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[cobalt onyx]

That's because it isn't a pitch, it's a collection of tags

[buoyant scroll]

👋

I think the more important part is Miller is going around pitching a Locked Tomb series yall xD

[molten jetty]

It’s fascinating that the two big superhero movies of the summer are seeming responses to how serious super heroes have become by being the more corny heroes that are colorful and bright and save the day. Just interesting.

[distant birch]

I think I tried it out for the combo of that pitch and the cover, found it didnt really line up to that pitch how i expected and then went back later on with different expectations

[distant birch]

IWTV 2x03/vampire lestat ||interesting that the nature of the lestat/armand relationship seems more mutually and solidly romantic here than in TVL, wonder if its a case of one/both narrators altering it a bit||

[frail mulch]

I'm so happy with the bits of ||The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon|| we're getting in Murderbot

[worn notch]

YES YES YES RALPH FIENNES IS PRESIDENT SNOW

[dawn kayak]

I want a show and or a book about lesbian necromancers in space 😔

[worn notch]

Gideon the Ninth?

[ripe stag]

As discussed endless above, that's not a book about lesbian necromancers in space. :P

[frank quail]

There are lesbian's, and they are necromancers, and they are arguably in space.
And yet...

[ripe stag]

I would argue they are not in space, yes; and that only half of them are necromancers. :P
So at best it's 50% right.

[dawn kayak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk7ZFxTfEvU

man I love this song

it's both a great song, a great climax to this album's arc and a great capstone for this interpretation of megaman

[inland jetty]

For some reason this reminded me: I heard Chapell Roan in the context I actually listen to music in (ie: in the background while doing other things) for the first time today, instead of as an insert in a Todd in the Shadows video, or those Hot to Go memes, and uh... damn, did not sound nearly as fun in that context

[dawn kayak]

"I refuse to believe I'm nothing more than a machine" is just

[inland jetty]

(Pink Pony Club came on the radio at work. Actually the second openly gay song I've heard there, the first being Girls, by Girl in Red, which is something I quite enjoy)

[dawn kayak]

plus the whole deal about refusing to kill Dr. Willy because yeah sure he's made a couple of possibly murderous mistakes but so has Megaman himself and both Protoman and Willy

a megaman who clings to a belief of redemption (especially because of his guilt about killing the robot masters previously) is such a idea

but my favourite song in the album is Fly on a Dog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VgDYFnyUCA

I love existential crisis in song form

this one is a legit masterpiece

the song itself is amazing but the lyrics are on another level entirely

[inland jetty]

Personally I've always been a fan of mid-life crises in song form; Someday I Suppose by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Story of my Life by Social Distortion are two of my all-time faves

[dawn kayak]

nice nice

"It was you who built this uncertainty / This is your answer / Another machine / I'm just another machine" is just especially in the context of this being a song about Rock getting Rush

Megas is probably my favourite band

all of their songs are really good

man I wish Megas would do a Zero song

that would go so hard

[dawn kayak]

also unrelated but "He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms..." is such a banger name for an album

[molten jetty]

Return of the King ||Theoden is so good 😭 😭 😭 ||

[dusk hound]

Cue Return of the Jedi ending celebration music

[distant birch]

I swear only like two days ago I heard there was gonna be 6 movies or something

[dire moss]

TM 19x3 ||"you moved the bins 1 meter for no reason" absolutly sent me||

[midnight compass]

Isn't there only the one movie?

[dusk hound]

Nah, there’s two

[midnight compass]

When did the second one even come out?

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/segundo-sol-novela-remy-vladimir-brichta-chocado-gif-12304506

[sage finch]

Still stunned by the slow motion farming montage

[oak ivy]

muderbot 1 ||basically a straight upgrade over the book, damn||

[thin ridge]

The lyrics in "Can I get a Chee-Hoo" in Moana 2 are an absolute crime

I'm watching it with my little cousins and hrnghhhhh

[keen flax]

Moana 2 sure is a movie :3

[tight dove]

it makes me so mad cause the song immedetly before is so much better and has the same effect in the plot

[thin ridge]

The composition of that song in particular is really good but the lyrics are so much wasted potential 😭

[keen flax]

Beyond, at least, is incredible!

[thin ridge]

Come on-a, Moana? Really?
That's the best you could do?!?

[thin ridge]

Missed that one. We came in late 😞

I'll have to give it a listen

[keen flax]

Aw dang, thats a shame 😭 its easily the best song in the movie omg, it was the only one on repeat afterwards

[thin ridge]

Moana 2 ||That's a really underwhelming island...||

[keen flax]

Moana 2 ||The whole thing makes way more sense when you realize this was supposed to be a TV show 😵‍💫||

[thin ridge]

Oh really?
Yeah that does explain a lot

||Moana's dad is still hot||

[keen flax]

||Yeahhh it was planned to be a series and then last minute got swapped into a movie... its rumored the rock and Moana didn't even record their lines until the summer before the movie came out 😵‍💫||

And you're right 🥴

||ngl, fanboy boy is also fine~ 🤩||

[thin ridge]

||Yeah he's pretty cute
I'm not at all upset by the fact that none of the men wear shirts in this movie||

||Chief Tui is the one going in my Hot Men folder though.
That's not it's actual name but the name is a little you-peopley||

[forest wigeon]

Should have ended before it started

[topaz oyster]

Like a month or two after the first

It was bizarre

And then the director's cuts were not long after that

[dusk hound]

Worlds Finest

Shame that we’ll never get to see them together on the big screen

[minor isle]

Wild Blue Yonder was a masterful episode

[old steeple]

wow, Hurry Up Tomorrow has a 14% critic score on rotten tomatoes

its currently 2nd lowest on all of RT

wait, it defaulted to 2025 search

wtf

[ripe stag]

[Doctor Who, s2e6] ||Post-credit scene||: ||Huh. Interesting.||

[minor isle]

Nu NuWho or NuWho

[ripe stag]

Disney Who.

Today's episode, basically.

Series Two, Version Three.

[dusk hound]

Isn’t Doctor Who just the British version of One Piece

[frank quail]

😠

[dusk hound]

I’m sorry

I had to do it

[minor isle]

Nah its British Version of Gegege no Kitaro

[crystal brook]

Eastenders is the UKs answer to Sazae-san

[minor isle]

Does it even have half the number of ep of Sazae San?

What's Sazae San currently at? 6000?

[crystal brook]

Sazae san has 2800 apparently

[minor isle]

Should have more

It was 3000 smth the last time I checked

[crystal brook]

Eastenders has 7120

[minor isle]

Which was in like 2018

[dusk hound]

American soap operas:

[crystal brook]

But in general its more a joke about them being ridiculously long but also the contents of each of them

[frank quail]

The us may have older soaps, but they're not running anymore

[minor isle]

I thought Indian Soap Operas were long

The longest one is 4000+ daily episodes

[dusk hound]

We are so back https://x.com/thebatmansaganw/status/1923483981439176913?s=46

The Batman Saga News (@TheBatmanSagaNW) on X

Casting is planned to start this July for 'THE BATMAN 2'.

Begins filming early 2026.

(via: @ApocHorseman)

X · May 16, 2025, 9:01 PM

[topaz oyster]

Nah, Matt Reeves is out

Fully joever

[minor isle]

that was a false news

[minor isle]

superman, batman 2

so so back

[dusk hound]

Just a false report

Rumors are saying that the script is gonna get submitted to WB in the next month

[keen flax]

👀👀

tentatively holds my excitement

[topaz oyster]

Oh good

[dusk hound]

I just wonder who the villain is gonna be

They should do a villain we’ve haven’t seen done good in live action

Like Poison Ivy or Killer Croc

Or maybe even Mister Freeze

[minor isle]

we saw him though

[topaz oyster]

The first one has basically zero supernatural element to it, I kind of expect the sequel to go the same way on that

Someone really super grounded

[minor isle]

Bane

deadshot

ykw
Condiment King

https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Condiment_King

[topaz oyster]

I could see Bane. Deadshot... probably tough to get permission for him with the whole James Gunn / Suicide Squad angle

[dusk hound]

I feel like there’s ways you could make any Batman villain grounded tbh

[topaz oyster]

Bane and Joker as primary villains are tough sells in their own right since we just did those (almost 20 years ago)

[minor isle]

Mr Freeze can still be grounded btw

so yeah I can see him as an option

[topaz oyster]

Start by casting not-Arnold

[dusk hound]

Poison Ivy too

I hope the DCU Batman goes back to silly Batman

I think we need silly Batman again

https://tenor.com/view/batman-dance-gif-9041768778560325033

[minor isle]

finally got a batman who's an actual detective

😔

[dusk hound]

Yeah but there’s gonna be two Batman’s now

The Matt Reeves one and the DCU one

Unless Reeves wants to merge his Batman with the DCU

[topaz oyster]

Call me crazy but I wouldn't be surprised if DCU just doesn't cast a Batman for a while

[topaz oyster]

Is Reeves the holdup? My understanding is that it just doesn't fit with The Gunn Vision

[minor isle]

Reeves one is confirmed to be a separate thing

[dusk hound]

Nah, it’s just a lot of people online want Battinson to be merged with the DCU but I don’t think it should happen

[topaz oyster]

I know it is, the why is the question

[minor isle]

The DCU one would be needed to be of a type that would fit in Justice League

[topaz oyster]

I don't think Gunn would know what to do with Battinson

[dusk hound]

The Batman is a pretty grounded universe so it doesn’t fit in with what Gunn is trying to do

[minor isle]

They would eventually want to do a Justice League.

