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Isn't that true of virtually every character who has some kind of magical or supernatural power? Superman, the Power Rangers, Thor, etc He-Man isn't my favorite kind of character. He evolved into being a blend between Conan and Superman, but more the latter than the former: basically, this unbeatab...

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I guess I can't speak too much to what was in the trailers or the marketing campaign, I didn't really know the show was even happening until it popped up in my Netflix feed. Perhaps you're right. About branding about all I can say is that I noticed the absence of "He-Man" from the show's t...

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To clarify for my part (because I don't want people writing long responses to me that they don't realize are not being read): beyond identifying who's who for purposes of curating my forum experience, I for one am not interested in further "political" argument on this thread or any other.

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I may not be He-Man's biggest fan, or really a fan of him AT ALL, but to bring his series back from the dead today essentially without him feels like a big NO NO... While I can see the argument, the branding was pretty specifically not "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe." It's not li...

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https://www.baenegocios.com/__export/1620930963670/sites/cronica/img/2021/05/13/teela.jpg_186469708.jpg I went into the first five episodes of this wondering how exactly they could update He-Man for modern audiences. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised by how gutsy and unexpected so many of t...

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The shoe doesn't fit at all. Sure. You just wanted a very *specific* answer so that you had the means to define me. I simply wanted a straight answer. I can't say I was entirely surprised by what it turned out to be, but if you're uncomfortable with how I view you in light of it: oh well. I didn't ...

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I can't believe you dragged me through all of this just to explain what I meant by a half-sentence comment in my original post. It's weird that it was necessary to "drag you" through anything when you could have just answered a simple question right off, but such was your choice. you parr...

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Regardless of ones opinion on 'fan disservice' or whether or not they find characters like Aloy attractive or hideous... Horizon is one of the best selling and best received new IP's of the decade... and for good reason. The game kicked ass, and Aloy was pretty awesome in it. . . . it's getting a p...

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To watch "This is Gus" all you have to do is go to CWTV and stream it for free, Not in Canada, more's the pity. I really should invest in a VPN. I found the script online, however: actual script quotes . . . concepts . . . In context pretty much everything you list here looks perfectly in...

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Made it through four minutes before concluding that he's unwatchably annoying and about a tenth as clever as he thinks he is. Peter Griffin's parody "Grinds My Gears" bit on Family Guy was the last of this kind of video content that ever needed to be made.

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It looks pretty rad.

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Then when you notice all the injected sociopolitical statements which are irrelevant to the story (and are sometimes contradictory, suffering from cognitive dissonance), you will understand why I am glad that movies like "Superdeep", "How I Became a Superhero" and...I assume, Ka...

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tallyho wrote: ↑
2 years ago
Anything political. Can't very well say what they don't mention if they don't mention it.

Okay.

The OP mentioned it.

Since that stayed up I have to assume it's in bounds to ask what the mention means.

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Thanks for the reply.

shevek wrote: ↑
2 years ago
It simply means you can watch the entire film without being pulled out of the immersion by some unnecessary political messaging.

Such as?

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This is pretty cool. Thanks for posting.

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don't view it as bait and don't bite. He said the film has no political agenda- that's it. No, he said it was filmed in Russia and said that it, therefore, doesn't have any "weird politics." That's a pretty specific statement that's hard to parse and for the most part, I'm not "bitin...

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Like Bert says. The OP brought "politics" up, nobody else, and à propos of nothing as far as I can see. I'm just trying to figure out what the reference to "weird politics" or the lack of it is bringing to the review. And if it's meant to be a dog-whistle for something the OP isn...

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shevek wrote: ↑
2 years ago
Because this is filmed in Russia, there's no weird politics

??? Meaning what?

Looks like an interesting movie, though. I'll have a look for it.

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The show wasn't bad, it wasn't great, felt redundant in the current climate. I can see why they made the call.

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Brilliant show.

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Season 2 still isn't available on Canadian Netflix. I checked out Season 1 and it was pretty cool, though. Pretty familiar Supernatural Teen Drama tropes, but the cast is good. Hope we get to see the second season soonish.

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I know the superheroine thing seems to be slowing down a bit, maybe even getting phased out a little bit if the main forum is anything to go by, but it's kind of sad to see this place just boil down to a couple of people getting angry and arguing with each other all day. I was willing to give the &...

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MightyHypnotic wrote: ↑
2 years ago
I don't know where it's from. It's a random gif I found.

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I don't want to seem like I'm expecting the moderators' lives to revolve completely around the site and for them to be able to instantly act on every little thing. I get that. And in this particular case, the reference to "fascist wingnut rhetoric" in my original post was a bit over the to...

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Not trying to be hypercritical or anything @tallyho but I mean, to judge from the "jokey comment," you did very clearly have enough time to register that it was a Fox News link and what was going on. The question "is there a zero tolerance policy or is there not one?" isn't reall...

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Honestly, IDK that I'm really expecting an answer to this post. That I'm even having to ask this question has made certain decisions for me, at any rate. It's mainly just an exercise in facing up to what's going to be needed to actually grow this community.

