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muscles like this! posted:Thing that won't age well: the first season of the Batwoman TV series because the lead actress has quit and now they have to recast. I was honestly surprised they cast her in the first place. Whenever I’m watching something a few years old and Ruby Rose shows up it just reminds me of when someone was desperately trying to make her a Thing despite the fact she can’t act. She had big roles in a season of Orange Is The New Black and John Wick 2 and it instantly marks them as having been made in 2016. Ugly In The Morning has a new favorite as of 11:54 on May 20, 2020 |
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muscles like this! posted:Thing that won't age well: the first season of the Batwoman TV series because the lead actress has quit and now they have to recast. Also because it was very bad.
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Speaking of recasting, apparently they killed off Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon series because the actor was a dickhead (my dad watches the show, so I don't know much about it). What I don't get is why they didn't just recast the role, especially given the title "Lethal Weapon" refers to Riggs. Kinda like how the new Star Trek movies seem to be on hold because of some problem with the guy playing Kirk. Just recast the role. You've already proved it can be done, what's the problem?
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May 20, 2020 11:57
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Things got complicated by the fact that the actor who played Roger Murtaugh wanted to quit for health reasons, and having *both* lead characters get recast can be kind of confusing to the audience. I imagine the plan was to introduce other protagonists X-Files style, but the show got cancelled before they could really achieve that.
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quote:Wayans had cited health problems as the reason for his departure, stating, "I'm a 58-year-old diabetic, and I’m working 16-hour days." Woah. I''ve just realised that he actually was getting too old for that poo poo. aardwolf has a new favorite as of 12:23 on May 20, 2020 |
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Re: Thanos being an arsehole https://imgur.com/a/SGx7S I love the faces in the second panel. Thanos is such a smug arsehole, and Doom and Darkseid are seething. There's a whole series of these, and they are all a delight. BrigadierSensible has a new favorite as of 13:13 on May 20, 2020 |
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Grand Gigas posted:Oldish post but Columbo is as much a cop as Zeus was a swan. Columbo owns as a cop and as a character. He exclusively goes after white collar criminals to the point of even frequently enlisting the help of petty offenders and drug dealers to catch them. I think he says a few times he literally doesn’t care about those crimes, and is also a charming and lovable man we are all worse off now Peter Falk is dead
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Sunswipe posted:Speaking of recasting, apparently they killed off Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon series because the actor was a dickhead (my dad watches the show, so I don't know much about it). What I don't get is why they didn't just recast the role, especially given the title "Lethal Weapon" refers to Riggs. Kinda like how the new Star Trek movies seem to be on hold because of some problem with the guy playing Kirk. Just recast the role. You've already proved it can be done, what's the problem? Contracts, most likely, that and the fact that it's more that most of the cast are getting too expensive to hire, than any behind the scenes drama - especially if they were going to do the initial concept of a time travel story involving Kirk's dad, which'd mean paying Chris Hemsworth.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Re: Thanos being an arsehole Meanwhile here’s an actual canon (Mister Miracle #11) scene of Darkseid committing the ultimate evil:  DOUBLE DIPPING
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oldpainless posted:One way movie Thanos could have been improved was every scene he was in he would just be finishing a set and let the person know what he had lifted. Thanos: My phone keeps eating my posts
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AceOfFlames posted:Meanwhile here’s an actual canon (Mister Miracle #11) scene of Darkseid committing the ultimate evil: Are there panels/jokes in DC with people mis-pronouncing his name as Dark-Seed? Or him correcting people? It honestly wasn't until the Superman cartoon of the mid to late 90's that I found out it's supposed to be Dark-Side, but with that spelling, how would anyone know?
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DrBouvenstein posted:Are there panels/jokes in DC with people mis-pronouncing his name as Dark-Seed? Or him correcting people? Even though I know it’s pronounced Darkside my brain still pronounces it darkseed when I read it.
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christmas boots posted:Unfortunately the existence of Mrs. Columbo starring a 24 year old Kate Mulgrew confirms that Columbo liked his women a little too young. Columbo's wife does not actually exist and the three times a character who is not Columbo in the series claims to have seen his wife, they are either mistaken, lying or crazy.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Are there panels/jokes in DC with people mis-pronouncing his name as Dark-Seed? Or him correcting people? Teen Titans Go! did a joke with Robin announcing they had to go and fight Darkseid, at which point the other Titans start claiming dibs on which Star Wars character they're going to be. I hope this helps, because TTG is pretty much the only DC thing I give a crap about since the Nolan Batman movies finished. Ugly In The Morning posted:Even though I know it’s pronounced Darkside my brain still pronounces it darkseed when I read it. Sunswipe has a new favorite as of 16:21 on May 20, 2020 |
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Isn't Darkseid in Teen Titans Go also voiced by Weird Al? I seem to remember that.
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Yep! That show is weird. I'd catch up on it but there's like eighty zillion episodes.
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Push El Burrito posted:Isn't Darkseid in Teen Titans Go also voiced by Weird Al? I seem to remember that. Yes. This becomes clear after Starfire offers him a throat lozenge. Ghost Leviathan posted:Yep! That show is weird. I'd catch up on it but there's like eighty zillion episodes.
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Sunswipe posted:Yes. This becomes clear after Starfire offers him a throat lozenge. Yeah but that’s still eight hundred zillion minutes
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...I'm still wondering what the problem is, like are you worried about watching them out of order or something? There's nothing really to "catch up" on, there's barely ever even a hint of continuity. Just....watch it?
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What if you don't want to watch it?
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Watching a new show means making headspace for whatever fictional world they've set up, and if you're going to do that, might as well watch something for grownups if you're not longer a child.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Watching a new show means making headspace for whatever fictional world they've set up, and if you're going to do that, might as well watch something for grownups if you're not longer a child. 
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I can’t tell if that’s a weird tumblr parody post from 2012 or not
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Watching a new show means making headspace for whatever fictional world they've set up, and if you're going to do that, might as well watch something for grownups if you're not longer a child. He's not wrong, you could drop dead any day, might as well spend your time watching the best poo poo possible
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MCU marathons, got it
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I'm entirely serious, between Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, whatever, so much good, meaningful content is at your fingertips. I'd recommend Alta Mar/High Seas on Netflix if you like historical drama and mystery, for example.
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There is no such thing as meaningful entertainment. It’s all trash set to entertain you. But that doesn’t matter because no one can maintain a lifestyle of no entertainment without being that nerd
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As an adult you should be free to throw off the whims of others, friends and shitposters alike, and watch whatever I want to watch. No, that's not a typo.
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CharlestheHammer posted:There is no such thing as meaningful entertainment. it's probably best not to hold the most cynical position possible towards entertainment
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:it's probably best not to hold the most cynical position possible towards entertainment Why not? Also Cynical would imply I think it’s bad, it’s not. Entertainment is what it is, no more no less The true Cynical thing would be saying the people who talk about meaningful entertainment are just doing it to shore up their own fragile self worth
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Not everything has to be some super-engrossing thing that demands your whole attention, cartoons and sitcoms are great minor background programs for a lot of activities, and the line about ~~making new headspace~~ would be complete buffoonery even if the show being discussed wasn't about characters that many people have known for decades or longer. "Oh no, who is this 'Robin' character?!"
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food court bailiff posted:Not everything has to be some super-engrossing thing that demands your whole attention, cartoons and sitcoms are great minor background programs for a lot of activities, and the line about ~~making new headspace~~ would be complete buffoonery even if the show being discussed wasn't about characters that many people have known for decades or longer. "Oh no, who is this 'Robin' character?!" On a scale of 1-10 how familiar would the Teen Titans Robin be to someone who, say, watched BTAS a few decades ago? Or to someone who watched whatever the last movie was that had a Robin?
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I mean he is an exaggeration but teen titans go is more about skits than characters or even the stories themselves. It’s basically it’s always sunny in Philadelphia but for kids
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CharlestheHammer posted:I mean he is an exaggeration but teen titans go is more about skits than characters or even the stories themselves. Well I hated what I've seen of that, so all the more reason. 
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CharlestheHammer posted:I mean he is an exaggeration but teen titans go is more about skits than characters or even the stories themselves. Pretty much. I've only seen a few episodes but one I watched was Robin is so jealous of Kid Flash that he breaks his knees. Also I'm pretty sure he cripples Santa Claus. No lesson. No comeuppance. Robin cripples good people and wins. Hooray for our heroes!
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Calico Heart posted:Columbo owns as a cop and as a character. He exclusively goes after white collar criminals to the point of even frequently enlisting the help of petty offenders and drug dealers to catch them. I think he says a few times he literally doesn’t care about those crimes, and is also a charming and lovable man we are all worse off now Peter Falk is dead He doesn’t even carry a gun.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Well I hated what I've seen of that, so all the more reason. That’s fine mean spirited humor isn’t for everyone
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Sunswipe posted:Speaking of recasting, apparently they killed off Martin Riggs in the Lethal Weapon series because the actor was a dickhead (my dad watches the show, so I don't know much about it). What I don't get is why they didn't just recast the role, especially given the title "Lethal Weapon" refers to Riggs. Kinda like how the new Star Trek movies seem to be on hold because of some problem with the guy playing Kirk. Just recast the role. You've already proved it can be done, what's the problem? The whole thing was a huge mess with both Clayne Crawford (Riggs) and Damon Wayans (Murtaugh) responsible for the show problems. Crawford was a perfectionist with anger issues which lead to events like him screaming about kids playing near the set who were screwing up a shoot (not directly at them but loudly enough that they could hear.) While Wayans hated being on the show and refused to do anything but the bare minimum for his part (basically if a scene did not directly involve his character he didn't care.) The personality differences also brought about clashes on and off set eventually culminating in Crawford giving producers a "him or me" ultimatum. They chose Wayans and of course he ended up quitting the show at the end of the next season anyway.
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Calico Heart posted:Columbo owns as a cop and as a character. He exclusively goes after white collar criminals to the point of even frequently enlisting the help of petty offenders and drug dealers to catch them. I think he says a few times he literally doesn’t care about those crimes, and is also a charming and lovable man we are all worse off now Peter Falk is dead I'd like to think that a lot of the criminals Columbo took down confessed just so he would leave them alone. I read a story about Falk that was especially sad: They wanted to do one more Columbo story and approached Falk, but by that time, his Alzheimer's was so bad, he didn't even remember being Columbo.
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