Media (General)

[dusk hound]

Did he?

Lemme check

Yeah he did

Oh well

[buoyant scroll]

on his threads account

[dusk hound]

Didn’t deny it was Maxima tho

So it still is probably Maxima, just not any of the actresses

[buoyant scroll]

Yeah that might be confirmed from what i hear

[dusk hound]

That’s odd because Deadline is on the mark most of the time

It is honestly nice to finally have a person that runs a comic book cinematic universe that actively debunks scoops

Like I don’t think Kevin Feige does that

Especially in an age of misinformation it’s nice to have

[dusky flint]

ella purnell needs to play some sort of fly

the eyes fit

[dusk hound]

Ella Purnell would make a killer Zatanna

[dusky flint]

ellla purnell is a good actor her eyes just freak me out there too big

[midnight compass]

Is good movie

[placid river]

Deadline updated the article to correct it to just Adria Arjona

Wait THR has a new list lol

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/superman-sequel-man-of-tomorrow-maxima-1236559273/

Also confirms Mr Terrific and Guy Gardner are coming back

[dusk hound]

Seems like this one might be the actual list this time then

[oak ivy]

i think i might be being considered at this rate

[dusk hound]

Duck is being considered for the role of Matt Murdock

[terse crystal]

So as it stands of my John Woo films I’ve seen so far:

1. Hard Boiled
2. The Killer
3. A Better Tomorrow
   ….
   Pit of Hell: Mission Impossible 2

[spring barn]

Try Bullet in the Head

Ik it's a remake of Deer Hunter but it's my second fav Woo after Hard Boiled

Probably his best movie if I was being a bit less biased

A Better Tomorrow 2 is really good too

I like it more than the first one

Yes it's a complete mess and has some very dated stuff but on the fun factor I think it's almost on Hard Boiled's level

(Bullet in the Head is anything but fun)

[spring barn]

It's almost so bad that it's good but it's also good cause it's good

I think my rating of all the Woo I've seen would be

1. Hard Boiled
2. Bullet in the Head
3. The Killer
4. A Better Tomorrow 2
5. Face/Off
6. A Better Tomorrow

Gotta get on Red Cliff

[placid river]

https://www.vsinstagram.com/p/DW4JA-Oj5xo/

[placid river]

Since Embed didn’t work: House on the Cerulean Sea is getting an animated series from WB

[spring barn]

Try putting kk or vx in front of instagram in your links

Also always remove the part after and including igsh cause it gives away your account

[turbid narwhal]

https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/2042190979659092220?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

First look at ‘FJORD’, starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve.

The film follows a Romanian-Norwegian couple who face scrutiny after moving to the wife's remote Norwegian hometown.

Premiering at Cannes Film Festival in May.

X · Apr 9, 2026, 10:40 AM

Sebastian Stan as Northernlion

[dire moss]

wow i barely recognized him

[turbid narwhal]

His last couple of roles have been some really cool transformational roles with the apprentice and a different man

[terse crystal]

oh its a Cristian Mungiu movie

bound to be v good then

[spring barn]

typo, vx not vx

[wet quest]

"Sebastian Stan? That name sounds familiar, but I don't think that's the guy who played Tobias from Arrested Development, who is clearly in this picture."
-Me

[turbid narwhal]

I’ve only watched 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days from him which I thought was great

[terse crystal]

https://klipy.com/gifs/wink-henry-winkler

[terse crystal]

I havent seen any of his stuff but everyone raves about them so this is a good benchmark

[lone canyon]

Not the anti Romanian racism 😭 😭 😭

[tawdry snow]

The Boys S5E1: ||Hey A-Train grew! He didn't kill an innocent girl again!||

||And now he's dead. No more growth for A-Train I guess||

[thin ridge]

I'm very excited
I'm so glad it's animated because it would not be as good in LA

[muted solar]

Already? I still haven’t watched Gen V season 2 yet lol

[lucid haven]

you should try and watch that before you watch season 5 of the boys

theres some spoilers even just in the 1st couple epps for gen v

[muted solar]

Yeah that’s my plan. Was trying to hold out to watch Gen V S2 with my gf. She just hasn’t had the spoons for it yet

[lucid haven]

both shows require a specific headspace for some

i can see that

[keen flax]

Invincible 4x6 ||Mark looks so much hotter with facial hair my goodness 🥴||

[lucid haven]

Idk if I liked that version of him

[tawdry snow]

Invincible S4E6: ||He'd look better with a full beard or no sideburns. As is, his beard is a bit to scraggly for my taste||

[buoyant scroll]

Yo!!
https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2042298770919186793?t=zmdC2-ifbK0quZ6VQqgXaQ&s=19

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

First poster for the 20th anniversary of Guillermo Del Toro's ‘PAN'S LABYRINTH’

Returning to theaters on October 9.

X · Apr 9, 2026, 5:49 PM

[verbal lintel]

Invincible s4e6
||I think they should have gone further with the facial hair and how long the hair on top of his head has grown. Comic Mark for reference what they were aiming for, but I don’t think they really fully captured it||

[buoyant scroll]

what??
https://twitter.com/Polygon/status/2042295376057647251?t=cVlpKsHUoqqnYh2oK7z-6g&s=19

Polygon (@Polygon)

Frank Oz, the puppetry legend behind Miss Piggy, Cookie Monster, and Fozzie Bear, has returned to performing after more than a decade away.

His new YouTube series, Judge Boing Boing, is a parody of The People's Court featuring an eccentric, absent-minded puppet judge. #Puppetry

X · Apr 9, 2026, 5:35 PM

[keen flax]

Invincible 4x6 ||Yeah. I never really noticed/cared for how the comic looks but man.... im starting to see why people bug about the animation because yikes 😭||

[terse crystal]

Link to movie details that includes some minor plot spoilers of the basic premise and CW regarding ||Self-Harm and Suicide Ideation||:
||https://boxd.it/1m8W||

[dusky flint]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/metal-gear-solid-movie-works-1236560289/

" Father-and-son team Avi Arad and Ari Arad are producing the feature."

OH NO

this we be really bad

this movie got announced almost a deacde ago atp lmao

i wonder if this attempt might actually work

well see

probably not

but

[placid river]

The Arads are lame but Sony has made some good films under their watch I’m pretty sure. Hard to say for sure how much input they’ll have as producers

[dusky flint]

hopefully zero

[hushed moss]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oSeqs_xeqv4&t=97s&pp=2AFhkAIB0gcJCcQBo7VqN5tD

[heavy anchor]

Taskmaster is back

Taskmaster 21 ||immediately opening with a prank task is INSANE, I can't believe this man has been doing all these tasks with a freaking egg on his person and no points||

[dire moss]

TM21 ||This might be the most joyful cast we have ever had. i love them||

[dusk hound]

@molten jetty Kind of a shoddy source that’s been wrong before but I thought I’d share https://x.com/MCUFilmNews/status/2042393433420284149?s=20

MCU Film News (@MCUFilmNews)

Marvel Studios is reportedly eyeing Peter Claffey and Odessa A'Zion to play Beast and Rogue in the upcoming ‘X-MEN’ film.

(Source: @TheInSneider)

X · Apr 10, 2026, 12:05 AM

I’m more sold on Peter Claffey as Beast than I am with Odessa as Rogue

[cold sequoia]

I liked her in Marty Supreme but I don't see her as rogue

[dusk hound]

That Odessa as Rogue casting seems like they just went “hmmm, she has curly hair that’s good enough”

Like I honestly don’t see her pulling off Rogue’s personality

[dusky flint]

tbh live action metal gear is probably what fits metal gear more but also theres genuinely zero people who can play solid snake nowadays like noone has the face and body and the talent to do it

maybe the guy who played neil in stranding 2 but even then meh

[molten jetty]

I agree tbh

[dusk hound]

Like, on looks alone, Odessa is a good Rogue, but I don’t see her pulling off Rogue’s bubbly Southern esque personality

[ivory night]

Thrones s1e8 || I forgot how badly Ned fumbled. You lost to a freaking unpopular petulant teen and his mom. Very far from home without an army acting crazy smh ||

Also || Robert and Co really needed to do more nation building and centralization post rebellion. Dude was a very weak king whose power base was a wife he hates and treated terribly, and two brothers that don’t like him. ||

[cold sequoia]

GoT ||he really lost to Littlefinger, he was at a big disadvantage having not been south learning under Jon Arryn ||

[cold sequoia]

||GRRM loves the archetype of "guy who is good at capturing the throne but bad at ruling from it"||

[cobalt onyx]

GoT 0108||Bobby B really was the essence of a first generation king...||

[ivory night]

|| Aegon and his wives at least understood the assignment for the most part!||

[cobalt onyx]

||He was a first generation king that thought that because he won a singular unified nation, he wouldn't need to do the rest of the work and could live like an Nth generation king.||

[ivory night]

|| what’s funny is part of me thinks that if Ned had been more involved post Greyjoy he probs would’ve been fine. Like he actually had the ability to fight back against Cersei and co he just was naive wrt to who his enemies were. And also would’ve had a bigger power base||

[ivory night]

|| just extremely disinterested in ruling while also completely insulting Cersei. At least in show canon she was open to actually being on his side early on. ||

[cold sequoia]

||no yeah i think if Ned stays south with Jon and Robert then the Lannisters never would have built up such a power ||

||granted Neds presence in the North peobably was stopping more trouble from brewing there than what would have happened if he'd been absent from Winterfell||

[cobalt onyx]

I'm just going to call this [aSoIaF all] because I don't remember what's revealed/discussed when, but ||The Lannisters still would've become incredibly powerful if Ned stayed in the South, their power came from them basically being the purse of the Realm. Either way, Ned needed to go back to the North because the Greyjoys were getting antsy (their rebellion was like 5-10 years later at most, IIRC).||

[ivory night]

|| yeah even in his short time in the capital he was able to build up power that could’ve held the throne. He just chose the wrong guy||

[ivory night]

|| if only Benjen wasn’t stuck at the wall. Would’ve been a perfect dude to leave behind||

[ivory night]

|| Lannister power was in part because Robert left a power vacuum and Jon Arryn was a very weak hand. Ned’s first meeting with the small council it’s clear that Robert’s absent and nobody stands up to him just let him spend like a maniac ||

[cobalt onyx]

aSoIaF all ||Honestly, the only real way to prevent the whole mess would've been for Ned to stay in the North in episode 1 or 2. He singlehandedly creates the succession crisis by running around and telling everyone that'll listen that Joffrey isn't the heir, and basically all of the catastrophic misplays by the Joffrey and Cersei only have the opportunity to happen because of the civil war.||

||Like Renly probably wouldn't've been happy, but Stannis is about as honourable-to-a-fault as Ned, and would've stood by the throne||

[ivory night]

|| oh I think the crisis was coming no matter what by the time the story starts. Robert was such a bad king that his coalition was hanging by a thread while he was still alive.
Ned is somebody who maybe could’ve won the succession crisis and not have it shred everything but he fumbled. You probably would have a major war but he could’ve isolated the Lannisters if he sided with Renly. Would’ve had the Tyrell, the riverlands, the north, maybe the vale. ||

[cobalt onyx]

||Ned wouldn't've isolated the Lannisters though. A Ned that doesn't go south believes Joffrey to be his friend's son and heir, and he would've supported them if it came to war. More likely though, the North stays in the North, Dorne stays to the South, the Vale continues to isolate, and Stannis supports the rightful claim. At most you have Renly goading the Tyrells into a rebellion that everyone helps suppress, with the Greyjoys doing some raiding if the North ever finds a reason to leave.||

[ivory night]

|| yes well him not seizing Joffrey is the fumbling. ||

Also thrones season 1 general || I forgot how little Charles dance is in this season ||

[dusky flint]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2042287448374591713

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Diane Morgan will return as Philomena Cunk for a new series about movies titled ‘CUNK ON CINEMA’.

