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1 hour ago, csyphrett said:
It had a four on IMBD 250 reviews liked it, gave it a 10 out of ten. A thousand didn't. Most of the reviews I saw were who is this show for because it sucks
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What do you think this is about? They are already trying to sell toys off of this.
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I'd imagine Kevin Smith signed on because he actually wanted to work on He-Man stuff. He certainly seems to be putting more thought into plot and characters then Filmation ever did.
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8 hours ago, Bazza said:
Masters of the Universe Revelation is very modern but lacks the heart of the He-Man & She-Ra series from the 80s, or the series from 2002.
And can further comment be directed to a new thread, please?
Yes, the "heart" of the half hour toy commercial. I mean don't get me wrong, I liked the original shows and all but Filmation made them on the cheap. They weren't some labor of love, Filmation was cashing in on something that was hot at the time. The reboot shows for both franchises blew them out of the water with ease.
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13 minutes ago, Ternaugh said:
It's funny, because earlier today, a bunch of my friends on the Book of Face talking about Ghostbusters 2016, and how much they liked the movie, and several had plans to re-watch it soon. So some fans liked it.
As for Masters of the Universe Revelation, I wasn't going to watch it, but so many folks got themselves all worked up over it, that I decided to watch the first episode. I quickly watched the other available episodes, and am eagerly awaiting the second half of the first season.
I'm rapidly getting to the point where if the diehard fanboys hate a show or movie, it probably means that I'll enjoy watching it.
Speaking as a diehard fan of this franchise, I have heard nothing about this particular show that makes me the least bit upset. Teela's always gotten focus in Masters of the Universe so it's no surprise she's getting focus in this show as well. Would I have liked a continuation of the story from the reboot leading to the Ultimate Battleground and He-Man and She-ra having to deal with Skeletor, the Snake Men AND Hordak? Well sure but Smith only has ten episodes, not nearly enough time to tell a story that epic. From the sounds of things though Masters of the Universe Revelations is a story that's just as epic.
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2 hours ago, csyphrett said:
The only movie I remember with you are bad guys if you don't watch this, is GB 2016. Critics loved it, but fans hated it, and it bombed. The same thing is going on with He Man right now. Kevin Smith is like you are all bad for hating my show even though I lied what it was about. Older fans and some new ones are like this show isnt what you promised and Teela is awful in every way.
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Oh puh-lease. Everybody I've talked to who's actually watched the show says it's absolutely wonderful, the "fans" hating on it are just a minority of crybabies trying to make themselves appear more important then they are. Just your standard wingnuts trying to "own da libs."
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On 7/3/2021 at 3:19 PM, Logan.1179 said:
Aquaman's comic has been consistently published since the Golden Age. He's had his own cartoon and been prominently featured in other cartoons, that doesn't say "not even a letter list character" to me.
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47 minutes ago, death tribble said:
Apologies my post it should have said Not Alone
I figured. Also with the Cody Rhodes thing, this might be bad for more then one wrestler. Ogogo looks like a paper tiger for failing in his very first major match but Austin Gunn also looks bad for being put on the shelf for 8-10 months by the move Cody tanked several times. Also Billy and Colton Gunn look bad for not rushing to avenge Austin.
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41 minutes ago, death tribble said:
You were alone in this. Triple H was trending on Twitter in regards to this match.
The review of the match that I watched said that the Hangman Page vs Brian Cage match was good, Shida v Britt Baker was good and Kenny Omega vs Orange Cassidy and Pac was good.
Christian Cage put over Jungle Boy in the Casino Battle Royale. There are pictures of Britt Baker and Tony Schiavone embracing.
The other criticism was that the Pinnacle vs Inner Circle match was pre-filmed with only Sammy Guevara pinning Spears in the only live bit and this was supposed to be the main match.
Well as I understand it, Stadium Stampede was always meant to be one fall for the finish. The only complaint I heard about that match was that, given the storyline, Guevara should have been pinning MJF himself rather then Spears.
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So I checked the results for AEW Double or Nothing. Most of the show I had no problem with however they had Cody Rhodes go over Anthony Ogogo, who is the guy that was supposed to be AEW's next big monster. So naturally in his first big match Cody Rhodes cut him off at the knees. Despite Ogogo dominating the match, despite Ogogo hitting his kill move that has put wrestlers in hospital, Rhodes hit one move and wins. I suppose I'm not surprised that Rhodes is engaging in the same BS he chided HHH for but I am very disappointed.
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So during that zombie lumberjack match on Backlash, Miz was legitimately injured with a torn ACL. Naturally he's going to be off TV for awhile and apparently "eaten by zombies" is how they're explaining it. Morrison meanwhile managed to get away apparently, as he lost to Damian Priest in a normal lumberjack match on RAW.
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So....Backlash had a match with zombie lumberjacks. Miz and Morrison were eaten apparently. Make of this what you will.
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Just dropping in to express more disgust over President Biden standing with Netanyahu and failing to denounce Israel's terror attacks in Gaza.
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8 minutes ago, DShomshak said:
A Palestinian professor and Israeli political reporter discussed the situation on All Things Considered. They agreed how... remarkable it is that this conflict has saved Netanyahu's political future after four inconclusive elections and failures to form a government, with likely jail for corruption once he's out of office.
Though it's been good for Hamas, too. All the Palestinian groups have lined up in shared outrage.
A nasty, suspicious person might suspect collusion. Or at least a recognition of reciprocal interests.
But I am not sure what the US government *can* do about this, that would be politically possible, meaningful and effective.
Dean Shomshak
There might be things that the US government can do about this, though I'm not quite certain what they are at the moment. The question is, in my opinion, what are they actually willing to do about this? Nobody in the government has been willing to call out Israel on it's BS, possibly because the whole conflict is a cash cow for the military industrial complex. Pro Israel groups are going around trying to silence people who speak out against them, as they did with Sami Zayn when he made some comments on Twitter about the conflict and they're only to happy to spread Israeli propaganda whenever they can. They've hopped into bed with the Israelis by this point and nobody seems to have the moral strength to change that.
As for the notion of collusion between Netanyahu and Hamas, it wouldn't exactly surprise me. He doesn't exactly strike me as a person with a strong moral center y'know?
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3 hours ago, Ragitsu said:
Just dropping in to voice my disgust with how the United States' government is responding to the Israeli violence.
I'll second that disgust and add some disgust toward the people who're acting like Israel is the victim, when they're shooting civilians.
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Recently, for a rather loose definition of recently, I've seen The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, the 400 Blows, The Little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane, A Little Romance and The Boy Who Stole The Elephant.
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17 minutes ago, Pattern Ghost said:
If by anytime soon, you mean never, then we agree.
That definitely works for me. He deserves to be in there more then some guys jailed for pot, for example.
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24 minutes ago, Pattern Ghost said:
Yeah, the Murder 3 and the manslaughter seem to overlap a bit to me too. The murder 2 seems entirely appropriate, though, and that's the biggie.
As long as he's not back on the streets anytime soon, that's fine by me.
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52 minutes ago, Old Man said:
Chicago officials are pleading for calm ahead of the release of the body cam video of the shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo. I understand it may show that the boy had dropped his gun and had his hands in the air when he was shot. If so, I don’t think there will be calm.
The video was put on Twitter earlier today. If there was a gun, I didn't see it though he was certainly raising his hands when he was shot.
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9 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said:
Low-end supervillains are mostly thugs, just performing a pumped-up version of what they'd be doing if they didn't have powers, because they lack the imagination for anything more.
Doc Ock has tried to take over organized crime in NYC a few times, although revenge on Spider-Man seems to be a greater driving force. But Ock and the Riddler are psychopaths, pushing their motivations to more idiosyncratic extremes. Also, don't forget the, "prove they're superior" part. That's a big part of why Riddler plays his games -- he has to outwit Batman to demonstrate he's smarter. We see this among real psychopaths, like serial killers.
In the case of the Wizard, IMO a big part of his fixation on Reed Richards is jealousy of his scientific genius. Wizard wants to clearly beat Mr. Fantastic on the intellectual front. Now, I don't know what's been done with the character in recent years, but in his classic supevillain incarnation the Wizard wasn't a one-trick pony. His technological "wonder gloves" had an array of offensive and defensive systems built in, and the Wizard created a variety of other devices. (BTW the official Champions Universe has a supervillain called Gauntlet, in CV3, very similar to that version of the Wizard. His artwork even looks rather like him.)
I might be in a somewhat anti-Wizard place at the moment, admittedly. Blame Outlawed. That being said, I do think Fixer and Tinkerer are his superior when it comes to technology. Tinkerer could do all the stuff Wizard does, but he's a sensible sort who found himself a comfortable niche that, logically, is making him lots of money.
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2 minutes ago, archer said:
What you're forgetting is that the Wizard wouldn't have had to play fair and give the Tinkerer advance warning that he needed to hire supervillain bodyguards. Hell, the Wizard could have played it off that they were prospective customers until they jumped him. It's not like the Tinkerer could have stayed in business and have remained hidden from supervillains.
And toward the beginnings of their respective careers, the Tinkerer hadn't built up a large number of villains who might feel they needed to protect him.
The Frightful Four came close a couple of times to taking out the Fantastic Four. Don't try to tell me that they couldn't have taken out the Tinkerer when he was alone and not expecting it.
Besides, the Wizard could have just hired the Tinkerer or have hypnotized him rather than just having him beaten to a pulp.
He'd be a lot more valuable as an ally churning out new inventions than having just the contents of whatever happened to be laying around his lab on one particular day.
