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Zanzenburger posted...

I kept expecting a swerve where one of them was evil or a jerk but it was all genuine. They were genuinely good people and after the episode I couldn't stop smiling.

This was the best part imo. I kept thinking someone is gonna turn, if not all of them.

It didn't hit me till they were walking Jen out with her car that they were a genuinely great group of guys.

I really liked this redemption arc for Blonsky overall.

Questionmarktarius posted...

is it any good?

Liked Obi-Wan, adore She-Hulk for some reason. Hated those goddamn Ewok movies in the 80s.

It's early, but so far, it looks pretty good even if it wasn't really Star Wars and just a new sci-fi show. I say check the first 4 episodes before calling it quits, because for me, the 4th episode greatly increased my interest.

Punished_Blinx posted...

Karn is so compelling to me. His life is at a complete crossroads right now. Either he learns from what he did, thinks about the consequences of his actions and strive to make amends or he doubles down, blames everyone else and gets suckered into extremism.

Both are completely believable.

This show really nails the politics of actually living in Star Wars during this era.

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CyricZ posted...

And I can't wait for Karn to become more engaged, either to see him properly step up or properly fuck up.

Yeah, Karn does seem like he would end up becoming more extreme, but I think it's also a good point that this was it for him now that I think more about how he walked home in shame.

Punished_Blinx posted...

Mon Mothma's home life is so shitty too. Her husband being some 'apolitical' douche who finds the struggles and inconveniences of others outside his vision boring or irrelevant. A guy who has fun trolling his wife by forcing her to have dinner with Emperor lackeys.

That's exactly what I was thinking as it was playing out. Dude doesn't give a fuck and gives off massive troll vibes. Just casually invited Palpatine's consort to dinner. Fucked up lol.

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The Skywalker saga has a lot of baggage lol.

rexcrk posted...

Its not a bad show, but, like with Rogue One:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/8/9/2/AACE4xAADuvk.jpg

Waiting for a reason to care about any of these characters lol

This is the only side of Star Wars where I havent felt compelled by the characters. Its so bizarre to me that the movie and this show are so praised. I feel like Elaine and The English Patient lol.

The stuff with Mon Mothma was cool though. And of course, dropping the Rakata name was the highlight.

I get what you're saying. It's very early right now, but I think the 24 episodes between 2 seasons should be ample time to build that up.

BalanceLost posted...

Im very pleasantly surprised so far. And Ive always loved Mon Mothma so those scenes this week was a high point.

I actually didn't even realize Mon Mothma was gonna be a major character in this. I am definitely pleasantly surprised

Came out at 12 AM.

Can't wait to see where all this is going.

Punished_Blinx posted...

Damn no posts?

This show is a league ahead of the other Star Wars live action stuff IMO. It has an actual range of characters with their own believable actions, motivations and responses that have ramifications that go well beyond what they could expect or imagine. It doesn't rely on fan service to be interesting. Cinematography and locations are top notch. Even if this didn't have the Star Wars branding it would be an actual good sci-fi show.

It'll be a total shame if it gets overlooked but I suppose not overly surprising since the pitch doesn't seem to be interesting on the surface.

Yeah, this show is definitely a step up. This episode was especially good with the new ISB and Mon Mothma stuff. Mon Mothma looked great. Can't believe they've kept the same actress from RotS and Rogue One. It was also great to see Coruscant again.

Karn is a wildcard right now. I wonder if he'll be a third side or if he'll end up helping Andor.

Came out at 3AM EST.

Maybe Daredevil this week? Lol.

Came out today at 3 AM EST.

Good show from the 3 episodes so far.

Forgot that it was Sunday. About to watch this in a bit and just making this topic for discussion.

Gremlynn posted...

Pretty good episode. Starting to make just enough deviations that I don't know EXACTLY what will happen without feeling like a totally different thing.

Yeah, same here. I think the slow build is turning people off, but I'm liking it.