Coming soon to BBC and Netflix.

(Source: https://t.co/hA3VbbGsoS)

X · Apr 9, 2026, 5:04 PM

[dusky flint]

oh my god i just looked at the announced direcotrs filmography ITS OVER

SO OVER

[ivory night]

Thrones general || leaving the only crossing for your biggest ally’s army in the hands of an unreliable ally is also a choice||

[red nacelle]

GOT S5E1 || Good start to the season. Not as intriguing as the other series premieres, but still good. Surprised to see a prophecy in the first scene. We haven’t really seen prophecies and I know GOT removes a lot of ASOIAF’s magic, so I’m curious if there are more in the books.

RIP Mance Rayder, he was an interesting character.

I’m surprised to hear that Varys supported the Targaryens with Illyrio. And to see his plans aren’t more complex than placing Tyrion or Dany on the Iron Throne

Dany is facing more resistance in Meereen and her dragons tried to attack her ||

[gritty breach]

mario galaxy movie ||i can’t believe they canonized that stupid joke about all princesses being space aliens and that’s why they look so different from the plumbers||

[red nacelle]

GOT S5E2 || Okay so I absolutely get why Arya and Sansa didn’t trust Brienne. But goddamnit girls!!! Your companions are worse! You do know how they’re worse, right? ||

[velvet oriole]

Fallout s2e6. ||Guess, a robot is in charge of Vault tech, the reason why Mr robot smart man numbers are correct is because it is a computer that can guess that robot.||

[winged mountain]

The Devil You Know, I think

[crystal brook]

Doctor Who/Some swearing ||https://fxtwitter.com/dwreact/status/2042516686058762591||

dr who stan reactions (@dwreact)

jodie Whittaker thirteenth doctor k9 my dogs lost in fucking costa reaction video

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FxTwitter · Apr 10, 2026, 8:15 AM

[buoyant scroll]

i am...not a fan of that 15 day gap
annoyingly, tweet has an image from later eps, so here be the important bit

This is it. The FINALE to Digital Circus is coming June 19!!! And as a special surprise... the finale will be screened alongside ep 8 starting June 4th - TWO weeks early - IN US, LATIN AMERICA, JAPAN AND CANADIAN THEATRES! Tickets are available right now! https://x.com/glitch_prod/status/2042641448504279399?s=46&t=sjFKrpxP2Jt0xxRyHgjeSA

I dont want to have to fight the internet for 15 days to avoid spoilers

[keen flax]

Ooof. True 😭

[buoyant scroll]

This is such a bonkers ass decision to me
I have to imagine they're expenting major money off of this

[buoyant scroll]

https://twitter.com/HubPointless/status/2042610060908478950?t=LiOrtM6xCQ_BctxDY1KsDw&s=19

PointlessHub (@HubPointless)

Watching the finale of Digital Circus in a public theatre with a bunch of Digital Circus fans is one of the circles of Hell Dante wrote about.

X · Apr 10, 2026, 2:26 PM

[red nacelle]

Man this sucks

[buoyant scroll]

https://twitter.com/mustakro/status/2042634068198654003?t=J7stf94FbEspwizOhsj2zQ&s=19

Mustakro🐀 (OPEN commissions) (@mustakro)

Getting the finale ruined by being innevitably spoiled or getting it ruined by the screams of dense teenagers, tough decision.

X · Apr 10, 2026, 4:01 PM

[red nacelle]

https://tenor.com/view/pills-drugs-medicine-blue-pill-red-pill-gif-12463860

[verbal lintel]

The events that will happen at these theaters will make Chicken Jockey appear like a well mannered crowd

[small quarry]

i am immune to spoilers 😌

[agile drift]

Could someone explain the deal with this? I have a hunch but don't want to assume

About why it's so bad

[buoyant scroll]

1. Teenagers rowdy
2. Portions of Digital Circus's fandom are especially immature jackasses

[verbal lintel]

The creator of the show has even said they will not do anything with TADC after the final episode because of how psychotic a portion of the fanbase is

[crimson kelp]

Should I be glad that I haven't heard of this?

[verbal lintel]

If you are a normal watcher and think you’ll be pleased with the last episode and never expect anything again, nah you’re fine

Big disappointment to anyone else who was just a normal watcher has has to know that there won’t be a prequel or side story episodes in the future because a portion of the fans just couldn’t act normal and seriously freaked out the creator

[crimson kelp]

Oh I meant I haven't heard of whatever that acronym is 😅 yeah sounds like an especially rabid fanbase 😬

[verbal lintel]

TADC is The Amazing Digital Circus

Just for reference, TADC episode 1 sits at humble 423 MILLION views on YouTube

[keen flax]

It is excellently written, episodes 6, 7 and 8 have teared me up (easy to do but still

[tawdry snow]

I'm not sure where the finale will go. TADC 8: ||Where do you go after killing God? Is it trying to bring Good back from the dead? Escaping to the real world? Creating their own virtual world? And who's going to die!||

So many questions

[tight dove]

Tadc all ||i doubt they are leaving, goose has said the main theme of the sjow is finding joy in a stagnant life||

[midnight compass]

I looked into this and apparently the latest drama is that a bunch of fans harassed the creator for saying the main characters are the main characters???

[verbal lintel]

Correction and what Goose is saying

pomni and jaxx are the main characters.

Ragatha, while having a lot of screen time with the two, is not

[tight dove]

Everyone thought ragatha was a main character cause her focus episodes happen earlier

And then got annoyed when the other characters got their focus episodes

[crimson kelp]

internet fandom people are nuts

[buoyant scroll]

and of course toxic shipping was involved

people who care more about the relationship they imagined for Pomni and Ragatha than anything the show was actually about

[verbal lintel]

Atla general ||it’s like how Aang and Zuko are the two main characters of the show, and everything revolves around them. The whole story was built around “the adventure of a monk and a prince” like a Chinese tale.
Katara, Sakka, Toph, and Iroh, while very important and have a lot of screen time with the two main characters, are not capital T The main characters||

[crimson kelp]

I don't wanna seem like a boomer

but I feel like people are getting less and less well adjusted over time

and despite being a child of the internet I kinda blame it

like in my lifetime I've seen people go from no phones to smart phones and social media and it seems to have brought out the psychopathy that seems only barely held back by in person interaction in a many people. Like as soon as you could send a mean text or tweet or whatever about someone rather than having to say it to their face and risk getting punched for being an asshole the amount of bullying went off the chain

[ivory night]

Thrones s2e2 || oh yeah I forgot about Theon and his sister and their incredibly weird introduction. ||

[dusky flint]

Some sort of mutant fungus is going to evolve and create zombies like in the last of us

[red nacelle]

Easy criers club unite 🤝

[red nacelle]

You’re rewatching GOT?

[ivory night]

Yeah! It’s been long enough and I’m basically twice as old as I was when I watch the early seasons. There’s a lot of things I think differently about now

[wet quest]

Present and accounted for

[dusk hound]

I am president of the hard criers club

I actually don’t remember the last time I cried at a movie

[red nacelle]

I cried this Monday watching The Shawshank Redemption

[red nacelle]

Nice to meet ya dude! I’m watching it for the first time!

At 25 years old lol

[ivory night]

Yeah I was 16-17 when the show started and it’s different watching it closer in age to the adults vs the kids

[velvet oriole]

Fallout s2e7 ||She's Canadian ||

[dusky flint]

Fallout s2e7||tbh that was my favorite episode of the whole season bc "dont think of them as human being but americans" is a banger||

[dusk hound]

Fallout s2e7 ||The funny thing is that they cared more about the fact that she’s Canadian than the fact that she’s 200 years old ||

[velvet oriole]

|| Yeah, I honestly don't get the Canadian thing as my Fallout lore isn't that deep.||

[dusky flint]

||The american military was killing canadian civilians or litteraly zero reason in the fallout universe which is weird because canadians are white||

[velvet oriole]

||I was maybe thinking somehow they were commies and on the wrong side but I don't know.||

[dusky flint]

||The US invaded canada for oil and started executing civilians(First thing shown in fo1||

||But the americans in fallout like in real life are just villains who do comically evil stuff||

[red nacelle]

I just bought a ticket to The Amazing Digital Circus finale, will see it on my birthday

Promise not to spoil 😇

[buoyant scroll]

makes note to mute Ale on June 4th

[red nacelle]

June 7th* 😗

[buoyant scroll]

getting a head start

[red nacelle]

valid

Also it’s nice to meet another tadc fan :D

[buoyant scroll]

there's only hundreds of millions of us xD

[red nacelle]

Most fun I’ve had watching a cartoon and being in a cartoon fandom in a long time

Haven’t been this excited for a finale since the day gravity falls ended

[dusk hound]

I’ve heard TADC is amazing

Kind of put off by the art style a bit? Weirdly enough?

But I might give it a chance

[red nacelle]

Give it a chance pls also i love the art style

It’s unique and charming

[tight dove]

Its great highly recommend

[small quarry]

I'm in my anti era so i'm not watching it until it stops being relevant

[oak ivy]

me be like just started steven universe anyone seen it?

[vagrant crag]

Yeah the animation is a little almost uncanny valley in the first episode. You just gotta get through it. The whole show is so good and only gets better after the first episode

[tawdry snow]

Weird take here, I don't like the animation getting better as the show goes on. It's the same art style I know, but I want it to feel like 1 rather than improving each episode

To be clear, I don't have this same problem when multiple seasons of a show get better animation

[dusky flint]

i liked the animation beign bad in the first episode it made the circus feel more fake

i wish the animation didnt improve

[frail mulch]

I know nothing about TADC other than it has an intense online fandom; is this like a Homestuck successor (which I also did not follow)

[small quarry]

yeah the culture and fandom around it just make me go nope

kinda like fnaf

[vagrant crag]

As someone who only interacts with the show and not the fandom, I can’t say I’m necessarily surprised, but I didn’t realize the fandom had such a crazy reputation

[verbal lintel]

No, it’s legitimately just a show that’s on YouTube by an indie dev

And yet it spiraled out of control because it’s actually kinda good

[novel bear]

I know exactly zero things about TADC's fandom or associated discourse. I was at a friend's tonight and they put on episode 1 while we were eating.

I thought it was fine.

[small quarry]

yeah i mean ultimately whatever little i know of it just doesnt sound appealing

[gritty sierra]

just saw project hail mary and there's lots to say about it but first I have to say. holy god that man is handsome. very good looking in glasses. wow.

