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Thats it! Maybe it was the day they choose a new queen by pillow fights...thats what caused the invasion, a few naughty amazons lit the grail sign....

Maybe it was beach day at Paradise Island when they were attacked? Which would explain why the Amazons are not wearing their armour. 

As if we ever discuss the build and musculature of male comic characters this way, but anyway, I disagree.  I would expect a race of warrior women who apparently spend all day every day training for Ragnarok to look more buff and masculine than anyone posting on this board.  They would at least look more like Serena Williams than Kim Kardashian.  If WW herself sticks out, it can be explained by her relative lack of training and/or her unusual heritage.
 
The costume change is disappointing.

Yeah the leather outfits are a pointless reduction and change from the nice outfits in Wonder Woman, and are less protective while looking dumb to boot.

"Beowulf is the epic rant of Baron von Cheese-Weasel!"
I could try to explain the context, but...

OTOH Stark also denies being "some kind of superhero" or words to that effect, which implies at least that the concept of superheroes already existed in that world. And given that basically everything Stark did was already front-page news before he outed himself, the press' reaction could also be interpreted as "Holy shot, Tony Stark is a superhero now!"
 
I'm not saying that was their intent at the time, of course. But I figure it's close enough to pass.

Why the heck would they limit themselves like that?  I mean, seriously why?  If anything, actual effort was in exactly the right place.  This is not a 'Game of Thrones' style series of novels with one creator setting a perfect timeline and exhausting outline.  This a 10+ year ongoing cinematic arc.  NO ONE can factor in changing actors, character availability, contracts, movie rights...let alone changing directors' takes (and their important creative inputs), writers and producers, visual styles, and a thousand other things which can vastly affect a set canon and consistency a bunch of guys would've sat around and hammered out 10 plus years ago.  The addition of Spider-Man and Taika Waititi's brilliant curveball with Thor are just a couple of the things that can't be allowed if you have to stick to a bible from a decade ago.

My friends laughed outloud when the game was thrown into the air and shot.

Sounds like a sicks sicks sicks joke.
Don't stop there - do the player characters go to the fey world or what?
Lucius Alexander
The palindromedary says they could have a fay old time

Some good ones from last night's FH game:
 
Welshman: “Songs will be sung of our deeds!”
Priest: “Mostly dirty limericks, but...”
Alchemist: "There once was a Priest from Rome..."
 
 
Pilgrim: “What if [bad thing] happens?”
Priest: “God isn’t enough of a dick to do that to us.”
Pilgrim: “You haven’t ever actually read the bible, have you?”
 
 
Traveling through Faerie, the Irish warrior decides to make a small sacrifice to the land asking for safe passage, so he spills a little wine on the ground symbolically.
GM: “Wait, the Irishman just spilled alcohol?”
Italian Priest: “I thought we talked about the dangers of alcohol abuse.”
Irishman: [shrugs] “It’s just wine, doesn’t count.”
Italian Priest: “Whoa whoa WHOA! You did not just say that!”
 
 
The Heroes encounter Aletcien, a Fey huntress they met once before, and with whom the Welshman had a tryst. But since their last meeting, the Welshman has married another woman. (Background: in my world, the Fey have something resembling marriage, but they don’t really get the concept of monogamy.)
GM: (to the Welshamn) “Aletcien runs over and leaps into your arms with a squee.”
Welshman: [sigh] “It’s truly wonderful to see you again.”
[Aletcien tries to drag him off into the woods for a quickie, but he resists...reluctantly...]
Welshman: But I must tell you…I’ve gotten married.”
Aletcien: “That’s wonderful! I’m so happy for you both! I can’t wait to meet her!”
Welshman: [relieved] “That’s great…”
Aletcien: “As long as she doesn’t mind sharing, amirite?”
[Aletcien resumes trying to drag him off into the woods]
Welshman:  [groaning] “No, no… you don’t understand…you see…my religion says I can only be with one woman.”
Aletcien: [thinks for a minute] “At a time?”
Welshman: [OOC] “Yeah, that’s it. I go with her. I’m not even going to try and make that EGO Roll.”
 
 
Later…
They  come back out of the woods picking leaves out of their hair. The Welshman walks over to the Priest.
Welshman: “Indulgences are still a thing, right?”  
Priest: “Last I checked.”
Welshman: [drops a bag of gold] “Bless me Father for I have sinned.” [walks away]

Slightly OT, but I was thinking the other day that even tho there are a lot of shows I'm theoretically watching, with the near-death of the traditional TV season model and the advent of binge media drops and so forth, I'm really only watching 2-3 shows at any one time. Sure, I'm eagerly waiting for the next seasons of GoT, Westworld, I Zombie, Legion, and all the Netflix MCU shows. But the only shows I'm actually watching at the moment are Supergirl, The Gifted, and The Orville. Nice to have stuff spaced out more throughout the year like that. Add in the fact that most of those shows are only 8-10 episodes per season, and it doesn't really turn into that many hours of television per week.

I think The Gifted is surprisingly good, given it is not really doing anything we haven't seen before. 
 
Not sure why exactly. Possibly a combination of the acting (which is not bad) and a coherent representation of the world. 

Well, ABC will be making things easier for viewers: chances are there will be no further episodes of The Inhumans after its 8-episode run, and this will be Agents of SHIELD's final season.
 
I don't know how well The Gifted is doing for Fox, but if that's not finding a big enough audience, that will be gone too.
 
The CW has a glut of superhero shows, but only one of them is actually any good (Supergirl), so that should make it easy for folks to manage their superhero intake.

"That carpet's not even 2 weeks old!"
"And yet you let gamers in here with food. So who's really to blame here?"
 
(OOC obviously)

Some good ones from last night's FH game:
 
Welshman: “Songs will be sung of our deeds!”
Priest: “Mostly dirty limericks, but...”
Alchemist: "There once was a Priest from Rome..."
 
 
Pilgrim: “What if [bad thing] happens?”
Priest: “God isn’t enough of a dick to do that to us.”
Pilgrim: “You haven’t ever actually read the bible, have you?”
 
 
Traveling through Faerie, the Irish warrior decides to make a small sacrifice to the land asking for safe passage, so he spills a little wine on the ground symbolically.
GM: “Wait, the Irishman just spilled alcohol?”
Italian Priest: “I thought we talked about the dangers of alcohol abuse.”
Irishman: [shrugs] “It’s just wine, doesn’t count.”
Italian Priest: “Whoa whoa WHOA! You did not just say that!”
 
 
The Heroes encounter Aletcien, a Fey huntress they met once before, and with whom the Welshman had a tryst. But since their last meeting, the Welshman has married another woman. (Background: in my world, the Fey have something resembling marriage, but they don’t really get the concept of monogamy.)
GM: (to the Welshamn) “Aletcien runs over and leaps into your arms with a squee.”
Welshman: [sigh] “It’s truly wonderful to see you again.”
[Aletcien tries to drag him off into the woods for a quickie, but he resists...reluctantly...]
Welshman: But I must tell you…I’ve gotten married.”
Aletcien: “That’s wonderful! I’m so happy for you both! I can’t wait to meet her!”
Welshman: [relieved] “That’s great…”
Aletcien: “As long as she doesn’t mind sharing, amirite?”
[Aletcien resumes trying to drag him off into the woods]
Welshman:  [groaning] “No, no… you don’t understand…you see…my religion says I can only be with one woman.”
Aletcien: [thinks for a minute] “At a time?”
Welshman: [OOC] “Yeah, that’s it. I go with her. I’m not even going to try and make that EGO Roll.”
 
 
Later…
They  come back out of the woods picking leaves out of their hair. The Welshman walks over to the Priest.
Welshman: “Indulgences are still a thing, right?”  
Priest: “Last I checked.”
Welshman: [drops a bag of gold] “Bless me Father for I have sinned.” [walks away]

Some good ones from last night's FH game:
 
Welshman: “Songs will be sung of our deeds!”
Priest: “Mostly dirty limericks, but...”
Alchemist: "There once was a Priest from Rome..."
 
 
Pilgrim: “What if [bad thing] happens?”
Priest: “God isn’t enough of a dick to do that to us.”
Pilgrim: “You haven’t ever actually read the bible, have you?”
 
 
Traveling through Faerie, the Irish warrior decides to make a small sacrifice to the land asking for safe passage, so he spills a little wine on the ground symbolically.
GM: “Wait, the Irishman just spilled alcohol?”
Italian Priest: “I thought we talked about the dangers of alcohol abuse.”
Irishman: [shrugs] “It’s just wine, doesn’t count.”
Italian Priest: “Whoa whoa WHOA! You did not just say that!”
 
