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    Smallville - General Discussion

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    4 hours ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

    I’ve always said that Smallville  paved the way for Berlanti’s Arrowverse.

    While I hated what they did toward the last few seasons, and especially the series finale, I loved this show.

    I think the original showrunners not being comic book fans or Superman experts allowed for a fresh take or an adherence to established lore.

    Smallville - General Discussion

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    I only watched a few early episodes when it started airing  and just started bingewatching and am now midway through season 3. After so many heavy prestige shows and complicated Arrowverse shows Smallville is such a fast watch. You breeze through episodes so quickly.

    There were so many actors before they were famous as "freak of the week". If Smallville High had an assembly where they ask "Who here has powers?" half the student body would have their hand up!

    On 5/16/2023 at 6:47 AM, moonshine71 said:

    Welling and Rosenbaum have been shopping an animated continuation for a while, with the support of Miller and Gough and a lot of original cast members.

    I hope they have insanely long epilogue/codas to each episode too!

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    S01.E05: Part Five - Shadow Warrior

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    I'm ashamed to admit it did not occur

    2 hours ago, MissLucas said:

    Well, I'm glad I managed to remain un-spoiled for this one. Seeing a Clone Wars/Rebels real life version of Ahsoka was quite something (and Rex!). And now she's Ahsoka the White - was that mystic poncho and the light grey tunic stashed away in her Jedi starship?

    I saw Hayden Christensen for the first time in 'Life as a House' - so I always blamed his performance in the prequels on writing and directing. Glad to see that he finally got to play a version of Anakin that gave him more to work with.

    Ahsoka hitching a whale ride was not exactly a surprise but I had expected Hera to join her. Though the reasoning Hera gave for staying behind makes perfect sense. It will be interesting to see how much time of the remaining episodes will be dedicated to the plot in Peridia (and if Thrawn manages to pull off his comeback of course).

    Huyang/Tennant had some unexpected emotional moments. First at the cliff holding Sabine's helmet but also later when Hera asked about Ahsoka's master. I don't know how they pulled that off but it was as if he looked surprised by the realization that she did not know about Vader/Anakin. "Intense" - indeed!

    So now that they really brought home the fact that Ahsoka was essentially a child soldier whose CO/father figure turned mass-murderer we might get less complaints about her stoic demeanour. Especially as it seems she has left that behind at the ground of the ocean.

    Shoutout to Captain Carson Teva for holding off the Republican fleet and bringing some comic relief while doing so!

     

    58 minutes ago, Sakura12 said:

    Ariana Greenblatt is sure getting around playing the younger version of Gamora and now the younger Ahsoka. As well as being in the Barbie movie. 

    This is also shows how great an actor Tennent is, because he's bringing so much to Huyang with just his voice.

    Ezra took Thrawn with him when they hitched a ride with the space whales. So if Thrawn is alive it makes sense for them to believe Ezra is as well. However I think Ezra may have joined Thrawn. He was always very impressionable and trusting of the bad guys. He trusted Hondo a pirate and Maul. 

    Ahsoka was more zen and subdued in Rebels. So I see this as more of a progression from that. She fought and was almost killed by her former Master/brother. That had to mess her up even more. So this push in the between Worlds is what she needed. She was just surviving, not living. 

    I'm ashamed it hadn't occurred to me before the episode how Ahsoka would feel after finding out what Anakin had become and how that would weigh on her in the decade since. Of course she would feel guilt and of course she would be reluctant to pass on his teachings!

    1 hour ago, AimingforYoko said:

    Oh, you noticed those shots, too?

    I was having Incredibles 2 Elastigirl flashbacks!

    S01.E05: Part Five - Shadow Warrior

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    Loved it. Loved the flashbacks. Hayden did a good job of being Clone Wars Anakin. I don't know if it was all in Ahsoka's head. If it was Jacen wouldn't hear it.

    Man Mary Elizabeth Winstead is wearing the hell out of those pants.

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    Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

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    On 9/9/2023 at 5:55 PM, SlovakPrincess said:

    Well, yeah.  They didn't have all the time in the world to round out this character and show us her innermost thoughts ... so cut down on the smug one liners and give her more depth earlier in the movie.  

    And tonally it's just weird because instead of bantering between her and Indy with a few heartfelt discussions thrown in ... he's mostly depressed and she's mostly glib (even when it makes her look heartless, like needling him about being wanted for the murder of his innocent colleagues and after Antonio Banderas and crew, who were all really nice to her and Teddy, die horribly).    

    I will say they finally get a great action movie buddy moment when she's hanging off the plane about to fall and he's like "what are you doing?!" and she goes "rescuing you!" (right before she does, indeed, shoot the bad guy).   That's fun!  That works!  I'm finally enjoying her, and these characters together!  ... ten minutes before the movie ends!

    Yeah it would have been nice if they were that way from the beginning but I don't think Indy would have wanted to stay in the past if he had connected with her so fast.

    Just watched a 1968 Ironside episode on one of the nostalgic comfort channels and it has that hilarious Hollywood depiction of Hippies where they talk like Beatniks and are in bad wigs. Made me think how if DoD had actually been made in 1969, Helena would look more Haight Ashbury than Carnaby Street with long, unbrushed hair, say "groovy" a lot, take LSD and call Indy a "square" who needs to "get with it". Indy would lecture her like he's Jack Webb on DRAGNET and in the end after she had the change of heart be dressed in conservative hair and clothes looking like one of Nixon's daughters!

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    Superman Movies

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    I am now realizing the only reason they built up the love story with Lois(which was not really in the comics at that point) in the first movie was for this plot turn of Superman having to give up his powers to be with her in the second.

