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A Strange Aeon posted:Link? That sounds like fun reading, if it's about the animated series. Here's the page with all of them: http://comicsalliance.com/tags/x-men-episode-guide. I think you'd have to do a bit of "load more articles"ing to get to episode one. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Oct 13, 2018 |
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Oct 13, 2018 01:07
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Did anyone else see the first episode of Titans? It's like poo poo out of an anus bad.
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Oct 13, 2018 21:45
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no way
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Oct 13, 2018 21:54
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I'm not watching that poo poo even illegally.
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Oct 13, 2018 22:06
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Lurdiak posted:I'm not watching that poo poo even illegally. Aw come on, I’m gonna need someone to give me a new title for the forum when Halloween is over.
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To be more in depth, this is Titans:
Also, I recently rewatched "Go!" from the original Teen Titans cartoon and it manages to tell a compelling Teen Titans origin in 23 minutes with better characterization and intrigue. Covok fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Oct 13, 2018 |
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Oct 13, 2018 22:42
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Starfire started off as basically sexy Conan the Barbarian in Space, right?
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Covok posted:To be more in depth, this is Titans: In your opinion, having watched the show, should Mr Pool suck it? Guy Goodbody posted:Starfire started off as basically sexy Conan the Barbarian in Space, right? From my recollection, not really, but it has been some time since I read the start of New Teen Titans so I'd need to check. She might have! 
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Oct 13, 2018 22:46
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Wheat Loaf posted:From my recollection, not really, but it has been some time since I read the start of New Teen Titans so I'd need to check. She might have! I mean pre-Teen Titans 
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Oct 13, 2018 22:50
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Guy Goodbody posted:Starfire started off as basically sexy Conan the Barbarian in Space, right? I was reading the original Marv Wolfman stuff a couple weeks ago, but all I really remember is Cyborg is mad at literally everything and Deathstroke's son is the biggest loser ever.  From Waiting For Trade Wheat Loaf posted:In your opinion, having watched the show, should Mr Pool suck it? What? Covok fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Oct 13, 2018 |
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Oct 13, 2018 22:53
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Covok posted:
Oh this reminds me, i watched go to the movies the other night and it was really good E: lmao looks like i pissed off the nazis
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Oct 13, 2018 22:57
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Guy Goodbody posted:I mean pre-Teen Titans yea Starfire started out as basically just 'space barbarian queen' and then 'space barbarian queen who's actually kinda a sweetheart' and then 'valley girl space barbarian queen' depending on the era.
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site posted:Oh this reminds me, i watched go to the movies the other night and it was really good I didn't see it yet, but I saw these two scenes and now I kind of want to see the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH6IBef79HA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhgOJoL8S6I "I think his dad is a cop: run!" Also, I thought you did it to yourself. Isn't it normally redtext when someone alters your avatar? I thought it was a clever joke you were doing.
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Covok posted:I didn't see it yet, but I saw these two scenes and now I kind of want to see the movie. There's a bunch of good songs, I'd highly recommend And nope, they cropped out the anime girl and tbh I'm not sure what the cornfield is a reference to
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Guy Goodbody posted:I mean pre-Teen Titans That Starfire was a completely separate character from the Teen Titans character, and she was more of a sword-and-sorcery/space opera character. It didn't take place in the DCU and there were no other familiar characters in her few stories.
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Covok posted:What? Basically DCU did a promo last week where they played the clip from Deadpool 2 where Deadpool goes, "You're so dark! Are you sure you are't from the DC universe?" then ran footage from the Titans trailer and finished up with a title card that said, "Suck it, Mr Pool." I'm still not entirely sure what the message was.