[frail mulch]

Epitome of slutty lil glasses

[agile drift]

When he does the stupid glasses on his chin thing

[cold sequoia]

clear sign that gosling doesn't wear glasses

because whatever was that

[gritty sierra]

PHM ||I LOVE the weird glasses hanging off one ear. so bizarre. very cute||

PHM ||tbh as he seems to be somewhat far-sighted or else only really uses them for reading and close up stuff, if you aren't wearing them all the time, it feels like they'd get less greasy that way than pushed up into his hair. that's why I can't do the glasses pushed up into hair. grease streaks. it makes sense as an affectation born of a need to try and put them somewhere||

anyway i WILL be reading the book again tonight

as far as i can

phm movie and book ||actually i'm surprised at how much science the movie was able to convey. i thought the movie was thematically even stronger and clearer on theme, with really making you FEEL how grace's courage failed pre-launch, in a way that like... it was thereeee in the book, but the way it was hooked into the decision to go save rocky was less "oh no, final science disaster and last minute save!" and more, this is grace having someone to be courageous for. really strong||

[ionic lily]

I am soooo careful about smudging my glasses, I hate smudges so much

[dusky flint]

TADC is like a 7/10 tbh its alright but nothing too special, jax is such wasted potential

[tribal saddle]

Doctor Who 6th Doctor ||The Doctor is so freaking mean to Perry geez. He insults her in some way in almost every conversation||

[tribal saddle]

Holy crap ||Peri: "This is tight!" Doctor: "You eat too much"||

||Doctor: "I can barely lift you, the amount you weigh" ||

[velvet oriole]

Mini Fallout S2 review:

I thought s2 was better than s1, but they overcooked way too much the last episode. Also, I love Betty, she was the highlight of this season.

Burnt the bacon/10 Owls

[red nacelle]

GOT S5E2 || TIL season 5 contains adaptation of content from A Storm of Swords and A Dance With Dragons||

[spring barn]

This is me but with LOTR but I actually find LOTR decent

[spring barn]

"Adaptation" might be stretching it

But "content" is doing a lot of heavy lifting

[dusky flint]

Oh i hated fallout s2

[velvet oriole]

Did you? Huh. What did you think about s1?

[dusky flint]

S1 was alrighjt

much better

s2 fundamentally doesnt understand what makes new vegas tick as a setting and tries to supplant that with cheap references

at least S1 is NOTHING like california and doesnt even bother to reference the classic fallouts

[red nacelle]

What’s wrong with LOTR fandom? Curious cuz I’ve only seen the trilogy’s movies

[spring barn]

I've met far too many righty weirdos who use LOTR to justify stuff we can't talk about here

Plus there's a general sense of supremacy in the fandom is despise

Either there's the moral supremacy of having a clear cut good vs evil story instead of the scandalous degenerate hogwash of modern fiction like GOT OMG people used to be so much wiser back in the day type attitude

Or just straight up having a stroke when you suggest you like something more than LOTR

I do mind the movie fans less than the book fans for the last point

[dusky flint]

but other than sonic 2 and 3 (and those have there issues and are like 7/10s), maybe TLOU s1 no matter how much i hate druckman there just hasnt been a good videogame adaptation

[spring barn]

Cause like sorry guys if I think fantasy as a genre has produced something of value in the past 70 years

[cinder token]

Just watched PHM! Amazing adaptation. PHM and book ||I was warned by BS that the coward twist was bad, but I didn't get that at all. In fact, it might have been better. One complaint I do have though (only real one, everything else was sad to go but better cut) was how they didn't reveal that Rocky wasn't water based. Especially after Grace was so sad about his theory being wrong with the astrophages. It would have made the first part so much stronger. (also sad in general that most of Rocky's biology was cut - it made sense but it's so cool in the book!)||

[dusky flint]

And arcane s1 too\

[spring barn]

I only just started Green Bone a couple days ago but even before that I respected Fonda Lee for having the guts to say this

https://fxtwitter.com/FondaJLee/status/1104521323772968960

Fonda Lee **news and updates** (@FondaJLee)

This is what modern fantasy writers are up against. In my local B&N, most authors are lucky to find a copy of their book, super lucky if it's face out. There are 3.5 shelves for Tolkien. 1.5 for Jordan. Here's who we compete against for shelf space: not each other, but dead guys.

**💬 916 🔁 780 ❤️ 3.1K **

FxTwitter · Mar 9, 2019, 11:16 PM

She's been ridiculed to no end for this but that only proves my point

[oak ivy]

i agree with her point but WoT just had a tv show and has 15 books

the LOTR worship is def excessive tho

[tribal saddle]

There are points on both sides

[minor isle]

It's a bad statement in general
This is competing with "Popular" authors, not matter of alive or death

imo

Like Martin surely has more shelf than Jordan

and apparently even Brandon has

[tribal saddle]

3.5 shelves for Tolkien does seem a bit excessive, but it's what sells, and bookstores are there to make money not advertise

[minor isle]

I am surprised Legendarium had works to fill that many shelves

[spring barn]

Yeah but the rest aren't gonna be able to sell well if those old stuff keeps clogging the shelves

[minor isle]

Hobbit trilogy, lotr trilogy ane The middle earth bible book with a few other like children of hurin etc right?

[spring barn]

I'm sure LOTR and Hobbit fly out but idk about the rest

[minor isle]

Or does he have more than these

[oak ivy]

the number of editions is quite excessive

[minor isle]

Bookstores put what sells
Tolkien sells

[oak ivy]

it is ironic bc fonda lee is someone who has broken that barrier and is in most bookstores i visit

[minor isle]

I think witcher might have 2-2.5 shelves given how many special editions there are

[tribal saddle]

Also Tolkien has a lot more books than Fonda

[minor isle]

Why are bookstores giving more shelfs of authors who are alive and well known
They should be given to just published authors 🙂‍↕️

[oak ivy]

not a lot more tbh

[burnt shale]

I’ve yet to see her work in the three bookstores I frequent at least

[tribal saddle]

Like I can see her point, but I also acknowledge that the bookstores are trying to sell and popular things sell so get more space. It's not black and white

If Tolkien took up that much space in, like, a library, and her books were missing, that'd be more of an issue

[minor isle]

I have seen her works in books more in bookstores here than Brandon

But its probably not a good sample

I was surprised myself on discovering thay

[tribal saddle]

There were exactly 2 Brandon Sanderson books in the big bookstore in Finland that we went to. I didn't look for Fonda Lee

[lone canyon]

“Why do people read good books and not my slop” ahhhh take

[spring barn]

Slop?

[lone canyon]

Don’t get me wrong, green bone saga is fine but that statement is inane

[tribal saddle]

"Slop" is a bit much

[red nacelle]

Slop? 😐

Slop is such an overused word

[spring barn]

Qualityslop
You only like it cause it's good

[minor isle]

I agree to calling it slop 🏃‍♂️

[oak ivy]

green bone is ok

[red nacelle]

Please just say you don’t like a book instead of calling it slop

[lone canyon]

I’ve read half of her first book and it was aight

[oak ivy]

i dnfd book 3

[dusky flint]

most of those LOTR books are slop

lets be real

[red nacelle]

Slop is literally bottom of the barrel

[tribal saddle]

So call it "stuff" rather than slop

[burnt shale]

I mean I think there should be like a sizable section for the “classics” proven authors that sell and some for new people I don’t think it’s that crazy I’m usually suprised by how many established series aren’t on shelves in my bookstore

[lone canyon]

I don’t even like lotr but it’s not slop 😭

[minor isle]

I dnfed book 1.
I finished LoTR and WoT. So its slop fr /s

[red nacelle]

I haven’t read Tolkien or Fonda yet, but come on

[dusky flint]

most of the post humous stuff sucks

[red nacelle]

[oak ivy]

i dnfd fellowing like 3 times

[spring barn]

I DNF'd LOTR in Two Towers but am cruising through Green Bone

[oak ivy]

may give it another go at some point

[lone canyon]

Slop to me is mid

[oak ivy]

not really that optimistic

[tribal saddle]

Slop is literally the crap left after all the good stuff is removed...

[minor isle]

I don't like the word slop

[lone canyon]

Lotr is not a book I personally enjoy but it’s incredibly influential and important

[minor isle]

Cuz its meaning in social media is inconsistent

[burnt shale]

Would you eat the book out of a trough

[minor isle]

sometimes its to refer to super bad books
Sometimes its to mid

[burnt shale]

If yes it’s slop

[tribal saddle]

I do need more fiber

[lone canyon]

Slop to me means “well it’s fine, I’ll eat it but it’s not good”

[minor isle]

Most of the times, its to anything

[oak ivy]

slop to me means it was art made with no real intent of producing anything qualitiy or challenging. it fufills the basic minimum requirements to be sold

[dusky flint]

oh yeah i meant the post humous books that the tolkein estate published are kind of slop

[minor isle]

I see people using qualityslop unironically

[oak ivy]

unless i am trying to be funny

[lone canyon]

I think her statement comes off as crazy arrogant tbh

[spring barn]

Friendslop is one of the saddest terms I've ever seen

[dusky flint]

Mario games

[red nacelle]

Honestly I completely understand Fonda’s point but I gotta disagree with it partly. New authors aren’t competing with dead men. They’re competing with popular authors.

Tolkien is the whole mountain range with one of the best adaptations in history, and he sells. Of course bookstores will dedicate multiple shelves to him. But maybe the multiple editions is too much :/

[minor isle]

Not arrogant but

[red nacelle]

And Jordan made one of the most popular fantasy doorstoppers

[minor isle]

inane

[dusky flint]

i think tolkein should probably be on the side and not with the cover out front to save space

[lone canyon]

I mean, it’s just silly because the reason people are reading Tolkien and not her is because a lot of Tolkien is just better than her work

[red nacelle]

Holy loaded speech, you can’t be serious 😭😭

[minor isle]

Not really

[lone canyon]

“Why do bookstores stock books that are good and sell well”

[spring barn]

That's entirely subjective

[oak ivy]

yeah like who said lotr was good

[dusky flint]

the 1.5 robert jordan estate taken is fair because its just all of his books

[burnt shale]

Authors should have to literally fight for shelf space. Just like lock them in a room and the 10 that remain get the book copies out facing

[lone canyon]

There is some subjectivity in quality but in terms of both a) what is more academically rich and b) what is more appealing to the consumer, tolkein wins out both times

[burnt shale]

The only fair method

[dusky flint]

because taking up that much space is annoying but also i think nearly all books should be spine facing tbh

[ionic lily]

Welcome to the... AUTHORDOME

[tribal saddle]

Authorpits

[red nacelle]

Give them spikes and you got a fan 🍿

[ionic lily]

The Author Games

[oak ivy]

i do think fantasy does a bad job hyping up new authors

[red nacelle]

The Pits of Authors

[oak ivy]

or even old ones that are not tolkien

[dusk hound]

Why is Kaladin on the top left book cover in the second image

What is you doing here

[minor isle]

That's for any medium honestly

[oak ivy]

glen cook not being in bookstores consistently is just a shame

[minor isle]

or genre

[burnt shale]

Yeah the amount of legends I can’t find in bookstores is crazy to me

Even more frustrating having only the middle book in a long running series

[red nacelle]

He worldhopped through universes

[dusky flint]

Bookstores just kind of suck at choosign what books to stock

[lone canyon]

Tbh I disagree, books like tolkein or austen or whatever are popular because they’ve withstood the test of time

[tribal saddle]

They'll stock what they think will sell

[dusky flint]

I went to a bookstore recently to buy ASOIAF and there was only romantasy in the fantasy section

[lone canyon]

They’re one of the best in their genre over 50 or 100 years

[dusky flint]

Genuinely insane not even like LOTR nothing just romantasy

[lone canyon]

Green bone saga is not that and for her to be comparing herself to Tolkien comes off as incredibly arrogant

[spring barn]

Not having ASOIAF is crazy lol

[minor isle]

More than that, reading has mostly been an elitist hobby and people pick on others reading stuff they don't find "good"

[lone canyon]

There’s some romantasy focused bookstores

[dusky flint]

there wasnt even tolkein 😭

[spring barn]

I remember I too used to be in the "LOTR is morally superior to GOT" camp when I hadn't gotten into ASOIAF

[dusky flint]

the non fiction selection was really good

though

[red nacelle]

