film; I hope we do him justice. How can we not? Hercules, Howard, Joe, Lion Forge… I wish you all could share my excitement at the prospect of this movie.||

[copper phoenix]

I'll believe he cares about it once he either releases the damn book or let another author take over after him

[south hatch]

yeah, mf like I only care abt the stuff I care abt nvm what the fandom wants nvm what y'all want

[raw gate]

I believe he cares. I don’t believe there’ll ever be another asoiaf novel that releases traditionally, of GRRM’s own accord.

Series likely finishes posthumously

[copper phoenix]

did he state he won't allow anyone to finish his books after he dies

thats the rumor I see floating around but I can't really find a source

but I can totally see that happening

[modern lichen]

i find it wholesome that he cares and he's trying, idk about you all and i'm seeing a surprising lack of empathy for a man of his age trying to write something that's expected for so many years, sincerely trying to give fans something he thinks they will like and seeing people not like him or insult him, he has more than made up for his work and now i dont hold him as being irresponsible

he deeply cares for his work and that's enough, the series can be incomplete, i dont mind it

on a similar vein, insult patrick rothfuss, he's a worse case

[copper phoenix]

how abou I insult both

https://tenor.com/view/money-crying-woody-harrelson-wiping-tears-with-money-gif-6945518

[modern lichen]

george sincerely at least is working and doing shit creatively

what the fuck is rothfuss doing

we know george is constantly engaged and busy with stuff

[tawny parcel]

I forgot to say i finished farenheit 451 yesterday and it was really good :D

[tawny parcel]

He doesn’t want someone to pick it up if he dies

[copper phoenix]

I think that might be misnformation

[tawny parcel]

I had a source

I think

[copper phoenix]

I never really found any source for that

[tawny parcel]

Let me see if i can find it again

[copper phoenix]

one I found it about "while he's alive"

I found another one but its from 2003 surely he might have changed mind since then

[raw gate]

Whether it finishes or not, I don’t see a future where the material he does have done isn’t released

But I’d prefer it to be left alone if that’s what George wants

[tawny parcel]

I swear there was an interview where he said something along the lines of “if i go the world goes with me but there will probably be some greedy grandchild down the line who who will ignore my wishes”

I just cant find it

Essentially

[vast imp]

Mehn this why we got read first law

[tawny parcel]

Its gonna drive me crazy but i dont think i can find it

[copper phoenix]

I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt, thats it

I'll believe his intentions when I see it

but I aint gonna jump and defend him

bros filthy rich he can hire a pr firm to do that for him

https://tenor.com/view/crying-sad-wiping-face-money-cash-gif-15913900

grrm seeing eveyrone shit on him

[tawny parcel]

Idk i at least empathize for him he’s allowed to write other stuff

Isn’t Sanderson taking a 10 year break from stormlight or smth

[raw gate]

A mere ten years

[copper phoenix]

stormlight aint even his main series like asoiaf

sure its the most successful one but the cosmere project started long ago

[tawny parcel]

What defines someones main series

Thats what i think of when i think sanderson and i havent read the dudes books

[copper phoenix]

the ones that are no spin offs

[shrewd sigil]

mistborn and stormlight are his main series i'd say

[vast imp]

Storm lighting became ass

[copper phoenix]

yes mistborn is just as important

and hes not taking a break from that

also I dont even think its 10 year break from stormlight let me check again

10 years is fucking wild

[shrewd sigil]

its like 7 i think

[copper phoenix]

just kill me

[tawny parcel]

Okay well looking it up elantris was the start of the cosmere so is that his main series lol

And everything else is a spin off of that

[copper phoenix]

are familiar with the concept of spin off

anyway whats this argument about, sanderson is a prolific author who always delivered books on a timely manner

if he said its 10 years then its 10 years

[tawny parcel]

I just mean he’s writing other books in the mean time and no one is giving him shit

[copper phoenix]

yes because all of his other books are just as in important as stormlight

especially mistborn

[tawny parcel]

I think thats glaze bro

[copper phoenix]

I said important

not good

read

also you don't see him crying and bitching on blog posts about his fandom

[shrewd sigil]

nice one

didnt tag

mistborn era 3 title

6 years

and 8 books in between

[copper phoenix]

2031 is crazy

elantris 2 better be damn worth it

I always liked the concept but the elantris is held back by awful writing

[shrewd sigil]

elantris 2 ||its gonna be a 300 year time jump apparently from elantris 1||

also goddamn it brandon where is the warbreaker sequel in this list

[copper phoenix]

yea actually where is it

[shrewd sigil]

[vast imp]

|| After garbage that was that was rhythm of war he set up alot problems for the main cast which got solve quickly and with no consequences to the main characters don’t let me get start with shallan arc || rhythm of sleep

[shrewd sigil]

gonna release 2032 at best

[vast imp]

Oathbreaker was way better story wise

Plus flashbacks weren’t good

[copper phoenix]

yea 4 and 5 fell off 😔

[sage remnant]

5 is the best in the series

[copper phoenix]

they still got the same highs but they have lowest lows

[sage remnant]

4 was still great but I had tons of issue

@sand cypress Tress ch 48 is now my fav chapter in Tress

[vast imp]

I should read drive again heard it good

[tawny parcel]

Starting dune

[vast imp]

Peak

[tawny parcel]

Havw an 8 hour drive today

[sage remnant]

audiobook wombat?

[vast imp]

Hope you like like it

[tawny parcel]

No book book

I’m not driving

[sage remnant]

nice Wombat

[tawny parcel]

My gf got me the first three after we watched the movies

[sage remnant]

nice gf

ungrateful bf tho

[tawny parcel]

Wtf

I’m literally reading them

[vast imp]

I need read massive verse

As well

Got so much shit to read

[copper phoenix]

I got so much stuff to read and watch and play

where is the energy

[sage remnant]

then read it mf

[copper phoenix]

Ill try to finish malazan this year

[sage remnant]

you still haven't?????

[copper phoenix]

no

[vast imp]

I don’t play games that much anymore

[tawny parcel]

Do you not love roblox anymore

[vast imp]

Only singe players

[copper phoenix]

Im so lazy im at the point I'd rather watch other people play

[dim hedge]

Your id is justiceforsanji 😭😭😭 this made my heart sink!!

