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[minor ledge]

i just wanted a shang chi sequel that movie was actually really good

[civic trellis]

did shang chi even show up in anything outside of his own movie?

[fair dirge]

The next time we see him will be in Doomsday lol

[minor ledge]

no lol

[fair dirge]

Maybe I'm optimistic, but the few people who were going to go to the cinema to see those movies were the same ones who confirmed that they were bad movies or more of the same

And looking at it from a business perspective, the people who liked it represent 1%, so I prefer to make something that 99% will like

You can't make everyone happy

[civic trellis]

For Marvel's sake, I definitely hope the difference in people who liked and disliked them isn't quite as dramatic

But, I see what you mean

[minor ledge]

Which is weird because it was a pretty good success for when it released

esp for right after covid

[acoustic pewter]

I certainly liked most of Shang-Chi. I wasn't very fond of the ending. Ending spoilers ||I felt like the whole "Dweller in Darkness" and huge climactic battle against hordes of CGI monsters was kind of a letdown, especially since the emotional core of the story was the parent-child conflict. I think it would have been a better ending to center the climax on the conflict between Shang-Chi, Xialing, and Wenwu. Lukewarm take, I know. Plus the CGI slugfest thing is kind of overdone and tired out.||

[placid river]

Doomsday is not ignoring everything after Endgame lol. A Quick Look at the cast list confirms that. Not sure where that idea even came from

[keen flax]

Memoirs of a Geisha like an hour ish in ||I hope hatsumono goes bald by the end of this movie. She has been an opp the entire time||

[acoustic pewter]

I don't think the movie will, of course, but the first Captain America trailer they released definitely gave that vibe. The Thor trailer, less so, because it very clearly follows after Love and Thunder. I haven't seen today's trailer yet, but it looks like it follows up Wakanda Forever. So it's not so much a "movie ignores post-Endgame" as "vibe ignores post-Endgame", I think?

[frail mulch]

Shang Chi's shown up in What If and I think the Marvel Zombies show but I haven't watched that yet

[empty locust]

https://youtu.be/oc1CsPiEhfk?si=fUbH6ZmOCPmZDO06

I just love this scene so much!

[acoustic pewter]

That movie was really good

I don't think it quite tops the first Cinderella/Prince encounter in Ever After, but it doesn't need to. It's just really sweet.

[winged mountain]

I don't think 'ignoring' is the right term at all, but I also don't expect it to deeply reflect anything after Endgame either, if that makes sense? It'll bring forward characters from those movies and series, but I really don't expect them to matter too much for the most part

and I honestly think that's just fine

but, like, all the signals from Marvel Studios is 'if you haven't watched our recent movies, don't worry, you can still watch this'

[minor isle]

I mean it kinda is ignoring tho
|| Chris Evan's whole character arc, and new Avengers and etc are proven to not work and hence they are returning back the new cast and stuff to generate hype ||

[winged mountain]

when people say 'ignoring' in contexts like this, they often mean things like 'this is a sequel to Terminator 2, no other Terminator movies exist in the world of this new movie' or something like that

I think I'd describe it as being more 'brushed aside' or something?

'yeah, other things happened, but they don't matter too much, don't worry about it'

[minor isle]

brushed aside is a more apt way yea

[empty locust]

yes!

[buoyant scroll]

they're dangling shiny keys without regard to how theyd previously given those keys a satisfying conclusion

which, to be fair to them, maybe they actually plan on doing something interesting with those keys
but they havent done anything to build up to it so it feels reactionary

[minor isle]

|| a final homage or fanservice or w/e before universe reset || doomsday/secret wars

[winged mountain]

I'm reluctant to ever use the word 'final' when talking about anything comics-relateed

[placid river]

Those new Avengers are literally in the movie though?

[minor ledge]

||The new avengers are the like second most loved part of post endgame MCU???||

[molten jetty]

😭

[cobalt onyx]

||A final homage before a writer looks at audience retention graphs and goes "but what if we had Ironman and The Hulk duke it out in New York again?"||

[keen flax]

In spite of that, I really like this movie! I can see why my mom likes it so much

[molten jetty]

I like it too!

[keen flax]

I do have one gripe and its (Memiors of a Geshia) ||I wish it was fully in Japanese like Shogun. I understand it was 2005 but it would have elevated it imo. Othet than that, the cinematography, the acting, the score, the drama, all of it was ||

||hatsumono and pumpkin (WHO WAS MY FAVORITE RIGHT UNTIL THE END WHEN SHE TURNED ON MY GIRL) can go kick rocks, and Michelle yeoh was a star||

[molten jetty]

||Michelle Yeoh was the goat||

[fair dirge]

The Russo brothers have said that these aren't just teasers, but stories, and that we should pay attention to the clues.

[agile drift]

Sideways return in 2026 https://youtu.be/-dJLcqHdRv8

[civic trellis]

https://tenor.com/view/starwars-obi-wan-now-thats-a-name-ive-not-heard-in-along-time-gif-11814407

[keen flax]

I need to see it, maybe this week

The movie, not the yt video 😂

But the yt video will come after!

[topaz oyster]

There's something kinda Jeb Bush about it

[molten jetty]

Hunchback is like a madlad of Disney movies

The musical is genius

(The musical also pissed Disney off enough they wouldn’t give it the Broadway transfer)

[midnight compass]

I watched this movie for the first time a couple weeks ago and this song is indeed 🔥 fire 🔥

[cold sequoia]

oh this is the Avatar music guy

[ionic lily]

My favorite actress

[buoyant scroll]

[magic dust]

You want my hot take? The Hunchback musical is just as bad/confusing tonally as the animated film, just in the opposite direction.

[steep bramble]

I sawwww! Great video.

I read the last message in this channel and was about to go ‘funnily enough’ and then scrolled up and of course people were going to mention Sideways returning.

[lone canyon]

I honestly think making frollo sympathetic at the start works much better

[ionic lily]

The production cycle of these videos are very interesting. Obviously this is his first in a while, but he posted an early version of this on his patreon a couple months ago and there are a lot of differences

[steep bramble]

Fascinating

[molten jetty]

I think Frollo is both more interesting and more human

(And scarier)

[ionic lily]

I just don’t like the recent spate of sympathetic villains

[molten jetty]

Frollo in the musical is not sympathetic

[ionic lily]

Ya

I meant as a response to Camille

[molten jetty]

Ah

[ionic lily]

I need to watch the musical again, it’s been forever

[molten jetty]

I think Bells of Notre Dame in the musical vs. the movie ||establishes Frollo as this very human character with very real failings. Are there reasons he is the way he is? Yes. But he is terrible.
The movie presents him as mustache twirling. He is evil but he is not human. He is a caricature you are meant to hate.
And musical Frollo is human and you hate him for how real he is. How often people like him do exist irl||

[lone canyon]

I think he’s sympathetic enough to be human, we are meant to both empathize with/ pity him and condemn him

[ionic lily]

||In the movie he is directly delusional||

[molten jetty]

The musical also complicates things by ||making him a priest and all of his “religious” choices are from his extreme fervent faith and not his assumption of his own power||

[lone canyon]

Hunchback is the one Disney movie that would actually really benefit from a live action adaptation

[molten jetty]

If only they would do the musical version LOL

Hunchback is my 2nd fav musical so I adore it

[molten jetty]

Parents would get mad at their kids getting traumatized tho sigh

[lone canyon]

It’s soo good! Not my fav but definitely up there

[molten jetty]

For those unfamiliar
https://youtu.be/VIoxqM4loNw?si=2sh4sAvyHllT9XOG

They take the original music and tweak it a lot to fit the vibe of the new version of the story and show

[ionic lily]

In the movie, it’s ||blurred, because he keeps the clerical robes and hat||

[molten jetty]

In the movie ||he is a judge in the city. ||

||he uses the church as a cover for his actions||

[ionic lily]

||But it also deliberately evokes religious imagery with him, implicitly giving him religious authority ||

[molten jetty]

I’m sure it goes without saying why this change was made from the book

[molten jetty]

||it definitely feels like they wanted to make commentary but were scared of pissing off the wrong people||

[ionic lily]

Idk, this was well ||before the major scandals broke||

[molten jetty]

||he was a priest in the book||

[ionic lily]

Yeah, I’m just not sure that that was the motivation for the change

[spring barn]

Just finished Cronos, and with that, every del Toro film (except Mimic which he apparently has disowned in a way)

How does he do it

How is this his debut

It's so good

Hell I'd say it's as close to a perfect film as I have seen in my albeit very limited experience

[cold sequoia]

I liked it

seeing it after having seen most of his more recent work definitely was an interesting experience

Cronos ||the body horror, interest in father figures, and interest in sympathetic "monsters" being the most obvious ones||

||in the director commentary he said that he set out to make the most pathetic vampire he could thing of, his favorite scene (which I probably agree with) is the bathroom scene ||

I definitely think his later work surpassed it though

[spring barn]

I watched it after every single one of his movies (except the aforementioned Mimic) and still adored it

I do still prefer Frankenstein and Crimson Peak over it, mostly because of visuals and vibes but I think this has less flaws

Certainly less than Frankenstein (which I can't help but hold as my no. 1 cause it makes me feel very warm and fuzzy)

[cold sequoia]

Crimson Peak ||apparently Crimson Peak is a bit divisive but I thought it was a really good gothic horror and the production design was incredible ||

also liked Franktenstein quite a bit

[spring barn]

Those two are my top 2 del Toro

[cold sequoia]

I think my top 2 would be Pans Labyrinth and Pinocchio

3rd might be Pacific Rim lol

[spring barn]

