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Oct. 15th, 2019
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icon_ukIn 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.
Leaving aside the global trashfire which seems to be world politics at the moment (I don't even need to mention a specific country, because there are so many to choose from, though Antarctica is looking more and more appealling as a place to live), let's focus on some positives.
This years Booker Prize winner was announced and, in direct violation of the usual rules, it was a split award, as the panel of judges were adamant they wanted both books to win. At 79, Margaret Atwood who won for "The Testaments", the sequel to "The Handmaid's Tale" is the oldest winner ever, and Bernardine Evaristo, who won for "Girl, Woman, Other" is the first ever woman of colour to win.
This years Nobel Prize in Economics has been announced, with Esther Duflo being only the second woman ever to be awarded it, along with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer who were also recognised for their research into understanding and alleviating global poverty.
Being a little unwell lately, I was able to catch up on a couple of films I never got around to watching;
Shazam! - A lot of fun, though I'm never sure I like Captain Marvel as "Naive kid in adult's body" so much as "Kid's naive idea of what an adult hero should be". The kid playing Freddy was also excellent, and realising who was playing his adult self made soooo much sense! :)
Captain Marvel - A thoroughly enjouyable and competent space opera.
After "Teen Titans Go! To The Movies" was a lot better than it had any right to be, I shouldn't be surprised that "Teen Titans Go vs Teen Titans" was actually very, very good, somehow managing to feature character development for TTG Raven and having some fun with a sort of "Into the Spider-Verse" approach that I won't spoil further.
I've also been trawling through some animation on Netflix and Crunchyroll;
"given" I've mentioned in the past, but also "Black Clover" (If the protagonist can get over his YELLING EVERYTHING OUT LOUD ALL THE TIME BECAUSE HE'S THAT EMOTIONAL! I might enjoy it more, but I suspect that won't be happening. Still it's entertaining enough in a "This feels like it's being set up to be a fantasy Turn based RPG video game" sort of a way),
Netflix has "Ultramarine Magmell" (Improbably young professional guardian/troubleshooter for a new continent that appeared overnight in the Pacific takes on missions to rescue lost explorer's and the like whilst random strange monsters wander around. Not bad so far, though the hero has a rather overconvenient superpower which has yet to explained properly)
Titan's introduced Superboy in theit most recent episode, making him an engaging, if somewhat literal and naive powerhouse.
Season 2 of Disenchanted I keep starting and then stopping, and forgetting about, and then trying again. I still can't quite put my finger on why this doesn't engage me the way I want it to. The cast is excellent, the background gags are great, but perhaps it's that none of the cast seem to want to DO anything, they live in the world they live in and for the most part they're fairly lackadazical and content to just let things happen around them, with occasional plot driven side quests, and that doesn't seem to be enough for something on this scale.
Miraculous Ladybug had another couple of episode arrive, well out of sequence of course. One "Kwami Buster" introduces new heroine Multimouse, whose transformation is probably the most Sailor Moon-esque so far. Also some interesting abilities and an INCREDIBLY convoluted plan to preserve her secret identity. The seocnd episode "Love Eater" is part one of the season finale, and the producers suggest not watching it until the two intervening episodes "Chat Blanc" and "Felix" have aired as plot points raised there are addressed in Love Eater. Of course, we have no idea when either of those episodes will appear, but I'll do my best to not watch it until then.
More photos have emerged regarding the Crisis on Infinite Earths, with the first photos of Burt Ward (Now aged 74) on set wearing civilian garb based on his old costume colours, and also the cover of an old Free Comic Book Day comic featuring Burt Ward, which now I think about it might be worth posting as an homage!.
Also Pariah has been seen in costume (If you want to be surprised about who's playing him don't click on this link
Apologies for this being a bit more media heavy than usual, but when I'm stuck indoors feeling slightly sorry for myself, I try not to watch the news, but I do tend to watch a LOT of TV! :)
That being said, if you have three HOURS to kill, Disney has posted a list of evrything that's going to be on the Disney+ Streaming service the day it goes live.
