the problem is that you have to watch three seasons of The Grungleman and then in season 2 you have to pause that and watch the entirety of The Tomes of Greeb Fardass (it starts off pretty good but it falls off after three episodes) which then halfway through turns into The Grungleman and Binkus season 2.5 and then you can watch Season 3 of The Grungleman and Binkus (Greeb Fardass is mentioned in passing, making his show an absolute requirement) but by that point the entire season turns into an allegory for Israel which is odd but i really like the Binkus, and then you gotta slot some time in to watch four seasons of the Star Wars: Iconoclasts show because Gleg (he's really cool) is rumored to show up in the movie along with Nomka Mano (she's from Star Wars: The Expendables but for convenience's sake just watch her appearances in Iconoclasts) and also Dork Vader has been cloned and he'S COMIGN BACK AND THEN JOHN ANDOR WILL SHOW UP AND ANDOR ALL OVER THE PLACE BECAUSE HE'S BEEN SECRETLY LE FORCE SENSITIVE THIS WHOLE TIME AND THEN I WILL FINALLY FUCKING DIE
Disney took the shit that sucks about comics, that's having to read tons of supplemental material that blows in order to get the references the show puts down. All of this to pander to nerds who still hate it anyway.
DAE else think Luthen Rael is le epic grey jedi!????????????
ullysesT it's p. gauche to post in your own thread on an alt, just sayin'
I don't think anyone uses a single lightsaber or force power once in the entire runtime of the best star wars thing of all time which probably says something about star wars
Getting a restraining order from Dave Filloni because I keep asking him to put Itchy's VR Gooning Rig into the new Star Wars shows
At least there's Mobile Suit Gundam for a late 70s YA sci-fi work with music from that era. It goes fucking hard, too.
On the unfortunate side of things, Williams' scores are so timeless that I think Jo the Terf's Wizard Boy movies will be around for quite a while.
I always hate it when any media tries to explain the magic, making it scientific in any way grinds my gears unless it’s done that way from the start, like alchemy in Full Metal Alchemist.
The only time I’ve seen it done well is with “power levels” in Dragon Ball, and even then the whole point of power levels was to demonstrate how bullshit they were.
EDIT: Not that I’m biased as Hexbear’s resident Dragon Ball glazer of course.
I like a well-defined and investigatable magic system, but I don't like an inherently eugenicist one.
unless it’s done that way from the start, like alchemy in Full Metal Alchemist
I think FMA gets a pass since it ends at a sensible length and can't keep dragging on about every minute detail
tries to explain the magic, making it scientific in any way grinds my gears unless it’s done that way from the start, like alchemy in Full Metal Alchemist.
i was going to hard fucking disagree because I think it's super cool when there's effort put into the magic system of a given setting but then you went and gave an example i agree with
Most of the time it's just sloppy. It's techno babble, but fantasy. Instead of "Reverse the polarity so we can hyperjump our warp drive back online!" it's "Reverse your mana flow so you can teleport through the aether!"
A lot of fantasy creators don't think their ideas all the way through. Like if you can make infinite fire using magic, you have an infinite energy source. If you have an infinite energy source, you have an infinite number of lanterns, transport systems, and so on. This also means there's not going to be conflicts over energy. Instead, we get people throwing fireballs at one another with some other techno babble reason for why there aren't free electric carriages.
If magic is unknowable and dangerous, then it makes sense why there isn't free drinking water everywhere from infinite ice/water mages.
Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise? I thought not. It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. It’s a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create PrEsTiGe TeLeViSiOn... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the shows he cared about from getting canceled.
He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught WOKE DISNEY TRASH GOBLINS everything he knew, then WOKE DISNEY TRASH GOBLINS killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others' shows from getting #Canceled, but not his own.
Edit: Full disclosure -- I'm pretty annoyed that they canceled The Acolyte. As laser sword-twirling slop goes, it was fiiiiine. For me, the bar is "do I find this significantly less watchable than TNG season 2?" Aim any higher than that, and normal jagoffs are just going to think you're a hateful little freak who's too much of a snob to ever like anything basically ever.
I thought the show was at least a good concept, and I liked that they tried to flesh out some of the dark sider lore and incorporate some Expanded Universe stuff in spite of the ropey overall execution (a Star War staple, tbh), and that grown-ass men should not be pissing and shitting themselves because OH MY GAWD JEDI MASTER PENIS-HEAD BEING IN THIS BREAKS THE HOLY CANON before that story thread has even been wrapped up, completely oblivious to the fact that they're portraying the Jedi Order as being a bunch of unlikeable, incompetent, self-centered bureaucrats, which was the whole point of the prequels. (I am not touching "the power of one/the power of two/the power of maaaaaaanyyyyyyy.")
I do find it off-putting that Leslye Headland was Weinstein's personal assistant in the time leading up to the MeToo movement and more than likely provided cover for some heinous shit, flatly denies having done so, and wrote and produced a TV movie about a protagonist who is a personal assistant to a powerful sex pest.
The show is weird because like, solving a murder involving someone killing Jedi is kinda cool, lot of stuff can be done with that
Having the story be based around a grooming plotline is a fucking bizarre choice. That throwaway line about Luke being too old to train as a Jedi should never have entered canon because now the Jedi are all creepy as fuck
Not beating the
allegations until they come out and say, in actual film dialogue and not in a fucking novelization that literally no one will read, that children are easier to train because of something something neurological development stages and learning to commune with the force being easier before age and experience start clouding your capacity for imagination and therefore connection to the 5-pin DIN MIDI Thru cable or whatever. Hell, that could have been a scene in The Acolyte -- a perfect chance for an outsider to pose the question, "but why children?" with the implication that maybe force witches do things a little differently and don't need to indoctrinate them as kids. It could even have been a brief Qui-Gon/baby Anakin exchange in Phantom Menace. But nah, leave it to George Lucas to not be able to recognize when his characters look like groomers.
Child snatching fits in well with the jedi's role as mind controlling wizard cops actually.
Mike created a very entertaining series of videos in the late 2000s but also a monster in his image.
Oh man, this is everything I've ever wanted since I saw him in the Official Visual Dictionary for the Rimjob Smugglers
midi-chlorians
Nemik's manifesto
