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distant birch
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S4 was fun

sage finch
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It’s cuz it had novelty going for it

minor ledge
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s4 had some good ieas and enjoyale moments in the first half

sage finch
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It was something new and somehow nostalgic to watch

minor ledge
dusk hound
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The 80s nostalgia was fun in season 1, but they really overdid it in the future seasons

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Stranger Things is just the definition of a show that just got too big for its britches

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They expanded the cast beyond the OG group and that was really where it started

sage finch
dusk hound
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Max and Robin were ABSOLUTELY fine to add, but then you add a bunch of nothingburger characters like Murray and Erica, and then characters like Bob and Eddie

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There’s genuinely for the cast to be that big

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Season 1 was amazing as a small town mystery following a struggling mother just trying to find her son and a group of kids that just wanted to bring their friend back

distant birch
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I mean you've got the ST ||seasonal beloved new/developed character to kill off||

dusk hound
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But then it just transformed into something that it just… wasn’t meant to be in the first place

distant birch
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||plus for some reason a cast expansion each season||

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Tbh current stranger things feels less like... not something ST should be and more almost like someone's pitch or prediction for where ST could go?

sage finch
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ST all ||I mentally checked out when Hopper survived and ended up in a Russian prison||

distant birch
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Because I do think you can see the seeds they've grown these plots from in s1. But I think maybe this wasn't the right amount or direction to grow them. If that makes sense

dusk hound
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ST all ||They are just WAY too scared to kill off any main characters and it absolutely shows||

distant birch
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ST all ||like, there is an evil government group in s1. But is the best escalation of that to have the main cast actively fighting the military?||

sage finch
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||Did they write off the mind flayer||

distant birch
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||it was retconned to be made by vecna in s4 and then hasn't been in s5 at all afaik||

minor isle
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s4 just did every annoying thing this show could have done for me

wise epoch
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I like S5 quite a bit

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I have no real criticisms

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But I also don't take ST too seriously

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ST is campy as hell and it should be viewed that way

minor isle
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For me ST s4 was lowest of the low. I would give it a 2/10

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s5 is almost at a 5

wise epoch
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S4 was amazing, S4 is my favorite season

minor isle
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I didn't like any ep at all in s4

dusk hound
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So I was talking to my coworker about superheroes the other day and we got to the topic of Superman, and he said to me “You know I don’t understand why Superman is dating Lois Lane when Wonder Woman is a way better fit for him to date”

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Needless to say

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I stared at him like he had 4 heads

minor ledge
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but everyone else sucked

dusk hound
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Robin was great too honestly

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ST season 3 ||That scene with her and Steve in the bathroom where she comes out to him was a well written and acted scene, honestly made me tear up a bit||

distant birch
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Tbh I don't mind most of the expanded cast

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My main issue is that they also take up screen time, and often it comes at the expense of the main crew

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Especially in s5

minor ledge
frail mulch
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Incredible
https://bsky.app/profile/rianjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mb6is5pgi222

Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson.bsky.social)

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

-# Jay Hulme (@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

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thin ridge
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Ok now I really need to watch it

frail mulch
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It's a very early scene, but the rest of the movie is also worth watching!

placid river
empty locust
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how does korean shows appear on netflix? I'm very curious

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Anyways I'm watching season 2 and it's very enjoyable

ionic lily
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Licensing

empty locust
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no no

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I mean, how does it appear for people in other countries

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Is there a separate section for them?

minor isle
west escarp
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It’s wild like the river, I t’s warm like the sun.
Yeah, it’s here, this is where I belong

winged mountain
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I don’t know if this is the Doomsday teaser we were expecting?

https://youtu.be/1clWprLC5Ak?si=YfNsJjPNfTLi3v_O

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cold sequoia
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yeah thor was the next one

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I think next is doom?

winged mountain
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I say that because of the leaked teaser, I figured an official version of that would have been next

empty locust
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I hate the fact that they are bringing back Captain America and RDJ!

winged mountain
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Ok

fair dirge
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I haven't seen him serious for a long time.

fair dirge
minor isle
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I liked second and third trailer

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first is really really cremmy

acoustic pewter
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I agree the Captain America trailer was pretty cremmy.

ripe stag
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Based on the two trailers I have seen, I can only assume that Doomsday is when your kids leave home.

molten jetty
molten jetty
fair dirge
crimson kelp
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looking at this channel and realising how far out of the marvel loop I've fallen in the past few years of uninspiring content spam

winged mountain
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I think most people have fallen out

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the box office numbers sort of prove it

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people might check out a particularly interesting movie but nobody watches 'everything Marvel' anymore

crimson kelp
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yeah

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didn't help that they kept going wider and wider, throwing out ever more stuff while trying to force engagement/retention by continuing the whole "ahha you need to watch everything to understand the ever growing web of crossovers and linkages" which for me at least hyperaccelerated fatigue

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and once I accepted that I wasn't gonna watch it all it was so easy to drop most of it

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the fomo magic was broken

winged mountain
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pretty much, content overload might have made them more money if the content was good, but it's really hard to make that much content, have it be great, without creating conflicts with other media or other franchise priorities

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they wound up just making a ton of really expensive content that doesn't really do anything

topaz oyster
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To be somewhat fair to Marvel, they had their fair share of unforced errors but also a string of just really bad luck

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Among other things:

  1. Covid hit at the worst possible time for them
  2. Chadwick Boseman dying really cut down their options, he was potentially very loadbearing and I think Marvel looks quite different if he had lived
  3. Jonathan Majors was also pretty loadbearing and turned out to be maximum scumbag
ivory night
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Yeah Chadwick left a massive hole post endgame

oak ivy
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Spiderman too bc of his reworked role

topaz oyster
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  1. is on the edge of forced and unforced error, and that's the Sony/Spider-man nonsense, Sony saw an opportunity and while it didn't net them much it certainly kept Marvel from making Spider-man more central
ivory night
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And then Thor 4 was kinda a miss meaning that all of a sudden they didn’t really have any stars left

fair dirge
topaz oyster
ivory night
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But in the end what killed marvel for me was the dr strange 2 + Wandavision || the fact that the show and movie completely didn’t talk to each other meaning her character was radically different and it’s just like how do you screw that up ||

topaz oyster
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I'm mostly just making the case that much of why Marvel is where they are is chalked up to stuff they simply had no control over, though notably most of that is old news now and they still haven't managed to recover

ivory night
topaz oyster
topaz oyster
ivory night
topaz oyster
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That's true but I think in a vacuum going for the person who has the best narrative impact isn't the worst play, and who'd have guessed Leticia Wright was gonna become a covid diva?

ivory night
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Yeah……..

topaz oyster
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(Most of the other actors involved were probably also eyeing other work, I can't imagine hardly any of them wanted to be full time Marvel movie makers)

ivory night
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Yeah I mean I would’ve written a blank cheque for lupita or Winston duke

topaz oyster
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Danai Gurira, for example, still had (and I think still has?) one foot in the door at The Walking Dead

ivory night
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She would’ve been so good

topaz oyster
ivory night
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Also like marvel hypothetically getting untethered by the walking dead having a firmer contract is DC having to edit Superman’s mustache levels of funny though

topaz oyster
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I mean more like

naive mica
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I hate that one so much, they really just should have just given superman a full beard

topaz oyster
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I think that show is kind of home for her

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If AMC gives her more zombies to chop with a katana and enough money to maintain her lifestyle on Marvel and their money probably be damned

ivory night
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How about… marvel getting untethered because late stage walking dead is a better vibe than a marvel movie is (I don’t have a comp) but it’s still funny

topaz oyster
ivory night
topaz oyster
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I'm not sure I'd have guessed that in the moment but it makes sense in the aftermath

ripe stag
ivory night
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And the last 2 mission impossibles were awful

topaz oyster
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I didn't hate them

ivory night
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Like I’d rather watch mission impossible 2 than 7 or 8

crimson kelp
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Tom Cruise doing Tom Cruise things shrug

topaz oyster
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The submarine sequence in the last one was actually excellent

ivory night
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Yeah but it was everything around it that was awful

topaz oyster
crimson kelp
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I thought they were ok but mostly extended excuses for the idk what to call them... tentpole scenes?