[sage remnant]

back to tress. probably won't finish it today

but let's see

[dim hedge]

Sanji my fav character but I’m super early in the series. Hope he’s okay 😭😭😭😭😔😔😔😔

[copper phoenix]

just dont watch the anime

[tawny parcel]

He gets turned into a dog

😞

Crazy decision on odas part

[dim hedge]

Stop…

[vast imp]

Just dint watch anime general

[dim hedge]

Impossible 😔

[vast imp]

Where can i talk about tokosautu

[sage remnant]

who cares about these smh

here

[sage remnant]

Man's writing book 2 after 23 years

and people are harsh on George

[vast imp]

You should see glass mask author

[sage remnant]

Sando's a hack fr

[vast imp]

[copper phoenix]

I mean no one is really excited for elantris 2

i might be the only one

[sage remnant]

Nah I have seen people be spice

[shrewd sigil]

youre the only one here who still hasnt read warbreaker

[sage remnant]

Ik :kekhands:

I will soon

[shrewd sigil]

did you finish the lost metal btw spice

[copper phoenix]

I completely forgot about it ngl

will do that

[shrewd sigil]

this is a tragedy

[sage remnant]

I'll probably finish it before him

(I won't)

[copper phoenix]

its just

[vast imp]

Guys is tokosatu chat here

[sage remnant]

it is roblox

[shrewd sigil]

we're gonna be old and dying before you even get to the 2nd book of mistborn

[copper phoenix]

I just finshed stormlight and now 2 of my favorite series going on long breaks

[sage remnant]

but I doubt you will find people who have watched

[copper phoenix]

feels bad

[sage remnant]

which is another

asoiaf?

[sage remnant]

??????

I literally am gonna start so soon

gonna read it alongside my gf 😎

I have watched a couple of kamen rider and Garo, roblox

[vast imp]

Imo if reading a book just read it by arcs

[sage remnant]

Garo is so peak

[copper phoenix]

power rangers >>>>

[sage remnant]

shit not working

[copper phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/power-rangers-mmpr-mighty-morphin-power-rangers-power-rangers-movie-gif-2976149096315421093

[sage remnant]

bad internet

[copper phoenix]

virus

ban this man

[sage remnant]

\smh

also @shrewd sigil got another minor MB spoiler from Tress tho Idk what that means lol

[sage remnant]

read Black Company

we are getting a new book this year

[copper phoenix]

is that slop

[sage remnant]

It inspired Malazan

and is called the Pioneer of GrimDark

[copper phoenix]

im just tired of authors taking breaks

why dont they just work

[sage remnant]

Shouldn't you be like happy lol

MB era 3

elantris 2

[copper phoenix]

I like stormlight more

[sage remnant]

atleast I haven't read them and the long break for Stormlight affects me more

[copper phoenix]

they should give me a chapter every week

[sage remnant]

just read new series smh

[copper phoenix]

why do breaks exist

[shrewd sigil]

yeah tress has a alot of references to era 1-2+ ive heard

shouldnt be anything too bad tho

yumi has the same type of references but its for stormlight so you should be fine there

[sand cypress]

Finally recognizing good writing I see

Goro is the only man on earth who read all of stomlight, steelheart, and now tress without reading mistborn first

mistborn is essential

It is the foundation of the cosmere even more so than Stormlight tbh

[sage remnant]

Not my fault Brandon butchered his writing

And hey you had agreed with my criticism

And it was just that it wasn't something you cared for much

[valid thunder]

diabolical

2031 + 20-25 years, stormlight aint finishing till i am in my 40s

[timber basin]

LOTR The Silmarillion/Morgoth’s Ring: ||Finrod Felagund is such a beautifully written character. Galadriel had some badass siblings.||

[neon yacht]

Thunderbolts is alr saving it

[neon yacht]

Thunderbolts is honestly peak, and it's quite important

[copper phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/sleep-gif-12944899486400191725

[limber urchin]

my nostalgia loves the fuck out of this movie

[mild seal]

I had the vhs tape of it

[limber urchin]

fuck yeah so did i

well, i'm about to get the movie right now fuck it

[mild seal]

lol

I don't think it'll age well

[limber urchin]

OK, you were right. However, the villain's acting is great.

[copper phoenix]

@shrewd sigil lost metal chp 40 / wind and truth || marasi finally met kelsier also lmao at the ghostbloods like casually revealing they can mass produce aluminum and scadrial will soon do that too (kinda fits the "timeframe" of 19th century discoveries thanks to eletricitity) and then marasi pointing out how thats gonna flip the tables on allomancers reminds of the ending of wat where stormlight was gone. I hope this happens in mistborn it would be a cool development ||

[shrewd sigil]

oh I should not have read this message

but yes it is fire

[copper phoenix]

bruh

[shrewd sigil]

it's alright I'll probably forget that by the time I get around to reading w&t

[copper phoenix]

why haven't you read that yet

and your asking me about lost metal

the audacity

[shrewd sigil]

procrastinated for 6 months

now I'm in the start of rereading way of kings

[copper phoenix]

lmao

why

man I love when a story has a world that has technological leaps while we're reading even tho its mixed with magic and shit still feels great

gotta be one of my favorite tropes in fiction

along with the "group of named criminals chasing the protagonist"

mgs does that every single game and its peak every time

[shrewd sigil]

it's been a year now since I've read stormlight and my memory is dogshit so I've forgotten quite alot

[shrewd sigil]

real asf

man I love era 2

[copper phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/its-peak-old-man-shaking-head-gif-3938163323164042530

at least we're getting era 3 sooner than the heat death of the universe

[shrewd sigil]

we're maybe getting era 4 ||cyberpunk era|| in the middle of stormlight 6-10 aswell

[near echo]

1994 Live Action Street Fighter was funny

Felt like a cheaper 90s MCU movie

SF6 should add Sawada

[copper phoenix]

it was peak

whats not to love, coked up van damme, kylie minogue, raul julia pouring his heart out

ming na wen too sorry for forgetting the queen

its just cinema

[mild seal]

What a wonderful Tuesday it was

Street fighter ||I'm still mad they made zangief and dee Jay villains||

[near echo]

Street Fighter ||At least Gief switches at the end||

[dim hedge]

kierkagaard's two ages literary review ||"An age that is revolutionary but also reflecting and devoid of passion changes the expression of power into a dialectical tour de force: it lets everything remain but subtly drains the meaning out of it; rather than culminating in an uprising, it exhausts the inner actuality of relations in a tension of reflection30 that lets everything remain and yet has transformed the whole of existence into an equivocation that in its facticity is—while entirely privately [privatissime] a dialectical fraud interpolates a secret way of reading—that it is not."||

[young compass]

are you quoting someone else's review?

oh you're quoting the text itself

it's just called that lol

are you religious now, zfg

[outer tulip]

need new Netflix show to watch.. finished Forever, it was good but needed to be much longer

[dim hedge]

yeah its a transformative review itself. and as to whether im religious, more so now rather than earlier. i dont like categorizing myself as i find that limiting, so i try to branch out in as many direction as i can while taking what i can from each before culminating them all into my final worldview

[young compass]

have you ever read deleuze

[dim hedge]

no i havent. i havent read much

[leaden depot]

Tales of Suspense #89 (Iron Man)

[dim hedge]

wowww you added western series to the list too?