Me with the 2 star romance book I read last year 🤢

[burnt shale]

Mine half a full shelf and a half of just book 1

[oak ivy]

a large % of romance is slop i will say

[lone canyon]

I don’t think that’s the case tbh, I think too many people have genuinely poor literacy skills

[burnt shale]

Of acotar

[minor isle]

If Asoiaf was good then why couldn't I read more than 1 book

gottem

[lone canyon]

95% of it

[spring barn]

But after reading the books I don't think there's a single department where I find LOTR anywhere near as good ASOIAF except maybe prose

[dusky flint]

i only ever went for the non fiction at that store which has a really good selection

[dusky flint]

what about music

[spring barn]

Easily GOT

[dusky flint]

so its not roamntasy focused i think its just trying to market to booktok people

[red nacelle]

That explains your display name lol

[minor isle]

The Shire OST is the best soundtrack ever made

[dusky flint]

i meant the actual songs that you find in LOTR in the form of text

[minor isle]

Oh those

[spring barn]

LOTR movies to me are a good A+ and whatever I've read of the books B-

[minor isle]

easily LoTR

[oak ivy]

asoiaf doesnt do songs

[lone canyon]

Asoiaf is so peak

[red nacelle]

Ehhhhh nothing about GOT’s music stands out so far except the theme song and Rains of Castamere

[spring barn]

Again ASOIAF by far

[oak ivy]

at least not to the same level

[burnt shale]

I think there’s more thematic depth tbh in lotr

[lone canyon]

Genuinely best character writing I’ve see ever

[ionic lily]

Theres one near me called The Ripped Bodice, kinda want to go

[tribal saddle]

Probably should move book discussion to #1404497733108236318 though

[dusky flint]

i didnt even know ASOIAF had those tbh

[oak ivy]

its like giving asoiaf a point bc it has better sex scenes lmao

[spring barn]

Disagree

I think just the character depth and interactions open up themes in ASOIAF LOTR wouldn't touch with a hundred foot pole

[lone canyon]

Lotr has some interesting themes but I think they’re coloured by the fact tolkein has really silly politics

[dusky flint]

i still need to find a store that actually stocks ASOIAF tbh i sitll havent gotten around to actually buying it

[red nacelle]

Aww man now I can’t contribute 😔

[dusky flint]

Tolkein was a great author but dear god he was a white british man in the early 20th century

[oak ivy]

the actual story is pretty simple all things considered

[lone canyon]

Lotr has really good prose and captures the feeling of an “epic” myth but it’s not a particularly character or theme driven story

[oak ivy]

and the morality is simplistic

[spring barn]

And a good portion of his fanbase uh...yeah let's just say reflects that

[minor isle]

Why talk about two slops when Farseer Blows them out of water fr

[lone canyon]

I mean more his weird “monarcho anarchist primitivist” schtick he had going on

[buoyant scroll]

I bought a debut novel like 2 years ago and have never gotten around to it...

[minor isle]

https://tenor.com/view/rpx-syria-mic-drop-gif-19149907

[burnt shale]

I’d greatly disagree on the last part

[dusky flint]

both tolkein and GRRM will probably be remembered as all time great authors in 100 years tbh

[oak ivy]

rote is really good but evertime i remember rainwild exists i knock the series down a point

[tribal saddle]

[oak ivy]

grrm needs to finish it

[red nacelle]

Let’s move to #1404497733108236318

[minor isle]

True ale is feeling fomo

Can't blame you tho

[red nacelle]

That’s what happens when you haven’t read many books

I’m working on it tho

I have like 12 priority series after Stormlight

[red nacelle]

🥹

[minor isle]

I dropped ASOIAF so yeah I don't feel fomo

the show was p good and I am happy with that being my only exposure

With how I wasted my time with ST just to see it through, I realized I should dnf things more

I legit don't like any ep after s2 until second half of s5 finale

Haven't wasted time that badly before this

[red nacelle]

Woooow could not be me

All of the first 4 seasons were phenomenal

[minor isle]

I mean ST

Not GOT

[red nacelle]

Oh that makes more sense

I never made ST past season 1

GOT S5E2 || WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, DANY?! ||

|| Literally THE dumbest thing you’ve done so far and could’ve done! ||

[dusky flint]

i need to watch ST s5

i never bothered

i dont tink i will

honestly

[distant birch]

I Dnf'd st s5 midway through the finale

[minor isle]

I had already sufferred through s4

[red nacelle]

@spring barn Going back to your earlier point about too many righty weirdos using LOTR, I completely agree with you. And it hurts that one of the most popular replies to Fonda’s tweet is from a righty grifter

Also notice how it’s mostly conservatives trashing Fonda

[minor isle]

s5 was a breeze hence

[distant birch]

I liked s4 significantly more than s5

[minor isle]

s4 was my least fav season of television

[distant birch]

Strong disagree haha

I don't know what my least fav season of TV is. I don't know if I've watched enough shows to have one

[minor isle]

even if I had only watched st, and nothing else, I would make that statement lol

I geniunely hated every second of it

[ionic lily]

||What did she do this time||

[dusky flint]

Now watching son of the century

[crystal brook]

Id love to see the rest of the secrion compared to this, american commercial chain book shops and fantasy/scifi sections always looks pretty huge compared to the UK

But also ive probably generally only seen photos of bookshops there in bigger cities

But also I dont know if ive ever seen more than 2 wheel of time books in a scifi/fantasy section here

Or really any series other than ASOIAF

[tribal saddle]

6th Doctor and Peri really don't seem to like each other very much at all

[frail mulch]

Well, it is a post on the site formerly known as Twitter; I kind of expect the discourse to be rancid over there (I haven't clicked through to look)

[crimson kelp]

The shelf space thing is just an unhinged take for multiple reasons

... wait this isn't books

[runic pollen]

I think it only falls short to promoting new stuff to Romance. Otherwise I would say it is the second best in fiction categories.

Contemporary, Mystery, Sci-fi (unless also Fantasy) typically gets less.push for new releases compared to Fantasy where I see attempts to promote new stuff always and in unique ways and conventional ways.

[west escarp]

I think it’s actually non series second books that get the worse hype in genre fiction

It’s normal for literary fiction to pro sophomore novels and I do see pushes for X’s Debut Fantasy Novel

Not as many as outside genres admittedly

[runic pollen]

I did lot understand " non series second book"

And "sophomore novels"

[west escarp]

Sophomore novel = second novel or novel after a debut

That’s a real term.

Non series second novel is made but the idea is the authors second book isn’t #2 in a series

Ie Tad William’s debut novel was Tailchaser’s Song. A standalone. His second novel was book #1 of a series (The Dragonbone Chair)

RF Kuang’s debut novel was The Poppy War. Her second book was Poppy War #2 (The Dragon Republic)

[crimson kelp]

the american school terminology always makes me very confused in tv shows

also because it applies both to high school and to "college" which media has taught me is a place that you get a bachelors degree by filling in multiple choice questionnaires

[cold sequoia]

Sophomore is annoying to me because of how different "sophomore novel" and "sophomoric novel" is

[west escarp]

Some novels can be both

[cold sequoia]

Yeah but I feel like the words get treated as synonyms too much

[runic pollen]

God the this Pitt episode was also just as good. || It is amazing to see a slower on medical side of the episode that is more about character arcs.||

[gritty sierra]

phm book vs movie ||oh going back into the book straight after the movie is crazy. movie!grace is a far better character than book!grace and it's not close||

[low cliff]

||do you mean like more well written or better person?||

[gritty sierra]

both

[low cliff]

||i liked book grace more as a character, he is flawed enough to identify with him haha||

[gritty sierra]

phm book/movie ||on reread and comparison with the movie, book grace is less of a character and more just a vessel to explain the science, and is honestly just too snarky/smarmy to be all that sympathetic, mostly when interacting with other humans, which is half the book in the flashbacks. it's not very pleasant or nice snark, either||

[low cliff]

hmm i didnt pick up on that at all.. maybe i'll have to re read

[spring barn]

I'm sure Ryan Gosling helps a ton too

[gritty sierra]

I'm sure it does

[red nacelle]

GOT S5E2 || Just occurred to my dumbass that Daario was recast. I like the first actor a lot more ||

[spring barn]

This is how he looks in the books btw

[crystal brook]

Got s5e2 ||One of the disappointments of the GoT show is that they didnt depict Tyroshi characters with wacky dyed hair colours, in the books lots of Tyroshi people dye their hair bright colours, such as Daario||

[crystal brook]

haha wow beat me to it

[ionic lily]

I honestly didn’t notice either

Which is insane

[spring barn]

Conversely I didn't notice it when the actresses for Alicent switched in HOTD cause they look so eerily similar

[red nacelle]

Damn I love how bold Martin is with character designs. I would’ve loved this, you don’t see this kind of stuff in live action media

[spring barn]

ASOIAF has a super flamboyant and colourful world

[crystal brook]

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is trying to at least

[spring barn]

Even in Westeros

[crystal brook]

to an extent

[spring barn]

And it sucks that in the last three seasons the show has pretty much only greys and browns

I hate S5 but it at least has some colour

[crystal brook]

They even dyed a Tyroshi character's hair

[spring barn]

@terse crystal have you seen Farewell My Concubine?

[terse crystal]

I have not but it is on my list

[burnt shale]

Sophomore is one of those terms that feels wierd until you realize it means wise fool and there is no better way to describe the behaviour of a 2 year student in a 4 year program

[red nacelle]

We’re both blind 🤣

[celest mango]

I thought you were replying to a PHM message I was like idk what book you read 😭

[turbid narwhal]

PHM ||Finally got around to seeing it and while I didn’t like the book I think the movie was great. A lot of the things that didn’t work in the book translate really well into a movie format. Helps that it’s a spectacle of a movie and it looks even better in 70mm||

[lunar hinge]

The boys ||A TRAIN NAUR||

[lucid haven]

what epp you on

[lunar hinge]

I actually haven't watched it too much but I got spoiled on tiktok edits lmao

Im only on like season 2

[lucid haven]

you should watch more its one of my favorite tv series's

[lunar hinge]

Yeah I am planning on starting watching it again after what I know now

[lucid haven]

what did you get spoiled about

[lunar hinge]

the boys season 5 ||a trains redemption and death||

[lucid haven]

i could see someone wanting to watch with that info, its also for those reading this dont click the above unless you are up to date with the boys all the way up to the most recent epp

[lunar hinge]

The boys season 5 + RoW ||honestly his death reminded me a lot about tefts death like how he was talking to homelander reminded me of teft talking to moash||

Man I love being in a server where I can talk about sla in addition to other cool stuff

[lucid haven]

The boys season 5 + RoW || i agree it felt a bunch like that, theres heaps of parallels you can draw here. The tv show in general gets very accurate to modern politics and modern things tho as it progresses. Basicly a full alegory for a specific political figure is who homelander is representing||

just as a warning if thats something that you wont like

[gritty breach]

you can apparently get theater concessions delivered to you. like at your house

[lucid haven]

Thats cool

[gritty breach]

it sounds like the worst, most expensive way to get mediocre popcorn and hot dog

plus like. box candy. and icee

i cannot imagine getting box candy delivered to me

[topaz oyster]

As in, from theaters or a third party making and delivering theater style concessions?

