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It’s my mum’s birthday tomorrow and she loved GoT so I’ll be watching it either way!!!!!
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Mar 20, 2024 17:09
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loving amazing: Anna Camp is playing evil twins in the final season of YOU. Perfect. No notes.
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Mar 20, 2024 17:33
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Open Source Idiom posted:loving amazing: Anna Camp is playing evil twins in the final season of YOU. Maybe one of the twins will be able to act?
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Mar 20, 2024 17:34
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X-Men 97 is a worthy successor to the original. The melodrama you expect from the X-Men with some beautiful fight scenes.
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Mar 20, 2024 18:26
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PriorMarcus posted:Maybe one of the twins will be able to act? The gently caress is this post
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Mar 20, 2024 18:45
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Escobarbarian posted:Really liked Girls5Eva season 3 but lmao that the biggest issue with the first two seasons was that they were too short and then this one is even shorter. Gimme more of that shiiiiiit I love the show, but it'd work so much better with longer seasons.
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Mar 21, 2024 03:05
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Short seasons are awful for episodic comedy because they get driven way too much by the season's narrative. They also make holiday episodes stick out like sore thumbs. Great News could've been a real hit if they'd had 23 episode seasons.
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Mar 21, 2024 03:45
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theflyingexecutive posted:Great News could've been a real hit if they'd had 23 episode seasons. It had one of the funniest lines in television history. “Your child will be born with hooves!” / “At least that’d help me narrow down who the father is.”
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Mar 21, 2024 05:03
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Golden Bee posted:X-Men 97 is a worthy successor to the original. The melodrama you expect from the X-Men with some beautiful fight scenes. Any difficulty for people who haven't seen it since the actual 90s?
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Mar 21, 2024 05:10
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I probably only ever saw one seasons worth back in the 90s and it still made about enough sense. Seemed fine.
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Mar 21, 2024 05:18
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theflyingexecutive posted:They also make holiday episodes stick out like sore thumbs. Do writers for shows know when their show will air? Because shows have Halloween episodes in March, and then a Christmas episode in June. I guess these days it's not really possible to have properly timed holiday episodes because shows don't get 26 episodes a season anymore so you don't get a fall half and a spring half. You just get 8 episodes thrown on the internet whenever the streamer has a gap in programming.
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Mar 21, 2024 05:22
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Cojawfee posted:Do writers for shows know when their show will air? Nope! Showrunners on down find out about an hour before the press releases go out. This can happen any time during or after filming. E: Network shows do have a much better idea as they are usually greenlit for the beginning of a season. (If they're more-or-less episodic, holiday episodes can get slotted into an appropriate place.) Weekly release cable/streaming shows often find out later in principal. Binge releases and heavy vfx shows find out well into post. theflyingexecutive fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Mar 21, 2024 |
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Mar 21, 2024 06:04
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Mu Zeta posted:Any difficulty for people who haven't seen it since the actual 90s? There’s a fair bit of “here’s who I am and here’s what my powers are” to get everyone up to speed.
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Mar 21, 2024 06:58
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Mu Zeta posted:Any difficulty for people who haven't seen it since the actual 90s? I only saw maybe two seasons back then, and it's completely fine in that respect. Even if you don't remember the broad strokes, they did a good job of expositing everything. Very much "hello person I already know, I am X and my power is Y" but it's fast, and what else can you do? I was surprised by how good it is. So far they nailed the feel, and the fights look really cool.
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Mar 21, 2024 12:09
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IRQ posted:they did a good job of expositing everything. Very much "hello person I already know, I am X and my power is Y" but it's fast, and what else can you do? Honestly, given what the show is a continuation of some amount of awkward exposition is a pro and not a con.
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Mar 21, 2024 12:30
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Yeah I went back and watched a couple of the original X men series and I was like, I guess I didn't know what good TV and animation looked like when I was 12
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Mar 21, 2024 14:09
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Good animation was Batman: The Animated Series. X-Men and Spider-Man were several levels below that.
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Mar 21, 2024 14:31
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Fezz posted:Good animation was Batman: The Animated Series. Some of BTAS. Five different studios did the animation so the quality can vary wildly. AKOM actually got fired because two of their episodes were so bad.
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Mar 21, 2024 14:33
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zoux posted:Yeah I went back and watched a couple of the original X men series and I was like, I guess I didn't know what good TV and animation looked like when I was 12 It's wild how ok we were with stuff being about 7 frames per second.
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Mar 21, 2024 15:01
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Also I was looking into why the showrunner got fired (seems like he was an rear end in a top hat and had an Onlyfans that Disney didn't like?) and they said he's completed work on the first two seasons already, how many eps is that? Also also when I was watching it yesterday, I was struck by the realization that Storm would be an s-tier RPDR guest judge.
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Mar 21, 2024 15:18
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I'm here for non-comic adaptation actually seeing Cyclops own. It's so loving rare.
