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Mod Post! Off-Topic Tuesday
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 amongst yourselves.
The National Museum in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil has suffered terrible damage in a fire at the weekend, with 90% of the cultural, historical and scientific collections being estimated to have been destroyed. The most likely casues are estimated to be an electrical fault, or possibly a home made hot air balloon landing on the roof.
The British National Health Service is launching a site which contains a test to tell you the effective age of your heart, based on a series of lifestyle questions and gives you an idea of how at risk you might be to heart disease or stroke. (I'm happy to report my heart is the same age as the rest of me... a bit younger might have been nicer, but such is life).
Boris Johnson, whose careers in journalism and politics are depriving a village somewhere of a perfectly good Idiot, has started flapping his gob about how awful Theresa May's Brexit plans are, without, of course, offering anything as an alternative because that would require him to take responsibility for something. He's right about the Brexit plans being disastrous mind you, but in a position like his it would be incumbent to actually put forward an idea or two of his own.
As the post Labor Day run up to the November elections kicks into gear, Trump as been.. welll... Trumpish as all get out. And his Supreme Court nomination has a week of confirmation hearings this week.
Colin Kaepernick is to be the face of a major ad campaign for Nike, with the tagline "Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything."
Nepal is launching an investigation into a creative, if ethically bankrupt and potentially lethally dangerous scam involving unscrupluous travel organisers who arrange for those wanting to climb in the Himalayas to ascend far too fast to trigger altitude sickness so they need to be ferried back down by helicopter/
The "Avatar: The Last Airbender" universe is expanding into a series of novels featuring Kyoshi, an Avatar of the past, one who would likely have identified as bisexual and who lived to be over 230... so there's a lot of room to tell stories about her.
In what I can only describe as one of the most perfectly, gloriously diva-ish things I've ever heard, when the late Aretha Franklin had three days of public viewing prior to her funeral, and per her own wishes on the matter, she was dressed in a different outfit each day and was buried in a fourth. Now THAT is how you do it!
Sci-Fi fans mourn the loss of Jacqueline Pearce at 74, best known as Servalan on "Blakes Seven" where she protrayed a villain defined by ruthlessness, cunning, brilliance, political awareness and being as stylish as hell, in a variety of exquisitely over-the-top outfits, whilst at the same time seeming slightly fragile and damaged underneath it all (and her ongoing, complicated relationship with equally damaged, amoral freedom fighter Avon was a series highlight).
The tributes have spoken volumes about how she was regarded, with Russell T Davies, who worked with her on his first ever TV show "Dark Season" describing her as "glorious, vivid, passionate, filthy and the most wonderful company. And underneath the style and the laughter, a truly fine actor.”
I caught up on some movies over the weekend;
Pacific Rim: Uprising... didn't impress me nearly as much as the first. John Boyega was his usual magnetic self, props to Cailey Spaeny for holding her own in her first movie and the rest of the cast were.. there, mostly. My biggest problem (a couple of plot points to one side) was that they made the Jaegers too speedy. They're how Transformers or EVA's should move perhaps, but Jaeger's were big heavy, realtively clumsy things and that was the appeal to me. I can see why fans of at least two of the original cast were disappointed at how they were treated in the sequel.
Ready Player One - Big, loud, glossy, packed with pop culture easter eggs of course, and about as formulaic as it was possible for a movie to be.
Love, Simon - Also formulaic, but a lot more charming and fun. I'm old enough to still be pleasantly suprised to see a gay coming of age movie where the very fact of being gay is almost mundane, and does not require self-loathing or oodles of unresolved angst.
And in closing, a Kuwaiti fismongers has had to close after it was discovered staff were sticking goggly-eyes on the fish they was selling so they'd look fresher.
The National Museum in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil has suffered terrible damage in a fire at the weekend, with 90% of the cultural, historical and scientific collections being estimated to have been destroyed. The most likely casues are estimated to be an electrical fault, or possibly a home made hot air balloon landing on the roof.
The British National Health Service is launching a site which contains a test to tell you the effective age of your heart, based on a series of lifestyle questions and gives you an idea of how at risk you might be to heart disease or stroke. (I'm happy to report my heart is the same age as the rest of me... a bit younger might have been nicer, but such is life).
Boris Johnson, whose careers in journalism and politics are depriving a village somewhere of a perfectly good Idiot, has started flapping his gob about how awful Theresa May's Brexit plans are, without, of course, offering anything as an alternative because that would require him to take responsibility for something. He's right about the Brexit plans being disastrous mind you, but in a position like his it would be incumbent to actually put forward an idea or two of his own.
As the post Labor Day run up to the November elections kicks into gear, Trump as been.. welll... Trumpish as all get out. And his Supreme Court nomination has a week of confirmation hearings this week.
Colin Kaepernick is to be the face of a major ad campaign for Nike, with the tagline "Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything."
