I miss the time when a crossover was “wouldn’t it be cool if Hellboy, John Constantine and Buffy, the Vampire Slayer hunted a demon together” and not “to understand this story, you must first read this story, and watch this movie, and find this thing that was released for a limited time on an exclusive platform only available in Papua New Guinea”…
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Seriously? The last episode was nothing but set-up for another season. Then it makes no sense at all instead.
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Well, at least he’s honest about what the Bible actually says about slavery. But most people would probably reach the more sane conclusion that the Bible is wrong rather than slavery is right.
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I assume the trailer is aimed for people who have seen the tv show, because it leaves me totally cold.
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With sales like that I would have guessed Shakespeare/Picasso, but i guess Fraction/Jiménez is also fine.
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I decided to document my process to see if I could learn anything from it.
1. Concept sketch
2. Pencil sketch
3. Inking of the outlines
4. Coloring with marker pens
5. Color pencils to add depth and highlights
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About Peacemaker episode three season two: There wasn’t a single black person in the other dimension, right?
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I would like to see Brainiac av the villain. But in a universe where Krypto the Super dog exists, I wouldn’t feel that the pre-crisis Terra-Man or Vartox was out of place.
So give me a movie with Superman versus Terra-Man on a winged horse.
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They retconned the end of Peacemaker series 1! Top-tier DC move!
Making it the most comic accurate tv show so far!
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We’re permafucked. All our leaders are complete imbeciles, or traitors.
Hey, it’s not my fault. I didn’t vote for his party!
(I voted for one of his coalition partners, that are supposed to be liberal, but are mostly just retarded, so it probably is my fault after all.)
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I generally liked it.
A few too many characters talking in pure exposition early on, far too little Perry White, a weirdly old looking Jimmy Olsen and a weird take on Supergirl all dragged it down a bit.
But I liked Corenswet as Superman, Brosnahan was as fantastic as I expected as Lois, the Justice Gang all worked better than I feared and Krypto was fun. Superman has never been more relatable as when having to deal with his unruly dog.
I’m ambivalent about how the Kents were portrayed, but I thought the twist on Jor-El and Lara was interesting. I wish it had more relevance towards the end, Superman having to publicly talk about and disavow it rather than it getting seemingly disregarded when Lex was exposed though.
edit: oh and did anyone else think Corenswet as unmaked Ultraman looked remarkably like Brendan Fraser?
Yes, he did look like a young Brendan Fraser!
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When writing about the movie on a swedish board, it suddenly came to me that Superman does NOT change during as part of the story. This has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time. Every scriptwriter in Hollywood have read the same manual for how to write a good script, and part of that is that the hero has to change to overcome the obstacles. In the old days, this was not the case. James Bond never changed in any of the movied (before he was played by Daniel Craig), and of course, in the comic books, Superman is the same at the start and the end of each story.
This Superman did not change. That’s how an iconic hero should be handled. He overcomes the obstacles by being himself, not by changing!
I disagree, and I think the scene at the end with the parents video shows this.
That doesn’t mean he has changed. He is still the same man, fighting for the same ideals, but he does it because his Earth parents taught him to do it, not because his Krypton parents told him to do it. (Like Todd said — he questions himself, but stays true.)
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When writing about the movie on a swedish board, it suddenly came to me that Superman does NOT change during as part of the story. This has been a pet peeve of mine for a long time. Every scriptwriter in Hollywood have read the same manual for how to write a good script, and part of that is that the hero has to change to overcome the obstacles. In the old days, this was not the case. James Bond never changed in any of the movied (before he was played by Daniel Craig), and of course, in the comic books, Superman is the same at the start and the end of each story.
This Superman did not change. That’s how an iconic hero should be handled. He overcomes the obstacles by being himself, not by changing!
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I have watched four episodes of The Sandman season 2, and I’m kind of enjoying it, but feel that most of my enjoyment comes from remembering the comics that tell the same story a hundred times better. The tv series feels rushed. They have removed almost everything except the scenes that are necessary to tell the story. But the scenes that are missing are the ones that made the story great instead of just ok.
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Is Superman’s favorite food still Beef Bourguignon, or has that been retconned?
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I read Brassos attack on Kellen after being captured as an attempt to help Kellen. He did not think that Kellen betrayed him, but wanted the empire to think that he did, so that they would see Kellen as a guy who would betray refugees rather than help them, and therefore not suspect him of any wrongdoings.
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With Krypto and the robots at the fortress of solitude, it felt a bit like the Superman comics I read in the early 80’s. That’s nice.