[young compass]

obviously this is your own journey and choice but imo try not to spend too much time on kierkagaard while you still have motivation to read philosophy. for most people it comes and goes, especially when you're younger and makes you feel alienated from your immediate peers (unless you seek out others who read philosophy which is certainly difficult outside of a larger college or something along those lines), and the longer people stick with absurdists/existentialists, the less they desire to challenge those beliefs or incorporate a meaningful political critique of those thoughts (instead they drift towards academics like deleuze or heidegger and justify their worldview in reverse). I recommend you check out:

satre's critique of dialectical reason:
https://files.libcom.org/files/jean-paul-sartre-critique-of-dialectical-reason-volume-1.compressed.pdf
fanon's the wretched of the earth:
https://monoskop.org/images/6/6b/Fanon_Frantz_The_Wretched_of_the_Earth_1963.pdf

feel free to throw these recommendations out the window or bury them until you hear about them from somebody else, i think it's difficult to read stuff like this that you aren't fully engaged with from the beginning so it's better to sort of take it at your own pace

[leaden depot]

A loooong time ago lol

[dim hedge]

thanks man. ill read those next

i will say my fav phil book so far is critique of pure reason

im only like 60% through tho

let a friend of mine borrow it

[dim hedge]

oh nice

do you have it all written out somewhere

[leaden depot]

I have read a shitton, which is why my manga/anime pace went downhill lol https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/profile/jmfr95/read-list

Can't forget movies too https://letterboxd.com/hog95/films/

[young compass]

satre's critique is really long so feel free to read it intermittently with whatever else

[dim hedge]

will do

[dim hedge]

didnt know there was a site like this for comics

[leaden depot]

Yeah is pretty good

I have helped contribute data quite a bit for the old stuff lol

[dim hedge]

nice nice

[sand cypress]

BTAH || "Delay is the parent of disaster." Wise words from Logen. If you think about it, this is a Sekiro reference ||

[white smelt]

https://x.com/Criterion/status/1927762776337879086

Criterion Collection (@Criterion)

✨Announcing THE WES ANDERSON ARCHIVE IN 4K: TEN FILMS, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS✨

Coming to Criterion in September! https://t.co/t6NkqQAFbw

X · May 28, 2025, 4:23 PM

[sand cypress]

BTAH || I did not expect to be laughing this much in a grimdark series. Abercrombie's humor is great || @sage remnant

[naive juniper]

has anyone read infinite jest?

[young compass]

yes

[modern lichen]

Yeah

[naive juniper]

is it good/worth the read?

[sage remnant]

Seems like Helmsworth's last Thor movie would be Doomsday

[sage remnant]

it is

MCU really should learn from him on how to balance humor with other stuff

[young compass]

depends on what you read

[main lion]

what does BTAH mean

[crimson lance]

Anyone read Stephen Graham Jone's The only good indian?

Im a 3rd of the way through it right now and its great

Picked it up because he's very likley to be the writer for Ultimate hawkeye one shot coming out in like, september

[mild seal]

google was no help in answering this

[white smelt]

Before they are hanged

[main lion]

aint nobody know what that acronym is yung blud type that ish out smh

not like you're having 50 message convos about it

[sage remnant]

Before They Are Hanged. Book 2 of First Law Trilogy

[main lion]

smh my head

[sage remnant]

We were talking about it with full book name previously

Before usiing acronyms

[main lion]

time to bring back full name bubby

[modern lichen]

Ts pmo 🥀

[sage remnant]

The hell is this ts pmo

[mild seal]

sybau

[valid thunder]

Some authors beginning with the letter B should takes notes

[mild seal]

Bgeorge rr martin

[sage remnant]

He's good as well

But not Abercrombie level of good true

[valid thunder]

Abercrombie is so good

[sage sleet]

David my king you tasted exquisite

Gonna either watch Ted lasso, the studio, or trigun on the plane

Or I’ll rewatch peacemaker

[sage remnant]

Enjoy Trigun

[sage sleet]

My decision made easy 🫡

[sage remnant]

You are welcome pasto

[sage sleet]

I think I have the first like 15 episodes downloaded

Doubt my attention span will let me finish even 3 episodes on this flight at least but still

[modern lichen]

Watch The Studio

It’s awesome

[sage sleet]

I’ll prolly start w trigun maybe 1-3 eps I’d lucky then an ep or 2 of Ted lasso n binge the studio

4 hour flight n I doubt I’ll sleep so I can get some good watching in

[sage remnant]

also @sand cypress something occurred to me

Tress Part 5 end || Xixis literally gave Crow a Subscription based treatment ||

Tress Part 5 end || Also feels like a Brandon Cosmere cop out that I would hate
Xixis telling Tress he can hinder the development of the world. I hope its just Xixis lying cuz like it eliminates so many interesting possiblilities ||

[modest canyon]

Finished Well of Ascension part 1

Decent so far, lots of exposition

[valid thunder]

I thought this one was weaker than book 1

[sage remnant]

MB has so many mixed reactios than Stormlight

A lot people have different books as fav ones

And different as least fav one

[valid thunder]

Idk i usually see woa cited as the worst in the trilogy

|| the zane plotline especially is a huge misstep || woa major spoiler dont open

[arctic flax]

just watched the superman trailer. looks so good

[shrewd sigil]

https://fixupx.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1928120650595447176?t=yc_jZdAWyIIXCNWrTUhYYA&s=19

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Sydney Sweeney is selling a limited-edition soap made with her own bathwater.
︀︀
︀︀“Fans always joke about wanting my bath water, I was like, ‘This is just such a cool way to… give them what they want.’”

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FixupX · May 29, 2025, 4:06 PM

alright man

[sage remnant]

Man...

What is this timeline

[raw gate]

Tears

Definitely not something anyone should purchase. I’m going to buy all of the stock to spare everyone else. We’re fighting back against degeneracy in 2025

[sage remnant]

Lmao

Wait she's onto something

She's getting online degenerates who never bathe to bath

[raw gate]

Feck

Thinking five steps ahead

She’s outsmarted them all

[valid thunder]

Has to be satire

Bills cant be that high

[peak pilot]

About time

[shrewd sigil]

it isn't 😭

[modern lichen]

its not satire

[valid thunder]

We have lost the plot

[modern lichen]

sydney sweeney is playing it exactly how it benefits here

[shrewd sigil]

5000 limited edition men's bars of soap along with a certificate saying that it's her bathwater

[raw gate]

We believe her

[leaden bramble]

Get that bag girl is my opinion

[shrewd sigil]

whole certificate is crazy

[sage remnant]

She's great for making money off of it lol

[sage remnant]

True

It's just gonna be some random aroma soap anyway lol

[unkempt agate]

dont judge the supplier, judge the demand 🔥

[near echo]

Remember the streamer who was selling her bath water and then got into legal trouble when a fan did a test on the container he received and there were no traces of her DNA

[sonic quail]

LMAOOO

[jolly sandal]

ewww lmao what

[jolly sandal]

i think i did hear smth abt that a while back

[valid thunder]

