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Jul 14, 2021 07:31
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if luz earring is a black circle, and amity's earring is a black triangle.... whomst earring is a black square #secrets #conspiracies
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Jul 14, 2021 08:17
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Eda's earring is a coat hangar.
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Jul 14, 2021 08:29
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Do you have a closet? "A closet? Mate, I have so many outfits I need a coat HANGAR!"
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Jul 14, 2021 08:42
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The United States posted:What's going on with Netflix? Netflix waits until a whole season is done before putting it up.
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Jul 14, 2021 16:32
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binge watching is good for their inhouse blackbox engagement numbers , and stockholders love it when those numbers are good.
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Jul 14, 2021 21:33
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The upcoming CGI He-Man show was mentioned a little in this month's edition of SFX Magazine: -There will be a lot of easter eggs to every possible tie-in with the franchise, including Revelation, with 'subtle nods' to every series prior. -A 'Day One' Prince Adam. Entirely different from what we've seen before -The series will be a coming-of-age tale, with the characters on journeys of personal discovery and 'earning' new powers and their titles as Masters
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Jul 15, 2021 13:08
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Eda's earring is a coat hangar. That's partly because Eda, despite having a reliable door to the human realm, still knows next to nothing about it. I do hope they pay off the idea of Luz and Amity (along with Gus and Willow) going to Earth. Like: Gus: What're all those things going so fast. Luz: Cars. You get in them a ride to where you want to go. Willow: What about all those weird glowing signs? Luz: That's neon it makes the signs glow for advertising. Amity: What about all those cracking or popping noises Luz: Those are gunshots. We have a pretty high murder rate in this city. (listens for a bit) Yep, mom's gonna have a busy night at the hospital.
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Jul 15, 2021 17:24
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Larryb posted:Then again, the new He-Man shows will also be on Netflix and they already seem to have a bit of merchandise lined up (plus this franchise has always been a giant toy commercial so you’d think Mattel would have wanted to promote it). Who knows I'd bet it's partially because the production company gets a bite of merchandising revenue -- in the old days, MotU toys just licensed the show and Mattel made the toys and kept all revenues. DreamWorks controls the licensing of SPoP and gets the royalties (which they may share with Mattel, but it's less of an incentive to Mattel).
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Jul 15, 2021 23:20
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Of course, knowing Eda, she strikes me as the type to know that most of the junk she picks up probably has some uses and significance she doesn't know about, but doesn't particularly care because it's not like anyone on the Boiling Isles is going to know or care- to them, it's exotic novelties and treasures from a strange otherworld.
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Jul 16, 2021 05:12
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In regards to the upcoming CG He-Man reboot show, this image just leaked: Based on her design I’m guessing this is the new version of the Sorceress
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Jul 16, 2021 13:56
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Oh the cow-having is going to be spectacular 
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Jul 16, 2021 18:26
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Wait, are they doing two reboots of He-Man? Because the new one that we've all seen trailers of is definitely not CG.
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Jul 16, 2021 18:28
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Argue posted:Wait, are they doing two reboots of He-Man? Because the new one that we've all seen trailers of is definitely not CG. Yeah. Seems like they're trying to cover their quadrants.
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Jul 16, 2021 18:31
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MOTU Revelations is a soft sequel miniseries to the 80s cartoon targeting older audiences. The CG reboot is for kids.
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Argue posted:Wait, are they doing two reboots of He-Man? Because the new one that we've all seen trailers of is definitely not CG. The CG reboot is coming later (I don’t think we have a release date or even a confirmed voice cast yet) and is being handled by a different studio while Revelation is more of a pseudo-sequel to the 80’s cartoon. The people behind the former seem to have a decent track record in the animation industry at least so I’m hoping it’ll be at least SPoP quality if not better.
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Jul 16, 2021 18:50
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As a Target employee in charge of the toy section in the morning. Please people stop stealing the Skelegod MOTU figure. I mean how are you even sneaking it out? the thing is huge.
