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molten jetty
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My issue with TFW is it could have been good

wise epoch
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Final Destination 3!

spring barn
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Just finished O Brother Where Art Thou

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HOLY

buoyant scroll
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Hell yeah!

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Nolan's got tough competition in the field of Odyssey adaptations

spring barn
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Joined my very limited group of 5 star movies

spring barn
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He's not even in contention for me

buoyant scroll
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I'm not always very in touch with my Southern culture but damn that movie speaks to my soul

oak ivy
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mortal kombat 2021

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kinda poop i hate to say

midnight compass
molten jetty
oak ivy
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the one that hasnt come out?

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the trailer looked really good tbh

molten jetty
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Oh

oak ivy
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it looks very emotive

molten jetty
willow fjord
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Lowkey I feel like FW might be better as a TV show than as a book

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Its feels very... cinematic

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And good screenwriters can fix some of the questionable dialogue from the books

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I just want to see a cast

distant birch
wise epoch
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Finished Final Destination 3. Less good than 2, better than 1, I cared more about our mains this time around but I think the ending was the weakest of the three ||even though I think it's hilarious that another vision happened but for some reason Vision Guy decided to be an asshole this time||

fair dirge
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I didn't see this crossover coming

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runic pollen
thin ridge
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Severance 2.5 ||Innies die while at work???||

lone canyon
# spring barn Lmao

Some of the casting choices are a little strange but it’s still the one movie I’m for sure going to see

spring barn
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There's not a single thing I've liked about whatever I've seen so far

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I've been wary of this thing since the first stills

lone canyon
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The casting is a bit too experimental, especially if the rumors about Lupita Nyongo and Elliot Page are true

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That said its fairly easily spinnable and everything else looks good to me

distant birch
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Whether I see it or not is gonna depend a lot on reviews I think

lone canyon
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I think the use of anachronisms in storytelling is interesting

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Because the Iliad and Odyssey are inherently anachronistic works

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They’re Iron Age stories set in Bronze Age Greece which became popularized in Classical Greece and then through the Romans, medieval ages etc

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You can historify them to try to make period works or you can just say “this is a story for us told through our lens”

distant birch
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I'm not convinced yet that there's any intention behind the anachronisms aside from maybe aesthetics

lone canyon
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It’s an Americanized (or internationalized) version of the Odyssey lol

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It’s not more egregious than the Aeneid I guess

muted solar
lone canyon
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It would be really funny if the movie actually has Odysseus circumnavigating the earth

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Like if he actually leaves the Mediterranean LOL

crystal brook
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I would like to know why Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson are doing American accents and Anne Hathaway doing an english accent

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That was certainly a decision

spring barn
crystal brook
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I think Christopher Nolan typically has a big cast of mega famous people

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Assuming thats what you mean

spring barn
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He does but it seems especially egregious this time

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Or maybe I just wasn't as star aware before

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Probably that but a bit of the former too

fair dirge
muted solar
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I honestly don’t get why it matters who the cast is. Like as long as they don’t have people like Sydney Sweeney the cast is the cast. As long as it’s acted well, what does it matter?

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I haven’t been following the Odyssey stuff so idk if the acting seems bad or anything mind you

distant birch
muted solar
distant birch
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There's a thing I am aware of but I'm not sure if its the thing you mean

fair dirge
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I don't mind the cast although I don't know if rap in ancient Greece is ideal

minor isle
muted solar
winged mountain
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FWIW I never heard of it but I don’t pay attention to the pop culture tabloids

distant birch
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Valid, then

winged mountain
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But I don’t know who she is at all

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Being old is sometimes nice I guess

crystal brook
muted solar
fair dirge
crystal brook
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He is one of, if not the biggest, rappers and producers in the world

muted solar
muted solar
crystal brook
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10 people died at a show of his a few years ago, there was a big crush which was notably visible

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And he didnt stop the show

muted solar
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Oh damn that’s messed up…

crystal brook
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And was very nonchalant about the whole incident afterwards too

muted solar
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Damn…

fair dirge
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Is oral poetry analogous to rap?

crystal brook
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Lots of people injured too

winged mountain
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Travis Scott's thing made it to my notice

wet quest
crystal brook
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I dont see how it wouldnt be analogous to rap 😂

wet quest
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I don't think rap is uniquely similar to ancient oral storytelling, but it certainly is similar. I don't think Nolan was really answering the actual question posed to him. It wasn't, "why would you cast a rapper?" it was, "why would you cast that specific rapper?"

crystal brook
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I mean analogous just means has similar features right?

wet quest
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Afaik yeah

crystal brook
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Rap is the most common and most widely celebrated modern form of oral poetry, though of course modern rap and traditional ancient meditteranean poetry have quite different customs

winged mountain
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did that specific rapper have any notable experience working in dramatic film roles?

minor isle
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A couple

wet quest
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He was in a movie called Gully in 2021 and at least last year was a professional wrestler, so he's got some experience with dramatic performances

crystal brook
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I want to see Tyler the Creator in more things now

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He was soo good in Marty Supreme

wet quest
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I only watch Timothy Chalamet movies if there's sand in it

midnight compass
crystal brook
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Cant remember if theres any sand in interstellar, its been quite a while since I watched it LUL

wet quest
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I guess technically it's dust instead of sand, so perhaps I should revise

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But yeah I've seen Dune and Interstellar and I don't think anything else with ol' Tim

crystal brook
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Marty Supreme is really good

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But quite a stressful watch LUL

runic pollen
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I liked him in Ladybird but that wasn't his movie. He was just there

buoyant scroll
placid river
hushed moss
novel bear
cold sequoia
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Yeah that sounds like a backronym

forest wigeon
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Rap is just a normal verb that was used metaphorically to describe a type of music

wet quest
buoyant scroll
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Wikipedia has a pretty well cited section

Etymology and usage

The English verb rap has various meanings; these include "to strike, especially with a quick, smart, or light blow",[20] as well "to utter sharply or vigorously: to rap out a command".[20] The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary gives a date of 1541 for the first recorded use of the word with the meaning "to utter (esp. an oath) sharply, vigorously, or suddenly".[21] Wentworth and Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang gives the meaning "to speak to, recognize, or acknowledge acquaintance with someone", dated 1932,[22] and a later meaning of "to converse, esp. in an open and frank manner".[23] It is these meanings from which the musical form of rapping derives, and this definition may be from a shortening of repartee.[24] A rapper refers to a performer who "raps". By the late 1960s, when Hubert G. Brown changed his name to H. Rap Brown, rap was a slang term referring to an oration or speech, such as was common among the "hip" crowd in the protest movements, but it did not come to be associated with a musical style for another decade.[25]

Rap was used to describe talking on records as early as 1970 on Isaac Hayes' album ...To Be Continued with the track name "Monologue: Ike's Rap I".[26] Hayes' "husky-voiced sexy spoken 'raps' became key components in his signature sound".[27] Del the Funky Homosapien similarly states that rap was used to refer to talking in a stylistic manner in the early 1970s: "I was born in '72 ... back then what rapping meant, basically, was you trying to convey something—you're trying to convince somebody. That's what rapping is, it's in the way you talk."[28]

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except it's wrong also

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:p

lone canyon
buoyant scroll
forest wigeon
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I'm not sure how someone could think rap is an acronym considering how much it sounds like onomatopoeia

wet quest
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Rather Ambitious Pronunciation

placid river
thin ridge
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Severance 2.6 ||This is... So incredibly messy wtf 😭||

sage finch
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Law Abiding Citizen ||the discourse around this movie is so annoying to see. 99% of comments I come across believe Clyde was the good guy.

He killed so many innocent people and they still think he should've won||

placid river
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||if it’s Mark and Helly, I appreciated that they were actually honest with each other and Mark having sex with Helena didn’t turn into a whole drama||

gray orbit
dusk hound
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That Punisher Special was… spectacularly average

silver oyster
placid river
acoustic pewter
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I started two new very different shows today: The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball and Wonder Man.