Very based

Frankenstein is straight up my fav movie of all time tbh

Is it flawless? Hell no

Is it the best movie I've ever seen? Probably not either

But

It just feels wrong to call anything else my favourite movie

There's something special about it that doesn't make sense in any tangible way

But in my mind it does

And Crimson Peak comes close to scratching that same itch

[cold sequoia]

I can see that

[spring barn]

All I can put out is

Sincerity and contrast are two of the things that make great art to me

And these two have plenty of both

There's a ton of intensity and violence and even gore

But they're also very tender and heartfelt and sincere

I love that

[spring barn]

This is also why TWOK is my favourite book

It's huge and grand and the bridge run sections are the grittiest the series gets

[cold sequoia]

I think del Toro would do really interesting stuff with mistborn or stormlight (but I don't think it'd be in directions that Brandon would want lol)

[spring barn]

But it also has beautiful atmosphere with Shallan and some amazingly haunting moments at the Shattered Plains

[spring barn]

del Toro and Cameron are the only people I would 100% trust with Stormlight

Cameron moreso with Stormlight but I can see del Toro nailing both

[cold sequoia]

yeah I think del Toro is more Era 1 coded

[spring barn]

In del Toro's version (Stormlight minor) ||Syladin would immediately be a thing though||

[cold sequoia]

||he'd also LOVE the singers||

Stormlight ||we would definitely get a horrific scene showing one changing forms after being taken over by a Fused||

[spring barn]

I'd certainly trust them more with him than Cameron

Although Cameron has a greater chance of keeping them as is while del Toro would like to touch on the sociopolitical aspect + darkeye/lighteye a lot more

Which I'd love

[novel bear]

The Chair Company 5 ||the ending of this episode is some of the hardest i've laughed in a long time||

[minor isle]

Same

I think Frankenstein is his only work I don't like as much

[minor isle]

I think the main difference would be Cameron going more fantastical magical while del Toro would go more horror.

Regardless of if they will change story beats or have more emphasis to some or not

So in that regard, I think Cameron would be a better fit

God when will Pitt s2 end

I want to binge it so bad

https://x.com/TheCinesthetic/status/2010104864261415392

cinesthetic. (@TheCinesthetic)

James Cameron’s Avatar Concept Art from 1978

X · Jan 10, 2026, 9:42 PM

[minor ledge]

Del toro could do some really good stuff with the cosmere tbh

Im eh on cameron but tbh del toro or rian johnson are probably the best picks for stormlight

anyway all the ST discourse has finally settled so i think my official season rankings probably S1. S4,S2,S3,S5

[minor isle]

S1 > s2 > s3 > s5 >>>>>>>>>>> s4 personally

[minor ledge]

i think s1 js the only good season tbh

only like a fifth of 4 is actually good

[acoustic pewter]

S1, S4, S2, S5, S3 for me

I like them all, but I liked 3 the least

Still good, though

[distant birch]

S1>s4>s3>s2>s5 for me

I didn't hate s5 but I've also not finished it, sooo

Stopping halfway thru the finale takes some points of it

[minor ledge]

i think s5 and 3 are equally really bad writing wise but 3 has better vibes

[distant birch]

S3 definitely gets a lot of points for vibes from me

I don't really have any feelings good or bad on s5

It had some shots I thought were cool and some moments I liked, it had a few things I disliked, it had a lot that I don't really care either way for

[minor ledge]

3s acting was also way better

[spring barn]

I'd have Rian Johnson over for MBE2

[minor isle]

Damn

s4 of ST was worse than final season of GoT for me

[turbid narwhal]

||This whole episode is so good. The soup bit and the guy who’s cheating on his wife is so funny||

[distant birch]

Are you a fan of GoT s8(?) or a s4 hater?

[minor isle]

s4 hater

[minor isle]

.

[distant birch]

What did s4 do to you xD

[minor isle]

have every bit of thing I hate and have character drama and interseting concept progress in the direction I just didn't like and didn't fit the characters

Only good thing from s4 is || Kate Bush and Eleven/Brenner conclusion ||

[distant birch]

Dang xD

But if you didn't like it, I suppose

[minor isle]

I legit didn't like watching any single episode

hated it that much

[distant birch]

I don't remember having many gripes with s4

I think ST all ||I retroactively dislike the whole vecna thing a little because I found him very disappointing as a final antagonist in s5||

But tbh I might have different thoughts on s4 if I rewatched it now

[minor isle]

|| I like Vecna more in s5 cuz I had time to adjust with him. S4 I just hated it cuz it affected the eldritch horror-y vibe the Upside Down had and made it more fantasy ||

|| I hate the military and was frustrated how stupid conclusions they reached to. ||

[distant birch]

||see I'm kinda the opposite. I didn't mind the shift until it got to s5 and I started to feel like the more time we spent with it, the less interesting it was||

[minor isle]

|| I hated the Hellfire plotline with the bullies and stuff. Like I hate it in general, but it's already explored multiple times and why continue it ||

[distant birch]

||god the military are so annoying. I think I didn't mind them as much in s4 because they felt like they had more of a role compared to s5. That's probably another thing I'd like less rewatching after having seen most of s5 tbh||

[minor isle]

I hated it in both

||and hated it even more in s4 cuz they wasted more screen time ||

[distant birch]

||I enjoyed the Brenner plotline and so didn't mind the military existing in that, but seeing that it went nowhere at all makes me like it less||

||tbh I'd be interested to see what I think of s4 on rewatch because I do think there's a lot of threads that s5 does disappointingly little with||

[minor isle]

|| the characters relations evolved/progressed in a way that I don't find proper given their experiences and events at all ||

|| Eleven's stuff with the bullies and her character conflict and etc might have been needed or w/e, but it just made me frustrated cuz terrible people and all that. Like i can get it it's realistic or w/e but I hate watching those stuff ||

|| Lucas progresses in a direction I just can't fathom working. Max and Lucas too tho I can forgive it a bit given how it ended on and etc. Mike and Will doesn't make sense even more. ||

[distant birch]

||I'm ngl I cannot remember enough of what Mike and will do in s4 to comment on that||

[spring barn]

Biblical levels of hatred (only a fraction of what I felt for WAT for a good few months)

I think after that I disassociated with the Cosmere too much to feel such strong emotions anymore

I certainly am not going to consider it much better than I did

But neither am I gonna explode at its mention

[minor isle]

among the greatest book I have read

that, Imajica and One Hundred Years of Solitude

[steep bramble]

As in 100YoS is one of the greatest books you’ve read? You’re disagreeing to Kholinstark saying they hated it and saying WAT deserves to be on that list?

[minor ledge]

||IMO vecna worked really well in like the first quarter of s4 but in the last 3 quarters of 4 and the entiety of 5 he just felt goofy||

[minor isle]

well he knows
It's a thing we generally do where he hates it so much that he feels like mentioning it everytime and I love it so much that I reply that to him

[minor isle]

||I HATED vecna at start the most ||

[steep bramble]

Ahhhhh ok

[minor isle]

but yes it's in my top 3 books of all time with those other two mentioned

[steep bramble]

Ok ok

[minor isle]

why can't The Pitt finish soon 😔

wanting to watch it so much but I want to binge s2

[steep bramble]

PJO S2 keeps on being excellent

[dusk hound]

https://x.com/supermancore/status/2011306484144230862

superman core (@supermancore)

my adventures with superman returns in 2026

X · Jan 14, 2026, 5:16 AM

WE HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE BACK

IN THE HISTORY

OF BACK

https://tenor.com/view/squid-game-squid-game-2-cheers-happy-excited-gif-13406404385856133045

[civic trellis]

Ooooo

https://tenor.com/view/deku-mha-bnha-midoriya-my-hero-academia-gif-17290970

[keen flax]

Gives me time to catch up!

[placid river]

this is an unofficial account, what's their source on the 2026 release date?

did some searching and it looks like it was originally slated for 2025 though, so a 2026 release seems pretty likely

[heavy anchor]

Oh sweet!

[turbid laurel]

That’s a good movie

[dusk hound]

Mister Miracle animated show is confirmed to be DCU canon https://x.com/jamesgunn/status/2011450170337063410?s=46

James Gunn (@JamesGunn)

The world’s greatest escape artist made his debut on this day 55 years ago in 1971! Happy anniversary to Mister Miracle, who debuted in MISTER MIRACLE #1, written by Marv Wolfman and Jack Kirby, with pencils by Jack Kirby and inks by Vince Colletta.
Soon be seen in our DCU

X · Jan 14, 2026, 2:47 PM

Which means I should bring in my Mister Miracle fancast

[cold sequoia]

Given that they are doing an animated show (or maybe its a movie?) for him idk if they'll be casting live action anytime soon

[dusk hound]

IIRC Gunn said that voice actors will also be playing their characters in live action

So it’ll be both

For example: Frank Grillo voiced Rick Flag in Creature Commandos and also portrayed him in live action in Superman and Peacemaker

[west escarp]

My prediction for the Mr Miracle show is that it will make Big Barda into a breakout name

This is because the internet loves a big powerful confident lady

[dusk hound]

Yes, that is definitely why she will become a breakout name… definitely not any other reason 👀 👀

||DEFINITELY not because she’s a muscle mommy||

[distant birch]

Oh i gotta catch up

[dusk hound]

I have a proposition James Gunn…

Since we’re doing adaptations of comics now

As an animated show

The people yearn for Zatanna

[distant birch]

Is that comic good?

It popped up somewhere and I was thinking of reading it

[dusk hound]

Ya

Really good

[distant birch]

Ill give it a read sometime

[dusk hound]

You’ll have so much fun trying to read Zatanna’s spells

[buoyant scroll]

Yearn is...accurate

[dusk hound]

It’s me

I’m people

[buoyant scroll]

So excited to see what they do with Absolute Zatanna

[forest wigeon]

They'd probably need to do it in 3D. Apparently fishnets are hard to animate, which is why they were left out in the DCAU

[dusk hound]

Season 2 of Reacher in the books!