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Jul 16, 2021 19:48
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No real followup on the Luz/Amity from last episode, but it was still pretty good. That said, please magic owl Jesus don't let there be some dumb Amity/Luz/Hunter love triangle.
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Jul 17, 2021 15:48
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Everyone posted:No real followup on the Luz/Amity from last episode, but it was still pretty good. That said, please magic owl Jesus don't let there be some dumb Amity/Luz/Hunter love triangle. Kinda felt like Luz and Hunter were more bickering sibling-y than potential-romantic-interest but those lines obviously blur until one or the other says something concrete. I'll have to rewatch but think I noticed Kikimora blushing at something Hunter said/did/whatever near the end of the episode? Hard to tell on account of her having red skin but it caught my attention. Also, wondering if witches with no natural magical ability (presumably no bile sac) are probably be the descendants of Wittebane having kids with a Boiling Isles native/witch? Edit: I'm inclined to think that a love triangle is just generally unlikely because I think Terrace has said that any romance subplots aren't going to take narrative priority, they've already invested a decent amount in Luz/Amity, and they're on relatively limited time to throw new plates in the air. Hunter's backstory/relationship with Belos/animosity with Kikimora/interest in wild magic feels like more than enough interesting character arcs for him without adding a love triangle to the mix. xeria fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Jul 17, 2021 |
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Jul 17, 2021 18:59
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There's the added complication of AAAAAGH CREEPY HAND DRAGON. The pop culture reference I wasn't expecting was the Palisman hutch being a nod to the wood beast challenge scene from the 1980 Flash Gordon, of all things.
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Jul 17, 2021 19:39
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I appreciate the Dollar Store Pokemon aesthetic they're going with for palismans.
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Jul 17, 2021 21:24
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xeria posted:Kinda felt like Luz and Hunter were more bickering sibling-y than potential-romantic-interest but those lines obviously blur until one or the other says something concrete. I'll have to rewatch but think I noticed Kikimora blushing at something Hunter said/did/whatever near the end of the episode? Hard to tell on account of her having red skin but it caught my attention. I think that bit at the end of the episode was Kikimora's realisation that Hunter was the one who fought her & freed the Palismans. Of course, she can't prove it...
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Jul 17, 2021 22:17
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Is Belos one of King's gross meat servants?
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Jul 17, 2021 23:38
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About the new Owl House episode I would like to say: That shot at the start of the episode where we see all the heads of the various covens was anime as all hell, and that's not a complaint. I was looking at them all standing there all dramatic and thinking "Okay, which Straw Hat is going to have to face off against which coven head?".
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Yvonmukluk posted:I think that bit at the end of the episode was Kikimora's realization that Hunter was the one who fought her & freed the Palismans. Of course, she can't prove it... Even if she could prove it, she probably doesn't want to tug on that particular thread too hard. Hunter has no natural magic and yet Belos apparently gave him that staff so he could channel magic. That indicates that Hunter is very much in with Belos. And Kikimora tried to kill him. Belos finding out about that would likely bode very ill for Kikimora. mossyfisk posted:Is Belos one of King's gross meat servants? I doubt it. However given all that goop, Belos might be a partial Abomination now and he requires Palismen to consume to keep himself stable now. He might well be that human from the 1600s who used "wild magic" to become a partial Abomination to live for an extra few hundred years.
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Jul 18, 2021 01:58
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Yeah I still feel like Belos is a human, he just got into some crazy poo poo that was out of his league but gave him superpowers. And the reason there are powerless witches like Hunter are because they're his descendants.
