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VagueRant posted:Man, the Scott Pilgrim series kinda drew attention to the fact voice actor work is a p different skillset than live action acting, and I kinda think you can hear JK Simmons (despite a very cool voice and some good moments) is not operating at his best when alone in a recording studio. While this may be somewhat true, it's not like this is Simmons' first rodeo, he's done a ton of voice roles over the years. Not quite as many as a performer who primarily does voice acting, but enough that he should be pretty used to it.
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I'm kind of curious what's going to happen with Mark's half brother and Nolan's second wife. I could see him taking them to Earth for protection, so that he will be able to keep an eye on them, although how Debbie would react to meeting a second family of his is hard to predict (although the awkwardness around the second wife would only last a few weeks  ). It would be amusing for Mark to come across other half-Viltrumites and get to them before their parents can radicalise them, so you have a generational thing of the kinder children vs the rear end in a top hat parents.
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Nov 26, 2023 14:32
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Blueberry Pancakes posted:Honestly, the bug lady is kinda cute in an alien sort of way. Provided she doesn't do anything too insect-like as part of a daily routine, I could understand how they hooked up. Why bug lady have boobies?  Also, I want to see Allen pull through and get some monumental payback.  But I know that's not the kind of story this is. 
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Nov 26, 2023 16:48
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Phenotype posted:Yeah, I could honestly care less about most of the stuff that isn't directly following Mark and Nolan. I don't think I would go that far, but I don't give a single gently caress about what's going on with Donald. Complete waste of screentime.
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Nov 26, 2023 19:43
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I like Donald. He's just a guy who is alone standing among giants and is wrestling with an existential crisis while trying to get through a really tricky situation. His scenes kind of keep things grounded.
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Nov 26, 2023 20:46
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Lmao at the Maulers and Donald. This show has great subplots.
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Nov 26, 2023 21:26
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Donald ends up going to the Maulers to discuss the nature of being a clone now that he's found out he may be one. That could be cute, them just acting as clone therapy for him helping him cope with the revelation.
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BioEnchanted posted:I'm kind of curious what's going to happen with Mark's half brother and Nolan's second wife. I could see him taking them to Earth for protection, so that he will be able to keep an eye on them, although how Debbie would react to meeting a second family of his is hard to predict (although the awkwardness around the second wife would only last a few weeks I saw someone suggest that the fast growth of the bug people was going to be the key to beating the viltrumites. Mark would simply have sex with every bug lady on the planet to create an army of half viltrum bugs. I really do not think that's going to happen but it gave me a good laugh.
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AlternateNu posted:Why bug lady have boobies?  e: Realtalk, apparently it's kind of hard to find species with which Vilts can interbreed, so bugfolk must be pretty close to both them and humans biologically... Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Nov 26, 2023 |
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Nov 26, 2023 23:46
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Gaz-L posted:While this may be somewhat true, it's not like this is Simmons' first rodeo, he's done a ton of voice roles over the years. Not quite as many as a performer who primarily does voice acting, but enough that he should be pretty used to it. Funnily enough his performance as Nolan in MK1 is way flatter than the show. Maybe it depends on how invested into the part he is? Probably just sees recording canned lines as another paycheck.
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Whenever I see Donald I just think that Bobby Hill grew up and got a government job and it just makes me happy to see him. More Donald content plz.
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I'm really enjoying their attention to multiple subplots. It's nice to see non-main characters getting fleshed out a bit more. Poor Donald.
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Takes No Damage posted:
I thought in season 1 Nolan said that the vilturmite dna is so strong they can basically interbreed with any species and produce something similar to a viltrumite.
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Yeah. I don't think the problem is that its hard to find species they can interbreed with. I think the problem is that only so many species can make something that you can plausibly deny as anything besides a Viltrumite. They're willing to look the other way on Mark's heritage and pass him off as a full Viltrumite if he finishes Nolan's job. They can't really do that with his brother, who is bright purple and grew up raised by bugs.
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I remember them saying something about limited compatibility, isn't that why Nolan was waiting around to see if Mark ever got powers? But maybe that's a self-imposed limit like Bee said. Otherwise you wouldn't think they'd keep crying about a low population after PURGing themselves if they could start churning out 'real' Viltrumites on every planet they visit.
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BioEnchanted posted:Donald ends up going to the Maulers to discuss the nature of being a clone now that he's found out he may be one. That could be cute, them just acting as clone therapy for him helping him cope with the revelation. if not something like this I could see him confronting Cecil about it and then Cecil having a sort of "well, every Donald finds out about this eventually. Alright, let's talk about how you're actually Donald #27" and then Donald just accepting it and going back to work. Also, I too dig that the Viltrumites are becoming more dynamic in their designs. You've got the one that's kind of let himself go, but he can still beat the poo poo out of any other Viltrumite, or the tool with the sunglasses. I mean, they can live for thousands of years
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Also my God Cecil, get better password security. At the very least reset it every time you have to Tahiti Donald.
