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Vandar posted:It's a Rebuild. You could go back further with stuff like John Carpenter's The Thing or Airplane!
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 11:24 |
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Anora posted:You could go back further with stuff like John Carpenter's The Thing or Airplane! Samovar posted:Why reinvent the linguistic wheel? An adaptation, surely. That's not exactly what's happening in this series
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 12:19 |
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Samovar posted:Why reinvent the linguistic wheel? An adaptation, surely. It's less an adaption of the comic/movie, and more a conversation with both.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 13:05 |
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bunnyofdoom posted:I keep saying it, and I will continue to say it, this is by far the most emotionally healthy bat family. Jason is explicitly in therapy, and they all agree it's a good thing. They are all really supportive of each other, have a really good dynamic. One of the big email threads is about Dick, Babs and Jason all talking about going to Gotham's pride parade to support Tim, and if they should go as civvies or in uniform. Aw, that sounds really lovely. Still, as far as Robins go, Tim's always gonna be bottom of the pile for me because he's so boring. Dick's obviously the GOAT, Damian's great and fun for everyone else to bounce off, Jason's flawed but interesting but Tim's just tedious beyond belief.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 13:43 |
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We can’t be friends.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 14:54 |
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‘Tim is boring’. Modern Tim maybe because DC has hosed around with him for so long.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 15:25 |
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Tim had a solo title for like 150 issues.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 15:33 |
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Samovar posted:Why reinvent the linguistic wheel? An adaptation, surely. Except in this case it’s not really a direct adaptation and instead more of its own story (meaning you’ll probably appreciate it a little more if you’ve read the comics or seen the movie beforehand)
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 16:21 |
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:It's less an adaption of the comic/movie, and more a conversation with both. The closest analogue I can think of would be the different versions of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I think adaptation fits. Adaptations can be in conversation with their antecedents.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 16:52 |
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Technically it’s based on a series of graphic novels so here’s a teaser for Hilda Season 3 (which will be the end of the series and be dropping on Netflix next month): https://youtube.com/watch?v=dsYhnDU438M
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 19:01 |
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Vandar posted:‘Tim is boring’. Tim needs a reinvention on the level of what Dick went through when Nightwing stopped being the guy who screamed at Batman about "NOT LIVING IN YOUR SHADOW, MAN!" every time they meet up. He can't be Robin anymore because that's Damian, even though Damian as Robin with Bruce as Batman kind of sucks.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 19:26 |
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OnimaruXLR posted:Tim needs a reinvention Aww yeah.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 19:39 |
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Ugh. "Drake" sucks so hard. Worse than Red Robin which was already pretty dire. Honestly at this point, I'd kinda prefer they just have Tim retire or something if they're going to continue to misuse him and not know what to do with the character. But since they had him come out, it'd probably be bad PR to just shuffle him away. There really was no need for a fourth Robin when Tim was still around and a perfectly viable candidate. He was never hated the way Jason was.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 20:22 |
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X-O posted:Aww yeah. it's as if Nightwing somehow fused with the poop emoji
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 20:25 |
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hiddenriverninja posted:it's as if Nightwing somehow fused with the poop emoji It wants to be Dick but it's pure rear end.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 20:31 |
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Lobok posted:It wants to be Dick but it's pure rear end. Dick was already pure rear end.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 20:32 |
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Honestly if I had to do something with Tim, I'd have him take over as Oracle. His entire thing was being the "smart" Robin and they insist on Babs being Batgirl so it would at least give him a distinct role.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 20:35 |
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maybe he can get shot in the head and start going by jim
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 20:49 |
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site posted:maybe he can get shot in the head and start going by jim That's not a nickname for Timothy, he'd probably just start using his whole name, or does he have a middle name we know of?
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 20:53 |
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Jimothy Interesting Drake.
