Peacemaker: Chekhov's Helmets (renewed for s2)

The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > Peacemaker: Chekhov's Helmets (renewed for s2)

«‹›2 »

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Codependent Poster posted:

Guardians 2 also has a very somber and sad ending sequence. I think there is one joke from Drax in there, but otherwise it's pretty sad.

Actually one of my favorite gags: You are beautiful...

...on the inside.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2022 10:46

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 09:49

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

It's like they had one of those Facebook meme things where you go down the list and pick a title that corresponds to the first letter of your first name and a name that corresponds to the last letter of your last name and that's your Nazi supervillain title. I wonder what the Nazi equivalent of "Moon Moon" would be

Aw man I got Jew Jew :heritage:

# ¿ Feb 13, 2022 07:10

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Mons Hubris posted:

What is �throw your dog the invisible bone� supposed to mean? I guess it�s sexual but what an odd turn of phrase.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2022 07:24

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Vitruvian Manic posted:

I can't launch this rocket unless it has a Sanskrit symbol for the sun...

...You drew it backwards

Heffer posted:

I'd love to see Harley and Poison Ivy done in a film, but I have no idea what actress would be able to pull off Ivy standing next to Margot's Harley

ScarJo in a red wig?

# ¿ Feb 14, 2022 07:14

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Gargamel Gibson posted:

I think it's a bit early to say it'll be that bad.

Have you... seen the last few Star Wars movies? If anything a D+ is optimistic :v:

# ¿ Feb 15, 2022 00:06

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Repeat: Chekov's Butthole is still on the field :madmax:

# ¿ Feb 15, 2022 06:46

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

True, now that all the nazis are dead I don't know if anyone else in the show really 'deserves' it enough.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2022 07:16

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

Oh god, it's going to be this, isn't it? :gonk:

Countdown to the entire cast getting You Can't Do That On Television slimed: 3 days.

Fanelien posted:

fixed this for you

Counterpoint: A Gunn show with a deep cut Disco soundtrack would jaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViN2bRGrBx8

# ¿ Feb 15, 2022 10:34

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Vitruvian Manic posted:

Accurate.

Seen the intro so many times I immediately noticed the video was mirrored from Vig and Adebayo being on the wrong sides.

# ¿ Feb 17, 2022 08:19

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

A completely hosed sleep schedule does come with a few perks it seems :getin:

And yeah that was about as good a season ender that we could have hoped for.

Jerusalem posted:

Also, Economos laying out the reason why he dyed his beard was just great, I love that the series gave a chance for these characters who are basically just background actors in the films to flesh out as actual people, and that they absolutely nailed it.

Love how what could have been a one-off jokey reference to the actor not wanting to dye his beard for the movie turned into this season-long character arc with a proper payoff and everything.

e:

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

I am counting that as Chekov's butthole accomplished.

That reminds me, I watched Slither the other night and it features an x-ray view of an alien parasite punching into a person's chest and burrowing up to their brain to take control. And that was in 2006.

Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 12:24 on Feb 17, 2022

# ¿ Feb 17, 2022 12:06

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

^^^ drat Nazi, couldn't even do his speech bubble right :mad:

Comrade Fakename posted:

Kind of weird that Adebayo�s wife is so prominent in the opening titles when she was barely in the show, never even met Peacemaker or any of the rest of the crew, and was basically just a plot device for Adebayo.

Probably because her moves are fly on a level rivaling Harcourt's. They both obviously have some background in dance. And I really want to know if her double 🖕 in the intro is an adlib.

e: Rewatching the bit I just screenshot, looks like everybody is throwing up the double birds

jabby posted:

I wonder if the reveal of Waller/Task Force X is going to be a big deal in Season 2. Revealing all the butterfly stuff feels significant, especially if a bunch of world leaders are going to start dropping dead soon.

I guess it wouldn't make any sense given the butterfly's stated goals, but it would be a fun excuse to have a bunch of CGI politicians like Trump and Giuliani start melting into gore puddles on CNN :hehe:

Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Feb 18, 2022

# ¿ Feb 18, 2022 07:01

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Tunicate posted:

The butterflies were completely and totally defeated by a group of five total fuckup humans with no superpowers. And Eagly.

