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@AmishRakeFight said:
I just finished Chew, which was great. I guess its coming out as a movie soon, Steve Yuen from The Walking Dead plays the lead. Felicia Day is the love interest. I'm not sure how I feel about that pairing (I mean I don't really care that much but) but the series was great.
I read the first volume of Chew that came in one of those great Humble Bundles that shower you in comics. It was great, fun and interesting, but when I closed it I found I wasn't particularly compelled to keep reading. But I'm happy for all its fans that it's getting attention and adaptations and stuff.
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I mean sometimes "a power ring did it" is a stupid answer, but the reason it's stupid is because of theme issues and what makes for a satisfying story that's easy to understand, not actual physics or "realism."
I agree that the conversations at the speed of light thing is not one of those things though.
Characters in narrative fiction can always talk to each other over barriers of language, culture, and raw physics because characters talking to each other is for the audience, not for the characters.
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@TNP said:
@Thenomain said:
We're #1! You're #0!
Who is number one? You are number six.
I am the new Number Two.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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I know this may make me a horrible person but I loves me some Dex Starr, sadly he is one of the few things that I wound entertaining about the whole 7 corps stuff.
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@Thenomain said:
@TNP said:
@Thenomain said:
We're #1! You're #0!
Who is number one? You are number six.
I am the new Number Two.
"Who is Number One?"
"You are, Number Six."
I told a friend who was a serious Prisoners freak, that there was a pause between "are" and "number" there (just like I punctuated it) and that it meant that Number Six was really Number One. His problem was that when I told him this there were no copies of the show handy for him to double-check. He was left the rest of the day pondering what that would imply and what that meant for the "meaning" of the show until he got home and slid in a tape. Next day he punched me.
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@WTFE said:
@Thenomain said:
@TNP said:
@Thenomain said:
We're #1! You're #0!
Who is number one? You are number six.
I am the new Number Two.
"Who is Number One?"
"You are, Number Six."
I told a friend who was a serious Prisoners freak, that there was a pause between "are" and "number" there (just like I punctuated it) and that it meant that Number Six was really Number One. His problem was that when I told him this there were no copies of the show handy for him to double-check. He was left the rest of the day pondering what that would imply and what that meant for the "meaning" of the show until he got home and slid in a tape. Next day he punched me.
- Good job. Freaking out Prisoner nerds is awesome.
- You still deserved it.
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Is it 2016 yet? Don't make it green! Or animated!t
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... how the hell did they get the rights to use Colossus in there?
ETA: Nevermind, it's part of the Fox universe with X-Men and F4. Also, that little goth chick is Negasonic Teenage Warhead?Hmmm. Interest changing.
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@Insomnia said:
Is it 2016 yet? Don't make it green! Or animated!t
Hah, just saw this. I put it under RL Things I Love. ;D
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I admit, I've gotten grumpy in my older age, and there isn't much RL I love that isn't covered elsewhere. So I've never looked in the thread... to stay grumpy.
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We don't get crossovers between Supergirl and Flash/Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow won't be having Booster Gold any time soon.
But apparently Spider-Man will have two costumes in Captain America: Civil War.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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@Coin Yeah, probably the Iron Spider suit and his normal one.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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I remember that suit! I quit my subscription to Spider Man right around where he got it I think.
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@Arkandel said:
@Coin Yeah, probably the Iron Spider suit and his normal one.
No, according to the article, it's going to be a more "home made" suit he makes himself, and then a more traditionally-colored, more professionally made suit.
I seriously, seriously doubt they'll give him an Iron Spider suit before even his own movie comes out. That would be epicly stupid and insanely unnecessary.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
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(Just in case assume there'll be spoilers here, although they're about the comic book version of Civil War which might have little to do with the actual movie discussed in the thread)
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I wonder then from which point in Spider-man's film or comics continuity they're planning to take things.
For starters after five damn movies in the last thirteen years we don't need the damn origin story told again! How many times does Uncle Ben need to die before they're satisfied the audience knows what happened?
Also in the original story the point of Spidey's initial inclusion under Tony's banner was to boost the Registration Act. There he was, an infamous and very well known masked super-hero revealing his identity to the public in order to obey the law and do the right thing. If they have him be just a kid who barely even owns a proper costume yet (as possibly implied by the fact he's using the home-made version?) the impact of that seems pretty lessened. Why would Stark even care about what some upstart kid does?
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@Arkandel said:
(Just in case assume there'll be spoilers here, although they're about the comic book version of Civil War which might have little to do with the actual movie discussed in the thread)
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I wonder then from which point in Spider-man's film or comics continuity they're planning to take things.
For starters after five damn movies in the last thirteen years we don't need the damn origin story told again! How many times does Uncle Ben need to die before they're satisfied the audience knows what happened?
They've at least explicitly stated that they are NOT telling the origin story again. Probably because too many fans would flip out about this exact thing.
Also in the original story the point of Spidey's initial inclusion under Tony's banner was to boost the Registration Act. There he was, an infamous and very well known masked super-hero revealing his identity to the public in order to obey the law and do the right thing. If they have him be just a kid who barely even owns a proper costume yet (as possibly implied by the fact he's using the home-made version?) the impact of that seems pretty lessened. Why would Stark even care about what some upstart kid does?
There's zero reason to think anything's going to be working the same as it did in the comics, really. The only thing Age of Ultron had in common with the comics arc was the presence of Ultron. People keep going crazy over things like OOH RUMORS OF THE TEAM BREAKDOWN and it's like, everyone chill out, we literally don't even know the actual details of what the conflict even is.
That's to say, I don't think it matters about impact of story being lessened, because it's a different story. (Thank God, IMO. Not a big fan of the Civil War comics arc.)
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@Roz said:
They've at least explicitly stated that they are NOT telling the origin story again. Probably because too many fans would flip out about this exact thing.
Then again how many times have we seen the Waynes die? Those pearls!
That's to say, I don't think it matters about impact of story being lessened, because it's a different story. (Thank God, IMO. Not a big fan of the Civil War comics arc.)
What I mainly disliked about Civil War is that, although they started out claiming it'd be an evenly told story, it very quickly went to the pro-registration heroes clearly being the bad guys.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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@Arkandel said:
What I mainly disliked about Civil War is that, although they started out claiming it'd be an evenly told story, it very quickly went to the pro-registration heroes clearly being the bad guys.
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@Roz Exactly! Good link.
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@Arkandel said:
@Roz said:
They've at least explicitly stated that they are NOT telling the origin story again. Probably because too many fans would flip out about this exact thing.
Then again how many times have we seen the Waynes die? Those pearls!
On the big screen? Twice. The same amount of times we've seen Uncle Ben die.
Except the Waynes took like thirty years to die again, whereas Uncle Ben died twice in the span of like, 10?
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