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X-O posted:Aww yeah. Nanigans posted:Ugh. "Drake" sucks so hard. I legit don't know what's worse, the lovely suit or using the name Drake "They should focus on him being just a detective" I say, then i look at Wikipedia and it says last year he had a solo that did that and some supervillain was obsessed with him and declared himself Tim's archnemesis. The villain's name? Moriarty.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 21:06 |
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I feel a little bad I couldn't tell you the name of Tim's boyfriend.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 21:50 |
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ImpAtom posted:Honestly if I had to do something with Tim, I'd have him take over as Oracle. His entire thing was being the "smart" Robin and they insist on Babs being Batgirl so it would at least give him a distinct role. That's pretty good, yeah. Then he'd get the opportunity to remind everyone he can also fight and kick rear end every now and then and it'll actually feel special.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 21:57 |
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He's back to being Robin as of his most recent series unless that changed again after I dropped it.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 22:00 |
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I liked the most recent series, but I'm biased because Tim is my favorite DC character. I'm just happy when they do anything with him these days after the dark times of the New 52.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 22:41 |
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I know it might be a hot take but I thought Tim's New 52 Red Robin suit was pretty good. Like, if Tim's niche among the Robins is supposed to be "he's the smart one", then yeah gently caress it, let him be the one that can whip up a loving wing suit and make the Robin name literal. We've all been accepting for years now that Batman can use his cape as a glider (that depending on the artist literally looks like bat wings), let Tim do the same. Now if you want to argue about whether the name Red Robin yummmm is stupid, I won't fight you there, it's not a hill I'm willing to die on. But like, whatever, let him just be Robin. There are 2 Flashes, there are 2 Supermen, hell there are 3 Batgirls within the Bat-family (even though Barbara has mostly retired to Oracle duty nowadays), there's plenty of room for redundant heroes.
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# ? Nov 20, 2023 23:32 |
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I would welcome something akin to the Yost Red Robin run. Loved that series.
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# ? Nov 21, 2023 00:47 |
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Tim's been the lead Robin in Zdarsky's Batman run so far.
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# ? Nov 21, 2023 01:18 |
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Air Skwirl posted:Dick was already pure rear end. Despite losing a lot of its flare over the last season, I do appreciate Harley Quinn show's obsession over Dick's glutes.
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# ? Nov 21, 2023 01:54 |
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Crisis on Infinite Earths is getting an animated adaptation apparently, here’s a trailer for the first part: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oLAaMYwuM2o
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# ? Nov 22, 2023 18:15 |
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I just can't get enthused by stuff done in that style anymore. Brave and the Bold did it well because it had colour, character and clearly a lot of love poured into it (and I suspect still had a higher budget or time than these do) but all the animated movies for the last decade or so have had very muted palettes, dour plots, which obviously something like Crisis on Infinite Earths would have but it should also be bombastic and unashamedly comic booky and such. Like I can't imagine them doing the phantasmal Anti Monitor screaming out of a cloud in space that he's going to destroy everything and it being nearly as impactful as it was in the comics, where it was like... "holy poo poo, this guy just won't stop". It'd need a Spider-verse level of craft to do it right imo and I'm not even a huge fan of the story, I just think it has a lot of cool visuals in it and if you're gonna do it, you should do it properly.
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# ? Nov 22, 2023 19:44 |
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I thought warworld sucked. It just felt weird and disconnected and felt like they were just throwing stuff at the screen to see what would happen.
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# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:01 |
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It's a very bad trailer. Stiff shots, stilted voice acting, bad dialogue. This would instantly and obviously be a lot better if they just leaned into the 80s camp. Crisis on Infinite Earths opens with a crying elf doomed to watch the worlds die, heroic Lex Luthor in a multicoloured supersuit, and King Solivar of Gorilla City. It's big, it's loud, it's melodramatic, it's comic books. This looks embarrassed to be what it is.
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# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:10 |
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Looks like WB got that video blocked, at least in America.
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# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:24 |
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Air Skwirl posted:Looks like WB got that video blocked, at least in America. I agree this doesn’t look great but if anyone still wants to see it here’s a Twitter link: https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1727350567452967262
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# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:28 |
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Larryb posted:I agree this doesn’t look great but if anyone still wants to see it here’s a Twitter link: That is really loving dire looking, even compared to previous DC cartoons I think look like poo poo.
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# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:33 |
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Indeed, and apparently we’re in for 3 parts worth of this garbage
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# ? Nov 22, 2023 20:34 |
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It feels like DC is going, "Oh poo poo. Spider-Verse is popular! Marvel is doing Multiverse! We've done multiverse stuff! Throw it into production! Three Parts!" Their straight to streaming/dvd movies have been.. incredibly mediocre.
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# ? Nov 22, 2023 22:38 |
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Can't believe you would say that about cinematic masterpiece the Snyder cut
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# ? Nov 22, 2023 22:45 |
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That trailer just makes me want to go back and watch crisis on two earth instead. The final scene between Batman and James Woods's Owlman is still amazing.
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