HornyLevel posted...

Also it seems clear now Adar is in competition with Sauron, and not working for him. But for what purpose? Morgoth?

I don't think he's doing it for Morgoth either. Completely independent probably.

It's September and it's 42 degrees here. WTF.

Fuck is going on? Literally have the heat on and had the AC on like 3 days ago.

Comes out tonight at 12 AM EST.

My favorite show right now tbh.

Comes out at 3 AM EST.

Daredevil?

I'm excited because it doesn't just look like a show about a group of people on a single mission like RO. It seems more like a vehicle to elaborate on that time period, especially politically.

One of the things that caught my eye in the trailers was the Senate Council room in the background.

The first 3 episodes will all premiere tonight at 3 AM EST.

Each episode will be about 40 minutes long. 12 episodes total this season. Another 12 for the second season.

After the trailers, I'm intrigued on where this can go, so I'm pretty excited and hope it's good.

Comes out at 9 PM EST.

Starting to pick up and get good imo.

Like others said, I didn't find this episode boring. Though I may be biased because I love every minute of the extended editions, so slow building like this is great for me. I can see others being turned off though.

I think so far the show is amazing. It's a worthy extension of Tolkien's live action world so far. However, I was pissed that they're going with alternating the storylines every week like many shows like GoT do. Having to wait two weeks is pretty annoying, especially if it's left on a cliffhanger.

As for Haldbrand, I think he's probably gonna be the Witch King and the old man is probably some OC wizard. I don't think we're gonna be seeing Sauron at all this season. I think Adar (Uncle Benjen from GoT) is gonna be the main villain for the time being.

Btw, whats the speculation on Adar? One of the first Elves experimented on by Morgoth to create Orcs?

Comes out tonight at 12AM EST/9PM PST

Hyped.

Just came out at 3 AM EST.

Loving this show still. Needs more Cousin Larry though.

EndOfDiscOne posted...

Lol whoops. Well I guess just having read The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales recently, my mind keeps having to jump through hoops to get this to all work. I can enjoy it more if it's its own canon. At this point I'm half expecting Isildur to have a baby and it's Aragorn lol. Arathorn was just an alias for Isildur, and the Third Age is only 87 years long.

Sometimes you just gotta enjoy the ride for what is it. You also have to consider there's lots of complications with respect to the Tolkien Estate.

There are lots of changes to the original movies and it's one of the greatest things ever created. I wasn't sitting there going "Gandalf really took 17 years to get back to Frodo in the books, fuck this shit"

Isildur's hot sister Earien is an entirely new character. He only has a younger brother. If they can make it work, I'm all for it.

Comes out 9 PM EST.

I've noticed there isn't much discussion on this show. Not just here but many other places online as well.

EndOfDiscOne posted...

Well I hate to bring up race but is Isildur white in this? Looks mixed. Elendil looks a lot like the Isildur from the LotR flashbacks.

The actor is half English/half Russian lol.

rexcrk posted...

Anyone else get Shadow of Mordor vibes when they were chatting Adar! Adar! at the end?

Yeah, that whole part felt very much like something from the game.

Comes out tonight at 12AM EST/9PM PST.

Really loved the first two episodes and hyped for more.

Zikten posted...

I only remembered about an hour ago that it was she Hulk night again. Getting hyped.

If only it wasn't so short. I'm hyped too.

But I think I'm more hyped for Rings of Power later tonight lol.

Comes out tonight at 3AM EST

Loving the wacky nature of the show and is kind of what I had in mind in terms of expectations.

Also Thor: Love and Thunder will release on Disney+ at the same time.

I doubt it's any of the Wizards. It's probably Sauron.

I don't think the fireflies would have died if it was anything good. Plus, it seems like the leaves going black in Lindon were related to him. He was also scribbling some really weird shit.

Comes out tonight at 9 PM EST.

I fucking loved it. I've seen it twice now.