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The idea that you need a plan or roadmap before you start a trilogy is nonsense. Not to mention that the only Star Wars trilogy that had a plan and roadmap was the prequels, and they’re objectively worse than the sequels.
You don’t NEED a roadmap, but it would have been a good idea. You definitely need directors who try to tell the same story and not turn it into the argument sketch.
– Kylo Ren wears a helmet!
– No, he doesn’t!
– Yes, he does!– There is big bad force user in charge!
– No, there isn’t!
– Yes, there is!– Rey’s lineage is important!
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I should have been obvious that it was a monumentally stupid idea to start a new trilogy of Star Wars movies not only without any plan or roadmap, but with two different writer/directors who instead of building on each others ideas contradicted them or retconned them. And I assume KK is to blame for that.
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We still can’t make stretching powers look good, but we have a few months to figure it out. In the meantime, look at the strong rock, the fire and the invisibility!
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I just read Batman – Hush for the first time. Parts of it were perfectly fine, but in the end it felt completely pointless. The story was not about a villain trying to trick Batman, but about a writer trying to trick the readers. The villain had no real plan and did not really try to accomplish anything. None of the things that happened served any purpose except misdierecting the readers.
But the art was nice.
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What they should do is something like the book Batman – Legends of the Dark Knight. At least the way is was in the beginning when some creators just told a Batman story and were done after five issues. Each story should only care about itself. If there is a crossover going on att the same time – just ignore it! If Alfred is dead in the main continuity – use him anyway if you feel like it!
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What happened to the concept of accessability? When I started reading superhero comics, I would search through the local shops for back issues, and if I found one that was a year old, or ten years old, I could understand it easily. That was nice. I miss it.
The Ultimate comics was a good jumping on point, but they soon became a convoluted mess just like the other comics. Is it unrealistic to make a book about a super-hero where each story is finished, the status quo doesn’t change much, and they can be read in any order?
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Well, the problem is that it is impossible to make parodies of conspiracy theorists, since the things they already believe are far sillier than anything you can make up.
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The shitty one! :)
The one directed by David Ayer. It’s one of the films I can’t stop thinking about, because it’s totally fascinating, since every part of it is really bad. Nothing that happens in it makes sense. Each scene seems to be written by someone who hadn’t been told what happened in the previous scene.
(And if Superman becomes homicidal, who thinks that a small crazy woman with a baseball bat is going to stop him?)
The one directed by James Gunn is good, but not great.
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It looks like someone typed an AI prompt of “Suicide Squad, but shitter”.
Being shittier than Suicide Squad is next to impossible!
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Slow Horses 4, episode 1 — Fucking awesome!
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I’m not surprised that it was cancelled, but surprised that it is officially stated instead of just not talked about it until the show is forgotten.
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With good writing, we could get to know the characters, care about them and get a story with a resolution in less than 2 hours.
So the problem isn’t the number of episodes.
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Looking forward to Biden denouncing yesterday’s attack on Abraham Lincoln
Fun fact: When Joe Biden was born, it was closer to the last day Abraham Lincoln was president than the first day when he would be president!
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I like the general look, but is surprised that the suit looks a bit to big for the actor. (It will probably look better in the move than it does in these pictures, so I’m sure it’s fine.)
And another thing: Has Mr. Terrific been stabbed in the foot?
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I gave up Book of Boba Fett after one episode, lasted through all of Obi-Wan Kenobi, but looking back that was only because the first episode was pretty good, and it mostly looked fine. The writing, directing and action was about as good as one of the instantly forgettable filler episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. You might think that they at least would be able to match one of the good episodes with the money they have available…
So I have not even tried to watch Ahsoka or The Acolyte. I will watch season two of Andor of course, because that was good for real.
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I want to read that!
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No one has mentioned the most important thing: The red underwear!
(If looks fine. It’s hard to judge from the early images. I thought Robert Pattinsons Batman suit looked like total crap on the first photos, but it looked great on screen.)
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Shardlake
This is a compact, well paced, well plotted, four episodes with an excellent cast. It also takes an interesting look at Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries.
From a disability perspective it is of note for Shardlake being both a disabled character and is portrayed by a disabled actor, Arthur Hughes. Given his skills here, I’m not surprised that his Richard III was excellent.
In casting terms, it’s interesting to compare Sean Bean’s version of Thomas Cromwell here, with Mark Rylance’s in Wolf Hall.
Overall, this is well worth watching, if you have access to Disney+.