Pathetic on both sides tbh

[mild seal]

nah, let her get that money if people are willing to buy that shit

[white smelt]

Buying some for glex

[mild seal]

god I have the perfect gif react for that, but I won't use it

[tawny parcel]

I’m really surprised thunderbolts is the 2nd worst performing mcu movie i feel like I saw a lot of talk of it online and good word of mouth

It just seems weird

Thunderbolts end ||especially if these guys are supposed to be the new avengers lmfao||

[leaden bramble]

Too much bad will and no draw for a general audience I guess

[white smelt]

You mean by money

Isn’t it reviewed really well

[leaden bramble]

Random people dont care about John Walker and Sentry and Yelena unless they watch it

[near echo]

Movie comes off as unwatchable for most people cuz it's an ensemble of c list characters involved in the tv shows

Too much baggage

Most Marvel fans just go out to see the big things like avengers and Spider-Man

[tawny parcel]

Yeah

[copper phoenix]

yea the superhero saturation is crazy

aint nobody got time to watch an entire movie about fartmaster or squirrel man

[copper phoenix]

its been so long since the gamergirl bathwater I was wondering why didn't anyone else try the same

[near echo]

If marvel released a movie called Fartmaster and Squirrel Man and it actually looked self serious id go out to see that one

[sage remnant]

@sand cypress finished Tress

[sand cypress]

and?

[valid thunder]

Is it blasphemous to say i liked star wars episode 1 more than a new hope

[limber urchin]

yes, but to each their own

[broken fossil]

Need to watch Bring Her Back

[broken fossil]

Huh??? It is??? That’s so insane , it’s the better marvel movie in a long while

That bar may not be high but it’s definitely not bad in the least bit

[raw gate]

Yeah, kind of

[scenic terrace]

my friend was trying to describe the movie to me the other day and I had never heard of it. The friend described it as, "The sidekicks of marvel movie"

[leaden bramble]

The original Star Wars movies are better movies, but the prequels give me more to think about and chew on and also - love it or hate it - have such a unique visual identity

Revenge of the Sith is unfortunately the worst one because Lucas listened to his haters and we get less Anakin & Padme so that Yoda can go to the woods

[arctic flax]

marvel brand is at an all time low. even good movies are flopping

f4 gon flop too

thunderbolts is apparently their best movie in yrs going off reviews , yet its worst performing

[outer tulip]

Thunderbolts was soooo good

I wouldn't say its flopping, but its coasting

its like a manga at this point.. just going on and on, no real highs or lows, just content

a very high budget and high earning series of content

oh it looks like thunderbolts will be losing money despite a 350M world wide gross... this will be MCU's final phase

[tawny parcel]

The projected budget was 500 mil

[near echo]

Godzilla vs Kong kinda underwhelmed me

Expected more from that

Much bigger fan of both the original Showa era one and King of the Monsters whether I look at it as a psuedo remake or a sequel

[modern lichen]

every movie after king of monsters in the new monsterverse franchise gets more boring

[near echo]

I'm most interested in Monarch

But I'm doing that last

[modern lichen]

its a very good show

[blissful obsidian]

Y’all, a musical version of Silence of the Lambs exists

[near echo]

This might be my most controversial placement on this list yet lmao, really did like Son of Godzilla a lot more than this

Maybe I would have liked it more if I saw it in IMAX

(I still need to rewatch and reevaluate Skull Island I saw that in theaters expecting a King Kong remake)

[near echo]

Need to see this

[blissful obsidian]

You can hear it https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_FNIIWbF1my9XimsNC7_mdN5X4DS5OEI&feature=shared

[near echo]

Man I don't wanna watch the new LDR episode starring Mr Beast

Why'd they do that

[near echo]

Wow the half of this season I've watched has been bad

(I'm jumping around to random episodes as I always do, not strictly commenting on episodes 1-5. Also Netflix apparently changed the order within a week after release so who even cares lol)

[main lion]

why you be hoppin around fella

[near echo]

It's an anthology series who cares

I go off whims

Finally found a good episode btw Robert Valley carrying this season the same way he carried Season 1

[near echo]

Okay done

The last three episodes I watched were coincidentally all the seasons best lmao

Still a bit of a dud tho, majority was among the worst episodes of the whole series and none of its handful of stronger episodes really hit like Zima Blue or Jibaro or even The Witness

I liked 400 Boys the most, wish it got an additional 3 minutes or something to really round itself out

[primal mason]

I’m dropping the Mission Impossible movies. Upon reflection, they’ve done little to entertain and engage me.

I’ll be seeing Life of Pi next

[modern lichen]

Thank god

Hallelujah

Stick to boring films like Life of Pi

[sage remnant]

You don't like it?

[modern lichen]

I think its boring

[sage remnant]

I haven't watched it after 2013-14 (when it released) and it was fun

[modern lichen]

Perfectly average, Ang Lee's earlier work is so much more appealing to me

[primal mason]

Now I’m tempted

[sage remnant]

Okay now for Tress sanderlanche opinions/takes

Tress end || The sudden change to "Laptop" was nice. I had already figured out it was LCD displays or something adjacent in the tower/spaceship. It being a spaceship took me time to catch on to. I was still unsure until Riina flew away in it.
I LOVED like deconstruction? of the traditional fairy tale esque elements to use modern-ish or magitech version for it. Like the whole "Seeing everything sphere" being her hacking the tablets. That was neat. Charlie being Huck was great. I only realized it one page before the reveal raaahhhhhhh. Riina acting the part of traditional Evil Sorceress with the spells and shit was funni. Crow's Song arriving to save her was great, and the whole thing of she doesn't feel bad about being saved because that just means she has impacted their life enough to have them save her was great.

Main thing I liked was that how it is described in mystical/archaic terms about the futuristic tech. That really makes it fun to read, and not something that can be done well in a movie form or a visual form.
FORT IS THE MVPPPPP. That was great. He nailed the exchange lol. That was super good. I am repeating myself but idc. That was super good. The "Here try on these spectacles" being most impactful thing to Ann and that exchange was great. Salay IS THE MVPPP. The whole way of her controlling the sea was super good. Human Ingenuity and skill >>>>>>> Investitureeeee. Laggart leading Ann to fire the cannons was GREAT. But even better was the Hoid's narration of how "If all everyone ever expects you to do is miss, Missing is all you would do" really hit hard. I think the best part of the book is always one of these two: Hoid's whimsical narration when it really feels like it's Hoid (Sando couldn't maintain the narration properly for me everytime) and when his tone changes to a more earnest/somber/serious (well every sincere one) and he speaks something. Him telling story of Doug that died, for example.||

|| The Hero chapter was great. Knight in Shining Armor story and Tress about being saved part. The "Everything that comes before" Super good. And well time to blame Hoid. All this occurred just for him collecting Pokemons. I am probably wrong, but it's always good to blame Hoid. Atleast Tress showed him his place. "Cabin boy, Zap him or smth" :letsgooo: Hoid changing the parameters to what it became was nice. The whole epilogue and the ending three sentences were SUPER good. Except for this mf Hoid not sharing the poem. I had to suffer through Riina's terrible verses. Why no poem for me you Sanderson self insert. Also Awwww Charlie putting his head on her shoulder while wrapping his arms around her and Tress putting her hands against his. So yeah the ending sentences was super good.||

Time for well ISSUES.
|| I don't really have much in the Sanderlanche. It's just that the rest of the book wasn't as good for the Sanderlanche to have the type of impact that it could have had. It's still a super great Sanderlanche, but at the moments where I would have cried a decent amount of tears, I just cried very little lol .