[gritty breach]

cinemark

saw an ad for it sitting through trailers for Project Hail Mary

[red nacelle]

GOT S5E2 || Her servants captured one of the Sons of the Harpy. Dany was going to give him a trial but one of her councilmen killed him. So she executed the councilman, and now the people of Meereen all hissed at her||

[ionic lily]

Oh right

Bad idea

[red nacelle]

GOT S5E3 || Arya was about to throw Needle in the water and it got me tearing up ||

|| It’s her last reminder of Jon 💔||

[ionic lily]

😔

[red nacelle]

|| Arya best girl 😔||

|| Probably my favorite female character in GOT ||

[lucid haven]

No they ment to your seat im pretty sure

[agile drift]

Adolescence 1 ||oh damn there's literal video of him doing it? Idk how you come back from this kid||

[red nacelle]

GOT S5E3 || This season isn’t bad so far. Not bad but kinda boring. Nothing so far has stood out as GREAT ||

[buoyant scroll]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DXA_jIFCfEh/

glitch_prod

Hey all, Kevin here. Please read.

Likes

9847

Instagram

[runic pollen]

I have seen an Instagram Reel about it and from that it seems a lot of people didn't realise either.

[tribal saddle]

I am definitely not liking Colin Baker as the Doctor. He's just being mean for no reason constantly

[gritty breach]

it showed a doorstep and doordash logo lol

tbf i thought that too at first because of how stupid the actual thing sounds

[red nacelle]

GOT S5E4 || The scene between Stannis and Shireen is easily the best S5 scene so far ||

|| Honestly it doesn’t seem like this season intends to delve and develop the characters as much as the previous four seasons. Maybe it will be more plot driven? ||

|| I don’t get it all why Cersei would give the Sparrows an army. What’s her plan here? ||

Where’s Bran?

[dusk hound]

There is literally nothing I would want to do less than have movie theater food delivered to me

[gritty breach]

anyway the movie was good

[gritty sierra]

this made me want a burger REAL BAD

[wet quest]

I live next to one of those movie theaters that brings food to your seat. One time I considered going there for dinner and a show, looked up their prices, and saw that I could get three tenders and fries for the same price as going to the Mongolian grill right next door.
Absolutely no way am I going to get food that's already twice as much as it ought to be delivered to my house, even ignoring that it's probably doubled in price again due to doordash prices

[gritty breach]

sorgy

[gritty sierra]

😩 maybe i will have one tomorrow

[lucid haven]

Crazy

[buoyant scroll]

Had one for lunch and had 3 different homemade deer burgers over the last 2 days :3

Oh wait, also had one for supper tonight...
...
probably need to focus on baked food the next few days

[merry heath]

Invincible 4.6 ||🦞 ||

[runic pollen]

Finishedickey 17 today

Brilliant movie

[verbal lintel]

Elden Ring movie update

Radahn Soldier costumes spotted! I repeat! Radahn Soldier costumes spotted!

The Big Boy is gonna be on The Big Screen

[cold sequoia]

It's still crazy this is even happening

[sonic trench]

I do wonder what the setting is meant to be with the redmane knights in that forest
Is it caelid pre scarlet rot, will they cover it in cgi to make it present day caelid, or is this a flashback scene from a time they might be stationed outside of caelid?

[dusk hound]

Ummmm soooo

Be careful for ATLA movie spoilers

Because the entire movie may or may not have leaked online

[keen flax]

Jokes on the leakers, Instagram forgot I was an ATLA freak 😌

[muted solar]

Oh man the vibes are a bit off in the two leaked ATLA movie clips and the VA + writing feels really bad in the second clip

Gorgeous visuals in the second clip

First clip isn’t as bad

But I’m not optimistic about the new voice actors after that second clip :/

Never thought that’d be an issue

Going to hold out hope still

[buoyant scroll]

The one clip i saw the voices felt so, mismatched that im taking the whole thing with a lot of pinches of salt

I expect a big part of it is just being exposed to the new voices without time to adjust tbh

[muted solar]

Yeah :/ I’m a bit concerned about the VA and the second clip I saw just felt… not how I expected. Like it didn’t feel like avatar exactly with the humor they went for

And I guess I was hoping it’d feel a bit more aged up

[muted solar]

Yeah I hope so for sure

[agile drift]

Only clip I found had ||the unconscious guy.|| Idk I liked it

[muted solar]

Yeah it’s the second clip that worried me more so

Not the one you saw

That one was not as bad

Second clip visually stunning though

And apparently this leak is supposedly a bad export and the final movie will look even better visually

[runic pollen]

Gonna watch the movie with both Michael B Jordan and Michael A Jordan

[muted solar]

Yessssss

[runic pollen]

Sinner's || I like how the coloured hats are doing heavy lifting for the twins. ||

I also like || he helped the girl negotiate better ||

[keen flax]

Sinners reactions??? Ohhh we are so back 🥴

[muted solar]

Oh looks like the leaks got taken down. Right after I got to see them.

[muted solar]

|| I never noticed the hats ||

[runic pollen]

Only when I get the ads

Man || Stack is slick, the moment he heard Oldie talk about his Alcoholic ass talking about dying a sinner due to drinking. Instantly pulled his weakness. Ofc he already had it planned. ||

[lucid haven]

With all the moon stuff right now i think ill finally get around to watching for all mankind

[runic pollen]

Okay now I actually gotta start pausing instead of wait for ads.

|| 2 things happened right after.

We met Mary (before that Sammie boy done flirting with the married gal) and Stack and Smoke not coming to her mother's funeral. I have a feeling that 80% Stack was jerk for leaving Mary like that but the remaining 20% about not returning and being rude now was about protecting her from something.

Hear the story from Oldie about the guy who got lynched. Another example of them immediately deciding to channel their sorrow through song and Sammie just not getting it.

Now two P.S - I did notice that the movie sometimes changes aspect ratios. Where it would remove the black cinema bars at the top and bottom sometimes. Is this unique to this or did I just not notice every single movie doing this?

Also Also it seems Stack forgot his promise to let Sammie drive.

Also Also Also Stack was downright scared of Sammie singing like that and with the opening I had the thought that it might be due to him possibly calling the Evil. ||

|| Corn read immediately recognised Stack.||

|| Also also also also It seems Stack does not fault his dad for the beatings but that makes the earlier question by two about Sammies dad beating em. I feel Stack blames it on Smoke as his fault||

|| Back to Smoke now, it seems their mother is alive.

And she feels that they had robbed someone for sure ||

|| maybe not mother....||

|| Too much being called woman||

[agile drift]

On the aspect ratio thing, not every movie does it but it has been done before. One of my favorites is in hunger games catching fire, where ||they expand into full screen as katniss is in the elevator going into the arena, and from that point on it's in full screen||

[runic pollen]

Sinner|| It seems the wife is connected to the supernatural more. Before that it wasn't much ||

it changed again || after the essex scene ||

|| okay we finally meet the Vampire likes in the show.

And Native Americans warning against them. ||

|| It seems to change their personality too. Like after getting fed on it lets evil beings inside your body to possess you.
||

|| Stack being more lenient for the feelings of the working class and Smoke being the by the books person makes sense but at the same time something you would miss because you see one guy intentionally make a girl negotiate better and the other trying to be slick and have this hustler side to him. ||

|| Did Stack get best more because he was the one to get her mama killed in childbirth in father's eyes or just general mischief||

Now we groovin

https://tenor.com/view/timeywimey-dr-who-david-tennant-gif-7863239

|| some real vampire permission stuff here. Sammie boy really called some trouble.||

Oh no || don't go Mary..... ||

|| CRAP now mary is turned and Cornbread is gonna be too. This is so baaaaad.||

[runic pollen]

Finished it

Amazing

[keen flax]

😌👌🏾

[runic pollen]

Finished it for real this time. || Got got with the end credits being the guitar solo in future.

If Smoke's wife hadn't said that they would live their life with hate always in them. I would have been okay with Stack and Mary like that. It feels so weird right now.

Like this is the most that we have seen them being them despite being Vampires unlike in past where everything was about tricking them.

But at the same time, they are still stuck and have no plans of leaving the mortal world. ||

|| About Sammie not leaving the guitar. I knew damn well that he wouldn't. It might let live but that living ain't living. ||

[gritty breach]

hail mary ||i really like the ways they visualized the astrophage. black goop, infrared dots, and especially the big shimmering clouds when inside a petrovna line||

[cold sequoia]

phm ||yeah, visually the movie was a treat and should be winning a lot of awards on that alone||

||both in terms of practical and digital effects||

[gritty sierra]

PHM ||grace standing in the Petrova line at Adrian did get me. I got got||

[cold sequoia]

PHM ||yeah, it was foreshadowed with how the intro to the movie showed the astrophages but I was totally caught offguard when it switched like that (in a good way)||

[runic pollen]

Sinners + Mickey 17 || It is funny that I watched two movies with double role by same actors today just by chance. Although I did know Sinner's had twins.

It also makes me wonder how both films handled having both characters at the same shot because for both, they had some really high quality shot of them side by side that I think would be really difficult to do. ||

[wet quest]

It's actually super easy! The trick is that Michael B. Jordan can just do that

[gritty breach]

||Rocky’s PoV shots were also excellent||

[spring barn]

@terse crystal A Better Tomorrow 3 rocks holy hell

[west escarp]

What did they put in the film when shooting old movies and tv shows that made blue eyes practically glow

[ionic lily]

Spice

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/paul-atreides-dune-the-sleeper-has-awakened-muaddib-gif-23692018

[sacred slate]

Looks like it's probably a combo of less subtle spot lighting on faces, kind of like a ring light for zoom meetings on you all the time, and color grading where the blue just stood out more because of the palate of colors shown on screen.

[west escarp]

So it is actually something different about the process of filming and not just that fewer actors have blue eyes

[tribal saddle]

https://tenor.com/view/dune-frank-herbert-david-lynch-alicia-witt-alia-gif-12866630

[sacred slate]

That too but the way they pop in older media is definitely a production thing.

[wet quest]

Starting The X-Files

||"Time can't just disappear! It's a universal invariance!"
" 😏 not in this zip code." ||

[west escarp]

https://tenor.com/view/mulder-believing-intensifies-gif-23920045

[wet quest]

What a great show so far. All that was packed into 45 minutes? I feel like we got so much done in just the first episode

[west escarp]

Also both the leads are drop dead gorgeous with killer chemistry

[minor isle]

I wonder if it will.
We have dune 3 and other movies coming

[ionic lily]

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/percy-jackson-walker-scobell-skipping-prom-death-threats-1236719995/

[dusk hound]

Heard about this

Just absolutely insane stuff

Walker deserves to be able to go to prom just like any normal high school kid

You only get one prom, and these stupid people just ruined it

[distant birch]

That's insane

[red nacelle]

GOT S5E4 || RIP Barristan, I think ||

|| I think Grey Worm is fine? ||

|| Also I gotta say I’m disappointed by Littlefinger this season. Hope he has a big plan to betray the Boltons and control their resources, or something like that. I originally thought he killed Lysa so he could either become Lord of the Vale or manipulate Robin’s position as Lord. So he can consolidate the Vale’s resources towards making a play for the Iron Throne. It’s so lame that he’s relying on Stannis to take Winterfell and defeat the Boltons ||

|| It’s also a dumb plan to marry Sansa to Ramsay ||

[lilac hull]

Vile. Just absolutely vile. I have no words.

[tribal saddle]

People suck

[red nacelle]

I don’t know who’s more pathetic among the dumbspits sending death threats 😒 The weird ass grown women or the parasocial teenage girls

Poor kid

[stoic falcon]

That's insane. Death threats are never justified ofc, but the fact they're against teenagers makes it even worse

[muted solar]

The prevalence of parasocial nonsense these days is absolutely insane. What the actual hell. It’s like a damn contagion

[hushed moss]

Oh… yikes that is really bad.

