slikmar

My problem at home is, I don't subscribe to any. I live in a remote area and am limited to Satellite, which means I am limited to 50Gb of data a month, limiting what I could watch even if I wanted too. It's one of the things I am annoyed with my satellite about, but it is what it is. Where I am, don't really have an option barring an unknown rich relative dieing and deciding to leave me money. Its kind of annoying, as I would love to follow some of these shows. I use my friends Netflix for the Marvel ones, basically stream recording them with the extra I get from 2am to 8am at a lower level of quality.

Actually, just looks like a reality show variation of Kick-Ass, if KA had been more about Big Daddy and Hit-Girl (ie competent heroes).

I liked the Affleck Daredevil, not so much Elektra. I liked it more with Director's cut. Is one reason I would have really liked to have seen him play an older Batman more.

Hey, compared to Fantas4ic or whatever it was called, Roger Cormin's FF was gold.

Realizing although Canon, most people haven't seen it, the Star Wars: Rebels series actually explored this and many ways the main protagonist - Ezra - in many ways became what you said. He was studying both light and dark side force.

maybe they should have done Wonkavision.

Saw it today, enjoyed it. Thought they would do to much teen/kid stuff, but did a good job. Like the Marvel Family and that they kept that really their powers are variants of the main heroes. Silvana was a good villain, but I always liked the actor. Levi does a good job, much like Hanks in Big. I fully expected to see him go back and have a "talk" with his mom's boyfriend, ala Clark in Superman 2 and the diner thug. As a note, they got a really good match to play super Mary, I had figured were using same actress in the suit.

They forgot the part where they, along with women, are the root of all sin in western religion. not sure if I would add or subtract a star for that though, some sins can be really fun.

Well, it worked, because 5 of those time, once with bases loaded, there ended up no runners on base afterwards. He and their pitchers basically won all 3 of the last games. I think he accounted for 80% of the runs they scored after the first game. Much like was mentioned with Bonds above, when he is hot, you should just walk him. discounting the lack of anyone on Angels, I would almost say that with all but 10-15 guys in MLB (there is a reason he is considered best player now and maybe challenge for best ever if stays healthy). You might pitch to him in situations if Betts, Harper, Bellinger or Seager from the Dodgers are hitting behind him. Those are the only guys off the top of my head I can think of.

oh, I thought he used crafts to create one. I was going to say very realistic, though the fruit looks very fake.

In a "why didn't the manager of the opposing team (rangers) not walk up at exchange of lineups and say Trout will be intentionally walked when ever he bats" wonderment. His Stats for the 4 games against the rangers (angels won 3): In the four-game series, Trout batted .545 (6-for-11) with five homers, nine RBIs, six walks and a hit by pitch. He reached base safely in 13 of his 18 plate appearances. As an Angel fan, please keep pitching to him, but as a baseball enthusiast, this is a quick way to show you shouldn't be managing, as most the time the guy batting behind Trout has less then 5 hits so far.

Problem is, they are so afraid of missing the run if ball is hit in hole somewhere and defender makes a play to stop it but really only play should be at 1st if runner was going. What is missing in baseball now are aggressive runners who understand you can go 1/4 of the way and force hesitation in defender, perhaps resulting in safe at first or take off home as soon as they throw to 1st.

I would argue, that with the exception of the Avengers movies, you really don't need any others, especially fringe ones, to enjoy these movies. To see the 2 Ant Men movies, you don't have needed to see any of the others, knowing the character of Tony Stark and his father would help, but not needed. Only the 3rd Captain America movie really required knowing any of the other movies, but truly only needed to know the characters and what had happened in Winter Soldier.

And scooby snacks.

I was under the impression that Skull Island supposedly took place in the 70s or 80s, so technically, 30+ years, not 2.

Part of the problem, depending on what they do in KOTM is that they have portrayed both G and KK as being guardians. And now that they have used Ghidora, whom can you throw in that is really a threat to both. Course, is a classic Superhero team up, of course the heroes start off fighting, but then team up to finish the bad guy.

I think they did start with this, in a lot of ways showing the origins of the rogue's gallery. A young Ivy, a young Selena, a flunky Penguin etc. All learning from mentors.

"I'm not a baby, I'm a tumor".

Ok, then maybe don't cast a 44 year old actor to play a character that at best should be early 20s, or does anyone think Joker is 30 years older then Batman. Now, maybe if they were billing this as the father of the person who would become The Joker, I could see it, and maybe they will do so. The young son influenced by the callous treatment of his father and his father's retribution, perhaps ending with the father's death/life imprisonment at the hands of the authorities who couldn't/wouldn't protect him. A warped homage/crossing of Bruce/Batman's own beginning.

But as I mentioned, all they would have to do is go look at how Monaghan played the prelude Joker in the Gotham series (I haven't seen the latest season yet, so not sure how his "brother" will be). The thing I liked about Leger and Monaghan was they both made me laugh and then realize "That's not right". Specifically I think of the disappearing pencil for Ledger. A joker who is a failed standup comedian due to thugs beating him up isn't the Joker to me. Even the psycho gangster joker was more joker to me.

Hmm, so now Joker is Michael Douglas from Falling Down instead of tattoo'd psycho gangster as he was portrayed in Suicide Squad. Not sure a sympathetic Joker works. I really liked Ledger's portrayal in Dark Knight or Monaghan from Gotham. Joker needs to be an intelligent (at or near Batman's level) force of chaos.

one problem I had with the starter is you need to mix up who it is. TB used it against the angels in one series and on the 2nd game, he is facing same players and they were getting a lot better swings on him.

Sadly, with the exception of maybe 10-15 pitchers, the days of starters going past 6 is over and any of your 3-5+ starters are lucky to go past 5. Really, with modern analytics, most teams don't want their pitchers to face someone a 3rd time in a game, especially as the players they will face those 3rd times first are probably the 3 best hitters on the team. Used to be about pitch count, now it is about times through order. I think a big part of this is the predilection of guys who throw 96+ but really don't have a good 3rd or 4th pitch and aren't really learning to pitch (just throw what catcher puts down) to setup batters anymore. I think eventually what you will see is the 4-5 spots in a rotation not being so much a bullpen day but a duel starter day. One guy goes through order 1-1.5 times other guys does other 1-1.5 guys, getting you to/through 5th/6th (I was going to make this about outs, but it really won't be). Your rotation then would have a 1 who can hopefully get you 7 innings, 2 and 3 who can do 6 and then, in effect, 2 long guys matched for the other 2 days. I think that pairing will almost always be a lefty/righty combo, thereby messing with your opponents batting order and bench depth.

Sometimes, as the A's announcers were talking about last night, saving the game isn't really in the 9th inning, but is in the 7th or 8th, when the lead is precarious and the opponents best hitters are due up. Not to denigrate anyone, but would you rather your best reliever face the 1-5 hitters in the 7th/8th or the 6-9 in the 9th? Miller from Cleveland started one of the new trends of the fireman (as Brian Kenney calls it) rather then the Closer.

The old quote still applies. "Baseball is 50% pitching, unless it is bad, in which case it is 90%".