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Meta-Political Discussion A few days ago, the board announced a "zero-tolerance" policy for political discussion. I have tried to act in accordance with it. However, I would like to know what that applies to. A member put up an open, super-obvious bait post about the Israel-Palestine conf...

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Amazing. I feel like there's kind of a funhouse-mirror thing going on, there?

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I feel like if your game has an awesome giant chick vampire in it, don't make her the first boss. You will forever thereafter be hearing about how completely she outshines the other bosses, as happened here. Although... I guess that's the conflict. What more compelling hook could you have for your g...

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I can see that "zero tolerance for politics" thing is really working out.

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Part of the answer with Japanese porn appears to be that its profitability is driven by the female stars , who essentially act as influencers and who have dedicated fandoms that collect and trade their memorabilia. Male geeks are a lucrative part of the market, which is why GIGA superheroine videos ...

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You get a gold star if either Elon or Grimes replied or responded. ;) I wasn't clear enough about it in the initial post but I do think messaging celebs doesn't otherwise count for the purpose of this particular game. It's them interacting in some way with you that counts. Messaging celebs is one-wa...

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Deconstruction could work the only problem is the people currently doing deconstruction plots are still stuck in 1990. The things being deconstructed are already stripped to the bone. Yeah, that might be part of it. Or stuck in the Oughties, maybe, or the source material is just from that time. It'...

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There are only three possible approaches to modern mainstream superhero-ing: Deconstruction (sex/violence) [REDACTED] and Camp (humor/retro). For my part, what I mean by "deconstruction" is "the story is metacommentary on the genre as much as it is a story in its own right." The...

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Creators that make videos, have your models cover their tattoos with makeup - please. The overall culture has moved on from certain attitudes about tattoos. Not that you're not welcome to prefer what you prefer, but I doubt that tattoo-free models for adult content are all that easy to find or that...

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I feel like I'm getting full up on superhero shows that are about deconstructing the superhero mythos, especially various versions of Superman. That said, I like the show better than most of the critics so far. There's some cringe, to be sure (our sole glimpse of Japan is truly eyeroll-worthy), and ...

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here are some observations of what has been done over and over, and what needs to change. I mean, I think you can probably just expect content creators to create with what they find hottest primarily in mind. The content creator's characters are dressed like sluts, not superheroines. In due fairnes...

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Local celebs count! I remember there was a meteorologist on local TV here who became an improbable sex symbol for a while. :) You just never know. Oh! A much bigger celeb moment for me, it's rather telling that Syd Blakovich stood out in my memory more than this one but so it goes: Ed the Sock follo...

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Sure! That counts.

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Okay. For ideological reasons that we can most politely say "diverge," we are mostly agreed on the correctness of "fuck Twitter." (In principle but not yet in practice, in my case, admittedly.) Still. Social media does have its upside. Might be diverting to talk a bit about that....

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The characters involved can of course regrow teeth, bones, and organs on-demand with enough time and assistance: this was made very obvious in the first few episodes, I don't feel like that's a convincing objection so much as it's just part of the fictional world that you will either accept or not....

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The unpredictable factor REALLY matters, all the moreso for those of us who haven't read the comic (although apparently, even that is no guarantee).

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Invincible's looking to have a great deal more HEART than The Boyz does... which is perhaps why It's tough for the show to ever sell that it NEEDS all that gore at the best of times. The comic invented the paradigm that The Boys inhabits, AFAICT. As someone coming to it fresh, I had no idea what th...

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I was pretty blown away by the finale, and especially by the graphic illustration of Omni-Man's personal cruelty and callousness therein. We had already seen how brutal and callous he could be to alien would-be conquerors: whom he annihilated almost utterly before coming back and casually saying he ...

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(Hint: You'll know they're "the new KKK" when they can actually murder and terrorize you with impunity and get away with it in the courts. Notice how it's a super-duper-unusual thing that Derek Chauvin got convicted of murder and manslaughter for openly murdering George Floyd in public vie...

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I was contemplating leaving the forum on account of some of this stuff. But it occurs to me that I'd be missing out on some fine unintentional comedy. "BLM is the new KKK" is fucking hilarious.

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shevek wrote: ↑
3 years ago
That's not called promoting, that is called reporting. It is a completely normal thing to report facts.

Fair enough.

"Erin Kellyman is good shit", in contrast, is pure opinion.

Indeed. That is true.

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Mr. X wrote: ↑
3 years ago
These are just conversations.

Fair enough, I'm pleased to hear that. Always respected that about you.

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boys and girls can we PLEASE not let this one get political too? I see 'SJW' and my throat begins to clamp shut. [went on a bit of a rant here, now redacted to reflect subsequent events] On-topic: pleased to see the "emPowered" panels, I honestly wasn't sure if she'd really be a real exam...

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I feel like we definitely need more people here if we have people openly promoting "Fandom Menace" on this forum like that's a normal thing to do. Like, WTF is that. Kinda makes me think looking back in here was a mistake.

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