ThaOGDreamWeaver

From one of the stills I saw on the Twitters, it is indeed the mighty Aardman… https://www.aardman.com/latest-news/2023/february/star-wars-visions-volume-2-featuring-aardman/ UPDATE: their ep is entitled I Am Your Mother and features one Denis Lawson…

Wish I’d been able to go, but had family stuff on for Easter Weekend… …but, rest assured, even in my absence, Brit fans take SWCE with all the seriousness it deserves.

Also: the Keaton Batman had the tools, toys and talent - and a reputation - from 2 minutes in. He was smacking down Skuls before Jack Napier ever touched chemicals. (The opening sequence is also a bluff - it echoes the original Crime Alley setup, but ain't...)

Or Pumpkin Spicesaber. If Zahn is properly on board then, yes, expect a few beats from the books - the automated fleet would certainly be useful, as would cloning tech. But then again, Brainy Smurf is known for his ability to deceive and surprise… hopefully the audience too.

"When one sets out to conquer the galaxy, you have to be a little self-aware. The image you project, whether in a personal interrogation, or on a vulgar 30-metre-high holographic statue, has to be one of power, confidence, and without vulnerabilities. This is the case in all cultures I've explored and, when necessary, crushed, in their art, their history, their legends. That's why I use Just For Chiss brush-on hair dye. Sonic shower proof for up to thirty days, and guaranteed not to run, whether from Tatooine heat, Kamino showers, or in the face of transdimensional space squid..." Speaking of space squid. We don't know how long he was travelling with the pod, to where, or when, or if time passes the same way around them. So he may not have aged as much as we think - or Ezra, for that matter. On m'learned coll's Eternal Emperor theory (and it's nice to have him around on these threads, like our own personal Holocron...) 1) Sorry to the haters, but Rey is not being erased. She's getting another movie about trying to rebuild the Jedi Order. Because that went so well for Luke. 2) If Ray is the Eternal Emperor and doin' the muckety-muckaround with timey-wimey stuff... ...what are the odds that we see Thrawn and Ahsoka uniting against a greater threat? Since that could erase not just the New Republic, but the Empire as well, rewriting history in his image?

Brainy Smurf conquering London… (BTW: watch the autocue - they’ve even XXXX’d his name out to avoid spoilers)

New trailer from SW Celebration is up… Yup, we’re doing the timewarp. But from some of these scenes I’m not sure if it affects what time people are in, how old they are, or somehow both…

I have an excellent memory for that kind of person. Except when it comes to dating…

Ladies and Gentlemen… start your raving. She’s back. And… He’s heeeeeeeeeeeeere… Some old friends - Mon, Sabine, Chopper, though no Zeb yet - and of course, some new adversaries to join The Illustrious Imperial Badass, The Chief Blue Meanie, The Artist Of Antagonists… give it up for Brainy Smurf! edit: oh, and…

Thanks for all the suggestions. I've just started a SJ/WP and it's been very enjoyable for the first 10 levels - the combos are working well, and I added Jump Kick just for a bit of top-rope flair. THIS IS MY HOUSE...

Puddles Pity Party - Royals (Go-Gos Mix)

It's a slightly odd way to wrap up that big plot point, to be sure. Speaking of which, suddenly realised there's only two episodes left to wrap these arcs up in a neat little bow. Both are written by Favreau (with Filoni on #23), and directed by Rick Famuyiwa, who's delivered three of the better eps to date (the Grogu intro, the Train Job, and the other Train Job/Wages Of Fear one.) Should be in safe hands.

Straight into the new ep. BTW, do not Google this ep before watching or go on the Twitters. When you're ready...

Definitely looking forward to this. One of the best Spidey-incarnations going.

