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MonsieurChoc posted:Really!? How do I get in on that. Leslieleeiii or jackallisonlol
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There's a lot of flak you can throw Tom King's way for good reason but when he wrote a scene where a big bunch of Batman's associates were waiting for him on a rooftop having banter, Cass and Huntress just sat off in the back like "you don't talk much?" "nope" "cool, i like you" instead of being a couplea dorks
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Jul 15, 2019 19:28
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Dawgstar posted:Nah, Barbara's out of the wheelchair because they decided she should be The One True Batgirl again when DC did a big reboot. I'm not even personally sure how it happened. They retconned it so that after she was paralyzed by the Joker in The Killing Joke, she got a cyber augment in her spine that made her legs work again. It makes sense, guess, in that it was contrived how she couldn't recover before. But it also meant dropping her standalone superhero identity for the one she'd grown past decades ago and eliminating two perfectly serviceable Batgirls that came after. It'd be like rolling Dick Grayson back to being Robin because that's certainly his most iconic state, but DC was fine leaving all the Robins intact and identical to their pre-reboot selves.
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Jul 15, 2019 19:41
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nine-gear crow posted:I just want Star Wars to be loving done already. Please, god, let it end. It was a series who was infamous for its (pre)sequels that was bought up by a company notorious for going "but what happens after happily ever after?" and making 5 sequels to a movie.
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Nuns with Guns posted:It'd be like rolling Dick Grayson back to being Robin because that's certainly his most iconic state, but DC was fine leaving all the Robins intact and identical to their pre-reboot selves. The fact that New 52 started with Batman already having gone through five or so Robins is the perfect encapsulation of just how half-hearted the reboot was.
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Nuns with Guns posted:It'd be like rolling Dick Grayson* back to being Robin because that's certainly his most iconic state, but DC was fine leaving all the Robins intact and identical to their pre-reboot selves. *Ric Grayson
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It was misogyny. Female characters aren't as important so they can freely be erased, but male characters have to be personally disliked by the EiC to disappear (looking at you, Wally West and Barry Allen).
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Jul 15, 2019 19:53
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Leal posted:It was a series who was infamous for its (pre)sequels that was bought up by a company notorious for going "but what happens after happily ever after?" and making 5 sequels to a movie. Are you confusing Disney with DreamWorks here? Even counting Pixar movies, Disney is very careful about what it sequelizes in full movies, especially after all the DTV trash from the late Eisner era. It's fine milking a cash cow when it finds one, particularly for merch, but we're only just now getting a second Frozen for a reason (the reason is merchandise sales falling off.)
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VanSandman posted:It was misogyny. Female characters aren't as important so they can freely be erased, but male characters have to be personally disliked by the EiC to disappear (looking at you, Wally West and Barry Allen). What about Bart?
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Jul 15, 2019 20:21
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Nuns with Guns posted:Are you confusing Disney with DreamWorks here? Even counting Pixar movies, Disney is very careful about what it sequelizes in full movies, especially after all the DTV trash from the late Eisner era. It's fine milking a cash cow when it finds one, particularly for merch, but we're only just now getting a second Frozen for a reason (the reason is merchandise sales falling off.) I mean Cinderella, Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and so on. Didn't feel like those needed sequels. Also I agree with Mike, we need more Knights of the Old Republic. Exile meets Revan when, Disney?
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ahaha. Alpharad, Joe, and a friend play through the entirety of Sonic Forces in about two and a half hours straight, and that's with a loooooot of dying and shenanigans. They are dunking on it or shooting the poo poo almost the entire time and despite skipping almost every cutscene, it's pretty amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzr7qaiImjA&hd=1 god, what a trainwreck of a game. I literally cannot believe this is a product that was made by humans, it is such a mess.