Eehhh, magic helmets played a pretty major role in things. From saving PM at the end of ep1 to the whole final conflict at the barn.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2022 07:20

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

chitoryu12 posted:

https://twitter.com/davi_a86/status/1495031030117457924?s=21

I want these for the other 7 episodes now, but I don't know how to search for specific content on Twitter :corsair:

Relevant Tangent posted:

I skipped the intro after the first couple of times tbh.

Hhhisssssssssssssss :catstare:

https://twitter.com/JamesGunn/status/1494432659208085516

# ¿ Feb 19, 2022 23:11

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

I made a thing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD5LM_2QENw

# ¿ Feb 20, 2022 11:10

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Szmitten posted:

I misremembered this entirely.

I just rewatched the first few episodes so I remembered the weird air freshener thing from the apartment morphed into the spaceship, but I hadn't ever noticed the girl with PM and Vig was hostage wife!

# ¿ Feb 21, 2022 00:47

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Conrad_Birdie posted:

Goon face blindness strikes again

TBF I wasn't looking at her face :pervert:

# ¿ Feb 21, 2022 05:09

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

pile of brown posted:

Its peacemaker and vigilante doing a tandem gymnastics routine in leotards that match their costumes

*ahem*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozoTzkCeO-A

Comedy option:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK98jx7gw7w

# ¿ Feb 21, 2022 07:04

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Xelkelvos posted:

They probably did it before, but S2 just makes it official.

Dunno about that, in the first ep when PM's going through all his voicemails from the last 4 years and it's all Vig leaving stupid poo poo he specifically calls back to clarify that when he said "Hey what's up P it's me V" that it was NOT a reference to penis and vagina. I think at this point in the show they're just hetero BFFs.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2022 00:41

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Tunicate posted:

Tungsten-citric concentrate :yum:

# ¿ Feb 23, 2022 20:19

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Push El Burrito posted:

IIRC they let a movie trailer company edit the whole thing which is why it's completely disjointed and the songs are terribly done.

Yuuuuuuuuuup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nSgtpjfgbA&t=99s

e:
We should have seen the intro dance coming...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_iwVg9zf0E&t=99s

Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Feb 26, 2022

# ¿ Feb 26, 2022 05:57

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

quantumfoam posted:

After filming GotG3 + season 2 of Peacemaker, James Gunn should make James E Gunn's KAMPUS into a tv-series.

Seeing him play Satan in those parody Christian videos in Super, I am extremely down for this.

E:

Charity Porno posted:

I love how Cena has been wearing the loving suit for basially every media appearance since last summer

1) It's a uniform, and
2) it's new, he needs to stretch it out.

Watermelon Daiquiri posted:

man he looks *wierd* without the beard

He had a bit part in Super and just had stubble, still looked weird.

Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Feb 28, 2022

# ¿ Feb 28, 2022 03:24

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Dawgstar posted:

And it started the lifelong bromance between Gunn and Michael Rooker.

He's also head of security for the big bad in Super.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2022 08:05

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

How about a nice big cup of

e:
Referencing this old macro, not telling you to stfu :shobon:

vvv

Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Mar 4, 2022

# ¿ Mar 4, 2022 01:23

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

theflyingexecutive posted:

I followed the same advice and Doom Patrol was a real slog after watching Peacemaker. It's a far more fanciful setting, yet the tone is so melodramatic and weepy. On one hand, you have this near-omnipotent 4th wall-breaking monkeycheese narrator villain, and then all of the main characters just unendingly relive the trauma of their origins. You'll have a Nazi super scientist with a puppet show and steampunk contraptions in one chunk of an episode, then a twenty minute flashback to a character being a closeted gay man in the 50s. Well greater than half of the jokes are the characters just going "whaaaaaaaaat" or "well this might as well happen". I made it two episodes into season 2 and gave up.

those flashbacks were to 1961 (just rewatched that episode tonight, as it turns out). I'm towards the beginning of season 2 in my own watching and am still enjoying it all right, but people definitely shouldn't go in expecting the show to be Peacemaker Jr. They do have a good bit of overlap with the themes of 'metahumans behaving badly', but Peacemaker is an action comedy with bits of drama, Doom Patrol is a drama comedy with bits of action.

vvv Fair enough, the show does seem to have no problems with veering off on a seemingly random tangent just for fun. I assume that's partly them just pulling in random crap from the comic material and fitting it into the show where it kind of works, but I haven't read them so I can't say for sure.

Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Mar 7, 2022

# ¿ Mar 7, 2022 04:57

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Shageletic posted:

Oooh, the Boys! Though because its a little more scattered towards its plotting, its a definite second to Peacemaker.

That is a good one. If people are looking for something similar but bouncing off Doom Patrol, give a few episodes of The Boys a try. It's also full of superheroes behaving badly, but more from the perspective of regular people trying to combat them.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2022 02:30

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Senator Drinksalot posted:

Watchman 3: Peacemaker kills Dr Manhattan

He reforms his body yet again but is still somehow bound to one of PM's helmets. It's power becomes giving the wearer the ability to hang blue dong.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2022 22:48

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Interesting! I thought season 2 was a little uneven, like they wrote season 1 not expecting to get another and had to kind of scramble to extend things, but overall it's pretty good, any fan of PM should check it out.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2022 22:25

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Senator Drinksalot posted:

Stallone or Ron Funches as King Shark?

Would be some tonal whiplash going between TSS's big dum "be... friend?" Shark vs Harley's regular intelligence quippy Shark.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2022 22:18

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Thundercracker posted:

I used to think at least they'd pay for the remodels but apparently the stupid homeowners actually pay for it, and half the time they don't even get what they asked for or just shoddy garbage. lol. Best grift in television.

Even when the show covers the actual remodel/labor cost I've heard that a lot of the homeowners on those shows end up getting screwed on their property taxes the following year since all of the "improvements" make their home "worth more".

# ¿ Aug 11, 2022 08:57

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Shrimpy posted:

I don't know if "screwed" is the right word. This is often just how property taxes work.

I feel like taxes go up = getting screwed is a pretty common concept in a lot of scenarios, particularly home ownership, hyperbolic though it may be. The home owners not considering this eventuality when signing up to be on the show likely also contributes.

socialsecurity posted:

Also property tax evaluations are in no way that quick there is no way even a small % of those are getting immediate tax increases like that.

I don't remember details from the article, but it was about going back and visiting people who had been on these kind of home improvement shows, so I assume they were talking about the following year's taxes not something they got in the mail as the TV trucks were pulling away.

# ¿ Aug 12, 2022 15:12

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Grendels Dad posted:

They did and do, the project just always dies when they realize they can't cast Hugh Jackmann.

Or go back in time and give 1996 Rob Zombie steroids for two years.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2024 07:04

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Sammus posted:

No one is answering this, but I really want to know too.

My internal explanation for gun characters in RPGs doing more damage the more you leveled strength was that they were thrusting the gun forward at the moment of firing, increasing the velocity of the bullets :science:

e: Anybody listen to Podly, the Peacemaker Podcast? Any good?

# ¿ Mar 13, 2024 04:00

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

Gunn's stuff is great, and I liked Shazam as well. Sounds like I need to check out BoP.

I said come in! posted:

WW84 is the absolute worse of the DC movies, and quite possibly the worse comic book movie i've ever seen. Even the first Suicide Squad movie I can find something redeeming about it, but WW84 is just pure trash from top to bottom.

The opening scene with young Diana at the Amazon games and the big final fight with the cat lady compliment each other beautifully, thematically tying the movie together while subtly displaying its core thesis to the audience...

Cheetahs never win :v:

# ¿ Mar 14, 2024 09:05

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 09:49

Takes No Damage: Nov 20, 2004; The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.; Grimey Drawer

^^^
Was she at least bathing on the roof?

Alhazred posted:

So is nobody going to mention Tarantino?

He doesn't use music as much as people like Gunn, but when he goes he goes hard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjUi-P4gm6k

Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 11:31 on Mar 17, 2024

# ¿ Mar 17, 2024 11:28

The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > Peacemaker: Chekhov's Helmets (renewed for s2)

«‹›2 »