Dragon Ball / heroic adventure fiction / comics

[Geo]

That was his dad.

They're clones!

[Buster's Uncle]

You a clone.

  Send in the clooones

[Geo]

What was that again of copies and a lady named Rhonda you mentioned lately? 

[Buster's Uncle]

She's the daughter of my father's baby sister - 1st cousin.  Her looks didn't hold out through her 30s.

[Geo]

I probably asked before, but does your mother has grandchildren besides Buster?

[Buster's Uncle]

No, alas, she does not.  I adore Buster w/o let of hindrance - but I'd go in a second for a lesser child who made appearances like she loved me back, for a choice.  Why are we talking about this in this thread?  Passing-out sleepy and going to bed.

[Buster's Uncle]

Why is Star Wars talk getting such paltry love?

[Geo]

Its a [Jedi] trap!

[Buster's Uncle]

Coooould be.

[Buster's Uncle]

I left out the droids.  Just realized.

Need business for them in the opening - maybe with Leia in the bar, but Threepio needs at least one line.  Probably in the hangar scene, after Lando; "Miss Organia was merely trying to wisely negotiate-"  "SHUT UP!" the humans all shout, avec another wookie howl.


-Realized while copy/pasting my observations on RotJ to Buster, a real SW fan.  She, too, loves how "Fett-head" rollls off the tongue...

[Rusty Edge]

Read the Scott Pilgrim series (1-6 )
Did anyone else secretly wish that Kim Pine would have married her Korean boyfriend so that she would become "Kim Kim" ?

[Unorthodox]

So....

MCU series form. 

WandaVision:  I kinda liked the gimmick of the TV show.  Understood all those references...and maneuvers into a typical MCU CGI slug fest worthy of an MCU movie.  A little rough in patches.  Slow in others.  The TV show gimmick is hit and miss with some people.  But good. 

Falcon and the Winter Soldier.  Opens with a great CGI fight scene worthy of a Marvel Movie....and becomes a grind through the middle.  I kinda liked John Walker, but he also felt VERY underdeveloped/rushed.  As in instead of focusing on Sam wandering about, a couple episodes on John would have actually benefited the series.  And outside that first scene, the fights felt fairly average. 

Loki:  Gorgeous set at the TVA.  Kinda dig the aesthetic in that way.  Owen Wilson vs Loki could have used a lot more time and is IMO the best part of this series.  I still have 2 episodes to go, but the fight choreography has been frankly sub par and the CGI locales are showing their lack of budget/care compared to the MCU at large.  An entire episode was spent on a planet about to be destroyed and it is down right bad by today's standards.  Like you could have just put that entire episode on the holodeck in TNG and replaced Loki with Q and it would have fit. 

Bottom line:  I think the cramped production schedule is showing it's cracks a bit.  Netflix showed you can take some low budget friendly characters out of the MCU and make good grounded series, but Disney trying to do it with the more scifi oriented characters isn't coming off so great.  Mandalorian WORKED because of how grounded the series was.  Disney needs to either invest the money/time to polish these big CGI scenes or keep things more grounded and hire some damn directors/writers to polish the slow downs for hells sake. 

[Buster's Uncle]

...The interesting thing about John Walker in the comics was, he was a straight-up sleazy 'Publican jerk who criticized Cap as lame and old-fashioned - until he was hired as the new Cap and tried very hard to live up to the legacy.  He failed often, people got killed, he was still a 'Publican jerk and a failure as Cap --- but he was an HONEST jerk now, and eventually grew into a decent superhero in his post-Cap career as USAgent.

I'm a sucker for redemption narratives...

[Unorthodox]

And they TRIED to capture the him trying to live up to it and failing bit...but just didn't have enough time with the character as the show focused on Falcon instead.  He deserved his own episode or two, dare I even say series, rather than being a secondary character in a side story to the main arch on this series.     

[Buster's Uncle]

In the name of the Moon I will punish you, Uno!  Embiggens.