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1 hour ago, VCRTracking said:
I didn't know when Veronica was speaking Spanish and called Jughead "Torombolo" that that was they called Jughead in the Spanish translation of the comics! Nice inside joke:
It's weird though because "torombolo" means plump or pot-bellied. Why would Veronica call him that? Maybe because her Spanish is really bad?
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On 4/12/2017 at 9:12 PM, Kel Varnsen said:
If we are going to be talking about all super hero movies, there is also Jack Nicholson (three time Oscar winner) to consider, even though as the Joker he was basically just playing Jack in white face paint.
I've heard that said a lot, but I don't think it's a fair criticism to say he was playing himself. I don't remember Jack Nicholson destroying art galleries, laughing in amusement as he shot or electrocuted criminals, squirting women in the face with acid, or killing numerous people with Smilex gas.
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4 hours ago, Gobi said:
If anything, one would expect a season finale to have an audience nearly equal to the opener.
This season opener was a big one though. Still, there are signs the audience continues to slowly fall off.
I'm surprised so many people dislike the Negan character. I like him in the comic books, and I like Jeffrey Dean Morgan's portrayal of him. I certainly think he lives up to the "best villain since the governor" billing. I think it's just part of people getting tired of the show. The main criticism I have of TWD is all of the rotating side story episodes where you don't see the main characters, and maybe only one or two characters are featured. I did like the Morgan learns Akido episode though.
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This show is like a bad soap opera written by a 14 year old. Which I find highly entertaining.
"That was haunting, Betty" was the best line of the night. Betty can bring the crazy, even unintentionally, apparently.
I would have never guessed this going in, but Veronica appears to be the most normal person on this show.
I like that Archie is the most boring character. I think they should just have him do his man whore thing in the background while everybody else drives the story.
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3 hours ago, CleoCaesar said:
When Bernadette was on the fence about having kids, didn't Howard say he'd do the majority of childcare and be a stay-at-home dad? It would certainly solve the issue of Howard being unable to say goodbye to Halley.
On a totally separate note, I never understand why parents take freaking newborns to places like zoos, aquariums, amusement parks, etc. The baby is too little to realize where she is, much less appreciate it, and it just looks like such a hassle.
Stuart, Raj, and Burt are three characters that could be cut and I wouldn't miss them at all.
Howard did say he'd be willing to be a stay at home dad. Then later he started to freak out that he wasn't going to have enough money to provide for the baby, so they started that guidance system project. That never made sense to me. If Bernadette makes so much more than he does, why are they suddenly hurting for money?
Newborns take in a lot of sensory information, who knows how their surroundings might affect their development? Maybe the extra stimuli is good for them?
I would miss Stuart if they wrote him off, he's become one of my favorites on the show. It's true he's something of a freeloader, but he seems to be helpful around the house and a genuine part of the family. It's kind of sweet the way he was also tearful about Halley being in daycare, and the episode when he thought there was an intruder and he barged in with the Negan bat ready to defend his "family".
8 minutes ago, Sarah 103 said:Yes! My problem is that Leonard, Penny, Sheldon, and Amy are part of this hang-out show about nerds in love. Howard, Bernadette, and Stuart are now in a domestic comedy. I really wish we could get more episodes with them hanging out together as a group again.
The group has gotten too big to fit into one living room. If they all got together, it would look like they were throwing a party.
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Lol, that picture IS creepy, with the moustache and the big '70s glasses.
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18 hours ago, hello said:
I think he's trying to process his memories of the blue Kree blood, like they were a dream or something. The Kree blood "cleaned" away his memories for a while. So his brain finds the next best thing to make sense of it by comparing it to blue liquid soap.
Wow, I never would have made that connection. In fact, I didn't even remember that Kree blood was blue. Good theory, I think you're on to something.
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On 4/12/2017 at 6:00 PM, Cowgirl said:
I liked how this episode at least used one quote -- when Barry says "This town needs an enima." It's on the movie soundtrack, along with Vicky's annoying screams.
Barry also used the "Wait'll they get a load of me" quote. I'm telling you, practically every line Nicholson/Joker says in that movie is quotable!
I agree Basinger was a weak point, unfortunately.
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I was impressed by Dean's observation that Lady and Tramp ate spaghetti in an alley. Who doesn't like to go out to eat now and then though?
I didn't quite like the jacket he wore to the restaurant though. I think a matching dark jacket would have looked better, with maybe a lighter colored shirt.
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23 hours ago, blackwing said:
I thought Coulson mentioned that the blue soap that everyone is required to use has some kind of brainwashing effect. That's why Coulson makes his own soap. Fitz apparently uses the blue soap.
