I’m rewatching inuyasha and have no one to talk to about the fact that Kagura should have lived and by doing so the entire Sessh/Rin weirdness could have been completely avoided. Like I have trouble picturing Kagura pregnant but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen and half the time in fairy tales of all locales the kids pop out of the dad’s migraine or some shit and honestly they’d also make amazing godparents (or whatever the equivalent is) to a half dozen adopted mortals and their bloodlines. I’m mad about it and commenting on ao3 fics for this fandom is like screaming into the void.
Mario is better than sonic as both a game to play and as a mascot
By extension it follows logically that if youre Sega instead of Nintendo I hate you and everything you stand for.
Sonic sucks.
The guy is supposed to “go fast” but the levels are absolute nonsense that inhibit your ability to “go fast”, and then once you play the game enough (which you shouldn’t) to memorize the levels (what a waste of brain matter) and “go fast”, the game ends quickly because you “went fast”.
Fundamentally terrible games. People who like sonic are weirdos.
As someone who grew up with both, I always found classic Sonic better than Classic mario. I guess that carried over because I like Sonic and Sega far more than Mario and Nintendo. Sonic is just too cool.
From the perspective of not having a dog in this fight that is an unhinged level of fucks to give about this and in the context of this thread I love that for you.
Intellectually I dont care any more and I understand its fucked from the beginning, but I was just old enough to engage in tribalism when it was kicking off and apparently its a permanent feature now.
To be clear, if I did have a dog in this fight, it would be the supertux games.
How’s this for an “I’m getting old” moment: sonic 1 was released on the Genesis in 1991. Sonic Adventure 2 Battle was released on the GameCube in 2001. Sonic has been on Nintendo consoles for over twice the time he’s been a Sega exclusive.
From NFSMW, piss filter is honestly fine. I don’t get why a lot of people that play the game hate it, it fits well to the vibe the game.
I’m so glad none of those things meant what I thought they meant when I put them into ddg
Need For Speed: Modern Warfare?
As much as I enjoyed Firefly, the universe created was going to get very complicated and bad if it had been let to develop for the next few years.
They are going to have to explain a lot to justify that Confederate veterans deserved to be the heroes and I don’t think that Joss Whedon was up to that task.
especially when it was giving southern us more than other types of wars for independence
There’s no indication that slavery was a factor, only political self-determination
…that phrasing is not helpful to this argument…
We’re not told much about the Independant Planets, certainly nothing suggests that they themselves did anything wrong (other than secede). You seem to have a problem with their superficial resemblence of the confederacy.
Mal and his crew are thieves and smugglers, not pirates or murderers. The ‘Mal is latin for bad’ line another commenter mentioned was a red herring in an episode. They aren’t evil people intent on subjugation.
The brown
shirtscoats?? I think the point was they weren’t actually the good guys. The show kinda hits you over the head with that. Mal (which literally means bad) is the main character who goes out of his way to associate with other bad people, and do bad things. The show paints the Alliance as evil but if anything they’re just authoritarian and they’re up to some shady shit but 90% of the interactions with the alliance, Mal is actively breaking the law and has a reason to be afraid of them other than the alliance being evil.The Alliance is a simple allegory for the US. The brown coats an obvious allegory for the Confederacy which happened to spawn a bunch of old West outlaws that we turned in to folk heroes. The entire James Younger gang were confederate soldiers or their siblings.
The show also hits viewers over the head that there are morals that the crew won’t cross, like stealing medicine from that town. It is also in the opening song that, because of the war and his service, Mal can’t exactly settle down and be a good law abiding citizen, so he takes jobs of dubious legality since they pay better.
Mal is the same kind of bad that Han Solo was painted as in Star Wars. He’s not a nice guy, but more neutral than evil and will perform good acts at times.
The show also played up the Alliance as being more absolutely evil because it had to in order to justify Mal.
There is an unreliable narrator happening here. The source of most of the information about the Alliance is from the crew. Notably, Shepard and Inara do not share those views. Zoe and Mal have very strong opinions about the alliance and the Doctor and River help feed that narrative. But the things they don’t say out loud paint a very different picture. I think had the show gone on, the brown coats would gradually have become another villain and Mal would have had to contend with the reality of who he was fighting for.
Stargate needed to develop a way to allow Earth to know about the galaxy. It might have even been an interesting way to spin off the show.
There is no way that the US government could hide the SG teams’ budget over years and that the US military wouldn’t have deployed off world technology during GWAT. Fuck, imagine the US Military deploying Zat guns to Iraq.
in the ALT TIMElines, the aschen they finally did it, but unknowingly accelerating thier own extinction. and then the alt-U version where the world became aware after anubis attacked earth. With the new series, 10 episodes if they are going for that doesnt seem enough for a scifi to develop properly.
oh god now I’m thinking about the whole disintegrating thing again
They made fun of that in the show.
RIP Willie Garson aka Martin Lloyd.
It was just a gas leak.
The Pentagon has “failed” their audit, by trillions of dollars, for over a decade. Most of us have no idea why, how, or where that money went. Out of every part of the show, the idea that the US Military could keep it a total secret from even 99% of the government is the most plausible bit. Consider this - it was an “interesting” research find in Egypt. The US Military convinced (paid) the Met to acquire it (the Met put out a fake and provided a false history, which is what Daniel was working with at the start of the movie). The real thing, lacking the DHD, was brought to what would become SG-1.
Who would ever know? Why would they ever know? Why, in fact, would they ever think to look? Everyone is so thoroughly bullshitted by decades of Egyptology, UFOlogy and Ancient Aliens theories (including von Daniken), that they’d never imagine looking for one machine run by the US military that they don’t talk about.
Well, it was revived and I refuse to watch the revival, but for Tiny Toons Adventures ( revived as something like Toons Looniversity or something like that IIRC ), I rather strongly dislike how they removed Elmira and made Babs and Buster siblings.
I’m especially not for the Babs and Buster change because if that’s cannon to the original show by proxy of the reboot, that would make any moment where Babs and Buster have feelings for each other or the maybe episode or 2 where they go on a date have an extremely incestuous vibe.
As for Elmira, I love how over the top she is as an example of how not to be a pet owner. Or how not to babysit in the case of the one episode where she babysits for a no name, single episode family. Or how in the Spring Break special she gets either government or military help to capture Buster by giving them Harrison Ford, IIRC, with him trapped in a cage.
wtf? “no relation” is an anchor for a few episodes!
That Blake’s 7 fandom was materially better before the show aired in the States. They had gone through the painful sorting out of characters and characteristics and relationships and were developing these really interesting themes of psychological trauma and manipulation that they were beginning to explore - it was really interesting and the themes were fascinating. Them the show aired in the States, they went wild over Avon and all the stories and themes starting revolving around him. I don’t mind him as a character; I do mind his character taking over all of fandom. It’s sort of like if all the Harry Potter stories suddenly and inexplicably became Ron-centric; it’s not necessarily wrong, but it’s weird and people who liked other characters got left out in the cold, and some of us still resent that.
As an aside, when Blake’s 7 fandom split up, that too was fascinating. As was usual in those days, there was a pro-slash contingent and an anti-slash contingent. When B7 fandom split up, all of the pro-slash fans went into Robin of Sherwood fandom, and all the anti-slash fans went into The Professionals fandom. The problem being that RoS was almost exclusively gen and Pros was almost exclusively slash. It was very weird.
What else? That the second season of War of the Worlds should’ve been an entirely different series: the people who loved season 1 were never going to like season 2; and people who had tuned in and disliked the series during season 1 weren’t going to Even try season 2.
That Krycek became such a big character on The X-Files due to one woman who saw his potential and kept talking about it to her friends, many of whom were popular/prolific fannish authors and artists. She convinced some of them (there was incredulity and resistance at first) but it gathered steam, Chris Carter was flummoxed but rolled with it, and here we are.
That the main follow-on series for Highlander: the Series should’ve been The Methos Chronicles and that one’s not even up for debate.
That the final episode of Miami Vice is a masterpiece, particularly with the echoes and parallels to the first episode - and that the show itself took a major downturn the moment they decided to kill off their comic relief characters. That having God in the final episode of Quantum Leap (the original) being played by an actor who was also in the first episode of the series made it much more interesting. That if you were ever interested in Space: 1999, the “Message from Moonbase Alpha” short has some really interesting implications.
That Space Rangers and Moon Over Miami were cut off entirely too early. That Quark is funny as hell for a science fiction fan of my generation, even if it’s extremely dated now. Similarly, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne was hella fun and should’ve lasted much longer (though Michael Praed’s Shatner-esque line deliveries were exceptionally annoying at times!). That the Sonny Steel grave arc is majorly under-represented in Wiseguy fiction.
Almost certainly others, but those are the ones that came to mind.
Man, I loved Quark to the point I convinced all my school friends to play our own version of the show during recess.
I haven’t made it past s3 of Quantum Leap yet, but the bit with god sound super dumb, so I’m hoping you’re right and I’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Krycek in X-Files was a piece of shit and I hated him. 10/10 performance from Nicolas Lea. Haven’t finished the series yet.
Damn, I keep burning myself out by binging a series and never finishing them…
If you’ve got any sci-fi show hot takes, I’d love to hear them!
lol blakes 7 is actually the fic I’m returning to work on right now.
That having God in the final episode of Quantum Leap (the original) being played by an actor who was also in the first episode of the series made it much more interesting.
I hope you mean the original series and not the reboot. I don’t think he ever admits that’s what he is. My personal belief is that Captain Braxton of the Relativity was lying through his teeth to Sam (in order to preserve the Temporal Prime Directive), and directs him to the biggest Leap of his career, Captain Jonathan Archer in the First Contact timeline, because that whole timeline represents “what once went wrong”.
I’m rewatching a Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood for the first time since I think it came out I guess. There’s two things that are striking me. One they all just stand around my bad things happen a lot, but I guess that’s just Anime. The other thing is I have no idea it was so long. It’s too long. I guess I remember it being like you know 28 episodes or something. This show is stretching so much. It should have been shorter.
I should read the manga, I’m curious to see how closely it parallels. I’m willing to bet that early weirdness is the same, and they didn’t come up with the overarching plot until later in the story.
Community (2009): Annie was the (2nd) ass crack bandit and Abed took Troys cracking with a shocking amount of grace.
The Ellimist should have stepped in and cushioned Rachel’s fall. She didn’t deserve what she got.
It is always so weird to me to see an animorphs fan in the wild. I know we’re not super uncommon, but I was super active on Richard’s Animorphs Forum back in the day, and associate the two. I always have to remind myself animorphs fan≠equal RAFian, and calm myself down lol
I think I was briefly on Richard’s forum, but I couldn’t tell you what my username was. I was also in the official community that Scholastic ran (and because of being a helpful kid, I actually helped in the server room at Valley Cottage after a sale when there were hardware problems).
RAF was the entirety of my teen years. I loved that place
It was absolutely important to the community, and outlasted the Alliance forums. I wish we had a good place like that anymore. Has anyone opened an m/Animorphs in the fediverse yet?
I searched and I’m not finding one, but my search function often misses smaller communities. I’d love it if there was one
Honestly I like the slow reveal that the Ellimist was also a massive dick. It’s like realizing the Vorlons aren’t actually “good.”
He was a wargamer to start out with. Of course he was going to end up being a massive dick.
I’m a huge wheel of time nerd. While Mat’s memories are clearly other men’s memories that got trapped in the tower of Genji, I like to think that they were all HIS memories from different spinnings of the wheel. RJ says no, but it’s my fan theory I won’t let die
It’s been a minute since I read the books, but I think I remember having a similar theory. Maybe it was a missed opportunity by RJ, cuz I remember continuously wondering when the grand reveal would happen that it’s actually all Mat (and canonically, I can’t think of a reason that wouldn’t be as valid as other men’s memories, I don’t think the story arc ever kills that possibility lol).
It doesn’t kill it. The only thing that does are RJs comments during interviews, which I choose to ignore. It’s like Gay Dumbledore.
The other one that was a major missed boat was the Taim/Demanded arc. Everything lead to it and RJ chickened out.
I’m on my 4th reread lol. Been reading them for 20 years on and off
Agreed. I don’t always need the author to explain the origin story of characters. Let me guess a little.
Shoot I don’t remember this arc, don’t suppose you can share a quick synopsis/analysis on your comment?
For good reason. Phenomenal series, it’s what hooked me into reading in the first place
The Big Cheese was funded by the same organization that created the Samurai Pizza Cats to justify their outlandish R&D budget. Pizza Cat technology was sunk cost the moment it came up in the boardroom. They’ve just been sending good money after bad for years.
But they’ve still got more fur than any turtle ever had
I’m still salty that the season 2 ending cliffhanger of The Sarah Connor Chronicles never got to go anywhere.
Maybe a Quake movie can succeed where the Doom movies failed. Make Alan Ritchson Ranger and put Nine Inch Nails on the soundtrack. I could see Guillermo del Toro having a field day with it.
You might enjoy Noah Gervais’ video called “Playing Quake For The Plot”.
I’ll watch anything Alan Ritchson does. Dude is totally underrated as an actor just because he’s big and muscular. People act like he’s just a modern Sylvester stalone, but dudes got range and a great comedic ability. Sometimes overblown and blatant (blue mountain state, playdate) and sometimes subtle (titans, reacher), but he always hits the mark.
I suppose you think mega shark vs giant octopus was a “failure” too. I’d hate to live in such a picture of success.
We need a continuation of High-school of the Dead
I just heard there’s going to be another Mega Man game. At this point I’m wondering if they have anything to contribute to modern platforming at all. By the time Shovel Knight came out new MM was already looking kind of tedious, and now compared to things like Gravity Circuit, what exactly is the point? Are we just going to reprise the gear system? Is there enough material in that for a whole game worth of new ideas?
Give me a new Mega Man X, please.
I’d really love to see MMX: Corrupted get finished. They seem to be doing new things within that space at least
I keep following it, it keeps looking awesome, it keeps not being done. :(
when capcom were working with inti creates, they were reliably putting out good games at a time when indie developers weren’t - at least in that genre. now they put out one mediocre game every ten years.
And the fans are once again anticipating that it’ll be Mega Man Legends 3.
Look, Capcom has apparently made it known that they’re not interested. They’re either going to continue the classic line because reasons, make up a spin-off or make an entirely new Mega Man game.
I just want a Mega Man game where he goes from classic to X to bridge those series together.
And the fans are once again anticipating that it’ll be Mega Man Legends 3.
What do you mean? Capcom immediately announced it as classic Mega Man 12, and showed gameplay too, no one is expecting it to be Legends 3.
That would be enough!
It’s kinda sad that they need that name/franchise so bad to sell games. I loved mega man as a kid, but honestly, it’s nothing special. Even as a big fan, i didn’t like the tv show, or anything about mega man, just the games. And even they were kinda clunky and the best part was that you could pick your playing order and steal other robots powers. That is not really enough for a good game. There are hundreds of indie games that are better platformers or games with better lore and everything.