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Jul 18, 2021 05:13
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Is it just me or did the Golden Guard/Hunter call Belos 'uncle'? I mighta misheard that. I think that the episode opens with Luz staring at the memory mouse thing and the emphasis on Belos, his plans involving the human realm, health problems and a magic-less witchling are all not coincidences. This episode also has more of what I love: implicit and explicit exploration of how the magic systems work both technically and culturally in the setting, and how they interact with each other. Belos having an outright grudge against 'wild magic', like Luz's glyphs and apparently Palismans, is interesting, and the Coven system being set up apparently as a counter to this... and it looks like Hexside and Eda both agree that this division is entirely arbitrary and artificial, with both Hexside's traditions and Eda's more primal kind of witchcraft incorporating both. Which is a nice extension of the theme that through Luz, Eda and Bump have buried the hatchet so that Luz can experience a broader style of learning and develop her skills however a human who wants to do magic can- and that increased flexibility benefits the other students too, and provides a win/win giving them Palismans they wouldn't otherwise be able to get, and giving the discarded Palismans a new home. On that note, Boscha being the second person to attract a Palisman partner may hint that Palismans aren't just partnering up with good or nice people, but people who have long-term goals and understand what they want, which maintains Hunter's moral ambiguity right at the end.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Is it just me or did the Golden Guard/Hunter call Belos 'uncle'? I mighta misheard that. With the flip side that Luz wasn't able to attract a Palisman because she's still not really sure what she wants. One thing we learn is that it seems that one big reason she wants to go home is that she's still a little stuck in the "story logic" that at the end of a "magical journey" the heroine has to go back home. Except that from Luz's perspective this isn't a "magical journey story." It's reality. And in reality (depending on the circumstances involved) Luz is the one who has to decide how her "story" goes. It goes back to her basic problem from the beginning of conflating fantasy with reality. Or at least occasionally acting like she's in an "isekai" and getting yet another bite on the rear end when the Boiling Isles don't conform to the books she's read.
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Jul 18, 2021 10:24
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Someone needs to make an Owl House thread. The walls of spoiler text are getting obnoxious.
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Jul 18, 2021 13:44
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AlternateNu posted:Someone needs to make an Owl House thread. The walls of spoiler text are getting obnoxious. I'll take the case! Got it all typed up but can't think of a good title though other than HOOT HOOT
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Jul 19, 2021 07:37
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TwoPair posted:I'll take the case! Got it all typed up but can't think of a good title though other than HOOT HOOT Hoo, Let's the Owl House
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TwoPair posted:I'll take the case! Got it all typed up but can't think of a good title though other than HOOT HOOT "Owl House/In the middle of owl street" "The Burning Isles are a real hoot: Owl House"
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Jul 19, 2021 08:06
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It is finished. Go forth and fill this thread with black bars no more
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Jul 19, 2021 08:18
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Reviews are out for He-Man Revelation and…it’s certainly a thing: (MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD) Adam dies. Twice. First in the opening episode after the power sword breaks, the second is when he returns in episode five, having left the Preternian afterlife to reclaim the sword after Roboto re-forges it. Skeletor, who has also been absent since episode one (save for flashbacks), suddenly comes out of hiding just as Adam is about to transform into He-Man and skewers him, claiming the sword as his own and becoming a Master of the Universe...the Skelegod Orko, who the reviews claim has the most surprisingly fleshed out story, sacrifices himself in episode four Larryb fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Jul 21, 2021 |
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Jul 21, 2021 17:01
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Larryb posted:Reviews are out for He-Man Revelation and…it’s certainly a thing: Those are some pretty big spoilers.
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Jul 21, 2021 17:07
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I Am Fowl posted:Those are some pretty big spoilers. Good point, I went back and added a warning to my post.
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Jul 21, 2021 17:19
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Another review, apparently there’s also some mild swearing and gruesome moments inspired by Akira: https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/fantasy/masters-of-the-universe-revelation-review/
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Jul 21, 2021 17:51
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Larryb posted:Reviews are out for He-Man Revelation and…it’s certainly a thing: They're ruining my childhood!?Skeletor winning anything ever? pffft. McTimmy fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Jul 21, 2021 |
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I guess that's one way to try avoiding how previous revival attempts were pretty boring. And if they're trying to emulate the old aesthetics of the series with a higher budget and older expected audience, that does seem like it'd lend itself to a sort of Liefeldian approach. I still feel like it's a shame that the Thundercats revival had some absolutely bonkers worldbuilding ideas that it only got to in the last few moments before it ended for being otherwise pretty dull.
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