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the big cool sequences

topaz oyster
ivory night
crimson kelp
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he's a very special boi

topaz oyster
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My only real complaint is that they tried to ex post facto make the whole series more of a linear narrative than it was ever meant to be

ivory night
crimson kelp
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yeppp

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I don't understand why franchises feel the need to do this

ivory night
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MCU baby

crimson kelp
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also that whole sequence of like... let's spend the first 30 minutes of an already long movie recapping the entire franchise

ivory night
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It’s all connected man

-# stoner voice

topaz oyster
crimson kelp
ivory night
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Idk why but my brain just went to Charlie day in pacific rim and it’s always funny to see him in other roles

topaz oyster
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More than Tom Cruise I'm kind of interested to see where Chris McQuarrie goes next

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He's been doing pretty much only MI movies for like a decade now

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And he's a decent to good moviemaker in a genre of like high-B low-A grade action flick that just doesn't exist in a big way outside of comic books and like John Wick

ivory night
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I forgot how much stuff he did before mission impossible

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Or rather outside mission impossible

cold sequoia
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Cruise's next movie is a character film

ivory night
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Like I don’t associate him with edge of tomorrow but he was a co-writer

cold sequoia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger_(2026_film)

Digger (2026 film)

Digger is an upcoming American black comedy film directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu who co-wrote the script with Sabina Berman, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Nicolás Giacobone. The film stars an ensemble cast including Tom Cruise, Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller, Riz Ahmed, Sophie Wilde, Emma D'Arcy, Robert John Burke, Burn Gorman, Michael Stuhlb...

ivory night
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Huh

cold sequoia
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the director of The Revenant (bear movie with Leo) and a stacked cast

topaz oyster
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I'd just been wondering where Inarritu had gone before I saw the ad for this a week or two ago

cold sequoia
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and Cruise has comedy chops

topaz oyster
ivory night
topaz oyster
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Probably the more relevant film for this movie

cold sequoia
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he has been making movies, just not english language ones

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oh, apparently just the one movie since Revenant

ivory night
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So thinking about Inarritu made me wonder what Cuaron was up to and uh… after making Roma in 2018 he signed with Apple and wrote and directed 1 season of a show that came out in 2024 that I’d never heard of

paper hull
steep bramble
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Yeah they did a bunch of them because it’s New Years. Meera Syal (Verin in WoT) got a Damehood, and in the sports world Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, legendary British Ice Dancers got one too.

crimson kelp
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yeah heard about this earlier

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Sir Idris o7

topaz oyster
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(Not posting because it might not be quite server appropriate LUL)

winged mountain
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I watched Fellowship of the Ring for the first time in too long, it might have only been like my fourth time watching the movie or something

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probably the first time in a decade

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I recognized some memes and iconic lines here and there from the movie over the years, and yet there are a couple I didn't realize were from LOTR

paper hull
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These movies are iconic enough that you see a meme or famous line every couple minutes.

topaz oyster
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Like the Star Wars prequel trilogy it benefits from the early internet culture just kind of being a smaller place

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Everyone was memeing on a lot of the same stuff and eventually just about every line of both trilogies got memed somehow

winged mountain
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I'm honestly surprised they haven't tried to just do like a 6-8 season TV adaptation of LOTR or something, maybe that comes after Rings of Power

topaz oyster
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I don't think Amazon specifically has the rights?

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The LotR rights are weird

winged mountain
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I didn't mean to assign any particular entity to 'they' in this case, I know someone has the rights to LOTR and the Hobbit and can make it if they want to

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I don't know exactly who that is

cold sequoia
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the Peter Jackson films are owned by WB

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Embracer owns the entity that owns the rights to make new films and is licensing it to WB

minor isle
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Don't Amazon have rights only for appendices?

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and hence they had very less content to work for RoP

cold sequoia
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apparently they now own the full TV rights

winged mountain
cold sequoia
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they specifically don't own the Silmarillion rights I believe

ivory night
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3 more seasons!

minor isle
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ah

winged mountain
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but they're not doing an adaptation from the present day LOTR even though that's what their rights are based on

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so, like, they can use some exposition or song from LOTR and do something around it

minor isle
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Yeah covering the content they are without Silmarillion is not a good choice

topaz oyster
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It is my guess that Lord of the Rings is likely to be the place we see the first iteration of two major entertainment conglomerates offering competing adaptations of the same thing more or less at the same time

oak ivy
winged mountain
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it's a weird one, like I think people would have been perfectly happy to watch 'LOTR retold closer to the books and super-extended'

ivory night
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Was going through the Wikipedia page and apparently it’s only 20 million per season not produced of the original 5

We’re in college football buyout territory y’all

minor isle
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but they don't want to do the "closer to the book"

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Every showrunner or director pats themselves in the back for not knowing about the source material nowadays

winged mountain
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then maybe covering the content they are doing is a good choice after all

topaz oyster
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To be fair, to some extent so did Peter Jackson, and in most cases his additions got cut because of the film runtime constraints

winged mountain
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since audiences are less familiar with it

oak ivy
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I think the closer to the book thing doesnt matter. Peter Jackson got crapped on for his changes and basically all of them were correct

minor isle
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I think Peter Jackson's changes work for medium changes

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and hence worked for audience

winged mountain
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I think most of his changes were fine but I don't know about Saruman

oak ivy
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When professional authors adapt their own work they change stuff. Fidelity to the text trumping all is a fan opinion exclusively

minor isle
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even tho the initial reception with the fans might not have been that good

cold sequoia
minor isle
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what does Prequels mean here

oak ivy
topaz oyster
winged mountain
minor isle
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ah

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never watched

oak ivy
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I do not foresee that happening with the sequels

paper hull
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I always thought the Prequels were liked ironically, not like actually considered to be good movies by anyone.

dusk hound
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I feel like Doakes, I know Wonder Woman is gonna be in Man of Tomorrow, I just can’t prove it

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topaz oyster
winged mountain
oak ivy
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Prequels: not good

cold sequoia
winged mountain
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at least a little, sure, not in the same way though?

topaz oyster
cold sequoia
oak ivy
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I think the bigger issues with the sequels was a lack of narrative ambition and backtracking on anything they accidentally made challenging

winged mountain
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well I don't think I'm going to be able to articulate the difference so I'll just digress

oak ivy
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Idk if marketing is an issue bc they all made a billion dollars

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Star wars really peaked with episode 7 trailer

ivory night
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Back to rings of power… I wonder if the Tolkien estate didnt have the rights to Sil

cold sequoia
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from what I understand the Tolkien estate has the rights, they dont' want to sell them

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or at least they weren't for sale to Amazon at the time

topaz oyster
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I think what Amazon got they got before Christopher Tolkien died

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topaz oyster
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Which was what opened up the floodgates

winged mountain
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I don't think Christopher was satisfied with the movies, and didn't necessarily want to expand it

ivory night
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Yeah

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Weird

topaz oyster
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(About the movies)

cold sequoia
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I can understand why he'd be disappointed with the movies direction

winged mountain
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I sort of get where he would have been coming from even if I liked the movies

cold sequoia
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like I imagine Tolkien himself would have complicated (perhaps that's putting it diplomatically) feelings on how the movies adapted his work and I have to imagine his son would have that in mind

buoyant scroll
midnight compass
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There are some changes I'm sad about but its mainly having to cut things like Tom Bombadil and the Scouring, which is fine since the movies are so long already that there isn't time for more

topaz oyster
minor isle
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The third trailer "leaks" singlehandedly made me excited for doomsday. Tho I guess we can't talk about it here?

topaz oyster
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I tend to think he'd have had a more open mind about it than Christopher Tolkien would have

winged mountain
cold sequoia
minor isle
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ye

cold sequoia
buoyant scroll
cold sequoia
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there are several things in the script that Tolkien really didn't like which seem to be also things Jackon did in the trilogy

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obviously the script Tolkien read was worse than what Jackson ended up doing

topaz oyster
ivory night
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Looking at the film rights history has lead me down the strangest rabbit hole. Which is the dude that owned the rights for a long time. Saul Zaentz before getting into film production ran Fantasy Records. Which was the label that Credence Clearwater Revival signed with and then famously had a major falling out because Saul lost a bunch of their money and then the band sued and it was a Supreme Court case.

