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HootTheOwl posted:Kora needed a fire villain so she could do the whole cycle Fire villain would have been a lightning bender working for the power plant trying to unionize and bring about socialism but then turned out to be eating babies so nah we probably dodged a bullet
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HootTheOwl posted:Kora needed a fire villain so she could do the whole cycle iirc they had no idea if they were getting extended which is why seasons 1 and 2 were so self contained
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:the bumper on the whole thing where HELPeR is singing the lullaby and Doc is incubating the babies in his artificial womb was a really nice image to end the series on. it was very cute, shows that rusty cares about the kids but in his own hosed up way DaysBefore posted:Yup. Definitely stuff I would have liked to see more of but I'm totally good with it ending like that 
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Honestly the villain for season 1 being an anti-bender was such a good hook and he could have easily carried the entire show but they had him explode in a boat ex machina and totally wasted that whole idea
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Grapplejack posted:Honestly the villain for season 1 being an anti-bender was such a good hook and he could have easily carried the entire show but they had him explode in a boat ex machina and totally wasted that whole idea yeah I only watched most of the first season but I thought gut the anti-benders were really compelling until they became too villainous or w/e
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Was looking at upcoming movies and found this, starring Billy Zane 400 A.D., in a forgotten time of Ancient America, a lone Hebraic fugitive must preserve the history of his fallen nation while being hunted by a ruthless tyrant. But rescuing the King's abused mistress could awaken a warrior's past. If this wasn't obviously Mormon it would be a decent alt history premise, and with Zane I'd probably wind up seeing it
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I remember loving the first one but I just tried to watch it again and just couldn't even finish. shia labeouf is just that annoying to me now
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Going to watch the karate kid. I'll let you all know it's socialist or nah.
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1stGear posted:The only bad-enough-to-comment-on part of ATLA is the extremely literal moral deus ex machina at the very end. i thought it was good when aang accepted the love of our lord and saviour jesus christ turtle into his heart and the steel of his faith deflected all blows Nichael posted:I'm listening to the book of the first Dune. A lot of descriptions of Baron Harkonnen are basically "lmao he is fat. also he'sgay" herbert seem to really love describing those suspensors, that's for sure
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has anyone seen this?Cold Dog Soup posted:Cold Dog Soup is a 1990 British comedy film directed by Alan Metter. It is based on the novel Cold Dog Soup by Stephen Dobyns. it's about Frank Whaley going on a date with Christine Harnos and having to bury her mom's dog, which he tries to solve by taking a cab somewhere. Randy Quaid seems a little like Brace Belden. the name of the movie is a reference to trying to sell a dog to a Chinese restaurant. they also try to sell the dog to the Jewish mafia and at one point try to get it revived by voodoo. it's an odd movie. to those who have seen it: was Randy Quaid real or some kind of supernatural being? e: it's on criterion mawarannahr has issued a correction as of 02:35 on Nov 26, 2023 |
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Martha Stewart Undying posted:Fire villain would have been a lightning bender working for the power plant trying to unionize and bring about socialism but then turned out to be eating babies so nah we probably dodged a bullet I love kora but... yeah
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mawarannahr posted:has anyone seen this? The blood of Quaid decides your fate
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Thundercracker posted:Politics is just kinda bad, but I do like how the actions and political consequences of each season's conflict snowball into creating the next conflict. Like Henry Rollins only exists as a villain because of the actions of the season 2 villain and Earth fascists only come to power because of Henry Rollins. vastly inferior to the other henry rollins cartoon villain role https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbrRcIddT7E
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gah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AwyHoaU1vU
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Colin From Accounts: good tv
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McCloud posted:ATLA does what it does extremely well, and is well worth a watch at any age imo. Korra sucks because it tried to punch above it's weight limit and their creators are bog standard liberal centrists, hence why the show became obsessed with "Balance" once they started getting into politics that weren't a simple case of good vs. evil. They really should have just tried to make another kids show instead of going for a teen YA thing. Martha Stewart Undying posted:Fire villain would have been a lightning bender working for the power plant trying to unionize and bring about socialism but then turned out to be eating babies so nah we probably dodged a bullet This was pretty much Amon's backstory anyway. Clip-On Fedora has issued a correction as of 07:49 on Nov 26, 2023 |
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I was in my teens when Legend of Korra was airing and the only things I can remember vividly is Henry Rollins' character killing the Earth Queen by removing the air from her lungs and the bit where Korra and Asami start dating each other at the end because I really hated the love triangle in the first season
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Blue Eyed Samurai was too all over the place for me. it never picked a tonal lane and the writing/direction wasn't strong enough to justify the unevenness. At first, you get this exploration of Japanese geopolitical history not well-known by Americans and the interplay of race and gender within it. But then you have all the actors speaking very contemporary American English and have goofy slapstick superpower fights. I was excited to see them build up the Wolverine Clan but that she could move on in the story without fighting all of them and then end up flopping into a half hour fight sequence anyway. Even in the puppet show episode people highlight for good storytelling, the creators don't have enough faith in their audience. They couldn't decide between showing or telling and settled on cutting between the puppet show telling Mizu's backstory and then just showing that part of Mizu's backstory. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out that Netflix execs were severely meddling with the show. The needledrops in episodes 1 and 5 were pretty grating and reek of an EP going "just make it Kill Bill".