Well I do have issues tho. Especially like I can't believe the Sorceress was distracted enough for Tress to have like a 4-5 minutes long conversation lol. It doesn't make sense. That took me out of the story so many times because I had to fit in what she might do for being distracted for that long lol. And with this, the Dragon being scared of her doesn't make sense. So like my whole being excited cuz Xisis referred to Hoid as Cephandrius and wanted to stay clear of Riina doesn't make sense. Even Hoid later says that Xisis being htere and Hoid coming ruins her plan for being in a backwater country.
Also Xisis randomly giving her a more advanced Naltian tablet, and giving her a spectacle. Idk how he can do that. It feels off when the "mystical" elements are deconstructed into magitech and still this exists for me. ||

As for overall, I think I have ranted enough to still rant about Tress. The prose and narration is the worst (due to being inconsistent) I have seen from Brandon. Even his worst book, The Reckoners, didn't have this issue for me. I think any other problem I have had with this book stems from this fact, I was so bothered by it during my read of it that the other things that were great while reading didn't stay with me because of how the prose and narration would always bother me. There were a lot of good to great stuff all around. Some really super great character moments and like I loved || Fort, Salay and Ann's stories|| I wouldn't say "more time to spend with the characters" is the only way I could love a character, but with the issues of the book for me, I wish I had gotten that. If it had a better narration, the book as it is would have worked. But since it didn't, I would have needed more story and more of these characters for really enjoying it.

|| Tress experimenting with the spores. Tress and other characters dynamics being developed well. And all that while I just go through the pages of the book feel great. But like they don't feel memorable and I so hate it for it. I think structurally as well the book doesn't really work for me. It doesn't feel as connected, as flowing well. Yeah I went through the chapter titles and skimmed over the chapters. I love the content when I remember them, but I can't remember it in proper order or progression without looking at it much. So yeah the feeling not connected issue is there.
||

Either way, it's such a mixed book for me. It's one I would have probably given a 5 star because on paper it does so much I LOVE. But it feels so amateurishly written to me that it just sours the experience, despite the eventual constant series of good stuff in the book

@sand cypress

It ended up being a 3.5 star

A lot improvement from 1 star it was going to be initially

[primal mason]

I was told MI4 is really good because of Brad Bird directing it

I’ll bite

[modern lichen]

God

I hope you drop it still

[primal mason]

We’ll see

[pseudo ingot]

Has anyone in here ever watched he man (the old one)

[slim helm]

https://fixupx.com/greg16676935420/status/1928233557882806408

greg (@greg16676935420)

The Sydney Sweeney effect

Quoting Pop Base (@PopBase)
︀
Sydney Sweeney is selling 5,000 bars of soap that contain drops of her own bathwater, in collaboration with Dr. Squatch.

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FixupX · May 29, 2025, 11:34 PM

[pseudo ingot]

What the fuck

[near echo]

I love that movie 😔

[modern lichen]

Sorry

[near echo]

I'll forgive you

[primal mason]

forgiving too quick i say

[near echo]

Can't stay upset with Harsh

[sage remnant]

???

couldn't be me

I still hate him for Nov 12th 2021

-# lemme go check my messages to find something from that day

[valid thunder]

Harry potter

[outer wing]

Good watch for today.. anything that involves vatican is fascinating to me, great mystery movie!

[modern lichen]

this one is pretty mid

[tawny parcel]

Watched Jonah Hill’s film yesterday

Mid90s

[shrewd sigil]

way of kings reread prologue

[little hull]

Hey

[shrewd sigil]

yellowjackets s2 ||god this series would be so peak if every episode just had Elijah wood in it||

[bitter tapir]

Skibidi

[stiff iron]

Finished Blacklist . Such a goated series

[near echo]

Godzilla x Kong 2 was less than the sum of its parts

Taking a lot of that movie in isolation there's plenty of fun little bits and cool imagery and designs

But wow it didn't flow together

Anyway tv show aside I'm caught up on Monsterverse, free to go and watch cooler Godzilla movies now

[leaden bramble]

There was a kid at the store today that grabbed this and yelled to his mom "Batman fights Donkey Kong???"

[mild seal]

wait wtf

[near echo]

Don't show him the new donkey kong

[mild seal]

I thought that was gorilla grog

or whatever that flash villain is called\

[naive juniper]

yeah its grog

[mild seal]

oh its grodd

[naive juniper]

ohh

[mild seal]

I was on my phone when I sent that and forgot to look it up lol

[copper phoenix]

its graggle

[vernal gulch]

||“Dear Carl” wrap it up || Twd spoilers

[stiff iron]

@thorny spruce captain America brave new world ||good movie nice action kept everything interesting , red hulk was cool was waiting for him to come out haha ||

[thorny spruce]

Yeah a lot of my issue was ||him coming out in the last part of the movie for 5 seconds and idk the choreograph for the fight over celestial island was so much more enjoyable i wanted him to turn there lmao||

[stiff iron]

Brave new world ||The celestial island graphics was insane . The clouds , the water and the hand of the celestial looked cool . Plus the way red hulk got defeated in the end was so lame||

[thorny spruce]

Thats the only part i loved and saw actual care put into that scene but yeah also couldnt help but look at all the characters involved and think like ||hulk should really be here 😭||

[mild seal]

hey guys, remember to still write the name of the show/movie you're talking about in front of the spoiler tags

if you don't want to write out the whole name, brave new world is enough

[thorny spruce]

Im sorry!! Captain america brave new world

[mild seal]

lol you're good

just ltetting you know

[stiff iron]

Brave new world || glad they didn’t make this movie political and boring . Hulk vs red hulk would have been so good ||

[thorny spruce]

||I expected more out of the whole spy corruption aspect and yeah hes supposed to be a hulk villain ||

Its whatever thats why i waited for it to be on disney+

[stiff iron]

Brave new world || marvel movies right now not worth on the big screen I saw on Disney plus too .
What did you expect from the spy thing ||

[sage remnant]

💀

[stiff iron]

??