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Leal posted:I mean Cinderella, Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and so on. Didn't feel like those needed sequels. If nothing else a KotOR trilogy would finally wrap up the missing third part of that story that BioWare numb-balled on when they jumped ship to work on Mass Effect and then came back to after the fact with a couple of books no one read and one quest line in the Old Republic MMO that even fewer people played. Unfortunately it's going to be handled by Dan Weiss and Dave Bennioff, so the Exile's going to go crazy at the sound of an alarm beeping and nuke Coruscant in the final ten minutes of the third movie because she just kind of forgot about the Sith armada 
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nine-gear crow posted:If nothing else a KotOR trilogy would finally wrap up the missing third part of that story that BioWare numb-balled on when they jumped ship to work on Mass Effect and then came back to after the fact with a couple of books no one read and one quest line in the Old Republic MMO that even fewer people played. as much as the hosed up the last 2 seasons and various parts, they do adaptions well enough and pretty interesting and good interpretations(for the most part) for the first 4 or so seasons. so i give them some credit.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:as much as the hosed up the last 2 seasons and various parts, they do adaptions well enough and pretty interesting and good interpretations(for the most part) for the first 4 or so seasons. so i give them some credit. Yeah, but they're facing the exact same problem as Game of Thrones: they've got three movies to make and only two games to adapt. Whoopsie!
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nine-gear crow posted:Yeah, but they're facing the exact same problem as Game of Thrones: they've got three movies to make and only two games to adapt. Whoopsie! well they have parts of the MMO too. is it confirmed for old republic era?
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"actually this jedi secretly survived!" is one of the dumbest things in star wars. just set your game when jedi were around.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:well they have parts of the MMO too. is it confirmed for old republic era? At this point, no. People are conflating a lot of disparate information that seems to be lining up together. LucasFilm has a screenwriter currently writing a Knight of the Old Republic movie, and they have Weiss and Benioff attached to produce and direct their own trilogy of movies. There's been no word if either of these projects are connected as of yet. There's also Rian Johnson's trilogy of Star Wars films which the angry men of Onlineville are desperately trying to convince the world have been cancelled because He Destroyed Star Wars Forever when there's been no indication that that's true so far. So he might be helming the Old Republic films.
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Nuns with Guns posted:They retconned it so that after she was paralyzed by the Joker in The Killing Joke, she got a cyber augment in her spine that made her legs work again. It makes sense, guess, in that it was contrived how she couldn't recover before. But it also meant dropping her standalone superhero identity for the one she'd grown past decades ago and eliminating two perfectly serviceable Batgirls that came after. I know Marvel does it too, but that brings up something DC is really bad with when it comes to life-changing technology that only the main characters get because of... reasons. I'm positive Barbara even turned down something very similar to that at one point because it wouldn't have been freely available to everybody (it's also why she doesn't let the Amazon Purple Healing Ray zap her). Tangentially, my favorite (and thus worse) example is when Dick reveals in Judd Winick's Outsiders to Special Guest Star John Walsh that they have a super special technology that lets them pick up specific fingerprints from a frequently touched mall counter that was also touched days ago. The whole Cassandra Cain Retrospective was really good, but I kinda wish Lewis wouldn't read every line of dialogue of Batman's in that doofy Christian Bale impersonation.
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Are there really two separate Star Wars trilogies in pre production right now????
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watho posted:Are there really two separate Star Wars trilogies in pre production right now????  There were like 5 "A Star Wars Story" movies in pre-production before Solo killed all of them. Star Wars is kind of a mess right now.
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Kathleen Kennedy said they were putting Star Wars movies on hold for a while after Episode 9. By that I mean they will take two years off, during which they will release more Clone Wars episodes and the Mandalorian TV show so you can continue to be inundated with Star Wars until the Game of Star Throne Wars trilogy is ready to come out.
