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Devidose 14 points ago +14 / -0

Read all the books by Frank. The later material by his son, Brian, and Kevin J Anderson are often considered to be little more than a cash grab and exploiting Frank's successes.

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Devidose 18 points ago +18 / -0

Legion starts good but goes woke several times such as when Syd starts spouting off about how "men are afraid of getting laughed at, women are afraid of getting murdered" to David. The guy is literally just trying to live his life away from all of the shit that has happened to him at this point and those who have caused it but continues to get harassed by people he thought were his friends who are now working with the very guy who has been abusing David and literally living off him like a parasite since he was born.

Season 2 only happens because future Syd is dumb enough to believe Farouk of all people and similarly the events that lead to season 3 only happen because Melanie is equally dumb enough to also listen to Farouk.

There is also Syd's history where she used her body swapping power to sleep with her mother's date/boyfriend and then acted like she was the victim afterwards, on top of not understanding why the date turned "her" around during sex in the shower 🙄.

Even better is the way the show en's as that all still happens because the whole time travel plan of the third season only changes David's early life and he didn't meet Sid until several decades had passed so all the shit Syd does will still happen in the new timeline.

Then you have girl boss Kerry, gay interogator Debussy, and whatever Ptonomy was meant to be because that character ends up getting dropped hard.

Apart from the rap battle in season 3 the few feel good moments of the show come from the catharsis of seeing David just cutting loose and turning various characters who have attempted to kill him into modern art, something we get to enjoy multiple times due to time travel being involved.

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Devidose 10 points ago +10 / -0

There is also the advantage animation has over live action where it can completely suspend reality as well as explore concepts that are otherwise difficult to do well.

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Devidose 15 points ago +16 / -1

I dislike 100% absolutes as they are far too easy to disprove, something I point out to Imp when he makes them although he evidently doesn't learn anything there since he keeps on doing it and will probably do so again in a couple of days when his 48 day ban expires 🙄

On topic, while there can be the rare 0.1% show that isn't trash I am these days mostly watching things which are 20 years old or more as the selection of non woke stuff is significant. Recently started watching the 90s X-Men cartoon from the start as I never actually watched it from start to finish back when I saw it originally on TV and I'm sure there are still episodes I missed. Also planning to watch X-Men Evolution after as I enjoyed that one even more than the 90s version if simply because the animation was a lot better.

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Devidose 12 points ago +14 / -2

Villeneuve doesn't understand Dune at all. He is a one note director.

I think a lot of audiences are simply praising this because they are told to. "It's the Blade Runner 2049 director, clap peasants!" sort of thing. While BR2049 was OK, it was still yet another nostalgia piece heavily relying on the originals 80s movie. Hm, kind of the same deal with Dune 🙃

I wonder what his next big piece will be 🤔 Considering Blade Runner came out in 1982 and Dune in 1984 that means it will be something from 1986. That means one of Big Trouble in Little China ⚡, Flight of the Navigator 👽, Highlander 🗡️, Labyrinth 👨‍🎤, or Short Circuit 🤖

Wildcard option: Little Shop of Horrors 🥀

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Devidose 21 points ago +21 / -0

Nope, but then I haven't seen part 1, don't intend to, actually liked 2000 Dune and 2003 Children of Dune adaptations, and won't lose sleep over the strike continuing.

Why?

A lot of modern media is trash, the ones writing and producing said media are frequently paid too much for said trash - which they will use as a soapbox to air their own views on various topics instead of writing anything meaningful, and there is never any consequences for the writing of, or production of said trash while many far more popular titles get cancelled because of a lack of "message", instead actually attempting to tell a good story and not retell something for the third, fourth, fifth, or sixth time and harping on about casting decisions more.

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Devidose 18 points ago +18 / -0

Pacific Rim 2 had a lot of problems going for it, in particular the director/writer and producers.

The director/writer:

Pacific Rim Uprising is a 2018 American science fiction monster film directed by Steven S. DeKnight (in his feature-film directorial and writing debut)

The producers:

Mary Parent, Cale Boyter, Guillermo del Toro, John Boyega, Femi Oguns, Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni

Of those seven the last three were more to do with financing the film, del Toro's name speaks for itself, Mary Parent and Cale Boyter were also producers for the newest Dune adaptation, leaving John Boyega.

Easier to just quote an earlier post I made about this,

Problem is Finn also suffers from an insufferable woke actor. Boyega not only played the race card multiple times throughout the Disney Trilogy, including shouting down someone who tried to make a comparable statement, but he also proved he has zero fucking clue about other projects when he's working on them. His role in Pacific Rim 2 also included helping with the writing and yet he specifically called for the PR2 main Jaeger to have swords on both arms because [paraphrasing] "in a sequel you should have more". Gypsy Danger already had swords in both arms. You see it deploy both in the last fight because one of them gets immediately torn off with most of the arm by one of the Kaiju. The same Kaiju that is then bifurcated by the other sword arm moments later.

Guy had zero awareness.

One of the worst things about Pacific Rim is that it may be the closest we get to a live action Neon Genesis Evangelion and as it managed to kill itself with Uprising even that hasn't gone very well.

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Devidose 5 points ago +5 / -0

Was that Red Dwarf? I thought that came up in the pirate show Craig did years afterwards where he tries to hook up with a mermaid in one episode? 🤔

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Devidose 8 points ago +8 / -0

So what do all the overseas interference programs count as where and when the CIA *actually did that *and removed existing governments? 🤔

Wait, I think I know the answer. It was (D)ifferent.

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Devidose 6 points ago +6 / -0

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.

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Devidose 9 points ago +9 / -0

Giga!

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Devidose 7 points ago +7 / -0

Redline

Soundtrack alone is worth listening to:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=doEwWzMz99A

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Devidose 5 points ago +5 / -0

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.

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Devidose 9 points ago +9 / -0

I'd rather Patlabor, and others, remain unknown lest they get the "live action adaptation" treatment.

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Devidose 9 points ago +9 / -0

Luckily for all of us there are places where we can read comics online and not have to piss away money for woke trash as it melts though various series.

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Devidose 6 points ago +6 / -0

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.

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Devidose 6 points ago +6 / -0

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.

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Devidose 5 points ago +5 / -0

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.

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Devidose 5 points ago +5 / -0

No one who isn't a DC Fan (capital F) knows who tf blue beetle even is

Ted Kord, right? 👀

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Devidose 5 points ago +5 / -0

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.

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Devidose 22 points ago +22 / -0

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.

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