Overall I liked it

Definitely not as good as the first season but still solid

[buoyant scroll]

I don't think we're getting animated Absolute Zatanna then anytime soon xD

https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/absolute-zatanna-character-design.jpg

That muzzle goes hard

[oak ivy]

zatanna really should be a more prominent character bc she is a strong female character with deep lore (hot as hell)

[cold sequoia]

some day we'll get a zatanna and constantine thing adapted

[magic dust]

Isn't goth Zatanna just Raven?

[buoyant scroll]

no

Goth Zatanna is still Zatanna, and Zatanna and Raven are their own domains

[west escarp]

Yeah Zatanna doesn’t have the Rosemary’s Baby backstory

She just followed in her dad’s two careers: stage magician and regular magician

[oak ivy]

The perfect secret identity for a superhero magician: a stage magician

[west escarp]

She doesn’t have a superhero name

She just goes around introducing herself by her real name

[magic dust]

I would like to see more of her, though. My only experience so far has been the first season of Young Justice and the, like, one episode of Justice League she showed up in (the Wonder Woman pig episode).

[west escarp]

Like Constantine but at least he isn’t trying to be. Sheri

Young Justice Zatanna is very different. She’s usually Batman’s age, not Robin’s age

[dusk hound]

I really like the Batman:TAS tidbit where she’s childhood friends with Bruce

I thought that was always pretty neat

I think they even made it canon in the comics

[oak ivy]

@keen flax remember when zatanna and robin had a great dynamic and then the show did nothing with it

[magic dust]

Hey, I do have some appreciation for giving Dick more ships at random. But yeah, the format of that show between seasons killed a lot of narratives.

[oak ivy]

She does have a handful of good comic runs

[magic dust]

Still haven't gotten around to watching season 3

But I did like season 2 a lot.

[dusk hound]

Why must you torture her so

[buoyant scroll]

I hope Zatanna gets some bombastic focus soon
There's such fun you can do with choreography if a character has to be able to speak to do stuff

[keen flax]

https://tenor.com/view/goku-dragon-ball-hey-no-stop-dont-do-it-just-calm-down-gif-23823773

I run from my demons and they chase me down

[buoyant scroll]

(reminds me i need to get around to finding and watching the rest of the Yozakura Quartet stuff)

[west escarp]

Just one more season to wrap up Young Justice. One more season. Please

[dusk hound]

They won’t do a timeskip this time

I swear it’ll wrap up

Bro please

They definitely wont leave the season off on a cliffhanger that they won’t address at all in the next season

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/ilexvici/803668059520925696/rikers-planning-his-whole-future

The Majestic Tale of Mr Cool

Riker's life just flashed before his eyes

-# #star trek #trekedit #tng #star trek tng #riker #troi #deanna troi #william riker #meme

▶ Play video

Tumblr · Dec 22, 2025, 9:06 PM

[buoyant scroll]

omg, i was trying to look up some good gifs as an example and instead come across a different scene that finally solved a mystery for me of something i've been remembering but unable to place for so long 😩

[keen crow]

Who's excited for Doomsday

[oak ivy]

Ill probably watch it, but i wouldnt say i am excited

[keen crow]

I've been a huge marvel fan for years. And yeah their recent projects have been awful, but I think it's gonna be good

I'm kinda hyped

[muted solar]

I will also probably watch it but I also could barely care less.

(I feel the same about DC projects)

[keen flax]

I think for both it has to be about superheros I already carr about. Black Panther, xmen, you know

And more often than not i like the animated projects more so the mcu never really interested me

[muted solar]

Yeahhhh I can’t wait for spiderverse 3

That’s the only superhero media I really care about that I know is coming right now

Wolverine game may be cool too

[keen flax]

now beyond the spiderverse????????? it is ONE movie I am hyped for, 2027 cant get here faster

https://tenor.com/view/deku-gif-9325031

[oak ivy]

I think my appetite for hype end credit scenes and action figure mashup fight sequences and cool lore dumps has waned in recent years

[keen crow]

No wolverine game looks soooo good

[oak ivy]

Give me a good story and characters

[muted solar]

Oh damn 2027 is going to be a goated year. Just hit me that I’ll probably be getting married that year, and spiderverse 3 will be coming out. That’s so hype

[keen flax]

Your honeymoon is just yall 2 going to the movies to see it 😂

[muted solar]

Yeah though I wonder how much just stems from them milking everything and putting out mid movies

[lucid haven]

I might get married in 27 as well!!!

[muted solar]

Congrats!!!! Very exciting stuff!!!!

[minor isle]

I wasn't but after third teaser I am

[keen crow]

How much r the lotr tickets

[placid river]

I’m hyped for every part of this except RDJ as Doom

[keen crow]

I've been listening to Iron Man by Black Sabbath so much bc of rdj as doom

Iykyk

[topaz oyster]

https://tenor.com/view/where-is-my-free-coffee-gif-3269213794652962951

[winged mountain]

I'm mostly open minded about RDJ but there are certainly things they could do with him that I don't think I'd like

[topaz oyster]

For me it remains a quality and trust issue with Marvel

[winged mountain]

things that people seem to think are likely but I'm not so certain

[muted solar]

I heard the movie is going to end with the Doomslayer coming in with his SSG and making quick work of Doom.

[topaz oyster]

This is almost certainly spoilertag worthy

[keen crow]

There is evidently going to be a F4 vs XMen scene, VERY hyped for that

I personally loved Thunderbolts (though I felt it was short) and Fantastic 4

[winged mountain]

I think it's a pretty obvious joke tbh

isn't it just saying the main character from the non-Marvel Video Game Doom shows up?

[muted solar]

I was trying to debate internally whether Kon was running with the joke or if the joke whooshed

[topaz oyster]

The joke whooshed, in large part because I don't trust Marvel to not do something completely braindead with their movie

It didn't read as a joke, it read as depressingly plausible

[muted solar]

More specially that Dr. Doom was called Doom in the message above and I’m like pshh ez, just send in the Doomslayer. Naturally

[novel bear]

i am really looking forward to watching the one cool scene from doomsday on youtube a year after it leaves theaters

maybe they'll do the elevator scene again

[topaz oyster]

I don't know what their fixation is with that scene but I'm half convinced its just the original set is still there and has been there ever since they filmed Civil War

[muted solar]

Hmm, I’m wondering now if I’ve never actually seen Civil War

I probably have?

[oak ivy]

i think this is a sentiment shared by The Youth

[topaz oyster]

I liked probably about 2/3 of the pre-Endgame Marvel projects and I've liked less than 1/3 of the post-Endgame Marvel projects and I'm like 90% sure that Marvel's baseline of quality has changed a lot more than I have in this time

[oak ivy]

it is one of like 3 creative fight scenes in the entire MCU

[topaz oyster]

Which is to say, if Marvel could get in the zone again I think I'd be as into the hype end credit scenes and action figure mashup fight sequences and cool lore dumps as I was previously, which is to say, a good amount but not a great amount

Of course, getting into that kind of trust zone is much much harder the second time than it is the first time

Fully a third of Marvel's existence has been this extended post-Endgame fumble at this point

[novel bear]

it truly feels like the kind of movie they should be making, and were making before, is not like, an impossible task

they just lack a hard incentive to do that

[topaz oyster]

I remember hearing for Quantumania that they were having this significant roundtable where they were gonna figure out how the multiverse worked

And its like, you already have a season of Loki and No Way Home out, how are you just now having this conversation

[naive mica]

Loki was kinda what did it for me. It just felt so disconnected to Loki's existing characterization on multiple levels that I realized the main reason I liked following Marvel (the interesting and compelling characters) just wasn't there anymore

Also the fact they refused to put Tom Hiddleston in drag for at least one episode was a crime against humanity.

[topaz oyster]

Thanos, when he arrived, felt inevitable. Most pre-Infinity War movies didn't really interface with Thanos story/foreshadowing directly except maybe insofar as they had an end credits scene pointing at him, but it was pretty much always clear they had a direction then

Doomsday has Doom in it, Doom is one of Marvel's more straightforward villains, and honestly I still couldn't tell you what Marvel's intent with this film is going to be

As it turns out "what is this movie about" is still an important question even when you're in a cinematic universe situation

[dusk hound]

Mister Miracle show will give us peak fiction finally

[gritty sierra]

I haven't thought about anything Marvel

I keep forgetting the new thing(s) coming out

I would say my excitement is on the ground floor, or a little below

[lucid haven]

watched starfleet academy and as someone who loves the world and loves startrek im happy so far

[ionic lily]

||I saw an ad and the Klingon was named Jay-Den and it instantly killed all interest I had in it||

Also the prosthetic looked terrible

[lucid haven]

why?

Starfleet Academy all so far || he actually looked the most klingon ive seen in age||

[ionic lily]

It sounds like they just took a modern human name and put a hyphen

[lucid haven]

they didnt mention his name really at all and i never noticed his name being an issue

also ST:SA all || its also like ages in the future whats wrong with a klingon having an almost human name in this time period. how is that the "nah im not going to watch it" for you. sounds like such a weird reason to nope out of this||

you should totally watch the 1st 2 epps before passing that much judgement

[ionic lily]

It pulls me out of the world

Like imagine a Romulan named Bob

[lucid haven]

feels like there would be a bunch of cross cultural polination between humans and klingons tho

that a name like that dosent pull me out and is easly explainable

[dusk hound]

https://x.com/hollywoodhandle/status/2011865109686104124?s=46&t=AVWLdN9Ds3VNK10NCJdfHw

The Hollywood Handle (@HollywoodHandle)

Blue Beetle is officially returning soon to the DCU, confirms director.

