scans_daily: X-Club Preview

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@ 2011-12-07 08:51 pm UTC

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char: dr. nemesis/james bradley, creator: paul davidson, creator: simon spurrier, genre: previews, title: x-club

X-Club Preview

Not sure about this one (Dr Nemesis is not as innately appealling to me as I know he is to others), but....

Newsarama has a preview

Some people you really shouldn't allow to take questions at a PR bash...

Reminds me a little of this other notable scientist who has certain issues with public speaking.

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	no subject big_daddy_d 2011-12-08 01:20 am UTC (link)
	PR RPM...greatest ranger series..ever. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 14 comments) (Show 14 comments)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-12-08 01:35 am UTC (link)
	No argument there! :) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 13 comments) (Show 13 comments)

	no subject slim-summer.livejournal.com 2011-12-08 03:55 am UTC (link)
	We interupt this thread to bring you an important announcement: Sorry but Mighty Morphing Power Rangers trumps all, accept no substitutes. That is all, we now return to your regularly scheduled thread. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 12 comments) (Show 12 comments)

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icon_uk
2011-12-08 08:11 am UTC (link)

It deserves respect for starting the franchise, and in it's favour Rita was fun, Jason/Red was prime beefcake, and Billy/Blue was all but the definition of adorkable, but Zordon was a DULL mentor and it also inflicted Tommy on the world (never warmed to him, so him become the focus never appealled) and lacked the wit and bravado that RPM had.

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	no subject greenmask 2011-12-08 05:17 pm UTC (link)
	"also inflicted Tommy on the world" How dare you (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 10 comments) (Show 10 comments)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-12-08 05:22 pm UTC (link)
	What? Tommy the horse-faced Ranger? I regret NOTHING! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 9 comments) (Show 9 comments)

	no subject greenmask 2011-12-08 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	YOU HAVE MADE AN ENEMY THIS DAY He was my first long-haired bad boy! For a time! :'O (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 8 comments) (Show 8 comments)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-12-08 08:02 pm UTC (link)
	Forgive me, but it amuses me greatly that Tommy from Power Rangers was ever viewed by anyone as a "bad boy"! ;) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 7 comments) (Show 7 comments)

	no subject greenmask 2011-12-08 08:05 pm UTC (link)
	He was literally evil! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 6 comments) (Show 6 comments)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-12-08 08:16 pm UTC (link)
	Fair point (Though I always assumed that when Rita took control of him there was PLENTY of spare room in his brain to add in evil!) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 5 comments) (Show 5 comments)

	no subject greenmask 2011-12-08 08:19 pm UTC (link)
	Ur meeen. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

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icon_uk
2011-12-08 08:59 pm UTC (link)

I should qualify that though, by noting that somehow vaguely average student Tommy, who aspired to a career racing cars (or somesuch) later showed up having achieved a doctorate in palaeontology in remarkably short order. (One might be tempted to think that he'd borrow some sort of brain cramming device from Billy (who is probably now running the worlds most powerful technological conglomerate))

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greenmask
2011-12-08 11:05 pm UTC (link)

I must admit that that is a puzzler.

I try not to think too hard about DinoThunder, though - it enrages me too much that they wrote a red ranger to be THAT boneheadedly sexist (maybe he was cured later, I dunno), AND it housed the Worst Episode Ever Made, aka "Lost and Found in Translation".

No forgiveness, ever.

Never.

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	no subject icon_uk 2011-12-08 11:13 pm UTC (link)
	It's a shame, because a story about Power Rangers watching their own Sentai show should have been hilarious! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject greenmask 2011-12-08 11:18 pm UTC (link)
	AND YET. Complete ballsup. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject rainspirit 2011-12-08 09:35 am UTC (link)
	Holy shit, what is that? Power Ranger videos I find funny and NOT kitschy?! What the hell did I just watch?!?! (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

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icon_uk
2011-12-08 10:23 am UTC (link)

That is Power Rangers RPM, the glorious result of Disney intending to drop the license and really not giving a flying crap about it any more, so leaving the Production team to make probably the best thought out series in years. It's actually a very dark series; set AFTER the fall of mankind to the enemy (aside from the domed city of Corinth) and the annihilation of most of the population by a self aware computer virus.

Aided by some serious eye-candy (only Ninja Storm and SPD come close IMHO) and some surprisingly good performances, particularly Dr K who is this wonderful character, completely socially maladjusted, but trying hard, though on her own terms.

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	no subject silverzeo 2011-12-08 06:27 pm UTC (link)
	And than Saban got the ball again with Nick, giving us a throw back to Mighty Morphin, and though the crossover with RPM, with just the Red Ranger appearing WITHOUT his teammates while never unmorphing... it was better than nothing. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

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icon_uk
2011-12-08 08:04 pm UTC (link)

The MMPR revamp was painful to watch, assuming that kids attention spans had something like quartered in the time since the first screening.

Samurai leaves me cold I have to say.

It's very uncertain whether Eka Darville was actually involved in the team-up, since the voice actor listed for the Ranger Operator: Series Red (I always loved that name for the RPM Rangers) was not Eka's, though he might have been using a pseudonym for union reasons.

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	no subject eyz 2011-12-08 01:35 pm UTC (link)
	So...this will by X-club? a'right... (Reply to this)

	no subject remial 2011-12-08 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	Ziggy and Dr. K otp! (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-12-08 05:05 pm UTC (link)
	Though Ziggy and Dillon were a cute couple too! :) (And not forgetting the infamous Dillon/Scott handholding scene which the actors sneaked in) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-12-08 08:15 pm UTC (link)
	What's not to love Plus she make the Danger Room look like a stroll in the park And no one plays "Caprice No. 24 in A Minor" by Paganini like she can (Plus it genuinely is one of the hardest pieces of music ever composed for the solo violin) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject silverzeo 2011-12-08 05:23 pm UTC (link)
	RPM was SO much fun... (Reply to this)

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