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Travis wrote: "Happy new year everybody!At this point, I can't say I'm wildly optimistic about it, but I'm willing to give it a chance."
I still say 2021 was a vast improvement over 2020. Even with the January 6th deadly, if short lived, insurrection by that horde of lawless & treasonous US vigilantes recklessly encouraged by that biggest loser of all time.
Rick wrote: "Travis wrote: "… Probably the best Spider-man movie ever."I agree."
Such a good movie!
And I'm one of those rare comic geeks that isn't really a Spider-man fan, so it had an uphill battle with me and managed to completely blow me away.
Rick wrote: "Travis wrote: "Happy new year everybody!At this point, I can't say I'm wildly optimistic about it, but I'm willing to give it a chance."
I still say 2021 was a vast improvement over 2020. Even w..."
Oh, 2021 was a definite improvement, just for having the guy in charge not trying to actively kill us, but at the same time, it's still been pretty rough.
2020, we were being chased by fire-breathing, ravenous sharks.
2021: the sharks are smaller and only want to nibble on us.
Travis wrote: "Oh, 2021 was a definite improvement, just for having the guy in charge not trying to actively kill us, but at the same time, it's still been pretty rough.2020, we were being chased by fire-breathing, ravenous sharks.
2021: the sharks are smaller and only want to nibble on us."
😹😹😹
Travis wrote: "Such a good movie! And I'm one of those rare comic geeks that isn't really a Spider-man fan, so it had an uphill battle with me and managed to completely blow me away."Me too! Not a huge Spider-Man fan and, while I’ve enjoyed the Tom Holland films, he’s better as a team member in the proper MCU films. But this one was … 🤔 … Spectacular! Sensational! And certainly the most Superior of any of the Spider-Man films.
News flash: Big Finish has snuck a brand new short audiobook as a bonus feature into the download of Doctor Who: Forty 1. It’s called Doctor Who: Interludes: I, Kamelion. Sneaky. Sneaky.
Book of Boba Fett is really good.Like that it just seems to be moving at its own pace and I'm not entirely sure where the story is going.
Travis wrote: "Book of Boba Fett is really good.Like that it just seems to be moving at its own pace and I'm not entirely sure where the story is going."
Cool. I still need to watch The Mandelorian.
Rick wrote: "Travis wrote: "Book of Boba Fett is really good.Like that it just seems to be moving at its own pace and I'm not entirely sure where the story is going."
Cool. I still need to watch The Mandelorian."
You should.
Both shows are really good
Eaglemoss does Doctor Who figurines.They came out with a set based on the 8th Doctor, including some BF companions.
Figurines based on audio...?
That sound weird to anyone else?
Travis wrote: "… Figurines based on audio...? That sound weird to anyone else?"Nope. 😼
Galaxy 4 has an April release date, but I'm only seeing it available on blu-ray.Not sure if I want to shell out 30 bucks.
Wait and see.
Yeah, there are a couple that are only list3d as Blu-ray, I’d rather wait to see if DVD is coming as well. I’ll get the Complete Season sets on Blu-ray, but the individual stories I’d rather just save the money and get on DVD.
Yeah, i'm cheap, so I'll wait and build up my amazon points.
Now, I hate to repeat myself, but holy crap, is Book of Boba Fett a good show!!That's pretty much my review every time a new episode is released.
Travis wrote: "Now, I hate to repeat myself, but holy crap, is Book of Boba Fett a good show!! That's pretty much my review every time a new episode is released."😹 Still need to watch the Mandalorian first.
Rick wrote: "Travis wrote: "Now, I hate to repeat myself, but holy crap, is Book of Boba Fett a good show!! That's pretty much my review every time a new episode is released."😹 Still need to watch the Mandalo..."
and I know I'm babbling, but 2022 has been pretty crap, and this show has been a pleasant surprise/happy thought.
Travis wrote: "and I know I'm babbling, but 2022 has been pretty crap, and this show has been a pleasant surprise/happy thought."Babble on, maybe I’ll finally get back into Star Wars (JJ Abrams nearly gave the franchise the final death blow from my point of view. Only Rogue One and the Kenobi series have keep any faith in the Force alive for me).