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Mar 21, 2024 15:29
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Shageletic posted:I'm here for non-comic adaptation actually seeing Cyclops own. It's so loving rare. https://twitter.com/CaptKrakoa/status/1770424365139587390
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Mar 21, 2024 15:29
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zoux posted:Also I was looking into why the showrunner got fired (seems like he was an rear end in a top hat and had an Onlyfans that Disney didn't like?) and they said he's completed work on the first two seasons already, how many eps is that? "The woven fabrics and fierce style do you well, child!"
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Mar 21, 2024 15:30
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All these years and still no way to shoot beams without pressing a button. An enemy could tap it too and make him zap his friends.
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Mar 21, 2024 15:36
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My headcanon is that the button allows him to modulate the power of the beams. Because here he's using the beams to just throw mooks into walls, while later in the episode he cuts a Sentinel's head in half with the beam Maybe it's not even headcanon, maybe it's just something real that I heard when I was 9 and is still knocking around in my brain
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Mar 21, 2024 15:54
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When he used the beams to help him land from free fall it occurred to me that the beams are subjecting his neck to slightly less than 1G of force every time.
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Mar 21, 2024 15:58
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I felt like I knew he had a button to open and close the goggles but thought it was in his gloves like SpiderMan. I definitely didn’t realize that giant thing on his head was a button.
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Mar 21, 2024 16:00
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He seems to be able to control the intensity when he's just flipping his sunglasses up instead of the visor, so who knows.
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Mar 21, 2024 16:02
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Khanstant posted:All these years and still no way to shoot beams without pressing a button. An enemy could tap it too and make him zap his friends.
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Mar 21, 2024 16:04
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Well my understanding of it is he can just squint to lessen the beam. But the goggles give him a shutter he can control with some degree of accuracy. It’s literally just a matter of how much of his eye is exposed. I have no idea if any of this is canon or just what kid me imagined.
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Mar 21, 2024 16:05
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Oh right lmao I just assumed they did a time gap to make it modern but then obviously not if they're calling it 97. In the 90s we had buttons. Should be like unlocking phone with face, just takes a video and modulates beam according to level of excitement. Yes, this means he has to keep his eyes closed and is no better than not having the device which means they should bench Cyclops which is great.
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Mar 21, 2024 16:08
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IRQ posted:He seems to be able to control the intensity when he's just flipping his sunglasses up instead of the visor, so who knows. I thought when he was without sunglasses/visor, he COULDN'T control the intensity, hence the whole building blowing up when the bad guys took his visor. zoux posted:When he used the beams to help him land from free fall it occurred to me that the beams are subjecting his neck to slightly less than 1G of force every time. Also when he does this (awesome) move, he doesn't appear to touch the button. Which kinda supports my "the button is only necessary for non-lethal beams" theory. In case you couldn't tell, I really liked X-Men 97, and can't wait for more. My concerns about Wolverine's voice were totally unfounded (though a couple other voices are a bit iffy to me) STAC Goat posted:It doesn’t make a lot of sense. I know, it's great  OldSenileGuy fucked around with this message at 16:12 on Mar 21, 2024 |
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Mar 21, 2024 16:08
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Yeah. His beams just fire uncontrollably at full blast without the red crystal glasses or whatever. They block the beams while somehow not shooting them back into his face or out the sides. And somehow he never just wakes up and opens his eyes before he finds his glasses and blows up the Mansion. It doesn’t make a lot of sense.
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Mar 21, 2024 16:10
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Adding onto everyone who says X-Men '97 owns. I was a little worried about the animation when I saw the trailers, but watching those two episodes felt so drat good. Way better than I was expecting, the show is basically a perfect continuation. I have no complaints.
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Mar 21, 2024 16:10
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Khanstant posted:All these years and still no way to shoot beams without pressing a button. An enemy could tap it too and make him zap his friends. There's a real danger if you make it too easy to press 
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Mar 21, 2024 16:13
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The voice actress for Rogue is actually not southern. Rather she is Canadian and served two terms as an MP in the interim between the two shows.
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Mar 21, 2024 16:13
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OldSenileGuy posted:I thought when he was without sunglasses/visor, he COULDN'T control the intensity, hence the whole building blowing up when the bad guys took his visor. Yeah when he has no visor or glasses he's just always blasting, it's why he had to close his eyes and get his rear end beat by the mutant racist that knocked it off.
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Mar 21, 2024 16:19
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He doesn't have to push the button to make it work, he just wants to because it looks cool Anway, watched the first ep. It's good. Was assuming it would be an empty nostalgia exercise, but it feeps like they're actually taking the whole idea seriously and just making more of it. The best compliment I can pay it is that it feels like I remember the show, rather than what the show actually was.
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Mar 21, 2024 16:28
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I know everyone hates Joss Whedon but his run on Astonishing X-men does the coolest poo poo with Cyclops of any run, imo.
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Mar 21, 2024 16:47
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Haha yeah I think that's the run that made me upgrade Cyclops from "delete this POS character and pretend it never happened" to "eh who cares least he's not Angel."
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Mar 21, 2024 16:53
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