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Yeah the World of Pandora seems like a huge mistake. Granted Animal Kingdom was always intended to have fantasy elements when first conceived, but this just isn't going to be the kind of draw necessary. No one below the age of 16 even remembers Avatar at this point.

The closed beta is now on and so I thought "eh maybe" and looked to see what sort of 'founder's packs' were available. The pricepoint is pretty grim for anything but the Deadpool or WarMachine packs and I don't have a heck of a lot of interest in either character. It wasn't immediately clear...

Avatar brought back 3D and for that it will always be heralded as a watershed moment in Cinematic distribution. Suddenly exhibitors had a mechanism by which they could jack up ticket prices far faster than they would have been able to otherwise. It really halted and then reversed the collapse...

The finale made me love Amos even more. I wasn't sure at the start of season 1, but he is easily the most nuanced guy on the show and played very well.

Now the various tabloids in Britain are saying David Bradley will be in the Xmas special playing the 1st Doctor (as he did in the Adventures in Time and Space docudrama for the 50th anniversary) as 1st and 12 team up. Course that doesn't jive with the other news that 12 regenerates before the...

The best possible scenario here is that the Writer's Guild goes out on strike and CBS uses that as an excuse to deep six this whole mess and come back in 18 months with some radically different idea.

This looks great but a bit disappointing that the new Kickstarter won't ship until the end of Summer. Was hoping to be able to play this with people before they all scatter to the 4 corners.

FreeForm is indeed the latest regeneration of the Family Channel and always makes me think of SOE's FreeRealms kiddie MMO whenever I see the logo. Surprising that the budget is that high, but then again I think Disney is trying to push more people to check out the channel since the recent brand...

Marvel's Cloak and Dagger Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy First Aired: 2018-01-01 Overview: Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger is a coming-of-age series based on the beloved Marvel characters. Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson come from starkly different backgrounds, each growing...

FreeForm, so they probably won't have much in the way of budget but intriguing to see Disney making more use of the MCU on TV.

Title: Marvel's Cloak & Dagger Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy First aired: 2018-06-07 Creator: Joe Pokaski Cast: Aubrey Joseph, Olivia Holt, Deric Augustine, Noëlle Renée Bercy, Andrea Roth, Gloria Reuben, Miles Mussenden, James Saito, Carl Lundstedt, J.D...

Today is the day the Patriots are visiting the White House following the Superbowl win. Perhaps he was overcome with the reality of how his life took a wrong turn and decided to just stop.

Anyone else feel that they fully intended for Bill Paxton to be the head of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the framework when they were first breaking out the story? Everyone else is quite different in the framework but Mace is pretty much just himself.

This is probably the one occasion where IP of this magnitude is so completely balkanized across a variety of rights holders. I doubt there will ever be another chunk of fictional intellectual property that is so completed scattered. It is a testimony to the deal makers at Disney that they've...

It is, to me anyway, interesting the degree to which Thor's story is almost totally parallel to the rest of the MCU after being so central in Phase 1. Whereas Captain America and Iron Man are deeply entrenched within the big-picture of the Avengers, nearly everything Thor does in Age of Ultron...

Yeah it is interesting that whereas the first 50 years were dominated by a near-continuous stream of un-interrupted adventures it seems as if the last few years have been full of several decade / century stints of the Doctor hanging out in various places before getting roped into new adventures.

So this is, apparently, now a fall series at best and possibly delayed even longer due to the myriad problems they have been facing ever since they switched show runners. I kinda wonder if CBS isn't going to just punt on the whole thing. It sure seems like a recipe for disaster. As someone...

"Lord of the Sith" was a title attached to Vader in the original screenplay and subsequently used in the Star Wars novelization. Since it was easier to have that novelization readily at hand in the pre-VCR era many people became used to the idea of there being something that was the "Sith" and...

Does seem to confirm our suspicions about "the balance" being key and that the worldview of the Sith and Jedi is far too narrow to do the Force justice.

