Author Topic: [TV, etc.] What are you watching?! (Read 254030 times)

B E C K · « **Reply #2070 on:** Mar 29, 2024, 01:53:54 PM »

Hey, it is pretty good. I almost wish I was remotely interested in anything else on Disney+. This show's also rekindled my love of Rogue that was stomped on so mercilessly by Anna Paquin and the live action slop. (For the record, I like X1 and X2, but I hated Anna Paquin Rogue. I wanted a warm, feisty Southern belle with Peggy Bundy hair.)

I wasn't completely sold on the Cyclops VA. Ray Chase is super-talented but Cyke just sounds sorta extra douchey. But I like it now. I'm so confused about Forge though. Wasn't he in the old show? I guess he didn't meet Storm in it?

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2071 on:** Apr 12, 2024, 02:45:04 PM »

B E C K · « **Reply #2072 on:** Apr 14, 2024, 10:25:06 AM »

Oh, thank God he just spat on him. I was expecting worse.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2073 on:** May 02, 2024, 12:54:22 PM »

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2074 on:** May 02, 2024, 01:02:23 PM »

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2075 on:** May 07, 2024, 10:52:08 AM »

B E C K · « **Reply #2076 on:** May 11, 2024, 04:03:13 PM »

Oh, that Margaret!

So X-Men '97, I have some questions for y'all:

So someone elucidate for me: what was the plan here? These three fuck-off and leave the Earth and mutants that probably would've sided with Magneto to die? Earth was going to be fucked up in 12 hours from magnetic stuff, right? I feel like I missed something here because this doesn't make sense. #1. That 12-hour Earth stake is stupid. #2. Rogue loses Gambit so decides to lose her brother, too? Huh? I just don't believe she would leave Nightcrawler like that. I could see her defecting after the world is safe and Bastian dead but certainly not before.

I still like the show but I'm confused. Also, I would've preferred if the Professor didn't come back. I won't mind if he just leaves again or actually dies. I don't hate him or anything but I find the inter-character dynamics are more interesting without the Professor trying to referee and his scenes are a bit boring tbh.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2077 on:** May 13, 2024, 11:39:39 AM »

I can't explain it. I feel like most of what's come after the second episode has been a mixture of sloppy and confusing. The Genosha episode was admittedly another high point. My understanding is that the show is loosely adapting an arc from the books, so whereas that stuff had weeks/months/years to cook, we're getting it all crammed into 10 episodes, hence the seemingly nonsensical story beats.

And while I appreciate that some characters are getting wardrobe updates to put them more in line with their current comic book depictions, Rogue's sucks. Like, look at that trash. Rogue's '90s outfit is bloody ICONIC. This one looks like she should be corralling kids to have their picture taken with Santa at the mall. Wretched.

B E C K · « **Reply #2078 on:** May 13, 2024, 02:09:10 PM »

I feel like this one was an easy solve: the professor comes back like he does and telepathically calls to Mags, who joins forces with them to beat Bastion's ass. And after the day is won, then Mags turns on the group all "you are naiiiive, Charles," gives some speech about how his way's the only way and then Rogue and Roberto defect. It devolves to a fight and most of the same shit happens including Wolvy and Mags effing each other up. The whole stake of the Earth, what, fucking melting/getting stuck to the fridge/blowing up or whatever... that's dumb. Rogue and Roberto are upset and feel betrayed, they don't want their friends and family to fucking die. I'll eat crow if I missed a plot point somewhere or misunderstood something.

I don't mind the outfit change for Rogue as long as she ends up returning to her 90's outfit once she comes back to the X-Men. Also, the Rogue x Magneto shit needs to drop from the show and never come back again. It was funny and weird when it happened--I had that Savage Land issue with the iconic cover at one point, I wasn't shocked--but ultimately we want her with Gambit. No one wants to see her with old man buckethead.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2079 on:** May 14, 2024, 11:53:54 AM »

Wow! Did you actually get it when it came out? You only would have been 10 or 11, yeah?

I can just imagine Schmoo finding it tucked under your mattress and confronting you with it, "Why do you have this?!"

Nah, your mom's probably cooler than that.

B E C K · « **Reply #2080 on:** May 14, 2024, 12:42:23 PM »

Quote from: jonhammstein on May 14, 2024, 11:53:54 AM

Wow! Did you actually get it when it came out? You only would have been 10 or 11, yeah?

I can just imagine Schmoo finding it tucked under your mattress and confronting you with it, "Why do you have this?!"

Nah, your mom's probably cooler than that.

Either Merla bought it and gave it to me or I bought it as a back issue. In fact, looking at the years here, one of us had to have gotten it as a back issue. XTAS got both of us into the X-Men and that was 1992. We weren't buying before then. I got rid of most of my comics anyway so I don't have X-anything anymore.

And Merla actually collected Marvel comics first. It was never super extensive but she had a couple of boxes of stuff. She had the Scott/Jean wedding issue, she had issues of the Wolverine solo comic, and the 1993 Gambit mini. She also collected, like, X-caliber or something. One of those other x-teams. And the one with the gay Canadian? (Looked it up: Alpha Flight)

I loved Rogue so I liked to collect stuff with Rogue--like her solo run. But we never overlapped what we got so if she had it, I didn't get it and vice versa. I have no idea what she still owns if anything. I'm sure she got rid of most of them.

But as Merla's a true Gambit/Rogue shipper since 1992, she does still have that issue. It's actually hanging in her bedroom right now. It has been for years, possibly ever since she originally bought it.

And for the record, she has no interest in X-men 97 with a Rogue-less dead Gambit. You don't kill her man!

