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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 amongst yourselves.

POTUS 45, twice the ego and half the IQ of regular Presidents, has dismissed Bob Woodwards book on his time in office (so far) and promised to write his own... I assume it'll come with a little box of crayons to colour in the pictures, though based on past experience, even that may be tricky.

Chaos reigned more than usual as an anonymous Senior Administration source within the White House wrote an Op-Ed piece for the New York Times about how they are subverting him and trying to prevent him doing too much damage. Whether this is a noble act of rebellion, or dangerous precedent of usurping elected authority is still being discussed, and I suspect will be for years to come.

The UK has had to deal with Boris Johnson being Boris Johnson, normally a fate I wouldn't wish on anyone, but I think he's earned it. His wife has kicked him out, his ill-considered, and tastelessly phrased (to say the least), diatribes have been vilified by even the Right Wing media, except The Sun, and his constituency may cease to exist in boundary changes are agreed (And no one will convince me that Theresa May didn't enjoy a brief, if wintery, snmile at the idea of that AND former Brexit Secretary David Davis's constituency suffering the same fate)

Controversy surrounds the actions and reactions of Serena Williams and an umpire at the US Open final

The Indian Supreme Court has struck down an old Colonial-era statute banning same sex relationships and banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.

A new teaser for Doctor who, confirming the launch date of Season 11 as October 7th has aired. Maybe a LITTLE heavy handed as far as metaphors go, but I'll give them one, and the "Whoops!" sells it in a very Doctor-y fashion. Also interesting to note that it's now been moved to a Sunday, which is the BBC's "Prestige Drama" evening, so they are serious about this. Also, this is likely to allow an earlier, more family oriented timeslot. TV landscapes having changed since 2005, Saturday night has been overtaken by the likes of Strictly Come Dacing, which is a couple of hours long, and meant that Doctor Who was pushed to a later and later timeslot, allowing more mature stories perhaps, but doing no favours to the family viewership that it had once had.

At long last, Carapace has debuted in Miraculous Ladybug, in the new Ananasi episode!

The next Kingdom Hearts game will include a big Hero 6 world

Finished Disenchantment and remain... somewhat unengaged. I appreciate the world building but this should not have been ten episodes long, given anything approaching an actual story arc didn't kick in until episode seven or so.

Also finshed "Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas" anime, and do understand why it being cancelled mid arc like that still rankles.

A teaser for Netflix' She-Ra and the Princesses of Power has aired. giving us a first look at the animation style in motion (same animation studio as Voltron I believe)

And speaking of Netflix, their new series; "The Dragon Prince", from the creators of "Avatar: The Last Airbender" debuts this Friday.

And "Happy New Year!" to those celebrating Rosh Hashanah.

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From:

the_phantom

So yesterday Chuka Umunna (Labour MP for Streatham & former Shadow Business Secretary)
gave an interview with Sky News saying that he's own party "Has become an institutionally racist organisation"
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/09/chuka-umunna-labour-is-institutionally-racist

This coming just days after a Iranian TV station (that is banned in UK) was "Somehow" able to live-tweet a local party meeting (Which shouldn't be open to the press at all) passing a vote of no confidence in the Enfield North MP, Joan Ryan(Labour MP since 1997).
Beliving she was targeted her because of her support for Israel and for being critical of the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn over his stance on antisemitism within the Party.
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/07/banned-iranian-tv-station-gains-access-local-labour-party-vote

From:

icon_uk

I hadn't seen Chuka Umunna's comments, and wasn't even sure where to begin on the Labour Anti-Semitism affair, so my thanks for mentioning them.

From:

scorntx

Spent Friday watching Iron Fist season 2.
The shorter length is definitely something in its favour, and Danny himself is more tolerable (not as tolerable as he was when he popped up in Luke Cage, mind), with less Dangst.
Though the last episode brings one or two little irritants.
Mostly that the show has a thing for "here's a cool idea. But we don't have the budget for it, so we'll just tell you about it. That's the same as seeing it, right?"

From:

mrwalker

I think I missed what you're referring to there, but between binging Iron Fist, and playing LOTS of Destiny, I probably wasn't that sharp by the time I reached the end of Iron Fist. I loved the ending, and hope we get to see more of Mary later on. Being how my introduction to her was in the Hardcore arc in Daredevil, I'd kinda like to see her interact with the other Defenders. I've heard that Defenders S2 is not in the works, but after the events of Luke Cage S2 it seems very strange that there was not more than one line by Misty alluding to those events. I know Danny and Luke aren't best buds like in the comics yet, though, and maybe Luke has things under control for the time being.

From:

dr_archeville

I'm in central NC, and we're all getting ready for Hurricane Florence (which should make landfall sometime early Thursday afternoon) -- predictions are it could be as bad as 1996's Fran. There’s already been a rush for gas up here, yesterday afternoon every gas station I passed had at least a car at each pump & one car waiting behind it. My sister lives near the coast, so she & her husband & their kids may come up to stay with us for a bit while this blows through.

Last night, as a tribute to the late Burt Reynolds, a local theatre held a free showing of Smokey and the Bandit. I saw it with my mother & one of her friends, and there was a pretty good turnout for it.

I'm in three D&D meatspace games now! Two campaigns run by one guy on Sundays, and one run by me every other Thursday (I've not DMed in over a decade!), all held at a local cards/games/miniatures shoppe. They've been a lot of fun.

From:

icon_uk

Stay safe!

From:

informationgeek

Got two job interviews today and I'm still waiting to hear back on a job from my local movie theater. Fingers crossed.

Also, anyone following the Predator movie situation. What a colossal mess.

From:

icon_uk

I wasn't aware of the Predator situation, but having found out about it in this rather shoddily titled article, it sounds like a real mess

Sadly, II can't say I'm surprised in a business that still gives Victor Salva work.

From:

janegray

Transformers: Cyberverse has begun. Haven't watched it yet but I probably will.

Tbh the main reason I’m thinking of watching it is that Beechen appears to be in no way, shape or form associated with it. I strongly suspect his puppy chocked to death on a Starscream toy or something like that, because dude always goes out of his way to screw over Starscream (and I mean ridiculously out of his way, like “Starscream is literally minding his own business in a different galaxy and is in no way involved with the current plot, but a deus ex machina calls him back just in time to make a two second cameo that drops a bridge on him”). He has done that in TF Animated, the Prime movie, Robots in Disguise, and that terrible Machinima series.

I liked Disenchantment. I hope S2 comes out soon, I want to know what happens next.

From:

owlbrigade1

Well I guess I know what I won't be bothering with then. Frankly bridge dropping should be limited to Cliffjumper. Or Bumblebee, I really wish someone would bridge drop on that robot Neelix.

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