Oh and he also produced 3 best picture winners one in the 70s, 80s, and 90s

topaz oyster
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Didn't that label steal their money?

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I could have sworn they signed their money away and it was run off with intentionally, not lost

ivory night
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BBC said something in its obituary that they sued him and got some money back on the bad investments. But didn’t go into more detail

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lucid haven
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there is 3 trailers for doomsday ?

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i think ive only seen the captian america and the thor one ?

winged mountain
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there is a leaked one

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it looks awful and isn't worth watching IMO but seek it out if you please

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(awful from a capture quality standpoint, not necessarily an awful teaser)

gritty breach
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https://bsky.app/profile/rianjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mb6is5pgi222

Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson.bsky.social)

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

-# Jay Hulme (@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

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Bluesky ·
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click through for the images

lucid haven
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ill wait till theres a good copy of the new one

winged mountain
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Probably next Tuesday

minor ledge
winged mountain
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I wonder how the Duel of the Fates version would have been received if that’s the movie that was ultimately made

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I have little doubt that it would have been taken better than RoS but I’m wondering more how the sequels as a whole would have been remembered

dusk hound
muted solar
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Got curious

verbal lintel
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-# ||sneaking a load of snacks in your coat and pockets, and not paying the absurd prices at the stands these days||

winged mountain
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I tend to get some popcorn, nearly finish it by the time the trailers are done, but fine for the rest of the movie without

cobalt onyx
agile drift
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I'm more of a box of candy at the movies kind of person

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I got some gummy worms over christmas that I've been saving for when I see the stranger things finale on thursday

ivory night
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That’s if I get anything. Usually I just don’t.

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# muted solar

Please tell me I'm not the only one who voted what I voted

ivory night
# muted solar

Spooky I need an option between I hate popcorn and I just don’t want my hands to be buttery in a place where I have to leave the movie to wash them

inland jetty
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I think working at a movie theater ruined popcorn for me, so if/when I find an excuse to visit one again, I'd definitely be on team "smuggle in something else"

ivory night
inland jetty
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(Also, context for why the prices are so absurd: At the theater I worked at, at least, there was literally zero profit margin in ticket sales, 100% of that money went to the studios)

ivory night
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Also heat if you smell movie popcorn what happens to you?

inland jetty
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Hands full with cake, one sec

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Okay: Not much but its certainly unpleasant

ivory night
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Interesting… popcorn is one of those smells that would set of memories

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For me

inland jetty
minor ledge
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ST 5x7 or wtver the espiode before the finale is ||that coming out scene was so ass you can tell the writer was straight lmao||

keen flax
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Goldfish at the movies is unmatched

crystal brook
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I was shocked when I found out in some places they put butter on popcorn

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It sounds so gross

molten jetty
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It is gross

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And it hurts my tummy

keen flax
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Me, who drenches my popcorn in butter: 🫣

molten jetty
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Salt is the best option

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Lots and lots of salt

placid river
crystal brook
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The concept of drenching anything in butter as a sauce makes me feel a little bit queasy I think 😂

crystal brook
distant birch
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...ok the doomsday thor trailer does look good

dusk hound
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I will admit

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They have kind of pulled me back in with this and the leaked trailer that’s releasing next week

molten jetty
dusk hound
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I’m still not optimistic

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But my interest is semi-peaked

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I just really hope it’s not a Steve Rogers vs Doom movie

minor ledge
distant birch
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ST 5x7 ||does he?||

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topaz oyster
inland jetty
crystal brook
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Worse

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Well

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About the same actually

sonic trench
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buttered popcorn is pretty standard everywhere I've seen popcorn sold, not just at movies

frail mulch
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At some indie theaters I've been to they offer nutritional yeast as a seasoning which tastes a little nutty (flavor) but I accept that's maybe because I'm in the Pacific Northwest.

cold sequoia
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Thats wild

ionic lily
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That’s crazy

frail mulch
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I do like ye olde classic butter oil though

cold sequoia
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It guess it's basically like sprinkling multivitamins on the popcorn

ionic lily
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Which is almost as weird

frail mulch
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(the yeast isn't a default when I've seen it; it's a shaker like parmesan cheese)

cold sequoia
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Break out the yeast shaker

ionic lily
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That’s even weirder!

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I blame Seattle

cold sequoia
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I mean it does have a distinct flavor

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If you like the taste of it then I could seen it working as a popcorn condiment

frail mulch
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I went to look up the place I'm thinking of in Boise and a weekly paper notes I'm remembering correctly: "The Flicks, where you can get real butter drizzled on topped with a dusting of golden, nutritional yeast."

muted solar
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How important do you consider popcorn to be in your theater-going experience?

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Nice to have

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rockchefskiss

ivory night
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Y’all… I learned that I’ve been spoiled by my nice local theater. Chain theater popcorn is so mid. And $6 for a thing of candy? I passed on the candy due to the price gouging, but when I started eating the popcorn during the preview and got so disappointed I went and bought candy

We were going to hit the local theater for bluevatar 3 but had to hit a chain theater instead because the only showing that wasn’t sold out at the local theater started at 9:55 PM

ionic lily
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Have yall noticed previews have been getting longer?

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The movie starts like 45 minutes late nowadays

muted solar
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Yeah was like 30 minutes I think tonight

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I think my local theater is around that length too

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I will admit after seeing the movie I am kinda curious what the experience would be like in 3D since it has been too long for me to recall details from seeing the first in theaters

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But 3 and a half hours is a lot of movie

turbid laurel
empty locust
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whats a preview?

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we dont have that

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we only have ads play for like 10~15 minutes

molten jetty
empty locust
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aha

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I guess we have the same thing but shorter

muted solar
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One day I’ll figure out how to bring my own popcorn into movies

minor ledge
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Doomsday trailer 2

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ivory night
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store the food in something that will contain the smell

keen flax
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My mom does movies Big Purse style!

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Helps when there's 6 of us and a Publix right down the way!

muted solar
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Lol

terse crystal
cold sequoia
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I still have no idea why kevin oleary is in the cast

turbid laurel
turbid narwhal
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As much as I dislike him, he was quite good in the movie

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Marty supreme end ||I believed him when he said he was a vampire||

cold sequoia
turbid laurel
lilac hull
keen flax
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Caught up with TDAC

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TADC*

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Bonking acronyms

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But MAMA MIA what a show

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Episode 7 nearly brought me to tears

cold sequoia
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TADC?

keen flax
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The Amazing Digital Circus!

