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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 4, 2023 18:45:36 GMT -5
What does that say about the Badoon?
Aren't' they reptilians? I barely even remember them. Off-world reptilians.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 4, 2023 18:48:18 GMT -5
Aren't' they reptilians? I barely even remember them. Off-world reptilians. Aren't they all?
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 4, 2023 19:00:26 GMT -5
Many are apparently in office. Keep watching the skies.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 4, 2023 19:03:02 GMT -5
Many are apparently in office. Keep watching the skies. But didn't they come here from the beyond to take over our bodily fluids? I can't keep up with my conspiracy theories.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 4, 2023 19:09:27 GMT -5
Many are apparently in office. Keep watching the skies. But didn't they come here from the beyond to take over our bodily fluids? I can't keep up with my conspiracy theories. Oh, yes, they arrived in the black helicopters.
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Post by berkley on Dec 4, 2023 21:29:28 GMT -5
Or what about the Daredevil villain Mandrill, I bet he hates it when you call him an old world monkey.
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Post by codystarbuck on Dec 4, 2023 21:49:46 GMT -5
Or what about the Daredevil villain Mandrill, I bet he hates it when you call him an old world monkey. He's just mad because his famous cousin, Barbara, won't return his calls.
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Post by Duragizer on Dec 5, 2023 1:40:17 GMT -5
Age of Resistance was one of the best series Netflix ever produced. So predictably, they cancelled it prematurely. So that explains why Stranger Things goes on and on with spinoffs planned. Oh joy, more ripping off so much of awful 1980s culture. Heh. I'm a fan of the '80s. I want big hair on women to come back in style. But yeah, I'm sick of Stranger Things. Loved the first season, but every season since has been adventures in diminishing returns, coasting on goodwill and '80s nostalgia, and I'm done.
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Post by berkley on Dec 5, 2023 1:49:41 GMT -5
Or what about the Daredevil villain Mandrill, I bet he hates it when you call him an old world monkey. He's just mad because his famous cousin, Barbara, won't return his calls.
He has a great idea for a duet they could do together.
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 5, 2023 2:04:28 GMT -5
I have zero nostalgia for when I was 12 (c. 1970). I hated myself and everyone else at that age. My golden age (for comics, movies, music, everything but TV) is either 6 (when I first discovered Marvel super-heroes and the Universal movie monsters) or the years between 16 and 24, the end of high school, my five years of college, and my pre-responsible early '20s.
Cei-U! I summon the disco years (though I did, and do, hate disco music)!
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Post by Duragizer on Dec 5, 2023 2:35:59 GMT -5
I generally dislike disco, though I do like some of it's derivatives, like Italo disco and hi-NRG. Go figure.
Though most of my teenage years were spent in the 2000s, I have zero nostalgia for that decade. I look back on noughties pop culture and I hate almost every aspect of it, from nu metal to reality TV.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 5, 2023 9:39:19 GMT -5
So that explains why Stranger Things goes on and on with spinoffs planned. Oh joy, more ripping off so much of awful 1980s culture. Heh. I'm a fan of the '80s. I want big hair on women to come back in style. But yeah, I'm sick of Stranger Things. Loved the first season, but every season since has been adventures in diminishing returns, coasting on goodwill and '80s nostalgia, and I'm done. I wasn't even really wow'd by the first season. I finally watched it back when there was buzz about a second season at the behest of our oldest son and my wife who both got really into it. I thought it was watchable and I don't necessarily regret watching it once, but have no interest in revisiting it or watching any of the following material. But then the 80's were me from 3 to 13. Now the 90's, that was my decade of nostalgia.
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Post by impulse on Dec 5, 2023 10:13:19 GMT -5
With a lot of introspection, what I have come to understand about my 12 year old self was that the joy did not come from the stuff, it came from the discovery of the stuff. Discovering new comics, cartoons, toys, books, movies, TV shows was a joy. But it isn't inherent in the stuff, its inherent in the experience. Nostalgia is fine, I can revisit the old stuff, some of it holds u, most of it doesn't, but revisiting it can never replicate the experience of discovery, which is what brought me the joy. I can however, continue to find that joy by continuing to explore things and find new things to interact with-new music, new artists, new comics, new books, new TV shows, new movies whatever. Discovery is always possible. Some things I find become perennial favorites that bring me joy in their own right, some things only hold my interest for a short time, but the process of discovery and the joy it brings to me can last as long as I am willing to continue to discover things, and nostalgia is the antithesis of discovery. -M This is such an interesting point. Even the favorites I like to revisit, I tend to let a long time pass between viewings/readings/listens/etc. aside from music to allow some of the details to fade and it to be somewhat fresh again. You are correct in that you can never experience it for the first time at whatever age you were again, but the combination of it being refreshed instead of totally known as well as getting the payoff of what you know is coming is nice. There are a handful of music reaction channels I enjoy that are close to experiencing music for the first time again by seeing someone else fall in love with it and experience the same feelings and whatnot you went through. It's fun to hear and to see someone else really like something you like. So that explains why Stranger Things goes on and on with spinoffs planned. Oh joy, more ripping off so much of awful 1980s culture. Heh. I'm a fan of the '80s. I want big hair on women to come back in style. But yeah, I'm sick of Stranger Things. Loved the first season, but every season since has been adventures in diminishing returns, coasting on goodwill and '80s nostalgia, and I'm done. This is right on point. I don't think the show has quite worn out its welcome, but the upcoming final season is definitely right to be the final season. They've about beaten that pony to death, but he's got one more lap left IMO. I also dislike how it's gotten so much darker with each season. It's not a fun 80s nostalgia romp anymore.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 5, 2023 10:53:57 GMT -5
Baboons are not apes they are Old World monkeys. And thereby hangs a tail!
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Post by Confessor on Dec 5, 2023 11:28:53 GMT -5
I still really love Stranger Things and I think that the last season was the best one since season 1. Season 3 was pretty good too, but Season 2 was a real mess, with that whole unnecessary "back door pilot" sub-plot about Eleven going off to Chicago and encountering other super-powered runaways. I'm totally stoked for season 5, but I do agree that it's probably a good thing that it will be the last. No need to flog it to death. Oh, and (secret theory ahoy!) poor old Barb is definitely gonna come back in Season 5, mark my words.
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