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When I saw that big gem/rock thing pulled into the castle grounds, the first thing I thought was "Trojan Horse"! And I was right. It was just too obvious.
Overall, though, I really enjoyed the show and my TiVo is now set for a Season Pass. Too bad the rest of the episodes are only 30 minutes long... -
Quote:You've already missed the hour-long pilot. But the reboot is really good.Originally Posted by Texarkana
okie, I'm sold and logging into the tivo website to schedule thundercats to record. -
Quote:That's an interesting way of looking at it.Originally Posted by BrandX
I don't know. They both lost their marriages to a reboot. Spidey's was just a smaller reboot.
However, Spiderman's “little” reboot still affected almost the entirety of the 616 universe.
On DC’s end, a universe wide ‘softboot’ has affected Clark and Lois’s marriage. As in it hasn’t happened, yet.
Yet the two are still similar. With Spiderman, a pigeon changed how Spiderman’s history unfolded. And in doing so, because Spidey is connected to the other heroes and events, it changed the events of the whole universe.
In Flashpoint, whatever Barry does to ‘fix’ the universe has things playing out differently, in what seems to be a shorter timeline, and with some very different history in places.
I begin to think that we should just take this whole softboot as a whole new beginning. No old stories happened unless we are told they did. And while that would probably make the guys at DC very happy, I still mourn the loss of stories that I rather like and the development of characters that I have followed for a long time (sometimes decades).
What I really wish would happen is that DC would publish a “History of the DCnU”. One issue would be enough. Hell, even an article or two on their web site would work. But I get the feeling that they don’t want to do that because they would then be ‘tied’ to that history. And they don’t want to be tied to anything right now. -
Quote:Well, yes.Originally Posted by CaptainFoamerang
You're uh, you're making this up, right?
Everything after "Next up:" is pure speculation and me being rather pessimistic about the whole situation. However, at the rate things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if 90% or more of what's there is actually true.
But Animal Man is still married. But he's the only one we know that is! -
Posting this from another board. I want to get more discussion.
From the DCnU panel at SDCC
Quote:Great, another marriage down the tubes because writers today don’t know how to write a married couple.Didio then allowed the two “Flash” co-writers to give away the new rogues gallery, starting with a new villain called Mob Rule. Manapul said they will reveal the rogues gallery slowly, explaining that they will be tied into Central and Keystone City.
On the villains side, Simone said the first issues introduce a villain named Felix who is “what happens when nuclear power goes wrong,” said Simone.
Asking about "Flash" continuity, the next fan asked if Iris is dead.
“Iris is alive,” confirmed Manapul, saying that in the comic Barry Allen and Iris went out in the past but it never progressed and he is currently single.
Didio then told the audience there are no more big events planned for the foreseeable future and the crowd wildly applauded.
A female fan told Didio that she counted and out of the twenty-eight solo character titles only six were women and only two were not’t connected to older male superheroes. “How do you justify calling that diversity?” the fan asked as the audience cheered. Didio told her it was an industry problem and then dodged the question, calling on the next fan.
Next up: Wally is still a teen! (Kid Flash isn't Bart, ya know!), which means that another 'comfortable' marriage is gone. Jay miiiight just get a reprieve from the vanishing marriage scenario because he so old.
And if Barry hasn't married Iris, then Bart can't around at all! No marriage means children and therefore no grand-children.
Ralph and Sue Dibney? Dating, but not exclusively.
Hawkman and Hawkwoman are no longer romantically connected. In fact, they cannot stand to be near each other.
Aquaman and Mera are ‘just friends.’
Green Arrow and Black Canary have only ever made eye contact over the Justice League round table.
Adam Strange is just starting his adventures, and therefore hasn’t met the love of his life.
Big Barda and Scott Free are kissin’ cousins.
Kent Nelson divorced Inza over ‘irreconcilable differences” (she thought he spent too much time with Fate’s Helmet) years ago, and they no longer speak.
Jor-El’s wife Lara died in childbirth due to complications of the rapidly changing energies spurting from the core of Krypton. Jor-el sent Kal-El to earth not to save him, but because he couldn’t bear to raise the child without his love.
