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So, OK KO is doing this next week:

Spoiler

With the original voices of Kwame and Captain Planet.

Oh. And a coworker pointed this out to me today.
Flight of the Navigator Remake

Edited, Sep 29th 2017 7:57pm by TirithRR

Inhumans wasn't that bad. I expected a lot worse from the way it was being talked about.

It suffers a bit from just too much in the 2 hour premiere. Effects were OK.

Did he not have tenure? Adjunct Professor Strange?

Saw Spider-Man: Homecoming over the weekend. Main takeaway is that Tony Stark might possibly be kind of a dick. I liked this Spider-Man although I'm not sure I liked it more than the "original" modern cinematic version. Obviously better than the "Amazing" movies. Was nice to skip the origin bit. Liked Keaton's character and performance. Anyway, no real complaints would watch next movie.

Also saw Ant-Man which I think I may have (surprisingly) liked more than Spider-Man. "Surprisingly" only because Spider-Man had so much more buzz around it. A few parts were goofy/made little sense but it overall worked. Didn't really push any boundaries or challenge anything but it was fun.

Didn't make time yet for Dr. Strange, MD. Then I'll be all caught up except for that second Thor movie which I have zero interest in. Really, I don't care for Thor much at all except as a secondary figure and find the character boring.

First episode of Gifted was nothing unexpected. The special effects seem well done, and it even had a SpoilerStan Lee cameo. SpoilerThe "Pregnant" reveal was plenty obvious.

And I keep thinking of Chloe Grace Moretz when I see the daughter, even though I know it's not her and think they look different enough that I shouldn't mix the two. Turns out the girl played on Gotham for a few episodes. She was the cute rich girl used by Galavan to try to trick Bruce.

The boy looks familiar, but looking at his films, I don't see anything I recognize.

I thought Lucifer to be a bit disjointed. It was harder for me to follow what was going on, but could have been because I was a bit bored and wasn't fully paying attention.

Honestly, the only real reason to see it is because there is a tie in (pretty much the whole plot) to the Infinity stones storyline. So, if only so you can avoid wondering "when/where the heck did that one come from?". I watched it the first time, and it was "ok". Basically has zero re-watchability factor though. I think I tried to do so once (cause, you know, sucker, and I buy them all on bluray), and fell asleep through the last half or so.

As to Inhumans, It was a lot better than I thought. Agree with the whole bit about Maximus. Not only being completely different than in the books, but just not making any sense at all. I mean, I get his motivations, sorta. What I don't get is why anyone at all would follow him. You've got an entire society, which, while caste based and not so great, is divided up and very strongly defined by what powers you get from teragenesis. So the lower caste resents the ruling class. I get it. But Maximus has the worst of both worlds (in this version of him anyway). He has no powers, which should make him lower than the lowest tunnel digger, yet, due to his brother being the king, he gets to live in the palace with the royals and other important people. That's not usually a formula for someone who could endear support among the angry downtrodden masses (who don't get a pass because of who they are related to), yet it's just kinda hand waved that he somehow has. Then there's the issue of the royal guards apparently also choosing to support him over their king. Something that's also just hand waved, with zero explanation.

Maybe future episodes will explain all of that. I hope so. But "don't really agree with our king continuing a policy that we've been following since the dawn of our civilization" doesn't seem like enough motivation for what happened.

A friend of mine had a negative reaction to Black Bolt. He thought he was too passive and stiff. IMO though that was the perfect portrayal of the character. That's exactly how he is in the comics. He's always shown as just standing or sitting, almost in the background, while everyone else talks, yells, argues, etc, around him, waits to make sure he's making the right choice, and then acts. Near perfect performance. Heck, the whole bit in the store buying/stealing clothes was great. Of course he just walks out in his new clothes, why would paying for something even enter his mind? Very good. The rest of the cast? Ranged from "good" to "ok". Nothing else stood out too glaringly. I didn't see Karnak as being too off the source. Over time, the books did develop his abilities to the point where they were more or less superhuman. He could calculate real world actions and reactions like a game of chess, and that's essentially how they portrayed him. I saw the graphic stuff just as how he sees the world. A bit jarring the first couple times, but after awhile it was ok.


Gifted was good too. Still getting going, but pretty darn good for a one hour pilot. I couldn't help but notice that the family name was Strucker, presumably a reference to von Strucker, which was a B plot villain back in the day, with two children with mutant powers. The girl could project force fields and the boy could blast stuff (or was it the other way around?). I'm assuming there's no actual connection, but it is interesting that they chose that name, with two children, one male and one female. Dunno. Just jumped out at me.