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Takes No Damage posted:I remember them saying something about limited compatibility, isn't that why Nolan was waiting around to see if Mark ever got powers? But maybe that's a self-imposed limit like Bee said. Otherwise you wouldn't think they'd keep crying about a low population after PURGing themselves if they could start churning out 'real' Viltrumites on every planet they visit. Well, they're fairly obviously close to humans so there's probably a lot of weird aliens out there they can't reproduce with. Like, if they landed on a planet of rock people, I doubt they'd be able to make an army of half viltrumite kids no matter how hard they pounded sand.
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Blueberry Pancakes posted:Honestly, the bug lady is kinda cute in an alien sort of way. Provided she doesn't do anything too insect-like as part of a daily routine, I could understand how they hooked up. She has a hot voice also I just found out it's Rhea Seehorn!!!
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breadshaped posted:She has a hot voice also I just found out it's Rhea Seehorn!!! Are you sure? Sounds more like Hearhorn to me.
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Don't synetheshame me.
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I think the 9-month lifespan would be the hardest thing to get past. Like drat, that ain't even long enough to share a full season of TV if there's a mid-season break.
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if their lifespan is only a year, shouldn't it be like regular bugs and have many eggs and halfbug/half vitrumite brothers and sisters at once. like she lays her eggs, and he fertilizes them up like fish.
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As with almost everything related to reproduction in sci-fi and fantasy the answer is: don't think about it, or it'll get weird.
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But getting weird about thinking about it is half the fun!
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Scifi mating descriptions really need put in the literary bin. Looking at you mister Niven. All it proves is that your average scifi author is a weirdo.
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breadshaped posted:She has a hot voice also I just found out it's Rhea Seehorn!!! Yup yup yup yup yup
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I'm trying to imagine how you develop into a spacefaring civilization when your people only live 1 year. Also you'd think that would be the first hurdle they'd try to overcome.
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Collateral posted:Scifi mating descriptions really need put in the literary bin. Looking at you mister Niven. All it proves is that your average scifi author is a weirdo. Niven proved he was a weirdo even without the mating stuff. I'm baffled that the Ringworld series is seen as a classic sci-fi series.
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Panfilo posted:I'm trying to imagine how you develop into a spacefaring civilization when your people only live 1 year. Also you'd think that would be the first hurdle they'd try to overcome. Theoretically they also develop at an accelerated rate so even living 1 Earth year they get a comparable amount of poo poo done during it. Shuttling Mark back over from Earth was like a 10 year mission for that one guy.
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Takes No Damage posted:Theoretically they also develop at an accelerated rate so even living 1 Earth year they get a comparable amount of poo poo done during it. Shuttling Mark back over from Earth was like a 10 year mission for that one guy. He actually says when he collects Mark that he has traveled most of his life to get there.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Niven proved he was a weirdo even without the mating stuff. I'm baffled that the Ringworld series is seen as a classic sci-fi series. The first one is a classic, take it on its own. The ones with the rish stuff were just comfortably bad.
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Collateral posted:Scifi mating descriptions really need put in the literary bin. Looking at you mister Niven. All it proves is that your average scifi author is a weirdo. All authors are weird perverts, hate to break it to you.
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Brandon Sanderson just felt a chill as he polished off a very steamy scene (wherein two characters in their thirties held hands)
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BioEnchanted posted:Donald ends up going to the Maulers to discuss the nature of being a clone now that he's found out he may be one. That could be cute, them just acting as clone therapy for him helping him cope with the revelation. A clone who can dent a knife when he stabs himself with one. He's a terminator - living flesh over metal endoskeleton.
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Collateral posted:The first one is a classic, take it on its own. The ones with the rish stuff were just comfortably bad. And the main character has sex with a child. And the part with the rape vampires* who eat you while raping you. And the orgy traders. * who aren't sapient, so when people go to the rape brothel to gently caress one, they're basically having sex with livestock. Good old 'classic' sci fi!  Nuebot posted:All authors are weird perverts, hate to break it to you. 
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Nuebot posted:All Took a few tries, but I fixed it. You're welcome.
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I meant uncomfortably. His scummy kinks on page.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:A clone who can dent a knife when he stabs himself with one. I was waffling on weather he's a robot/cyborg of some sort, or if Cecil has been doing his own little "Allen the Alien" type thing and genetically engineering him (possibly with Nolan' and/or Mark's blood) to be stronger/better as part of all those other little projects we got a brief glimpse of at the end of Season 1. But probably robot.
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Compared against the other big 'Super Heroes but collateral damage is real' show The Boys, can't help but appreciate how much this show sits in the trauma said damage instills. Feel like it's rare to see this much gore alongside this much empathy for the victims and heroes trying their best. Violence, but not glorified.
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