Dominion Tank Police really skips a lot of the manga lore. I only found out this year the cat girls are meant to be robots that can change their sizes by functioning like water ballasts.
Still, I loved the design for the mobile weapon platform that Bonapart has to fight in the later episodes. Far more streamline that GitS Tachikomas but still retaining an overall insect design as many anime exosuits often end up being based on.
Could be worse, could be Tina Howard repeatedly writing the same things over and over because she gets doing so poorly her current series get cancelled. Again.
I could say "it only took three attempts for her to actually write her Betsy Braddock story" but the truth is all three attempts were the same telling done three times and horribly rushed as a result of the repeated cancellations.
Making General Zod black was a hilarious decision, however. Not only did it mean the conflict was drawn along racial lines, but black Kryptonians should be weaker than others because the melanin, or Kryptonian equivalent, blocks sunlight.
Not that I ever expect modern comic writers/adaptors to pick up on this.
Absolutely nobody knew who the Guardians of the Galaxy were before that movie came out
Not just the name, but that specific team. The original GotG team from 1990 was Nikki, Vance, Charlie, Yondu, Martinex and Starhawk, of which only one name would immediately stand out to MCU viewers until the point gets made that Starhawk was Sly Stallone's character from the movies. Of the rest only Charlie and Martinex appeared in the MCU, both being raceswapped oddly enough, while Nikki's cameo was cut and Vance wouldn't have been allowed at the time due to being a mutant.
That said it's not the worst MCU adaptation of a group, that honour goes to the Eternals which is meant to be more than just 10 randoms slumming about Earth for all of human history.
It was 100 randoms slumming about Earth for a million years 👀
Also IIRC Pratt lost the weight for his role in Zero Dark Thirty originally, if just the went on to help him with quite a few other roles afterwards. Parks and Rec even called attention to it when he returned from his absence from the show.
Dude the human body is extremely fucking fragile despite the absurd resilience also present which leads to people drowning in one foot of water, let alone eight.
Water is never going to be the only factor in play here, conspiracy or otherwise, as it's extremely easy to slip on an unseen, submerged surface covered in random crap, actual crap, or vegetation that means even the slightest lean the wrong way sends your feet in ways preventing you from staying upright. At which point all you need is a concussion, something significantly easier to achieve in shallower water for obvious reasons, while unsupervised for the next/last 3 or so minutes of your life. Anything after those 3 minutes without air risks brain damage regardless of how well you might be resuscitated which is often a major motivatior for someone signing a DNR because they don't want to come back as an invalid.
Which is why murdering someone by drowning is so effective as it doesn't take much to achieve/force/fake and given the immediate surroundings the very water makes forensic work extremely difficult.
Don't forget the fire issue. ICE will either burn out or be put out by emergency services fairly quickly, or even just dragged off the road. EV fires burn longer, are harder to extinguish, and will even reignite making them next to impossible for emergency services to actually deal with other than keeping everyone else away.
And that's a per car issue meaning the incident frequency will only increase the more EVs are active.
First off, they badly combined the story of the second [find more alien tech] and third [Takashi ends up back on his homeworld] books. The first season roughly follows the first book with some changes in places for various reasons.
Second, because of how Sleeves work any character can change their body so Rick Flagg from Suicide Squad becomes Falcon from the MCU. This also means actors can play multiple characters when someone else uses the Sleeve which results in Mackie playing a sassy black lesbian at one point who is somehow more competent than who Takashi Kovacs is meant to be as a super soldier/spy Envoy.
Third, it's mostly a story about Kovacs love interest who really just wasn't anywhere near as prominent as the show makes her out to be, nor is she who the show makes her in regards to the Envoys.
Now while body changing does still fit within the lore of the story the choice of protagonist for the second season was shit because Mackie just isn't very good, regardless of anything else.
Ironically the best thing about the second season is Poe who isn't even meant to be in the story because it's originally Hendrix in the book but his estate didn't want him being used so changes were made, changes which were pretty much universally loved given the turnout of Poe.
Also the ending is dumb since it goes against one of the main points the Envoys stood for, but then because of how things turn out in the final battle someone probably wanted a happy ending to the show rather than how things were when the smoke cleared.
Ctrl-Alt-Delete did a comic about this in March.
Even if you don't watch most of season 5 you should watch the finale which was originally filmed at the end of season 4 because they didn't have know if they were getting a 5th season. The season 4 finale was then shot after the renewal was condirmed.
The last few scenes are very moving and the choice of music is perfect.
You can find classical music in the most random places at times. The first Battle Arena Toshinden had a lot of up beat tracks for the various levels fights would take place on which is understandable for a beat em up game.
However the hidden bonus boss level for Sho...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_CICilgy9l8
Toccata & Fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach.
This is the same line of thinking that happens from officials regarding other kinds of laws.
"There aren't enough people being arrested/sentenced for x/rape/murder/downloading a car, we need to pump up those rookie numbers!"
The simplest reason that these things aren't happening as often as claimed by some never occurs to them.