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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

The Olympics are well underway, but that's about the extent of my awareness of it, so I will leave it to others to raise more specifics if they wish.

As an amusing aside, Laurence Fox (UK actor turned failed mayoral candidate turned ~~media soundbite generator~~ sorry "political activist" for oh-so-viciously oppressed... checks notes, "straight, white, entitled, males" ) published a Venn diagram of where he saw the state of the country/world as... this says something rather worrying about his understanding of how Venn diagrams work, but did lead to some terrific replies!

Tumblr has announced the imminent arrival of Tumblr Post Plus, a paid account option, which has gone down as well as a fart in a spacesuit.

ComicCon@home happened and, among other things, there was a fun Doctor Who panel with Chris Chibnall, Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill and Kevin Bishop, as well as a new cast member dropping in. Details revealed were scant (of course) but they did mention that season 13 is going to be slightly different inasmuch as it's going to be an eight episode story (We already new the Covid situation had cut the episode count from ten to eight), rather than eight individual episodes. Should be interesting as we;ve not seen a single story that along since... I mean the Key to Time season and "Trial of a Time Lord" had an over-arcing story, but separate stories within it, so this is perhaps closest to "The War Games", or "The Dalek Master Plan"

LEGO's new MCU minifigure assortment has been announced and will be focussing on the TV series, so wandavision, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Loki and the upcoming What it..? . I love the accessories that Loki and Sylvie com with! :) (Also disappointed Agatha, Tommy and Billy are NOT included in the mix)

Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans dropped on Netflix, a movie to cap off the "Tales of Arcadia" series that encompassed Trollhunters, 3-Below and Wizards, aired. I confess I hadn't kept up with Wizards because of the focus on Steve, a character I didn't really care about, but might go back and give it another go. An unexpected ending, though it does seem to be very much a risky one (I won't say more as that would count as spoilers, though there may be spoilers in the replies)

Also on Netflix, "Masters of the Universe: Revelation" aired, and "Lo!" (to the surprise of no one) there was wailing and grinding of teeth from fanboys across the net. Given my very low level of expectations (not being a huge original series He-Man fan, though I did quite like the 2002 reboot, and my general apathy towards Kevin Smith for a good few years) I actually really enjoyed Revelation, because, like IDW's Transformers, it uses as it's plot base a question that the original series was never going to address: "What happens AFTER the ultimate confrontation between the champion of good and the embodiment of evil?".

I also thought the character arc for Teela (Sarah Michelle Gellar in fine form) was both logical and interesting: She was supremely pissed off, and had damn good reasons to be. Oh, and some very nice moments with Adam, but some of which might count as spoilers so... (though again, probable spoilers in the comments)

A slightly higher bodycount than I felt was necessary, I wanted to see more of the impact of the final battle on the rest of Eternia to make it hit home, but for Lena Headey giving a wonderful performance as Evil-Lyn, and a frankly lovely scene between Evil-Lyn and Orko where they discuss his past and what his name REALLY is, I was impressed! (You made me care about Orko, Kevin Smth, do you ave ANY idea how difficult that is?).

And, loathe though I am to mention Netflix three times in one post, "Transformers: War for Cybertron: Kingdom" arrives on the 29th July!

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Oh Jesus. I'm not getting my payments, and the government website is awful. And my parents think their helping!

"I don't have the option to do that", "That's the entire page, there isn't anything else here", "I already did that, it didn't work", "No they don't tell you these things, and I can't check it", "Look you actually have faith in the government to provide a vital service in a convenient manner, and that your major stumbling block here", "They don't respect me, so they don't tell me theses thing ","Let me explain it to you", "those search terms are incredible vague" "We tried that already", "That's not the fucking issue", "Do you actually understand how a computer works?"

All thoughts I have to keep to myself.....

I see two ways for the Obi-Wan show to go. 1). Obi-wan lives the life of a hermit and tries to obtain spiritual enlightenment. 2). Obi-wan has to leave Tatooine and go on a mission, and have a bunch of fight scenes and cheap fanservice.
I fear that it will be option two.

I guess Star Wars is about killing people in a hallway now, that and raising marketable orphans who have mysterious powers...Man The Bad Batch is disappointing.

Oh boy, one episode of The Mandalorian was obviously about setting up a Cara Dunne spinoff show, which really annoyed me. I had my suspicions but, it got really blatant near the end.....
The Ahsoka episode was less obviously a pilot, but the bit where she said "Thrawn" was annoying. The Ahsoka and Sabine spinoff show, that Rebels promised is starting to look kind of unlikely. I don't particularly want to see Ahsoka in live action. Her head tentacles were too short and that upset me.

Surprisingly Boba Fett's presence in season two of The Mandalorian has been a lot more unobtrusive than I was expecting. He's treated as a guy the main characters meet, and they don't fawn over him and tell you to buy his merchandise.
He also didn't do a whole lot in The Believer, which was actually a really good episode.

Something which bugs me about the show is how it's establishing that Yoda is part of a super special and rare species. I saw nothing to indicate that in the films proper. They could have just been a normal part of this setting. Sure, Yoda and Yaddle seemed like powerful Force wielders, but I assumed that was because they had spent their long lives studying, meditating and researching in order to achieve spiritual enlightenment. But I guess they all have magic powers. Man, that seems so much more boring.

Beaststar volume five has arrived. I'd almost forgotten how fucked up this series was.
So, I've started reading more of Invincible. It's got some interesting stuff, but a lot of it is ideas are contrived, underdeveloped and gimmicky. Ultimately I was right to stop reading it when I did.

Scooby Doo and Guess Who had an episode with the guy from Spy Kids 2, making it the greatest episode of all. Man hat show isn't very good. I think it's primarily because the new Scooby Doo Movies (it's main influence), aren't very good.

In Better Call Saul they established that a plot important thing, would happen in a years time. If eight episodes later they say it's been about two months, that means it should only take another forty episodes....so a short time jump then.

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Sorry you're having a bad time, hope the situaiton improves soon.

I mean "marketable orphans" has been Star Wars primary brand since 1977.

Yoda was always meant to be part of an almost unknown and very, very rarely seen species. His species has never been identified by name, nor his homeworld mentioned, and that was a deliberate and absolute choice made and maintained by Lucas himself from the word go. I was frankly stunned to see Yaddle in The Phantom Menace, though she was notably absent by the time the Clone Wars started.

I do want to like The Bad Batch, and full marks to Dee Bradley Baker for managing to do all the voices, but I'm really losing interest in them as a team.

Bringing the crack since December 2003

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