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It feels ridiculous to be watching a Gumball show at my age at all, but curiosity got the better of me. Wonder Man, however, is something I've been meaning to get to for a while. And I'm hooked after one episode in.

runic pollen
acoustic pewter
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Wonder Man Ep 1 ||From the start I found myself cringing at Simon messing up his role through all the overthinking of his characters. Having done acting stuff years ago, I get it, but he's really overdoing it, man. Anyway, I like how this made me forget it was MCU for a few minutes. Then Trevor Slattery showed up as a reminder. It all seemed well and good and really felt like a loving homage to the art of acting. When I saw Trevor nervously accepting his call, I assumed he was just waiting for a callback and we'd get back to back cuts of Trevor and Simon getting the same kind of call. But nah. Trevor's establishing a friendship Simon as part of an government inside job to capture him for having superpowers?! Wha?! Hooked, I tell you.||

runic pollen
spring barn
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I adored Born Again S2 and prefer it above og S2 but Punisher special was booty cheeks yeah

fair dirge
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Guys, you don't know how excited this has left me

hushed moss
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It will be releasing Oct 14

keen flax
burnt shale
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Jet lag Taiwan finale all ||this episode is just rage baiting performances in challenges. What do you mean you think scissors is the most common? What do you mean that looks like a pig||

wet quest
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||Yeah, Sam missing that the orange rock with black stripes is tiger was crazy||

burnt shale
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Jet lag Taiwan all ||What’s more frustrating is seeing a perfectly crafted pig and going well the pig guess must be right ||

wet quest
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||I'm glad I've seen other seasons of the show first, this one was kind of just a dud for me. I think it's in large part because the map was a circle, so there was no real way for a team to try to sneak in to take some challenges. The game was done by like episode 2, and from there it was kind of just a travel vlog of Taiwan.||
||It def sold me on visiting though, the whole place looks beautiful. Especially the towers where they did rock paper scissors||

small quarry
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||yeah i thought one of the teams just threw hard last couple episodes, even if they had guessed the tiger right i dunno if it would have mattered tbh||

wet quest
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||I really don't understand Sam deciding to try forcing a stalemate. I know he said he wanted to flip a bunch of their stations at the last minute, but that wouldn't prevent Ben and Adam from flipping stations on the other side of the map. That play only makes sense if it's some kind of subtle move, but it was the most brute force direct approach||

small quarry
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||a stalemate like that doesnt benefit em when they are down chips and stations and when they have the most challenge density lol||

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this is the first season of this i watch lmao

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is it always like this

burnt shale
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Jet lag tawain all ||I’m fairly certain they wanted to limit the opposing teams reaction time to prevent them from accessing steals or claiming more. As they were they got to choose the timing window. Their win con was so slim that reducing the opposing teams ability to react was optimal ||

ionic lily
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Try a Tag season

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Or hide and seek

burnt shale
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Yeah this is in the lower quartile

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Still better than korea

tight dove
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From what im hearing this season is worse au$

wraith sand
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Anyone else think that Rocky is going to go down as the most adorable alien since ET? sylheart

keen flax
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Wonder Man 1x4 ||Im gonna start using "Whats up doorknobs" as a vocal stim||

agile drift
heavy anchor
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Rocky is the alien I'd want to hang out with the most

wraith sand
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I'd love to get my hands on some xenonite.

heavy anchor
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Xenonite would be game changing

runic pollen
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How the heck does this series achieve so many spin offs?

placid river
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Despite how much the internet hates it, clearly people are still watching them

lucid haven
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Wait

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Thats another bloody big bang theory spin off

acoustic pewter
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Didn't that show have a spinoff about the childhood of one of its main characters and then another spinoff about the brother of said main character

wraith sand
# heavy anchor Xenonite would be game changing

Honestly, that was kind of one thing I rolled my eyes about. Like, I get that the author wanted to portray the /eridians as hyper-advanced with materials science, but like... xenon? Seriously? lol. I would have just gone with some sort of fictional super graphene or something

heavy anchor
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I mean xenon does react with some stuff

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It's not the best at being noble

dusk hound
wraith sand
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Even so

runic pollen
runic pollen
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It does have a problem of somehow making a few characters the "problem" and then just leaving it at that.

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Georgie and Mandy series is something I have not watched episode wise but whatever I saw in the clips, it seems to have compounded that problem.

At least before, the annoying one was at least an MC

Now it is the the wife and mother in Law of MC.

While I might have been okay with Connie being the root of problem kind of person.

I did not like just how much one sided they made Mandy to be the cause for their future marriage

frank quail
keen flax
frank quail
keen flax
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Ive played these games before 😔💔

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my favorite group came to the US one time and that was in 2016... when i was not aware of their existence 🙃

white perch
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What is everyone watching these days?? I need a good show rec, any genera, preferably just something that has really great characters I can fall in love with

thin ridge
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I just finished Severance and it was amazing

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I also love Heated Rivalry, though that one has a bit more of a specific audience :P

frail mulch
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I'm behind and haven't caught up on Maul: Shadow Lord and it's definitely the most visually stunning of the Star Wars animated shows

white perch
keen flax
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Wonder Man is excellent!

muted solar
dusk hound
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This is crazy info

runic pollen
winged mountain
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TBF there are a bunch of Batman universe movies and series without Batman, but it’d be pretty bold to call one of them ‘The Batman’

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I guess a movie where he’s entirely offscreen but very clearly active could make for an interesting movie, like from the point of view of a mob boss who never directly interacts with him except maybe at the very end

topaz oyster
topaz oyster
oak ivy
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Im really interested to see how clayface turns out

topaz oyster
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There's no world where you cast some nobody as Batman, ever, for marketing reasons. But are you also really going to blow hundreds of millions of dollars on a big name actor to be Batman for 45 seconds at the end of a movie where some other actor is the lead

oak ivy
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I like gunn’s idea to try and diversify the genre of “superhero” movies

oak ivy
topaz oyster
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I like Dunkirk but I think that defeats the point of the movie jmc pitched

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Like, that is potentially an also good but fundamentally different film

molten jetty
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Actual fever dream

molten jetty
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Convinced @keen flax to watch it too LUL

topaz oyster
molten jetty
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My family loves the Big Bang Theory so I have seen a lot of it. I’m kind of ambivalent on it and see a lot of its flaws. Doesn’t bother me so much that I care when it’s on in the room (all the time) tho lol.

winged mountain
dusk hound
topaz oyster
cold sequoia
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they spent $50 mil on Clooney?

topaz oyster
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Either a) people don't like the first movie and you spent $50mil on George Clooney for a nothing franchise, or b) people don't like movie number 2 because it is built around George Clooney and they want the actor who killed it as Penguin or whoever back

topaz oyster
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The George Clooney of Modern Era

cold sequoia
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this feels like making up a guy to get mad at, is there any example of spending that much money on a cameo?

winged mountain
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I imagine that movie as more of a standalone elseworlds thing without necessarily having a big name in the role

topaz oyster
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I'm operating from a premise where it is very hard to cast a nobody as Batman

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Weirdest Batman casting I can think of is Iain Glen in Titans. Its bizarre!

cold sequoia
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they cast a nobody as superman and it worked out fine

topaz oyster
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(Partly because he has a godawful American accent)

topaz oyster
cold sequoia
topaz oyster
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He wasn't nobody by the time the movie came out

topaz oyster
cold sequoia
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I know, I am saying they cast less known actors or ones who don't quite work because they are never going to make the show about batman

topaz oyster
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Right and that's exactly the position of Batman in the movie jmc pitched

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It isn't really about him its about a handful of Batman rogues who are the pov the audience interacts with Batman through, and it isn't direct

cold sequoia
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Penguin show ||they didn't even need to have batman in the show to make a good batman thing ||

winged mountain
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yeah there are a bunch of examples of Gotham-set movies and series that don't feature him, though I never watched Penguin, I guess I'd wonder how much you really feel Batman's presence in that? AFAIK he isn't in it at all

velvet oriole
velvet oriole
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I enjoyed Mike this season, he seemed to really have fun.

wet quest
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Downey Express (Mike's channel) is also really good

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He did a series where he took trains from the arctic to Africa, which was a lot of fun to watch

wise epoch
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FINAL DESTINATION 4: THE BAD ONE APPARENTLY!

muted solar
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The Boys S5E2 and Gen V S2 || Is it just me or was S2 of Gen V much more interesting? Also where the hell is the Gen V cast? They just joined the whole resistance at the end of S2, so why are they nowhere to be seen? With this being the final season and the Gen V S2 setup for the homelander foil, this just feels... off ||

wise epoch
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Okay I am at the title card of Final Destination 4. This is already. Absolutely terrible lmfao.

thin ridge
lucid haven
wise epoch
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Finished Final Destination 4. That. Was a movie.
I actually kinda really liked the final setpiece though, the mall scene was actually really good. Everything before that was either unintentionally hilarious or just kind of whatever. I don't like that we made the same ending choice as 4. I actually really liked the main guy this time too.