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Honeslty my expectations for it were kinda low so I was very VERY pleasantly surprised by both the emotion and intruige!

minor ledge
terse crystal
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And they are surprisingly good at getting them to act well

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Case in point: Kevin Garnett in Uncut Gems

turbid narwhal
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And yeah Kevin garnett is great in uncut gems

cold sequoia
dusk hound
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We’ll finally have a new Wonder Woman that isn’t Gal Gadot

minor ledge
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or kal el does something bad

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clearly we need gal godot again

dusk hound
#

GIFs that you can hear ^^^^^^

gritty sierra
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haha only if you've watched that movie

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i'm freeee

minor ledge
azure fern
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god damn Epic is so good... I got full body chills listening to Odysseus just now

minor ledge
placid river
west escarp
distant birch
west escarp
#

Don’t worry about that

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I’m more interested in the idea that they’re interviewing every hot young actress because I’m not sure Hollywood has any other kind of actress

dusk hound
west escarp
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They haven’t had actresses who are only moderately attractive in a while

dusk hound
west escarp
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I’m sure every actress in Hollywood wants into these movies, it’s a quick step to money (toy deals $$$), fame, success, and more film deals

#

And to get to play Diana…. Well, who doesn’t want to be Wonder Woman?

dusk hound
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Wonder Woman is quite possibly the most mishandled character in comic book history

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Especially compared to Batman and Superman

west escarp
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She should’ve gotten a 90s animated series

oak ivy
dusk hound
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Hunger Games competition with every young actress in Hollywood, winner gets to play Wonder Woman

minor ledge
#

tbh

placid river
sage finch
# west escarp https://www.tumblr.com/konan-supernova/803947301348507648

I once saw a tumblr post years ago talking about this issue on AO3, imploring people to comment on fics cuz it’s the only way for authors to get feedback and gratification from writing.

They said when nobody comments it’s like writing for ghosts. That post stuck with me for some reason

agile drift
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Seeing anaconda tonight since we have nothing better to do lol

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It seems amusing at the very least

civic trellis
#

like a nice comment is an unparalleled burst of serotonin directly to the brain

wise epoch
#

Stranger Things finale

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Let's go

keen flax
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Jingle Jangle ||Ive seen this movie before but I forgot about the snowball fight scene with afrobeats over it, its hilarious and awesome 🤣||

wise epoch
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Stranger Things finale ||JONATHAN DID SOMETHING||

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||CONGRATULATIONS JONATHAN, IT TOOK YOU UNTIL THE LAST EPISODE TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL||

wise epoch
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||Ah yes good idea Hopper, abandoning Kali definitely won't backfire||

outer mulch
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watched 28 years later as the new years movie for some reason. It's all over the place but I really enjoyed it

wise epoch
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Stranger Things finale ||I am so happy Eleven made that guy shoot himself in the head, I was so hoping she would when I saw her grab his hand||

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||Oh no Kali's dead. Anyway.||

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||Interesting. Implying the Mindflayer is actually in control of Henry, and not the other way around||

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||Genuinely can't believe we actually brought back the Mindflayer as an antagonist, I honestly kinda assumed we were just done with it||

wise epoch
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||It's so weird seeing everyone as babies again||

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||Military subplot, as ever, ended up being super mid. It was literally just an excuse to kill Eleven and then they just leave||

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||I'm gonna call the story's bluff tho, I think Eleven is alive||

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||Mrs Wheeler's got some badass lookign scars, god damn||

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Stranger THings finale ||JOYCE AND HOPPER FINALLY GOT THEIR DATE AT THE RESTAURANT||

wise epoch
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And roll credits on Stranger Things. Good ending, good show. I liked it quite a lot.

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Big complaint, it's the obvious one, ||nobody important dies. I don't care about Kali, and I knew they were faking out Eleven's death, and nobody else died.||

sage finch
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ST Finale ||Their conversation at the top of the radio building felt like a frickin cast interview lol||

placid river
#

ST finale ||decent finale imo. Feel like we had pretty good closure for all the characters. I’m glad they didn’t actually kill Eleven, I feel like the message if she’d really killed herself would have been not great. Kali did actually get shot though, did she not? Or was that a trick too? Everyone surviving doesn’t actually bother me that much, I’m not a huge believer in every story requiring main characters to die at the end.||

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ST + Arcane ALL ||Eleven’s ending is basically the same as Jinx’s except more clearly spelled out, huh?||

wise epoch
placid river
# wise epoch ||Kali did die||

||my question is about the fact that she should have died a while before she cast her illusions. I assume her “death” earlier in the episode was a trick for that to work, and she survived a while longer.||

wise epoch
minor ledge
#

ST fans are secret sherlock episoding rn lol

wise epoch
tight dove
# wise epoch What does this mean

The Sherlock finale was bad
It was so bad Sherlock fans all thought there was secretly a real finale and that the official one was a trick

worn notch
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me trying to remember the Sherlock finale

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Oh hey I liked it!

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Especially the Sherlock 4x3 ||violin scene at the end||

worn notch
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||She might be dead||

velvet oriole
#

There's gonna be a showing of LOTR at my movie theater in two weeks, deciding if I want to go or not.

ionic lily
#

Yes

terse crystal
#

Watched all of this more or less through New Years Eve and Day. Can Confirm it is very good

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terse crystal
#

Did they blow it or nah

sage finch
#

Are u asking me

terse crystal
#

yeah

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anyone that has watched all the last season

sage finch
#

Finale felt 40 mins too long

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If not more

terse crystal
#

how long is it?

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movie length?

sage finch
#

2hrs total

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Could’ve ended at 1 hr 10

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At least twice me and my brother were like “how’s there an hour more left?” And “how’s there 45 mins more left?”

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I wouldn’t consider myself a huge fan so my review will be lukewarm at best.

My long held opinion was the show shouldn’t have got more than 2 seasons. I wasn’t invested this season at all, it felt like commercialized slop

minor isle
hushed moss
wise epoch
#

||Kali is dead||

wise epoch
wise epoch
placid river
worn notch
wise epoch
# worn notch St finale ||Do we actually know she's dead? Beyond doubt? And not faked it for h...

||I'm fairly certain that Mike said she "used the last of her power". Beyond that, though, I think it would be genuinely impossible for her to NOT be dead. First, if she was alive I think they'd show that cuz she would probably be with El. Second, how would she have gotten out? Murray and Hopper obviously didn't know she was still alive, so she would have had to get out herself, and she was already bleeding out. Given that what we see when Mikeis talking is Kali still in the same room she was in before AT the time that Eleven was escaping (because the clips we see when Mike is talking is clearly meant to be true), then she would have had to find a way out of the Upside Down WHILE bleeding out in the literal seconds before the thing got blown sky high. And even if she did manage to do that, they would have to explain how she did not bleed out after she escaped||

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||Also Kali clearly accepted death. That's why she said "I was meant to die here, but you aren't" to Eleven. If Kali survived, it would be the most outlandish thing I have ever seen. The only way they could justify her survival is by saying "Oh well, the destruction of the Upside Down didn't work the way the characters thought it would, and it spit her back out in the real world, where she was found by someone who provided medical treatment to her", but I don't even think that works because Kali was IN the building that was set to explode, we see the building explode and we see all the buildings in the Upside Down being decimated, so she would have had to survive all of that while already dying, until the Upside Down collapsed entirely and she was spit out||

dusk hound
#

With a new actor as Wolverine… right? Right???

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civic trellis
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After week and a half of trying to arrange a movie night with my parents, we've finally watched Wake Up Dead Man

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Good movie!