"Good things are coming for Jaime Reyes and his family."

(Via: https://t.co/uWJJePBBXw)

X · Jan 15, 2026, 6:16 PM

[minor isle]

dcu continuity start timeline is so weird

Peacemaker s1 ain't cannon but s2 and events references is apparently

blue beetle movie ain't canon but the character is the first DCU character

[wet quest]

Watching Jetlag season 16, did anyone catch how long the hiders have to hide this time?

[dusk hound]

I think the Blue Beetle movie fits nicely into DCU canon, it doesn’t have any references to the wider DCEU afaik

[minor isle]

Gunn had went out of his way to specify the movie isn't canon but the character and actor who plays it and everything is

[tight dove]

Mcu needs filler

All of the movies are like these super relevent change the whole universe ts when it shouldn’t be

If you have filler movie and they are mediocre it’s fine

And then you can cook on the important ones

[keen flax]

-# sounds like they need to make thor 5

-# yeah full Thor slander

[tight dove]

Or just any sequels

[small quarry]

I dunno I've felt like all they do is filler movies building towards some vague big™ thing

Wish more movies stood on their own and did funky things with their characters but it's all just interconnected universe slop

[tight dove]

That too

Take me into the Edgar Wright Antman timeline please

[hushed moss]

PJ S2E7 ||Charm-speak, Mythomagic, Percy calling Annabeth “Wise Girl”, so much cool stuff this episode.||

||Sally Jackson is great as always||

PJ S2E7 ||Is that Paul Blofis’ car. I see that “I would rather be teaching” bumper sticker.||

[wide stag]

You know, Sophie Turner looks good as Lara Croft https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/tomb-raider-sophie-turner-lara-croft-first-look-1236605699/

(though half of it the shades)

[winged mountain]

it's hard not to think of Sansa Stark when I hear her name but she has a shot at it

[cold sequoia]

She can play Catelyn in the reboot they do in the 2030s

Would be more book accurate i think (although Michelle Fairley was a great Catelyn)

[spring barn]

if ASOIAF is ever rebooted I really hope it's animated

[lucid haven]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/333350065647386625/1461405603665678561/e5aa951668f1467508f8507039adfc3d--kit-harington-sophie-turner.png?ex=696a6f87&is=69691e07&hm=940793450a1b979787eade65a5121430de95dd8d0f157935704c476452feb4c1&

this image makes me feel quite confident about her in the role as well

[hushed moss]

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/phineas-ferb-third-movie-disney-dan-swampy-1236631743/

[wide stag]

Outlets were making noise about how she was busting her ass in the gym to get jacked for the role

I like Lara Croft

I am upset Netflix cancelled their animated series, it was really good

[hushed moss]

The plot looks interesting ||It appears that it will tie into the Professor Time stuff from Milo Murphy’s Law.||

[tight dove]

did dan say smth like seasons 5 and 6 take place in an alternate timeline than MML

[hushed moss]

I don’t think so

I believe that it is ||Act your Age that is in the separate timeline||

[verbal lintel]

Of course he double dips

[tight dove]

i feel like he said smth where doof doesnt learn hes professor time in the new seasons even tho like timeline wise he should have

[dusk hound]

I literally have nothing to say, what the hell is this

[ionic lily]

True peak

[civic trellis]

A fantastic idea

[wide stag]

It's Romeo and Juliet and Godzilla, I feel like the premise is extremely clear and straightforward

[distant birch]

I was very much not excited, some of the promos have been pushing that towards "a little interested". Though I've realised I just don't really get hyped for marvel stuff in general

[spring barn]

it looks like a ultimate crowd pleaser which also makes it prime material to watch in a packed cinema with friends so that's what I'll do

good or not or (more probably) just mid, at least the experience will be a blast

that's how I enjoyed Deadpool and Wolverine

it's utter trash, but at least I saw it with friends

[hushed moss]

Reminds me of a trailer I recently saw for a comic that is “The Rocketeer teams up with Tintin and Popeye to go to Skull Island and save Amelia Earhart”

The wonders of the public domain.

[dusk hound]

So ummm… I’ve got a pretty big ask

Where do I start with Star Trek?

Like I’ve heard The original series is pretty good but I’m afraid it might be dated

[winged mountain]

so I'm gonna say this as a non-Trekkie and someone else can supercede me, but I might just start with the theatrical films? Because yeah, the 60's show is beyond dated

not all the films are good, but they cover the characters, universe, and themes well enough that you'd get a solid sense

by all means watch the 60s show if you connect with the characters and want more, but you'll be seeing cardboard sets, toy props, and bad costumes on the modern screen, older TVs were a little smaller and it was harder to notice the jank

[ionic lily]

Alright, do you want to start with classic trek or post reboot trek?

For classic trek, people recommend starting with The Next Generation (TNG), but Voyager and Deep Space Nine (DS9) (less so) also work. If you want to start with post reboot trek, watch Strange New Worlds (SNW)

The original series is pretty dated yeah, but TNG holds up very well

Mostly

Strange New Worlds is probably the only good new Star Trek that works for new people other than the movies

[lucid haven]

Honestly, right now strange new worlds

Tng is a good start

And ds9 is like the favorite of a lot of trekkies

[ionic lily]

Lower Decks is stupidly good, but it relies on you already being a fan

[lucid haven]

Yaa so does starfleet academy tbh

[ionic lily]

I like Voyager more than DS9 tbh

[lucid haven]

Same

I prefer voyager. I think best starts are tng or strange new worlds

Depending on if you want new trek or old trek

[ionic lily]

TNG s1 is a bit shaky

[lucid haven]

Yaa

Beard is the way

[winged mountain]

I've heard people say starting with S3 of TNG is the way to go

I can't personally say either way

my TNG experience was literally just syndication, I'd watch whatever episode happened to be on TV

that's just how you did it at the time

[ionic lily]

I say pick your favorite captain and start there

[lucid haven]

Tng is very episodic rather than modern TV which is very continuing stories epp to epp

So the good options are everything bean outlined

[ionic lily]

You can start with Discovery, but please don’t

[lucid haven]

You can start with enterprise but also please dont

[winged mountain]

I assume you'd say the same about the Picard show and the JJ Abrams movies

[ionic lily]

I don’t mind the JJ Abram’s movies, they’re fun. But I don’t think they’re great if you want to get the feel of Star Trek

[lucid haven]

Picard is something to watch once your a mega fan and want some more of Jean luc

I also dont mind the jj films

[ionic lily]

God, I hated season 1 so much

[lucid haven]

The final epps of Picard are peak rest is mostly meh

[midnight compass]

Next Generation is probably a better starting point but the original is also good

[lucid haven]

I just dont feel the original series 1. Holds up or 2. Is very representative of the rest of trek

Tng basicly sets things up to how they will be for the rest of trek

[dusk hound]

I think Patrick Stewart is cool

Maybe TNG then

[ionic lily]

It also has the two best actors, Patrick Stewart and John De Lancie

[lucid haven]

Then start tng and if you can get through a mildly cringe 1st season

Start epp 1 of the next generation

[ionic lily]

You can theoretically start anywhere within it

[lucid haven]

That is true

[dusk hound]

I was about to say, like most of the old Star Trek series are completely self contained episodes I’ve heard

Obv some overarching stories but still

[lucid haven]

Yeah problem of the week kinda epps

[winged mountain]

yeah, you can literally roll dice to find a starting point if you want, and you'll have the same experience that everyone in the 90s had

[ionic lily]

You could always start with one of the best episodes, see how you like it

[lucid haven]

Ooo whats beans fav epp

[dusk hound]

What’s a good ep??

[ionic lily]

Cliche, but Measure of a Man

And anything with Q tbh

The Inner Light is also amazing

[lucid haven]

If your gonna watch one representative epp. Measure of a man is a decent one

Easly one of the best epps

[ionic lily]

Q episodes aren’t the best to start with lol, i just love them

[lucid haven]

https://seriesgraph.com/show/655-star-trek-the-next-generation

Its one of the top rated epps

[dusk hound]

MAMA MIA?? A 3.3 EP?

What the hell happens in that ep

[lucid haven]

Well

[ionic lily]

Darmok is another great episode

[lucid haven]

Temba, his arms wide

[ionic lily]

We don’t talk about that episode

[lucid haven]

Because it was a poorly done "clip show" epp it wasn't well done at all basicly a member berry episode

[ionic lily]

Somehow still better than TNG ||ghost sex||

[lucid haven]

I checked voyager

And ofc threshold is the lowest rated epp

I love that epp tho

Sorry no

"The fight "is lower

[ionic lily]

It’s so unintentionally funny

[lucid haven]

Threshold is 5.3 the fight is 5.0

[ionic lily]

I want to rewatch Voyager now

The EMH is my favorite character in Star Trek

[lucid haven]

He is a main character in academy

You should watch it

[ionic lily]

Hmmm maybe

[lucid haven]

He sings opera in academy

@dusk hound also report back how you like things once you start watching also if your curious about anything just ask

[dusk hound]

Definitely will

[west escarp]

Threshold Day is nigh

[west escarp]

That’s Emmy Award winning episode Threshold

[burnt shale]

TNG

[west escarp]

Ignore that

Start with TOS both because it’s fun, short, practically all scifi and fandom is linked to it in someway and it’s iconic

Additionally TNG heavily builds on and references the original show, especially early on, in a way that expects you to know this episodes plot is a reference

Also because early TNG is infamously bad so it helps to be invested in the franchise already when watch it

Also also Shatner is a big ham and nobody should miss that

https://youtu.be/3bYkNptOJns?si=kBPwm2ox_TgF8Dji

[ionic lily]

https://tenor.com/view/browsing-on-my-tablet-ensign-boimler-star-trek-lower-decks-surfing-on-the-internet-what-is-this-gif-26658833

[minor ledge]

just watch random episdoes not even in order

[cobalt onyx]

Honestly? This is probably a solid approach. A lot of the Star Treks aren't serial shows, so as long as you keep direct continuations together, for a lot of them you should be able to work your way through a shuffled playlist

[lucid haven]

It works for tng

Less.for voyager and ds9

[minor ledge]

its probably the better approach for most of the older shows tbh

[burnt shale]

I love TOS and started there and its higher than tng for me but i do think TNG is a better reflection of the franchise

i wonder how cronological would go

speaking of DS9 obligatory b5 reccomendation

[spring barn]

watched the D&D movie last night

very fun till the contrived and generic bit at the end

[distant birch]

Which bit was that?