The Kent marriage was falling apart form the stresses of raising an alien when Johnathan died of a heart attack. Martha wasted away over the next year and finally died in her sleep.
Red Tornado, not being human, had his marriage license revoked by the state.
Rex Mason/Metamorpho was declared dead and his former wife Sapphire married another man. They are still in legal battles over which marriage is valid.
About the only hero we know of who still has a wife and family is Buddy Baker Animal Man, and that’s only because somebody figured out a way tell a story involving his daughter. -
Quote:That may not be the problem of the actual on-air animation's problem, but the codec for the video teaser. We won't really know until we see the finished product.Originally Posted by Arnabas
Ok, at the risk of being slightly negative... the animation doesn't look as good. And I do mean the animation, not the character designs or anything. It seems a bit... choppy.
That said... I will be anxiously awaiting this.
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Quote:Bah! Anybody who hasn't bought the whole series on disc isn't a true fan.Originally Posted by Inazuma
*rushes to Netflix streaming to watch the original series... yet again*
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Acutually surprised that nobody has posted this yet.
BBC has released a trailer for the second half of season 6 here.
Things that popped out at me the most: River with Eye-patch Lady's eye-patch.
Also, Rory and Amy and the Doctor save Hitler! (And Rory punches him)
The impossible astronaut will rise from the deep and strike the Time Lord dead! -
You know Aquaman's weapon looks rather neat, but I hesitate to call it a trident. After all any weapon like that with more than three tines is properly called a fork...
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Ok, that's a bit better.
Still doesn't explain why my TiVo calls it episode 3. Though my comcast guide tonight is calling it episode 2. -
Quote:Oh man, if that's the case, I hope they don't Firefly the show. So far I am liking what I am seeing and there has been a decent amount of promotion.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
It was actually Episode 3, they simply haven't shown Episode 2 yet.
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Quote:I think there's something like a two or three-click limit or clause for stuff like that. Can't remember the exact limit.Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
I wonder if we could indirectly link to it. It's also on youtube, but it's also in a article as well. I know redband trailers have been posted before. I just can't recall if they got modded.
And I almost hate to get a red-name in here to clarify for fear of lock or deletion. -
Something strange about Alphas I noticed tonight. Well several.
First was that my TiVo was calling it Episode 3. This had me wondering how the frell I missed one. Unless the hour and a half pilot somehow counted as two.
Second, there appears to be at least a month (probably several) between the pilot and this episode. This is most pronounced in Rosen. The loss of the beard, the longer hair and diferent hair style. And possibly different glasses. (not sure about that one)The other characters seemed just like the pilot.
Overall, while I enjoyed the episode, I still got this feeling of the pilot being made to convince the studio to go for the whole season. And then this episode was the real kick-off. And there was several months between the filming of the pilot and this episode. -
Quote:Supergirl also has a heart shaped red panel on hers. On her crotch.Originally Posted by Optimus_Dex
I'm asill pondering Supermans new Kyrptonian ceremonial armor. Oh and Supergirl has it also.
Of course this might go all the way around, but all we can see so far is the front... -
Ah. I musta missed that part of the post.
Anyways, I liked both Hulk movies. I also felt that even though Marvel tried to distance the Incredible Hulk movie from the Hulk movie, the Banners in one to the other was a progression of the character.
Banner in Hulk was the one who just found out about his curse he has to deal with. Only at the end do we see him starting to use it and look for solitude and a way to control it or get rid of it.
Banner in Incredible Hulk starts in South America, where Hulk ended, and is actively trying to find a cure for the conditiona and while that, trying to find ways to control it.
To me the Banner of Hulk naturally flows into the Banner of Incredible Hulk. But, that's just my mind. Yours might work differently. -
Some of you keep bringing up that in Hulk, Bruce was a “baby” when his father killed his mother. But after going over those scenes again, I find that he was 4-5 years old. He was big enough that his shoulders are about at the same level as the dining table. That’s plenty old enough for an impressionable mind to equate losing control of emotions with people dying.
There’s also some hints in the beginning of the movie that Bruce had something in him from the get-go. When his father takes purposefully takes his pacifier away and watches what happens, we are shown some strange bruise like discolorations that show up on his legs. In another quick scene where Bruce comes on from playing with a friend, and his friend reports that “Jack hit him with the stick, but Bruce wouldn’t hit him back. He just stood there shaking.” After Bruces mom puts a band-aid on his forehead, we are treated to a close-up of his arm, which has the same bruise-like patterns (though more greenish this time) on his elbow and wrist.