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(WUDM mega spoilers) ||Funnily enough, I was trying to predict who the killer is and my first guess was the doctor, then i thought, nah, Martha has a better motive, and at the end of the day, it was them both LUL ||

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Though I will say, I've never seen a movie with such... conspicuous lighting

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like it's good and symbolic, don't get me wrong, but the movie does wield it like a blunt object

tight dove
verbal lintel
topaz oyster
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In this specific case I'm not sure how much of this is Jackman and how much is Marvel etc

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He does like the role

terse crystal
#

Ok Yeah The Pitt is really awesome

west escarp
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As the HISHE video for Logan put it “To cast another person now/is simply a lost cause”

cold sequoia
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Jackman is too old to be in a new xmen team imo

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-# I know in the comics wolverine is (sometimes) centuries old

topaz oyster
cold sequoia
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For film logistics reasons I think they should cast someone younger, have Jackman for if they ever want to do an actual Old Man Logan adaptation

cold sequoia
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I think his comments after Logan (i.e. when he wasnt being paid to promote a movie he was going to be in) are closer to his true feelings on it

topaz oyster
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Maybe. I remember getting the impression at the time that he was really more over the physical aspect of that than he was over the character though too

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I understand that's not going away but I also understand that Hugh Jackman of all people has enough leverage to move that in a direction he's more comfortable with if he's motivated enough

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And Marvel's so far from above running back an old classic

cold sequoia
west escarp
#

My dad (who doesn’t play video games) is now trying to get me into Fallout

cold sequoia
#

I enjoyed S1

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Haven't started S2 yet

west escarp
#

You 🤝 my 65 year old dad
Liking Fallout s1

placid river
cold sequoia
minor ledge
#

tbf think someone would like fallout a lot more if they havent played the games

west escarp
#

That was so funny

oak ivy
agile drift
#

I'm sat for stranger things in the theater

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I was happily surprised it came with a concessions voucher

placid river
agile drift
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Lol that would be fun

dusk hound
#

Gravity Falls and Stranger Things 5 spoilers ||Close enough, welcome back Gravity Falls||

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west escarp
#

Yet another episode where they pair Sam up with some loser who has a crush on her

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She can do better

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Also suspicious how the men never get these plotlines. The part of 90s genre tv shows I don’t miss

west escarp
frank quail
#

they forgot abandoned British Quarries

west escarp
#

The only three options depending on where the show filmed

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I want to know where the Default TV Setting For Dumb Genre Shows is for other countries

#

Is there a place where every single cdrama has to film?

minor ledge
#

that stranger things finale was so bad

muted solar
#

I haven’t even watched season 5 volume 2 yet

wise epoch
#

I didn't think it was....

agile drift
#

Stranger things finale was about as expected. Cringe at moments, over the top, mediocre dialogue, but I like the characters and had fun with it. One of my best theater experiences for sure

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In line with the rest of the show. I think it's fitting

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Unfortunately the letterboxd reviews for the finale are impossible to navigate because for some reason everybody logged it as like, the whole season I guess??

minor ledge
agile drift
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Who knows

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Maybe because it had a theater release

dusk hound
minor ledge
dusk hound
minor ledge
dusk hound
minor ledge
#

Cant wait for ten thousand mid stranger things spinoffs though

dusk hound
#

I do feel like Netflix genuinely might see a decline in profit tbh

#

Now that their flagship show is gone

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And they’ve literally spent the last year trying to find the next big show and haven’t been able to

minor ledge
dusk hound
#

Please no 2000s nostalgia

#

I don’t want to feel old please

minor ledge
placid river
#

Netflix is likely about to acquire all of WB’s properties so that should sustain them for a while in terms of content

placid river
#

What were everyone's favorite shows of 2025? My top 3 are Andor S2, Severance S2 and Murderbot

empty locust
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Idk if this counts but I liked Culinary Class Wars season 2

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oh and did squid game 3 come out in 2025?

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yeah

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Didn't like it though

terse crystal
#

Finally getting around to the beginning of the stride PCW is apparently going through rn with tonight’s movie:

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distant birch
#

If its released this year... I think my list is two items total 😅

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...Oh somehow I forgot that stranger things 5 came out this year

cobalt onyx
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No it didn't, that was last year

distant birch
#

ok I have totally lost track of time LUL

#

I think I watched 3 shows that came out in 2025 in 2025

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I suppose my top 3 released in 2025 is: 1. Mighty Nein 2. Hazbin S2 3. Stranger Things s5
right now

#

My top 3 shows I watched in 2025 would probably be: 1. Interview with the vampire 2. Succession 3. Mighty Nein

distant birch
#

...wait did wot s3 come out this year? If it did... that's in there somewhere

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minor isle
#

🙏

minor isle
turbid narwhal
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Probably not my favourite show of the year but one I really enjoyed was the Chair Company

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Best show was probably Andor season 2

lucid haven
distant birch
#

I am SO slow with TV shows 😅

minor isle
#

It's just a season rn

#

good thing about it
The entire season takes place in one ER shift

#

and it features Noah Wyle!

distant birch
#

I might put it on the list

#

I genuinely get through like... four seasons of tv a year ShallanOhNo so dont get your hopes up xD

#

I have 2.5 seasons of succession to finish first

minor isle
#

Yeah I am p slow too

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this is probably my best year in a while

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5 stranger things seasons, The Pitt, Pluribus

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Only two good seasons out of 7 watched

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The Pitt s1 and Stranger Things s1

distant birch
#

Dangg

minor isle
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Gone are the days when I could binge 7.9 seasons of GoT in a week

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😔

distant birch
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I think this year I watched 2 seasons of interview, 1 ST, 1 hazbin, most of a mighty nein, 1 andor, 1 WOT, 1.5 of succession. Better than I expected tbh

west escarp
#

When you’re trying to take your kids for a walk but you have to go to the bathroom and neither of them can be trusted not to do anything while you’re gone

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frail mulch
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oh lol it's 15 episodes? ok but point still stands I suppose

minor isle
frail mulch
#

(that's what I was replying to, and I assumed incorrectly about both number of episodes in the season and number of hours in an ER shift)

minor isle
#

yeah I figured. Just clarifying

#

and uhh finished Stranger things

#

I like the ending??

#

I don't think any bad thing about the ending is really ending issue but just an overall lack of care or concern to plot elements in the last 2 seasons

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cuz the actual ending bits || the conversation between Hopper and Mike, the convo between the 4 "adults", the final DnD game, the DnD game of the new generation of kids, the Hellfire lives.|| They are just super good and well done?

sage finch
#

Is anyone aware of fan theories for the ST finale

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I heard fans had better theories

minor ledge
minor ledge
wise epoch
minor ledge
wise epoch
minor ledge
#

either way its still a bad ending

#

tbh

wise epoch
#

||I think it's pretty clear that she did survive. There would be no point telling us all of that and saying it with such confidence if it was just "no she's actually dead", and it would leave the question of "How the hell did Eleven get out of the truck and to the gate without being seen", because she COULDN'T have gotten over there with the situation as it was UNLESS Kali helped her, at which point it's a more logical conclusion that she snuck away rather than ran to her death||

sage finch
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ST all ||they need to milk more spinoffs, killing her would run counter to that goal||

minor ledge
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also ST finale ||why the hell did the abyss have the breaking bad mexico piss filter all over it||

sage finch
#

Nowhere more dangerous than Mexico

placid river
dusk hound
#

Walk with me

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distant birch
#

I kinda see it

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At least I see the physical resemblance

sacred slate
#

We have started watching SPN and it is definitely a product of it's time. (Production, cast(both recurring and one offs), etc)

minor ledge
#

nononononono

velvet oriole
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https://youtu.be/4x_lObzaD2w

This series goes so hard. It gives me rvb and Tales of the Past vibes.

Best video game adaptation media in a while.

10/10 Owls.

YouTube
Shippiddge
Starter Squad - Episodes 1-10

The starter Pokemon rebel against humanity and decide to evolve themselves.

0:00 - Ep 1: Choose A Starter
1:38 - Ep 2: A Wild Encounter
3:30 - Ep 3: Showdown At Viridian
6:55 - Ep 4: The Caterpie Ambush
11:11 - Ep 5: Charmander Gets Punched in the Face
18:07 - Ep 6: The Forest King
24:41 - Ep 7: Fight Fire With Fire
33:57 - Ep 8: Ooo Look At M...

