That was fun. Nothing earthshaking, but it was a very enjoyable 50 minutes.
Hey! What do you two think you're doing? Fightin' at a time like this. You'll use up all the air!
Jayne ,'Out Of Gas'
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Kalshane - Jun 08, 2022 7:34:07 pm PDT #3718 of 4001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Pix - Jun 09, 2022 9:12:15 am PDT #3719 of 4001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I can't wait to watch it! But I will wait until ND gets back from his conference. But yay!
Calli - Jun 20, 2022 9:33:50 am PDT #3720 of 4001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I’m loving Ms. Marvel. I read the comics for a goodly while, and I think the choices they made for the show—both differing and areas where they stayed similar—were good ones.
Emily - Jun 20, 2022 9:40:51 am PDT #3721 of 4001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I forgot it was Ms. Marvel time! Very happy with first episode, haven't watched second yet.
Kalshane - Jun 21, 2022 3:29:47 pm PDT #3722 of 4001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
For people like me who weren't willing to brave the theaters Dr. Strange 2 hits Disney+ tomorrow. (That's busy day with the final episode of OB1 and the next episode of Ms. Marvel as well.)
Kalshane - Jun 22, 2022 4:17:50 pm PDT #3723 of 4001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Finally watched Dr. Strange 2. I really enjoyed it and as someone who only tolerates horror, at best, I was glad the horror elements were more like Army of Darkness than some of Raimi's other horror movies. The Illuminati getting killed was the only part that really disturbed me. I did love the little sting from the old X-Men cartoon when Xavier was introduced and I thought the musical battle with evil Strange was brilliantly done and I had giant smile on my face during that sequence.
Kalshane - Jun 22, 2022 4:24:52 pm PDT #3724 of 4001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
If you are having bladder issues or something, the second post-credits scene at the very end is skippable.
Unless you really love Bruce Campbell in which case I wouldn't dream of skipping it.
Emily - Jun 27, 2022 1:41:56 pm PDT #3725 of 4001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I'm really loving Ms. Marvel but had some major issues with Ep. 3. They did a major jump from kindly request for undefined "help" with time to think about it to "they're going to kill your family!" super fast. And why? Why attack the wedding? If they wanted to grab her, ANY OTHER TIME would have been better; if they wanted hostages... well, okay, that would make sense, except they never said that and they didn't seem particularly concerned that everyone was leaving.
Anyway, that really threw me out. Maybe they cut some stuff they shouldn't have? Otherwise it was great, and I loved the wedding itself, the dancing, the reappearance of the Hulk shalwar kameez, Ameer's worry, the absolute fondness of the couple...
So still loving the show, the actors, and the style. I've had a couple moments of eyerolling when parents react in a way that makes sense for the plot but not for, say, parents who couldn't find their daughter during an emergency...
But mostly love it. And am eager to find out what happens next.
Consuela - Jun 27, 2022 11:23:45 pm PDT #3726 of 4001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Concur, Emily. That was a unexpected escalation. But I'm still enjoying the hell out of the show: it's just so charming and embedded in its social context.
dcp - Jun 30, 2022 8:09:52 pm PDT #3727 of 4001
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Ms Marvel
Ep. 4
So many tantalizingly nostalgically familiar tidbits. I knew most of the Urdu phrases. It bothers me that the subtitles labeled them Hindi.
So much artistic license. That was a much cleaner and less crowded Karachi than what I remember. It bothers me that they got the kites wrong.
The vehicle chase was almost watch-from-the-hall silly. Not quite as bad as the James Bond movie, but close. And I wanted to hear someone shout, "My cabbages!"
I'm enjoying it overall, but they are trying to tell too much story in too little time. The jumps in the storytelling are jarring.