[tawdry snow]

Oh joy. Cat food commercials are using AI now

[acoustic pewter]

I get AI ads on YouTube all the time. It's like no matter how many times I block them and ask for them to suggest fewer ads like them, they just keep popping up. They're like a cancer.

Just today, I got one for an AI "game" that does something like fully generate a playable character based on an image you send in (probably also AI-generated). I don't know any more, because I skipped and blocked it immediately afterward, but it just made my blood boil. I was in an instant fury at the sight of it. That anyone would create that and then advertise it with "Hey, did you know you can AI-generate a whole game now"? It's so stupid and I hate it so much.

[burnt shale]

The worst ones are the ones where they put something in the first 5 seconds for shock value before you can skip

[steep bramble]

Yeah it’s messed up.

[naive mica]

Softly, a whisper in the distance:

-# uBlock......Origin..........

[sonic trench]

Switch to Firefox, download ublock origin, never look back, never see an ad again

[wet quest]

Opera's built in adblocker also works wonders

[dusky flint]

but operas is also a bad browser

[wet quest]

I don't know, it gets the job done

[thin ridge]

I did this a few weeks ago
It was absolutely worth it

[west escarp]

I have u block and it’s not blocking YouTube ads anymore

[wraith sand]

Would you guys consider the ||Unknown Aggressors|| from the Expanse to be an example of ||Lovecraftian eldritch horrors||?

[paper hull]

Spoiler tags pls

[acoustic pewter]

Problem is, uBlock is for PC only and I have a Mac. I already have two different adblockers running at once, and even then they only sometimes work.

And besides, adblockers don't stop AI ads from existing. As much as I'd like to block them, that's only hiding from the lingering problem. I just wish those ads straight up never existed. I just wish all forms of Gen AI straight up never existed.

[paper hull]

Expanse ALL ||I don't personally consider them Lovecraftian, but you could call them eldritch horrors just by virtue of their exotic form as some kind of thing that exists outside of the universe as we know it. But, they don't really have much going on in the way of intention and can't really be called malevolent, they're just kind of responding to some very basic stimuli in a kind of basic manner.||

[gritty breach]

untrue. just download firefox

yes uBlock doesn’t have a Safari version. you don’t have to use safari tho
i’ve literally used uBlock on Mac before

[topaz oyster]

||Yeah I think if the framing is "do they serve a purpose in the story similar to Lovecraftian horrors", I'd be more or less on board. But if the framing is "are they the same thing as Lovecraftian horrors", obviously not||

[naive mica]

Expanse ALL ||Yeah we kinda don't know much about them, not enough to assign them anything resembling intent or even intelligence as we understand it. What we see of them is barely more than a force of nature.||

[crimson kelp]

Expanse All ||I would say that especially in its initial appearance in LW the protomolecule is more like an eldritch horror. ||

[acoustic pewter]

This is good to know, thank you 🙂‍↕️

[dusky flint]

what browser?

https://vxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2043810525340123255

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

A remake of ‘ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK’ is in the works at Studiocanal.

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 13, 2026, 9:56 PM

[west escarp]

Firefox

[frank quail]

still blocking for me
I do get the stupid several seconds delay on starting various videos

which is a kind of stalemate between them, YT trying to annoy me into paying, while ublock successfully stops be seeing anything

[sonic trench]

might just need to update ublock? I've had some periods where it'd do that but it always clears up within days

ublock always seems to adapt

[dusk hound]

https://x.com/SpiderManMovie/status/2043879340317036944/photo/1

Spider-Man Movie (@SpiderManMovie)

New teaser poster for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. In theatres July 31. 🕷️

X · Apr 14, 2026, 2:29 AM

Another one

Official posters if that wasn’t clear

[dusk hound]

https://x.com/HollywoodHandle/status/2043886295072620555

The Hollywood Handle (@HollywoodHandle)

A ‘BLOODBORNE’ movie has been announced by Sony. #CinemaCon

X · Apr 14, 2026, 2:57 AM

Jacksepticeye developing the film as well

[cold sequoia]

What a rollercoaster of announcements

[dusk hound]

Cinemacon baby

Expect a lot more in the days to come

[cold sequoia]

Oh no I meant related ti bloodborn

[dusk hound]

Ohhhh

[cold sequoia]

Wait to clarify is the bloodborn movie developed by jacksepticeye?

[dusk hound]

PRODUCING not developing https://x.com/CultureCrave/status/2043886974097076392?s=20

Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave)

'Bloodborne' animated film is in development at Sony 🩸🎥

• Will be Rated-R
• Jacksepticeye is producing

X · Apr 14, 2026, 3:00 AM

My fault

[muted solar]

Warning for all: Apparently the full avatar aang movie has leaked and clips are all over twitter.

I don't use twitter myself these days, but yeah confirmed it to be true. There are many accounts posting clips, screenshots, and the whole film

[dusk hound]

[muted solar]

I feel so bad for the creators of this movie...

[dusk hound]

For sure

First they got screwed out of a theatrical release

And now this?

Just awful

[muted solar]

Yeah it really sucks that this happened

I had been so excited for years to go find a midnight release for this film in theaters

[dusk hound]

Ok better YET, it’s gonna be animated and R-Rated

[cold sequoia]

I am below whelmed but not quite underwhelmed

Sony attaching a random youtuber as their headlining producer doesnt inspire confidence, Sony does good animation but they also make animation slop

[dusk hound]

NEW STILLS FROM BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE

||https://fxtwitter.com/SpiderVerse/status/2043890756629492205||

Spider-Man: Beyond The Spider-Verse (@SpiderVerse)

A new look at Spider-Man: Beyond the #SpiderVerse. In theatres 6.18.2027. 🕸️

**💬 72 🔁 441 ❤️ 902 👁️ 3.7K **

FxTwitter · Apr 14, 2026, 3:15 AM

[muted solar]

Omg I can't wait

Some people are thinking Paramount should just drop the Avatar aang movie early

Some reporting is saying season 1 of Seven Havens may be pretty close to completion as well at this point

I think even if the movie is bad I’m going to stream it multiple times

So disappointing to see how this has been playing out over the years

[heavy anchor]

Oh for heavens sake just port the game to PC already so I can play it

[dusk hound]

Bloodborne PC port will come the day that George RR Martin finishes Winds of Winter

[hushed moss]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CINFIAohu4U

[red nacelle]

Game of Thrones Season 5 be like

https://tenor.com/view/getting-kinda-bored-spongebob-squarepants-squid's-day-off-ehh-gif-10366997272723797045

Halfway through for the first time. There are good moments but between the lack of complex plots, dense dialogue, and mystery, I’m just not feeling this season. It’s kinda boring.

No episode has stood out as GREAT

Might slow down in favor of finally finishing Way of Kings or watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes

[verbal lintel]

Not exactly random. Jack is part of the Markiplier circle of YouTubers, and (after iron lung) Sony now sees there is money to be harvested from this circle

However I would have preferred if an actual Souls-Loretuber were the actual pick

I would do a backflip if they said “And Redgrave will be assistant script editor” or something

[sonic trench]

I'd be glad if they didn't touch any of the souls youtubers with a ten foot pole

they don't need to consult with secondary sources and fan headcanons, they can ask the actual writers at fromsoft

that's why I'm glad the elden ring script got miyazaki's personal approval

[dusk hound]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2043889628860858376?s=20

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

‘BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE’ is being made in a 1:43:1 format.

X · Apr 14, 2026, 3:10 AM

This is IMAX 70MM for those who don’t know

Well that does it for Day One of Cinemacon and the Sony panel

Warner Brothers and DC Studios tomorrow

At 7:30 EST

I don’t expect anything major from DC Studios, probably just some Supergirl footage and a Clayface tease

[distant birch]

I hope we see something for clayface soon

[keen flax]

https://tenor.com/view/i-need-it-spongebob-spongebob-squarepants-gif-4883506

JUNE 18TH 2027 IS GONNA HATE TO SEE ME COMING 🥴

That movie will make me not normal

[dusk hound]

OPENING NIGHT I’m there

[keen flax]

DAY ONE 🫵🏽

Sonic 4 and beyond the spidervers in the same year, I cant stop winning 🥹

[frail mulch]

Wouldn't be an A:tLA release without something screwy happening!

[merry heath]

YESSSSSSS! ITS SO GOOD

[lucid haven]

Im already since that message up to season 2 epp 5 half way through the epp

Legit so peak

I really love this alt history stuff because it reminds me just how much we can change the future with "small" actions

Its also very hope core and I need that right now

[red nacelle]

COSMIC WE NEEEED IIIITTTT!!!

[red nacelle]

I will be the most insufferable Spider-Verse fan 🥴

[runic pollen]

I know the main posters ain't gonna be that clean

[tight dove]

i mean we might be back in the good poster era

the backrooms poster is peak

[dusky flint]

Bllodborne movie???

PC BLOODBORNE NOW

[frank quail]

Sony will do literally anything but PC port for Bloodborne

[west escarp]

https://www.tumblr.com/pundeserving/184161633137/everyone-on-413-crawling-out-of-their-secret

🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌑🌓🌔🌕

Everyone on 4/13, crawling out of their secret homestuck bunkers,...

Tumblr · Apr 13, 2019, 7:48 PM

[distant birch]

Started watching The Green Knight, ~25 mins in

||There's something about the visuals of this movie that feel weird to me. Idk what it is, maybe the lighting?||

||And I'm not 100% sure I understand this set up. But I'm interested to see where it goes||

[minor isle]

Hope you like it

I remembering hating it

[distant birch]

I'm enjoying it so far but a few things idk feel a little weird to me

[dusk hound]

Brand New Day footage leaks, nothing major ||https://fxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2043882862060155334?s=20||

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Peter sees MJ kissing her new boyfriend in the clip from ‘SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY’ shown at CinemaCon.
︀︀
︀︀See the footage description here: bit.ly/SonyPics26

**💬 225 🔁 593 ❤️ 11.4K 👁️ 381.4K **

FxTwitter · Apr 14, 2026, 2:43 AM

||WE GONNA GET YOU A NEW GIRL PETER DONT WORRY||

https://tenor.com/view/get-getyouout-gif-21365663

[lone canyon]

Apparently the entire avatar movie got leaked online 😭 😭 😭

[keen flax]

Thankfully I only saw a piece and I casted Burn From Memory so now I dont even remember what thr heck I saw 😂

[topaz oyster]

Man they really tried their damnedest to make Zendaya look like Kirsten Dunst in this poster didn't they

[dusk hound]

Literally my first thought when I saw it

I told my friend “If you squint REALLY hard that’s Kirsten Dunst”

[topaz oyster]

What a bizarre choice

[oak ivy]

Did not recognize her at first

[runic pollen]

Buddy, I had to Squint really hard to actually see that as Zendaya

Instead of other way around

[dusk hound]

She does look much different

I think she looks more like comic MJ here tbh

Now all they need is just red hair dye and we golden

[lone canyon]

I hate happened to her cheekbones 😭

[muted solar]

Yeah I put out a warning about it last night :/

Even if I cave and watch the movie early I’ll 100% be streaming it on release day

[lone canyon]

The entire team has just been on a losing streak since atla ended

[muted solar]

It’s really so unfortunate 😭

Mind you I really enjoyed TLoK. But yeah paramount clearly has no actual respect for the IP

There are supposedly rumors that Seven Havens, which was greenlit for 2 seasons, was internally greenlit for an additional 2 seasons and that writing for all 4 seasons is complete