It felt very much LotR and Middle-Earth to me. I'd say it's closer in feel to The Hobbit than the LotR trilogy, but that's not a bad thing since I'm talking about aesthetics and atmosphere. It's definitely darker than The Hobbit.

Biggest disappointment to me is that Howard Shore only did the main opening theme, and not the whole OST. But I still gotta give Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica OST) credit for making a very compelling OST. My favorite so far is the Valinor theme.

I feel like between the usual hate and the Tolkien purists, this show is gonna unfairly get a bad reputation. I really liked it so far, even though it's not perfect and does have issues.

Less than one hour left. I'm hyped.

MabusIncarnate posted...

We will be watching, wife has been excited for this for a long time.

Lol, wish my GF was into it.

11110111011 posted...

Zero interest. The Fellowship movies already exist, and the 1970's hobbit movie is around. Nothing will top those.

Obviously nothing will top the trilogy, but like, does it necessarily have to top it? It's an extension of Tolkien's world.

Great episode.

Surprised some never heard of Megan.

That after credits was fucking perfect lmao.

The first two episodes come out tonight at 9 PM EST/6 PM PST on Amazon Prime.

We've been hearing about this for years and it's finally here, so the hype level is crazy. I'm hearing some favorable opinions, so I hope it's good. The LOTR trilogy is my favorite set of movies ever.

Comes out tonight at 3AM EST

Last week was pretty good. Probably gonna see Wong this week.

Both cats and dogs use their eyes to communicate. The dog kept staring, so the serval was trying to diffuse the situation.

It's a very good technique when trying to make friends with stray and feral cats outdoors. Do the right eye movements with your eyes and they'll instantly become relaxed.

s0nicfan posted...

The plan was originally to have a different director for each movie. Abrams only directed 9 because Trevorrow backed out and Disney decided it was easier to hand it to one of the existing directors. The point of Abrams having a script for all three is he wanted to coordinate with those other directors to make sure there was the kind of narrative cohesion that we ended up not getting because the person in the middle, with full knowledge of what was planned for the third movie, did the opposite of all of that.

No, that wasn't the plan. The plan was to have JJ direct all three. That's how Steven Spielberg approached him and got him to do it.

The thing is that it looked like JJ didn't really want to and wanted to spend that time with his family. Spielberg basically had to ask JJ's wife to convince him.

Which is pretty shitty and why he left after TFA. That's when they had to get RJ and CT. RJ was given the option to follow JJ's outline, but he refused and even had JJ go back and change the ending of TFA (Luke still had the Force in the original and was training when Rey arrived)

Comes out tonight at 9 PM EST.

The first episode was pretty good so I hope they keep up the momentum. They also better have an actual opening credits this time lol.

iPhone_7 posted...

F*** community college. Its my right as an Murikan to take on student loan debt by going to an expensive university and then demanding the government pay for it!

A lot of the student debt people rack up is not even from tuition. It's from room and board, which is, relatively speaking, useless and not worth the scam prices.

Community college AND state colleges in most states both have very similar costs actually. Both can be had for less than $10k a year. When you add in the pointless $14k+ for room and board, even state college becomes expensive.

Private colleges are a complete scam since just tuition alone can be like $40k-$50k+ a year, whether its NYU or some random ass school. There's no reason anyone should be pushed to those.

I loved this episode. This is exactly what I've been hoping for. "Superhuman Law".

I always wanted that with both Daredevil and similarly, with Jessica Jones. Glad it's finally happening.

Also it was great to see Mark Linn-Baker (Larry from Perfect Strangers) again. Last I saw him was in L&O Criminal Intent episodes where he was the crazy mathematician.

008Zulu posted...

Good ep overall. I like how casually Blonsky was able to lie to Jen like that, and that she believed him. I expect we'll be getting Wong next week.

What do you mean? It's been a long while since I've seen The Incredible Hulk (it's on Syfy later today, so I might check it again) but his stuff makes sense. I got the feeling that he had reformed in Shang-Chi.