Of course, the theory of Bruce seeing his mom killed by his father causing him to keep his emotions inside is undermined by this same scene when his mom responds to her visiting friend’s comment about how Bruce didn’t cry by telling the friend “That’s Bruce. He’s like that. He’s just so…bottled up.” And this is maybe a five year old Bruce. Of course, if there was ongoing physical abuse of his mother by his father (however unseen), coupled with what we are shown of the emotional abuse by his father, this could mean that at an early age Bruce equated strong emotions with someone getting hurt.
But the movie does show in a few scenes Bruce’s dad was not nice to him on a regular basis. This is the emotional abuse. And this leads him to suppress his early childhood after his mother is killed. It would also be where the split personality comes from.
Of course both Hulk movies gel with the comics with Bruce having something in his genetic makeup that lets him survive the massive dose of gamma radiation. In the comics it’s a gamma bomb, and it’s something about his genes that let him absorb the energy and change. Just like the Fantastic Four had something special about them that allowed them to survive the cosmic radiation that changed them into what they are. And Spiderman had something special in him that reacted to the irradiated spider venom that changed him. In Marvel, all the Mutates (which are different from Mutants in that Mutants are born with their powers, while a Mutate is changed by some event) have something special about their make-up that not only allows them to survive things that should kill them, but tends to give them powers derived from the thing that should have killed them. Heck, it’s even been suggested a couple times that Steve Rogers responded so well to the Super Soldier serum because of his genetic make-up. (also why the Super Soldier Serum hasn’t been successfully replicated in others.)
Another thing about the Hulk movie that most people don’t mention (or perhaps they don’t know) is that the motion capture model for all the CGI Hulk stuff was Ang Lee himself. He knew exactly how he wanted the Hulk to act, and did so himself. And I can’t say he did a bad job. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Antigonus
Watching that scene I just kept thinking, "How do his pants keep getting bigger?"Hy[erstrike, dude, I think you are getting bigger and smaller confused. Betty is the reason his pants keep getting smaller. Or perhaps that's tighter...Quote:Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
One word.
BETTY.
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Not sure I just saw the same red band trailer you did.
"When a Cimerian feels thirst, it is the thirst for blood. When he feels cold, it is the cold edge of steel" - Ron Perlman's Character at the beginning of the trailer
"When a Barbarian feels thirst, it is the thirst for blood." - Conan at the end of the trailer.
The red band trailer I saw at Trailer Addict was filled with violence, blood, and Conan and others perpetuatiing thest things. No way what I saw is getting anythig other than an R rating. Which is exactly what a Conan movie should be. -
So, one thing I am confused about here is the 'series/season' moniker.
Series 1 and 2 had the usual 13 episodes?
But then along comes Children of Earth, which I take was only five episodes. So...kinda like the Tennant 'specials' but with a story running throughout?
But what about Miracle Day? Is it a full 'series' or another sequence of 'specials' Children of Earth? I would prefer the former, but the subtitle makes me think it's the latter.
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Well, I see your end-game as not going far enough, and you see mine as unnecessary.
Different views on similar ideas, and I will leave it at that.
I will say that this advance has great potential if they can get it out there for things to use. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
This type of thinking is a problem... You're thinking it can't be stored or it's so little power it's not worth it. This is the wrong way to look at it.
Durakken, it would seem either you misread my points, or I skipped over a couple of steps and didn’t explain it well enough. It would appear that I was thinking along the lines of end-game and you are extolling the virtues of mid-game.
To me, the whole logical conclusion of going with solar panels on every building is to have each building be its own ‘grid’. If every building everywhere that can get sun can generate all the power it ever needs, there’s no need for a “public” grid. The whole idea is to take all these coal-fired, gas-fired, and yes, even nuclear-powered plants and shut them down. Clean up the air a bit with them not putting tons upon tons of CO2 in the air every day.