[keen flax]

Paramount/nick hasn't respected korra since like.... 2011 sadly 😭 which isnt fair even if I have my gripes with it. I dont even remember s4 airing like normal, I had to hunt for it on a bootleg freecartoons.com website 🤣

[lone canyon]

I’m really not hyped for more atla content tbh

[topaz oyster]

S4 and I think half(?) of S3 only aired on the Nickelodeon website

[lone canyon]

Korra had severe issues and they don’t seem to know what direction to go in after that

[topaz oyster]

Which is unironically where most of the best of the show is

[lone canyon]

Korra had like… 2 x 0.5 good seasons

Which unfortunately doesn’t sum up to one full good season

[topaz oyster]

I don't think I agree, every season had a couple of good episodes at least

[lone canyon]

Korra s1 started very strong but stalled

[topaz oyster]

Just about all of s3 is a banger

[lone canyon]

S2 I did not like and DNFed

[lone canyon]

The parts of s3 that didn’t have Korra in it were bangers

[topaz oyster]

And s4 is actually very good right until ||kaiju mech|| comes out of nowhere

[lone canyon]

My issue with Korra is that she will have flashes of character development on and off but nothing sticks

[topaz oyster]

Avatar general commentary ||They need to stop with the kaijus, it hasn't ever been good going back to Kaiju Aang Fish in s1||

[lone canyon]

||need a space kaiju to balance out the mech and fish kaiju||

[lone canyon]

Korra s3 ||she has one good moment in early s3 where she talks down the suicidal guy but immediately blows it up being abrasive to the mayor, and then doesn’t grow for the entire season until the very end where she gets mercury poisoning. Which isn’t really a form of character development||

[oak ivy]

Korra has the concept of a good show

[topaz oyster]

||That's Raava and Vaatu||

||They did actually do that||

[oak ivy]

They also went more explicitly political in shorter seasons which makes some of the point nonsensical

[lone canyon]

And then in Korra s4 ||she starts off depressed and abrasive, becomes less depressed and still abrasive, and then has a really silly moment at the end where she decides to start being empathetic and emotional about Kuvira’s mommy issues while they’re in the middle of a kaiju battle||

[oak ivy]

I walk into avatar studios having just bought the company. Employees sweat, there is an air of tension. I walk up to a whiteboard, write, throw the marker away, and then storm off in a fury

It reads. NO MORE KAIJU

[lone canyon]

korra + atla all ||some of my fav bits in atla were when aang and his friends show up, and listen to people talk about their problems and try to understand their ideas and viewpoints even when they seem radical or different. korra never does that, despite her show being more politically focused||

[keen flax]

Korra all ||I need to rewatch it but I remember not really liking the transition she has from being hyper abrasive for 3 straight seasons and then suddenly in s4 shes... fighting mental battles. Valid, for sure. But I never liked it when shows have timeskips and suddenly say "ah yes they were having this struggle the entire time" show me. Just a bit. Please. 😭

But again, thats from what I remember and I dont have the patience to sit down and rewatch it for clarity... maybe when Seven Havens drops||

[oak ivy]

||also the point of korra was that she was good at bending but sucked at the political stuff, but she never got any better at the political stuff just more solemn after the poisoning and then the last conflict is solved by a fight anyways||

[lone canyon]

s4 ||i think she had her journey with toph at the start and then she hugs kuvira at the end, but i didn't get the vibe she changed too much throughout tbh||

[lone canyon]

||its also solved by korra figuring out kuvira has mommy issues or something rather than dealing with her politics||

[keen flax]

||right like the pieces were there, but it doesnt culminate properly! Korra I realize has many very good pieces, Mike and Bryan just did not have the ability to put them together||

[oak ivy]

whispers avatar sucks at politics

[topaz oyster]

I think the attempt here was to flip the script a bit, where Aang is a pacifist in a time of violence and Korra is a fighter in a time of politics, with the attempted point being that Aang would probably have been better suited for Korra's age and Korra would probably have been better suited for Aang's age (note that by "better suited" I don't necessarily mean "more effective")

[lone canyon]

korra could be a fine supporting character or a good main in a different show, but she was genuinely one of the least likeable protagonists in recent tv tbh 😭

[lone canyon]

the issue is she never grew or matured

[oak ivy]

I agree kon, it just doesn’t work bc avarar ||aang’s arc is about learning fighting and how to reconcile that with his pacifistic nature||

[keen flax]

recent tv oh my 😭

[oak ivy]

Camille korra would be in middle school rn

[lone canyon]

semi recent tv

[topaz oyster]

Oh I don't agree with that at all, much of TV since then has seemed to go out of its way to make protagonists "flawed" but it turns out the definition of flawed is just petulant

[lone canyon]

maybe i don't watch enough tv lol

arcane definitely had asshat protagonists but they were meant to be trainwrecks so i was fine with them

[topaz oyster]

Korra ||I think they do hit it sometimes. You'd think Aang would be better positioned for spiritualism and Korra is expressly bad at it but Korra explores the spiritual side of Avatar a lot more thoroughly than Aang ever did, even if we didn't like the answers||

[oak ivy]

Korra ||also mako might be the most abandoned character in tv history||

[oak ivy]

||i think the answers were so bad it doesnt even count||

[lone canyon]

korra also had an extremely weak supporting cast

[topaz oyster]

||Bolin too, they could both have been written out of the show after season 1 and it wouldn't have been meaningfully different||

[oak ivy]

korra’s spiritual realm feels like brandon wrote it

[lone canyon]

bolin and mako were real nothingburger characters

[topaz oyster]

I mean Avatar has been Brandon coded from the beginning

[novel bear]

Bolin is the best character in the franchise tbh

[keen flax]

Korra all ||even kid me knew he had ZERO aura. Not even negative. He just shows up... and I really wish it wasn't. Like they could have had a thing about their mixed heritage but even as a kid their family reunion felt so hollow.||

[lone canyon]

bolin's arc in s1: ||nothing||
bolin's arc in s2: ||yandere girlfriend + nothing||
bolin's arc in s3: ||nothing||
bolin's arc in s4: ||fascism????||

[novel bear]

https://tenor.com/view/jessica-rabbit-he-makes-me-laugh-gif-11765944318301199093

[topaz oyster]

||What's wild is, they clearly thought about the family heritage, it always seemed pretty clear to me that their affinity for off-elemental bending (especially lavabending for Bolin) was supposed to be a nod to this, so I think it was on a whiteboard somewhere, just never trickled down to the character writing||

[lone canyon]

also funnily enough the only character i've disliked as much as korra is early c2 beau who was ripped off korra 😭

but beau actually went through much better character development than korra did

[topaz oyster]

"On a whiteboard somewhere but never trickled down to the character writing" is actually what I think Korra's biggest sin is

The stunted nature of the show isn't their fault. The spiritual realm reveals are mid but not nearly as bad as they're made out to be. Getting character across is something that ATLA did very well and which Korra consistently fumbles and they have no one to blame for that but themselves

[verbal lintel]

At the very least this maybe means we won’t have The-Korra-Narrative-Problem™ where every season had to be written in such a way where you had to bring everything to a screeching halt story wise because you didn’t know if another season is greenlit

[topaz oyster]

The ideas are there, and with very minimal detective work you can see them

[lone canyon]

this definitely hampered them but even in one season, korra often had very minimal story arcs

s2 ||also she was written really badly in s2 in particular with her being incredibly abusive to everyone around her with zero consequences||

[novel bear]

s2 is indefensible

[keen flax]

Korra s2 ||is this the season where she yells at Mako and breaks his desk in front of his colluages and no one comes to his defense because "welp! Thats the avatar for you!" 😭||

[lone canyon]

korra s2 ||yeah, that's not something you can blame the directors for. even if they didn't know whether they'd be renewed or not, nobody told the writers to make korra act like a complete asshole||

[novel bear]

||i'm pretty sure s2 was also just rushed through production and did not have time to revise the scripts much||

[keen flax]

That explains. So so so much. 😭

[novel bear]

i think korra rushed too hard into trying to have a massive plot every season

s1's conflict was at least on like, the right scale

but it felt like every season after that was trying to have a conflict that one-upped atla's finale

instead of just building up with smaller conflicts before reaching a big one for s4

imo it'd be easier to put focus on the characters if you weren't railroading the plot into a massive climax, and a lot of s2's worst ideas feel like they just didn't need to happen at all but came about because it had to ||fundamentally mess with the series lore||

i guess that comes from the not-knowing-if-another-season-is coming, but i don't think not having a massive scale finale was a problem with s1

[verbal lintel]

the problems really do just compound on each other when the story you want to tell is a multi-season stretching saga like the original

But at the same time you have to write every season as a “all loose ends are tied” closed bubble because you genuinely don’t know if this is it and no other season will ever come after

[cosmic dock]

Korra S2 ||Okay but "normal people can't push back against the avatar because avatar" sounds like a very interesting idea to play with||

[novel bear]

i just don't think it ever needed a ||giant magic battle between the avatar spirit and the evil avatar spirit||

but if you NEED to do that

then it feels so weird for that to be season 2 out of 4 😭

[cosmic dock]

Wait that's season 2?

[cobalt onyx]

Well, I'm pretty sure at the time they thought it'd be season 2 out of 2

[novel bear]

you don't run into that problem at all if you reject the need to go huge like that

[keen flax]

Korra + ATLA ||I agree. Korra a lot of the time feels like it needs to... "outdo" atla when it never had to. Theres this chip on the shows shoulder and it bleeds into a lot of decisions made... such as destroying the avatar cycle and replacing it with their fun new character that they made with no help and shes so much more mature because korra is for big kids 😵‍💫||

[buoyant scroll]

||that's...such an antagonistic read||

[burnt shale]

But not an inaccurate one

[buoyant scroll]

no, i find it quite inaccurate as a consequence of the antagonism

[burnt shale]

||It actually does need to be season 2 they wanted s1 to be removing the spiritual season 2 to be heighten spiritual s3 to be anarchism and S4 to facism to have to swing between extremes || Korra all

[novel bear]

||does anybody actually care about this in any context besides mentioning it as a neat anecdote when the show comes up||

[burnt shale]

I mean it was part of the core idea of the show it was intended as the very theme

A Hegelian pendulum view of what makes this world and having her find balance between them

[novel bear]

i don't think that the specific assignment/ordering of ideas to seasons actually enhances the way the ideas are explored

[burnt shale]

It’s not Hegelian if you don’t do the extremes next to one another

The order does matter

They just messed up season 2

[novel bear]

and what actually substantially changes about the show if it's "not hegelian" other than no longer being able to say "it's hegelian"

[keen flax]

Korra + TDP ||It is. I know. I am a bit...... mean to this show. Partly because I watched it as it aired when I was 9 and it was my entire WORLD and the cracks started forming and showing. Production made the show struggle for sure but even within seasons it... makes choices that put down ATLA to me. I dont fault Mike and Bryan for wanting to make something "better" in their eyes, same way I dont fault Aaron for doing the same with TDP. but theres this... vibe i get from both shows (korra in regards to lore choices and TDP in regards to how it wastes its audiences time and the stupid cameo at the end) that make me fustrated with both shows||

[buoyant scroll]

Atla+Korra ||Korra is written as an inversion of Aang. It's not a "chip on the shoulder" or an attempt to outdo.
It's telling a different story about a character whose attitude and goals and dreams and arc are an opposite of the prior protagonist, but that still leads in the end to a realized Avatar||

[novel bear]

at any rate, ||you can have a season that explores heightening the spiritual without having to have a big mega kaiju battle at the end that fundamentally reworks the lore||

[burnt shale]

Becuase that’s the moral they wanted to explore. It’s literally the theme

[buoyant scroll]

||I found the way the battle worked to be a bit goofy, but it's not like giant spiritual kaijus are new to the series||

[burnt shale]

The bigger issue is that ||you don’t care about anyone involved in the kaiju battle || Korra all

[topaz oyster]

Yeah
Season 1: ||Nonbender revolution led by secret bloodbender||
Season 2: ||Evil colonialist northern water tribe leader secretly wants to become the dark Avatar and merge the Spirit and mundane worlds||
Season 3: ||Red Lotus arc, easily the best season of the show||
Season 4: ||Fascist Zelda Williams, which is decently good until the surprise mecha kaiju at the end||

[lone canyon]

They tried so hard to make Korra edgy and mature that they forgot why people actually liked atla… and it wasn’t for the breathtaking political commentary!