Battinsone is good because its a grounded one and he's a detective here

[dusk hound]

I think they’re just gonna see how Superman pans out before they go all ham and announce new projects

[cold sequoia]

Reeves Batman predates Gunn and did well

And then the Penguin show also did well

[topaz oyster]

Still not what I was getting at

[cold sequoia]

Are you not asking why it's being kept separate?

[topaz oyster]

I'm talking about this. My understanding is that Reeves has nothing to do with this decision making process, his want or lack thereof has nothing to do with it

[cold sequoia]

Gunn wants to do a Batman as a father story with Damian which Battinson is too young for and Damian is adjacent to a bunch of supernatural stuff

[topaz oyster]

Yes I agree. Literally all I'm saying is, if Battinson is being kept out of the DCU it is coming from the DCU side of decision making

[cold sequoia]

Sure, that always how these productions work. If Reeves wanted to merge them then idk why DC/Warner Bros would stop that since The Batman and Penguin were both critical and commercial successes

[oak ivy]

I think tonally it makes sense to keep them separate

The two dont jive at all

Really excited for Batman 2, it is crazy how quality that movie is

[topaz oyster]

I imagine Gunn wants as much of a Kevin Conroy flavored Batman as it is possible to get

[cold sequoia]

I agree, thats why i imagine there has been no pressure to merge them

[cold sequoia]

Based on the title, I think it'll be a bit less dark and broody than the animated series or arkham

[topaz oyster]

I was thinking more Justice League stuff

[oak ivy]

I do imagine he will want the feature of BTAS batman where he runs essentially the entire range

Both doing crime things and supernatural things and family drama

Battinson is locked into a specific part of the character (which it does very well)

Im also not sure if gunn wants the political undertones in the way batman has it

Although the superman trailer opened that door

[cold sequoia]

I'd be surprised if there is no interrogation at all of the whole billionaire thing

But I imagine the focus will be on Batman struggling with raising a kid while dealing with some large emergency

[topaz oyster]

And also the whole "why are you bringing children into this" thing

[dusk hound]

Batman DOES love adopting children

Very weird obsession

[topaz oyster]

I mean

Extremely understandable for an orphan

But also why are you putting them in spandex and having them fight crime

[oak ivy]

Its also not like he does it against their will

[topaz oyster]

That's kind of a different problem

[cold sequoia]

In this case Damien is a child of his which in most continuities he was unaware of

[oak ivy]

Listen its either that or have them on tik tok all day. Which will actually do most damage?

[topaz oyster]

Actually

U rite tho

[cold sequoia]

Idk if they will go so far as some of the comic origins do though

[topaz oyster]

As a serious take though if you have responsibility for a child sometimes that responsibility involves telling the child no

[oak ivy]

I know it was inevitable for batman to have a kid but i have never been a damian wayne fan

[cold sequoia]

I think he's the 2nd or 3rd most interesting robin

[oak ivy]

Most of that come from an era of comics that didnt adhere to the same psychological realism that dominates audience expectation now

[topaz oyster]

That's true

[oak ivy]

So everyone through Drake gets grandfathered in

[topaz oyster]

But I think because this is a modern movie it does have to be interacted with

[oak ivy]

Which is why damian is already a violent vigilante before batman gets him

Yeah i think it could be a good tension

[cold sequoia]

I think thats why they are skipping the adopting orphans into crime fighting stuff for the movie

[oak ivy]

If you were to rewrite batman you would need dick and barbara to be in high school, at least

[topaz oyster]

Much like the billionaire thing, Bruce has been a billionaire for a lot longer than that was meaningfully common enough to be a political axis for the story to revolve on

[oak ivy]

Which is why that got changed in the Absolute run

[topaz oyster]

I wonder if they just skip straight to Nightwing

Have them be like college age adults

[cold sequoia]

No he would have to have a history as Batmans sidekick

[topaz oyster]

It does make Batman probably notably older than Superman in this continuity, which is unusual

[oak ivy]

I could see this, especially if damian is giving you the youthful energy regardless

[minor isle]

I wish they also make a bat family show someday

[oak ivy]

Dw about batman’s age lmao, the writers dont

[cold sequoia]

To be fair, Green Arrow has had that stuff a lot in the comics going back decades

[oak ivy]

He is locked at 32 in perpetuity

[minor isle]

Not in Titans though

[topaz oyster]

That's true but that's interfacing with his Robin Hood persona as much as anything

[cold sequoia]

I think too much of the dynamic of Batman/Nightwing is rooted in them being former partners

[oak ivy]

It is kind of like how in the silver and bronze age people would just write “Mr Glorbo is the smartest man alive!” because they needed to handle a plot point and now modern comics have to honor that despite it making no sense

[topaz oyster]

That's not Batman that's Jorah

[minor isle]

[topaz oyster]

Actually the craziest version of Batman in live action to date

[oak ivy]

I never like making batman a sociopathic nutjob

Anyone else remember all star batman and robin

[ivory night]

Taskmaster 19x3 || this was a great episode. Also I would have been awful at the final task ||

[topaz oyster]

He doesn't even have a good American accent!

God

Titans was so bad

Flirting with comedy

Rarely crossed the line though

[oak ivy]

The most effective characterization of batman/robin is consistently a flawed father trying his best in bad circumstances

[topaz oyster]

The Geralt/Joel/Booker/etc etc etc

I have an idea what if they cast Henry Cavill as Batman

[oak ivy]

It also gives dick’s optimism something to bounce off of

[oak ivy]

It would have been better!

He can do both they canonically look the same anyways

[topaz oyster]

Hard to do worse, that's true

Batfleck was just such a misguided idea from the jump

[cold sequoia]

I think Green Arrow being a socialist is a bit different

[topaz oyster]

Green Arrow is a socialist because he's Robin Hood though, without making him fully a criminal himself

I mean sometimes he kinda is but you get the point

[cold sequoia]

It was not an original core conceit of the character

[topaz oyster]

That actually was something the first couple of seasons of Arrow got right until they started pushing towards the more Temu Justice League multi show angle so much

[cold sequoia]

Green Arrow basically is a few decades ahead of Batman in terms of plot lines about "superhero who is a billionaire"

Making a superhero a socialist in the 1970s was very subversive and wasn't just seen as them doing a robin hood thing

[sacred slate]

My terrible want in all this is that they bring back Batfleck but only to serve as grumpy old Bruce in a Batman Beyond adaptation.

[topaz oyster]

Boy I could probably come up with a dozen actors I think would do a better job than Ben Affleck in that role

[cold sequoia]

Were it not for the Flash, Keaton would have been my choice

[topaz oyster]

My preferred full circle for Keaton's career is Batman->Birdman->Vulture

[ivory night]

Michael Keaton as Harvey Birdman

[sacred slate]

I did not say it was a good Idea

[topaz oyster]

(I did mean the excellent Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu film, not Harvey Birdman, if that wasn't clear )

[dusk hound]

I can’t wait for Severance to come back already

It’s been almost two months since S2 ended and I’m sad

[silver bronze]

Watched Thunderbolts and i think the biggest complilent for that movie is that it felt like barely 1 hour when its 2 hours long

[silver bronze]

Thunderbolts ||gotta say while i expected Taskmaster to die early i didn't think it would be one of the team to do it, thought she'd die to Sentry/Void/Bob||

[smoky root]

I need to know more about the 🐐 🐐 🐐

[ivory night]

I know but what if we can manifest a live action Harvey Birdman

[crystal brook]

Dr Who Ncuti s2e6 ||First episode that im not the most keen on in this series||

[novel bear]

Murderbot 1+2 ||yeah okay this was pretty great and definitely has improved on a lot of stuff i was mixed on in the books. just feels really all-around well-made, the characters are all memorable, the visuals are great, the general tone is what i'd want it to be.||

[oak ivy]

||seeing how cringe sanctuary moon is adds a lot||

[novel bear]

||seeing how cringe the ACTUAL HUMANS are adds a lot, like just seeing the awkwardness as they tried to set up the threesome was hilarious and needed all the quirks of the actors' performances||

[dusk hound]

This movie was 10 times more terrifying than any horror movie I’ve seen

[thin ridge]

Saw Wicked in Salt Lake today (technically) yesterday!
It was excellent

Cosmic this feels like something you would be jealous of

I also fell completely in love with downtown Salt Lake City

[west escarp]

Very curious how Stargate is going to change after 9/11. The mid season finale aired August 30, 2001 & the rest of the season aired in 2002

It’s already a heavily military show

[burnt shale]

||I remember how Farscape dealt with 9/11 I don’t remeber Stargate doing much || Stargate + Farscape all

[crimson kelp]

||I don't remember anything in farscape that seemed to be a direct 9/11 reference? Remind me?|| Also I love farscape. I gotta rewatch.