[sage remnant]

💀

[thorny spruce]

Nothing but still shits like 5.8 on imdb for a reason ig 😭

[thorny spruce]

[leaden bramble]

This is the exact reason I havent watched it yet, they have nothing to say to me

I dont believe that Anthony Mackie is entertaining enough to hold a movie on his own, Red Hulk is boring as hell in the comics, they have that one girl in there that I wont get into but why the hell is she in that movie

Throw together a bunch of shit I dont care about and also have no thematic depth to share with me

Anthony Mackie is so strange because in interviews and stuff he is super entertaining and funny, but on screen he has like absolutely none of that energy ever

[sage remnant]

Just say 'I don't want to watch it' instead of being completely wrong about literally almost everything

[leaden bramble]

What am I wrong about lol

Does it have a strong message I didnt hear about

Falcon and WS drove me insane with its last episode

Falcon and WS end || He just flies down and is like "We just need to be better!" Like bro can you say something of value at all. How do we need to be better? What do you believe in? ||

[modern lichen]

I agree with Dust on Falcon and the Winter Soldier

[sage remnant]

I didn't even finish it to say much

[modern lichen]

Insipid series with uninspired writing that led to a weaker film in Brave New World

[sage remnant]

Brave New World isn't good, but like I wouldn't go speaking long on something based on social media reception and scenes. I would just go "It didn't seem like it is good so I didn't watch it"

[modern lichen]

I have seen the film and I think it’s definitely got some real issues with how it depicts political conflict

No character is interesting to me, Mackie is ok I’m not that hardline on him, he has to carry it all on his shoulders but the writing isn’t enough for him to chew on

[sage remnant]

I wouldn't say it has 0 thematic depth, and Harrison Ford's performance is enough for me to get to watch it

[modern lichen]

Its thematic depth is undercut by poor writing and execution

[sage remnant]

Brave New World || Despite how shitty vfx and the whole story after Red Hulk was, the whole buildup to that and the character conflict leading to that was done very well ||

[sage remnant]

agreed

My only issue in above is I don't think it's in good faith to talk about something in even depth of above with just social media reception and some clips

[modern lichen]

A lot of scenes have no reason to be there, Brave New World || I don’t give a shit about Sabra and the new falcon, Giancarlo and Tim Blake Nelson are woefully underused, Ross is less interesting in this than he was written and executed by William Hurt before ||

[sage remnant]

I disagree on the last statement

but agreed on rest

Brave new world|| I was sold on Ross in this movie. I really didn't give a shit about him in Hulk, Civil War and others he was in ||

[primal mason]

really tempted to just watch the entire king of the hill series now. i saw seperate episodes on adult swim, but now I wanna see it all sequentially.

[gilded hatch]

I also wanna watched it
I think the only reason I never watch them was because thry didnt air at night in my country,like the simpsons or futurama

[sand cypress]

Tress || Nice review. One thing that will always stick with me is the feeling of dread I felt when Tress was first walking over the spore sea. Quite actually more horrifying than dedicated horror media imo. ||

[sage remnant]

Tress end || over Midnight spores sea? ||

or the first one?

[sand cypress]

the first one

[sage remnant]

I was too busy ranting about Brandon's terrible narration to get that Azua

😔

[sand cypress]

whats next for you?

[sage remnant]

I started rereading Roger Ackroyd

[modern lichen]

LETS GO

[sage remnant]

well could even say first read cuz I read it for the first time in 2013

[sand cypress]

I've read that! Enjoy

[modern lichen]

speaking of christie, i'm on the final part of tainted cup

its escalating

[sage remnant]

[sand cypress]

christie is the GOAT

[sage remnant]

the only thing I remember from Roger Ackroyd is || One of the main character being Miss Marple version 0.1 ||

[modern lichen]

@brave orbit WTF there’s a new Doctor already?

[brave orbit]

WTF

Damn

[sage remnant]

how was Gatwa's run

[brave orbit]

Doctor who LATEST ||Billie Piper as the Doctor????||

[modern lichen]

Yeah what the fuck

[sage remnant]

WTF

This reeks of being desperate

[modern lichen]

This shit is crazy

[brave orbit]

It was good, 8/10 id say

[modern lichen]

It’s been 2 seasons bro

18 episodes in total

Goddamn

[brave orbit]

Yea its sad 😔

[sage remnant]

I had seen rumors floating around of Doctor Who on the risk of being cancelled

so they are banking on Nostalgia?

[brave orbit]

Nah its not cancelled

Just they dont know if Disney is still interested in funding it

But BBC will 100%

Its also rumoured to have more spinoff miniseries

[leaden bramble]

I might have to give up on this show this is so dumb

[brave orbit]

I dont mind

[burnt lake]

Star Wars general || https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:exxdcplb2ozev5lvw5ohnejq/post/3lqifhoz5x22e ||

DiscussingFilm (@discussingfilm.net)

Mark Hamill says he won’t be returning as Luke Skywalker again.

“I really think they should focus on the future and all the new characters”

(Source: comicbook.com/movies/news/...)

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Bluesky · May 31, 2025, 6:39 PM

[outer tulip]

man is a hero.. will take a step back from Star Wars for the good of the franchise

[copper phoenix]

they'll just recast young luke and go ham

sebastian stan

[frank coral]

Thoughts on Invincible?

[copper phoenix]

its aight

[leaden bramble]

Good show for like 16 year olds

[stiff iron]

Star Wars so boring . It’s the same thing every movie

[undone junco]

@brave orbit Sack Russell T. Davies

Dr Who 2025 || Ncuti leaving already made me so mad, he deserved more, it feels like the 9th all over again. And its clear that RTD has no grand ideas for the series anymore beyond "Glup shitto is back" so at best he should just write certain episodes and let someone else take over. I did kinda get hyped by it this time atleast, cuz I love Jodie and I love Rose but it gets to a point...||

Dr Who 2025|| also all that build for Rani just for her to get ate, and for Omega just for him to be ugly as shit and lose to the vindicator which is a laser gun somehow... So underwhelming unfortunately||

You're probably asleep but I just wanted to scream about it before also going to sleep 🙂‍↕️

[brave orbit]

I havent watched but this is about what i expected

[undone junco]

Dr who 2025 || Honestly I didn't expect it but RTD is committed to this direction, I just hope the next season is his last. Do the Daleks, Master and Cybermen again one last time and hand it off to someone else. ||

[naive juniper]

||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84o1Q6fB20k ||

[clever pilot]

[tawny parcel]

Is it physically possible to be as cool of a white boy as timothee chalamet

Or am i just forced to a life of doom

[modern lichen]

Why does Stranger Things final season have to be divided that way bruh

This shit makes no sense

[mild seal]

netflix needs the monthly revenue

[copper phoenix]

thanksgiving, xmas and nye

[leaden bramble]

Trying to make families all sit down and watch it together after dinner

[spice folio]

I’ve heard that half of the episodes in the season are like 2 hours long so they’re just trying to milk their golden child as much as they can

one last time

[sage remnant]

Aot all over again

[near echo]

Yeah they wanna keep families subbing for the entire holiday season

Landing in three waves to cover all bases

Almost shocked it doesn't start on Halloween with four drops

[main lion]

I mean its only a one month gap so its nbd

[arctic flax]

yeah it could be worse

ive yet to watch it despite having ST on my watchlist 5 years ago, dunno why.

