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8 hours ago, Big s said:

Honestly, the best thing on there is X-Men 97. Beyond that there really hasn’t been anything worth watching the last couple years 

And you don't have to subscribe to D+ to legally watch it, if you want to, which means there is NOTHING in there truly worth paying for, at all, and hasn't been since Andor.

5 hours ago, Stampeed Valkyrie said:

I've put the brakes on everything KC until they catch up, they no longer respond to email and everything ends up "Shocking" so no more pre-orders...

Ditto!  If I ever again feel the urge to pre-order anything from them, I'll do it through BBTS.  Paying upfront and waiting up to 3 years to get your item (Dana) is for chumps.

17 minutes ago, Raikkonen said:

Since then, I'm relieved I'm no longer under it's spell, and saved myself a lot money and space. 😁

That, right there, is the greatest, most ironic and self-defeating, "contribution" Disney/Lucasfilm under KK ever made to Star Wars and I, for one, am eternally grateful for all the savings from them turning the IP into something mostly unwatchable and impossible to support financially in any form.

12 hours ago, Raikkonen said:

Light saber whip... 🤣🤦‍♂️

What's next? Light saber net launcher? Light saber nun-chuks? Light saber imagine whatever you want alla green latern ring? 🤣

Light saber Swiss Army Knife... because you never know when a Kyber-attuned contained plasma nail file or toothpick will come in handy. 

Finally got the payment request from AmiAmi; now to wait 2-4 months (chose the slow boat method to save on shipping) to get my copy.

19 minutes ago, Thom said:

 

No, it's cheap and childish. What you are saying is that brainless memes and have taken the place of intelligently made complaints. Which is a shame.

No amount of cogent criticism will dissuade anyone invested in this train wreck of a show and that's not the intent anyway... people are more than free to enjoy crap, so hilarious mocking memes that speak volumes with a single line or nothing but an image will not only suffice, they will thrive and drive the shills and the sycophants bonkers because they have no relevant comeback or sense of humor.

11 hours ago, Thom said:

...Considering all else wrong with the series, this seems bottom of the barrel, IMO.

Along with "There's a tempest in me", her toothy horse ride, and now Halbrand/Sauron's wig, have become representative memes of just how much there is wrong, and is wrong, with this series.  Pointing out her chompers, in truth, isn't actually about her teeth; if the series were good and reverent of Tolkien and the fans, nobody would care.

1 hour ago, Chronocidal said:

Oh, I'm not going to hesitate to grab a bunch of these.

I do have to question where the color for those effects came from though.. I haven't watched that in a while.  Are the engine plumes actually greenish?  Because that looks positively disgusting.

What, you don't like glowing antifreeze lemon yellow???...  me neither... 

2 hours ago, Big s said:

They’re both really silly to me

This whole vanity project farce of a so-called show is beyond silly -- cringe inducing, actually -- to anyone who holds Tolkien's work in high regard.

Just now, Big s said:

Galadriel needs dental work, not shampoo 

I'm mocking Halbrand/Sauron's "disguise" flowing dollar-store strands, not Guyladriel's crooked chompers...

One wig to shampoo them all and in the night, condition them...

18 minutes ago, Big s said:

But if it had an ending, it would’ve probably surpassed the original series. Being too faithful to something like a book isn’t always the best route. Some material works better in different types of media. I’ve never read the book, but for that media it may have been perfect, but for a visual series with so many teases, it just feels like a let down. The book itself was just an adaptation of real life events that strayed pretty far from the source material in some aspects 

If they had added an "ending" it would be the farthest thing from perfect... we've been witness to far too many examples to expect otherwise; they would've butchered it and it wouldn't have been Shogun.  It would've been some hybrid mockery of what the author put to paper.  Again, faithfully adapt the source as they did, to their credit, or leave it alone and create something original in no way associated with the works of others... something most modern screenwriters, producers and directors are terrible at, or incapable of, doing.