[empty locust]

I wonder if endnighthazer plays any games

I see you everywhere but #1342603794370007050

[distant birch]

I don't play many 😅

Videogames, tabletop, arting, stem, academia, other, brandon games, events and emberdark mechanics are all places I tend to hang out in very frequently

-# mechanics chat scares me

[ripe stag]

-# cackles in mechanics

[empty locust]

hmm

ok

-# tend to.. or plan to?

[distant birch]

I'm sure I've popped into them once or twice, but I generally don't check them or catch up on their activity or anything

[spring barn]

||Holga gets conveniently mortally injured out of pretty much nowhere at the end so Ed can learn to let go of his wife and use the tablet on Holga||

I'll give it points for setting up ||themes of letting go and how Holga was more of a mother to KIra than her actual mother||

[distant birch]

||I mean, I think he was learning that all movie||

[spring barn]

still a pretty cheap move to pull

[distant birch]

||Its not like he just learnt that then, that just gave him a chance to really prove it||

[spring barn]

I knew it was coming for a while

I just never liked this way of doing things

[gritty sierra]

dndhat ||I loved that part. it's extremely satisfying to watch it all be set up and then paid off||

||it makes everything feel earned||

[spring barn]

fair

I just generally hate that trope

but it also had one of my fav tropes

freakishly competent lawful good guy who's actually a lawful good nice person

[stoic falcon]

https://tenor.com/view/xenk-yendar-xenk-yendar-regé-jean-page-dungeons-and-dragons-gif-16818496758226184330

[keen flax]

Watching Daria from the start, man I missed watching this show in middle school

[burnt shale]

its a good show

[keen flax]

Absolutely, the first episode had me giggling a lot 😂

[burnt shale]

I first watched it in school. A teacher who was gonna be fired just let us watch it and we collectively brought in a basically a full breakfast buffet. The princepal came by but he couldn't do anything since what was he gonna do fire her?

[dusk hound]

https://fixvx.com/homeofdcu/status/2012197490196459979?s=46

Home of DCU (@homeofdcu)

Tom King says casting for Darkseid, Orion, Mister Miracle, and Big Barda are already done.

There will be an announcement soon.

(via https://youtu.be/HcKz2Tr3HaY?si=q9DYC16XFUB_Q7cA)

vxTwitter / fixvx · Jan 16, 2026, 4:17 PM

We already have our DCU Darkseid

Crazy

Now we wait for the announcement

[stoic falcon]

Now who will be DC Santa to give him his coal

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/kris29301/803380061583654912/could-he-act-no-but-was-his-character-good-also

kris

could he act? no. but was his character good? also no. and were his plotlines compelling? not really. but did he look good? also no. but did i enjoy his time on the show? again, no. but would i watch more of his character? also no...

Tumblr · Dec 19, 2025, 4:48 PM

[velvet oriole]

Watching LOTR today at the movies.

[ivory night]

https://bsky.app/profile/avclub.com/post/3mcl27tlmik2u

The A.V. Club (@avclub.com)

"You’re not going to get in the car and go to the next town to see a movie," says Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos

-# Ted Sarandos commits to 45-day theatrical windows, believes theaters are for city folk
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Bluesky · Jan 16, 2026, 9:30 PM

lol the only movie theater in my small city is an apartment complex now. Of course people go to the next town over

[crystal brook]

Ive done that my whole life

My town only recently got a cinema

[topaz oyster]

My parents have to go like 45min one way to get to the nearest theater and they still do it

[velvet oriole]

Finished the Fellowship! The theater was pretty packed actually. I don't know why they don't make movies like this anymore.

[ivory night]

Hell I’ve gone multiple towns over to go see stuff in imax

Or to see stuff in another county because it’s limited release

[velvet oriole]

LOTR fellowship ||Did the dwarves not help the elves/men kill Sauron? It said in the beginning that it was just the elves and men?||

[velvet oriole]

It takes me about 40mins to get to this theater.

[crystal brook]

Not sure ive seen anything in imax before tbh

I have to go to London for it

[molten jetty]

||they did not||

||some helped but like not on the whole as a race||

[velvet oriole]

||Those greedy dwarves, no use they are! ||

[molten jetty]

You should read the Hobbit

[velvet oriole]

Yeah but I've been stuck between Sanderson and Wight, it's been hard.

[topaz oyster]

The Hobbit is a very breezy read

[molten jetty]

LotR ||wait I lied it looks like Durin sent dwarves ||

[crystal brook]

I depserately need to reread the hobbit

It was my favorite book when I was a kid

[molten jetty]

Hobbit is short and sweet

It’s all about how ||the Dwarves suck||

[crystal brook]

Maybe ill give the andy serkis audiobook a go

[velvet oriole]

||The movies ignore it then. ||

[ivory night]

It’s awesome I think the last one I saw was Oppenheimer and it’s such a different experience

[molten jetty]

It’s amazing

Love his Hobbit

[crystal brook]

And then as with a lot of kids I completely bounced off fellowship

[ivory night]

Is this where I say I kinda liked the hobbit movies

The ||fart jokes|| are a little over the top but idk the movies are fun

[topaz oyster]

I liked the first Hobbit movie quite a bit

They get worse as you go along though

In large part because they made a bunch of stuff up to fill time and it all sucks

But also, in so doing, they dilute Bilbo and his story and the whole charm of The Hobbit is that its his story and his lens for what's going on

Bilbo is front in center in the first movie and by the third you'll go a full hour without him being in any given scene

[ivory night]

Yeah but the dwarfs sing that song

[topaz oyster]

I mean even that trailed off by the third movie

[ivory night]

BUT KON THEY SING THE SONG

[winged mountain]

I think it would have been better as a duology for sure

[muted solar]

Wow I'm really out of touch

[muted solar]

I literally was like "how many towns these days don't have a movie theater"?

[ivory night]

Have you tried scooting over so it’s within arms reach?

[ivory night]

I have 60k people in my town!

And two universities

[muted solar]

I have no sense of scale for what that means. That sounds like a lot of people

[winged mountain]

Idk the theater in my town closed because people kept driving to the nicer theater in a neighboring area

[ivory night]

It is not a small town

[molten jetty]

Hobbit movies are fun enough

First one especially

[molten jetty]

Yes

[muted solar]

Yeah my town has about 93k people

[ivory night]

It was Covid and the fact that there are nicer theaters

[muted solar]

Dang our population has really shot up over the past decade looking at this graph

[green fjord]

The hobbit films cut down to a single four hour experience make for a pretty great film.

[ivory night]

Like the last movie I saw there was sicario in like 2016

[muted solar]

Ahhh

[muted solar]

Dang lol

[molten jetty]

The funniest part of the Hobbit movies is movie 3 because ||the movie is all about the Battle of the Five Armies which Bilbo is passed out for in the book lmao||

[ivory night]

There actually were two across the street from each other there

And it’s on the town border

[muted solar]

Our town has I think 2 theaters these days? Though idk who tf is keeping our Regal afloat. Everyone I talk to wouldn't dream of going there over our local theater since the local theater is just miles better

The third theater was a dollar theater but I think that closed sometime in the last 15 years or so

[winged mountain]

Regal is the one that closed in my town I think

It had cheap uncomfortable seats and they were sometimes dirty, easy to see why people didn’t go there

[ivory night]

Yeah we have a really nice amc the town over

[muted solar]

Yeah I'd only go to the regal if I had to (local theater not having the movie or something). But even then I'd probably drive 30-40 minutes to a nicer theater

[winged mountain]

But it’s not like a new theater opened in its place, it’s been gone for about 5 years

[muted solar]

Going to chain theaters makes me really appreciate the local theater so much

Local theater's food and popcorn is so much better (it's actually worth getting!)

Love me my drunken fries with beer cheese

And the popcorn butter dispensers use real butter

Their cocktails are actually surprisingly good too. Granted I don't get those often

[ivory night]

Oh I’m only getting like a small box of candy at a movie theater I want buttery hands

[muted solar]

I tend to get drunken fries and popcorn usually when I go to the theater

I grab a ridiculous amount of napkins to offset the butter that gets on the hands lol

[cobalt onyx]

Tolkien all ||From what I understand of it, the elves did a wee bit of genociding the dwarves before they realized they were an intelligent peoples (and that's according to history as the elves tell it), so I don't really blame the dwarves for not being all that interested in helping the elves do anything.||

[velvet oriole]

I do think the animated return of the king was better than the live action.

[frail mulch]

Very late to this but I just did a reread of the Hobbit with the Andy Serkis audiobook and that man performs. It's not just an impression of his coworkers but he really does differentiate voices which is good when you have a dozen dwarves and the best surprise was him singing all the songs that come up (because Tolkien, there are many)

Oh maybe I'm not late since we're still on LOTR discourse

[velvet oriole]

Fellowship ||This movie did show its age though, I noticed the horseriding scene was a bunch of spliced cuts, it was so bad to watch.

