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 11 
 on: February 29, 2024, 07:39:18 PM 
Started by Velorath - Last post by Tale
In Australia it's on Disney Plus. I've watched about 15 minutes so far - thanks work and family duties.

 12 
 on: February 29, 2024, 06:55:11 AM 
Started by Trippy - Last post by Khaldun
I mean in the comics, where he has been repeatedly jobbed ever since Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created him.

 13 
 on: February 28, 2024, 09:55:31 PM 
Started by Velorath - Last post by Setanta
Great start to the series, and feels quite faithful to Clavell's book. I recollect watching it in 1980 and thoroughly enjoying it, this one hasn't disappointed.

 14 
 on: February 28, 2024, 08:52:25 PM 
Started by Velorath - Last post by Velorath
First two episode of the new Hulu/FX adaptation of Shogun just released today, with an additional episode releasing each week. 10 episodes total.

Haven't gotten through both episodes yet (they're just over an hour long each I think), but good start so far.

 15 
 on: February 28, 2024, 01:42:23 PM 
Started by Johny Cee - Last post by Samwise
Some years back I read "Sapiens", which I forget if I posted about here, but anyway if you enjoyed that you might also enjoy "Hunt, Gather, Parent," which of the many parenting books I've read is the only one that I could see being interesting to non-parents.

Similar to "Sapiens", a central thesis running through it is that the way we're living (in industrialized societies) isn't anything like the way we evolved to live over the hundred thousand years before the invention of agriculture, and there are a bunch of associated costs that we don't necessarily think about much.  A big takeaway I had from it was "maybe a lot of people in this country are self-centered assholes because we've spent a few generations using parenting methods that tend to raise people to be self-centered assholes?"

 16 
 on: February 27, 2024, 09:39:38 PM 
Started by Trippy - Last post by Velorath
Ronan can stand toe to toe until the plot needs him to get jobbed; that's pretty much his entire role, getting jobbed by superheroes, by the Inhumans, by the Annihilation Wave, by the Super-Skrull, by the Shi'ar, etc., usually while bellowing about his ultimate weapon and the mighty Kree. About the only badass things he's ever done are a) killing the Supreme Intelligence (didn't take) and b) killing one of Thanos' henchmen.

Ronan doesn't really get jobbed though. The Guardians just end up target his weapon to blow the Power Gem out of it and then band together to use the Power Gem to destroy him. For a superhero climax it actually makes a reasonable amount of sense.

 17 
 on: February 26, 2024, 07:44:54 PM 
Started by Trippy - Last post by Riggswolfe
It's an interesting thing--about how to keep a bad guy as a threat as opposed to a kind of ritual punching bag that establishes a protagonist. To me the master class was letting the Richard Rider Nova character rip out Annihilus' innards--it came after a really hard fight, some unique circumstances, and a lot of character growth, so you absolutely bought it AND the bad guy still felt like a serious threat. As opposed to "oh wow look the newest whatever mutant whatever just took a shit on Galactus and he died, wow he's really strong."

In fairness, this isn't limited to bad guys. Worf's role in Star Trek TNG after all was to get bitch slapped by whatever alien they needed to show was a threat.

 18 
 on: February 26, 2024, 06:58:41 PM 
Started by Trippy - Last post by Khaldun
It's an interesting thing--about how to keep a bad guy as a threat as opposed to a kind of ritual punching bag that establishes a protagonist. To me the master class was letting the Richard Rider Nova character rip out Annihilus' innards--it came after a really hard fight, some unique circumstances, and a lot of character growth, so you absolutely bought it AND the bad guy still felt like a serious threat. As opposed to "oh wow look the newest whatever mutant whatever just took a shit on Galactus and he died, wow he's really strong."

 19 
 on: February 26, 2024, 05:52:08 PM 
Started by Trippy - Last post by Threash
Kinda like the bad guy in this movie, stands toe to toe against the three marvels, one of whomst can reignite a god damn sun... and then gets taken out by a wall falling her.

 20 
 on: February 26, 2024, 01:14:44 PM 
Started by Trippy - Last post by Khaldun
Ronan can stand toe to toe until the plot needs him to get jobbed; that's pretty much his entire role, getting jobbed by superheroes, by the Inhumans, by the Annihilation Wave, by the Super-Skrull, by the Shi'ar, etc., usually while bellowing about his ultimate weapon and the mighty Kree. About the only badass things he's ever done are a) killing the Supreme Intelligence (didn't take) and b) killing one of Thanos' henchmen.

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