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site posted:There's a bunch of good songs, I'd highly recommend It's almost 100% a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Good_Life_(The_Twilight_Zone) And I bet. I might watch the movie when it goes up on DCU since I am a cheap bastard with student loans in our glorious cyberpunk future where I work 50+ hour weeks to pay off crippling loans I got to get a job that actually provides a livable wage while also having to hide in the closet out of fear of being fired for being bi and maybe not cis. Not sure why I typed all that just now. Think I was venting. Anyway, yeah, probably go see that movie sometime. I loved the original 2003 series, but haven't watched a lot of the 2016 series. But some of the cips I've seen of it made me laugh. Also, I heard the Challengers of the Unknown get turned into punching bags for some reason.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Basically DCU did a promo last week where they played the clip from Deadpool 2 where Deadpool goes, "You're so dark! Are you sure you are't from the DC universe?" then ran footage from the Titans trailer and finished up with a title card that said, "Suck it, Mr Pool." I'm still not entirely sure what the message was. Yeah, DC's marketing isn't the smartest. My guess was the message was "yeah, we're dark: deal with it" but kind of didn't get that trailer is god awful. So, the effect is they look like that teenage who gets criticized on their deviant art so they proudly link to their MS Paint Big Titted anime fanart and go "see what my art degree got me!" with no self-awareness. Though, this does remind of their cool trailer for the Harley Quinn cartoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZi4zsBVGmo Arguably a better dig at Deadpool. "And unlike that Deadpool cartoon, it's actually coming out!"
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Wheat Loaf posted:Basically DCU did a promo last week where they played the clip from Deadpool 2 where Deadpool goes, "You're so dark! Are you sure you are't from the DC universe?" then ran footage from the Titans trailer and finished up with a title card that said, "Suck it, Mr Pool." I'm still not entirely sure what the message was. yea I think the 'joke' was 'yea we ARE dark' because they thought the Deadpool joke was the person he was saying it to...wasn't actually dark? Like, that's the only way that chain seems to work to me, because otherwise it's just 'haha yea we ARE as over the top tryhard as you said, YOU BITCH'.
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Covok posted:It's almost 100% a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Good_Life_(The_Twilight_Zone) My friend, embrace the fact that denying yourself media because you are poor is a capitalist indoctrinated commandment and pirate that poo poo
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:That Starfire was a completely separate character from the Teen Titans character, and she was more of a sword-and-sorcery/space opera character. It didn't take place in the DCU and there were no other familiar characters in her few stories. Starfire was the first DC heroine to receive her own title since Supergirl in 1972. Her series lasted only eight issues. According to this original series, Starfire's world was long ago involved in a civil war between two castes: the warrior-priests and the Lightning Lords (scientists). Unable to prevail upon each other alone, each caste summoned an alien race to serve their cause. The warrior-priests summoned the Mygorg and the Lightning Lords the Yorgs. The two alien races were hereditary enemies and indeed resumed their war in their new planet. However, both turned the tables on their summoners and intended masters by enslaving them. The world was divided among the two, Mygorg and Yorg, which continued to war against each other. The original human-like inhabitants continued to survive in slavery. Starfire was born as the daughter of two slaves of different skin color. Her father was "yellow" and her mother "white". Both slaves belonged to the Mygorg. Sookarooth, King of the Mygorg took notice of the young girl of mixed heritage and beautiful appearance. He arranged for her to be raised free and educated in his own palace, Castle Mollachon.[1] When Starfire reached her eighteenth birthday, Sookarooth announced her to be his future mate. She fled in disgust but was pursued by the royal forces. She was saved by Dagan, a warrior-priest. The two became lovers and Dagan trained her as a warrior. Starfire became skilled in swordsmanship, archery, tracking, and other skills typical to a warrior-priest. Their shared life ended when Dagan was captured by Sookarooth. He was at first tortured and then executed. A vengeful Starfire returned to Castle Mollachon and raised its slaves in revolt. She slew Sookareth herself and then vowed to free her people from slavery. The following issues had Starfire recruiting additional followers to her side and seeking more effective weapons against the Mygorg, the Yorg, and a number of hostile local factions. The series ended before a resolution could be reached.
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The previous Starfire was a mixed-race escaped slave who was trying to free all the slaves and murder the ruling class.
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yea and, ya know, now she drinks mustard
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I stan Starfire
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I like Starfire as a character still but it is kinda hilarious how she went from 'murdering oppressors because she's a mixed race barbarian queen' to, at best, 'a valley girl who can beat rear end and shoot energy bolts'.