Also,I forgot how bad the ending was Gandalf dies, Boromir gets Sean Beaned and two of the hobbit get napped. It's pretty dark.||

[frail mulch]

Anyway, bought the Serkis LOTR audiobooks should I continue to do that (right now I've got The Sunlit Man reread in my audiobook slot, because I did that as ebook the first time and figure I should try William DeMerrit's narration)

LOTR books/movies ||I will say as a teen I did wonder where Tom Bombadil and the Scouring of the Shire went, but I recognize those are both pace killers. A friend was recently reading the books for the first time and she texted me, "wtf is this Tom Bombadil nonsense it keeps going on and on"||

[dusk hound]

Is it ridiculous for me to say that Nia DaCosta should be given a crack at the DCU Wonder Woman movie

[placid river]

No

[molten jetty]

His Silmarillion finally released too!

[velvet oriole]

LOTR stupid thought ||Why didn't they just scoop lava from the mountain and bring it to the ring? ||

[dusk hound]

LOTR ||Same counterargument as the “why didn’t they fly the eagles to Mordor”||

[cobalt onyx]

LotR ||Well you see, at first the lava is very hot, making it difficult to scoop. Then, as it travels, it becomes very cool, making it very rock.||

[velvet oriole]

||But you could reheat the lava, it's from where it's from, not from the actual heat.||

LOTR ||Why doesn't Sauron go invisible or into the shadow realm wearing the ring like everyone else?||

[minor ledge]

60k is tiny

[ivory night]

lol no it isn’t. I’m part of a massive metro area

I have a friend who lives in another state and I have more people in my town than they have in their county

[minor ledge]

ok? rural eras exist all over

[frail mulch]

My hometown was ~50k growing up though now I think it's approaching 70k, but we are "the city" for the more rural folks (definitely ran into BYU-I kids coming into town for a fancy date at the movie theater). I went to undergrad in the southeast and the football stadium holds ~80k, and I was a little stunned that the entire population of my home town would fit neatly into it

Though currently my "will I see a movie in a theater" restriction isn't so much distance as it is "can we find a babysitter" which makes watching theatrical in a release window difficult. It's nice to be able to pause and eat our own snacks at home, but definitely missing out on the scale of audiovisual

[minor ledge]

like saying other tiny towns exist isnt some big surprise

[spring barn]

wdym by "movies like this"

[crystal brook]

Big epic fantasy films id imagine

[spring barn]

well that genre moved to TV for very good reason

[minor isle]

Big epic fantasy films with breathtaking visuals and full of hope ig

[novel bear]

Finally watched Sinners

Was good

That one scene was legendary

[cold sequoia]

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

from #sports

in context it makes sense to share this

[ivory night]

Wait have you heard about the zombie outbreak on Doctor fornicate boat?

[cold sequoia]

what?

[ivory night]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW0tjqB74OU

[turbid narwhal]

showrunner watched gravity for the first time

[ivory night]

I can’t believe they cancelled it after one season

[cold sequoia]

I'm surrpised no one is talking about the guy being eaten by a whale

[ivory night]

Being a writer on that show must be great

Just throw out the dumbest ideas that pop into your head and everybody is like yeah let’s do it

[ivory night]

I’m realizing that they saw the story about the dude on cape cod getting eaten by a whale and were like we can do that too

So like how much astronaut training did these random people with full time jobs get

[midnight compass]

Doctor what boat?

[ivory night]

That is the channel appropriate name

[molten jetty]

@lone canyon (HotD + F+B) ||thinking about HotD reminded me how amazing Tom was as Aegon like they should have let him cook with being besties with Sunfyre and his high charisma and such. Like he could have been so amazing and he carried S2, but that felt in spite of how the writers tried to portray him||

[burnt shale]

||I really do hate that we don’t get moments between him and sunfire. Sunfire and him should be the touchstone of their relationship and the only thing pure that reminds between them when they are both crippled and angry. || hotd+ fire and blood

[molten jetty]

Some quotes regarding this from Fire and Blood ||

Aegon’s young Sunfyre was said to be the most beautiful dragon ever seen upon the earth
….

After the coronation, the remaining Kingsguard escorted Aegon to his mount, a splendid creature with gleaming golden scales and pale pink wing membranes. “Sunfyre” was the name given this dragon of the golden dawn. Munkun tells us the king flew thrice around the city before landing inside the walls of the Red Keep.
…

The king changed the color of the dragon on his banners from red to gold, to celebrate the brilliant golden scales of his dragon, Sunfyre
…

Sunfyre’s scales still shone like beaten gold in the sunlight, but as he sprawled across the fused black Valyrian stone of the yard, it was plain to see he was a broken thing, he who had been the most magnificent dragon ever to fly the skies of Westeros.
…

And there Aegon might have remained, hidden yet harmless, dulling his pain with wine and hiding his burn scars beneath a heavy cloak, had Sunfyre not made his way to Dragonstone. We may ask what drew him back to the Dragonmont, for many have. Was the wounded dragon, with his half-healed broken wing, driven by some primal instinct to return to his birthplace, the smoking mountain where he had emerged from his egg? Or did he somehow sense the presence of King Aegon on the island, across long leagues and stormy seas, and fly there to rejoin his rider? Septon Eustace goes so far as to suggest that Sunfyre sensed Aegon’s desperate need. But who can presume to know the heart of a dragon?||

|| Never forget what they took from us 😭 ||

[turbid narwhal]

He’s easily the standout actor in the second season too, wasted opportunity to not just have him in more scenes

[molten jetty]

I agree. He had so much working against him and was still the standout.

HotD + FaB ||they had to reduce his role and demonize him because if he was the secondary MC and wasn’t written to be so bad, people would LOVE him and not want to support Rhaenyra ||

[spring barn]

Fistful of Dollars is just a Yojimbo ripoff?!

[cold sequoia]

westerns and samurai films were very incestuous in the 60s

[naive mica]

It's why Ghost of Yotei, a Western game set in feudal Hokkaido, just works.

Because the two genres are almost overlapping circles, differing only in their aesthetic.

[verbal lintel]

The Revolver is just gun Katana
Looks objectively badass
Is objectively kinda bad and impractical actually irl
Used every time in the final 1v1 duel

[topaz oyster]

Revolvers are only "kinda bad and impractical" relative to more modern semiautos, and even then there was a long period of time where some caliber/magazine configurations struggled to not have feed errors

The katana always had dubious value as a weapon

[cold sequoia]

from what I understand katanas were the result of metallurgical constraints and a warrior culture that heavily valued tradition

[cobalt onyx]

I mean, katana's have decent value given the geographical conditions

[tight dove]

katanas were for aura

[cobalt onyx]

(Feudal Japan didn't have good steel)

[topaz oyster]

And revolvers won the west. Not figuratively, they were fantastic relative to their peers

[cobalt onyx]

Absolutely, firing 6 shots before reloading handily beats 1 shot before reloading, especially if you aren't concerned about fouling that happens after each shot

[topaz oyster]

Not just reloading

You had other weapons (usually rifles or shotguns) concurrent with the revolver that could fire multiple times before reloading, but in most cases they were pump or lever action weapons, which meant you had to fully reacquire your target after every shot

(I say "concurrent with the revolver", but I mean the weapon at its zenith. People still make and use revolvers and they were common law enforcement weapons up to the 1950s-60s)

[spring barn]

Rewatching Hellboy for the first time since I was a kid

You can see how this influenced Pan's Labyrinth and that's a crazy sentence right there

[minor ledge]

hell revolvers still have the use case of being quite reliable compared to semi autos generally

[topaz oyster]

That's a lot less true than it was even 30-40 years ago

Revolvers are mostly better if you want to leave a gun somewhere fully unmaintained for years at a time

And like honestly you shouldn't own a gun if you aren't going to practice with it and properly maintain it imo so like what are we even doing here with revolvers

[cobalt onyx]

Honestly, I think there's a solid case that cops should still carry revolvers if they're carrying a gun as part of their regular duties. A police officer shouldn't be in a situation where they need to fire <number of chambers> shots.

[cold sequoia]

I knew someone who (claimed they) hunted deer with a 44
Felt like needless machismo stuff assuming he actually did

[topaz oyster]

Dirty Harry

In the woods

Hunting deer

Sure man you do you I guess

[cold sequoia]

I guess him telling me this was needless machismo whether or not he actually did it

[burnt shale]

Loading a revolver is also way faster than people imagine if your good at it

[topaz oyster]

That said, in wilderness survival circles 10mm is making a comeback as a bear gun

[burnt shale]

A comeback?

[topaz oyster]

It was mildly popular when it was new

Not developed for wilderness survival though, it was developed for the FBI as an LEO carry

[cold sequoia]

Bears have started wearing body armor so this makes sense

[topaz oyster]

Always so weird to me that Fallout just blithely uses the 10mm like its a 9mm but better because bigger, it really isn't a similar round at all

[topaz oyster]

The problem with bears is if you shoot them they won't bleed out before they kill you and they actually do have very thick skulls

[minor ledge]

i guess self defense so you dont need to maintain it

[burnt shale]

223 rounds will basically bounce off them ( exaggeration but less than you’d think)

[cold sequoia]

I'm aware. I was told its replacing 44 because its more controllable

[cold sequoia]

An unmaintained gun is a risk to yourself and anyone nearby

Regardless of what its to be used for

[topaz oyster]

I dunno like I say if you're gonna have a self defense weapon at all you should be using it for familiarity's sake and maintaining it properly. Gun ownership is not a thing to half ass

Part of maintenance is maintaining your own personal skill and understanding of the weapon

So if someone is gonna get a revolver to be lazy about owning a gun, maybe that person should not be owning a gun

[burnt shale]

Specifically for self defense yeah you should be practicing tho recreational firearms it’s not uncommon to not shoot if it’s for a format you don’t do often that said you should be doing maintenance

[cold sequoia]

Circling back to the topic that's relevant to this channel...