Casting director: Do you know any actor who has experience playing a trusted advisor to a king, who then falls out of favor, gets beheaded and gets his head put on a spike?
Assistant: Yes! -
I think the first episode was perfectly fine, but it felt more like Twin Peaks than True Detective.
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There is an elevator in the science fiction bookstore in Gothenburg. It looks like this:
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Isn’t the problem that the movies are so expensive that a 110 million opening is a flop? Apparently it cost 220 million to make, and that seems ridiculous compared to something like The Creator costing 80 million. If it was made in Russia, I would assume that the producers and mid-level bosses were stealing 2/3 of the budget. What Disney has for excuse is anyone’s guess.
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Well, Crime & Punishment is probably not a good first book if all you have read is Harry Potter…
But I think names should be translated if their mening is important to the story. So I’m all for translation of superhero names. But of course not their civilian names.
So Batman should be Läderlappen in swedish, but his secret identity should still be Bruce Wayne, not Björn Wingård.
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To me it looked like they had taken one scene each from a Star Wars movie, a Dune movie, a Warhammer 40k movie, a Star Trek movie, a Harry Potter movie, a Conan movie, a Vietnam war movie and some space horror movie, and then made a trailer of it.
But it might still be good, of course.
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Aaron and Mahnke on a Batman mini!
https://www.ign.com/articles/batman-off-world-dc-jason-aaron-preview
Batman: Off-World
6-issue mini series covering Batman’s first trip to space. Feels fitting with what Zdarsky had go down in the Failsafe arc.
This is the kind of project that gets my interest – a compact, done-in-one story.
Along with Christian Ward’s Batman: City of Madness there’s a good few interesting stories upcoming.
DC do rely on Batman but with the stories being good, they have reason to.
If anyone from DC is reading: This is the kind of thing you should be doing if you want my money!
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I would have appreciated Loki season one more if, at any point, the supposed master manipulating god of mischief had done something clever, or unexpected, or anything at all except follow other people around and doing whatever they told him to do.
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a black woman was handcuffed and arrested by Met police yesterday on suspicion of skipping a £1.70 bus fare (which they later admitted she’s actually paid).
Wait, what?!
As ever it’s slightly more complicated than these headline summaries suggest. Racism in the police force is a big problem but we’re not yet at the stage where they’re marching paying travellers off public transport and handcuffing them just because they’re black.
Apparently the lady in question didn’t show proof of having paid for travel when requested by an inspector as part of a crackdown on fare dodging (even though it turns out she had in fact paid), they then all got into an argument which escalated to the point where she was restrained in front of her (understandably distressed) son.
The only footage being widely shared is of the handcuffing – which is the culmination of what happened, but without any of the context or build-up which helps to explain how things got to that point.
It still seems like an overreaction and undoubtedly badly handled by the police given the unnecessary escalation from such a minor issue, but “black woman is handcuffed for paying bus fare” is a simplification of a more complicated story.
There was a similar case in Sweden a few years ago, and I wish the newspapers would choose a correct description instead of trying to make it sound sensational: “idiot woman causes a lot of unnecessary fuzz by refusing to show her ticket during an inspection”!
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If they give him a mask it must be the original one with the whiskers around the mouth.
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A good article on the future of social media:
The TL DR: Message boards are back in town.
The boards are back in town.
So back to platforms made for communication rather than to keep people occupied so that they have time to see more adds?
I approve!
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Do they have blackmail pics of the other countries?
Yes, we do!
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Succession, season 4, episode 3.
That was amazing, and unexpected!
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This happens to me a lot. There is a superhero book that gets good reviews and recommendations. I buy the first two trades and enjoy it. By the third trade there is a crossover that makes absolutely no sense unless I buy some other comics, or it makes sense, but several of the chapters are made by other writers and artists than the ones I enjoyed, and I drop the book.
Is there ANYONE who actually enjoys this? Who are the people who are excited about crossovers, and really want the story in their favorite books to be interrupted by them?
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Someone used the AI program Midjourney to generate images of different countries as super villains. Some of these designs are really cool.
Artificial intelligence imagines 41 countries as supervillains — including South Africa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void
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The Doctors new style.
It looks nice and distinct, but the colors remind me of a sofa from the 70’s.
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Yes, still great. Still the best Star Wars related thing ever.
The only bad thing about it is that it makes Obi-Wan Kenobi seem even worse.
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A coffin
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Andor is now, offically, not just the best Star Wars show from Disney, but the best Star Wars thing ever. It’s better than The Empire Strikes Back, better than the comic books, the computer games, the animated Clone Wars by Tartakovsky and even better than the Holiday Special!