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minor ledge
distant birch
#

just barely over two weeks??

minor ledge
#

only have 14 days form batman p2

forest wigeon
minor ledge
cold sequoia
#

Clearly Netflix and AMC are negotiating. AMC countered with 45 days which isnt gonna happen for smaller films.

placid river
#

What power does AMC have in these negotiations?

cold sequoia
#

Theatrical runs make a lot of money

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There's a reason Netflix rushed to get movies like Kpop Demon Hunters into theaters when it was a hit on streaming

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Stranger Things finale also apparently did quite well financially for theaters. Netflix isnt getting any box office money from Stranger Things due to the cast contracts so that seems to just be a gift to AMC

oak ivy
#

Movies basically having the perfect revenue model and streaming taking a sledgehammer to it is crazy

topaz oyster
cold sequoia
#

Yeah, by "movies" what do you mean exactly

oak ivy
#

Theater to dvd release to tv networks specifically

minor ledge
#

im rewatching freemans mind,,,,, i remmeber this being funnier than it is

topaz oyster
#

It just happened to undercut the second and the third and covid allowed it to undercut the first

dusk hound
cold sequoia
#

The 17 day window is currently used by Universal for their cheap movies

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In a deal written with AMC
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/amc-theatres-universal-collapsing-theatrical-window-17-days-unprecedented-pact-1304759/

The Hollywood Reporter
THR Staff
AMC Theatres, Universal Collapsing Theatrical Window to 17 Days in ...

AMC Theatres has struck a historic agreement with Universal that will allow the studio's movies to be made available on premium video-on-demand after 17 days of play in cinemas, including three weekends, the two companies announced Tuesday.

oak ivy
topaz oyster
#

The responses are intentional but viewer habits changed a long time ago

cold sequoia
#

The economies of streaming and for pvod are a bit different. A single pvod is like $20 for a 48 hour rental

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I agree that it's in Netflixs interest to give tentpole releases more than 3 weekends in theaters

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I think the real fight with theaters will be over the smaller releases

forest wigeon
distant birch
#

Starting ST finale

#

||aaaaand ive forgotten the plan xD||

#

||do we know why vecna kept will in the UD in s1 instead of the abyss?||

sage finch
#

Cuz they weren’t done making that part up lolz

distant birch
#

||ok, iirc the plan is to blow up the matter stuff holding the UD together to get the worlds to stop merging. Is there a reason that wont kill everyone?||

#

||I'm sorry youre gay xD||

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||"friends? No thanks, best friends" god.||

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||oh what the heck||

placid river
distant birch
#

||That makes sense||

placid river
distant birch
#

I've genuinely just forgotten half of what they said in 5x7, dont mind me xD

placid river
#

Don’t remember when specifically the explained the details of the plan

sage finch
#

It’s hard to remember all their plans when they have a planning session every 15 mins

distant birch
#

||I think I remember something about it not going off immediately. Was it linked to a record? Or was that just a metaphor||

placid river
distant birch
#

STs5 finale ||and what's el and kali's role? Are they just going to be attacking vecna?||

sage finch
#

Fun fact kali literally translates to “black” in Hindi

placid river
west escarp
#

https://www.tumblr.com/teatimetaker/796129833744760832/instagram-social-media-in-general-tbh-is-really

Bruh I just want to draw!

Instagram (social media in general tbh) is really starting to piss me off but I still want to share my art cause I love drawing and its fun and don't want my art to stay sitting in my art folder

Anyway here's Dick and Bruce (shockingly enough this one of his better parenting moves)

-# #batman #dick grayson #robin #dc robin #bruce wayne #dc batman #dc comics #dc universe #dc fanart #batman and robin #batman fanart #my art #comic art #nightwing #batfam #batfamily

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ionic lily
#

Rewatching Doctor Who and just got to Clara

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God I love her theme

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Also she’s gorgeous

agile drift
#

I've been meaning to rewatch the clara seasons ~~definitely not because I have a crush on her ~~

west escarp
#

Reminder that Mandy Patinkin can also sing

naive mica
ionic lily
#

Real

heavy anchor
west escarp
crystal brook
#

Marty Supreme ||That was one of, if not the, most insane films ive ever seen||

west escarp
#

Box office for Red Sonja (2025)

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Box office for Red Sonja (1985)

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Something has gone terribly wrong here

placid river
west escarp
#

The original one also looks terrible

terse crystal
#

I was gonna say I didn’t even know there was a new one

#

Marketing dropped the ball or just straight up didn’t want to spend the time and money on it

cobalt onyx
#

From what I've heard, the movie spent like 2 decades in limbo, bouncing from one director and casting set to another

crimson kelp
placid river
west escarp
#

The new one would’ve been better if it embraced the inherent silliness of the sword and sorcery genre

lone canyon
#

@oak ivy we’re getting Paul

west escarp
#

Paul! Paul! Paul! Paul!

ivory night
#

Hell yeah

oak ivy
#

Also why are you on that reddit camille 🤨

west escarp
#

Because it’s very funny

#

And because the marvel equivalent is full of people using fantasy racism against mutants to reinvent the n word

oak ivy
#

Comics fans are a plague

#

(i regularly buy comics)

minor ledge
minor ledge
#

spiderman fans are the star wars fans of comics tbh

oak ivy
#

See, paul existing makes sense in this continuity

minor ledge
#

its prob harry though if i had to guess

west escarp
#

Shh paul time

topaz oyster
minor ledge
#

Although the osborns existing kinda doesnt make sense in the MCU tbh

topaz oyster
#

IIRC Oscorp at least already does exist in-continuity?

distant birch
#

I thought it was confirmed to not exist in NWH?

topaz oyster
#

I'd have to go and watch it again but I remember my reading being that Oscorp was or at least could be fundamentally different but still extant without breaking anything in-continuity or what was said in the movie

#

No tower in NYC, etc

minor ledge
#

youd think someone would make a comment on it to tobeyverse osborn if oscorp existed in the MCU

topaz oyster
#

They did

lone canyon
lone canyon
merry heath
#

TMA 160 relisten ||This episode is so deliciously delightful knowing what's to happen||

molten jetty
oak ivy
#

ashoka ||ezra wasnt trapped with thrwan, thrawn was trapped with paul||

cold sequoia
hushed moss
west escarp
#

Paul or bust!!! Paul or bust!!!

hushed moss
dusk hound
#

PAULLLL

#

PAUL RABIN

distant birch
#

ST finale ||this love triangle is so funny. Neither guy ends up with nancy and then we get actual half-decent chemistry between the two guys LUL ||

wise epoch
#

||Would have salvaged the whole plotline tbh tbh||

distant birch
#

ST finale ||is the red rocky dimension between the real world and the mind-prison meant to be vecna's mind world? like el's black void?||

minor isle
#

That's what I understood yes

wise epoch
#

Yeah

distant birch
#

||xD I love mike explaining that he needs some firepower as well before demonstrating that he does not know anything about said firepower||

wise epoch
#

It's weird because ||we get two entirely new locales that are not the Upside Down, meaning we have FOUR different planes of reality. We have the real world, the Upside Down, Henry's mindscape, and the second world being connected||

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Oh wait actually I think I misread your comment

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||The mind prison is Henry's mindscape||

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||The red rocky dimension is the world that Vecna wants to use the Upside Down to merge with Earth||

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That's how I understood it

distant birch
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||that max (and later max and holly) went through in s4 and mid s5 to escape from vecna's visions/camasotz||

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||from the running up that hill scene||

wise epoch
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Ohhh

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Then yeah

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||I think both that and the mind prison are Vecna's mindscape, but the mind prison is the one obviously shaped by Vecna more||

distant birch
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ST finale ||my understanding is there's the abyss, upside down, and real world as three realms/planets of physical space, and then there's the mind spaces of el's void, camazotz/visions, and the red place||

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||oh my goddd not this guy again||

minor isle
distant birch
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||scarred face military guy||

minor isle
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Ah

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|| the whole millitary is so so annoying ||

distant birch
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||rip kali she was in the show fr||

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||...did they seriously just bring her back so she could make el agree to kill herself and then die?||

ivory night
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I think the new Jon Bois series might be the best he’s ever done

burnt shale
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its good but i wouldn't put it above a couple of the others

minor ledge
heavy anchor
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Man how did I totally miss that Comicstorian passed away a year and a bit ago

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He was one of my favorite YouTubers back in the day when I was really into comics, I spent so many hours on his videos
I haven't watched him in years which is probably why I wasn't aware but rip Benny, you were one of the best parts of my teenage years

steep bramble
vernal stirrup
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guys Jamie Campbell Bower might be the perfect Scarecrow

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i've seen art of him as Joker but he fits Scarecrow better tho he would do fantastic as either

dusk hound
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So

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Stranger Things fans online are somehow deluding themselves into thinking there’s going to be a 9th episode released on January 7th

distant birch
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I saw that...

dusk hound
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Close enough, welcome back Sherlock fandom

ivory night
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Begone back to the 2010s where it belongs

ionic lily
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Superwholock is soon to infiltrate the server

molten jetty
minor isle
distant birch
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if it takes me until the 7th to finish watching the finale does that count?

crystal brook
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ST5 e6 ||Im so tired of this season already, its so bad||

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||Endless scene upon scene of characters figuring stuff out or planning stuff with characters assigning themselves to objects for physical planning and ending each others sentences||

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||and idc about any of these people at this point, especially after all the forced character drama||

small quarry
# crystal brook ||and idc about any of these people at this point, especially after all the forc...

https://youtu.be/Zb7ka0yn43M

YouTube
Man Carrying Thing
basically every dialogue scene in the new Stranger Things

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...