[tight dove]

are guns not a form of media

[burnt shale]

They definitely are entertaining

[cold sequoia]

Revolvers stick around beyond their relevance for the same reason as katanas did
Tradition and accompanying aura

[burnt shale]

I mean I think it’s becuase it’s from the same era

[cold sequoia]

Another example of the western-samurai genre similarity

[burnt shale]

It represent the transition between modern and a more wilder era

[cold sequoia]

Katanas predate revolvers by centuries

They are on opposite sides of the wild-modern divide

[topaz oyster]

More than 1000 years, if Google is to be believed in 2026

[cold sequoia]

Famously depicted in the modern masterpiece Total War: Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai

[burnt shale]

Yeah but they still were very much around at the time of the end of the Bakufu

[cold sequoia]

They were still around in WWII

[burnt shale]

I mean yes but not the same

[topaz oyster]

Famously depicted in hit Tom Cruise film The Last Samurai

[cold sequoia]

They remained symbols of the warrior spirit which refused to fully evolve with the changing world, so yes I would say it was the same

[minor ledge]

is there a western film like last samuria but its a japanese dude instead of a white guy

[burnt shale]

Unfortunately the soundtrack for that movie is peak

[topaz oyster]

The only movie I can think of where revolvers are used specifically to depict a refusal to fully evolve with the changing world is Dirty Harry, kind of

And even then the other cops do use revolvers, just not that revolver

[burnt shale]

They really did saigo takamori so dirty

[topaz oyster]

Blue Eye Samurai, kind of

Kind of western, kind of not white

I should rewatch that before season 2

Incredible show

[cold sequoia]

Many westerns grapple with the subsuming of the west by civilization

[topaz oyster]

That's true, but I can't recall that the revolver is specifically used as a symbol of that

[cobalt onyx]

(Google isn't necessarily to be believed)

[minor ledge]

that takes place in japan so not really what i meant

[cobalt onyx]

Katana as a word appears around 1300 years ago, but the weapons you'd more typically classify as katana don't make an appearance until much later, somewhen in the 1300s

(they started as short swords, then grew to great swords, until settling in on their modern standard length)

[molten jetty]

Watched Wake Up Dead Man. Was really good.

[cold sequoia]

Wake Up Dead Man ||it had a wonderful amount of heart. Jud was an amazing character||

[molten jetty]

WUDM || I’m religious but more of a Jud than anything so I LOVED the juxtaposition of religion being used for power vs. for love. And how there was also the areligious Blanc (who really was in the background to Jud’s story). And like… it is very in tune to modern religious groups and cults of personality and modern internet culture. Like lots of small things said that created so many layers. ||

[spring barn]

I thought it was meh for a whodunnit (overcomplicated and I found it difficult to follow yet with ||a very singularly suspicious suspect||) but great as an exploration of faith

[molten jetty]

WUDM ||I had figured out a good portion of the whodunnit so it didn’t feel overly complicated but the mystery is secondary to the exploration of faith most definitely||

[minor ledge]

tbh my biggest problem is WUDM||Think the story would fit so much better if it was a protestant church instead of a catholic one||

[dusk hound]

Ignoring the obvious grifting for a second, is Alex Kurtzman really that widely hated by Star Trek fans?

(Also lol at Gunn being here when he gave DC it’s most profitable and critically successful non-Batman movie in a decade)

[oak ivy]

Didnt you swear off twitter

[dusk hound]

I don’t have it, I just stumbled across this on Reddit

[novel bear]

next site to swear off

[dusk hound]

No it’s fine

At least I can curate my algorithm

[cobalt onyx]

So the thing about Star Trek is every time they make a new Star Trek, it turns out that it isn't <Star Trek the Trekkie grew up with>

I don't know if any main line Star Trek has been received well by die-hard fans when it came out, they just age into popularity as the people that did enjoy them age up

[molten jetty]

Reddit is the silent killer

[burnt shale]

I just think the discovery and piccard was bad the rest of their new trek has been good to fine

[lucid haven]

Agreed

Section 31 was a bit suspect at times

But other than some moments in section 31 im with gneiss on this

Altho I have enjoyed a bunch of discovery I agree its "bad"

We couldn't have strange new worlds if we didnt have discovery tho

[burnt shale]

I think we could but yeah it was a benefit

is discovery the worst mainline startrek?

[lucid haven]

I vote enterprise is worse

[burnt shale]

nah enterprise is better than discovery

I have enterprise above voyager actually

but i really like enterprise

~~My hot take is on any given day id put it above TNG if im being honest ~~

[frail mulch]

WUDM ||I'd have to find the interview, but Rian Johnson did say he was influenced by his Protestant upbringing but Catholics have better aesthetics which is important for a film||

[ionic lily]

I hated Section 31 with a passion. It felt genuinely offensive

[frail mulch]

Aha, here it is
https://sojo.net/articles/culture-interview/knives-outs-rian-johnson-says-he-will-always-be-youth-group-kid

You grew up Protestant. Why did you set Wake Up Dead Man in the Catholic tradition?

Part of it is that the movie is about the idea of storytelling. Part of it is just that, honestly, most of the churches I actually grew up going to look like Pottery Barns.

Same here. It’s not a very aesthetic tradition.

It is not at all! But there is nothing cooler-looking than Catholicism. Growing up as a Protestant, there was always an exotic nature to the Catholic Church.

I think also for myself—because a lot of the stuff that I’m talking about in the movie applies directly to my Protestant evangelical upbringing—setting it in the Catholic Church gave me just a little bit of distance. I could talk more directly to it without feeling like I was being quite so on the nose.

[ionic lily]

The ending was completely antithetical to Star Trek

[ionic lily]

Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks

[burnt shale]

lower decks was recieved controversially at launch enough i think it doesn't count maube strange new worlds

[lucid haven]

That is some heresy I like it

[burnt shale]

truthfully i think TNG is objectively better but Enterprise has lot of stuff i love and i watched it with my dad so. The back half if very solid and outside of a few characters i just think the setting is more fun than the TNG era to me

[minor ledge]

ah that makes sense

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/lower-decks-lower-decks-lowers-decks-ensign-beckett-mariner-castro-ensign-samanthan-rutherford-star-trek-lower-decks-gif-11030960388033332883

https://tenor.com/view/subrote-star-trek-star-trek-lower-decks-lower-decks-moopsy-gif-3647100795154607002

[keen flax]

Moopsy

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/moopsy-lower-decks-food-gif-1513933052672208685

[spring barn]

I don't have memories with fear depth about watching the Hellboy movies as a kid but I remember liking the second one more

But I rewatched them last night and now I like the first one considerably more lol

[spring barn]

Are there any PCW films that aren't shocking/disturbing or sexually explicit?

[west escarp]

The South Korean director? Isn’t brutal violence and disturbing subjects kinda his thing?

[minor isle]

Yes

It's kinda like asking is there a Brandon book without hard magic system/sciencey stuff

[spring barn]

RIP

I've heard SK TV is quite mild so I looked into their cinema

Imagine my surprise at how far they go there

[keen flax]

Oo I wanted to see this honestly

[empty locust]

haha

great to see korean stuff

[lilac hull]

I’m honestly curious as to what that could be about.

[spring barn]

How's Decision to Leave?

[muted solar]

Y’all Bridgerton season 4 is coming soon

[spring barn]

It doesn't seem as R rated as the rest of his stuff

[terse crystal]

https://letterboxd.com/film/no-other-choice-2025/

[lilac hull]

Ok fair enough

[dusk hound]

https://x.com/DCFilmNews/status/2012946096155144342?s=20

DC Film News (@DCFilmNews)

Sam McCurdy has been set as the cinematographer on ‘MAN OF TOMORROW.’

McCurdy is best known for his work on Shōgun and Game of Thrones.

X · Jan 18, 2026, 5:52 PM

Don’t know much about this guy but I’m glad Henry Braham isn’t coming back tbh

Cinematography in Superman was kinda shaky

[dusk hound]

Have NOT watched Shogun so I can’t comment on the cinematography in that

[keen flax]

Its pretty really good

[spring barn]

I like the wonky cinematography of Superman

It has its own charm

[frank quail]

the cinematography of Superman was bad?

[hushed moss]

I don’t know cinematography that well but I felt like it gave a good “comic book” vibe. Just the way the camera moved.

[spring barn]

https://hmv.com/store/film-tv/4k-ultra-hd-blu-ray/superman-(hmv-exclusive)

Man

Why do cool steelbooks always gotta come in 4k

Gimme a good bluray steelbook for once

[muted solar]

But the 4k is blu-ray? Am I missing something?

Do you need like a newer/special kind of Blu-ray player for the 4k discs?

I genuinely can’t remember the last time I played a physical disc now that I think about it. Has to have been at least 10-15 years ago now

But there are also very few movies I would rate highly enough that I’d want to own it. I think the only ones that come to mind off the top of my head would be:

• Arrival
• Sinners
• Spiderverse 1
• Spiderverse 2

[small quarry]

i'd love to get the eventual special edition of the spiderverse trilogy

[muted solar]

Oooo yeah that’d be nice

I wonder if there are any other movies I’m missing that I like enough to own 🤔

Oh spirited away yeah that one makes the list

Parasite may make the list

Lion king yeah for sure

There are definitely some others going through just a list of the top movies on IMDB

This would be a good list to put together on Giftful 🤔

[agile drift]

I think it's more about the tv screen, someone can correct me but I think if you don't have a 4k tv it gets downgraded to 1080p, whereas regular blueray which is already 1080p looks better on a normal tv

Again I could be wrong on that

[terse crystal]

lot of Fun
pretty funny and great cinematography

[minor ledge]

shoguns cinemetagrophy is so good

like the res of the show

[azure fern]

I so wanna watch Shogun but it's in yet another streaming service

[muted solar]

Wait, they still make 1080p TVs?