Tote_All_ posted...

That's not how things work.

I'm not sure what you mean. It will be like most 1st episodes where they introduce the plot and the supporting characters and whatnot.

Comes out tonight at 3AM EST.

This will basically be the first episode since the actual first episode was a flashback explaining everything.

Yeah, Daemon is definitely great. He's the guy to hate for this show.

Zikten posted...

I hope it goes up on MAX right away. I didn't realize it was so close. Only almost 3:30 in my time zone. I'll have to check later to see if it's up

I think it comes out 9 PM local time if you use HBO, but 9 PM EST everywhere if you use HBO Max. So you should be able to watch it with everyone in about an hour.

The first episode is getting great reviews. I'm pretty hyped.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

It has significant potential. I'm gonna let it ride for a few episodes before I dip in, though. I don't love starting a series with only one episode to judge it on; Netflix has spoiled me.

Yeah, only difference with me is I'll check a few weeks and drop it if it doesn't stick instead of waiting till a few episodes drop.

Comes out tonight at 9 PM EST on HBO and HBO Max.

It's been 3 years since Season 8 of Game of Thrones ended. I'm pretty hyped, especially because of Matt Smith (11th Doctor). I really have no idea where this goes, so I hope it's a wild ride and makes up for GoT.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

Hypocrite. Think before you speak. If you're going to try and argue for why confronting cart abandoners is wrong, construct a valid argument with 0 fallacies first then come talk to me.

Lol, what? Read the paper that was published then. My argument itself has been rock solid. You're just saying dumb unsupported shit and literally using the moral high ground crap they're talking about.

And I don't really want to talk to you because I know how unreasonable and irrational you are, so it's kind of a win-win.

Kloe_Rinz posted...

Whys it matter if he escalates it? Fact of the matter is the other party is in the wrong and didnt need to leave their cart abandoned

I know you say extremely dumb shit Rika, but it's pretty fucking obvious why strangers escalating shit is an issue. Read what I posted before. It explains it in detail.

Solid_Snake07 posted...

Good luck proving any of this qualifies as criminal harrassment.

Almost every jurisdiction includes "alarm or annoy" as part of the lowest degree harassment charge. He doesn't get charged because he doesn't stick around the same area or state and the police don't waste time on a single instance in a parking lot, especially a white guy, although any cop or DA feeling like a dick easily can. If charged, it would be extremely easy to prove.

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His point is that some stranger putting stuff on your car can be anything, especially since it's the type of shit thieves and carjackers might do.

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And this can easily be achieved without escalating anything. You tell people to do something, some listen, some don't. You move on from those that don't listen since he's going to put the cart away anyway. Not troll them and push their buttons in specific ways to elicit a response. Something which can be done to anybody if done right.

He has 300 videos with probably less than 1k unique interactions. On the whole, he's not helping anybody but himself and his team.

Read the entire paper in this link. It explains and outlines what's going on and why it's wrong.

https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/12232

People ok with his behavior should technically not have problems with other forms of trolling and harassment. Confronting strangers itself is something lots of bad actors use to justify fucked up shit.

Kadomony posted...

I mean if it was a mom and pop gas station I'd feel bad, but 7/11 can afford it. They charge people like $20 dollars for a jug of windshield wiper fluid.

7-11s are mostly owned by mom and pops.

Eramir posted...

Stay mad my boy

For me I'm not going to sleep over a business getting some cheetos raided when they're probably covered by insurance meanwhile mega corporations cheat and steal from employees on the daily, get bailed when they the economy goes bad and white collar crimes ranks into the hundreds of billions. But keep clutching you pearls though

What do mega corporations have to do with likely some family owning a 7-11?

Insurance rates skyrocket in the area and some insurers even kick you off. Others in the area have to pay more too.

These types of things do hurt the community they're in. It's a little curious it's mostly suburban types who never have to worry about these things who start making the insurance excuses.