     

    Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

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    2 hours ago, SlovakPrincess said:

    Yeah I get what they're going for with this character and it doesn't work for me.  And not because she's a female character hindering Indy.  She's written in an annoyingly obvious way with unsubtle "clever" dialogue and I don't think the actress gives her any depth.  

    Phoebe Waller Bridge worked great in Fleabag - a show with enough time to explore how a character's brash show of confidence is really masking deep hurts.  That's what they're going for here, I assume, with the smug facade and sad dead father backstory (and grudge against Indy), but it's rushed and done poorly.     

    That's the benefits of an episodic TV show where she's the protagonist who can break the 4th wall and confide to the audience over a 2 and a half hour movie where she's a supporting character who can't! 

    The jokes and clever lines might have been obvious and been unsubtle but her change of heart and growing sympathy towards Indy was for some viewers.

    Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

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    14 hours ago, SlovakPrincess said:

    Harrison Ford: good!  Chase scenes: good!  Story: ... weird? but interesting?  A tad too depressing for my taste in parts, especially the back story on Indy's son (I guess they really didn't want to bring back Shia Lebouf for some reason) - but interesting.

    HOWEVER.  Whyyyyyyyy did they make Helena so insufferable?  I just do not like this character.  And it really shouldn't have been hard to create a sympathetic, interesting character out of someone who watched her father drive himself mad, is still bitter about it, and who's also upset Indy wasn't there for her as father figure (although he's been going through some tragedies of his own that she barely seemed to care about).  But she's just smirky and cynical for so much of the movie.  Blah.

    Also - needed more Marion!!

    Unless they're villains audiences hate female characters that make things difficult for the main character. Even if they do help at the end they aren't forgiven for spending most of the time being a hindrance. Helena and Willie being examples.

    I think it was important to the story for Helena to be a big problem to Indy.  He was in such a funk that only her brazen amorality could get him out of it. His scolding and guilt tripping throughout and just being a parent without her asking  having to ask for it is what changed her and better than having an emotional scene IMO.

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    S01.E04: Part Four - Fallen Jedi

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    Aww man Sabine's carried so much guilt already over Mandalore. If Thrawn comes back and starts another war and people die including her friends. Although it if took 5 seconds for a lightsaber to destroy the map, just blasting it wouldn't have done it. Also if the New Republic would have listened to Hera the fleet could have stopped the hyperspace ring so there. 

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    Friends - General Discussion

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    Dermot Mulruney came on as her boss and was just dropped with no explanation.

    I wonder if it was foresight that made them write that problematic story of Phoebe's half brother Frank marry his twice his age high school teacher? Like Lisa had just gotten married and probsbly going to she would be pregnant but they didn't want to have Phoebe be a mom or hide it but If she were a surrogate to his brother's wife.... Like that's why he needed to be with someone older.

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    S01.E03: Part Three - Time to Fly

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    1 hour ago, benteen said:

    The show isn't bad and it has all the ingredients to be an epic one. But I've found it disappointing so far.

    There really isn't anything new. Jedi training and dogfights are Star Wars but we've seenthem before. Despite being thirty minutes long (not counting the credits) the pacing on this show still drags. Some of the performances aren't helping either. Ahsoka loosened up a little in those episode but Rosario Dawson is still playing her far too stoic in both voice and facial expressions. She is capable of more, as seen in previous appearances as Ahsoka and elsewhere, like in the Marvel Netflix shows. Though if Dawson is playing the character too stoic. Ivanna Sakhno has been downright catatonic as Skoll's apprentice, Shin. The Olson twin looking actress has wide eyes and plays her seen woth no emotion or energy whatsoever.

    Also continuing one of my biggest problems with DisneynStar Wars is the portrayal of The New Republic. The heroes of tbe original trilogy fought so hard to defeat the Empire and rest the Republic, only for the New Republic to instantly become as inept and corrupt as the Old Republic. It further destroys their accomplishments in the original trilogy and makes Mon Mothma look like a shitty leader for overseeing this kind of comically inept government. This type of portrayal is not exclusive to Star Wars of course. Starfleet has been portrayed just as badly in the recent Paramount Plus Star Trek shows. Let me guess what will happen next....the heroes will defy the New Republic and do the right thing! Amazing, that has only been used about a million times in other shows and movies.

    If the New Republic was shown to be perfect and not have problems I wouldn't have believed it. I think unlike other media where the system is shown to be corrupt and can't be fixed, the Federation and New Republic are institutions that still have good, people fighting for it's ideals.

    S01.E03: Part Three - Time to Fly

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    My feeling is Ahsoka didn't need to pull herself to the ship because Sabine was right there. Leia's was a desperation move that took all her remaining strength.

    Until Huyang said it, it didn't occur to me that there was now this unbroken line of master and apprentice from Yoda to Dooku to Qui-Gon to Obi-Wan to Anakin to Ahsoka and now to Sabine. I had been so focused on the Yoda training Luke and Luke training others.

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    Besides the flying sequences, a lot of the success is that men in their 50s can live vicariously through Cruise and be like "I'm still cool and relevant, I'll show these young punks I'm better than them and also I get to be with Jennifer Connelly!"

     

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    S01.E01: Part One - Master and Apprentice / S01.E02: Part Two - Toil and Trouble

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    I had to calculate after watching  that while it's more than 5 years after Return of the Jedi and the Empire's fall this takes place more than a decade after the Rebels series finale which was a year before A New Hope.

    Its going to take me a while to adjust to the live action version of the characters. I could accept the Rosario Dawson Ahsoka before with characters we know from live action like Din and Luke but seeing her interact with others from animation shows how different her Ahsoka is. Like I can't picture animated Ahsoka doing the arms crossed and tilting back and eyes almost closed thing!

    I do like the new characters like Ray Winsone and his apprentice.

    The red opening crawl was cool.

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