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That said this movie ain't no Halloween Ends for sure

muted solar
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So boys s5 and gen v s2 || So anyone who didn’t watch gen V is possibly going to get a deus ex machina ending basically if Marie is the one who stops homelander ||

muted solar
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Boys S5E3 19 minutes in || Is this season bad? This season seems like it might be bad. Idk, maybe I’m just kind of not really attached to these characters or finding the show as interesting anymore? I really enjoyed Gen V S2 ||

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I wonder if I’d be DNFing this show at this point if it wasn’t the last season

fair dirge
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Talking about the boys

lucid haven
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Theres definatly been good moments in season 5 tho

muted solar
# lucid haven Boys and gen v || I loved season 2 of gen v and im not looking forward to these ...

|| Gotcha. I’ll be caught up in time for the finale at least. I feel like I’m most invested in Frenchie and Kimiko’s arc at this point.

Homelander’s angel hallucinations I feel like there has to be something more going on. Idk if it’s Sage using a hidden power or something else.

Soldier boy is fun as a character. Hughie, Annie, and Butcher have all surprisingly gotten kinda boring. Mother’s Milk feels like he has taken a bit of a backseat somewhat but I liked his moment with the Crow girl ||

lucid haven
muted solar
muted solar
lucid haven
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I dont know tho tbh I could be wrong

muted solar
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That’s fair

lucid haven
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They haven't confirmed either way

muted solar
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Gotcha

lucid haven
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The boys || honestly enjoying sage this season as well, her character is interesting and you are right she might have some other hidden plan or adjenda||

muted solar
dusk hound
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Oooooo ok

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This is a NICE poster

wet quest
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Yeah, that goes hard

lucid haven
runic pollen
dusk hound
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GIGANTA???

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heavy anchor
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Nice, that's a throwback

dusk hound
buoyant scroll
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🤔

west escarp
wise epoch
minor isle
wise epoch
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||Is Harvey confirmed?||

dusk hound
wise epoch
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Ohhh right

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She was in the last movie

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I forgot

wet quest
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Second Catwoman

tight dove
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i read that as Scott Cawthon

west escarp
# wet quest Second Catwoman

Reverse of when the 1960s Batman show recast Catwoman between seasons and swapping (white) Julie Newmar for (black) Eartha Kitt

dusk hound
civic trellis
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Is there anyone who won't star in THE BATMAN: PART 2 (Confirmed by Matt Reeves)?

turbid laurel
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Matt Damon

magic dust
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I mean, I wouldn't turn it down either.

dusk hound
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For those who don’t know Matt Reeves is tweeting GIFS out every hour or so revealing some of the cast members of Part II

dusk hound
ivory night
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Taskmaster 21 6 prize task || you know really should know better than to eat when this show is on||

spring barn
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@terse crystal just saw Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower

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Liked it way more than Hero and it's looking like a top 5 HK film for me

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I mean ig technically it's Chinese at that point but yk how it is

terse crystal
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oh hey same dude that did Hero

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with Jet Li

spring barn
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Need to watch way more Yimou tbh that man probably sees colours beyond the visible spectrum

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Like look at this

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Some more hallway shots that are sameish but cool so why not

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I think visually this is my second fav movie

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After del Toro's Frankenstein

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I had my issues with Hero but Yimou is such a master of the visual medium

low cliff
spring barn
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If anyone hasn't seen it yet it's probably for the best they don't see that grab

frail mulch
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Such a visual feast

wise epoch
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FINAL DESTINATION 5!

wise epoch
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NHSYUDJSFIBGSDYUFHJUIDJSGFYUDSFNUDGSBFYUISDNFBUJYDGSYUFSDGHY (FD5)

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FD5 was incredible. That was fantastic. Does that beat out 2 for me as the best movie? Yes. Yes I think it does. By a slim margin, but it gets there

civic trellis
# spring barn

Several swimming pools' worth of golden paint have been sacrificed to make these sets happen ShallanOhNo

spring barn
civic trellis
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The golden flower cursed them in retribution for driving its whole species to extinction in pursuit of this dye, clearly

spring barn
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They get trampled in a sequence and so there's a whole scene of hundreds of people coming in, clearing them out and planting fresh ones

civic trellis
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I wonder how much of that is real sets and how much is CG enhancement

spring barn
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There's def CG during the battle segments but I wouldn't be surprised if all the other things are practical

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The opening of the movie is the imperial family being lavishly by themselves while hundreds of workers are maids are preparing themselves at the beginning of the day to serve them in a very deliberately inhumane and industrial way

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Even if the flower replanting scene used clever cuts, that opening absolutely had hundreds of actors choreographed to a t and it's just bonkers

civic trellis
merry heath
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FAM 5.8 ||EXPANCE PREQUAL||

terse crystal
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Ill be sure to add them to my list!

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ty

buoyant scroll
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Oh I am so here for this

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It's almost unbelievable this is stop-motion it's insane

buoyant scroll
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I NEED MORE

wise epoch
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Final Destination Bloodlines came out on May 16th last year. IT'S MIDNIGHT MAY 16TH, LET'S WATCH THIS

frail mulch
wise epoch
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"Life is precious. Enjoy every single second. You never know when"
This hits so hard knowing that Tony Todd died not long after this movie :meowcry:

wise epoch
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And finished. Banger movie. One thing though. ||STOP KILLING OFF EVERYONE AT THE END||

dusky flint
wise epoch
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Like

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||Yes I accept most of the characters will die||

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Of course that's gonna happen

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||BUT WE HAVE KILLED OFF EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER, INCLUDING THE LEADING CHARACTERS, FOR THE PAST FOUR MOVIES||

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||WE HAVE NOT HAD AN ENDING WHERE THE LEADS DON'T DIE SINCE FINAL DESTINATION 2||

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It's infuriating to me

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||The main characters honestly just get consistently very good, and they keep going through all this nonsense, it seems like they're home free and then NOPE THEY DIE ANYWAY||

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||What the hell are we DOING!?||

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||It feels like I shouldn't give a damn about anything that happens to anyone because I know that the ending of the movie is gonna end with them all splatted||

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||Why am I even investing myself?! Am I just wasting my time because NONE OF THE EVENTS OF THE MOVIES MATTER?!||

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||Yeah, in the second movie Clear died, but she left a LEGACY because she was around in the SECOND MOVIE to help another group||

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||The big problem with these movies is that they've gotten so up in their own ass about needing EVERYONE to die at the end that they forget that it wasn't always like that and it DOESN'T have to be that||

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||Our main characters are struggling for NOTHING and it makes me genuinely mad seeing it FOUR TIMES IN A ROW||

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||When I KNOW this series can do better than that!||

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I think this movie is phenomenal but GOD this makes me so mad that it overshadows how genuinely amazing the movie was for basically the whole thing

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It's trite, it's predictable, and I'm sick of seeing it

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Do better

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jeeesus

wise epoch
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I hate that my genuine love for this movie is being drowned out by this absolute garbage

west escarp
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The puppeteer/voice actor/designer for Rocky loves his son

placid river
wise epoch
wise epoch
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Anyways as for my rankings of the movies
5>2>Bloodlines (It would be higher if not for the ending)>3>1>4

tight dove
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Is 1 second best or second worst

wise epoch
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In my opinion

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Most would probably put 3 below 1

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I do give it strong points in hindsight for its ending though

trail cloak
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A FULL TOWER OF LEGOS

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I used to watch a Youtuber as a kid, EvanTube

frail mulch
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Oooh. Gonna ship them back home or did you bring extra checked bags?

dusk hound
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Ok so

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Take this with a grain of salt

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But according to DanielRPK, who’s a pretty reliable leaker for Comic Book Movie stuff

#

Man of Tomorrow huge character leak ||Martian Manhunter is in Man of Tomorrow||

muted solar
#

Caught up on the boys now

#

Boys s5e7 || They killed frenchie 😭 ||

lucid haven
#

glad your caught up so we can cry about the final epp together

muted solar
#

I still don’t quite get why (boys and gen v all released episodes) || Marie isn’t able to take down homelander. She should be able to take control of him and pop him like a balloon ||

lucid haven
#

boys and gen v all so far || agreed she should be able to just pop him, like homlander still dies to an exploded head||

#

story has to story tho

ionic lily
muted solar
trail cloak
trail cloak
oak ivy
#

i watched 10 things i hate about you

wet quest
#

Such a good movie

molten jetty
wide stag
#

Looks both interesting and fun; really cool premise too, though it's mildly distracting to me how thick the lineart is 😄

#

Spoilers for Gameoverse, I suppose ||I don't love that we've ended up with two goofball characters, but at least it sounds like Gobbles is moving to a different place||

#

Hopefully they get a season, GLITCH has been doing cool stuff

gray orbit
#

If glitch survives their lawsuit then maybe

wide stag
#

Do I want to know?

oak ivy
#

I am pondering

civic trellis
# wide stag Do I want to know?

It's nothing tragic, they're just in hot water over abruptly cancelling the theatrical screenings of the last episode of amazing digital circus in Korea

#

The Korean movie distributor is suing them over suddenly terminating their agreement

wet quest
west escarp
#

Oh well, these things happen

gray orbit
#

/jk

oak ivy
molten jetty
wet quest
#

||I like women and I would fall for Heath Ledger right away||

molten jetty
#

||Heath Ledger ShallanBlush ||

oak ivy
#

||monkey would fold like a cheap wallet||

molten jetty
#

||idk if you realized this, but it is an adaption of Taming of the Shrew||

#

||albeit a more feminist take 😁 ||

dusk hound
#

WE FOUND THE GREEN

naive mica
tight dove
dusk hound
#

I need Brainiac to be as evil as possible

terse crystal
dusk hound
wraith sand
#

Frieren is really good.

west escarp
wraith sand
#

Is it a sequel series? Or is the whole ‘demon king’ thing they reference entirely an off screen arc?

buoyant scroll
#

It's not a sequel no. Enjoy the ride.

frank quail
#

ps, you can find many more frieren enjoyers in #anime-and-manga

verbal lintel
buoyant scroll
#

Such a good title ||especially as a replacement for not being able to translate the effect of the original title||

frank quail
terse crystal
# terse crystal

As someone who doesnt see a lot of modern horror (in large part b/c quality varies wildly) this was pretty good!

trail cloak
#

Urithiru

#

But in LEGO size

#

That's a massive tower

dusky flint
sage finch
#

I was rewatching 30 Rock and realized Matt Damon has played 2 characters named Carol lol

ivory night
amber jay
#

Watched Pete's Dragon with the kids yesterday. Guess I can now tick "watch a film starring both Robert Redford and Karl Urban" off the bucket list.

agile drift
#

I remember watching it in middle school a couple times and liking it

amber jay
#

My son is going through a dragon phase may it never end

crystal brook
#

I forgot there was a new one

lucid haven
#

okay thats much more like it

#

they totally took the community feedback and was like "okay lets make this more GREEEN!!!"

lucid haven
#

@dusk hound

#

i feel like you might need to see this

frank quail
#

100% this was always the plan

#
  1. Release trailer with no lantern powers
  2. generate lots of discussion "ahh where are all the lanterns in the lanterns show!?!?!"
  3. release trailer with lantern powers
  4. generate good will for "listening to the fans" <-- you are here
ivory night
#

SMH cowards should’ve been bold and have absolutely 0 powers in the whole show

naive mica
lucid haven
#

and looks good

#

and im excited to watch this

wet quest
#

It looks so fricken good

#

I want a lantern ring now

dusk hound
terse crystal
dusk hound
#

HELL YEAHHHH

#

This looks amazing

winged mountain
#

I'm imagining him using his 1960s fred jones voice for any of those characters

dusk hound
#

An anime series for Scooby-Doo means that we can now power scale Shaggy against other anime MCs

dire moss
#

surely they make that joke somewhere, have him go super sayan

molten jetty
ionic lily
molten jetty
#

Warner Bros fighting game

cobalt onyx
#

(delisted)

ionic lily
#

Oh is that the one that’s shutting down

winged mountain
#

I think it’s already gone

#

Which is too bad, I never played it but the concept is amusing to me

molten jetty
#

It was alright

#

A smash bros clone but not as good

#

Not as bad as the Nickelodeon one

distant birch
#

Ok I'm interested. This looks cool

paper hull
burnt shale
#

Like it was made slow and bad and ruined anything people liked about it

verbal lintel
# paper hull lmao wtf

Multiverse was a wild game that unfortunately has shut down completely because everyone quit

Basically was a Mortal Kombat/Smash Brothers of all WB Properties from DC, to looney tunes, to scooby, etc etc etc

For Shaggy, they leaned into the internet meme of Ultra Instinct Shaggy. 10 quadrillion memes have been made of Ultra Instinct Shaggy, but its origin is from the 2001 scooby movie where shaggy is actually serious for 2 seconds and beats up an entire biker gang

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#

https://x.com/toonhive/status/2056545306427220027?s=46

ToonHive (@ToonHive)

‘The Powerpuff Girls’ creator Craig McCracken has posted a touching tribute to Tom Kane along with an illustration of Professor Utonium and Mr. Harriman:

“I grew up without a dad, so it was important to me that the girls had the best one I could give them and that was Tom.”

X ·
west escarp
#

He also did the Disney DVD fast play menu

terse crystal
lone canyon
#

It might be StarWarsover guys

winged mountain
#

sounds sort of like one of those anime filler movies, before they started realizing anime movies could matter

#

I mean, I was never gonna watch it anyway (I watched a few episodes of the first season and generally liked it but never felt compelled to watch more)

turbid narwhal
#

Grogu needs to take a long look at his career and realise he needs to start taking some serious roles soon

hushed moss
#

I am kinda feeling a disconnect between the ratings and what people are saying about the movie.

stoic falcon
#

Yeah, I mean I didnt read through all of them, but from what I saw it seems like theyre mostly enjoying it, just dont think it stands out. Which for me is enough reason to at least try it. Worst case is its decent, which im fine with tbh.

cobalt onyx
#

Yeah, the ratings are a few points too high

hushed moss
#

So a 6 out of 10 sounds reasonable

winged mountain
cobalt onyx
#

Movies get a different scale than TV shows because they're a different format. If something's a 6/10 treated as a show, it won't be a 6/10 movie.

#

That does make it a failure. A 6/10 now Solos Star Wars again

hushed moss
#

But this was pretty obviously what this was always going to be.

winged mountain
#

I think the first Star Wars movie in 7 years or whatever it is, you'd expect it to do a little more to reignite interest in a franchise

#

like to me, if Disney puts the films on ice for a few years because of oversaturation, coming back with more average content that the fans are already tired of isn't going to help

topaz oyster
#

This movie happened because of a weird momentum though

hushed moss
#

It definitely seems a poor choice for that, but then again, it wasn’t meant to be that. The issue is that they have cancelled and delayed so many films.

stoic falcon
#

I mean, average is better than what they were putting out on the movie side tbh

topaz oyster
#

They've scrapped nearly every other project but Mando is recently popular enough that it made it harder to kill

stoic falcon
#

I'll go support a decently fun movie at least, better than whatever they were doing with episode 9

hushed moss
#

wasn’t Rogue Squadron supposed to be the return to theaters

stoic falcon
#

And hope maybe we'll get high quality movies sometime. As I feel like thats what star wars is going to be at this point tbh. Lots of decent stuff, but occasional gems

celest mango
lone canyon
#

I’m shocked

stoic falcon
#

Which id rather have than lots of crap, decent stuff, and some gems

celest mango
#

(Also shouldn't this be in #1364954784737792102)

topaz oyster
winged mountain
#

I didn't have the faintest idea that was even a thing

#

I also don't care enough about that franchise to join it

hushed moss
stoic falcon
#

The brand harming things were actively bad

turbid narwhal
#

A shawn levy movie being the movie that could reignite interest in Star Wars is rough

winged mountain
#

I don't think it'll harm the brand, but I do think it might underperform, and get Disney suits to continue to question the franchise's health