Rick wrote: "Travis wrote: "and I know I'm babbling, but 2022 has been pretty crap, and this show has been a pleasant surprise/happy thought."Babble on, maybe I’ll finally get back into Star Wars (JJ Abrams n..."
Liked the movies, but the fan backlash put me off, until the Mandalorian came along.
I went into The Force Awakens all hyped because the Star Trek films by JJ Abrams were such awful movies, that completely ignored (actually they took a huge stinking dump on) the basic premise of Gene Roddenberry’s vision, the fundamental concept of Star Trek, and turned them into Star Wars films. So I figured - okay now we get see Abrams playing in the franchise he wanted to be in all along, this will be good. And then, at the end of The Force Awakens, I’m just stunned and flabbergasted that Abrams just made a film-by-the-numbers Star Wars movie. Zero originality. Zero creativity. Zero. Zero. Zero. A big boring piece of CGI ugliness. He sat down and said “I’ve got a checklist of things that HAVE to be in my Star Wars movies” and he ticked off each and every thing on his list, all scenes and sequences that were done in earlier Star Wars films, but forgot to wrap it up with an interesting story and emotionally satisfying journey. Abrams is nothing but a buffed up, overrated talentless hack (IMO).I didn’t even see Rogue One, The Last Jedi or Solo in the theater because I was so appalled with how bad I felt The Force Awakens was. I eventually saw them all on disc, and enjoyed them all enormously, enough to go back and give The Rise of Skywalker a shot in the theater. Which was even more of a train wreck than The Force Awakens. I sincerely hope that Disney has learned to never, ever allow JJ Abrams anywhere near another franchise EVER again.
Yeah, Abrams Trek is a whole other conversation, which I don't have the energy to list how much he got wrong.See, Force Awakens was what I wanted that movie to be. Big space opera antics and familiar tropes used to reintroduce us to the next generation of SW heroes, with appearances by the old guys to pass the torch.
My daughter, who was too young to see the prequels, got to see a SW film on the big screen.
This trilogy was supposed to be the end of the old guys stories, and going forward, the new guys would be the focus.
It was what came next, that was where the problems started.
Last Jedi is brilliant, but it freaked fandom out, and Disney panic'd and stumbled all over themselves trying to do damage control, instead of just telling their story.
Solo, which is a good, but not great movie, was collateral damage and then Disney made the huge mistake of having the guy that isn't good at resolutions to fix the problem.
Rise has good moments, but it's a mess.
Abrams/Disney tried to make everybody happy and nobody liked it.
Angry fandom was still mad that they let a girl do stuff, and the rest of us were annoyed because we could see that they'd abandoned whatever plan they'd had in a desperate effort to "fix" things.
Abrams made a sequel to Force, not a sequel to Last Jedi.
Now, Disney is afraid to go forward, all their stuff is set in the past.
There is no post-Rise SW.
Alot of it is good, but SW can't survive on it.
Much as I'm not a fan of Abrams, I can't entirely blame him.
He did what Disney asked, and that was try and cater to the loudest, angriest fans.
fandom helped make this mess.
Disney has to share some blame, for sure, but Abrams has repeatedly made the same kind of mistakes with every project I’ve seen him work on. Not everything he touches is bad, but geez, this guy’s track record is awful. What’s the opposite of a visionary director? Zack Snyder immediately comes to mind. Another person whose offensives just keep piling up and I can’t understand how or why people keep letting him make films. On the other hand, you’ve got someone like Joss Whedon and his legions devoted followers. I never could understand the interest in Buffy or Angel. I did eventually watch Firefly (That’s a whole different story) and loved it. But, with a couple exceptions, I can’t seem to really enjoy anything he does. The I realized that it wasn’t Whedon’s involvement on Firefly that made it work, it was the synergy of all the creative components that made it work, despite Whedon’s influence. I think this probably the case with the two Avengers films he did as well. So I think Abrams has had some projects like that as well, things worked well out despite his involvement. I think I’ve yet to see something from Snyder that worked despite his involvement.
On yet another hand … there are also directors I’ve become increasingly annoyed with, Quinton Tarantino and David Lynch come to mind, as their more recent films just keep falling increasingly flat.