[burnt shale]

||When he returns to earth he wants to take all the technology hes found and give it to all of humanity and his dad and the US is like all of humanity gessturing vaguely at the middle east. That might not be such a good idea. They contrast his positive outlook as someone who never experienced it with the anxiety of the era ||farescape

[dusk hound]

Please god yes https://x.com/mytimetoshineh/status/1923830839172817146?s=46

MyTimeToShineHello (@MyTimeToShineH) on X

Cynthia Erivo (Wicked) is being eyed to play Storm in the MCU

X · May 17, 2025, 7:59 PM

[sage finch]

Don’t even need to look at the replies to that tweet lol

[dusk hound]

Oh yeah

I didn’t

I’m sure it’s delightful

She’d be a great casting for Storm tho for sure

[crimson kelp]

Ah oof

@west escarp https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/455183622404702238/1373650975662931968/498156197_122281658480002521_7439447336208089609_n.jpg?ex=682b2fa9&is=6829de29&hm=3bfede94f9585941c4f0dc82a0a071479cf3232e3ea46156342abf5b38972fd1&

[burnt shale]

That got a chuckle out of me ngl

[dusk hound]

Post credits scenes for Superman leaked apparently

||Apparently it’s two post credits scenes, Brainiac in one and Hal Jordan in the other||

[placid river]

Murderbot 1-2 ||I’m really liking their approach! Feels like they’ve nailed the tone of the original books. Also think they made some pretty smart changes for the medium like actually showing the moment Murderbot hacks the governor module||

[west escarp]

My scifi and fantasy fan dad says Murderbot is a “Good show…. Quirky”

So I think he’ll keep watching

[keen flax]

I am btw 😔💔

[thin ridge]

It was really good. I think you would have loved it

[west escarp]

Yes!! John de Lancie is back to be an evil agent of chaos!!!

And Maybourne. Really bringing back all the annoying villains

[burnt shale]

hey i love maybourne hes such a rat

[west escarp]

He’s great. Love a character who knows just how much of a bad person he is and is having fun with it

[oak ivy]

@molten jetty i have good news for you

[molten jetty]

Oh no

[keen flax]

👀

[oak ivy]

ORV 10 ||i hope the girl character doesnt turn out to be a sakura. also the army guy is laaaaaame||

[molten jetty]

LESGO

[oak ivy]

i make no promises i will actually finish or that i will read it quickly

but i will continually come back to it until i drop it or im done

also im reading the webtoon

[molten jetty]

ORV 10 ||army guy (Hyunsung) is definitely the worst of the main cast… || and ||the main female character up to that point (Sangah) is the most traditionally feminine of the female MCs of which there are several, all with ambitions and actual characters. || The story is written by a husband and wife so no Kishimoto ruining females

[molten jetty]

Yeah that’s valid. Several people here love it, several people here hate it. (Obviously I’m in the former camp haha)

[oak ivy]

||i dont mind haivng a "feminine" character in a progression action show as long as it is good characterization and not an enforced trend like the naruto healing wife squad||

[dusk hound]

DC fans when James Gunn makes the 500th movie about a gang of misfits banding together and forming a friendship (it’s fire every time):

[buoyant scroll]

Ah hell yeah!!
https://fixupx.com/cartoonnetwork/status/1924450159343112323

Cartoon Network (@cartoonnetwork)

Babe wake up, we have new Gumball 🙀😴🐡
︀︀
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︀︀
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FixupX · May 19, 2025, 1:00 PM

[keen flax]

That's so crazy because I remember the first episode so clearly still

[agile drift]

idk if i've ever heard anyone say this lmao. not that downtown slc is bad per se, but

maybe i'm just jaded

[cold sequoia]

I think it does a pretty good job with the hand it was dealt (obnoxiously wide streets and large blocks)
Idk what the mass transit system is like since I just used the train to get to and from the airport

[steep bramble]

Fun fact, apparently it was designed specifically to be like that. (From a video on why the Capitol of Panem in the Hunger Games may actually be in what was SLC, done by a geographer)

She goes into all the history.

[topaz oyster]

Brigham Young wanted you to be able to pull a u-turn with a team of horses, famously

The civil engineering here is horrendous. My grandfather was a civil engineer and he always said Brigham Young was the last civil engineer in the history of Utah

[turbid laurel]

My wife went to a music festival this last weekend in SLC and said that it was the best experience she had leaving. There were so many possible routes out because of the size of the roads and the grid system that it was the fastest she’s been able to leave a concert

This is compared to the venues here in Virginia where even without concert traffic you can often end up getting stuck in traffic for hours

[thin ridge]

Compared to NYC or Boston I liked it way better

[agile drift]

That video is a banger

[steep bramble]

Yeah I love how you know exactly what I'm talking about

[agile drift]

Link for anyone curious
https://youtu.be/n9kpeHgscU4?si=XbRizXgkExTG_upU

[dusk hound]

Guys name is Hero Hunter?? Hold on that’s fire https://x.com/toonhive/status/1924468575168823561?s=46

ToonHive (@ToonHive)

Alkaio Thiele and Hero Hunter will be the new voices for Gumball and Darwin Watterson in the new ‘Amazing World of Gumball’ series.

X · May 19, 2025, 2:13 PM

[burnt shale]

Honestly give that guy a pardon for all crimes that’s such a cool villain name

[acoustic pewter]

New Gumball? Nooice!

[dusk hound]

I didn’t even know it ended

[buoyant scroll]

Gumball's new voice is gonna take some getting used to

[ionic lily]

I miss Lower Decks

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/subrote-star-trek-star-trek-lower-decks-moopsy-cute-gif-9402082445097751984

[distant birch]

iwtv 2x03 ~half way ||god this is insane||

||loustat is unhinged||

[west escarp]

Freak4Freak

[distant birch]

😭

Iwtv 2x03 ||I just watched Louis hallucinate lestat calling him... am I allowed to say that? Then make out with the hallucination and then murder it 😭 ||

||unmatched levels of freak||

[ripe stag]

You're going to overtake me at this rate...

[distant birch]

Each episode has been taking me a while tbf

[worn notch]

IONA BELL IS LOU LOU

MOLLY MCCANN IS LOUELLA MCCOY

[steep bramble]

Pics?

[hushed moss]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-louella-lou-lou-1236222407/

[steep bramble]

Yeah they look super similar but different enough. Though definitely whiter than I expected.

[hushed moss]

👀 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=smavD1fopZ8

||Looks like the island is definitely Isla Sorna.||

[worn notch]

Lou Lou should be black..... should be

[steep bramble]

Yeah

[worn notch]

But she isn’t SOTR ||because she's Louella.... Whitewashing reference?||

[smoky root]

Them lil rex arms

[worn notch]

ELLE FANNING IS EFFIE TRINKET

[buoyant scroll]

https://bsky.app/profile/phillewis.bsky.social/post/3lpmtscsymc2g

Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social)

George Wendt, famous for his role as Norm in “Cheers,” has died. He was 76. www.tmz.com/2025/05/20/c...

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Bluesky · May 20, 2025, 7:41 PM

[tawdry snow]

Don't ask why this has been stuck in my head for the past few days
https://youtu.be/0ZpFv9L9XE8?si=umXCF0jPF8cEnsFQ

[dusk hound]

Some person on Reddit fixed the Superman trailer (credit to u/etbiludecalcinha)

[minor isle]

what is this referring to?

superman being too colorful complaints?

or something else

[dusk hound]

Yeah, it’s also a reference to the Snyder Cut trailer

[minor isle]

Snyder cut had trailer?!?

lol

[buoyant scroll]

[silver oyster]

Does anyone remember a 2000s, maybe early 2010s, show about people with wings? They might have been angels and demons, because I remember dudes with black and whit wings. Maybe there was a plot about the winged people being cast down when someone cut their wings, but I'm not sure if it's from that show or Carnival Row. I thought I saw it on Sony's sci-fi channel, but couldn't find anything like it, even after looking through the list of shows aired there. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if it were just an arc of some other show

[buoyant scroll]

Maximum Ride? There was a movie

[ivory night]

One of the X-men movies?

[silver oyster]

Maybe, but after watching a trailer the wings don't look like I remember them

but it has been around 12-15 years so I could totally be misremembering

[molten jetty]

Supernatural?