Leaving aside the global trashfire which seems to be world politics at the moment (I don't even need to mention a specific country, because there are so many to choose from, though Antarctica is looking more and more appealling as a place to live), let's focus on some positives.
This years Booker Prize winner was announced and, in direct violation of the usual rules, it was a split award, as the panel of judges were adamant they wanted both books to win. At 79, Margaret Atwood who won for "The Testaments", the sequel to "The Handmaid's Tale" is the oldest winner ever, and Bernardine Evaristo, who won for "Girl, Woman, Other" is the first ever woman of colour to win.
This years Nobel Prize in Economics has been announced, with Esther Duflo being only the second woman ever to be awarded it, along with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer who were also recognised for their research into understanding and alleviating global poverty.
Being a little unwell lately, I was able to catch up on a couple of films I never got around to watching;
Shazam! - A lot of fun, though I'm never sure I like Captain Marvel as "Naive kid in adult's body" so much as "Kid's naive idea of what an adult hero should be". The kid playing Freddy was also excellent, and realising who was playing his adult self made soooo much sense! :)
Captain Marvel - A thoroughly enjouyable and competent space opera.
After "Teen Titans Go! To The Movies" was a lot better than it had any right to be, I shouldn't be surprised that "Teen Titans Go vs Teen Titans" was actually very, very good, somehow managing to feature character development for TTG Raven and having some fun with a sort of "Into the Spider-Verse" approach that I won't spoil further.
I've also been trawling through some animation on Netflix and Crunchyroll;
"given" I've mentioned in the past, but also "Black Clover" (If the protagonist can get over his YELLING EVERYTHING OUT LOUD ALL THE TIME BECAUSE HE'S THAT EMOTIONAL! I might enjoy it more, but I suspect that won't be happening. Still it's entertaining enough in a "This feels like it's being set up to be a fantasy Turn based RPG video game" sort of a way),
Netflix has "Ultramarine Magmell" (Improbably young professional guardian/troubleshooter for a new continent that appeared overnight in the Pacific takes on missions to rescue lost explorer's and the like whilst random strange monsters wander around. Not bad so far, though the hero has a rather overconvenient superpower which has yet to explained properly)
Titan's introduced Superboy in theit most recent episode, making him an engaging, if somewhat literal and naive powerhouse.
Season 2 of Disenchanted I keep starting and then stopping, and forgetting about, and then trying again. I still can't quite put my finger on why this doesn't engage me the way I want it to. The cast is excellent, the background gags are great, but perhaps it's that none of the cast seem to want to DO anything, they live in the world they live in and for the most part they're fairly lackadazical and content to just let things happen around them, with occasional plot driven side quests, and that doesn't seem to be enough for something on this scale.
Miraculous Ladybug had another couple of episode arrive, well out of sequence of course. One "Kwami Buster" introduces new heroine Multimouse, whose transformation is probably the most Sailor Moon-esque so far. Also some interesting abilities and an INCREDIBLY convoluted plan to preserve her secret identity. The seocnd episode "Love Eater" is part one of the season finale, and the producers suggest not watching it until the two intervening episodes "Chat Blanc" and "Felix" have aired as plot points raised there are addressed in Love Eater. Of course, we have no idea when either of those episodes will appear, but I'll do my best to not watch it until then.
More photos have emerged regarding the Crisis on Infinite Earths, with the first photos of Burt Ward (Now aged 74) on set wearing civilian garb based on his old costume colours, and also the cover of an old Free Comic Book Day comic featuring Burt Ward, which now I think about it might be worth posting as an homage!.
Also Pariah has been seen in costume (If you want to be surprised about who's playing him don't click on this link
Apologies for this being a bit more media heavy than usual, but when I'm stuck indoors feeling slightly sorry for myself, I try not to watch the news, but I do tend to watch a LOT of TV! :)
That being said, if you have three HOURS to kill, Disney has posted a list of evrything that's going to be on the Disney+ Streaming service the day it goes live.