Like this conversation isn't controversial enough, you had to bring in Zach Snyder...!Who looked at Watchmen and said "That seems like a guy who gets Superman...?"
The guy who did 300, that's our Kevin Fiege!
Dear lord, did he %$#@ up the DC movie-verse!
Whedon's weird, as I don't love firefly. Great cast, great world building, very quotable, but just enough rape references that I haven't been able to finish it, as I just got uncomfortable.
Generally enjoyed Buffy and Angel.
Loved Avengers.
Shame he turned out to be kind of garbage.
Travis wrote: "Like this conversation isn't controversial enough, you had to bring in Zach Snyder...! ..."Well, ya know, he is kinda a Nazi place holder of film discussions. 😹
Firefly 🙄 Where do I begin? I tried watching Buffy back-in-the-day while it was originally running. Couldn’t get into it. I hadn’t really enjoyed the original film, but I know that’s not canon anyway, and the new series just seemed to take the aspects of the film I didn’t like and amplify them, while dismissing or diminishing those that I thought were interesting (can’t really go into detail as I haven’t seen that film in … 30 years or so, and I only saw it once). But I’ve tried several times to get aboard the Buffy train and just … couldn’t. One aspect that really grates on me is that the vampires aren’t really vampires, they’re demons, and they just disappear when they’re killed. All too scooby-doo-convenient for me. So when Firefly ran on TV, I just rolled my eyes and ignored it. Then it got cancelled and I never gave it another thought. Some years pass, and a good friend of mine is pissed at his father. Seems his father had asked: what do you want for Xmas. And my friend James replied: the Firefly DVD box set. So, of course, his father bought him a Star Trek tie for Xmas that year. I knew I was never going to hear the end of this for probably months, so I immediately went out and bought him the Firefly DVD box set and gave it to him. He was delighted, still pissed at his father, but happy as a snug wee bitty bug. Then he says to me: since you bought it for me you’ll have to watch it with me. I rolled my eyes. This is how I always seem to get into trouble. So about a week later I grudgingly sat down and we watched the pilot episode (the set up for the entire series, that explains the characters and introduces the universe, that didn’t air until just as the series was being cancelled). I think I might have fallen asleep. Can’t remember. Then we pushed on and watched the next episode, the one that actually aired first (FOX is a really stupid broadcasting company). By the end of that episode I was hooked. Over the next week or so we watched several more episodes and then I went out and bought myself a copy on DVD. Then we finished the series and I rewatched the whole thing on my own set of discs. Then I gave my set away to another friend to get her hooked, and bought myself another set on DVD. Then I gave that set away to yet another friend and bought myself a third set (fourth if you count the set I initially bought for James). Then I gave THAT set away and bought another. See what was happening? At some point I’d purchased and given away probably close to a dozen sets and I watched each set before I gave it away. Basically it became a joke among me and my friends. All they had to do was say “so and so hasn’t seen Firefly yet” and I’d just give them my set and go buy another for myself. Then, a couple years ago, I got a Blu-ray set for myself … and there it sits. I think I still have a DVD set somewhere in a box, but … I haven’t watched that Blu-ray set yet (or did I? Can’t remember now, but I must have). Why? Couldn’t say, but I’ve literally watched the series so many times I can’t even recall how many times I’ve seen it. But now with all the crap about Whedon that’s come out, I’m kinda hesitant to go back and watch the series again.
Rick wrote: "Travis wrote: "Like this conversation isn't controversial enough, you had to bring in Zach Snyder...! ..."Well, ya know, he is kinda a Nazi place holder of film discussions. 😹
Firefly 🙄 Where d..."
So, actually the show's popularity is a myth, and it's just been you buying the DVDs, the whole time.
Travis wrote: "So, actually the show's popularity is a myth, and it's just been you buying the DVDs, the whole time."Well … possibly … but statistically unlikely. On the other hand, I did get people in the theater before the showing of the film Serenity, to sing the Firefly theme song. Don’t think I could do that now, I’ve almost forgotten the lyrics.
Probably the only episodes of shows I might have seen as many times As I’ve watched Firefly are original series Star Trek (just because it’s been run on syndicated TV for so many years in the 1970s) and Space: 1999. Even the new seasons of Doctor Who with Eccleston and Tennant probably don’t rack up as many viewings for me as Firefly.