Fight me!
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This is just getting better and better.
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Who can I contact at Disney, to tell them to make more stuff like this, and to not make more stuff like Book of Boba Fett and Obi-Wan Kenobi?
Even though not much happened in this episode, everything was still interesting and believable. The internal bickering among the rebels could have been forced and silly, but it felt just right.
I assume there will be much more action next week.
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I have now seen all three episodes, and this is the first Disney show that is good for real and not just fine/decent because it features characters we recognize from movies and comic books.
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I have only watched the first episode yet, but everything is soooo much better than Obi-Wan Kenobi. It looks better, the writing is better, and the characters are not acting like total morons most of the time!
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The have not used the story from issue 9 yet. I guess that is quite important ans will be told before Dream goes to hell.
(The one about how Dream and Nada met and fell in love etc.)
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Was it really a good decision to make She-Hulk completely CGI rather than using the real actress and computer trickery to make her bigger (and green)? They obviously has to do ut for the original Hulk, since he is more muscular than it is possible for a human to be, but She-Hulk still mostly looks like a normal woman, just a lot bigger (and greener).
I’m not that bothered by it. I have enjoyed tv-series with far worse special effects. I just believe it would look better.
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Top five persons I would invite to write an episode of Doctor Who, if I was the showrunner:
5) Mikael Niemi
4) Warren Ellis
3) Alastair Reynolds
2) Alan Moore
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I enjoyed it, but seriously: the actual episode was 20 minutes and the credits rolled for 10 minutes!
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This extra episode was a nice surprise. But was there a reason it was one episode instead of two?
The part with Calliope and Madoc was weirdly non-sexual. I think it was too easy to miss what he actually did to her. I even found a quote about it:
I mean, I think they’re screwing, but it was written back in the dawn of time, so they do it in rows of asterisks, or between chapters.
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I already own, and have read, The Satanic Verses, but I really feel like ordering a few more copies and give them to friends and random strangers, just to piss of some far too religious assholes in Iran.
Would you recommend it? I’ve never read it, and now I think think about it I don’t know a single thing about it–other than the controversy over it. I mean, I know absolutely nothing, not even whether it’s fiction of not-fiction.
I seem to remember that it was pretty good, but it was a long time since I read it. I picked it up to see what all the fuzz was about, and I must have liked it, since I have read several other books by Rushdie since then.
So I would recommend it, but I would recommend Midnights Children or Shalimar, the Clown even more.
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I already own, and have read, The Satanic Verses, but I really feel like ordering a few more copies and give them to friends and random strangers, just to piss of some far too religious assholes in Iran.
I have a The Satanic Verses-shaped hole in my bookshelf. If you want to do this for real, let me know over PM and I’ll give you my adress.
I’ll send you some comics or other books in return. ;)
I will contact you the next time I order some books. I assume swedish is fine?
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I already own, and have read, The Satanic Verses, but I really feel like ordering a few more copies and give them to friends and random strangers, just to piss of some far too religious assholes in Iran.
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I think it was mostly great. Loved David Thewlis, and Stephen Fry as Gilbert was perfect (but should have been given more to do.)
And there were some nice small details. Like the poster for Mucus Membrane in Johanna Constantines Newcastle dream.
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Ha, just some fan art I saw on Twitter. Tennant is weirdly unrecognisable.
Also, his jacket has the buttons on the wrong side.
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Well, this is what could have been:
Peters was a producer for a planned adaptation of the Sandman comics for Warner Bros., which became stuck in development in 2001. Sandman creator Neil Gaiman called the last screenplay for the film that Warner Bros. would send him “not only the worst Sandman script I’ve ever seen, but quite easily the worst script I’ve ever read.” In a 2005 interview regarding the film, Gaiman commented: “But Sandman movies, they just got increasingly appalling… They started out hiring some really good people… And then Jon Peters fired all of them and got in some people who take orders, and who wanted fistfights and all this stuff. It had no sensibility… they were horrible.”
(From the wikipedia-page for producer Jon Peters.)
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Daredevil: Born Again — Great news, but didn’t they use most of the story beats from Born Again i season 3? I assume they just like the name, like Age of Ultron.
Wakanda Forever — Totally uninterested.
She Hulk — This looks like fun. I have no problem at all with the CGI. I could enjoy action and adventure movies from the 80’s and they mostly look like total crap compared to the cheapest CGI available today.