[main lion]

doesn't really interest me at all. Watched a chunk of season... 4? with my friends on a trip

cause it released at the same time as our trip

[near echo]

I watched season 1 and was like yeah that was enough

Never felt compelled to continue

[arctic flax]

my sisters were obsessed with it

idk if they still care about it atp lol

the long wait between seasons for every show now makes it hard for me to care

thats why i prefer completed series

[modern lichen]

beyond season 1 it lost its sheen

[leaden bramble]

Its a pretty bad show honestly, season 1 was pretty good but it just continually hits the same beats with diminishing returns

[brave orbit]

https://youtu.be/XoM7pfpE3u0?si=y6R9F6G0gt2KL_qw

YOOOO

@undone junco @modern lichen @sage remnant

[undone junco]

yeah this was played after the episode, I saw it already, seems cool

you havent seen the episode right?

[brave orbit]

Nop

[undone junco]

gotcha gotcha

[white smelt]

Why’d they do Ncuti like that

[modern lichen]

poor guy lasted just 2 seasons and was never given the proper hype lol

the farthest shore ||what's the issue with arren?||

the farthest shore ||i think his arc alongside ged really complimented each other, as both double-helixed into each other||

[leaden bramble]

The Farthest Shore || I think the book is really good, its just that genuinely I had trouble connecting to him the way I did Ged and Tenar ||

[sage remnant]

have you read her scifi works harsh?

[modern lichen]

yeah

[leaden bramble]

Like its not even a problem with the story, it just connected to me less

I love Dispossesed, need to read Left Hand still

[modern lichen]

hainish cycle is great and i love it very much, especially left hand

but my loyalty lies towards earthsea

[leaden bramble]

Earthsea general || I love the way her magic focuses on communication rather than pure domination the way a lot of other fantasy does, all of the name stuff is absolutely brilliant ||

[modern lichen]

earthsea ||i also think its genius that the use of magic has a heavy cost||

earthsea ||magic is not just waving a wand and chanting some latin phrases, it is connecting with nature and being deeply involved with the innate nature of things||

[leaden bramble]

Harry Potter found dead in a ditch

[modern lichen]

i wanted let some slander in, i like it but its no earthsea

and rowling is no le guin, doesn't even amount to le guin's toenail

[leaden bramble]

The level of nuance in childrens writing is just even close

Le Guins careful attention to demographic makes her work so special

She doesnt dumb down to kids or teens, she writes what she thinks they need to hear and experience

[modern lichen]

le guin trusts her readers to know and intellectualize what she's writing

[brave orbit]

@undone junco just watched

Doctor who latest ||I didn't like the first half much (too much lore and exposition) and yea how the one Rani got defeated wa kinda underwhelming, but the ending and how the story changed to Poppy was super cool, and OMG the Jodie cameo was amazing, I hope there is more of her in a miniseries or something ||

[undone junco]

Doctor who latest || Ms. flood is atleast out there so hopefully Rani has a better role then when she returns. The Jodie cameo was my favorite part of the episode, she's just so great in the role and I want to see her atleast return for some specials or something. On Poppy, I just think the whole story is very silly. Like its an entirely different life being forced upon Belinda, one that she never wished for ever but that dork Conrad did. And the series presents that as a bad thing but still has her accept it anyways which doesn't really fit her character from the start or the messaging here. RTD did a Ruby Road-esque lamppost thing again with her always wanting to return for her daughter but it'd have been a lot better if that actually existed since the start instead of just being a new memory that only spawned from all the reality changes. I did really like Ruby here, speaking of her. That scene where the coat of Poppy is slowly fading away was just brilliant. I just wish things were less convoluted here. Rose/Billie's return just feels like nostalgia bait but atleast unlike Omega and Rani... I'm getting baited successfully lmao||

Dr who latest || oh also hopefully she's actually The Doctor, and this is like Peter Capaldi returning after the Pompeii episode or Torchwood||

[brave orbit]

Doctor who latest ||I feel like it was good setup for Omega to come back in the future, and yea the Poppy thing was... weird, but I really like how it tied in the end||

ALSO

Doctor who latest ||Just saying, the Omega looked AMAZING, especially compared with the original....||

[undone junco]

Dr who latest || Oh right, I was expecting something with Tecteun and the timeless child but Omega didn't even have anything interesting to say or do, he has to be returning in the future or this really just looks like nothing more than a fanservice cameo||

|| oh yea, the weird mud baby looked very stupid lol||

||Or whatever it was supposed to be||

[brave orbit]

I kinda loved it

||It's a Titan made out of bones. It mixed with the mythology of greek gods || DW latest

[undone junco]

Dr who latest || I was just expecting a person, or atleast some kind of humanoid lol but maybe when he returns...||

Dr who latest || like Tecteun was just an old lady, I thought oh it'll be an evil old guy 😭 ||

Dr who latest || idk, just felt odd, I get the explanation but that OG design would've been excellent.||

Oh right

[brave orbit]

Dr who latest ||Oh RTD mentioned Ruby remembers stuff because of 73 Yards||

[undone junco]

|| About Ncuti's exit, it seems like it was clearly not planned from what I've been reading. I guess if it was out of their control for whatever reason then I'm not as mad but its still very frustrating ||

[brave orbit]

||Apparently it was planned, or at least he said so in the Behind the scenes idk||

[undone junco]

Dr who latest || I assume they're just lying. I read that the regeneration was filmed just this year so it was tacked on||

Dr who latest || I liked him from the start but he was really delivering his best in season 2 💔, just feels very shitty no matter why it happened||

Dr who latest || hope he returns in the future though because returns are the big thing now lol ||

[brave orbit]

Dr who latest ||From what I read the plan was for 2 seasons with Ncuti, but coming back for spinoffs in miniseries similar to Children of Earth||

Dr who latest ||Because those are the easiest ones for Disney to finance and market||

[undone junco]

Dr who latest || I'll see if I can find it again but I just saw an interview from him from last year today where he's talking about filming a 3rd series soon so it doesn't feel like the plan at all. Maybe the series being in potential hiatus limbo caused him to leave, idk||

[brave orbit]

Dr who latest ||Also the explanation for the Rani surviving the Master's ma killing was absolutely bullshit RTD didn't even try to pretend it was reasonable LMAO||

[undone junco]

||https://fixupx.com/TrilbeeReviews/status/1928935968737743226?t=pDt8ovpgqf_o2eL9HiQaRQ&s=19||

MrTARDIS (@TrilbeeReviews)

In October 2024, Ncuti Gatwa was on 'The Graham Norton Show' saying he was going to be filming another series of DW next year.
︀︀
︀︀In June 2025, he officially leaves the show and regenerates.
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︀︀This was never the plan. What a shame. He deserved so much better.

