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Post by shawnhopkins on Nov 11, 2020 16:06:13 GMT -5
I wasn’t planning to risk coronavirus to watch this but it seems like it will hit iTunes next week and I’ll get to try it. Definite trepidation, the New Mutants holds a nostalgic place for me because Cannonball is the first eastern Kentucky character I ever encountered in any form of media that wasn’t portrayed as some kind of inbred hillbilly.
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Post by shawnhopkins on Jan 2, 2018 18:59:46 GMT -5
Guessing at what kids would like and getting it very, very wrong.
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Post by shawnhopkins on Jan 1, 2018 4:21:12 GMT -5
All right, I have watched, in quick succession, all of the the Hand arc shows that culminate in The Defenders. Thought they were great, but I can't help but be confused by something. How does the Hand's resurrection trick actually work?
In Daredevil Season Two it seems simple. The Hand have the secret of immortality and seem to use it liberally. None of the Ninjas seem to have heartbeats, implying they are all undead. Nobu comes back from the dead and even a low-level ninja Claire pushes out a window shows signs of being resurrected. Nobu quickly gets up after his fatal fall, by thanks to Stick being nearby waiting we discover that decapitation can end them. We don't know if the rest of the ninjas that were killed walked away. Did the ninja Claire killed resurrect again?
Iron Fist muddies all the waters. Through Harold Meachum's resurrection it is revealed to us that you only need the treatment once, but every time you come back you become more evil and irrational. Harold takes days to resurrect the first time. Bokuto, like Nobu, seems to do it in less than a minute. Harold stays dead long enough that he can be cremated the second time.
And then in Defenders the idea that they can resurrect on their own gets muddier. Every time someone kills a finger of the Hand they make sure to cut off their head to keep them dead. Bokuto gets shot and doesn't mind. So you'd assume the instant resurrection is in play. But they also seem pretty clear that they need more ancient dragon bones not just to make new warriors but also to stay immortal themselves, and Alexandra is sick and dying permanently despite the treatment. Plus, although evil the fingers seem quite rational, so presumably past resurrections didn't have the same effect on them as Harold. Also, the dragon bone stuff is super precious and limited, which makes it weird they resurrected that low-level ninja but maybe that happened a long time ago when they had more. And the fingers have heartbeats, Daredevil listens to one during an interrogation and he'd have noticed if Madame Gao didn't have one. In Daredevil season one Nobu had a strong heartbeat, but could mask it. So are they a different form of undead than the ninjas? Than Harold? Do the ninjas all know Nobus masking trick? Because that seemed like a special ability and he didn't mask his heart the whole time.
So, did the fingers fear what happened to Alexandra would eventually happen to them if they didn't get more treatments? Or, If I were writing in for a Marvel No-Prize I'd postulate that the fingers also need the dragon bones to avoid the irrationality Harold Meachun exhibited. Something they don't mind in their low-level resurrected but can't afford in themselves.
Maybe I'm missing something. Did it make sense to you?
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Post by shawnhopkins on Dec 26, 2017 1:17:18 GMT -5
I would have liked to have seen how much crazier Sonic Disruptors would have gotten.
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Post by shawnhopkins on Dec 7, 2017 3:16:09 GMT -5
Very nice adaptation. Improves on the source material quite a bit by injecting some dark humor and sleazy charm that was missing from the comic. I'm wondering what they're going to add for plot filler to stretch this six episodes, though. The first episode covered most of the first two issues plus a lot of stuff original to the show. And it's just a four issue comic.
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Post by shawnhopkins on Nov 13, 2017 12:05:46 GMT -5
I guess it was more an explosion in the air than a complete failure to launch, but only two of the planned 12 issues of BIg Numbers came out. Dream team of Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz. Supposed to be a 500 page magnum opus.
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Post by shawnhopkins on Nov 9, 2017 11:29:22 GMT -5
All suffering stems from desire. Those who have physical pleasure and money desire more of it or for it to continue, and hence suffer from want no matter how much they have, and worry it will be taken away and thus suffer even more. Those who don't have money and pleasure desire to have it and worry they will never get it, hence they suffer too. Happiness comes not from fulfilling desire (desire is a never ending hole that can never be filled or fulfilled, it is self-perpetuating), but from eliminating it altogether. I've never been very good at that, but I recognize it as one of my weaknesses and realize I bring a lot of my suffering upon myself because of it. -M Growing up in Appalachia I've been grindingly poor, hungry, cold and sick, and I wasn't even the worst off of the people around me. So I'd tend to disagree.
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Post by shawnhopkins on Oct 23, 2017 8:15:09 GMT -5
Shamrock retired. Last seen running a bar.
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Post by shawnhopkins on Oct 19, 2017 10:16:45 GMT -5
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Post by shawnhopkins on Oct 17, 2017 10:07:32 GMT -5
I like this series, but it still hasn't done anything to surprise me. The latest episode at least did something with stakes and potential consequences, with Dreamer using one of her memories to brainwash Blink into thinking she loved Thunderbird a moment of crisis.
Also learned that guy is Thunderbird, not Rictor as I assumed. I just figured he was using his vibration powers in all the scenes when they'd shown him "tracking" before.
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Post by shawnhopkins on Oct 17, 2017 10:00:02 GMT -5
With the constant stream of bold, easily disproved lies we're subjected to now every day from Trump, the only thing I can think of is this.
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Post by shawnhopkins on Oct 11, 2017 21:40:40 GMT -5
If you count all the spinoff imprints I agree. if you're referring to D.C. Comics, the imprint that published mostly superheroes, well, Zero Hour. Knightfall. Darkstars. Death of Superman. Extreme Justice. Endless gimmicks. There was good stuff, but the crap kind of outweighed it in pure tonnage.
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Post by shawnhopkins on Oct 10, 2017 6:03:16 GMT -5
Sorry, but I don't like brodown Aquaman. Why would he be like that? It doesn't make any sense. Just seems like a panicked reaction to the pop culture perception of him as useless.
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Post by shawnhopkins on Oct 8, 2017 0:36:15 GMT -5
So, the worst of all time was turning Speedball into Penance. Fun, quirky Ditko character starts wearing a suit that cuts him to atone for some oh so serious tragedy.
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Post by shawnhopkins on Oct 8, 2017 0:13:11 GMT -5
Looks like they cancelled the defense contractor partnership, too.
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