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You mean.....like the aliens from Indy 4: Kingdom of Crystal Skull?

In the comic for years the Asgardians were shown to have both super advanced science and sorcery at their command. Of late it seems to have shifted more to magic.

Also it's been speculated that many of the ancient gods could have been advanced beings from other planes of existence or planets that had such vast power they would seem to be god-like.

Remember the Babylon 5 episode of Season 2 when the Technomages arrived on the station? Their leader was talking to Sheridan and asked him how he could explain the station itself to beings of 1000 years ago? Sheridan responded that it could likely only be explained as magic.

When Sinclair's girlfriend went to that planet and her ship got zapped by the UFO's energy wake, she later asks G'kar what it was. He then picked up an ant from a flower and set it back down on the flower and then said "What if that ant asks another ant what just happened to it? The other ant would say 'I don't know'." G'kar then went on to explain that there are beings in the universe far older then us and they walk the stars as giants.

That Flash TV series wasn't half bad. The FX was about as it could get on TV at the time with technology and their budget and I wouldn't mind seeing a new version.

John Wesley Shipp as Jay Garrick would be cool.

Ironically when Mark Hamil played the Trickster I said to myself that Mark would make a good Joker. A few years later comes Batman the Animated Series.

The question of Batman's mental health is a debatable one. We are talking about someone who as a kid between the age of 8 and 10 saw his parents gunned down by some thief with a gun.

His world is shattered, and now he is the young heir to a vast business and fortune. Instead of seeking psychiatric help he immediately gets obsessed with learning everything he can from experts around the world and pool all that knowledge and skill into himself to fight crime. He then decides to dress up as a bat to scare crooks as he starts to beat them up.

So, one could say that Bruce Wayne is indeed nuts, but he has channeled it into something both bizarre and productive. However I don't see dressing as a giant bat and beating up criminals to be the product of a healthy mind.

Moon Knight is an ex-mercenary revived by an Egyptian deity to serve as his agent of vengeance. He then develops the Moon Knight persona, plus his original ID, plus at least 2 other personas and eventually snaps and is schizoid. So yes, Moon Knight is definitely nuts, though he was a mercenary and killer before becoming Moon Knight so his sanity may be dubious even then.

Moon Knight probably isn't done since he IS Marvel's Batman. Also given that the character has about 3 or 4 personalities would be interesting for the movie for the fans but those that don't know the character would likely scratch their heads in confusion.


Etrigan.....I could see this if it were rated R, a PG 13 version would likely be too sanitized.

The trap power in the poison set is sleep gas, not poison like the TRAPS set. Any one hit will be awakened and attack again. It is a worthless power and considered by some poison users as the "mandatory SKIP power". Don't take it.

Comes down to the players not just the AT's. A couple of my alts this week had to run a few APEX to secure the Mo from it.

Luckily my two main badgers just secured MoTIN so that is over and done with.

Relax it won't last. It's been stated that he has a total of 20 missions before he gets retired and won't be allowed to use the symbiote. Also he has the 48 hour time limit for using it before it attempts to take control, however he's already Hulked/Venom'd out and when he was split from it, not all of the suit went back into containment so something is going to happen.

I don't see this new series lasting at all, unless they decide to have rotating hosts for the symbiote which would also get stale fast.

Nah, I suspect that eventually somehow, someway, the symbiote and Brock will merge again.

Just wish they'd kill that symbiote already.

This.

I just can't see a 2+ hour movie of Dune ever doing the story justice and the fact that they want to try again makes me cringe.


As to Blade Runner, the movie is still enjoyable, plus the ongoing debate about if Ford's character was a replicant made for interesting conversations at times.

A Blade Runner prequel......well......let us take a moment to remember all the mixed reactions to the Star Wars prequels before we jump up and support a prequel.

A Blade Runner sequel:....well....let us take a moment to remember all of the mixed reactions to the Matrix sequels before we jump up and cheer for a sequel.

Granted in both cases, the fan expectations were impossibly high and thus the movies would not meet them, but still.....

A Blade Runner reboot.....ugh.

Bite your tongue.... bad enough the Partner badge set needs 50 runs......

The only good thing from running 50 Weekly TF aside from finishing the badge is that your alt should be well stocked on incarnate salvage, and merits. 50 is still a bit much.

Probably that too as well as the other posted reasons.

Well should the new Doc Savage movie get into production, I'm sure many comic, movie, and news sites will give a capsule summary of the character's long history hopefully including the year he was created. Perhaps that will help pierce the inevitable fog of confusion that will grip many.

Ron Ely had the physique for the character, but yeah he didn't do the best of jobs with the character itself.

You should be able to get it as a vigilante, it's so far been Ouroborus that requires a full alignment change.

Yeah. For the purpose of A-merits and getting IO's I have a couple of super powered alts staying at their alignment as they can hammer through the missions and rack up the merits, then get the IO needed and email it to the alt that needs it.

Badge hunters are different. I keep them on the fence with the alignment points accumulated and ready.

As have I. They don't need alignment merits as they are built to my satisfaction, I just like them where they are at, on the blueside. Or more exactly Blue-Grey as they are vigilante align.

The two things that killed the 1975 Doc Savage movie was that the director decided on camp humor and that funding for the film was yanked during production.

Last I read of the upcoming one is that it will be in the 30's with Doc and his Fab Five. No word on who will play the Doc. Ahnold was planning to be the Doc until he became the Govenator and I think too much time has passed for him to play the character.

Not something that I look forward to.

A minimal amount of research into the Doc Savage character and many such people might say "Wow, Indiana Jones is a Doc Savage rip off" (actually more like Indy was inspired by Doc, and Robocop was inspired by Judge Dredd but I digress)

Doc Savage is an archetype that helped inspire other characters, just as I believe both the Shadow and Zorro helped inspire the creation of Batman.

As to the Spidey movies, I believe that Rami stated that if Peter gained all the other powers of a spider, then why not the webs? Also if Peter can't afford a car, how could he buy the chemicals and parts to make the webshooters?

As to Batman being dumbed down, in Batman Begins he was just starting out and thus would be prone to rookie mistakes, plus he has to setup the batcave, figure out how to order his weapons and supplies without leaving a paper trail that leads back to him, obtain allies such as Lucias Fox, Alfred, and Gordon, and setup his Identity as both Batman and carefree billionaire Bruce Wayne.

Well I think the Doc could make it if the writers put some effort into him to keep him going. I know he and other classics were revived in comic form as part of the big 70th anniversary, etc etc, and that once the hype wears down, Doc's current comic will likely have the plug pulled. But I think if the writers put enough effort in and keep the stories from going campy that the Doc could be around for awhile. Also the "First Wave" comics where he met and briefly fought Batman were an interesting read, but I think for a Doc Savage movie to really work, that it should be set in WW2. Doc was set in the 30's initially so he and his Fab Five could easily get into WW2 through the passage of time or if they decide to bump him up to that time period. Why WW2? Simple, we'd get to see the Doc take on the Nazi's and Doc is a lot like Indiana Jones in that both characters are explorers and adventurers, though I'd say Doc's motives are a bit more pure then Indy's. Doc does what he does because it is what he trained for and because he feels that it is right. Indy's motives in Raiders was about money until he began to realize the Nazi's shouldn't get the Ark, in Temple (Prequel to Raiders) he was very much money motivated until he saw all the evil of the cult and dedicated himself to stopping it, in Last Crusade all he wanted to do was find his father and not the Grail until his father warned him of the legends of the Grail's might and that if they were true that the Nazi's would be unstoppable if they got it.