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FixupX · May 31, 2025, 10:05 PM

There

[brave orbit]

ngl that just sounds like a red herring lol

RTD just likes to lie a lot

[undone junco]

Dr who latest || oh for sure lmao, but its w/e, I didn't mind it. Speaking of that, I liked the explanation for Bi Generation, it kinda makes sense lol||

[undone junco]

He's probably lying about it being the plan all along

But welp, its over now 😭

[brave orbit]

But it was a pretty good ep overall in RTD finale standards, was expecting worse

[undone junco]

I liked it more than last season's atleast so there's that

[sage remnant]

Apparently there's multiple endings to this ep?

[brave orbit]

Dr who latest ||Honestly not a fan of the super-cinematic high-tech VFX action stuff so it being brought to character level through Poppy's plot and Ruby's probably saved the ep by a lot for me ngl||

[sage remnant]

Haven't watched Gatwa's seasons. My sister was just ranting about this last ep and || Billie Piper || to me lol

Doctor Who latest^

[undone junco]

Yeah thats been a rumor going around too

The original ending was scrapped, and replaced || with a regeneration||

[sage remnant]

Also this last season was heavy on Classic Who?

[brave orbit]

not rly

[undone junco]

Its very likely to be true, just not 100% confirmed but I'd go like 90%

[undone junco]

Well

Dr who latest || RTD2 has been very heavy on past Who in general, not even just Classic||

[brave orbit]

ehhhh it's mostly standalone imo

[undone junco]

Dr who latest || Started with Catherine and David returning, then you had the Toymaker, Sutekh, and this season there's Fugitive Doctor, Susan, Rani, Omega, Jodie and finally Billie||

Dr who latest || I like it when its modern who though, I'm just listing them all||

But yea goro the answer to that is kinda yeah, it has been lol

[brave orbit]

RTD wants DW to be as big as Marvel but kinda wish he started writing well-plotted finales first 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭

[undone junco]

I was gonna say, it feels very Marvel like

He wants it to be a proper franchise

Well it is a proper franchise

[brave orbit]

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-marvel-shared-universe/

[undone junco]

But as connected, if that makes sense

[brave orbit]

2021

[undone junco]

Yea that makes a lot of sense lmao

I thought it was a Disney thing

But it's just RTD

[undone junco]

They should put that Disney money to better use

[brave orbit]

Doctor who latest ||Fugitive doctor+Jodie spinoff and all is forgiven 🙏 ||

[undone junco]

Instead of CGI battles and monsters smh

YES

[brave orbit]

Tbf he did it when he revived it before Marvel made that thing popular

in his first run it connected super well with the spinoffs

[undone junco]

Doctor Who latest || the war between land and sea seems interesting but I'm not sure if anyone was dying to see a Unit centric story? Just feels very random. It should've been a series for the Fugitive. I'm still also mad that David and Catherine didn't last longer smh||

[brave orbit]

Doctor who latest ||I'm actually super excited for that spinoff tbh, UNIT spinoff would be great. And Kate Stewart's Lucky Day portrayal was a really good set-up for the kind of darker tone that Torchwood had (tho I doubt it will be that similar lmao)||

[undone junco]

True true, but he's probably trying to be more Marvel like than that lol

[brave orbit]

||Also Russell Tovey as lead of the spinoff is great, He played Alonso before and is also one of the leads in RTD's Years and Years (you should watch it now)|| Doctor Who

[undone junco]

Doctor who latest || i like Kate and Unit, I just didn't figure it would be high up on their priority list to be the very first one. its whatever though because it still seems interesting atleast||

[undone junco]

Oh yea I have that on the list

[brave orbit]

it's like 5 eps why have you not watched it yet smh

[undone junco]

I was trying to catch up to the OP anime smh, I was like a hundred episodes behind

I only have 3 to go now

So I'll move onto newer stuff soon 🙏

In like a week probably, I'll try to get the shorter stuff out of the way first so I'll watch it

[brave orbit]

nice

But yea DW 2023 s2 was a pretty good season

I think I prefer the first maybe? idk

[undone junco]

same

[brave orbit]

S2 was probably more consistent in quslity, S1 had better standalone stories

[undone junco]

doctor who latest || Yeah for sure, Rogue, Boom, 73 yards, Dot and Bubble were better standalone episodes than the ones this season aside from The Well imo, but generally this season was atleast pretty consistent||

[brave orbit]

doctor who latest ||Lux, The Well, Lucky Day, The Story Engine were my fav||

[undone junco]

Doctor Who latest || yeah I loved them too, just preferred the season 1 episodes I mentioned. ||

||I hope the episode count is bigger whenever they return, because the standalone stuff has been the best throughout this era and there's just not enough of it||

[brave orbit]

Sadly i dont think its gonna happen 😔

[undone junco]

yeah...

but if its on hiatus and there's like 2 years till the show returns and it returns with 8 episodes?

[brave orbit]

If the UK govt was smart they'd just give DW infinite money smh

[undone junco]

ill be so mad

[brave orbit]

Also @undone junco Doctor who latest ||The Boss was mentioned - he was first brought up by Beep the meep, any theories? ||

[undone junco]

Doctor who latest || I was thinking maybe its linked with The Corporation but I have no idea who it'll be lol. Its probably not worth speculating for me if its just another classic Who villain 😭 ||

i'll say, all of this is making me want to watch Classic Who, maybe thats the intention

but I don't have the time for it atm smh

[brave orbit]

Doctor who latest ||I was thinking the Master who owns the Time Hotel and uses it as its own TARDIS maybe||

[undone junco]

Doctor who latest || I guess timey-wimey stuff would make it work but the Master was in a tooth when Meep mentioned the Boss first. The Tardis idea and it being linked with a time lord makes sense though||

[brave orbit]

@undone junco doctor who latest || https://youtu.be/RGP4J8KSG8Y?t=362 ||

omg this section 😭

doctor who latest || Ncuti: "She is 100% human"
Varada: "What else would she be?"
Poppy's actress: "Doctor who?"||

😭 😭 😭 😭

[undone junco]

doctor who latest || I liked how they wanted me to believe this was a very young child/baby when she was like 8 here lol, just really funny||

doctor who latest || or maybe 6, idk, I am not good at estimating baby ages but definitely NOT a baby 😭 ||

[shrewd sigil]

yellowjackets s2e8 ||man fuck everyone besides natalie travis and martinez for letting javi die 👎👎||

[naive juniper]

has anyone read books by Michael Crichton

[modern lichen]

Yeah

[broken fossil]

Just watched Bring Her Back

Holy fuck

That was so good

Much better than Talk to Me (creators’ last film)