3 minutes ago, Big s said:

Yeah but even if that’s where the book ends, the story felt unfinished 

I felt the same way when I watched the original miniseries but I've come to realize that adherence to the source material, even if it feels unfinished -- as the original author intended, is infinitely preferable to having adapting screenwriters, producers and directors make stuff up to fill in gaps or add (ultimately) dumbed down resolutions to tie up things with a "neat" little bow... that never works to anyone's satisfaction and invariably cheapens -- too many examples of this, sadly, as it always comes across as the midgets standing on the shoulders of giants arrogantly believing they know better -- the entire effort involved, especially that of the original author.  In essence, be faithful to the source, within the constraints of the medium chosen, or don't do it at all.

A Nikick?... awesome!  Bring on the Ishkicks, Ishforn and Bronco too.

2 hours ago, Mog said:

Head-canon’ing is TIGHT! 

Super easy, barely an inconvenience... 

9 hours ago, Hikuro said:

Guess it'd been to soon for a zip disk huh?

At least two decades too soon.  Oh boy, are we dating ourselves or what?...   

^^ It exists.  "Real" -- as in: accepted -- is up for debate depending on one's "certain point of view"... 

I liked that they left it open ended enough that it can work with having the entire endeavor end or proceed eventually, depending on your own head canon.  So, if you like the Disney Trilogy, then the events of the last episode were just a setback; if you consider the Rey Palpatine "saga" a complete travesty and abomination, then project necromancer hit a dead end after all the records were destroyed and that was that, relegating that whole sequels shenanigans as nothing more significant than poorly conceived and written fan-fiction relegated to irrelevancy... I rather prefer the second option myself.

9 minutes ago, TangledThorns said:

There was a back-up of Flynn on floppy disk.

On one of the 5.25" ones, at that... 

20 hours ago, Stampeed Valkyrie said:

I sent an email a week or so back inquiring about the Pre-order backlog and got nothing..

I'm in the same hole you are,   I'd recommend everyone else pump the brakes on pre-orders. 

If there's one thing I've learned from the multi-year (~ 4 yrs ) delay on the Dana figure is to never preorder anything directly from them.  It is best to go through a e-tailer like BBTS so you can just forget about it until/if the item is released and be charged then, instead of having your money tied up "forever".

5 hours ago, Old_Nash_II said:

só... Pra que?

Dinheiro... Deus sabe que Disney precisa um monte pra compensar pellas varias bombas que vem produzindo ultimamente.

A pergunta mais importante é: Porque uma pessoa com qualquer senso de gosto gastaria bom dinheiro pra ver porcaria irrelevante que é nada mais que um pega-dinheiro cínico.

4 hours ago, jvmacross said:

No faith in Marvel Jesus?

Even Marvel Jesus won't be able to wash the crud off the feet of the upcoming Captain America (without Captain America) movie or Blade, nor every other piece of celluloid cringe that Disney/Feige -- or Sony, for that matter:  Morbius, Madame Web, Craven... -- has in store for the post Endgame moribund MCU.  Will there be individual successes?  Sure, but the post Perlmutter Marvel is a rudderless ship at best, a sinking one at worst.

This will likely make money... still won't save the MCU.

7 minutes ago, Big s said:

I did read the book, but saw the original many years ago and have long forgotten it. I think that’s a poor excuse for a terrible final couple of episodes. 

Well, the alternative would be for the show's producers and writers to pull a GoT season 8 and just make stuff up; thereby guaranteeing that they bollocks thing up and end up pleasing almost no one.  That they respected and adhered to the source material is a glowing testament to their restraint and deference to the book's author... a rare and commendable thing this day and age.

On 4/14/2024 at 6:43 PM, Big s said:

 

That’s a lot to say about a little joke. I haven’t seen the show, due to being on the least popular streaming service, but if the episodes are only 20 something minutes rather than almost an hour then it might be more like a one year mission at the most. 

All the episodes are  available HERE (it's a legit site), as well as a plethora of other animation shows, old and new, Toons, anime and everything in between.