Okay I'm not at a good audio setup... what are the words that Yoda etc. are saying in the background. Enhance damnit!!

From Ganymede Jupiter would have an angular diameter of about 400 arc minutes. In contrast the angular diameter of the Moon from Earth is 31 arc minutes. If you held your hand out at arms length and made devil-horns with your fingers outstretched then that would be close to the size of...

They really have come a long way from the first season monster-of-the-week / crappy Deathlok business. Granted part of that was due to the Winter Soldier embargo and the Hydra reveal, but they certainly have embraced their role as a distinct adjacent part of the MCU. "Aida" makes an excellent...

She was also a Quarian Admiral in Mass Effect 2 & 3

Still seems silly to release one new class like this. Just like with the release of RoS and everyone wanted to be a Crusader we will have groups of friends who are tripping over each other's undead minions.

I feel bad for just this moment realizing that Avasarala's minion is Captain Boomerang from Arrow who is also Ashur from Spartacus.

This was an Amazon deal the other day and I picked it up for $35. I'm a magic-user type by nature so I was a bit skeptical of this, but damn if it isn't satisfying to cleave the hell out of a bunch of soldiers. I do like how the setting readily acknowledges that this is all batshit insane...

D&D was always good for practicing basic arithmetic skills. Woe be unto you if you were a magic user of any kind and couldn't add up the damage from your 10d6 attack spell in 3 seconds or less.

Finally got caught up. Amos is just plain awesome. I like the slow burn they are doing with character development, it seems that ever since BSG/GoT people are more willing to take full advantage of the long form narrative afforded by a series. It is refreshing to not force movie-going the...

Hmmm from looking at the leaks on the Reddit (which are obviously very early and premature ideas) it looks like they are monkey significantly with the base skill system. This is very risky as one of the genius aspects of the whole deal was the complex interweaving of synergistic abilities that...

Just saw the first of the new episodes (backers get it to stream today only) and it was good. Fits nicely with the original sensibility of the show and the riffs were high quality. It is clear they are going to have quite a few genre cameos from various actors in the framing sequences.

Just finished watching The Judas Contract. Was quite good and a more faithful rendition of the classic storyline than the Teen Titans animated series managed with its season-long version. Obviously there were some alterations on account of the New 52 nature of the DC Animated Universe what...

So I finished this last night. Before I go into spoilers I will say that I was pleased overall with the experience. It isn't the transformative experience of the original trilogy, but it does the nearly impossible task of moving the franchise forward following the ME3 ending. Most of my main...

Mass Effect: Andromeda’s improved eyes make a big difference Good lord... that is a stark difference and massive improvement.

When Dan Stevens left Downton Abbey I thought he was crazy, but his career does seem to be going well. He was great in "The Guest" and currently has a big TV genre series in "Legion", Mass Market appeal as the Beast in "Beauty and the Beast" and indy cinema cred in "The Ticket".

Ahh one of the joys of summer. Remember when TV used to just be repeats during the summer months? Now we get completely different seasonal fare! I still maintain that Joeseph Gilgun was put on this earth expressly for the purpose of playing Cassidy.

It has often been said that the Uber of today is just a stopgap measure until the technology matures to offer completely autonomous vehicles owned and operated by Uber as a complete end-run around Taxi laws. Based on the NYTimes article, however, I don't think that is the case. Right now Uber...

That echoes one of the more interesting things about the prequel era that is often overlooked: How readily everyone accepted that the Separatists were 'bad' when fighting against the Clone Troopers and yet the Rebels fighting against Stormtroopers were 'good'. Now obviously Palpatine was...

We really enjoyed this series. Aubrey Plaza just chewed up the scenery, but did it so well that it was a treat to watch. I'm also happy anytime that Bill Irwin and Jean Smart can get more screentime.

Diego Luna does not have a French accent!! The man couldn't be more Mexican if he was hawking tamales from a truck. He's also one of my favorite characters from R1 simply because he is a good guy who does really bad things to get shit done. Anyway re-watched it this weekend (so I could...