So, we have a world where every building has the ability to generate all the power it could possibly want. This works well for the daytime. But what about nighttime? What if I live in North Dakota and get hit with a four day blizzard? Without some way to store this electricity that my house has been generating for me, there’s no reason to get rid of the ‘public grid’. Along those lines, if we don’t have a way to access this energy that we have stored, and possibly even recharge the batteries without the aid of or with only minimal support of the solar panels, we still need this ‘public grid’. Whatever storage solution we come up with, if we want to be free of the ‘public grid’ (and I think most of us would like that), we need that solution to be able to give us as much power we need every night, and for days on end, without the input of either the solar panels, or the ‘public grid’.
So, as I said, if we want to have this ‘green’ future utopia with all the electricity we could possibly use freely generated by solar panels on every building and we don’t have huge electrical plants polluting the air, battery/storage technology needs to make just as many leaps forward as the solar power does. One without the other really only goes so far.
Cheap, easy replaceable solar panels that generate all I need during the day are great. But if we don’t have a solution for night or when the sun isn’t usable, we only have half the answer.
Remember, the whole idea is to get rid of the "Grid". If my house, my car, cell phone, the train that brings cargo, the buses and light-rails around cities, and the trucks and ships that haul cargo around the world can all generate all the power they need, why would we need a Grid?Quote:Originally Posted by Durakken
Now you're worried where am i going to get power when its dark... the grid obviously. The Excess power goes to the grid and any needed comes from the grid. Because the grid already has power storage they already have the problem of where to get/send that power solved.
And right now if power isn't not needed it isn't generated. Well, for the most part. A few companies are experimenting on ways to store lots electricity. They are still thinking of today's Grid with a few tweaks. But, if the Electrical Company of today just translates into the Electrical Storage Company of tomorrow, we aren't at the end where we need to be.
So, I believe that the questions that I (and others elsewhere) raise about this future are valid. They are questions/problems that need to be asked and solved.
Does that help?
And it seems that the perfect solution, if it were to happen, for nighttime use is an electrical engine getting it's power from a battery, hooked to a generator that produces more electricity than the engine uses. The generator is then hooked into the battery the engine uses (thus keeping it charged) and the storage solution for the building (thus keeping things in the building powered). Of course, this is deceptively simple. And as such it will take decades to perfect, if at all. -
Quote:Or as Mulder on X-Files once called it, "A barrage of initials"Originally Posted by Gobbledygook
In all honesty, the real world military does the same thing. More acronyms than anything else sometime.
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I posted those pics just for such discussion.
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Ok. So most of the October solicits are out, which means some questions we have had from the September solicits and covers is actually being answered. Also, I reread some of the September solicits and gained some more knowledge. I’m just going to touch on the ones I find interesting.
Birds of Prey: The woman on the front cover with the tattoo that nobody was able to identify is apparently called “Starling”. A.K.A. Ev Crawford. Whoever that is. And “Ev”? Surely it’s supposed to be “Eve”. Whatever, she appears to be a new character. (Sadly this info was in the September solicit, just nobody read it as we were too busy looking at pictures, manking judgments and bemoaning the loss of well-liked costumes.)
Fury of Firestorm: Looks like Ronnie and Jason have been sent back to High School. And some military team wants to kill them. Firestorm is their answer. And apparently the funky looking, skeletal-faced Firestorm in the background of Issue #1 is the merged form of Ronnie and Jason. And according to solicits for #2, there’s may be a third person caught up in this. But with Teen Titans and Blue Beetle, don't we already have enough teen superoes in school? Why did they have to revert Ronnie and Jason? I am a bit miffed, but will still read to see where it goes.
Superboy: Apparenty Project Cadmus is no longer responsible for creating Superboy. Project N.O.W.H.E.R.E. is the new origin. Hopefully we will learn just what N.O.W.H.E.R.E. stands for.
Teen Titans: You know that funky looking insect-like character with the funky arms on the cover of #1? Well apparently her name is – sadly – Bugg. Still no word on who Miss Black Smokey Girl is. It looks like there’s going to be several “team building” issues here. Also Project N.O.W.H.E.R.E. from Superboy ties in to the first few issues of Teen Titans and Kid Flash might just be another of their projects. Hard to tell from the solicits. Gonna read this myself.
Green Arrow: Remember this pic of Ollie?