#

but also what do I know, it could be a hit

stoic falcon
#

Thats fair

#

I could see that happening

hushed moss
lone canyon
hushed moss
#

I think after I heard that I figured out what Mando & Grogu was meant to be. Which explains why they haven’t really marketed it as the SW return to theaters

spring barn
# terse crystal

I gotta get to this man never having watched a single non-Feluda Satyajit Ray film as a Bengali is embarrassing

minor isle
crystal brook
#

The trailers for Mando and Grogu feel like the same quality as a book of boba or obi wan

#

I have a small urge to go and see it but my expectations are rock bottom

verbal lintel
# lone canyon It might be StarWarsover guys

-# I think we kinda knew this when they completely wiped any and all Disney era Star Wars decorations and rides from Star Wars Land a couple months ago.
-# No Sequel trilogy characters or decorations , no TV Characters or decorations
-# All Original trilogy and prequel trilogy

winged mountain
#

I don't think I'm going to, just because there are a few other movies this summer that I'll probably want to see (Supergirl, Spider Man, Odyssey), and one more is a littl emuch

oak ivy
#

i may see grogu this weekend just to do by every 3 years star wars check in

oak ivy
#

the sequel trilogy threw them into an enormous narrative hole

crimson kelp
#

that's a bit surprising, Mando and Grogu seemed to be breakout successes in an otherwise abysmal time

#

unfortunate that the new movie seems like it's mid at best tho

#

I guess the probem for the writers is that they are already stuck in a disasterous hole

oak ivy
#

just reading the premise is kinda sad

crimson kelp
#

they can't do anything with the story or setting because it's all going to TRoS ||"somehow palpatine returned"||

oak ivy
#

they really have no other card to play

#

it is a narrative dead zone

winged mountain
oak ivy
#

at least with rogue one we knew what happened in that film mattered to the overall plot

verbal lintel
#

Legit the only way forward is either new trilogy set yeeeeeeeaaaaaaars after 9, or new trilogy yeeeaaaars before 1

crimson kelp
#

honestly I kinda felt like it was already totally over when I saw the first disneyverse star wars and it was ||ok look we're back as rebels, somehow the galactic republic is gona again and the imperials are back, all our heroes are total failures and we're reliving the same story beats with the same baddies||

oak ivy
#

TroS ||palapatine is such a generic nothing villain that you really could have just developed someone else to be better in a movie or two, but snoke got snoked so no one really cared lmao||

oak ivy
#

||like disastrously stupidly bad||

#

||it simultaneosly invalidates everything that happens in between episode 6 and 7, and guarentees that everything going forward is just going to a pale imitation of a story already begging for some new life and originiality ||

winged mountain
lone canyon
#

SW ||They literally nuked the republic in e7 lmao||

crimson kelp
#

yeah it was so dumb

oak ivy
#

||why is he evil? why was he good, then evil? if it is answered in a comic i dont care lmao||

crimson kelp
#

the whole thing just reeked of the kinda corporate conservativism that leads to endless remakes and nostalgia baiting because the boardroom will never take a chance on something that doesn't have enough recognisable brand appeal or whatever other bs corpo words, so they do the "safe" thing and fail in contemptible mediocrity

lone canyon
winged mountain
#

SW ||yet still, I don't see how the finale trilogy could work without a 'big bad'. Palpatine, just in a broad strokes sense, I honestly see why they would make that decision. They could have explored Snoke or some other sith conspiracy. I just don't think Kylo alone would have worked for me||

lone canyon
winged mountain
#

SW ||I think that would be extremely difficult to do, just because like, he's the kind of self-destruction where the heroes don't really have to do anything, they can just stay out of Kylo's way and they'll destroy themselves, I guess you'd have to tell a story where he's going to do something super destructive and you have to stop him, and I think the story has merit but it would struggle to carry the weight of 'this is the new end to Star Wars' that they were trying to accomplish||

oak ivy
#

||you could portray an emotional and petulant fascism instead of the brutal efficiency of the OT||

lone canyon
cold sequoia
oak ivy
#

Aaks

#

My guy

#

My buddy

#

My friend

#

My brother in malazan

#

I dont know about that

tight dove
#

You used to be able to hear like
Ship noises and ambient chatter near windows and thats gone

naive mica
#

If we're talking Star Wars, and how it's not performing

#

I think we need to mention the thing that suredly should have breathed new life into the franchise:

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tight dove
#

Not real it doesnt say star wars anywhere its not real

oak ivy
#

Glam, i have to say how much respect i have for you being both a destiny and a star wars fan

#

Absolutely brutal

naive mica
#

Ah yes. A Star Wars fan. That's definitely, 100% an accurate descriptor of me as a person.

#

I definitely didn't rage-quit my favorite video game franchise the day they announced they were doing a Star War

oak ivy
#

Even more respect then

#

Renegades may be the most baffling thing in a while for me

#

How did that get approved

#

And why

stoic falcon
#

Honestly, I'm star wars fan, but if I played destiny I would've hated renegades

#

We need to stop fortnitifying everything

#

looking at you too wotc

naive mica
#

The thing that I absolutely hate is that Renegades made me respect the way WotC is handling Magic crossovers a little bit.

stoic falcon
#

I didn't realize renegades was so bad it made UB look good LUL

naive mica
#

Because story/lore-wise, they're siloed off into their own thing and are completely irrelevant to the Magic story. So if you like the Magic universe/plot, you can safely ignore the crossovers.

paper hull
#

Renegades injected itself into Destiny's canon in a way that is hard to heal from.

stoic falcon
#

Wait, it's not just itss own thing, but they're tryign to force it into the ongoing story too?

#

Dang

paper hull
#

Fortunately it is dead now so there's no need to heal from it.

naive mica
#

No such luck with Destiny, Renegades was a tentpole main-story expansion

stoic falcon
#

I just knew how bad the actual content was

naive mica
#

If you wanted to keep up with the Destiny lore/story, you had no choice but to go full Lucasfilm.

stoic falcon
#

not that people couldn't just ignore it ShallanOhNo

#

that's such a wild decision for them to make

naive mica
#

Hence why I rage-quit. As someone who was a die-hard and dedicated fan of the world and story of Destiny, that felt incredibly disrespectful and I just couldn't.

#

But alas, I've ranted about this quite a bit in #1342603794370007050 in the past, this probably isn't the place to get too into the weeds about it.

stoic falcon
#

True

paper hull
#

Their goose was cooked tbf. They were out of ideas. They had massive staff churn. It was Joever. The Star War was a last hurrah to maybe get some new players in. It didn't.

stoic falcon
#

I'm just blown away by how bad that is

#

so much worse than I thought

naive mica
stoic falcon
#

Which is exactly what I do LUL

#

I see what you mean now though

paper hull
#

If there is one thing I respect about 40K it's how they're able to have a massive soup franchise without diluting the vision too much.

verbal lintel
# oak ivy How did that get approved

They thought it would bring in the sea of surface level culture casuals and thus Bring Da Money

Turns out it only brought the very very Not Money

paper hull
#

They did not comprehend how hated Destiny is among surface level culture casuals lol.

oak ivy
#

I stepped out before rise of iron

paper hull
#

And your opinions are also typically of that vintage.

oak ivy
#

Seeing from the outside, it seems the franchise has a 3:1 its so over we are so back ratio

paper hull
#

It was incredible in its years but now that its dead please feel free to enjoy all the last laughs.

oak ivy
#

Destiny has a lot of stuff going for it, it just needs a 5 year off season to actually get everything in order

midnight compass
#

That is unironically the state it's in right now

oak ivy
#

That is good

#

Ironically i have the same opinion on star wars

naive mica
midnight compass
wet quest
cobalt onyx
midnight compass
#

The problem is they can't just step back from Destiny to plan and let the discourse around it cool down because it's their main source of revenue. While Marathon theoretically could give them the cash flow needed to drop Destiny for a while, it's suffering from the same backlash against Destiny by association while also being a fairly niche game and developing controversies of its own

oak ivy
#

This would never happen tbc

naive mica
paper hull
#

If we are talking about blue people Avatar: I still kinda hate it.