I feel like a few years back when I was in the market for a TV they were all 4K now

And even some number of years prior most TVs were 4K/4K TVs had gotten pretty inexpensive with the Rokus and all that

[agile drift]

Idk, but it's not like tvs stop working, the main reason to get a new one is usually just size/picture improvement. Which is to say the tvs in my house are all like 8+ years old and so not 4k

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/iftadwascool/772909517394558976/david-lynch-on-twin-peaks

If I Was Cool

David Lynch on Twin Peaks

-# #david lynch #twin peaks

Tumblr · Jan 17, 2025, 8:52 AM

There’s never going to be another like David Lynch

[muted solar]

Fair enough!

[turbid narwhal]

Is knight of the seven kingdoms today?

[burnt shale]

at some point

[dusk hound]

Oh shoot, so no WW in MoT then

Honestly prefer it that way, introduce her in her own movie

You know

I wonder if it’s Maxima

[distant birch]

ST 5 finale ||wait. We beat vecna with an hour left?||

||oh god no not the military plotline||

||oh i hate this||

||yeah im gonna dnf this, unfortunately||

[minor isle]

|| The part after the cremmy plot parts are really well done ||

[distant birch]

||im just really mad about them killing eleven. I dont really care to watch more after that||

[crystal brook]

First episode of knights of the seven kingdoms was good

[turbid narwhal]

yeah i enjoyed it

A knight of the seven kingdoms e1 ||The only thing i'm not sure about are the short cutaway flashbacks, they felt jarring and out of place||

[keen flax]

Watching Stand By Me 👀

Ive wanted to watch it for years and I just never got around to it until today

[spring barn]

I think it's just leaning into the comedy angle

It's far from the most outrageous bit of the humour in the ep imo

[burnt shale]

Yeah it was good but the ||potty humor || I’ve heard is not going away knight if the seven kingdoms

[lucid haven]

If i was to pick up some of the absolute dc comics in tpb where do I start

[keen flax]

Update: yeah it was pretty good!

[spring barn]

It's amped up lol

Even George was shocked

[dusk hound]

Man of Tomorrow news ||https://x.com/i/status/2013342108833259812||

I CALLED IT

I CALLED IT YESTERDAY MAN

[winged mountain]

is that the 'not Wonder Woman' that was being speculated about, then?

[civic trellis]

So, who's Maxima?

[dusk hound]

Ya

[dusk hound]

She’s a very obscure Superman villain

Her whole thing is that she wants Superman to ummm… do the dance with her so she can have heirs for her galactic empire

[civic trellis]

I see; thanks

Wait, wasn't there a plot point in Gunn's Superman about how ||his parents wanted him to have a harem?||

||I guess they're continuing... that?||

[cold sequoia]

I believe this changes depending on continuity

[dusk hound]

That’s me simplifying it there’s a LOT more to her character but that’s basically her whole thing

I always assumed it was gonna be her since that’s just right up James Gunn’s alley for humor

[frank quail]

Ok, at this point the leaks you're posting are enough to construct the plot of the movie

(i.e. could you spoil those please)

[cold sequoia]

doubling request to spoiler tag this

[dusk hound]

Just did

Apologies

[placid river]

FWIW that tweet isn’t accurately representing the article it linked

The bit about ||Maxima starting evil but teaming up with the heroes at the end|| is speculation on the author’s part

[empty locust]

I love Charlie from Twilight

[crystal brook]

A Knight of the 7 Kingdoms e1 ||Ive been fine with them, i think its the shows way of including Duncs internal monologue and there was only one that I felt was a bit odd (cant rememeber which one now)||

[turbid narwhal]

||I think the one at the start was fine but the one near the end with the arrow felt out of place to me||

[distant birch]

I think you can start with literally any

(Probably so long as its yknow issue 1/volume 1 of that series)

So far they've all been relatively self-contained

[dusk hound]

Just don’t start with like volume 2 of a run or something

[distant birch]

Only one to maybe stay away from is Absolute Evil, though I think that's a one off right now

Because that one's focused on connecting the different plotlines and kind of assumes you have some knowledge of them

[dusk hound]

Absolute Wonder Woman is the one I’ll recommend, it’s just straight up AMAZING

[distant birch]

But Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, and Green Lantern all work about equally fine as starting points imo

[distant birch]

Honestly I can never really decide which my favourite is 😅

[lucid haven]

I was mabey gonna pick up flash

And I only collect trades never pick up individual issues

So they are always in the correct order

[distant birch]

Flash is good! I liked flash

[west escarp]

Absolute Wonder Woman is amazing!!!

She has a huge sword!! And an undead Pegasus!!! And a magic arm!!!

I preordered volume 2 as my birthday gift to myself

Ms Prince, are you single?

Guts wants what she has (a sword the size of a skyscraper)

[keen flax]

Absolute Superman is also Hella based

[oak ivy]

These should be spoiled

[dusk hound]

Absolute WW ||Cloud Strife found dead in a ditch||

[minor ledge]

is absolute flash any good

havent really read any of the absoltue stuff except 4 batman which i thought was bad

[minor ledge]

Wait im delusional

[distant birch]

I'll be honest, it's the only flash comic I've read, but I enjoyed the characters and especially the colours/art

[minor ledge]

im tweaking

wait

oh

im a dumbass

[distant birch]

???

[minor ledge]

nothing i got confused because flash wasnt mentioned in any of the message i was replying to and im tired as hell so whatever

[distant birch]

oh I forgot to put flash in my list

[minor ledge]

ill probably check out absolute maritan manhunter either way i heard that was good

[lucid haven]

Yaa i mentioned flash

Was the 1st mention of it

Cause I saw it on the shelf at my lgs

[distant birch]

MM is really whacky /pos

At least, the art is

[minor ledge]

whats /pos

[distant birch]

Positive

[west escarp]

Absolute Flash looks like a butch lesbian

This isn’t related to the quality of the comic

[distant birch]

I see it

[spring barn]

del Toro's debut feature Cronos is a flawless film imo but his first available work, the 33 minute short Dõna Lupe, kinda sucks lol

[oak ivy]

the quality of that comic is not so high

one of the my least favorite from absolute

[west escarp]

This is because the flash is not actually a butch lesbian

[oak ivy]

hot takes over here

[dusk hound]

I honestly like all of the Absolute runs, but Absolute GL is probably the one I’m least interested in

[west escarp]

No I think this is a very cold take

[frail mulch]

Started Percy Jackson S2 and I think it was a nice streamlining of [show + books] ||having Tyson be present and whatnot without an extended intro at the mortal school||

[crystal brook]

Im too anime brained so my first thought was Absolute Gurren Lagann

[dusk hound]

You know what…

That works too

[empty locust]

I'm proud of myself of remembering that even though it's been years since I read the books

[hushed moss]

About to watch Fellowship of the Ring in theaters.

[minor ledge]

thats because its wally west and not jay garrick

[tribal saddle]

Watching the original Doctor Whos with William Hartnell and it's so freaky hilarious. The acting and fighting has me rolling on the floor

And the logical inconsistencies omg

[ripe stag]

I've been watching through all the old stuff, and there's a scene in one of the Hartnell era series where you can see the actress holding onto the wall as she goes through a door because otherwise it's all going to fall over. :P

[tribal saddle]

That's awesome

[ripe stag]

It's one of the ones in a spaceship, obviously, and I think it supposed to be a sliding door or something, but the whole thing is clearly a poorly constructed set that wobbles.

[tribal saddle]

They really did work on a shoestring budget

And did very great work with it. Buuuutttt it's still hilarious

[ripe stag]

Monsters that are just actors wrapped in bubblewrap painted green...

Spacestations that are models on bits of string hanging in front of a black background.

It's got a charm that CGI locations and creatures will never have.

[tribal saddle]

They did so much with so little

The fighting scenes are the best. Going at like, 1/10 speed, very clearly not actually hitting anything

[buoyant scroll]

I watched the documentary about Hartnell and it was beautiful

[dusk hound]

Man of Tomorrow mild spoilers ||https://fxtwitter.com/thorlokid/status/2013358358405792199?s=20||

hermione🫀🦇 (@thorlokid)

well, we can't have the version of the character who is obsessed w/ marrying superman and having his children because we've already got one of them and lex doesn't share

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Maxima will reportedly be introduced in James Gunn’s Superman sequel ‘MAN OF TOMORROW.’
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||Lex is gonna be the jealous ex||

[keen flax]

So Lore Olympus is getting a TV show on Prime.... interesting.

Anyone who's read it knows it ran off a cliff and ended in a dumpster fire so I wonder if... with the new medium itll be edited/fixed? Not to mention who's going to voice the characters?? Funny enough as much as the webtoon made me physically ill im... excited?? 😂

Because if it can get a story overhaul/redo, theres a solid chance it can actually be good

All that to say: I run from my demons and they chase me down and tackle me to the ground to drag me back to the trenches 😌

[dusk hound]

I’ve heard… things about Lore Olympus

And none of them are good things

[heavy anchor]

It has its moments

[keen flax]

I read it weekly for years. Theres great bones there but what you get is not what is advertised 😅

[heavy anchor]

Good ones
And spectacularly bad ones

[frank quail]

yet another victim of "this would be so good if it were good"?

[dusk hound]

Cough cough Young Justice, cough cough

Sorry

Must have a cold