Matt K

I watch Dream Corp LLC. It's a decent show but I love the use of rotoscoping. I think Undone is the only other show to use it lately and I like Dream Corp's better. I had no idea the new season was starting but that's why it's on my DVR schedule since the same happened last season. So a nice surprise for me today.

Now that you mentioned it, I really want them to do that. Poor Narancia. That's what happens when you start talking about the future.

Sad but not surprised. AT&T is putting the spurs to the various WB divisions/networks. Direct TV lost them a ton of money and HBO Max isn't doing well either (they're lowering the price which is pretty telling). COVID isn't helping either (they lost a ton of money on Tenet). AS said their interested in doing something Venture Brothers. I'm assuming a movie since what else can they do on AS that isn't a series. Maybe I can be hopeful and they just shuttle the series to HBO Max like Search Party of Infinity Train.

Somehow I actually called the mystery guy as Prince. No idea how I managed that. Decent episode overall. Next week is the 300th episode which is also the season finale. Hard to top "The 200" but we'll see.

That's kind of what I was hoping for. I don't see an issue with T'Challa dying off screen of something like cancer or a brain aneurysm. These are things that can suddenly fell anyone despite advanced science. Plus the next movie would be significantly further in the future than the last. Black Panther took place a couple years before Endgame and Black Panther 2 would be years after the 5 year gap. So the Wandaka Outreach and whatever else they set up would have been around for like a decade or more (at least for the non-blip people). Whatever they do for the next movie, they could just handwave any succession issue (they figured something out after the mess with the blip, T'Challa set something up since he knew he might die, etc) or any other issues that might come up but they don't want to be the focus of the movie. I just can't see a good reason for Disney to recast T'Challa since it's not like they can't tell a story without T'Challa. The next movie could easily be about T'Challa's legacy (so someone else taking up the mantel or a number of people suddenly taking up the mantel in honor of T'Challa). Or it could be about Shuri figuring out her place in the world after the death of her brother or dealing with someone or a bunch of people taking up the mantel as superheroes. It could even be about M'Baku (which I definitely wouldn't mind). Also, people will be pissed if they recast while the people who are in favor of recasting shouldn't be too upset if they don't. So it's a pretty easy call not to.

I was gutted when I heard Boseman passed. I really hope they do not recast the role, it'd be way too soon. I imagine Disney already had a contingency plan which could be Shuri or maybe even a split role of Shuri and Queen and Okoye as the Black Panther. I hope the next movie opens with a funeral for T'Challa to honor Boseman. For the next movie I would love to see Kevin Cole as the lead character. Maybe have him be a kid who was helped through a Wandaka outreach center and as an adult decides to take on the mantel in honor of T'Challa.

That fight between Eda and Lilith was incredibly well animated. Plus seeing Hootie let loose was hilarious. No wonder Eda said he was the ultimate protection system. The series as a whole has been great. Amity's character arc has been great. Eda is amazing (and the role seems to be designed for Wendie Malick) and this week they really showed her as the most powerful witch on the Boiling Isles. While Luz is a bit one note, I still love her especially when she wanted to learn all the magic (I'd be the same). King is always great comic relief as is Hootie. I love how confident Gus is and how he's not bothered by his shortcomings (he really is his best self). Willow's arc has also been good. Seeing her go from shy to confident (and popular) has been a nice throughline for the show. Lilith is a very interesting character. I take it we'll learn more about her next week (season finale) but the show has made it clear that she's jealous of Eda and how powerful Eda is. They care for each other but Lilith still went after her sister (and did the you know what). The Boiling Isles is such a different setting. It's like a kid's version of a Bosch painting. Having them live on a literal titan seems like it'll be more of a plot point than I would have expected. Love the runner about how Giraffes are actually from there and were banished to the Human world.

So Yolo Crystal Fantasy debuted last night. It was okay. I was expecting something more like Regular Show where things start out normal and then spiral into absurdity but this was more of the typical AS "wacky" fare. It wasn't bad (I'd say it was pretty average but not really worth my time to keep watching (I get so little free time, especially since my toddler likes to get up around 5am and goes to sleep around 9pm).

I enjoy both of those. For Hurricane, the look thebear gives Stan when he hits Francine with the javeline is great. Really that episodes has so many good moments.