 
The Heroes encounter Aletcien, a Fey huntress they met once before, and with whom the Welshman had a tryst. But since their last meeting, the Welshman has married another woman. (Background: in my world, the Fey have something resembling marriage, but they don’t really get the concept of monogamy.)
GM: (to the Welshamn) “Aletcien runs over and leaps into your arms with a squee.”
Welshman: [sigh] “It’s truly wonderful to see you again.”
[Aletcien tries to drag him off into the woods for a quickie, but he resists...reluctantly...]
Welshman: But I must tell you…I’ve gotten married.”
Aletcien: “That’s wonderful! I’m so happy for you both! I can’t wait to meet her!”
Welshman: [relieved] “That’s great…”
Aletcien: “As long as she doesn’t mind sharing, amirite?”
[Aletcien resumes trying to drag him off into the woods]
Welshman:  [groaning] “No, no… you don’t understand…you see…my religion says I can only be with one woman.”
Aletcien: [thinks for a minute] “At a time?”
Welshman: [OOC] “Yeah, that’s it. I go with her. I’m not even going to try and make that EGO Roll.”
 
 
Later…
They  come back out of the woods picking leaves out of their hair. The Welshman walks over to the Priest.
Welshman: “Indulgences are still a thing, right?”  
Priest: “Last I checked.”
Welshman: [drops a bag of gold] “Bless me Father for I have sinned.” [walks away]

Regardless of how one feels about a direct democracy system, The Orville has used the premise to tell an interesting science fiction story with a touch of allegory. 
 
In other words, pure Star Trek.

Baby Driver. It was kinda fun and the music was good, certainly worth the $4 I paid to see it, but I'm not sure what all the fuss was about.

"Majority Rule" gave me a few shudders and a few amused snorts with its "pushed just a little further" view of social media and the moral-mob vigilantism that, I am told, really does happen on it. But it also made me wince a few times with the characters' stupidity. As mentioned, the aspects of farce, satire and drama still don't mesh very well. But I've seen worse.
 
I also must compliment the show on its opening credits. They make space look beautiful. Awe-inspiring, even. I hope that at some point they can give more of a nod to the exploration aspect -- just the sheer gobsmacking beauty and strangeness of the universe. Like, an episode in which they have to land on that tumbling comet, or in a forming planetary system. No rubber science required; the real situations can be exotic enough.
 
Dean Shomshak

ftfy

Still liking Orville so far, though I have to say it's a bit uneven.  One thing that does bother me is that the jokes are just dropped in at random, and they're kind of jarring when they occur.  There isn't a constant stream of banter and one-liners like you get in bad Schwarzenegger films, and there isn't much situational humor either.  What I'm hoping is that they'll take advantage of the many flaws built in to the crews' personalities to drive the humor, if not the plots.  We're seeing some of that but definitely not up to the potential of the series.

If we want to get 'logical' about it, transporters should require a receiver.  How are all those atoms being reassembled at range?  So leaving aside the fact that they were created for budgetary reasons, transporters don't really make sense, but replicators do.
 
However, one of my all-time favorite episodes of any Trek series made magic with the ol' transporter accident:  they brought Scotty back!
 
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Yeah, well, I told the Captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour.
Scotty: How long will it really take?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: An hour!
Scotty: Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would *really* take, did ya?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Well, of course I did.
Scotty: Oh, laddie. You've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.

This is more TNG than TOS in a lot of ways, and TNG was always very "Oh, you poor primitives still cling to religion and spirituality, tsk tisk we out grew that long ago you sad sad little species. Don't worry, you'll evolve. ..mm I wonder why you don't like us?"*  where at least toS had one episode where the influence of Christianity was given a nod in the positive. And Seth has never been shy about his atheist views.  So knowing what was coming I mostly sighed, rolled with it, and then...
 
found myself pleasantly surprised as it actually got a bit deeper than "Religion bad, mmkay?"
 
 
 
So I'm still in.
 
 
* Props to DS9 for being more even handed by giving us people of faith who took it to dark places like Ki Wynn, and those who used it as a source of strength and goodness like Kira

I did like last episode's opening scene--Bortus and Klyten were having a domestic squabble, which sounded like Michael Dorn as Worf arguing with himself.  Then Klyten settled in with a big bowl of rocky road ice cream to watch The Sound Of Music, and Bortus emerges from his wardrobe with a look on his face like, "Are you kidding me?"  That was the funniest moment of the series since the scene in the pilot where the crew could hear Mercer and Grayson arguing through the bulkhead of the Captain's office. 
 
I do think, though, that you have a point.  Hope that helps.

Only if you're feeling snarky and/or in a bad mood, i.e. nearly every supers discussion is mindless fun.