I got the impression that the blue soap idea was actually some genuine paranoia on Coulson's part, probably the result of some of his inner conflict caused by the Framework. He seemed to think so by episode's end anyway. But anything is possible.
I can understand people wanting Ward to stay dead. But the source material here is comic books, and the thing about comic books is characters rarely stay dead. There can usually be found some sort of device to bring them back. Shoot, even Spock returned after dying in Star Trek II.
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On 4/10/2017 at 0:43 AM, Utpe said:
Oh man, this episode really hit close to home. I went to go see Batman with my father on opening day, June 23rd, 1989. I remember the theater being packed to the rafters. Even now, I still consider it to be the best movie of the franchise. 1989 was one heck of a year for movies.
I've always thought the '89 Batman is underrated, and especially Jack Nicholson's depiction of the Joker. Since The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger gets all the Joker credit. But I thought Nicholson's take was actually closer to the comic book character, plus nearly every line out of his mouth in that movie is quotable, and he has a lot of lines.
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I think Simmons assumed that Fitz wouldn't shoot Agnes because Coulson had overcome his brainwashing. Coulson's an exceptional guy, but still if he could do it, why can't Fitz? Maybe the prior tinkering with his mind (Tahiti's a magical place) had something to do with it. He had a notebook full of that "It's a magical place" phrase written over and over. It must have had some sort of effect on him.
7 hours ago, RandomMe said:There was no "here". Radcliffe thought that Ward was Hive at first (because that's the only version of Ward he's ever met), then he realized he wasn't Hive, but "the one who came before" -- i.e. Grant Ward, the person he was before he died and Hive took over his body. Radcliffe mentioned never having met him because last season Ward was already dead by the time the team went looking for Radcliffe.
Okay, thanks for that, makes perfect sense. I misread that line badly, looks like I was waaaaaay off on that. My bad.
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What was that bit that Dr. Radcliffe said to Ward? He said something like "You were the one who came here before". Does that refer to something that happened in a previous show, as in Ward trying to contact Radcliffe in the Framework before?
Or was he saying that Ward entered the Framework a long time ago, before any of this happened? Because if that is the case, then they are likely setting up bringing Ward out of the Framework and into a LMD. And Ward in the Framework is some sort of echo version of the real Ward, when he was alive. Even though this Ward doesn't appear to be evil.
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14 hours ago, ByTor said:
awwww admit it, you had to have chuckled at Negan's reaction to Shiva :)
And when he saw Maggie: "That widow is alive! Guns ablazing! Taste that, Simon? That's the taste of s---"
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18 hours ago, Sandman said:
And now I want the entrance to the Triskelion to be deep underground, accessible only through a phone booth (oops!) and layers and layers of steel doors and secret passageways...
Plus they need to change the opening to Clark Gregg walking through those secret doors and getting into the phone booth.
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11 hours ago, AngelaHunter said:
People spent half a season running around obsessed and screaming, "SOPHIA!" at full volume until I couldn't stand it and gave up on this show for more than a year.
SPOILER ALERT.
To this day, I think the Sophia arc was one of the most effective storylines in the entire series.
Her coming out of the barn was probably the one moment that had the most impact on the show. I think that whole arc was largely responsible for Daryl's popularity also, because while everyone was getting wrapped up in their own problems, Daryl was the only one who kept going out there everyday looking for the lost child. Life seemed less cheap in those earlier seasons.
Regarding Eugene, I'm guessing he finds a way to redeem himself at some point. He already took a chance by giving Sasha the "allergy medicine". He's not going to stick his neck out too far, but if he get his chance to do his part to bring down Negan's reign, I think he will do it. He's doing the smart thing, playing along and biding his time. Maybe his opportunity will come, and maybe it won't. He's not a badass like Daryl (or Sasha), where Negan is going to have him kill somebody to prove himself. Why starve and get daily beatings when you can live in comfort and move up in influence?
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I just saw Whom Gods Destroy the other day. Hokey Smokes, Yvonne Craig was smoking hot as the green chick in that. I had forgotten what fate she met in that episode however - SPOILER ALERT.
The crazy guy (Captain Garth) who had taken over the asylum took her outside and blew her up. It was a little comic in some ways. In fact Kirk seems completely unphased by it, he almost seems to have a little smirk over it. I was thinking what a waste of resources though. Here's a planet where there is only ONE woman on it, and she is crazy hot, and you blow her up? Why not blow up the Andorian or one of the male inmates. Craig's character was so unstable she was dangerous though, so maybe that was part of it.