[topaz oyster]

One of the ideas on the whiteboard was definitely that they wanted to have a bad guy from every non-Fire Nation faction as a sort of well balance

[lone canyon]

S1 ||Amon was good until the bloodbending reveal||

[topaz oyster]

I don't know how much I think Korra was actually trying to hang its ideas on cutting edge political commentary

[lone canyon]

I don’t know what else it had going for it

It certainly wasn’t the nuanced character growth and the in depth and touching emotional relationships

[topaz oyster]

I don't see how Korra could have been anything other than more political than ATLA (which isn't non-political in any sense, and certainly the back half of s2) unless they wanted to do Ozai 2

[lone canyon]

I definitely think that when they pitched it, it was pitched as “we’re going to do a show aimed at a slightly older audience that focuses more on the politics of the villains”

[burnt shale]

Cutting edge no but I think the first season makes it very clear they want to focus on political movements which is why every Korra clone invariably bites off more than they can chew trying to cover racism

[topaz oyster]

Older for sure, I think the idea was to keep the audience they had instead of trying to shoot for a kids audience they'd already missed with ATLA

[lone canyon]

Yeah but they definitely shifted gears to focus more on politics

[topaz oyster]

As for s1, I legit think they went "what's the opposite of the Fire Nation" and it turns out that's unpowered revolutionaries

[lone canyon]

Yeah but s1, s3 and s4 in particular all focus (or try to) a lot on what drives political movements

[topaz oyster]

S3 isn't a political movement at all

ATLK s3 ||It is a very small group with an almost purely religious agenda||

S2 plays with colonial ideas more than s3 interfaces with raw politics in any meaningful way

[burnt shale]

||The purely religious idea of disposing all governments || s3

[topaz oyster]

||I think the anarcholibertarianism was a knock-on effect of the radical anti-attachment||

S3 ||Literally airbending philosophy taken to a radical extreme||

[burnt shale]

I mean yes that explains why but also that’s still very much political and how they were designed

[topaz oyster]

S3 ||I dunno I haven't watched in 3-4 years but I watched it several times at sea and each time I did it felt less political, not more. Felt more like an excuse to point the bad guys at known targets with maximum shock value (he kills the Earth Queen on camera!) but not load bearing to the show targets in a way that forces Korra's hand but is also sympathizable and consistent with their agenda||

||Zaheer manages to dodge the "he's right all along until he kills babies" villain trope because the thing he believes he's right about actually does point him in the direction of killing world leaders, especially since he sees himself as having been wronged by them, even if that isn't his core goal or premise, which it really isn't||

[azure fern]

oh no...

must resist to urge to be pulled back into this

I've suffered enough with lok

[forest wigeon]

||The real problem with Zaheer is that he somehow had no plan for how to prevent a power vacuum||

[dusk hound]

Adria Arjona has been cast in Man of Tomorrow!

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2044108635257876634?s=20

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Adria Arjona has been cast in ‘MAN OF TOMORROW’.

It was previously thought she may play Maxima but that might not be correct anymore.

(Source: https://t.co/lWjRjngVNR)

X · Apr 14, 2026, 5:40 PM

Not exactly known who she is playing but she’ll probably be playing Maxima

[minor isle]

Hmm

Superman 2025 felt like a combination of movie and first ep of a long series like the animated justice league

With how many characters are there without much of a character arc or role other than the monster of the week-ish but for that movie

[placid river]

A few more websites are saying she’s Maxima so I think that’s probably the case

People who still think she’s Wonder Woman are coping hard lol

[dusk hound]

Yeah

Both Deadline and Variety are saying she’s Maxima

Only THR is saying that she might not be

[spring barn]

Got access to my uni's media room and used a blu-ray player for the first time in my life to play my discs

Life changing man

[fair dirge]

Did the entire Aang movie leak?!

[burnt shale]

Yep

[lone canyon]

🤡

[cold sequoia]

Apparently not all of ot since it isn't finished yet

[lone canyon]

Went from theatres -> streaming -> twitter

[fair dirge]

The leaked movie is over an hour and a half long, though I'm going to avoid watching it

[burnt shale]

My understanding is it is finished and they were just waiting for the release

[fair dirge]

From what little I've seen, I'll just say that the movie is very beautiful, so I think it was finished

[cobalt onyx]

At the very least, that's what was being passed around a month ago after they did some private screening. I could see them tinkering away at it for a few more months as they approach their stream debut, if they find some budget for it, but we've been told that for all intents and purposes it's done.

[fair dirge]

The only thing that makes me laugh is that it really seems like it was sent by mistake to some random person

[cobalt onyx]

I mean, maybe, but I can fully imagine that being the cover story for someone that's unhappy they've been shoved to streaming (if nothing else, royalty payouts are often very different and historically worse)

[buoyant scroll]

oh that's not good
https://bsky.app/profile/kortizart.bsky.social/post/3mjicb4gvyk2b

Karla Ortiz (@kortizart.bsky.social)

Devastated to hear the entire Marvel Studios’s Visual Development team has been let go. This was my old home but more importantly, the home of so many incredible artists and peers.

Absolutely heartbreaking 😔
Sending all my impacted peers my love and support. Please reach out if you need anything!

-# Disney Layoffs Hit Marvel Studios Hard
The Academy Award-winning artists behind some of Marvel's biggest hits are among the casualties from company wide staff reductions.

Bluesky · Apr 14, 2026, 9:12 PM

[crystal brook]

Is visual development concept art or something different?

[naive mica]

Nearly the entire department has been let go, with only a skeleton crew of full time production staff remaining in place to coordinate the hiring of resources on a per-project basis.

Because of course they're not actually downsizing, they're just firing the salaried employees to outsource the work to contractors.

[crystal brook]

If that is concept art, it pongs of ai usage to me

[naive mica]

I would be shocked if that's not at least part of the plan.

[dusk hound]

It most certainly is the plan

Disney had that deal with OpenAI IIRC

[cold sequoia]

I don't think that's just the concept art team

[lone canyon]

marvel cgi has also always been famously bad

[keen flax]

glances at that one scene in Black Panther mmm. Yeah. 😭

[cold sequoia]

Marvel movies (like all modern block busters) get vfx done by many studios

[cold sequoia]

I disagree, there has been very good work from all the eras of the MCU

[gritty sierra]

the reason Marvel CGI falls short, especially the more recent stuff, is not because the VFX teams suck, but because they're being given crappy near impossible deadlines with footage not really shot with VFX in mind on the actual set

[dusky flint]

that fell apart didnt it

[naive mica]

Yep. It's the same reason the Hobbit looks so crap compared to earlier works like LotR or Pirates of the Caribbean

[cold sequoia]

yes, openai is trying to abandon the image generation space

[lone canyon]

you mean the final fight don't you 😭

[placid river]

Yeah because OpenAI shut down Sora

[dusky flint]

i thought disney pulled out and then sora shut down

[cold sequoia]

other way around

[cosmic dock]

Iirc the issue was that image generation is too expensive for the amount of demand

[cold sequoia]

yeah, they were losing money on every prompt iirc

while code generation was making a lot of money

[keen flax]

nods 😔

Love that movie more than I love most people but... mmmm 😭

[turbid narwhal]

https://fxtwitter.com/godzilla_toho/status/2044189412372717798?s=46

GODZILLA.OFFICIAL (@Godzilla_Toho)

Here's your first look at GODZILLA MINUS ZERO, in theatres & IMAX November 6.
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FxTwitter · Apr 14, 2026, 11:01 PM

So excited for this

[spring barn]

Would the next one be +1

[crystal brook]

Could start getting wacky

Pi Godzilla Squared

[naive mica]

e^(i*Godzilla)

[crystal brook]

+-Godzilla = (-b+-sqrt(b²-4ac))/2a

Godzilla is the powerhouse of the cell

[distant birch]

Godzilla -(-1)

[wet quest]

Episode 2 of X-Files and I'm loving the formula.
||Skully: I don't think it's aliens.
Mulder: Well then how do you explain [literally the most basic thing]??||

[spring barn]

Short poll before Daredevil s2e5 drops and confirms it

[wet quest]

Godz(√-1)lla

[severe dagger]

Thoughts on Project Hail Mary (movie and book all) since I just got back from the theater || I thought the movie did a good job handling the flashback sequences and hitting all of the major plot points while still simplifying some, like getting Rocky coming out of his ball but not bothering with Grace's bad attempt to heal him. I wish there had been some more of the science pieces, especially the temperature difference in the atmospheres, it would have made for even funnier first interactions as Grace drops the container cause it's hot, etc. Overall I thought the movie was a good adaptation but folks who like the science would probably still appreciate the book more||

[dusk hound]

https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/2044217906704330835?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

‘MAN OF TOMORROW’ begins filming next week.

X · Apr 15, 2026, 12:55 AM

GODDAMN https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/2044218870505042232?s=46

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

First teaser for ‘CLAYFACE’ shows Matt Haven disfigured in hospital spliced with shots of Gotham City. The footage ends with his face falling off in the bathtub.

See the footage description here: https://t.co/6H9RpSNMGM

X · Apr 15, 2026, 12:58 AM

[spring barn]

When's it droppin

[distant birch]

Sometime this year, right?

[buoyant scroll]

https://youtu.be/eNIn8kW1kyE?si=Zb1__Z6IHruBIeAc

[spring barn]

Lmao

[dusk hound]

I heard May probably

[fair dirge]

https://x.com/i/status/2044210890250301719

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Jamie Dornan has been cast as Aragorn in ‘THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE HUNT FOR GOLLUM’.

X · Apr 15, 2026, 12:27 AM

😭

[lone canyon]

He’s blonde 😭 😭 😭

[burnt shale]

I mean he doesn’t have to be

[fair dirge]

Isn't he the same actor who played Christian Grey?

[hushed moss]

I mean so is Viggo

[dusk hound]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2044236502193058265

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

An ‘AEGON'S CONQUEST’ movie is officially in the works.

Coming soon to theaters.

X · Apr 15, 2026, 2:08 AM

[keen flax]

Who is aegon

[dusk hound]

No idea

I just saw it pop up in another server I was in and said “17S might be interested in this”

[lone canyon]

I dun want it

[cold sequoia]

ASOIAF lore ||guy who conquered Westeros with his two sister-wives and dragons in A Song of Ice and Fire lore ||

[lone canyon]

F+B ||I fail to see how this will be good since it’s basically “medieval peasants vs three f21 fighter jets”||

[burnt shale]

I mean yes but that would be entertaining

[cold sequoia]

there's definitely interesting stuff from ASOIAF lore which you can make a movie about