He's a one trick pony, the flying discs are all he's got. The Tinkerer's build hundreds of gadgets for dozens of villains, he's built androids that were indistinguishable from humans years before SHIELD was doing it, his prowess as an inventor FAR outstrips that of the Wizard by several orders of magnitude. He's way more valuable as an ally then the Wizard.
As for the rest of your arguments: at the beginning of his career nobody knew what the Tinkerer looked like aside from his clients and Spider-Man and at first Spidey thought the Tinkerer was an alien for crying out loud. Spidey's hardly going to be giving the Frightful Four any information, assuming they even knew Spidey had the information they wanted and Tinkerer's clients are hardly going to give him up and again that's assuming Wizard even knew who Tinkerer's clients even were. How're they gonna find him.
The Wizard does not have hypnotic powers and he's not gonna magically develop them just so you can win this argument. He's a villain who failed to outwit the Human Torch and once got launched into space with his own tech and had to be rescued, how's he gonna outwit The Tinkerer, a villain who's actually clever? -
4 minutes ago, archer said:
The comment you were responding to was
"Personally, I think the Wizard started far too high on the food chain. He'd have been better off to go after the Tinkerer, the Fixer...."
At the start, he had three teammates. As he continued, he had a rotating cast of three teammates.
Most of those guys were one offs, hired for a particular mission. What your forgetting is that Tinkerer can hire goons too and since there are a great many of them who rely on him to repair their gear he's gonna have quite a few more allies. It's a fight Wizard's not gonna win.
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Just now, archer said:
That's why the Wizard tends to bring along three teammates with him.
None of whom are dumb enough to risk annoying Zemo by taking out his number one tech guy or pissing off large numbers of supervillains by trying to rob the Tinkerer. Also those three teammates haven't actually worked with Wizard in years.
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8 minutes ago, archer said:
A lot of the Wizard's motivation over the years has been to steal all of Reed Richards' inventions because Richards is much more brilliant than the Wizard.
The Wizard came up with a brilliant idea and a nifty application for it. But even if he sold it for virtually unlimited wealth, it wouldn't get him Richards' inventions, the best of Stark tech, or give him enough resources to make a credible play for going after Doom's inventions.
Richards is by far the softest target out of that group. After the Wizard is caught by the FF, Reed is going to forget about him: out of sight, out of mind.
In contrast, if the Wizard went after Stark, Iron Man would treat him harshly then Stark's lawyers would go out of their way to make sure the state prosecuted the Wizard to the fullest extent of the law. And Doom would likely kill him out of hand if he was caught there.
I always got the impression that if the Wizard ever took over the Baxter Buildings scientific wonders, that he'd indulge himself in the labs, get some inspiration from what he finds, then use those wonders to go after some more difficult target.
Personally, I think the Wizard started far too high on the food chain. He'd have been better off to go after the Tinkerer, the Fixer, the Porcupine, etc. until he finished all of the c-list villains and either defeated them or taken them into his organization. Then go after some b-list villains, heroes, and organizations....
The Tinkerer and the Fixer are both far more accomplished then the Wizard and when it comes to tech, they're FAR more brilliant to boot. The Wizard is a one trick pony, Tinkerer's a guy who's the go to tech support for nearly every street level villain in Marvel, has built androids that can give Spider-Man a good fight and built an android replica of Bullseye that was almost as deadly as the real thing. Fixer is Baron Zemo's first choice when it comes to tech villains and has been a legitimate threat both as Zemo's ally and on his own. By himself the Wizard can't even outwit Jonny Storm. Tinkerer or Fixer would murder Wizard.
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10 hours ago, Grailknight said:
Those discs could past mil-spec. They've kept going through hits from the Human Torch, the Thing, Sandman and Hydroman. Anything but a hypersonic collision would be under what they would be subjected to in everyday uses.
Have they though? He gets caught an awful lot for a guy with mil-spec flying discs and as his first appearances showed, he's not nearly as clever as he thinks he is.
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1 hour ago, Christopher R Taylor said:
Kinda like Vulture. Dude you made a flying suit. Anyone who wears it can fly. Why aren't you just marketing this???
Because the flying suit and Wizard's flight discs are fairly easily disabled. In the case of the Vulture, a high school science nerd was able to disable it several times.
Marvel Cinematic Universe, Phase Three and BEYOOOOONND
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Right, I bought the MOTU Minicomic Collection from Dark Horse, the MOTU Character Guide and World Compendium from Dark Horse, my book shelf is currently decorated with MOTU figures but tell me again how I'm not a diehard fan. 🤪Face facts man, the original show was a paint by numbers production and the character bible was ignored for the most part. I mean sure I liked the original series well enough but it was only ever adequate, with it occasionally reaching above average when they cribbed directly from the minicomics. The reboot was far better in terms of action, characterization and storyline. Heck the original show didn't even try to incorporate most of the characters from the franchise.
More likely she'll end up the new Sorceress, should the original Sorceress fall. She is the Sorceress' daughter after all and had the reboot gotten it's, justly deserved in my opinion, third season that's likely what would have happened.