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A few announcements to come from the DC FanDome virtual convention. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Gotham Knights The latter is giving me pay-to-win vibes.

Per the stardates, it's five years. DS9 S7 was 52XXX, and LDS is 57XXX. It's two-ish years after Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant as well.

The Enterprise-D was basically a cruise ship. In both Star Trek VI and in the VOY episode "Flashback" we saw multiple junior crew bunking together.

I hope everyone enjoyed the 86 years we had DC Comics, because this interview with Jim Lee sure makes it seem they're going to be killing off anything that isn't Batman. Also, remember that time Jim Lee lead an exodus from Marvel because of how they treated creators?

Jackie Brown is Quentin Tarantino's best movie.

Skip it, and just watch The Celluloid Closet. He's basically cribbing directly from it.

That was featured on an episode of How Did This Get Made?, and while I didn't see it when I was the right age, it seemed REALLY problematic.

What kills me is that Dick is SOOOOOO much more interesting as Nightwing, but they can't really lead with that.

I didn't realize they'd dropped new episodes at the end of July. Naya Rivera was guest judge on the second episode, and this was released about three weeks after she died. They had a nice dedication to her, but it was still sad to watch.

One wonders if the Jedi ever got it, even in the distant past. Knights of the Old Republic was set thousands of years before the prequels, and the Jedi Council was every bit as passive and ineffective as they were before the rise of the Empire. Really, they're a bunch of cloistered assholes. Somebody needs to make a project about Jolee Bindo. I think one of the reasons why I like Revenge as much as I do it because it pays off (or sets up, it's hard to determine the right nomenclature here) so many things from the original trilogy, in particular, the idea that the Jedi being good or bad is a matter of perspective. A lesson that Yoda and Obi-Wan failed to learn, because they fucked it up a second time.

A movie or a tv show, which has built-in access to a mass audience, is always going to be more popular than a comic book, just in terms of raw numbers. The bar to entry, both in terms of cost ($4.99 for a single comic these days vs flipping past Cartoon Network) and the sheer volume of material can be rather intimidating. And that's before you get to the stigma of being an adult who collects comics.

That was easily my favorite part of the episode. I like that they're switching it up so that the A-plot is the silly one and the B-plot is the one with the emotional stakes. Last week, it was Tendi's sheer joy at being assigned to the Cerritos.

I'm going to say something controversial: I liked the live action Aladdin. A lot.

I'm not the biggest fan of Lindsay Ellis, but she did a great video about how Moana worked and Pocahontas didn't despite basically telling the same story.

Empyre has turned out to be surprising fun. Making Carol (who is Kree, after all) the Accuser, is kind of brilliant.

Hollywood REALLY screwed her over. Although interestingly, she actually was the first Asian-American actor (of either gender) to be the lead in a TV series, way back in the early 50s. Unfortunately, the show was on the long-dead DuMont network, and is lost to history, because most of the DuMont's archives were thrown into the Hudson River when it went out of business.

Given the response to TROLLS: WORLD TOUR, I'm not so sure. They're likely never going to have a theatrical release in the US. I don't expect movie theaters to be open nationwide for at least six months.

I run into issues of the classic movies where not only does it bug me that the princesses don't really have any agency--or when they do, it's almost entirely predicated on chasing men--but looking back on the early movies knowing more about animation and film generally, it's REALLY obvious that a lot of them are heavily if not entirely rotoscoped. This is not the say that Walt Disney didn't make a lot of technical innovations, but SNOW WHITE lost a lot for me when I realized that she's an actress that's been painted over. And that's before you get into what happened to the animation quality after Walt died. Leaving aside the recycled assets in some of the movies (ROBIN HOOD is particularly notorious for this), but the actual images are barely a step above the straight-to-video sequels from the late 90s. I love THE RESCUERS, but if you subtracted out the fantastic performances and the story, the visual stuff is borderline unwatchable.

I've blinked back tears a few times. "Somewhere That's Green" always, ALWAYS gets me.

I figured that was a foregone conclusion. But Yay!

Given the show's pedigree, I was nervous going on, but it's definitely more Futurama than Rick & Morty. I don't love it, but I liked it enough to keep going. The people involved definitely love Star Trek, though.

You know who should have been in more episodes? Martok's wife, Sirella.

Sting, Debbie Reynolds, and God.

Me either, but for some reason, I find it really endearing here. I think a big part of that might be due to Elizabeth, who I just like so much more than Chris Hardwick.

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