Nepal is launching an investigation into a creative, if ethically bankrupt and potentially lethally dangerous scam involving unscrupluous travel organisers who arrange for those wanting to climb in the Himalayas to ascend far too fast to trigger altitude sickness so they need to be ferried back down by helicopter/
The "Avatar: The Last Airbender" universe is expanding into a series of novels featuring Kyoshi, an Avatar of the past, one who would likely have identified as bisexual and who lived to be over 230... so there's a lot of room to tell stories about her.
In what I can only describe as one of the most perfectly, gloriously diva-ish things I've ever heard, when the late Aretha Franklin had three days of public viewing prior to her funeral, and per her own wishes on the matter, she was dressed in a different outfit each day and was buried in a fourth. Now THAT is how you do it!
Sci-Fi fans mourn the loss of Jacqueline Pearce at 74, best known as Servalan on "Blakes Seven" where she protrayed a villain defined by ruthlessness, cunning, brilliance, political awareness and being as stylish as hell, in a variety of exquisitely over-the-top outfits, whilst at the same time seeming slightly fragile and damaged underneath it all (and her ongoing, complicated relationship with equally damaged, amoral freedom fighter Avon was a series highlight).
The tributes have spoken volumes about how she was regarded, with Russell T Davies, who worked with her on his first ever TV show "Dark Season" describing her as "glorious, vivid, passionate, filthy and the most wonderful company. And underneath the style and the laughter, a truly fine actor.”
I caught up on some movies over the weekend;
Pacific Rim: Uprising... didn't impress me nearly as much as the first. John Boyega was his usual magnetic self, props to Cailey Spaeny for holding her own in her first movie and the rest of the cast were.. there, mostly. My biggest problem (a couple of plot points to one side) was that they made the Jaegers too speedy. They're how Transformers or EVA's should move perhaps, but Jaeger's were big heavy, realtively clumsy things and that was the appeal to me. I can see why fans of at least two of the original cast were disappointed at how they were treated in the sequel.
Ready Player One - Big, loud, glossy, packed with pop culture easter eggs of course, and about as formulaic as it was possible for a movie to be.
Love, Simon - Also formulaic, but a lot more charming and fun. I'm old enough to still be pleasantly suprised to see a gay coming of age movie where the very fact of being gay is almost mundane, and does not require self-loathing or oodles of unresolved angst.
And in closing, a Kuwaiti fismongers has had to close after it was discovered staff were sticking goggly-eyes on the fish they was selling so they'd look fresher.
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Come along with meeee, and the butterflies and beeees~
Adventure Time is ending, with their final block of episodes viewable online. Amidst the show's ups, downs and that weird, nihilistic Nietzche-ian phase, the show was almost always a joy to watch and that'll be a shame to see that go.
How was Power Ranger's Dimensions in Danger? I haven't been keeping up with Ninja Steel since I like to wait until the whole season's up on Netflix. Is the show any good? Speaking of which, the 2017 movie might be getting a continuation, so yay!
Japan has been plagued with horrendous weather recently, now including a highly damaging and destructive typhoon.
Re: Come along with meeee, and the butterflies and beeees~
The other Rangers came out of nowhere, talked about Lord Draven, the special villain as if he was someone they were all familar with, and didn't really explain who any of the guest stars were.
So on the one hand it was nice that it established that the older Ranger teams (including those from other timeline/dimensions like Dino Charge and RPM) had careers beyond what we saw, and where they'd met Lord draven, on the other hand since most the others were never properly introduced (and with ten of them, that's a LOT to not introduce), in some cases (due to age in some cases, it was hard to know who they had been
So whislt Kat as Turbo Pink was instantly recognisable if you knew who she was, Trent as Dino Thunder White was more or less "Who?"
Also a little Tommy-heavy for my tastes, which is sort of understandable but not something that interested me much, though confirming that he can morph int his old forms (Green Ranger, White Ranger, Zeo Red and Black Dino Thunder) as he chooses.
And the group morph was positively embarassing, a puff of smoke and no role call? Really?
Yeah, this should have been a double length episode IMHO.
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It is a shame that Drayven got no build up or mention prior to this episode. I suspect we should have seen certain Rangers making ten second cameos at the end of previous episodes as they are approached by Tommy and then abducted.
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So, in keeping with the similar episodes from Super Sentai, then. >_>
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Re: Come along with meeee, and the butterflies and beeees~
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I'm glad the film flopped after what they did to Rinko, killing her off for Boyega's manpain.
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In this context it means how killing off Rinko's character early on was for the purpose of giving Boyega's character angst and serve as a motivation for him to fight the aliens.
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When a female character is introduced in order to be killed or brutalised so as to provide motivation for the male hero to take decisive action.
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Manpain though, refers to a specific thing that needs to be singled out so you can easily point it out as a problem to others and identify why it is a problem.
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1: It's cast doubt as to how much Crunchyroll is using its money to help the anime industry, which leads to debates over watching anime free from pirated websites.
2: The "trailer" has almost no information or even animated segments of the show, instead focusing solely on the production, specifically praising itself for its diversity.