▶ Play video
buoyant scroll
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I feel like that gave me a stroke

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It almost started to make sense at one point and i got scared

civic trellis
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Dumb question: does "man carrying thing" mean:

  • a man carrying a thing
  • a man-carrying thing?
azure fern
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I think the former

paper hull
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He's not always carrying thing, but sometimes I guess.

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Larger proportion of this video than usual has him carrying thing. LUL

acoustic pewter
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My dad and I finally finished Stranger Things a couple nights ago.

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Loved it.

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I love this series. I want to rewatch the whole show from the beginning again. Even if it means rewatching Season 3. 😛

hushed moss
forest wigeon
minor ledge
civic trellis
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ohhh, i see

sonic trench
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I think the channel name is derived from a poem he likes?

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can't remember

topaz oyster
crystal brook
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Its not just her

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Even Steve did one

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Ive not seen the final episode yet so ive probably got another good 5 to sit through still, looking at the length of the episode

dusk hound
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New 52 DC editors really saw this relationship and said “Ok, but what if we made Lois insufferable and not interested in Clark and ALSO what if we paired Clark up with Wonder Woman, the most boring possible partner for him”

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west escarp
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Diana deserves better

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Clark deserves better too because there is no upgrading from Lois Lane

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Lois doesn’t deserve this either

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It’s just that of the pair, she’s the catch. How many Pulitzer does her husband have again? That’s right. Fewer than her

topaz oyster
dusk hound
distant birch
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After Superman i doubt it

dusk hound
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Oh 100%

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I’m just memeing

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No way you have an entire movie dedicated to Clark and Lois being perfect for each other just to throw that away

verbal lintel
dusk hound
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I don’t really like Bruce x Diana either tbh, like sure it’s WAY better than WonderSupes but I prefer when the trinity are just three very close friends

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I also think the lack of an actual love interest (besides maybe Steve?) for Diana has just resulted in editors trying to pair her up with almost everyone in DC to see if anything works

keen flax
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glances at you in Bruce x Clark 🤨

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Of the trinity thats my favorite tbh

dusk hound
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And yes btw I do have an AO3 tab on my phone open at all times

cold sequoia
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I think that Bruce and Diana is almost entirely a Bruce Timm animated thing

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in the comics he's got like 2 or 3 other people who are next in line after Selina before Diana

dusk hound
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Yeah, I don’t recall it being an actual thing in the comics, I know WonderSupes was a thing in the N52 but I don’t know if Bruce and Diana were ever a thing

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Talia is Bruce’s second love interest after Selina anyway

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Like that’s been an established thing

cold sequoia
molten jetty
keen flax
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I dont think so??

molten jetty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Knights_of_Steel

Dark Knights of Steel

Dark Knights of Steel is an American comic book created by Tom Taylor and Yasmine Putri and published by the publishing company DC Comics. The twelve-issue limited series—written by Taylor and illustrated primarily by Putri—began its monthly publication on November 2, 2021. Set in an alternate universe, the series is a high fantasy reimagini...

distant birch
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I recently caught up on the current world's finest batman/superman comic and its so fun

dusk hound
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Mark Waid said he’s gonna keep writing that book until he retires

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I want 100 issues AT LEAST of that run

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It’s crazy good

distant birch
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God that sounds amazing if so

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I hope the DCU gives superman/Batman more of a friendship (than rivalry)

dusk hound
molten jetty
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||this is Supes and Batman||

minor ledge
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speakong of comics

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im reading through absolute batman rn

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I dont get the hype

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i really dont

distant birch
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Honestly some decent chunk of it probably does just come from the crazy (re)designs

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I know the Joker design was getting spread around everywhere online

minor ledge
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its not full on like batman thats just punisher but it has a lot of overlap with that area

distant birch
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Tbh I read it as one of my first comics last year and for me it was mainly just a really easy book to get into with some cool art and moments

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I don't think I've read enough Batman to properly judge the characterisation but I found it easy to get into and sort of... connect with the energy of (because of how some of the reveal/hype moments were done)

merry heath
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Huh TMA 188 is sponsored by The Rythem of war by some indie author called Brandon Sanderson

terse crystal
crimson kelp
paper hull
west escarp
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SG1’s favorite problem solving device 🙂

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Solid success rate

crimson kelp
sacred slate
# crimson kelp ||I feel like at a certain point they just sorta stop trying to even pretend tha...

To be fair ||They did realize the zat thing was stupid, they wrote themselves in a corner and basically stopped using them in production, and parodied it in 200.

Goa'uld tech was only good against the technologies they allowed to proliferate as the snakeheads got trapped in the idea that they were gods and couldn't conceive of real opposition/dumbing down their tech. It's a recurring theme for all the advanced species.||

fair dirge
#

TO ME MY X MEN🤑

minor isle
verbal lintel
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We getting Wolverine vs Hulk movie adaptation after this huh

minor isle
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|| that shot of Cyclops tho ||

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peak fiction

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singlehandedly made me interested in this movie

molten jetty
ionic lily
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Suddenly I’m interested

winged mountain
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I don't know how many final appearances Patrick Stewart needs in this role but I'm down

fair dirge
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talking about art

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cold sequoia
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the cinematography of all the trailers was locked in months ago at least

minor ledge
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or is it like just the same actors

winged mountain
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well they say the X-Men will return, implying that it's them. I suppose it's a matter of perspective, though

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their timelines are a little funky to begin with

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I'd think of it either as, 'it's them', or 'it's a newly introduced universe within the MCU that is virtually identical to the FOX series'

west escarp
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Don’t ask questions just watch the xmen shaped dangling keys

minor isle
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I mean
Would you honestly expect them to pull together a decent story after this whole debacle with Majors and this last phase?

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I don't. So I am just here for nostalgia bait which works for me which is || Xmen||

small quarry
winged mountain
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though honestly, even if nothing went wrong with Majors, I think they'd be doing the same thing? And if you believe Feige, RDJ probably still would have come in as Doom by the time Secret Wars came around, whether or not Majors was in the movie

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like, the audiences have given Marvel a pretty clear mandate here, popular pre-existing characters sell tickets, but they're not interested in new characters and new franchises right now

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spider-man sells, Deadpool & Wolverine sells, even Dr Strange sells, but anything new? Not today

minor ledge
fair dirge
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I just think the Russo brothers wanted the X-Men to tell a story and they got them. I don't know if they had any trouble deciding which version they should use; they just chose the obvious answer

winged mountain
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FWIW I'm mostly just leaning towards the 'virtually identical universe' interpretation when I watch it, partially because I'm guessing that the X-Men universe, as well as many universes portrayed in the film, are probably gonna bite the dust

fair dirge
winged mountain
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I think they will do their best within the conditions they're under

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I mostly trust the Russo bros, and if they thought it was just gonna be slop, they wouldn't be here

fair dirge
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And you really don't need multiple branches across various themes to tell it

winged mountain
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(yes I know how much money they're making)

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(not exactly but it's a lot)

fair dirge
winged mountain
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I've suspected for a while that the ending of the 'Multiverse' saga was going to be some sort of reboot, give them an opportunity to start over, and this is the big blowout sale

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nothing I've seen so far makes me doubt this

fair dirge
#

I think what brought the Russo brothers there is the story of how to get there

frail mulch
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I love the foX-Men. they're not good movies but I had a lot of fun watching them

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Age of Apocalypse is just so silly but my bestie and I had a great time in the theater watching it

dusk hound
small quarry
minor ledge
#

cosnidering they made electric state

winged mountain
#

K

fair dirge
#

You're not going to ask Scorsese to make a superhero movie, and you're not going to ask Tolkien to write a space science fiction book

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The Russo brothers' success with Marvel is expected to be the same, since obviously Marvel hasn't had a bad movie to this day with them as directors

minor ledge
muted solar
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ST S5E6 || They’re introducing the idea THIS LATE that the upside down is a wormhole bridge?

On one hand, that’s hella neat. On the other, you can’t just raise the question of “what’s the world on the other side like?” 2 episodes before your finale like that. That’s a recipe for disappointment because either:

  • it’s not answered
  • it’s answered and it’s boring
    -it’s answered, it’s interesting, and it sets you up for another series that may or may not happen

Kinda guarantees you’re going to have an unsatisfying ending. I’m way more interested now in what’s on the other side of the wormhole than the core plot
||

minor ledge
fair dirge
minor ledge
minor ledge
distant birch
distant birch
vernal stirrup
muted solar
buoyant scroll
# vernal stirrup ||I actually love that twist cuz up till then i had a gripe that they drew the p...

||Actually, funnily enough, the comparison they make for the Upside-Down in S1 is the Plane of Shadow.
The Plane of Shadow...is a transitive plane. It connects multiple worlds together. Though...not anything like the wormhole thing that i doubt they had the idea for til starting on S5.
While I can believe the Duffers that they always imagined it as a bridge, i expect the exact form wasn't nailed down till now.||

vernal stirrup
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ST finale ||hot take: it was pretty good. I know its kinda sloppily made, with tons of little goofs (which led to the conformity gate theory), but JCB is such an incredible actor with his facial expressions and Joyce killing him with the axe was incredible (tho he died a little too easily) Also holly and max cooked this season and i want to like it becuz they're in it. Also just the cutting to all of vecnas crimes was pretty awesome and really hit home for me just how much these people have been in throuhg. Also Mike and El in the void was so so good||

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||I think it could've been improved by cutting the CGI monster slop and just have a really well done fight with 5-10 demogorgons and vecna fighting the party. They did this well in episode 4 and it would've been a lot more interesting than season 3 again||

topaz oyster
placid river
west escarp
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It’s the Johnlock conspiracy 2

acoustic pewter
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Yo, I liked the ST finale, I don't get all the complaints.

minor ledge
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the finale is like mechanically fine i guess but the writing of the whole season is just so bland

crystal brook
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ST 5 all ||I thought everything in season 5 was mostly terrible, the cgi looked glorpy most of the time, the acting was terrible to mid, the dialogue was terrible, there was a huge number of dissatisfying plots or just plot threads that died, didnt care about any of the character drama and most of it never resolved anyway||

minor ledge
#

and it also happened off screen

crystal brook
minor ledge
crystal brook
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||It truly took the cake when his graduation speech at the end was about how everyone came together and social circles merged 😭 ||

minor ledge
crystal brook
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ST 5 all ||The pregnant women were supposed to be in the upside down base right? Guess they all died and any remaining soldier in the upside down base died||

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||Unless the military randomly abandoned the upside down base for no reason in a matter of hours?||

minor ledge
cobalt onyx
minor ledge
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yeah bro please bro the rich need all there money stealing from nobles is unethical please please

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please listen to us

lucid haven
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Did you watch the trailer ?

lucid haven
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Heres the trailer so we can all talk from the same point

crystal brook
#

The plot to me seems to be the tired folk hero was actually a bad guy but then uses his skills he used as a bad guy to help someone from the next generation and then he dies trope

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it doesnt seem anything particularly complex

lucid haven
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I just mean

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Its infinitely more complexthan Kriss was making it out to be

minor ledge
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lmao

lucid haven
minor ledge
oak ivy
minor ledge
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the one what if robin hood was bad where the crusades were just the iraq war was at least funnier because it was so stupid

cold sequoia
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if you watch the trailer I would say that it actually doesn't boil down to that at all

lucid haven
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It boils down to the plot loyd outlined. Which while its kinda done a few times before is more complex than "please take this pro rich poeple propaganda, please listen to us stealing from nobels is unethical"

wide stag
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I could satisfy my completionist streak so hard...

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lucid haven
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So many good shows on this list

minor ledge
cold sequoia
#

ok

wide stag
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I have so many shows that I've taken to the last season and just... not finished 😅

lucid haven
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Of the list I would put sens8, magicians and orphan black at the top

wide stag
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I did struggle with the Magicians a bit - but that was true for the books too

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I am sure I'll get around to it eventually

winged mountain
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it's funny, pluribus was a show where I really enjoyed the show, didn't really connect with the complaints, and then the season finale came out and I just didn't watch it, granted it was holiday week and I had other things to do but still, it's been long enough

minor ledge
#

i still need to watch pluribus

wide stag
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I still need to find out what platypus is all about

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I feel like I'd never heard of it, and then everyone was talking about it like everyone else knew about it

winged mountain
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it was made by Vince Gilligan of Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul fame, so it sort of gives it a built-in audience for a new show

ivory night
dusk hound
wide stag
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I mean, it helps that Milly Alcock just looks good 😅

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(but yes, I don't disagree)

winged mountain
#

she was so good in House of the Dragon, I honestly suspect her character aging out of the actress is why I stopped watching it

dusk hound
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That’s Rhaenyra Targaryen to you Argent smh

buoyant scroll
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Gotta love that disheveled "I need three more grandes and a big gulp stat" look

minor ledge
wide stag
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I am extremely behind on all things DC, but I am very fond of disaster Supergirl

dusk hound
#

You should watch the new Superman

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It’s real good

minor ledge
wide stag
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I am not behind enough to not recognize that as Marvel!

keen flax
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Ill get around to it!

minor ledge
#

oh wait the joke there is that the "Chai tea means tea tea" scene from spiderverse(which is a dumbass point but wtver) and i was making a joke abotu how disaster supergirl is just supergirl or wtver

wide stag
#

too subtle

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it works

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but too subtle

placid river
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It’s literally correct. Chai means tea

winged mountain
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it's kinda dumb because that may be what it means in their language, but in our language it's how we describe a particular style of tea

ivory night
cold sequoia
winged mountain
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it's fine for them to make that point, in the sense that it's weird to them? But it's not really a profound point or anything

minor ledge
lucid haven
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Its the same kinda joke as making a funny about atm machines or all the lake lakes or all the river rivers

oak ivy
#

Damn spiderverse is a good movie

keen flax
dusk hound
#

Well I guess today we find out if there’s an actual secret episode of Stranger Things or not

minor ledge
dusk hound
#

I can’t wait to see this goofy ass man interview Bruce Wayne and the Princess of Themyscira LUL

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small quarry
#

stranger things s5e9 ||damn this episode is crazy good||

dusk hound
#

Mia

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I want you to know

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You actually made me check Netflix LUL

molten jetty
#

The real trick ||Vecna|| pulled was creating mass delusion in the ST fanbase

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The irony being (ST) ||the very fans saying society has been duped are the delusional ones lol||

topaz oyster
winged mountain
#

anyone have any examples of a TV series doing a sort of pre-planned encore episode after the announced finale?