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theflyingexecutive posted:Blue Eyed Samurai was too all over the place for me. it never picked a tonal lane and the writing/direction wasn't strong enough to justify the unevenness. too many words/thoguhts for a slash slashy anime with a vague plot
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Fuligin posted:samurai champloo was good
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In addition to everything else Korra seems like they didn't know what to do with the secondary characters. The love triangle feels like a symptom of that and they quietly dump it in the later seasons.
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How is Poker Face? I just read it's the new film from the Knives Out guy.
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busalover posted:How is Poker Face? I just read it's the new film from the Knives Out guy. it’s a show and it’s pretty good!
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busalover posted:How is Poker Face? I just read it's the new film from the Knives Out guy.
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Fuligin posted:samurai champloo was good It was, I should rewatch it
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Fuligin posted:samurai champloo was good Watching this and Blue Eyed Samurai at the same time might be making me like both less? or maybe more? I'll report back later.
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1stGear posted:The only bad-enough-to-comment-on part of ATLA is the extremely literal moral deus ex machina at the very end. i found the ethical dilemma itself to be worse than the resolution tbh the previous airbender avatar really nails it when she says its morally dishonest to act as if actions you take knowing people will almost certainly die because of them are any more defensible than ones that admit outright that death is the explicit purpose this very petty distinction is also rife in our real world discourse were supposed to understand that hamas is evil because they want to kill people while israel is good because they dont really want to kill people never mind the fact that whatever eithers intent is israel indisputedly kills way more people than hamas does by like orders of magnitude in general the politics in atla work because theyre very locally focused the four (well technically three) nations all have their own internal political divisions and advocate for radically different means of achieving similar goals where korra gets hairy is that these motivations get really complex and abstract and ideologically based rather than materialistically based but the story is still told from the perspective of idiot teenagers who arent really capable of understanding them
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I don't think Aang ever earnestly tries to justify his stance in a philosophically rigorous way, and honestly all the previous avatars deal with his dilemma in the absolute dumbest way imaginable. his entire people and culture have been destroyed and death is scary to him, a child. he just doesn't want to execute someone. like, read the loving room, o wise spirit. e: like no wonder he doesn't want to take Kyoshi's advice, she comes off as a bloodthirsty berserker who has a lot more in common with Ozai than himself. and Roku is just a blundering idiot. my man has no helpful role models except a giant turtle indigi has issued a correction as of 19:59 on Nov 26, 2023 |
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busalover posted:How is Poker Face? I just read it's the new film from the Knives Out guy. A good mystery show. One of the best available right now.
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Mr Hootington posted:A good mystery show. One of the best available right now. yup a nice mystery procedural
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Some Guy TT posted:i found the ethical dilemma itself to be worse than the resolution tbh the previous airbender avatar really nails it when she says its morally dishonest to act as if actions you take knowing people will almost certainly die because of them are any more defensible than ones that admit outright that death is the explicit purpose true, true. great points all round. on the other hand I think the writers of a children's cartoon show didn't want to have their 12 year old hero commit murder
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it wouldn't be murder, it's literally his job to judge and punish
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I finally watched Violent Night, very good movie
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Lt. Danger posted:true, true. great points all round. on the other hand I think the writers of a children's cartoon show didn't want to have their 12 year old hero commit murder I think it makes sense that like a twelve year old kid that was raised as a Buddhist doesn't want to kill somebody no matter how bad they are.
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