Just rezzing this one because people have been talking about it on Excel, and because I want my Selina Kyle toon, dammit. (Y'all can do the one with the guy named after the dog.) I have slightly different ideas for the high end powers, mind. All re-use existing animations where possible. The signature power and its two chained powers would be a little tricky to code, I admit... but definitely built for fun. Tier 1: Stinger (Corruption). Short ranged power, high end of Light damage, fast recharge. Tier 2: Crack Whip. The set needs some kind of AoE at a decently low level. High end of Moderate Damage. Tier 3: Lash. Pretty much as is. (Stalkers swap this with Assassin's Garrotte, which uses a point blank Hell On Earth animation coupled with choke emote on target, followed by a Rib Cracker finishing blow from Street Justice.) Tier 4: Build Up. ...now here's where we get dangerous.... Tier 5: Stringer: a signature, short-ranged, high-Mag Hold, using the Hell On Earth Animation, for Moderate DoT. A successful hit activates tier 7 and 9 while your Hold Duration is active, but you cannot use any other powers in this set until the Hold expires. (Or if the devs want to be REALLY mean at the expense of giving themselves more work, any other Ranged, Melee or PBAoE powers.) Tier 6: Taunt/Provoke Tier 7: Slinger: yank your Held opponent directly towards you (GET OVER HERE!) onto a Knee Cracker animation, causing two Moderate smashing damage hits and knocking them down. Cancels your Hold. Tier 8: Cobra Strike: Sniper-styled but short-ranged interruptible strike, dealing Extreme single target damage and low chance to Stun as an alpha, or High damage when used in main battle (yellow ring). Animation is basically Crack Whip again, possibly with a little crouch to build up. Tier 9: Swinger: catapult yourself towards your Held opponent, planting your foot in the nearest available part of their anatomy (Jump Kick animation), causing High damage and knockdown, with a chance of Minor damage and knockdown to those around them. Basically Savage Leap crossed with Shield Charge. Cancels your Hold.

Finally caught up with most recent two eps - that one with the doc really put me off, and I'd been getting my Pedro fix elsewhere... glad I'm back.

YET ANOTHER SPOILER from the D&D PR team, but this news made an awful lot of old nerds happy when I put it on General Chat.

Started a thread earlier about surprisingly good things... then this shows up.

I know we - well, I - moan about flicks a lot on here. So to flip that around... when were you last surprised by a movie that was much, much better than it had any right to be? I'd been unsure about the D&D flick but heard good buzz and outrageous audience scores. (Which may have been a little OTT given what the actual flick was like, but that's me.) The one I'm going to put forward for your attention is Game Night. So, three assorted couples - well, two, plus Ryan and his ever-changing date - host a regular, very suburban party night where they play any board game, mystery game, or so on they have to hand. While trying to avoid their hypercreepy cop neighbour. Our host's a**hole elder brother shows up, takes over, and offers to host the best game night ever - a kidnap mystery. Humiliating, sure, but... well, what could go wrong? Or how could this fairly tedious-sounding movie be any good? Well... unless you don't want to spoiler yourselves...

Til' Tuesday - Voices Carry

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Oxygen🔦

My reaction:

Slight industry side note: Bob Iger has first sidelined and then abruptly terminated Marvel chairman Ike Perlmutter, who was, according to reports, trying to lead a palace coup against Kevin Feige. What also didn't endear Ike to Bob was using his shareholding to help an activist investor join the board (trust me, they can be trouble.) The comics division Ike was relegated to will be folded into Disney Entertainment. One hopes they find a nerd who knows what they're doing with them. Even if QM doesn't seem to have caught fire, Feige is still the golden boy and he has plans. I just wish he'd revise them a bit to make better flicks. The bigger story (on the FT, but paywalled), is that Disney needs to find seven thousand job cuts to balance the box - around 3% of their worldwide workforce - plus spinning off Hulu and ESPN to hit their new, partly activist-induced business plan. So QM underperforming at the box office - and potentially putting a question mark over the Multiverse franchise expansion - is now putting the almighty bottom line at risk and investors on guard. But to fix both problems, they need to take more risks, not less.