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22 hours ago, angora said:
I don't want to get too much into the #AAIronFist thing, but part of the reasoning behind the campaign to cast an Asian American as Danny was because feeling like an outsider is something that resonates with a lot of Asian Americans. A, say, Chinese-American Danny, despite being born and raised in America, would've been no stranger to "But where are you REALLY from?" and "Go back to China!" comments. Then, traveling to China, where he's been told is where he actually belongs, he's still an outsider
Yeah, I mean they could have cast an Asian American and it would have been fine with me. But the character in the comic books is white, and they chose not to change it. It seems silly that people are now getting angry because they didn't change the race of the character. Still, I can see that some people thought that there was an opportunity here that wasn't taken.
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38 minutes ago, realityobserver said:
All they need to do is go to Home Depot in Portland and ask for the 'new guy'....
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On 4/7/2017 at 0:32 PM, realityobserver said:
Over at Railing Kill's site is FB photos from fans of Alaskan Bush People meeting the Browns in Arizona at several stores and whatever.... Looks like a hotel and a Wal Mart and some Sports store... Who is holding down the town in Alaska ?
Maybe looking for Granbabies ???
Are you kidding me? It's cold in Alaska this time of year.
Maybe they're out looking for Bam lol.
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3 hours ago, jeansheridan said:
He must have been charming as hell in his audition because otherwise why?
I think they thought his Game of Thrones credentials would draw some more people in, even though he played a fairly minor character.
I think a lot of the actors on GoT are getting jobs they probably wouldn't have gotten without their association with that show.
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I grew up a huge Fantastic Four fan. Back in the '60s, the FF was Marvel's best selling comic book for a time. The biggest happenings and innovations passed through their pages. The FF was the book that Stan Lee wrote that touched off his incredible burst of creativity, and started the Marvel revolution in comic books. It was once known as Marvel's flagship comic and used to bear the banner "World's Greatest Comic Magazine". Its importance in comics history cannot be overstated.
For those reasons, I can't tell you how sad it makes me to see what has happened with the movie versions of the Fantastic Four. In fact, since Marvel has now cancelled the comic book, I can't even read their adventures any more. The movies have killed the whole concept.
This latest version takes a lot of its inspiration from the "Ultimate Fantastic Four" books, which recast them as young, teen geniuses working for a think tank. That was a horrible idea, because the one thing that set the Fantastic Four apart was that it was a family, and the age differences were a big part of that. Reed was the older father figure, his friend Ben who was the same age played a kind of defacto uncle, Reed's younger wife, and her kid brother Johnny. Making them all the same age destroys that contrast and the basic relationships.
It's painful to see this once glorious franchise languish while others are flourishing. I have no faith in Fox at all to do the Fantastic Four justice, they've proven that. I would like to see it go back to Marvel, I don't care how. They may not get it right either, but its the best chance it has.
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7 minutes ago, smorbie said:
But, I stand by assertion that that one little moment was the best acting JDM has done on this show. There was fear and hesitation in his eyes. For one brief second he realized, as another poster upthread so beautiful said, that he was looking at his death.
Really, by that point I would think that Negan would have had enough of the BS, and just decide that the Rick experiment was no longer worth continuing. He should have just killed the core group and found someone else to lead Alexandria, or else just burn the place to the ground. He didn't know then that the Kingdom and Hilltop were about to arrive to save the day. Too late now, and looks like next season will be dedicated to "All Out War".
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On 3/28/2017 at 5:32 PM, Spartan Girl said:
We all know Tony will give the suit back at some point.
Maybe, but have you heard the rumor that this will be the last Spider Man movie that Sony is doing with Marvel? The Venom movie they're doing is not in the MCU. The last I heard, there is no firm decision either way on who will be doing the sequel. I suppose they're waiting to see what kind of reception it receives. Either way, this may be a way to disentangle Stark from Spider-Man's life. Parker, little genius that he is, might come up with his own version of the suit, with his own version of Stark's tech. This might satisfy purists who would not be happy with Stark providing inventions that were Peter's in the comics.
Personally, I definitely hope Spider-Man stays in the MCU, and I think it's in Sony's best interest to keep him there.
Regarding the trailer, I don't really like the look of the Vulture. It looks like something Sony would have come up with, if you know what I mean. Looks like one of those "suits" that were shown in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Keaton is an interesting casting choice though.
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S10.E21: The Separation Agitation
in The Big Bang Theory [V]
I liked that episode a few weeks ago when Bernadette was going to make meatloaf, and Stuart volunteers to make it instead. Bernadette thanked him, but he said something like "I've had your meatloaf".
Lucy and Ricky had a baby pretty early on in the show's run too, it was in season 2. And after that they went on long trips to both Hollywood and Europe. So I agree there is no reason for the show to continue to remind us "Hey, Howard and Bernadette have a baby". Especially since so far they are sticking to the idea of not showing her onscreen. Halley must have inherited some of that gene from Howard's mom.