Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

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In the comments to these weekly posts (and only these posts), it's your chance to go as off topic as you like.

Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

The intent of these posts is to chat and have some fun and, sure, vent a little as required. Reasoned debate is fine, as always, but if you have to ask if something is going over the line, think carefully before posting please.

Normal board rules about conduct and behaviour still apply, of course.

It's been suggested that, if discussing spoilers for recent media events, it might be advisable to consider using the rot13 method to prevent other members seeing spoilers in passing.

The world situation is the world situation. If you're following the news, you know it as much as I do, if you're not, then there are better sources than me.

In the UK, the furore over the Governments latest migrant policy was somewhat (and some cynical souls might think conveniently) derailed by a lot of people being stirred up over Gary Linneker, a noted sports commentator's comments about how bad he throught the scheme was and how the language used was reminscent of Germany in the 1930's. Now he does work for the BBC (and their highest paid star I believe) and they are supposed to be politically neutral, but the rules they have about that aren't usually applied to those who aren't already political commentators or new journalists, and he was neither, plus he was posting on his own Twitter account, not a BBC one. His suspension on Saturday led to pretty much the rest of the BBC's sports presenters walking out in sympathy, and he was reinstated this morning.

Since it's 3-14, that makes it Pi Day in America! (If April had 31 days, the rest of the world could enjoy a Pi Day too.)

The Oscars were a lot more entertaining than last year, with Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio winning best Aimated Feature, Brendan Frasier winning Best Actor and teveryone involved in "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once" basically taking home everything else. It was delightful to see Michelle Yeoh win Best Actress, Jamie Lee Curtis get Best Supporting Actress and Ke Huy Quan get best Supporting Actor (Honestly, if joy was a power source, you could have lit up a small city for a month off those three alone).

I'm thoroughly enjoying Picard Season 3, even if it is a bit more "Let's wallow in some nostalgia rather than try something new" that previous seasons, becasue I think they've earned it a little of that. And extra marks for Todd Kershaws performance as Captain Shaw who, whilst an absolute asshole throughout, managed to describe his experiences in a certain major even in Star Trek history with a raw horror and power that really sold the moment.

The live action version of The Little Mermaid has a proper trailer, with the first glimpse of Melissa McCarthy as Ursula and Javier Bardem as Triton.

There's also a new clip released from the Dungeons and Dragons movie... spot the surprise appearances! :D

Comments

[zachbeacon]

I mean technically Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy is on the Switch but I assume you mean the two before that. 3DS prices aren’t as bad as DS prices (really wish I’d bought Dragon Quest V a decade ago when it was $50 used but I thought it was too much at the time) but they’re heading that way.


I don’t owe a lot either but I usually do owe a bit in state (well, mostly county) and its generally more than offset by the federal refund. This year the federal refund isn’t exactly a windfall; it’s more a small trip to the grocery store. I’m wondering if part of it might be that I had two W-2s because my former employer got absorbed by their parent company.


Entertainment “Journalism” being what it is, I have to take everything with a grain of salt but it sounds like some of the actors were never asked. That’s a shame because I really liked both actors and obviously the Netflix people liked Deborah Ann Woll enough to shoehorn her into Punisher.

Actually, it’s the “Punisher” (and Jessica Jones) of it all that puzzles me.

The Punisher arc in Daredevil is about Frank killing the people responsible for ruining his life. Then the first season of Punisher is about Frank killing the people REALLY responsible for ruining his life. Then season two was about protecting a kid or something; its been ages since I watched it but my point is it wasn’t that interesting and half of it was retreading his DD story.

The first season of Jessica Jones was among Marvel’s best shows (Netflix or otherwise) but the second and third give me the sense that they didn’t really have a plan and felt obligated to make them based on the success of the first.

I really hope there’s a plan for those two beyond “hey, here’s a character people like”.

Meanwhile I feel like there are still stories to tell with the Netflix versions* of Foggy and Karen alongside DD.

*Or however close an approximation the MCU versions would be.