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2081 on:** May 15, 2024, 12:36:20 PM »

The pricing on these is wild. "I'd buy that for a dollar!" I remember my Grandpa checking out my comics and remarking that he only had to pay a nickel when he was a kid. Meanwhile, in 2024...

I didn't have a lot of stuff myself, but a friend of mine was a comic book collecting fiend. He had stacks upon stacks. I would go over there to read for free all the time. Think I saw most of Age of Apocalypse that way, but that would have been a little later, right? '95 or so.

Had Merla started out watching '97 and bounced as soon as Gambit ate it?

B E C K · « **Reply #2082 on:** May 15, 2024, 01:38:04 PM »

Merla doesn't really keep up with pop culture a whole lot these days. She didn't know there was a new show and it's sort of my sisterly obligation to spoil something like Gambit dying so she doesn't waste her time. (Because she would see it that way.) Maybe when he actually comes back she'll care.

B E C K · « **Reply #2083 on:** May 15, 2024, 06:31:51 PM »

I think X-Men '97 ended okay. I think my issues with the plot in the prior ep are still valid but the show handwaves it so hard that the viewer isn't stuck lingering on the non-sensical parts of it. It redirects the viewer's attention and I liked that. Basically the show saying "yeah, we can't explain so we won't try. We needed them all on the asteroid. Look Sunspot and Rogue are friends with the others again. Isn't that neat?"

I didn't care for the all of the cameos or for all of the Season 2 set-up. Like, I actually think it would've been fine if we never saw the displaced X-Men until the next season and the episode ended with Bishop telling Forge they were going through time to save the X-Men. I thought that was a strong end to the season. But then they had to tease more.

Also the post-cred scene at the end with Gambit's card got cut off of the video I saw. I just thought that was funny. The scene's all over YouTube so whatever but I wouldn't have known to look for it if I hadn't read there was one.

B E C K · « **Reply #2084 on:** May 15, 2024, 09:29:51 PM »

Quote from: B E C K on May 15, 2024, 01:38:04 PM

Merla doesn't really keep up with pop culture a whole lot these days.

Following up on what I just posted, En Sabah Nur appeared on some clickbait thumbnails on YouTube while Merla was watching random videos and I was all "Apocalypse, lol" and she was all "WHO?" "Apocalypse. From X-Men. You know who he is." "No, I don't.

" She only remembered when she googled Apocalypse in XTAS but, yeah, X-Men's not on her mind these days.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2085 on:** May 17, 2024, 04:08:01 PM »

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2086 on:** May 17, 2024, 08:09:31 PM »

DJMax Respect V has once again swapped out their opening movie for a new one. It doesn't make much sense out of context, but it's still pretty to look at:

B E C K · « **Reply #2087 on:** Jun 03, 2024, 08:25:56 PM »

The first episode of Skysurfer Strike Force appeared my on feed so I checked it out. I recall the title because the title was distinct but I actually never watched this show when I was younger. Not a bad show, honestly. Some of their codenames are so stupid and I love it. "Crazy Stunts!" "Sliced Ice!" "Soar Loser!"

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2088 on:** Jun 04, 2024, 07:26:16 PM »

A bunch of Japanese animators worked way too hard, and were likely paid way too little to produce that toy executive's fever dream nonsense of a show.

B E C K · « **Reply #2089 on:** Jun 06, 2024, 01:09:11 PM »

I would've rather had more Skysurfer Strikeforce than more Stunt Dawgs. Stunt Dawgs had forty episodes. I'll be honest: I only remember Stunt Dawgs because of Sizzle. She was also voiced by Lenore Zann, too. I actually never knew that until this year.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2090 on:** Jun 07, 2024, 01:35:00 PM »

Stunt Dawgs?! Jesus Christ. I should probably be able to remember that one, because it looks/sounds Canadian as fuck, but I don't.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2091 on:** Jun 14, 2024, 07:27:22 PM »

Does this belong in the anime thread? Probably not, right?

B E C K · « **Reply #2092 on:** Jul 20, 2024, 03:52:55 PM »

As someone who watched both Frasier and Columbo, everyone's in character so much it's almost scary.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2093 on:** Jul 29, 2024, 01:02:56 PM »

I can't believe they're still making Futurama...

B E C K · « **Reply #2094 on:** Jul 29, 2024, 02:00:03 PM »

Wait, "still"? I thought they just vommed more episodes and it was done again. Good gravy.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2095 on:** Jul 30, 2024, 04:01:35 AM »

Yeah, I totally forgot that Hulu had done a new season. And I certainly wasn't looking forward to yet another one.

First episode Plot A: NFTs. Lots and lots of NFT jokes. Plot B: Bender returns to his "homeland" of Mexico. For some reason, in the future, all the Mexican robots live in the jungle, in the style of Mayans/Aztecs/etc.

Fucking HELL. It beggars belief, honest to Christ.

B E C K · « **Reply #2096 on:** Jul 30, 2024, 07:44:20 AM »

I wish they'd just spend the money on new things.

B E C K · « **Reply #2097 on:** Aug 28, 2024, 03:29:16 PM »

So I've been following reviews of episodes of The Acolyte, the last "Star Wars" abomination to have completed airing on Disney+. What a morally corrupt and utterly deranged spectacle. It boils down to "the alleged 'good' female lead character was okay with a bunch of Jedi get murdered including her former master because the Sith guy's hot and she saw his dick. Then they hold hands at the end and watch a romantic sunset while Darth Plagueis is probably going moldy living in a fucking cave." We truly live in a clownshoes world.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2098 on:** Aug 28, 2024, 05:51:46 PM »

I've fallen off HISHE in the last little while, but when I saw the runtime on this new one, I clicked it, and boy is it on point:

jonhammstein · « **Reply #2099 on:** Sep 10, 2024, 03:35:19 AM »