[silver oyster]

honestly, it maybe some episodes from the supernatural
my dad used to watch it

[buoyant scroll]

I get that feel. Ive been trying to find a book i remember from elementary school and it's been impossible

[tight dove]

have you asked r/tipofmytongue ive heardd they are p good at searching for stuff like this

[dawn kayak]

that is the funniest username I've read today

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/andromedahonks/88320631657/if-i-wanted-that-id-just-watch-the-show

[midnight compass]

I love this one
https://youtube.com/shorts/yclFBrCW9s4?si=qfBbOpGSNrAKEj-w

These memes are funnier when I have no idea what the original context is

[ripe stag]

Finally finished Interview With the Vampire. That certainly went places.
-# @steep bramble

[steep bramble]

It did

[small quarry]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1925241279849374090

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

First teaser for ‘SKIBIDI TOILET’

Directed by Michael Bay.

X · May 21, 2025, 5:24 PM

[jagged patio]

I thought the movie was cancelled?

[dusk hound]

I had to check if this was a parody account

LOOK AT MY GOAT MAN https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/1925200480726077741?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

New look at David Corenswet as Superman.

(Source: @Fandango)

X · May 21, 2025, 2:42 PM

[midnight compass]

What

[small quarry]

what is there to ask

[cold sequoia]

This scene except it's skibidi toilet saying skibidi toilet or something
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=glMsrAOctdU

[midnight compass]

What the heck is that thing you shared? Is that a real thing that exists? Why does it exist?

[tight dove]

https://youtu.be/FiufTmn_TTg
YEAHHHH

[lucid haven]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2025/05/21/its-official-michael-bay-will-direct-the-skibidi-toilet-movie/

[molten jetty]

https://youtu.be/CX7ikYsK5EE?si=W0kxCxEgx3kGFPo7

[thin ridge]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[molten jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/mickey-mickey-mouse-absolute-cinema-meme-disney-gif-9794395175278437605

WAIT SOMEONE BEAT ME AGGGGH

Nevermind it’s a different clip

Wait no it’s not I’m dumb

[tight dove]

it has a bit more to it

some dialogue the song release doesnt have

[tight dove]

it comes to disney plus 2 days after Deltarune which is just gonna be the most chaotic weekend ever

[thin ridge]

Oh my
-# Crap we don't have Disney Plus right now 😭

[distant birch]

iwtv 2x04 start ||what the hell 😭 ||

||what was that performance||

||why is this theatre incapable of making normal plays||

||what the hell armand 😭 ||

[steep bramble]

All very accurate reactions

[ripe stag]

Haha

[west escarp]

IWTV ||I imagine it works like this: theater kids are very odd and frequently annoying. Now if imagine they’ve been Like That for a few centuries and they haven’t been reigned in at any point and have gotten tired of normal plays ||

[keen flax]

Castlevania Nocturne s2.6 ||Itty Bitty Maria with her little bow is so precious ||

||she has been such a standout this season its insane, I love the Sad Child||

[keen flax]

Same tags ||I dont think I've ever seen a single show that portrays West African gods, and Olorun is soooooo cool here!||

[lucid haven]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqeIeIcDHD0

its so good having some positive news

[dusk hound]

This movie must be allergic to bad posters

[keen flax]

This one is so warm 🥰

[lucid haven]

im assuming you already have your cinema tickets purchased?

[dusk hound]

They’re not on sale yet but I will

I have waited too long for a good Superman movie

[lucid haven]

i guess the 11th of july is still a bit away

[dusk hound]

Yeah

I think they go on sale in June

Me and my friend will be there day 1

[muted solar]

What do you mean, it’s practically tomorrow

[dusk hound]

49 days and counting

I’m already at the theater tbh

[burnt shale]

Let’s go!

[wide stag]

KPop Demon Hunters truly sounds like someone hitting the "I'm feeling lucky" button on the dictionary twice, and rolling with it https://youtu.be/AzCAwdp1uIQ

[cold sequoia]

weird that this is finally getting a sequel but ok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXulj8Lgcyg

[keen flax]

Okay but this looks like the exact show that I'd love... I love kpop and demon hunting 🤩💖

[midnight compass]

Aight I'm in

[keen flax]

Let's goooooo ander, once again proving you have taste 😌

[midnight compass]

I don't know much about kpop but this general theme is a lot like one of my favorite League skin lines

Though funnily enough the one on the right is an actual demon

[dusk hound]

You know what?? Hell yeah, we need more original movies in Hollywood

[keen flax]

Gosh their song was so fantastic too, I still listen to it a lot 🤩

[midnight compass]

Wait is it a show or a movie?

[wide stag]

I definitely though "huh, a new League cinematic" when I saw the thumbnail 😅

[spare creek]

I need to rewatch Monty pythons life of Brian

[dawn kayak]

oh is this actually happening? I was interested in this when it was announced or like the creator talked about it on twitter or something like that

but then saw nothing else

I love the idea of idol magical girls and things on that vein

though I'd prefer if it dove into the nightmare that is kpop

like both the garbage that is idol culture in general, kpop idol culture in specific and the awfulness that is the behinds the scene stuff of kpop

the premise for this one is pretty fun tho

[full wolf]

Happy Murderbot Day everybody (courtesy of the murderbot subreddit)

[buoyant scroll]

https://www.thewrap.com/marvel-pushes-avengers-doomsday-secret-wars-to-winter-2026-27/

[cold sequoia]

Unsurprising, the filming started very recently

[distant birch]

Yeah not shocked

[buoyant scroll]

SFX workers also just unionized

[hushed moss]

Also it probably wouldn’t be a good idea for Disney to have both an Avengers movie and a Star Wars movie come out just a week apart.

[oak ivy]

There is a new star wars movie?

[dawn kayak]

thank you twitch, I will be avoiding this category like the hounds of hell inhabit it

[hushed moss]

The Mandalorian and Grogu comes out May next year.

[oak ivy]

What is a grogu

[midnight compass]

Baby yoda

https://tenor.com/view/baby-yoda-the-mandalorian-party-time-partying-hard-party-on-gif-19295406

[crystal brook]

A little monkey boy that fires blue beams, or so I'm lead to believe

He gets older and dyes his hair blond occasionally too, he has a delinquent spirit

[full wolf]

Murderbot 1.3 ||THAT'S THE END????? oh no, no we can't do this, that's WAY too short BRING IT BACK.||

[novel bear]

oh new episodes? i should watch

[full wolf]

oh i need two episodes a week, one is NOT enough

actually evil of them

[novel bear]

how the world has changed with streaming

[full wolf]

i knew they were short episodes but i didn't realize HOW short 22 minutes actually is 😭

severance spoilt me

[cold sequoia]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1925694399930905047

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ and ‘DUNE: MESSIAH’ are now set to release on the same day.

See which other movies just got new release dates: https://t.co/yE0mtSF9VL

X · May 22, 2025, 11:24 PM

What is Disney thinking?

[frank quail]

accurate to the source material then

[forest wigeon]

That they can do a Barbenheimer (they can't)

[cold sequoia]

That requires people to have a positive opinion of Doomsday

Also WB had a vested interest in both of those movies succeeding whereas this appears to be Disney challenging WB

[steep bramble]

That's insane.

[hushed moss]

You know what I said that it was a good idea for Disney to move the release date.
This is not what I meant.

[dusk hound]

Dunesday

[molten jetty]

Well Star Wars gets May

[dawn kayak]

... huh

I wonder where I can watch it

[distant birch]

No way

I feel like this is not a good decision

I know what I'll be seeing

[minor isle]

yay

[dusk hound]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Dune is delayed now

Putting your movie on the same weekend as a big MCU event movie is kind of box office suicide

[distant birch]

Yeah

It's unfortunate because dune will almost certainly be the better of the two but also avengers will almost certainly outperform it

[verbal lintel]

Best case scenario, it’s a barbenhimer 2.0

[midnight compass]

I wouldn't bet on Avengers outperforming Dune

[dusk hound]

I mean… it’s an MCU movie

[small quarry]

yeah I dont think the hype for these avenger movies is there

[dusk hound]

And an Avengers one at that

The last two Avengers movies grossed over 2 billion

[small quarry]

right, people are gonna watch it but ill be really surprised if these avengers movies make anything close to the last two

[distant birch]

It probably won't meet the previous ones, but it'll probably still do well

Didn't people watch a livestream of chairs for like 15 hours or something??

I hope dune does better but I'm not confident

[dusk hound]

And here’s me, just hoping that Superman can even make 500 mil at the box office

[forest wigeon]

That was then and this is now

[dusk hound]

I mean it’s definitely not going to make 2 billion, but general audiences will definitely show up to this movie

I’d say probably in the range of 900 mil to 1 billion

RDJ returning is enough to get butts in seats

[dusk hound]

Fun fact: The first ever mention of Transformers on the internet ever was a negative review of the original comic

I wonder where this guy is now

[keen flax]

I did, and I didn't even know half the names on the chairs 😭

[crystal brook]

Dune Messiah ||I wouldn't be surprised if the success of this one is more like Dune 1 (so still decent but not absolutely massive), Dune Messiah will probably be a bit more low key and subdued like the first film whereas I think people turned out in their droves for the action in Dune 2||

||Maybe covid affected things a decent amount for Dune 1 though, I seem to remember it coming out post the major lockdowns here||

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/robinparravel/783011083779719168

[cold sequoia]

Praising swamp thing though

[dusk hound]

Treasure Planet is the most underrated Disney movie of all time and I will not be hearing otherwise

[burnt shale]

Nah Atlantis

[keen flax]

Me who hasn't seen either: 🤔

[burnt shale]

Atlantis is like merging the Stargate movie with a pulp adventure serial with endless quotable lines and really intreating animation

Watch it it’s great

[thin ridge]

They're both pretty fantastic

[dawn kayak]

atlantis has Kida so it automatically is the best one

[acoustic pewter]

But Treasure Planet has "I'm Still Here" by John Rzeznik, which elevates it even higher.

[keen flax]

Ive been told both are equally nice 🤔

[acoustic pewter]

They're both fantastic, indeed. Treasure Planet is a personal win for me because of how deeply personal it is to me. It was one of the foundational movies of my childhood.

[small quarry]

You should watch them both

[keen flax]

I should!! I want to~ I dont have D+ at the moment 😔

[dusk hound]

Emergency https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/1925992545886011468?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

‘THE WHEEL OF TIME’ has been cancelled by Prime Video after 3 seasons.

X · May 23, 2025, 7:09 PM

[acoustic pewter]

Oh. Bummer.

[small quarry]

Didn't they get season 3 & 4? Or am I confusing shows

[dusk hound]

I thought they renewed it for a 4th season

This sucks, it was just starting to actually get good

They’re clearly making room for a Stormlight adaptation, surely they are (cope)

[steep bramble]

No, that’s why so many people were nervous.

[dusk hound]

Dang

[steep bramble]

We got 3, not 4.

[dusk hound]

I hope Wheel of Time can get another adaptation in my lifetime

Would love to see it handled by the correct people

[small quarry]

Ah dang

[dusk hound]

This sucks, I wonder what this says about future fantasy adaptations

Networks just keep trying to make the next GoT and it’s just not working

[steep bramble]

That was just such a particular moment. It’s not going to work the same way ever again

[dusk hound]

Yeah

[keen flax]

Executives do not understand that most excellent shows are "lightning in a bottle" you usually dont ever get that same level again

[dusk hound]

Now if only… there was an untapped fantasy IP goldmine just waiting for an adaptation…

[cold sequoia]

Wheel of Time (and Rings of Power) probably added at least 5 years to a cosmere adaptation (in addition to whatever covid did)

[dusk hound]

It’s crazy how Rings of Power hasn’t been cancelled yet

Especially with all the negative reviews

[cold sequoia]

I imagine it'll be canceled after next season

[craggy birch]

I just don't see anyone picking up a Cosmere adaptation any time soon. It seems like the big studios are backing off long running, big budget TV adaptations

[worn notch]

Sequel ruined it

[small quarry]

Yeah no way cosmere happens in the next 10 years imo

[small quarry]

That's what a Disney sequel does yes

[cold sequoia]

Mistborn Era 1 is pretty well contained

[dusk hound]

I’ve heard some murmurings of a Skyward adaptation tho, which is pretty nice

[worn notch]

Hey, Toy Story 2 was awesome, Toy story 3 wasn't bad
we don't talk about Toy Story 4

[small quarry]

Straight to dvd sequel**

[worn notch]

I think TES would work for like... A 6 episodes series

[small quarry]

No way lmao

Way too much

Mistborn I could see in a 6 episodes series

[craggy birch]

True, a limited adaptation like that could happen. Though personally I think more likely as movies (in the current state of Hollywood)

[lucid haven]

At least brandon might be able to finish the stormlight archive now before an adaptation

[ionic lily]

3 had the best villain

[turbid laurel]

I read TES as The Elder Scrolls. Which would not work as a six episode series.

[worn notch]

Kinda like the end of the [REDACTED] world

[dusk hound]

I’m gonna be 60 years old and watching a Mistborn movie in theaters and it’s going to be peak fiction

[worn notch]

1 didn't have a villain.... Except Sid? Maybe Woody?
Number 2 had an old guy in a box
Yeah 3 had the best villain

[cold sequoia]

What would a mistborn novelty popcorn bucket look like?

[small quarry]

the pits

[burnt shale]

You can;t blame a movie for a direct to video movie tbh those are expected to suck

[lucid haven]

You too can look like kelsier

[topaz oyster]

You have to crack open a geode to get at every piece of popcorn

[burnt shale]

8 with massive time jumps

[forest wigeon]

They absolutely could make a 6 episode series in the Elder Scrolls universe

[small quarry]

kelsier pits

[cold sequoia]

Mistborn ||atium geode popcorn bucket would work well||

[forest wigeon]

You can do it with any universe really

[worn notch]

I think Mia meant only the first book

[burnt shale]

I know

[cold sequoia]

Thats not his name
Use his real name

https://tenor.com/view/kelsier-fortnite-mistborn-gif-21812858

[burnt shale]

i think you need pretty sizable time jumps to do the first book in a single season

[worn notch]

SA ||Thaidakar?||

[forest wigeon]

kelsier mistborn

[topaz oyster]

The only correct Mistborn adaptation length is 15 episodes, 5 for each book, with a 16th unadvertised episode for Secret History

[small quarry]

I could see the final empire done in a single movie so like a single season is not crazy

[worn notch]

Mistborn ||Are you telling me that we see Kel for only 5 episodes? ||

[burnt shale]

||if they do movies they 100% need to film it concrrently with the otehr three and then suprise release it 1 week after the hero of ages airs in theatres ||mistborn all

[cold sequoia]

Brandon "I would do a movie, then a series, then a movie for Era 1" Sanderson
(Or it might have been series then movie, then series)

[forest wigeon]

tbh with an adaptation, I'd probably just interweave SH

[topaz oyster]

||Well, 6||

[worn notch]

I think that WoA would just be rewritten

It worked as a book, I don’t think it would work as a season

[small quarry]

https://tenor.com/view/time-can-be-re-written-handcuffed-on-the-ground-gif-5189945

[burnt shale]

||Heres my issue you need at minimum 3 ball scenes none of which i think can be less than 20 minutes. YOu need a scene of vin training with each metal in particular with each of the crew members thats a bunch of little time, etc etc this adds up || mistborn

[cold sequoia]

No no no, Era 1 would have to go the Rise of Skywalker route ||i.e. secret history happens as a fortnite tie in and in season 3 someone goes "Somehow Kelsier has returned"||

[burnt shale]

that would actually be funny

not the least becuase hes already in

[forest wigeon]

Mistborn all ||Somehow, the Survivor survived. Wait...||

[worn notch]

Jesus Christ in a nutshell

[topaz oyster]

https://x.com/paultassi/status/1925998557816918029

Paul Tassi (@PaulTassi)

"hey we have the best fantasy show on TV and it's better than our billion dollar ass LOTR show so let's cancel it"

X · May 23, 2025, 7:33 PM

[paper hull]

I do not trust they will ever host Expanse books 7-9 adaptations either, even if Alcon was the original reason for the show ending where it did.

[silver oyster]

That's just sad

[topaz oyster]

I don't know that this can be construed as a predictor for that, honestly

Hollywood has a bizarre relationship with fantasy specifically

They do just fine with sci-fi

But Lord of the Rings (Peter Jackson, not Amazon) was supposed to have cracked a glass ceiling for fantasy in film, and Game of Thrones for TV, and neither of those have really turned out to be true

[midnight compass]

🫡

[silver oyster]

If the reason for WoT cancellation is budgets and such, it may lead to a small renaissance of urban fantasy shows like Supernatural, but slightly more fantasy. Basically, I hope for a good Dresden adaptation

[topaz oyster]

I imagine after the Paul Blackthorne adaptation and then the 15 intervening years that Dresden is very low on the list in terms of fantasy adaptations

[paper hull]

Sci-fi has a much longer history with Star Trek for TV and Star Wars for film normalizing the genre's general existence a long time ago.

[topaz oyster]

Almost 20 years! 2007

[silver oyster]

Percy Jackson happened so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[paper hull]

Hooray for no missing arms on that ASCII shrug!

[topaz oyster]

Even here its like, if budget is the concern Amazon does have a billion dollar show they aren't cancelling that is performing fair to middling at best

[silver oyster]

I feel like it's because LotR has a stronger brand recognition

it's basically mainstream

[topaz oyster]

And it is doing badly despite that!

[silver oyster]

easier to sell to execs and the like

[buoyant scroll]

There's a whole roulette wheel of reasons that could be why it was canceled. Wont know till someone says something unfortunately.

[cold sequoia]

Why wheel of time was canceled?

I imagine that Amazon was contractually obligated to do some stuff that made canceling it sooner more trouble than it was worth

[topaz oyster]

I mean yeah that's kind of what I'm saying. By the numbers, it should be Lord of the Rings getting axed

[cold sequoia]

I fully expect Rings of Power to get canceled after season 3 as well

[ionic lily]

Same

I know a lot of lord of the rings fans, I don’t know a single one that watched past the first season

[silver oyster]

the wheel wove so hard it rolled off an axle

[paper hull]

I didn't watch past the first season of Wheel of Time either, though I heard it got better.

[silver oyster]

The performances and some scenes were visually

[topaz oyster]

I'm very much the opposite. I don't know anyone who watched past the first couple of episodes of Rings of Power (should clarify: IRL)

I do know several WoT enjoyers to this day, though I am not one of them

[forest wigeon]

The irony is that Star Wars actually is fantasy

[steep bramble]

We do know. Just got confirmation from a friend who works at Collider. It was not being able to come to a money agreement

The execs did like the show

[paper hull]

Ah the classic play-chicken-til-the-deal-breaks clash of egos.

[steep bramble]

#wot-show-only message

[oak ivy]

Maybe some smaller things but def no stormlight

Peter legacy moment to get anime yumi?

[oak ivy]

I dropped it after 1. It was unbearably bland.

[ivory night]

I tried to rewatch season 1 of rings of power at some point recently to try to watch season 2 and I got like 15 minutes into episode 1 before going “nah”

[buoyant scroll]

Welp

[dire moss]

TM 19x4 ||Jason and Stevie's "Midnight Picnic" was both sweet and very funny||

[ivory night]

TM 19x4 all || okay I need them to post an extended cut of Jason’s lightbulb task. I want to to see him get mad about them pluralizing math ||

[dire moss]

||A lot of great in-studio bits this episode. Matt running from Fatiha was incredible||

[ivory night]

This is my fav cast in a while

[dawn kayak]

didn't people like ring of power s2?

[cold sequoia]

I thought the first 80% was going in a pretty good direction, didn't think it ended well

[dawn kayak]

okay so

here's the reason why networks still do scifi shows and don't do fantasy shows (even though they still kinda do):

it's cheap

you don't need to make fancy (or even just fancy looking armour), you can reuse a lot of settings and can make them somewhat cheaply, you don't need that much CG...

you can stretch a relatively small budget for a scifi show and it can still look good

[cold sequoia]

Well, you still need a lot of cgi but it's easier to cg space ships than it is to cg good looking environments and creatures

[ionic lily]

Who needs space ships when you have transporters

[dawn kayak]

you could do the same for fantasy, and networks still do that (or they did like ten years ago or whenever the romantasy fairy tale show aired I forgot when that was) but it's not what the fans want

[cobalt onyx]

Who needs CG spaceships when you've got a 3D printer in the propmaster's house

[dawn kayak]

and it's easier to make stock footage in space than it is with fantasy environments

[dawn kayak]

props and a black screen with a bunch of holes in front of a led lamp, that's the way

[cobalt onyx]

We can splurge, black construction paper with sequins glued on

[cold sequoia]

Its easier to do CG because practical stuff has a longer lead time and requires you to be more sure of what you want the shot to be

[dawn kayak]

~~I guess we are going to have one more episode set entirely in the spaceship to compensate then 😔 ~~

[cold sequoia]

There was a fly buzzing around an empty room we could focus on

[small quarry]

lets do an episode with minimal new scenes and just repeat scenes of old episodes and say its a time travel episode

[ivory night]

Mia reinvents the clip show

Some exec is going to love this

[inland jetty]

Didn't Haruhi Suzumiya do that, like, unironically, for an entire arc?

The same episode, but animated slightly differently and with slightly different line reads, and the main character was like "wtf is going on"

[ionic lily]

Community had the best clip show episode

[small quarry]

no no this is different

[dawn kayak]

the endless eight ye

personally I'd love to see more shows made like this

but I'm pretty sure Sanderson would refuse

[burnt shale]

the people who watched it yes it was signifigantly better than s1 but it is highly dependant on certain plotlines and not others.

[dawn kayak]

I have the feeling that part of why negotiations all fall through is that he wants a blockbuster

[burnt shale]

if you ever watch this show btw yall need to watch every one in fact wait a week between each episode yall need to experience the suffering

[dawn kayak]

and personally I could not be less interested in a blockbuster cosmere movie

or well, if it is blockbuster I want it to at least be in the LOTR style

filmed on physical locations, with actual props

none of this marvel CGfest

[frank quail]

that's never happening again

[frank quail]

DUNC
Real D 3D

[dawn kayak]

what I want from a cosmere adaptation is like

some weird arthouse stuff

but that ain't happening lmao

[crystal brook]

What would be arthouseable, Shadows for Silence and TES?

[cobalt onyx]

Stormlight, but only the Interludes

[burnt shale]

Warbreaker

[sage finch]

Live action is always underwhelming

It can never be as grand as we want it to be

[dawn kayak]

Stormlight Archives

make it like that one movie that I forgot the name of where the entire set is floorplans drawn on a stage

[molten jetty]

Stormlight in ATLA style would be nice

[keen flax]

Common monkey w

That would be fantastic

[merry heath]

Muderbot 1.3 ||"Does that mean like you have human feeling" 💀 ||

[merry heath]

Muderbot 1.3 ||Im kidna dispointed no drones||

[cold sequoia]

I liked Mothlight and Koyaanisqatsi as much as the next guy but I wouldn't be interested in cosmere stuff like that

[minor isle]

Sanderson's gonna LucasFilm DragonSteel for Adaptation

After he finishes the cosmere

[buoyant scroll]

He gonna be 70 by then

[distant birch]

I dunno how likely it is that anything like that really happens

A coz of the finances but also because that would surely take a lot of time away from writing

[small quarry]

Can't wait till they cancel the Stormlight show midway through

[molten jetty]

You get 3 seasons because we the megacorp are too poor. Oh ignore that other fantasy show that costs more.

[minor isle]

They should have cancelled it after first two seasons tho

not after third when it finally got good lol

[minor isle]

I think Cradle's approach with Kickstarter for a sample to gauge interest and then using that as proof of concept to drive financing(?) Might makke sense

[minor isle]

Damn that took you 20 mins to write

/s

[distant birch]

I think Vox Machina did something similar

Kickstarter for an animated short I want to say? That ended up turning into a proper animated prime show

[minor isle]

They had CR campaign which had done well

Which is already a show in itself

[distant birch]

Yeah - Iirc from there they did a kickstarter to fund an animated short adapting Vox Machina, and the success of that campaign led to it getting picked up as the show

[minor isle]

Yeah that can work

I just need a animated Stormlight show...

[distant birch]

10 season, 22-25 episode animated stormlight show 🙏

[minor isle]

Animated by Wit or Madhouse(cope) or Arcane Studio

[keen flax]

Goro you're cooking??? If madhouse made a stormlight thing i wouldn't shut up about it ever

[burnt shale]

neither wants to comit to something that long

[keen flax]

[burnt shale]

mahouse infamously only does 1-2 seasons

liek 99% of the time

[distant birch]

Let people cope 🙏

Copium is the real stormlight

[burnt shale]

if your committing to 10 seasons without studio shifts the only one i see doing that are toei or A1

or a young studio with no other credits who make their identity on stormlight who eventually give the property over to mappa to finish

becuase of course

[minor isle]

Madhouse is cope cuz madhouse of the prime is already gone

[burnt shale]

naw

[minor isle]

Yeah. The team size is extremely small compared to like 2000s-2010s Madhouse

[burnt shale]

they just did frieren

oh you mean size not quality

[minor isle]

Yeah and it was a lot more years in the making

[burnt shale]

they can focus on making daya for now

[minor isle]

So like while it still has some good staff, it has already dissolved.

A good number of talented staff went and formed Mappa

And similar

[burnt shale]

yeah it did have the new gen split but i think your overstating how small they are

[minor isle]

Wit could
But its more likely that we will get KKC anime before Stormlight

Because its very popular in Japan

[burnt shale]

i low key think that story needs to be an anime more than stormlight tbh

[topaz oyster]

I think that's only true if Rothfuss ends up selling rights for a song and a dance because he can't finish the last book and he's run out of money

[minor isle]

It's very anime coded yea lol

[ivory night]

So um…. Did Brandon ever say what era of mistborn he was pitching to Hollywood?