Speaking of Who:Meglos: okay, not as bad as its reputation, but it is a mess.
Decent effects and design, some good ideas and a pretty solid cast.
Tom is in fine form, Jacqueline Hill is back, as is K-9's original voice.
The society of the planet doesn't make much sense, they never fully explain the maguffin, the first 3 episodes are very busy and the finale is unsatisfying rush because we spent so much time running around the same three corridors.
Not terrible, but I get why it's never on anyone's top 10 list.
Travis wrote: "Speaking of Who: Meglos … Not terrible, but I get why it's never on anyone's top 10 list."I always thinks of that one as Cactus Doctor.
Yeah, not on my top 10.
Shames as there are good bits, but they do not add up to a solid whole.It's not dull, just odd and clunky.
I think, if I’m remembering correctly, it felt too conventional and predictably Doctor Who.
The plot itself is pretty flimsy and the planet's society makes little sense. so half the guest cast feel underwritten.But, it's full of odds and ends that are good: Meglos is a fun villain, Tom playing two roles is fun, a throw away line in episode becomes a big deal in episode 4, Rommana and get plenty to do and the return of Jacqueline Hill.
It's just the stuff connecting all those bits is very weak.
Oh well, on to E-space!
Travis wrote: "… Oh well, on to E-space! "Yay, Adric! 😹
Rick wrote: "Travis wrote: "… Oh well, on to E-space! "Yay, Adric! 😹"
Excited, but knowing it's almost the end of Tom's era, is a little sad.
So, I’ve now got the following on preorder: Web of Fear on DVD
Tom Baker Complete Season 6 on Blu-ray (season 17)
Colin Baker Complete Season 1 on Blu-ray (season 22)
Complete Series 13: Flux on Blu-ray
I think the Tom Baker set will include Shada, multiple versions in fact. And it doesn’t look like the Colin Baker set will include his first story arc, The Twin Dilemma, as a bonus feature.
That's right, if I'm finishing Tom's era, I need to track down a copy of Shada...!Thanks for reminding me.
There’s the pieced together version with narration by Tom Baker, the audio version with Paul McGann and the new animated version. I actually think I’ve got all three.
Another thought on bachelor Tardis: adding Dan to Flux kept us from having an all girl Tardis crew.Do Tardis only work if they are co-ed?
Really want to like the Netflix 'Lost in space', but the entire cast is either unlikable or has such poor judgement, that I'm pretty sure they are all going to die.
I enjoyed the series. First season: I loved. Second season: I liked. Third season: I was entertained.
I'm going to try another episode, as there's some good stuff there and I can see what they are trying to do, but mostly I watch and think 'How are you all not dead? How can you all manage to make so many bad choices and not be dead?"It's frustrating, as I should love this.
By the time you get to the 3rd season, if you make it that far, you’ll likely be either numb to the bad decisions or so pissed you’ll quit at that point. Just saying … 😹
Actually, I just realized. It’s kind of like the Glee of science fiction, rather like a horrible train wreck that you just can’t look away from. Like I said, each season goes downhill, so if you can’t stand the first season, don’t bother.
Rick wrote: "Actually, I just realized. It’s kind of like the Glee of science fiction, rather like a horrible train wreck that you just can’t look away from. Like I said, each season goes downhill, so if you ca..."It's going to get a couple more episode.
I'm not feeling optimistic, but I am a weak-willed geek who is finding it hard to give up on anything called 'lost in space'.
Well, I enjoyed it, diminishing returns and all. I’ve started listening to Doctor Who: Watchers, written and read by Matthew Waterhouse.
33% in and I’m enjoying it so far.
Cool.Somebody else realized my idea of a tom-based bachelor Tardis was a good one.
Like that they worked the watcher in as well.
Just finished a rewatch of The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances. I’ve always loved this pair of episodes. Captain Jack, creepy “Are you my Mommy” kid, everybody lives. Fantastic stuff.
Best story of the Eccelston era and definitely on my list of best new Who stories.
It seems to me, that if the Peter Cushing Doctor ever regenerated, he would obviously regenerate into Christopher Lee.
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I agree.