3: Speaking of which, it's been heavily debated as to how sincere they really are when it comes to diversity, as almost immediately afterwards they proudly proclaim that their writing staff is composed entirely of women (the writers also seem to be all white, by the way).
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OOOOOH! I finally know the cotnext for that image I saw once...
Okay, since I can't find the trailer on youtube among all the videos aout "FEMINISM RUINS EVERYTHING!" and "what we know of High Guardian Spice", I will admit that I am inclined to give the series the benefit of the doubt since the former are also the kind of people I find to be jerks.
Anyways. I think it is only natural that Crunchyroll would tip it's fingers into original material. I mean, even Netflix, the king of streaming services, eventually began making their own stuff on top of everything else. to make your own shows is expensive, but more effective in the long-run, because then you don't have to worry about streaming licenses.
Crunchyroll had the advantage because there is not a lot of places for you to legally watch anime, but that is slowly not being the case. Hell, Netflix is collaborating with Toei to make a remake of Saint Seiya who, in many countries outside the US, is considered THE anime series alongside DBZ.
Those who thought Crunchyroll would never get to have their own original stuff were fooling themselves.
Personally, I can see were the concerns comes with High Guardian Spice, since the art looks like... well, this sounds weird, but it looks like a webcomic. a high-quality webcomic mind you.
On the other hand, while I can see the concern in that it doesn't look too "anime" (like, say... voltron), most series with an animesque look (that aren't ATLA) are often mocked for trying to hard to be anime.
Then again, only a couple of years ago a certian corner of the internet (*coughcough*Tumblr*coughcough*) was tearing apart shows because they felt they looked too similar to one another (the argument was that animated shows were becoming homogenized. this was not the case).
Now as for them focusing more on how diverse they are and how diverse the show is and how diverse their diversity is... well duh, most studios marketing have begun using diversity as a selling point, Crunchyroll is not doing any different than any other studio.
what is happening is that Crunchyroll is trying to compete with She-Ra, which has been criticized by the same people for similar reasons. And because they wanted to compete with the show, they rushed to release information.
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Personally it doesn't look like my sort of thing, but I wish them well with it. It's just a shame there are so many professional victims who are probably already screeching about it, without any intent of ever watching it, and without even knowing its quality. Creators really have a tough time in the online sphere.
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Ranger Yellow is one of my favorite power rangers episodes ever. I feel like they blew their entire fight choreography on that two parter. Dr K (the episode name) was also very good.
Dr K (the character) was great as well, of course, and it was a great choice for them to find every chance to pair the two together in scenes (even if my preferred ships were Dillon/Ziggy and Summer/Dr K)
I’ve also started watching Samurai. Four episodes in and it’s managed to meet my low, low expectations. It’s super-flawed, but those flaws are comforting, if you know what I mean? The flaws kinda define Power Rangers for me. I’m hoping it doesn’t get much worse, but my expectations remain low
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I also love little details like the piece of music Dr K's plaing on her violin/computer interface is Paganini's Caprice no.24, generally reckoned to be THE absolute hardest violin piece to play.
Samurai is just so... SO bad. The acting is dire (with a slight not to Green and Gold for trying to raise the bar with some emotion), a mentor who is just boring, a main villain who needs to keeping drinking "medicine" (because his Japanese counterpart was knocking back sake like there was no tomorrow) and a vastly over-long and subplot about secondary villains Dayu and Deker which may leave you longing for a swift merciful death.
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I do think they should have cast green as red and vice versa. Jayden isn’t pretty enough to be a red ranger.
And Bulk and Spike: no. Just no.
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The thing is Red had to be quite serious, so I don't think Green would have worked there. They just needed someone who could, well, "emote" and gradually come out of his shell of honour and duty as he realised the importance of his team. I think the chap who played him, and the chap who plays Troy in Megaforce were both models turned actors and it really does show
I might also have liked more than one of the descendents of Japan's finest Samurai to actually be Japanese
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I understand they don't have any original footage with the actors just yet, but it is just bad.
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*smashes through wall*
I MUST HAVE THIS.
... though, in all sarcasm, I would like to see them explain why she never bothered stopping Chin the Conqueror.
(I doubt there's much market appeal for "Avatar Kyoshi sits around filling in her tax reports while a despot takes over the continent", but...)
Love Kyoshi (easily top four Avatars) but... you can see why the Kyoshi Island museum leaves that part off the tour.
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Over at my blog, I review a Ben 10 tie-in: http://www.skjam.com/2018/08/29/comic-book-review-ben-10-deep-trouble/
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And since school has started, I should be getting called in for more substitute teaching. They already called me in for two days during the first week, hopefully more will come along. Especially once I finish the paperwork & orientation so I can sub in for the county public schools (I currently just sub in for one charter school).
Also, after about five years of not having any tabletop gaming, I'm now in three different D&D campaigns with some local folks! And I'm running one of them!!!
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Regarding Drumpf 's tweets: