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I think I saw two episodes of Dollhouse, can't remember poo poo about it
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I think I just liked Whedon back in the day because poo poo pandering to nerds didn't come out as much as it does now.
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Feb 13, 2021 20:19
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bitterandtwisted posted:Before the modern movies, superheroes normies had heard of were the ones with campy live action TV shows and it's amazing to me it took so long for a Wonder Woman movie to be made. Some executive decided loving Green Lantern was a more bankable character. 99% of superheroes I knew about that weren't either movie superman or 60s batman were from the 80s DC action figure range, they were huge and who the gently caress is firestorm
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Feb 13, 2021 20:29
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Wonder Woman also really doesn't have a solid grounding to work from like Superman or Batman, it's hard to even say who her big villains are or think of any iconic storylines Bringing this around to the thread topic, i can think of one: Egg Fu
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Feb 13, 2021 20:41
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Chubby Henparty posted:99% of superheroes I knew about that weren't either movie superman or 60s batman were from the 80s DC action figure range, they were huge and who the gently caress is firestorm As I recall, the last season or so of Super Friends (Legendary Super Powers Team?) in the 80's brought Firestorm and Cyborg onto the team. I think I remember origins for both of them, and then nothing else from that season. The only other thing think I remember from watching Super Friends as a child was an episode where Aquaman got turned into a giant shark with elephant legs and was attacking buildings. If that actually was an episode, I wish I knew which one it was.
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Feb 13, 2021 20:58
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Twitch posted:I think I just liked Whedon back in the day because poo poo pandering to nerds didn't come out as much as it does now. I think this was definitely a big factor in his popularity back then.
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Feb 13, 2021 21:12
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Iron Crowned posted:I think I saw two episodes of Dollhouse, can't remember poo poo about it The first season was good and kept you asking “ooo where’s this gonna go”, but of course that’s the same question that Whedon was asking himself and never bothered answering.
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Feb 13, 2021 21:16
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Iron Crowned posted:I think I saw two episodes of Dollhouse, can't remember poo poo about it Considering the premise was slavery, except Scifi, you got off lucky.
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Feb 13, 2021 21:19
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Twitch posted:I think I just liked Whedon back in the day because poo poo pandering to nerds didn't come out as much as it does now. I remember being ripped to shreds when I dared to not like Firefly because I wasn't awed by his genius.
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Feb 13, 2021 21:36
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maltesh posted:The only other thing think I remember from watching Super Friends as a child was an episode where Aquaman got turned into a giant shark with elephant legs and was attacking buildings. If that actually was an episode, I wish I knew which one it was. Some googling suggests this is Super Friends 3x29 (or 3x15): Journey Through Inner Space, but I’m having trouble finding any  to stream to confirm.EDIT: I also demand DC acknowledge this fact in the next Aquaman film: Some DC Fan Wiki posted:It is stated that Aquaman evolved from a prehistoric fish. EDIT 2: Found it! PM me if you want to see this nonsense. Blue Moonlight has a new favorite as of 22:26 on Feb 13, 2021 |
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Feb 13, 2021 21:40
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Didn't we all evolve from fish?
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Feb 13, 2021 22:26
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bunnyofdoom posted:Didn't we all evolve from fish? I think in the comics they even used that fact to justify Aquaman being able to mind control humans. Seriously.
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Feb 13, 2021 22:47
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Blue Moonlight posted:Some googling suggests this is Super Friends 3x29 (or 3x15): Journey Through Inner Space, but I’m having trouble finding any I've just finished watching it. Holy crap, it was more bizarre than I believed possible. I did not expect a Fantastic Voyage rescue plan using the Supermobile to irradiate Aquaman's brain with the "deadliest radioactive isotope known."
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Feb 13, 2021 23:00
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Cleretic posted:The Bond movies also all just do the exact same continuity, even their one outright reboot, with Craig . To get persnickety with a bizarre factoid Connery's final appearance as bond in "Never say never again" was a weird event because it was a reboot staring the original bond as old bond produced by a different production house because of licensing stuff. The story itself being basically Thunderball, which was also a bond flick It's a weird film from any angle
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Feb 14, 2021 02:39
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I guess the dam really broke on our boy Josh. https://twitter.com/Mooseplainer/status/1360697769460047873?s=20 This is Degree Cosby, at least. The whole public persona was just cover to make his transgressions less believable.
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Feb 14, 2021 03:11
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Is it just autocorrect or am I missing something that Joss keeps getting called Josh when his name is Joseph?
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Feb 14, 2021 03:20
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I think it's just a petty joke about his ridiculous affectation of a name. The fact that he doesn't go by his cool given name of Joe Hill Whedon is proof that he's irredeemable.
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Feb 14, 2021 03:24
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https://twitter.com/treytylor/status/1360661970924556291?s=20 I think this was around the same time Charlie Sheen was on drugs and was threatening his wife and kids with a knife, but was treated as some weird hero for it.
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Feb 14, 2021 03:28
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Jestery posted:To get persnickety with a bizarre factoid Never Say Never Again wasn't really a reboot. The short version is the rights to the story and characters from Thunderball (Which was first a movie idea, then a novel, then a movie) got hung up legal battles for years because Fleming didn't originally credit the other guys who helped with the story (When he made it from the original movie idea into a novel), and then when it eventually was settled the guy who wanted to make it a movie still had to wait a bunch of years as a condition of the settlement. Fleming's estate and Eon, the company that produced all the official Bond movies, basically tried everything they could to block it, but eventually it got made by Warner Brothers, which is why it lacks so many of the trademark elements they didn't have the rights to from the normal Bond movies like the gun barrel opening, the Bond theme, Desmond Llewelyn as Q, and so on. This is also why you'll sometimes see clips of it in places like Disney's Great Movie Ride, or why it's not included in most Bond collections or not always shown on the same channels as part of marathons, because the rights for it are different. It came out a few months after Octopussy, but the main reason people remember it at all is because it was Sean Connery back in the role for a 7th and final time, so while it's not technically an "official" Bond movie, it's close enough that it was pretty much treated as one by fans and pop culture at large (Compared to the 1967 comedy version of Casino Royale, which is mostly an afterthought).
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Feb 14, 2021 03:36
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/treytylor/status/1360661970924556291?s=20 There are several late night show interviews like this and it’s bizarre how no one cared
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Feb 14, 2021 03:46
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/treytylor/status/1360661970924556291?s=20 Holy Crows this makes me Smokin Mad
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Feb 14, 2021 04:00
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I looked up Malcolm in the Middle today because of a thread and Chris Benoit is apparently in the intro
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Feb 14, 2021 04:06
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It’s horrible to watch a person plead helplessly not to be humiliated after doing a pretty good job of deflecting unwelcome behavior in a way that could be played off as good-humored banter. That was the same talk show where Bill Cosby was able to demand that all women on the production watch him eat curry from the last page, by the way.
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Feb 14, 2021 04:07
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/treytylor/status/1360661970924556291?s=20 Holy poo poo, that was terrible. She handled it with incredible professionalism and grace that he completely didn’t deserve, and it’s loving terrible that if she had called him out on his poo poo, she would have caught hell for it.
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Feb 14, 2021 04:28
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/treytylor/status/1360661970924556291?s=20 She handled that like a champion. It's a good reminder that no matter how far we think we've come as a society on issues it hasn't been that long since we were worse. Maybe it was "okay" at the time but it really shouldn't have been.
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Feb 14, 2021 04:48
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/treytylor/status/1360661970924556291?s=20 This is infuriating to watch and makes me much less appreciate being in the studio audience when visiting New York during his final year before leaving the show.
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Feb 14, 2021 04:50
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It seems pretty abnormal for a celebrity on a talk show to break the conceit of the interview and say, “we didn’t cover this in the prep meeting” that they’re not supposed to acknowledge because it ruins the the illusion that they’re having a spontaneous and natural conversation. You’d have to push someone pretty far to get them talking like that because it betrays the role they inhabit as their job, which is pretty clear in the progression of her responses.
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Feb 14, 2021 04:58
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Chubby Henparty posted:99% of superheroes I knew about that weren't either movie superman or 60s batman were from the 80s DC action figure range, they were huge and who the gently caress is firestorm Firestorm is one of those characters who really needs more exposure just because their (and I do mean their) whole concept is the best kind of bonkers. The Brave and the Bold episode with them is one of the best.
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Feb 14, 2021 05:36
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/treytylor/status/1360661970924556291?s=20 letterman was cheered on for that interview, iirc, because thanks to tabloids airing out lohan's dirty laundry constantly for years and years about failed rehabilitation, relationships, broken promises/apologies, relapses, outrageous partying, every single poor life decision she ever made during an awful period of her life, all while turning her family life into a circus that the entertainment news outlets managed to exhaust public sympathy for lohan, which was initially very high because she showed so much potential in the early 2000s but was then reaching some kind of pseudo-burnout in the early 2010s thanks to a relentless news cycle...the public spectacle of it all had all but rendered her into a walking, talking joke in the eyes of many and letterman's cruelty p much just said what a lot of people where thinking at the time it's cool that we can now recognize at least one facet of why that whole situation was awful
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Feb 14, 2021 06:05
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She seems extremely with it during that interview. I don’t know that I would have had the presence of mind to bring things back to her prepared comments about being glad to work again as naturally as she does multiple times there. I don’t know the timeline for her difficulties, but she seems clear-headed there, maybe more so than I’d expect a celebrity to be while selling a new movie.
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Feb 14, 2021 06:26
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bobjr posted:I think this was around the same time Charlie Sheen was on drugs and was threatening his wife and kids with a knife, but was treated as some weird hero for it. I remember an extremely bizarre period where Charlie Sheen just kept guest starring in things out of the blue and was getting wild audience reactions even while being blatantly skeezy and not remotely fitting in with anyone else, it made me feel like I was losing my mind. And I think it was after his domestic poo poo came out???
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Feb 14, 2021 06:34
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Pigbuster posted:I remember an extremely bizarre period where Charlie Sheen just kept guest starring in things out of the blue and was getting wild audience reactions even while being blatantly skeezy and not remotely fitting in with anyone else, it made me feel like I was losing my mind. And I think it was after his domestic poo poo came out??? He got his own TV show even that got record ratings for the network at the time, only for it to be cancelled soon after because he abused several women in the cast.
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Feb 14, 2021 06:36
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Len posted:I looked up Malcolm in the Middle today because of a thread and Chris Benoit is apparently in the intro Life is unfair.
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Feb 14, 2021 06:55
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I remember when I watched Firefly after years of hearing that it was the greatest thing ever and it sucked. One of my friends at the time got really mad at me when I talked about how the treatment of all of the female characters seemed hosed up and bad, especially for 'the strong female character guy'. Guess I'm vindicated now.
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Feb 14, 2021 07:01
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I guess the dam really broke on our boy Josh. grr... argh
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Feb 14, 2021 07:27
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There were some episodes of Firefly that I enjoyed but yeah I always thought it was kind of an overrated show and no one ever seemed to agree
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Feb 14, 2021 08:32
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It's was a pretty generic space cowboy show. But, at the time, there was nothing else like it around. Same with Buffy/Angel. Now there's so much nerd friendly stuff on TV you couldn't watch it all if you tried and it really shines a spotlight on all the cracks of Whedon's works.
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Feb 14, 2021 08:58
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Cowboy Bebop was always the better space western
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Feb 14, 2021 09:11
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christmas boots posted:Cowboy Bebop was always the better space western A random thing that's mostly unrelated to the topic at hand, but that I always remember when Cowboy Bebop comes up (and that's less depressing than talking about how bad Whedon's stuff is to look back on): Back in the early 00s there was talk of a Cowboy Bebop live-action adaptation, and the only thing I remember about it is Keanu Reeves as Spike. That just stands out to me as a really interesting time capsule of casting. Because if we're completely honest about it right now, an early-00s Keanu Reeves might be one of the best choices to play Spike... but anyone who made that pick in the early 00s would've hosed it up, because that was the era of grossly miscasting Keanu Reeves.
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firefly was unique for the time, but the luster wore off quickly and so did the cult classic appeal. now its just a show with some fun concepts and acting which regrettably would have been better executed in different hands, on a different network agreeing to disagree about firefly in 2004 was people being like "oh my god, you haven't seen firefly? you need to watch it right now, i can loan you some tapes" and you'd say, even if you had seen it, yeah maybe i'll get around to it sometime and deferring cowboy bebop is loving great, but it has the standard anime problems all over it and thus not many people will touch it because anime, and rightfully so. faye doesn't need to be so heavily sexualized and fanservicey
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