naive mica
#

It feels like the first film had minimal pop culture impact, but it was still able to pull off a decade+ gap and come back and make absolute bomb at the box office.

paper hull
#

If we're talking about AtLA - I liked Korra a lot just not as much as AtLA.

topaz oyster
wet quest
#

Blue people

naive mica
#

I think we are indeed talking about Blue People Avatar

naive mica
topaz oyster
#

I think in part because it is too much like films that have impact in the US but not really outside of it (eg Dances With Wolves)

midnight compass
midnight compass
wet quest
naive mica
#

Can they though?

paper hull
#

I still and always will hate blue people Avatar but I won't get really into it. It's just like anti-aesthetic for me.

naive mica
#

Disney is nothing if not a content hose machine

#

I don't think they know how to sit on anything.

oak ivy
#

Say what you want about star wars, it consistently turns a profit

naive mica
#

It's just 'moar content' all the time

midnight compass
oak ivy
#

It is also a major pillar of disney+

lone canyon
#

Ahsoka and Acolyte were pretty panned and bad batch and Msl were kinda ignored

oak ivy
#

the movies do, which is what we can actually get objective information on

#

tv shows are black boxes

cobalt onyx
#

The movies did, this is the first one since tRoS

wet quest
#

The people I know with kids who like star wars say their kids like a fair amount of the shows that are put out, so there's that at least. It makes me feel a little better to know there is an audience out there, even if it's not me

lone canyon
#

My brother is getting all his friends into clone wars

#

My brother can like… distinguish all the individual clones

verbal lintel
hushed moss
# oak ivy tv shows are black boxes

Yeah I remember reading that they recently said that Marvel tv show which has done some of the best numbers long term was She-Hulk. Which you would never think going off how it is discussed. It is really hard to gauge a streaming show’s success.

lone canyon
#

Like some of the acting in Ahsoka is genuinely extremely bad (not that bad acting is anything new for Star Wars)

hushed moss
topaz oyster
lone canyon
#

Acolyte also suffered from just like… really mediocre acting

oak ivy
#

the budgets for streaming shows are so inflated to my eyes

#

why did the acolyte cost that much

hushed moss
#

But the complicated thing about streaming is that viewership ≠ revenue. That only happens when there is ad revenue.

lone canyon
novel bear
#

We live in a strange era of tv production where studios hate devoting any budget to actually planning out compelling shots or lighting, and just "fix" it by pumping money into cgi, while also underpaying cgi workers

topaz oyster
#

D+ is I think also just kind of an anomaly because Interim Bob got fired for lying about its numbers to the board of directors for several years and during that time it got too deeply entrenched into the Disney ecosystem for them to pivot back off it lightly

#

I'm not entirely convinced there's a compelling industry standard for measuring a show's success in the streaming world even after nearly 15 years of it

lone canyon
#

Tbh I think a large issue with SW D+ is just the acting

#

Like the main character in the Acolyte, Ahsoka herself and Sabine all give terrible performances

topaz oyster
#

EG "minutes watched" was a stat they were playing with several years ago but that was killed by Nielsen when they were able to show that Rings of Power s1's enormous minutes watched number was concentrated almost entirely in the first three episodes and the falloff was staggering

oak ivy
topaz oyster
oak ivy
#

writers and actors had no way to measure the success of the projects they were in

#

they just got renewed or not

cobalt onyx
lone canyon
topaz oyster
#

Rosario Dawson was Collecting A Check for sure

oak ivy
lone canyon
#

Sabine’s acting is fine if she were supposed to be a washed punk who burned her brain out with lsd

#

Imagining Sabine as any kind of warrior or rebel leader is so unconvincing

lone canyon
cobalt onyx
topaz oyster
#

I feel like a lot of the dissonance with Sabine comes from trying to take a Mandalorian For Kids and live action her in a show that's attempting some level of gravitas, not from any acting choices

lone canyon
oak ivy
# lone canyon She’s also nothing like tcw Ahsoka

star wars gen ||they have never found out how to make the jedi master stoicism interesting on screen compared to neutering the personlity of the various actors they get. ashoka is on the top of the list of people who should maintain some level of spunk, especially bc the jedi order is gone at that point in the timeline||

lone canyon
topaz oyster
#

And I didn't feel like the character dissonance was nearly as strong as you're making it out to be either

lone canyon
#

The actress also just doesn’t have the physicality or confidence for the role

#

also she had a consistently really smug and zoned out expression I found annoying

lone canyon
#

||her surviving to the events of a new hope and past that is lowkey disrespectful to the original story||

oak ivy
lone canyon
oak ivy
#

||it has to be some insane number at this point||

lone canyon
#

||he just doesn’t petty crimes and monologues and occasionally has a psychotic break||

oak ivy
#

||the clones killed like 8 jedi||

lone canyon
cobalt onyx
topaz oyster
oak ivy
#

||that is 100% a product of them having nowhere else in the timeline to tell jedi stories so they get shoehorned in. there should be like 5 survivors total||

lone canyon
#

Sw all ||them surviving the initial massacre is fine if they all die or go dark before a new hope||

topaz oyster
#

SW all ||Cal Kestis is warming up to have reasonable reasons for being absent for OT stuff||

lone canyon
#

||im fine with the Rebels plotline because Ezra gets deported by space whales or something and Kanan dies, and I’m fine with Devon in MSL because she falls to the dark side||

oak ivy
#

sw all ||the 9 films give off the vibe that the jedi order is eradicated in 3, somewhat revived through luke in 6, and then ended again before the sequel trilogy. the films make it pretty clear there arent a bunch of jedi running around during that time||

topaz oyster
oak ivy
buoyant scroll
oak ivy
#

dw guys i survived the purge

SPOILER_image.png
#

@rugged hound lmao

#

that is actually what i look like btw

lone canyon
#

Duck’s fav characters are either complex reflections on morality and society OR a redhead

cold sequoia
lone canyon
buoyant scroll
#

unless something crazy happened in the last year and a half you are not that grizzled, be real girl

dusky flint
#

Its incredible how were at a point we're the boys comics are probably gonna have a better ending

civic trellis
#

better as in happier, or better as in higher quality?

dusky flint
civic trellis
#

oh no ShallanOhNo

turbid narwhal
#

I haven’t liked the last 2 seasons of the boys but this season has been all time levels of bad

crimson kelp
#

I heard it was ok, problem is it's hard to parody reality

dusky flint
#

and is horribly written

#

not because its hard to parody reality or whatever

crimson kelp
#

idk i'll get timed out if I talk about the current state of reality

#

but I know several people who have enjoyed the current season

gritty sierra
#

tbh Zor maybe it'd be good to let other people have their opinions and recognize your opinion that it's bad is also an opinion

dusky flint
#

||Homelander being jesus|| isnt the issue its everytrhing surround it

lucid haven
#

I just am worried it will end poorly

turbid narwhal
#

I do give the show some grace in that it’s tough to keep up with how the world is going but I’ve had a lot more issues outside of that

dusky flint
#

the shows also too scared to actually tackle the big actual issues of modern politics because that might be too controversial

small quarry
#

idc about the show just thought the guy floating there looks odd lol

verbal lintel
civic trellis
#

Ouch

#

That's bad bad

turbid narwhal
#

I don't think it's that level of bad LUL

lucid haven
#

I have not heard that many ppl speaking that poorly especially irl

red nacelle
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I haven’t watched The Boys past season 2. I’m already struggling to finish GOT season 5, worried I’ll experience two of the worst endings this year 😭

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Three if I get into Stranger Things

winged mountain
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Was Stranger Things bad? I heard more meh than awful

turbid narwhal
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can't comment on stranger things ending as a whole since i'm waiting for the secret final episode that has the real ending

crystal brook
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hours and hours of explanationslop and re-explanationslop for the viewers on their phones

winged mountain
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That checks out with what I had heard

dusk hound
placid river
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I enjoyed the ST finale idk what anyone says

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There were certainly some bad parts but I wouldn’t put it in the “worst of all time” bucket like a lot of others seem to

lucid haven
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Its so annoying

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Rather than real critique and discussion its just "this is trash and that is the worst thing ever"

muted solar
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Oh yeah I think I just never watched the ST finale

distant birch
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I do think people are harsher on the ST finale than necessary