Well, we get a new one with Issue #2. And, well, let’s just say Smallville seems to have played a bigger part in his costume than we thought. Also, he goes from goatee to what looks to be Wolverine chops! Well, almost. Also apparently his company is no longer Queen Insustries, but QCore.
Hawk and Dove: Kestrel appears to be back, this time in male form. Also it would appear that Brightest Day did happen and Dawn is dating Deadman. Can’t see that relationship being more than a dead-end....heh.
Blue Beetle: The combined solicits for September and October seem to make this read like a re-telling of Blue Beetle’s origin. Complete with Jaime being in High School, and the scarab having just fused with him. I like Beetle still being Jaime, but not the loss of the former stories.
Captain Atom: Combined solicits again make this sound like a retelling/reimagining of the character and his origins.
Justice League International: Reading both September and October solicits makes it clear that this team is just being formed. Apparently no former team called Justice League International has been around. Also, and surprisingly, Booster Gold would appear to be the leader of the team! Go Booster!
Huntress: She gets a 6-issue mini-series starting October! She’s also linked to the Bat-Family in that her series was placed in the Bat-family area of the solicits. Anyways, what happens in this series will apparently tie into Birds of Prey.
Batgirl: Issue #2 supposedly already has Barbara questioning her return to active duty. Good. There’s other girls out there who could do the job.
Penguin: Pain and Predjudice: the Penguin gets his own five-issue miniseries starting October. Could be interesting.
Stormwatch: #2 gives us reasons why Martian Manhunter is on the team. Also something happens to the moon in Superman #1 and Stormwatch has to deal with it. For some reason.
Deathstroke: combined solicits provide a synopsis where someone thinks Deathstroke has been a mercenary and assassin for too long and it’s time to “retire” him. And we all know how assassins are ‘retired’. Also, instead of having a broadsword, he now has a ‘giant sword’. *cough* Um…no word yet if his big sword is made of promethium still or not.
Suicide Squad: remember those comments we had about Harley’s costume when we saw the cover of #1? Well, in #2 her corset appears to really be straining to do its job.
O.M.A.C.: something we didn’t apparently see earlier about this series as we were too busy lamenting the past: apparently Brother Eye and Checkmate are at war. Interesting… Also, O.M.A.C. no longer stands for One Man Army Corps, but One MACHINE Army Corps. And newcomer Kevin Kho is the O.M.A.C.
The Shade: appears to be a 12 issue series starting in October. I don’t know who “The Shade” is, but this looks interesting.
Frankenstien, Agent of S.H.A.D.E: The series looks interesting. And Frankie gets a team: the Creature Commandos. The team looks to have a four armed “Bride of Frankenstein,” a Japanese school girl complete with sailor outfit and domino mask, a mummy, a werewolf, a flying, intelligent monkey, a undersea mer-woman with tentacle legs, and possibly zombies? Should be a fun read!
The Superman family of solicits are not out yet. Perhaps Monday will reveal them and we can talk more.
Also new to me is how DC is breaking down its universe into sections. The Edge, The Dark, Green Lantern, Bat-Family, Superman, Justice League/Young Justice. I suppose it’s convenient for them, and it also lets us kind of know where to look for stories of a particular bent.
I find it interesting how much of the new stuff is tied to shade in one way or another. We have the S.H.A.D.E organization (Super Human Advanced Defense Executive) from Frankenstein, Shade the Changing Man (glad to see him back) and The Shade getting his own series. Could just be a coincidence, but it stands out in my brain.
So, all in all, it appears that when Barry Allen returns form Flashpoint/the past, whatever happens during Flashpoint, Barry comes back somewhat earlier than he left. I’m not sure I like all this retelling/reimagining of character origins just yet, as in the process we lose history that I liked, but I’m at least willing to give things a chance. -
Quote:Hal Jordan: Spectrum Lantern! Join us for the exciting new direction of a beloved character!Originally Posted by Nericus
I think though that instead of Hal being like Marvels comics Mandarin character with a different ring on each finger, that a new spectrum ring is created for Hal that can tap into and wield any of the spectrum energies that the wearer needs...including the black energy, though the more the black energy is used the greater the chance of Black Lanterns arising again.