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I just don't think Star Wars is as much of a big deal to kids these days, at least in terms of it consuming a large part of their attention and fan identity. It's just another source of content competing with everything else. When I was my son's age my life revolved around reenacting the Battle of Endor but for him he's got Mario, Toy Story, the Marvel universe, Minecraft, etc. on his mind. Even the kids who watched the Clone Wars cartoon in first run, arguably the most popular piece of the pie aside from the movies, are pushing college age now. The main trilogy movies still make bank but I think most people just go to see a movie because everyone else is, and they move on to the next one a week later. There's no ongoing intrigue or imagination being cultivated. Laterite fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Jul 15, 2019 |
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i think you will find star wars is a huge deal to kids these days - perhaps the biggest - the kids just happen to be aged 30+
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Kids like Star Wars. But not as much as Harry Potter or marvel. The problem is I’m sure their parents are insufferable, dragging them to these movies and just fuming and bitching the whole time how it wasn’t what they wanted or whatever.
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To get my science fantasy adventure kicks I'm more excited for Guardians Vol. 3 than I am for Rise of Skywalker.
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Leal posted:I mean Cinderella, Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and so on. Didn't feel like those needed sequels. One of the Cinderella movies is more of a rewrite/recon of the original movie and the Beauty and the Beast one is a midquel, not a sequel, but no they didn't need more films. All three were part of the trash DTV period I mentioned, and Disney seems content to let people forget about them. They realized it's better to repackage comfortable images from your childhood in the live action remakes and embed those same images in new generations of This is all a lot of words to say we live in a world where you can buy the chance dice from The Phantom Menace at a theme park in between slamming blue milks.
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Arcsquad12 posted:To get my science fantasy adventure kicks I'm more excited for Guardians Vol. 3 than I am for Rise of Skywalker. James Gunn is a better director than JJ Abrams
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Nuns with Guns posted:This is all a lot of words to say we live in a world where you can buy the chance dice from The Phantom Menace at a theme park in between slamming blue milks. Apparently they sold out of the chance cubes. https://twitter.com/JennyENicholson/status/1149535984322633729
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vseslav.botkin posted:What about Bart? See: Personally disliked by the EiC.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Kathleen Kennedy said they were putting Star Wars movies on hold for a while after Episode 9. ehh. i am more ok with that. plus i feel more inundated by marvel and GoT on facebook and online than i do with star war and i like all three. the show looks interesting and the cartoons were alright. Arcsquad12 posted:To get my science fantasy adventure kicks I'm more excited for Guardians Vol. 3 than I am for Rise of Skywalker. same. though i want to see gunn do a star wars movie someday. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Jul 16, 2019 |
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https://twitter.com/BronyCon/status/1150218451098714113 https://twitter.com/Hbomberguy/status/1150442732915253248 I want this to happen now. I don't know why, I just do.
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I wonder when I'll be excited about a movie again. Closest thing was that I was extremely hyped about recently was Good Omens, and it paid off. Maybe if there's a new Mad Max?
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Weren't a big chunk of those Pilots for TV shows that went no where and only released to make SOME money back?
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Apparently they sold out of the chance cubes. You ever feel the urge to walk down the main street of your local town in broad daylight, grabbing random passerby and screaming "It's a small cube with three red sides and three blue sides!" before they sedate you?
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Roth posted:https://twitter.com/BronyCon/status/1150218451098714113 Im kind of curious what Brony con even is at this point. Isn't the Frendship is Magic franchise shutting down production of everything soon? Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Apparently they sold out of the chance cubes. So much Star Wars junk and I want it all.
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BigRed0427 posted:Im kind of curious what Brony con even is at this point. Isn't the Frendship is Magic franchise shutting down production of everything soon? if i remember correctly yeah, its been like 8 or so years so it wouldnt surprise me. I want all of the in universe statues and busts they are selling.
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BigRed0427 posted:Im kind of curious what Brony con even is at this point. Isn't the Frendship is Magic franchise shutting down production of everything soon? I have no idea, but yeah, the show is on the final season with some sort of movie in a couple years and a G5 series following that.
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Leal posted:Also I agree with Mike, we need more Knights of the Old Republic. Exile meets Revan when, Disney? I'm kinda shocked that Mike knows anything about KotR, he never struck me as someone who was all that into gaming or knew anything at all about video games in general. Maybe Rich clued him into it?
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