All I knew of SotS was "Zippity Do Da" from some Disney record and maybe a coloring book from the 40th anniversary re-release. I went to Disney World for the first time in 2014 and was surprised that they hadn't re-themed it. I'm surprised it took this long since there's no marketing potential for the ride. At least Princess and the Frog has toy lines and various princess stuff that kids can identify. That said, I don't really think of New Orleans as having waterfalls but it looks like it'll be a minor reskin for the ride so whatever. I guess they might start doing the Tiana meet and greet there instead. Maybe we'll get a nice cajun food place nearby.

I don't get the context. Why is he unhappy with Whedon?

Surprisingly, I think my favorite episode at the moment is Rabbit Ears from last season. Although I'm very fond of Black Mystery Month as well (and Garfield and Friends). I've been finding these TBS seasons very hit or miss although some of the misses have grown on me during re-watch. There's definitely some very good episodes each season and even the true misses are somewhat entertaining. There's only a few episodes total that I won't watch (not including some of the awful first season episodes), Love AD Style and Stan's Best Friend. Although there's a few I'll skip like Baby Franny and Missing Kink if there's something better on.

Funimation has Black Clover dubbed through episode 124 (which they did a month ago). So currently there's 5 new episodes left.

I believe you need to either find it on YouTube or sail the seas to get it now a days. I'm pretty certain there's no official way to watch it online.

Not a huge surprise, episode 86 is still the most recent episode dubbed.

While I kind of liked this episode, they really should have done a better transition from the end of Peter, Simone, Janice and Fredwynn's story to Jason's. The fact that last episode ended kind of abruptly and this episode has nothing to do with those characters definitely causes issues (I was going to recommend the series and would still have if the story ended better in episode 9). What I did like is how Jason's story continued the theme of healing by connecting with people. Also apparently the ARG Jason goes through is based on a sequel to the real Jejune ARG. I liked what I watched but they really needed to transition from the Jejune story to Jason's story better.

Makes sense, episode 86 only just had the dub released yesterday.

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace too. I believe it actually launched Berry's career along with Richard Ayoade (either that or Mighty Boosh with is pretty fun too, they came out around the same time).

I really hope they go with Mob Psycho 100 season 2 to replace Demon Slayer. It's only 13 episodes (so not a long commitment and 14 episodes if you include the OVA), it's already dubbed and it's an amazing show. Season 2 was so good and honestly, pushed the series into the top spots of my favorite shows of all time.

That was easily one of my favorite tournament arcs. Each battle brought out more of each character (which should be the point of this type of arc). Also, I'm glad Soma didn't win (and Akira did) since it's rare for the protagonist not to win. I like how they used him loosing to kind of kick him out of his confidence zone as it has really added to his character since that loss. Last little arc is the Stagiaire and I like the pairing of Soma and Ms. Secretary. Love the return of Legume Magician and seeing his character growth from the Summer training arc. That said, kind of confused why Soma is by himself on the second assignment since I though the Stagiaire was done in pairs. Either way, this has been a pretty solid series.

It's Easter on Sunday so generally they do a marathon around a holiday. But I know a few of the shows are running low on dubs. My Hero is currently on hiatus after the next episode, episode 83. Food Wars has the rest of the season dubbed (although only 1 episode left in season 2, no idea if any of season 3 is dubbed, it's not on Hulu). Black Clover has like 11 episodes left. No idea on JoJo's or Demon Slayer.

I didn't care as much for the third season. It was still really good but Alucard's story line was really bad. Alucard's story itself was very slight which would be fine if it was only a tiny part of the series (like a quick check-in here and there). Also, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop with his student and it took forever and was kind of arbitrary (I was thinking they were there to learn enough to set themselves up as warlords or something). That said, Sypha and Trevor's story was really well done (and the twist at the end with the Judge was nuts). Isaac's was really good too (plus we got Legion and it was really well done) but kind of just stopped at the end of the season. Hector's was interesting as well despite it being kind of obvious where it was going and it had a nice twist of Lenore actually sort of caring for Hector in her own way. Looking forward to next season but if they don't really have anything for Alucard to do, then I hope they just take a break until he can be more of a participant in the ongoing action.

I loved when Alice was like "damn it Mom you could have at least practice".

Probably US Agent (John Walker) who will actually appear in the show played by Wyatt Russell. I'd be pretty true to his comic book character

My main issue with season 2 was it stopped mid-story. I would have been okay with the lower quality animation if we got an entire story arc but this didn't seem worth it. That said, I love King and Garo is very interesting as well. So at least I have something to look forward to if/when we get another season.