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The Starfire from the sword n sorcery comic isn't the same character as the Tamaranean princess from Teen Titans. In fact Koriandrs superhero name was from a Russian superhero (who also predated the sword n sorcery comic) the Titans encountered in their original comic before the New Teen Titans relaunch. If I'm remembering correctly, they even say this in NTT 1, or that 14 page preview inserted into a bunch of comics one month that came out before it. That dude became Red Star and shows up later in Wolfman/Perez NTT And to be fair, the Starfire we know best did have kind of an alien barbarian edge, especially when they go into her origin with the Citadel and Gordanians. Lightning Lord fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Oct 14, 2018 |
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Covok posted:To be more in depth, this is Titans: Good write up, this well summarizes my feelings also. I didn't have a huge amount of exposure to the characters beyond TTG! and some general knowledge of them but it was difficult to figure out who this show would be for. It's way over the top dark and edgy for my tastes yet still way too on the nose other times. Each characters' plot seemed to be an ambiguous mess, which I get it's the 1st episode so they're trying to build suspense but it seemed really crappily connected so I'm morbidly curious how they throw them all together. Robin was probably the most solid part of the episode but I wasn't clear if it was because the actor was decent or the others didn't have much to work with. I do hope the Beast Boy scene was intentionally supposed to be  but it was still pretty dumb.I will say it looks is well shot and pretty good for a production quality standpoint. And like you said, already paid for the sub so might as well see how this trash fire proceeds.
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Meh. If Titans ends up on Netflix in Canada I will watch it out of curiosity but I am not going to go out of my way for it.
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I'm gonna do the DC sub just so I can poo poo on Titans.
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Rhyno posted:I'm gonna do the DC sub just so I can poo poo on Titans. I wouldn't be surprised if this is part of their plan. 
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Titans needed to batch release the first 3 episodes or something because that premiere was... not good.There are long stretches of no dialog or narration where characters are simply entering drab rooms with no dramatic weight at all. In the premiere! These characters are too cool to be efficient in their storytelling. They'll have adventures and make sense when they feel like it.
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I disagree. Teen Titans 2003 was able to do very efficient storytelling with these characters. As matter of fact, many superheroes do very efficient storytelling. The original Marv Wolfman comics and very efficient. Titans could have easily done that.
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Covok posted:I disagree. Teen Titans 2003 was able to do very efficient storytelling with these characters. As matter of fact, many superheroes do very efficient storytelling. The original Marv Wolfman comics and very efficient. Titans could have easily done that. These characters are too cool to be efficient in their storytelling *on Titans, the show in question.*
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Covok posted:It's almost 100% a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Good_Life_(The_Twilight_Zone) I imagine they had the Challengers be punching bags for the following reasons; 1) they're pretty obscure, which fits with one of the movie's recurring jokes, that everyone BUT the Teen Titans were getting movies 2) it's pretty easy to get the impression that the Challengers are lame if you haven't actually read any of their comics or The New Frontier
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TwoPair posted:Does Marvel even have 666 villains? Like to hit that number you'd have to go for some ridiculously deep cuts plus deep cuts from other universes plus a bunch of randomly evil versions of heroes. I imagine eventually writers would just be going... "ummm... how about another Dr. Doom... only he's from Earth 1000... his deal is that his cape is orange?"
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Edge & Christian posted:I'm really confident that they have at least 666 villains, yeah. There are like a dozen people apiece in the Circus of Crime and the Death Throws (evil juggling stable), the version of Masters of Evil that took over Avengers Mansion was 20-30 people, Scourge killed (and the Hood resurrected) 20+ D-list villains, and that doesn't even start to cover the Spider-Man and X-Men villain groups, I could probably come up with a list of 666 Marvel supervillains in about an hour. This would be an incredibly dumb thing to do, but I probably could. I don't think you could.
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I mean Green Goblin has to count as about 6 separate villains, a couple dozen Venoms, throw in some Electro's, and who knows how many people have worn the Shocker costume.
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Madkal posted:Who knows how many people have worn the Shocker costume.
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