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I don't think the final season was great and there were some choices I really didn't like but I don't think it was atrocious

forest wigeon
placid river
spring barn
lucid haven
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i just dont think that online stuff like that is very representative of the actual populations thoughts

spring barn
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Ig

dusk hound
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Like if you talked to a regular joe on the street they wouldn’t share those opinions

dusky flint
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the actual population has dumb opinions sometimes

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the boys has been pretty bad since s3 anyway

topaz oyster
wet quest
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The ending of Stranger Things is as bas as the ending of Game of Thrones in the same way that any moderately challenging videogame is as difficult as Dark Souls.
People have a benchmark, so they compare to that

spring barn
forest wigeon
dusky flint
lucid haven
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I think the last couple seasons are looked at way more poorly than they deserve

winged mountain
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Ehh, I really think they deserve the flak

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Season 6 was decent if you like fanservice and dont mind plot armor, but season 7 was mostly just as bad as season 8. People mostly overlooked it at the time thinking that maybe rushing it was necessary, and the ending could be worth it

minor isle
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The Boys ended

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liked the episode a lot || Great ending for Deep. Great ending for Homelander. That one on one fight after being stripped off power was great. Great to end the series on Hughie and Butcher man to man convo and really loved how they ended it at Hughie's POV || The Boys Finale

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Overall 5/10 season. 8/10 finale

muted solar
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I think my top 5 in no particular order is probably:

  • Arrival
  • Spider-verse 1
  • Spider-verse 2
  • Sinners
  • Chronicle

Though Arrival is probably my #1

lucid haven
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Time to sit down and watch the final epp of the boys

keen flax
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I need to watch interstellar

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PHM keeps getting called "anti interstellar" online and idk what that means

ripe stag
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Bad?

keen flax
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No not like that! 🤣 in terms of vibes... I think 😂

naive mica
cosmic dock
winged mountain
wet quest
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Yeah, he's in it but I don't know if I'd refer to it as "a movie with Timothy Chalamet"
I think he has like 4 lines

cosmic dock
wet quest
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Def very good movie. I didn't like it the first time I watched it, but going back it grew on me a lot more

paper hull
runic pollen
crystal brook
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Kevin O'Leary? Is that the guy with a tank full of sharks?

cold sequoia
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yeah, and having seen it recently I do not understand people who raved about OLeary's acting ability

gray orbit
cold sequoia
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he was fine

lone canyon
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Kevin o Leary from Shark Tank?

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I thought he was washed

gray orbit
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Yes

cold sequoia
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there are many actors who could have done what OLeary did without leaving a bad taste in my mouth

gray orbit
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Tyler the creator I heard was better in performance

cold sequoia
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yeah, Tyler was a classic Safdie casting choice and he really did well

lucid haven
# minor isle liked the episode a lot || Great ending for Deep. Great ending for Homelander. T...

Boyz final epp || was really good I agree with all of that and hughies pov at rhe end really book ended the series in a really nice way. The fact he is running that shop and everything else just made me tear up a bit.||

Non spoiler thoughts, its a bloody good ending to a tv series that I loved for most of the epps. Even made me tear up a bit right in the final scene. 9/10 epp even if it was a 7/10 season

tight dove
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he was just being himself

turbid narwhal
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the secret life of Walter Mitty is a really beautiful movie

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the first 30 minutes were shaky with some bad CGI but the rest of the movie looks fantastic

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also the worst adam scott has ever looked

stuck mica
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I like that movie a lot

cold sequoia
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proto severance (having only seen S1 and S2E1 of the show so far)

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I remember liking it

ionic lily
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Adam Scott looked his best in the Good Place

tight dove
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adam scott is just a generally attractive man

winged mountain
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just following up on a discussion from earlier in another room, I'm curious if there are any thoughts on this, among modern streaming shows, are there any shows that would be interesting to start in the middle? Like, latest season or something

wet quest
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According to Amazon Prime the optimal way to watch Fallout is to watch S1E1 then S2E1. At least, it picked up with season 2 when I hit "continue watching" the other day and I didn't notice until I was like 20 minutes in

tight dove
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lmao

turbid narwhal
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Mr Robot feels like it would be a fun watch if you just started on a random episode

minor isle
spring barn
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I had grown a bit cold on Interstellar over the past couple or so years and coming out of PHM thought PHM might be better than it

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then I actually sat down to rewatch it and wept from the visuals alone

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it really is the space film as far as I'm concerned

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on the other hand Weir has done his best to sour me on PHM

minor isle
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Just don't read his interviews and stuff then

spring barn
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it still is too fecklessly hopeful and happy for me to like

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you need sincerity to make hope work

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and that has been sucked out of PHM for me in a way that's past the rational and thus cannot be simply backtracked on

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I gave Gunn's Superman 9/10 btw

hushed moss
lucid haven
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Ive not ever really seen what he has to say about things

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And idk if he could sour me on it

dusk hound
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Supergirl will return in Man of Tomorrow

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This actually makes me wonder

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Man of Tomorrow speculation ||I do wonder if they’re going the “Brainiac was responsible for Krypton’s destruction” route||

frank quail
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Can she return if she hasn't even arrived yet?

winged mountain
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wasn't she (briefly) in the first movie?

midnight compass
dusk hound
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YES

buoyant scroll
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Whoah what?

winged mountain
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maybe Janci can write the screenplay for this one instead of Brandon

ripe stag
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Yes just posted in #cytoverse as well.

buoyant scroll
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But idk, it is apparently Tomorrow Studios

winged mountain
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Sanderson will write the pilot script with TV writer-producers Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
ShallanOhNo

buoyant scroll
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Oh thank god it's just the pilot

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A single episode with two co-writers should hopefully take him very little time

winged mountain
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guy is really striking while the iron's hot, I guess

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I don't know if that's going to be the end of it, we don't know that they're writing more than a pilot to begin with, it doesn't sound like this has been ordered to series just yet

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like, if he's doing an outline and revisions, it won't be a problem

buoyant scroll
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I will steal all of his salt if he writes for a full series

lucid haven
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this server is gonna be popping off in a couple years after all this drop s

steep bramble
cold sequoia
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Brandon Sanderson’s Sci-Fi Novel ‘Skyward’ Getting TV Series Adaptation By ‘One Piece’ Producer Tomorrow Studios

willow fjord
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I am so happy with all the Brandon TV announcements recently

lucid haven
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where is this going to be released

willow fjord
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Skyward TV show could be PEAK

buoyant scroll
forest wigeon
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wait you said where

lucid haven
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yaa i was curious what service i would need to access this legally

runic pollen
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oh not confirmed yet

forest wigeon
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It would be really convenient if it was Apple TV like the Cosmere

naive mica
buoyant scroll
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Like jmcgit said they're just talking about the pilot so they probably dont even have a series ordered yet

small quarry
forest wigeon
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Yeah same

naive mica
forest wigeon
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I don't have to worry about the continuity with Cytoverse lol

willow fjord
naive mica
buoyant scroll
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I think Skyward will adapt so much better to live action than anything Cosmere

willow fjord
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why would they confirm it if they dont actually have a series ordered though?

small quarry
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i do hope it doesnt follow the show formula of like. not showing us the characters doing anything interesting until the last episode 💀

naive mica
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And Skyward is just the perfect-sized story for a 6-8 episode season of TV

forest wigeon
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Skyward would be a perfect movie

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but looks like it's not going that way

naive mica
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And also a TV show would be great for adapting later books, especially as Spensa and the Skyward Flight diverge a bit.

forest wigeon
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Yeah

buoyant scroll
naive mica
winged mountain
forest wigeon
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I hope Brandon doesn't write more than just the Pilot

naive mica
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(and idk if I'd want to ping her to ask)

half falcon
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He probably will be the first person to write for three different non shelved projects before even one releases

buoyant scroll
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Like it looks like they dont even have a director attached for the pilot like this is pretty early

cold sequoia
half falcon
winged mountain
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still, they got a decent studio attached, even if they don't have a network yet, this is probably a little less of a sure thing than Mistborn seems to be but I think there will be interest

burnt shale
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At this rate the next secret project could just be a full completed movie adaptation

buoyant scroll
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(Hell even Glitch pilots arent a guarantee they'll get the full season)

winged mountain
buoyant scroll
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Oh yeah

winged mountain
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like even with the Cosmere though, like this Apple thing is not the first attempt at adapting it, Brandon has sold the rights to the Cosmere several times before this apple deal