Was that one guy supposed to be Warpath? I thought he had the correct powerset. Didn't look very native American to me though. I guess they didn't want to be too stereotypical with their actors? Not that that's super important, but he did have strength and enhanced perception, tracking abilities, etc. So that fits. Everything else was pretty decent. We're just getting into the plot, so it's hard to say where things will go. Seemed like a good start though.

Edited, Oct 3rd 2017 5:05pm by gbaji

Well, judging by Maximus's past... he's going to train that dog to eat people. And babies.

A bunch of shows are starting up this month on SciFi. I recorded a new one last night, but hadn't gotten around to watching it. Ghost Wars or something like that.

DVR says next week Flash, Supergirl, Legends, etc are all coming back.

I'm finally catching up on the last season of Gotham so I can start this new season. I was out of town and my DVR failed to record a few episodes, then when I came back they were no longer on Demand. But Netflix has Season 3 so I'm going to finish it off and catch up on the new season. Maybe it's because I was not tuned in for so long, but Selina's actress's face seems a bit more round and child-like than I remember. I recall questioning her age when I first started watching, as he face looked like she was a 20 year old model or something.

Test audiences for both Justice League and Thor: Ragnarok have been generally positive, so good luck in November.

But besides that, today freetime is eliminated with the return of most of the cape tv shows (Good luck, DVRs), and Legends of Tomorrow showrunner Phil Klemmer made it clear that Matt Ryan will reprise his role as Constantine so, just by that it looks like LoT is the best show of the season.

I enjoyed the hell out of that.

I went the other way. I watched Lucifer and recorded Supergirl. Which worked out, since Supergirl seems to have gone into overdrive on the preachiness. Not even five minutes in and Spoilerthere was a "evil heartless development businessman with a problem with the media reporting things about him, after which Supergirl overcomes a giant phallic symbol. Also who the hell talks about their personal life during a nuclear crisis? We get it, they're lesbians. I guess the end where Spoilerthat mother got super strength and then started having nightmares about Kara's dream is interesting, though.

Lucifer: SpoilerI'm going to go ahead and assume the new Lieutenant is the big bad. At first I thought his being a dick was just a cover for a heart of gold personality, but then he confided in Lucifer that he was actually a good guy chasing the same mysterious big bad and I always assume the opposite when it comes to these kinds of shows.

The Gifted: Enjoying the hell out of how much they're dedicating their budget to special effects. So accustomed to how cheap the DCW and ABC shows are that it's mind blowing seeing Blink throwing portals around like there's no season 2. Also the show is quickly looking like a Burn Notice reunion.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer. Spoiler


Justice League extended trailer. Like, basically the whole movie.Spoiler

The guy with the axe is Steppenwolf, who I am betting is actually Clark because that's the kind of twist that a director like Snyder would throw in and expect no one to see coming.

I'm imagining a character like the friend from Spiderman Homecoming? (My database of young overweight hispanic actors is pretty much Null). And I know pretty much zero Korean or African American child actors.

I just started this week's Lucifer this morning, but work and all... I did finish Gifted last night. So I think I'm caught up on Monday. I take it Warpath's mutant power is Super-IndianNative American Tracking ability? He was in the X-men movie with the Future Time Travel stuff, right? I don't recall him doing much beyond playing lookout for the group as they kept sending Kitty back in time.

Yesterday was Patch day on FFXIV (I still play). So I didn't do anything but bash my characters face against new content with 23 other players, reminding me how much I hate having to deal with people in game. 2 hour time frame to complete the new content, 10 minutes in you die to something, half the people start ******** and demanding we quit. Two attempts (cause first one they successfully complained enough that enough people voted to quit after 30 minutes) we cleared the content after 90 minutes... joys of having to deal with more than just a couple people you normally do. Seems when you get more than like... 8 people together in these games the asshole factor starts to grow exponentially with each additional player.

Last night's South Park episode was an extended commercial for their game coming out next week, The Fractured But Whole. Mix in a bit about Facebook, Zuckerberg, and Fake News. Always fun to see Professor Chaos though.

No End House is wrapping up. I kind of forgot it was only a 6 episode series, and the wrapping up of stuff struck me as strange for a moment until I remembered.