[minor isle]

First

[ionic lily]

1

[minor isle]

Because he wanted it to be trilogy of films

As Mistborn was inspired by his love for Heist movies

[ivory night]

Okay because era 2 would probs be easier to get made

[topaz oyster]

Oh I don't think anything is getting made

Current Era of GoT-chasing fantasy adaptations feels pretty over

There was money for that, now there isn't

[minor isle]

Even ACOTAR isn't being made

With the rights being sold and project starting

[distant birch]

I mean for a while it was film-show-film

[minor isle]

Same for FW iirc

[distant birch]

FW is more in progress than ACOTAR iirc

Coz ACOTAR got fully dropped or something recently

[ivory night]

I could see a less focused on magic alloy getting made. I can’t see Brandon okaying that

[topaz oyster]

I don't even see that

[distant birch]

I mean

At that point you're just becoming snapshot

[ivory night]

Western mystery?

[topaz oyster]

I don't think the executives would see a watered down adaptation as any more palatable than just page-to-screen

[distant birch]

detective story with a slight magic twist

[ionic lily]

They love watered down adaptations

[distant birch]

So why not go for snapshot at that point

Or like legion or moment 0 if you want low-magic brandon

[ivory night]

Name recognition but also I haven’t read snapshot

[distant birch]

The magic is one of the appeals of mistborn

[ivory night]

Yeah but I means points at Hollywood never understanding what makes anything appealing

Shout out to you Wonder Woman 1984

[minor isle]

Magic is THE appeal of Sanderson

[topaz oyster]

Sure, for like character or worldbuilding or what have you. I'm not really saying that. I'm saying we're going back to pre-GoT where fantasy and especially secondary world fantasy basically never gets made at all

[minor isle]

We will probably get AI slop Stormlight adaptation before actual one

[ivory night]

I think epic fantasy might get made less, I think there’s room for more urban etc

Which is why I was asking about era 2

[topaz oyster]

Still secondary world

[ivory night]

Era 2 ||is closer to period piece with light horror elements than full blown secondary world for movie making sake||

[topaz oyster]

Doesn't matter, really

Still secondary world, still fantasy, huge hurdles

[ivory night]

We’re just gonna disagree on this

[silver oyster]

Are there any big urban fantasy series like Dresden that haven't been adapted yet?

[topaz oyster]

Dresden has been adapted

Badly

So it is off the table too

I also think the wind is just out of the sails on that series

Butcher took a long time off and people soured on it

And him

[silver oyster]

i meant other urban fantasy book series with a similar level of popularity

the only one i read was alex verus and it's not even close

[distant birch]

What if we get Alloy of Law but on earth

[ivory night]

That’s basically the route I’m thinking

If Brandon just wanted to get a movie made. He could go that route.

[distant birch]

I would hatee that lol

It'd also mean we couldn't do like

TLM or mistborn era 1

[topaz oyster]

I don't think Alloy of Law even makes baseline sense in Nevada lmao

[ivory night]

I mean ||solving kidnapping plot|| is pretty transferable

Again Brandon wouldn’t make this movie but like if you wanted a “Mistborn” movie you could strip it down to basic parts

[silver oyster]

at that point might as well just make an original "cowboys but magic" show and capitalise on the demographic

[topaz oyster]

You're saying.... to keep the plot, drop everything else, and call it Mistborn, giving the impression that it is fantasy because it alleges to be based off a fantasy series and then get rid of the fantasy elements?

That makes literally no one happy

And makes it less marketable across the board

Less marketable because fantasy associations and less marketable because the people who want to see it are going to be (understandably!) big mad

[topaz oyster]

Its called Cowboys and Aliens and it is honestly a better movie than it has any right to be

Not a great movie or anything

But fun! And good for what it is

[ivory night]

You mean do the thing Hollywood does all the time

[topaz oyster]

Hollywood borks up adaptations all the time, I agree

That isn't what I'm saying, really

You're asking them to bork it in a very specific way that makes it less likely for people to give it money, not more

[ivory night]

I never said the adaptation would be good. I’d just said it’d get made

[distant birch]

It might not though because it may not have a large appeal if so much is changed

[dawn kayak]

I forgot the name of the movie I was thinking about and was trying to remember it 😭

[distant birch]

That's the risk with changing so much

Like, the inherent premise

[dawn kayak]

google is less than helpful nowadays

[topaz oyster]

It would not

Not now

[dawn kayak]

I think it was called something -house or something -town?

or dog- something

oh, dogville!

I knew it was called dog and something to do with houses lmao

[ivory night]

It would

In a world where Brandon just sold movie rights to whoever

But he didn’t and won’t so like it doesn’t matter anyways

Like we’re talking about the same industry where hbo was turned into hbo max then into max then back into hbo max

[dusk hound]

I have a great idea for a Superman popcorn bucket

[minor isle]

Lol

[distant birch]

alternatively:

[dusk hound]

Honestly yeah

That would be great

[distant birch]

Anytime he sees superman the mouth opens in rage and popcorn spills out

[dusk hound]

I would REALLY love it if this new Superman movie didn’t really have a central plot and it was just a series of anthologies of Lex trying to kill Superman in varying ways and him failing miserably and his mental state is completely deteriorated by the end of the movie

[ivory night]

Superman shows up at the end and is oblivious to all of lex’s attempts and just tries to befriend him

Like is just really really obliviously nice to lex like a neighbor who can’t take a hint

[distant birch]

"Hi lex, I'm new to Metropolis and we haven't really interacted yet. Sorry about that. I thought I'd make an effort to reach out now I've gotten my stuff sorted, so we can be good friends!"
meanwhile lex:

[ivory night]

you see the vision!

Lex has a bunch of hired assassins trying to kill Superman but Clark calls Lex to try to set up a barbecue

[old steeple]

DUGGA DOO

https://tenor.com/view/dugga-doo-doctor-who-dugga-doo-alien-gif-3723047044031915353

[merry heath]

I think once the GOT chasing ends we might get better fantasy media as it no longer trying to be GOT but that's in a while

[old steeple]

its never gonna stop

[distant birch]

I think given long enough it will

[old steeple]

no

it might stop being "GOT chasing"

but big corpos are always gonna be tryign to recreate the last big success

[distant birch]

Oh yeah definitely

But which success that is will change given long enough

[old steeple]

also, GOT in particular was an absurd success

the impact will be felt for 10 years, at least

however, i do see corpos going into animation more

again

i think Invincible and Spiderverse are driving that

which i like

tho

success of Dune might spark a new era of space opera stuff

up until GEOD is adapted, and everyone gets too weirded out by it

[ivory night]

Elden ring movie got announced today I don’t think fantasy is dead

[frail mulch]

I was talking about it more in #wot-show-only , but I feel like there was a big push in the early 2000s chasing LOTR and Harry Potter, and then the current post-GOT era (because it's funny looking at projects that started but never completed a series getting new adaptations now, twenty years after that first push).

[ripe stag]

It's been ten years.
-# Since it started anyway. Six since it finished.

[crystal brook]

Ncuti Who s2e7 ||Unsure how to feel entirely about the episode as a whole yet but the Rani's actress is sooo good||

||I love how she stalks about||

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/sir-bertrandbell/784426677705015296

[dim hill]

I'm still emotionally damaged by Epic The Musical btw

[small quarry]

ITS BEEN TWELVE LONG YEARS

[dim hill]

THATS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE

[hushed moss]

This is perfect https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kduGXmYGMfE&pp=ygUyc3VwZXJtYW4gdnMga2FpanUgc2xpbWUgYmF0dGxlIGNvbW1lcmNpYWwgb2ZmaWNpYWw%3D

[west escarp]

Justice… gang?

[distant birch]

Superman maybe spoilers? ||i believe from... somewhere? We know that they're funded by Max Lord (i think), seems like its a more corporate version of what may later become a Jusitce League||

[distant birch]

why does it kinda sound like minecraft-movie jack black when the narrator says "slime!"

[dusk hound]

God this makes me nostalgic for when I used to watch Nickelodeon and it was nothing but these types of commercials

[ivory night]

Okay half way through murderbot 1 and I am fighting the urge to get all the books

He sounds so much like his dad lol

[ivory night]

Murderbot 3 ||OMG HOW ARE YOU GONNA END THE EPISODE LIKE THAT YOU DICKS! ||

[west escarp]

Finally watching Foundation and it’s so good

I love the diversity of accents, as well as gender and race (SORELY LACKING in Asimov) and the costuming and set design

Also Lee Pace hamming it up

[lucid haven]

Books good don't fight the urge

[lucid haven]

Its almost as if modernizing some old literature requires increasing diversity

[west escarp]

Wow really???

https://tenor.com/view/mindblown-mind-blown-boom-surprised-shock-gif-221999331684359845

[lucid haven]

https://tenor.com/view/surprised-pikachu-pokemon-shock-surprised-pikachu-gif-15357817

[frank quail]

NGL, You're the only person I've seen wanting it to succeed

[small quarry]

Why even go to check how many people have disliked it tbh

and like that's just how youtube goes people just dislike videos sometimes

[dusk hound]

It just came across my feed, I didn’t search it up

[dusk hound]

Superman to me is like Solo Leveling to you

We all have our weird hyper fixation

[frank quail]

LMAO no

[oak ivy]

Ryan, we talked about this…

[dusk hound]

Ok, sorry

[dusk hound]

Aren’t you a Solo Leveling fan??

[frank quail]

nope

[dusk hound]

Or am I thinking of somebody else

Yeah that’s somebody else then

There’s so many people here I can’t remember you all

[lucid haven]

I love the foundation adaptation and have enjoyed it all the way through

I also enjoyed the books

And can see where they need updating

[ionic lily]

Same

[dusk hound]

I feel like it’s bad that I’ve never read an Asimov book

[topaz oyster]

Eh

I tend to find Asimov adaptations as good or often better than his books

[dusk hound]

He’s such a household name that it feels weird not to have

[ionic lily]

Try out his short stories first

My favorite book of his was originally a short story, Nightfall

[lucid haven]

He is worth reading even just through the lens of thsi is one of the big pillars of the original science fiction movement

Even if a lot of it is outdated these days

[frail mulch]

Husband says the asimov short stories are good, but novels can be a bit of a slog

[lucid haven]

Agreed

[keen crow]

Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning ||Why does the White Widow (dont remember her irl name) sound so much like Cate Blanchett's Galadriel when she is speaking to Ethan, Gabriel, Kate, and Ilsa???||

[burnt shale]

asimov doesn't write characaters he writes the concept of a charcter it can make his longer stuff feel very disconnected from reality or tradional story telling. Asimov is not the type of writers your gonna go oh X charater is emotionally resonant or complex your gonna be focused on his ideas and concepts

i mostly didn't like the adapatation because they really didn't want to adapt the story imo and wanted to do their own thing and i don't like taking a property and just putting a old name on it

at least thats how s1 felt when i dropped it

[dusk hound]

Rest in peace to a legend https://x.com/dcuworld/status/1926712664773771666?s=46

DCU Updates (@dcuworld)

Rest in Peace Peter David, He has sadly passed away at Age 68!

He was behind many phenomenal books like Young Justice, X-Factor, Co-Creator of Miguel O Hara, Spider-Man 2099 series and so much more...he passed away on May 24 according to his wife after a lengthy illness...

X · May 25, 2025, 6:51 PM

Genuinely created so many iconic characters

[keen flax]

Happy he lived to see his creation on the big screen at least 🥰

[dusk hound]

Yeah

Just sucks he didn’t get much money from it

His family had to make a Gofundme for his treatment

[midnight compass]

I keep getting songs from Phineas and Ferb stuck in my head

This is the current one
https://youtu.be/61mXU6lK7Z4?si=lWeroTbnGVE7KFqJ

[buoyant scroll]

https://vxtwitter.com/wallaceprower/status/1926557498279915695?t=40USsuM6oRqv1TjnGDFJPw&s=19

wallace 🌱💾 (@wallaceprower)

these memes around the current DC crossover got me losing it

vxTwitter / fixvx · May 25, 2025, 8:34 AM

[dusk hound]

I watched The Breakfast Club with my sister yesterday, was actually really good

I remember watching it like 10 years ago but I forgot most of it

[wide stag]

Man, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnnvrFJEGts has no right to go as hard as it does

Top 5 Disney songs of all time, fight me

[ivory night]

I think that might be the hottest take on the server

[forest wigeon]

that's one song

[wide stag]

I said what I said

[dusk hound]

My top 5 Disney songs of all time:

1. I’ll make a man out of you

that’s it, that’s the list

[wide stag]

Yeah, I think this one makes it for me too

[keen flax]

Congratulations Argent, you are the first person I've ever heard with that opinion

-# Beyond is my favorite in Moana 2

[wide stag]

Sounds like a lot of people are wrong on the Internet!

[ivory night]

Songs I’d consider for top 5 off the top of my head
Hercules: zero to hero, megs song,

Lion king: circle of life, hakuna, be afraid, can’t wait to be king

Mulan: reflection, make a man

Moana: you’re welcome, how far I’ll go, shiny

Jungle book: I wanna be like you

[keen flax]

Reflection

[ivory night]

It’s a great song

[keen flax]

Almost There is in my top 5, probably top 3 i won't lie

[ivory night]

What is that from?

[dawn kayak]

I like Prince Ali

[keen flax]

Princess and the Frog! Its Tiana's "I Want" song! 🥰

[ivory night]

My list is def short on, Aladdin, beauty, and princess and the frog

[keen flax]

And the visuals and vocals are so top notch but I am ridiculously biased 💀

Something something seeing the pretty brown lady singing altered my 8 year old brain

[wide stag]

What, having media where people look like you is good??

[tight dove]

i will actually that song causes me physical pain

[wide stag]

wow, so many incorrect tastes

[tight dove]

every song in that movie is incredible

[ivory night]

These are the ones I’ve seen the least/haven’t seen since vhs existed

[tight dove]

they rhyme "moana" with "come on-a"

[wide stag]

genius

[tight dove]

also get lost is better in every way

[wide stag]

Get Lost is good

The problem is, Maui is exactly the kind of idiot I am

so both this and You're Welcome are personal

which means you are all wrong

[ivory night]

I thought you were gonna say the problem is the Rock can’t sing

[tight dove]

you can emotionaly bond to something while also admiting it is not a good song argent

[wide stag]

nuh-huh

[tight dove]

damn hes got me there

[wide stag]

https://tenor.com/view/disneytoons-movies-disney-toons-cartoons-gif-14670267254775627272

[keen flax]

Speak your truth argent 😌✨️

Man its tough to think of a list because so many songs are fantastic!!

[ivory night]

Make a list coward

[keen flax]

DX

[ivory night]

I made one!

[tight dove]

time to make a tier list of every disney song

[keen flax]

Oh dear lord

[ivory night]

God tier: Zero to hero

[keen flax]

-# princess and the frog are all at the top whoops

[tight dove]

cause in the year of our lord (micke) alll opinions need to be expressed in the form of a teirlist

[wide stag]

I put this opinion in S-tier

[tight dove]

oh my god i found one

[wide stag]

oh, I am sure they exist

[tight dove]

its a lot of songs

[keen flax]

Omg I need to sleep but the tierlist compels me

[thin ridge]

That is a take. I'm... Glad you like it.

I loathe it with a burning passion

[ivory night]

Stream

[tight dove]

ooh wait its less than 150

[keen flax]

At 2 am?? 🤣

150??? 😭

[tight dove]

we could make a songbatle.io out of it

[keen flax]

We'd be here all night 😭

-# im here for it

[ivory night]

Disney song Memorial Day tierlist extravaganza

[keen flax]

-# okay but i would name it that 💀

[ivory night]

You can’t it’s my IP

[tight dove]

in memorial of the troops and cosmics sleep schedual

also i lied

its over 200

[ivory night]

Tierlist for the troops

[keen flax]

Its not my fault you can predict how I'd name things 😌

[ivory night]

No I named it that because it’s the best name

[keen flax]

Mhm suuuuuuureeee~ XD

[ivory night]

I’m whimsical

[thin ridge]

Unironically this sounds like a hilarious 2 am activity.
It's actually only midnight for me at the moment

[dusk hound]

With all my talking about Superman I realized I haven’t talked about Fantastic Four

I hope F4 is good, it looks good so far from what I’ve seen from the trailers

[keen flax]

My friend is going out for the day so I genuinely might do it tommrow if I find one 😂

[ivory night]

Ping me if you do

[keen flax]

Memorial day song tierlist palooza

There now im not stealing it 🤭

[dusk hound]

What even constitutes a Memorial Day song?? 😭

[keen flax]

No its a Disney song ranking Ryan~

[ivory night]

Memorial Day song tierlist tribute for the troops

[keen flax]

🫡

[dusk hound]

Oh nvm

Cosmic are you actually gonna do the tier list this time

[keen flax]

hey I did the football tierlist! Im just holding off on sharing it until football season returns 😋

[ivory night]

I will watch princess and the frog finally

[ripe stag]

That is not an excuse to stay up for another two hours though...

[thin ridge]

waves vaguely
I took a nap today so I'm not even remotely tired still
-# I needed a nap because I was up until 3 am last night reading but that's not the point

I probably will attempt sleep.
I maintain that it's overrated

[ripe stag]

frowns

[dusk hound]

I hope the Fantastic Four is good

For my dads sanity

That’s his favorite comic and he can’t stand to see a bad adaptation once again

[topaz oyster]

There are unfortunately rumors of some very very late reshoots happening for F4 which is basically never a good sign if true

[dusk hound]

I always take rumors with a huge grain of salt

It depends on WHAT the reshoots are tbh

[thin ridge]

sighs
Fine.
But only because I have some finals this week.

Isn't this the fourth major F4 adaptation?