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he just had good enough agents to yank them back when they stalled out

naive mica
buoyant scroll
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It's not uncommon for screenwriters to pump out screenplays that spend years circulating hollywood before someone finally takes note of one (and then completely reskins it to be a different more marketable IP brand)

forest wigeon
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I know Spider-Man scripts were kicking around for a decade before the first movie came out

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James Cameron wrote the original script

placid river
runic pollen
dusk hound
molten jetty
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I think modern scifi has generally done better in adaptions than modern fantasy 🤷

ionic lily
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Yeah definitely

sacred slate
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I am excited for a skyward series but also excited for the inevitable Defending Elysium spinoff. Lots of continuity free room to explore and topics that will fit right in with broader audiences.

winged mountain
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I wouldn't call it inevitable, the thing about streaming series is that they tend to only last a few seasons, I think Skyward is a great candidate because they probably could genuinely do the whole thing

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but like, I don't expect to see DE covered at all, or at most some quick flashbacks in one episode

buoyant scroll
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The cadence of Skyward's story also maps pretty well to something episodic

frank quail
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A spinoff is good for them because they get to order a brand new show, not a sequel (drop off) or more seasons

sacred slate
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Yeah folks are seeking franchises. I think skyward is more marketable than any of the cosmere and the spinoffs being Skyward/defending elysium ||earth adjacent|| means production houses will be more willing to buy in as will audiences. Even if it's a one off film or limited series.

winged mountain
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I think if they want to do a 'spinoff', Riftwake will be right there. They don't have to promote it as a 'sequel'

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I think at the very least it would be a more successful show than DE would be

sacred slate
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I also could see Apple buying to this, and even DE, given their success with Foundation and other things.

But the bidding war has just gotten started on distribution so who knows.

thin ridge
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Finally watching Good Omens, due to the repeated urgings of my friends

naive mica
frank quail
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The expanse novellas directly explain things about the current in universe. I'm not sure DE is relevant like that

naive mica
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I think it could be tied in to (hypothetical) Season 3, ||Show Jason Write's backstory as Spensa uncovers the history of Cytonics.||

buoyant scroll
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Unless something happens in the Cytoverse books I haven't gotten to Defending Elysium is pretty darn irrelevant

oak ivy
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yeah i dont think it needs to be adapted at all

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the expanse novellas covered some tangentially related stuff

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DE is more lore than anything

sacred slate
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I don't think it is a necessity but I do think of it as something producers would like to have and could see it spin out once it becomes relevant in series even tangentially.

It's more of a nice to have in hand because if the series does well it's something they can quickly turn to but also not be beholden to many constraints.

naive mica
wet quest
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Defending Elysium is so unrelated to the rest of the Cytoverse that I might not have even noticed that it was the same universe on first read.
I could see the events being a flashback to open a season or something, but I don't think it'll be a show on it's own

naive mica
winged mountain
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I mostly just don't think DE is similar enough to Skyward to attract the same audience, and therefore a network probably wouldn't be interested

small quarry
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isnt DE like a really short story anyways

winged mountain
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it is, but you could probably write a lot of original content around it

wet quest
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I'm sad we're not getting Reckoners yet. I can understand with The Boys going on it's probably best to wait a bit, but I just love the series

winged mountain
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there was a time when the Reckoners were optioned, but it didn't go anywhere

naive mica
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Yeah Reckoners was originally published around the start of the Superhero deconstruction phase, but now that market is pretty oversaturated.

sacred slate
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With the Boys ending there will be some room opening up but will probably need some time due to the saturation over the last decade.

turbid narwhal
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The six feet under pilot was a banger

wet quest
lucid haven
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I don't think that's an issue

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Recokners is a whole different vibe to the boys

small quarry
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guys guys hear me out

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the boys is not done yet there is a secret episode coming

lucid haven
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Uhhh

winged mountain
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it's a different vibe but the same pitch, like if an exec talks about the show they'd say something like 'it's like The Boys but a mormon wrote it'

lucid haven
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That finale was quite final

small quarry
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this is the universe where the bad guys won 🤓

willow fjord
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I lowkey loved The Reckoners 😔 really really under rated series imo

lucid haven
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I want more from the reckoners universe

wet quest
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Yeah, Lux had a really banger of an ending and I want more

oak ivy
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brandon's time is so thoroughly stretched that i am very hesitant on wanting things

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i do hope more gets officially given to other people who have the time

willow fjord
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Im sure this is a hot take but I enjoyed reckoners more than the cytoverse

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I just resonated with the characters and conflicts more. And at the time I read it, the "evil superheros" idea was still fresh

cosmic dock
winged mountain
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IIRC there were problems with Lux, and they think the book needs to be revised before it ever gets a sequel, and Brandon / Dragonsteel just doesn't have time for it

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I never touched it because it was audio exclusive

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but it sounds like it will remain audio exclusive until they decide to invest the time on it

acoustic pewter
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Didn't expect this channel to remind me Lux existed and I still have yet to read it, but here we go.

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Hmmm. Libby has Lux, but only two different audiobooks that are both en español.

winged mountain
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I recall the book was originally published by Mainframe, which Brandon was once part-owner of but I think may have divested from

acoustic pewter
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I'd watch a Reckoners movie. I'd never watch The Boys, but I would watch "The Boys if it was written in a way that I could stomach it", which is what Reckoners kind of is, from what I've heard about The Boys.

winged mountain
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I didn't watch much of The Boys (honestly I don't watch deep into most series), but the first episode was pretty brutal, not necessarily in a bad way

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it does present some interesting scenarios

acoustic pewter
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I can just tell it's not my cuppa

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Though on the topic of superhero stuff, I should get back around to Wonder Man...

wide stag
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Yeah, I got through maybe half of the first season, and just bounced hard off it

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It paints such a... gratuitously pessimistic and crass view of people that I couldn't relate or engage with any of it

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It felt like it was telling a narrative that actively wants to punish goodness, and I am not interested in such media

acoustic pewter
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That's also what steers me away from it. Not just the language and gore and sexual content, which are enough to dissuade me from any piece of media no matter how old I get. But to "preach despair", as I've heard it said, leaves quite a bitter taste on top of it. What's the point of being so intentionally dark and pessimistic and vulgar? Just for the sake of it?

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I'm sure there is an interesting narrative in that series. But it's not one I'm personally interested in.

wet quest
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I'm def firmly in the anti-bummer fandom

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A show's gotta be real good for me to overlook the central story just being a downer

wide stag
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Clearly it works for a lot of people, but not me, chief

keen flax
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For me, i was on the fence about it and I tried the first episode and (The Boys 1x1) ||The deep and starlights whole... conflict. Gave me hella ick.||

lucid haven
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idk i always view the boys as the opposite, there are so many atrocities going on in the real world that i see this as more of a hopeful thing that we can overcome the evil

keen flax
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And then (The boys final season) ||I saw my sister watching the nutsack fight and I knew I didnt want to touch it with a ten foot pole||

lucid haven
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and also real life is gorey and sexual and messy

keen flax
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Thats true! I understand that, I just cant handle it 😂

lucid haven
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100% its not for everyone

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its a very polarising show

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it is for me tho

wide stag
dusky flint
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im probably gonna rewatch all of it

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before iw atch the finale

turbid narwhal
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Personally for me I thought the boys had some interesting ideas then slowly became a parody of itself as it went on

wide stag
lucid haven
dusky flint
wide stag
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I would rather stay confused

small quarry
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I dont think any context is saving that yeah

naive mica
dusky flint
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now its just kind of carried by anthony starr

acoustic pewter
naive mica
lucid haven
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well i used the wrong weapon reference i dont know the name of it but its the || ball on a string blunt weapon|| what ever the name is of that

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because ofc that makes more sense than the weapon i said

naive mica
naive mica
dusky flint
lucid haven
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but more of a blunt weapon ofc

naive mica
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Technically a Kusari-fundo, since it has no scythe end

lucid haven
naive mica