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Devastation CFH is one of my favourite toys, slap it on everything, and it doesn't seem to be firing reliably / at all post new page. Anyone else experiencing this? Cheers DW

So, I guess the games-to-TV pipeline is happening post Last Of Us. Sadly I haven't had the call up to star or even cameo as DW in Paragon yet (and dear goddess, I'm not sure I could breathe in the appropriate costume these days, and my ankles hurt just thinking about the boots.) But - never played this one either - do we think fun? Not much to go on yet, except it's billed as Action/Comedy and teams Anthony Mackie (aka Captain America v2.0/The Falcon) with Brooklyn Nine-Nine's Stephanie Beatriz. What I'm guessing is the iconic scary clown is played in body by "Samoa Joe" Senoa, and voiced by Will Arnett.

The Rutles - Get Up & Go

Great response to the new set - at least by the number of assorted pun names I'm seeing so far in the chat. (I'm The Breaker Of The Winds, BTW). How are you getting on so far - and is there a good way to make Storm Cell easier to see?

Thoughts on biostem's thoughts...

Harry Belafonte - Jump In The Line (Shake Shake Shake Señora) /em holdtorch

Quick one: now the Picard era is over, and...

Okay, we have a couple of character updates. Ray is not the Eternal Emperor: he’s Baleful Skull - sorry, Baylan Skoll (you know how much Filoni loves his soundalikes.) Apparently he’s a rogue Jedi who escaped Order 66 by fleeing into the Unknown, a region that also contains the Zombie Emperor’s hideout and Sith shipyards on Exegol, and many other planets inhabited by the Dark Side. So he has clearly learned abilities some may consider… unnatural, along with his apprentice Shin (Ukrainian actress Ivanna Sakhno, of Pacific Rim 2 and The Spy Who Dumped Me.) He is also an ally of Brainy Smurf, though the line between “ally” and “pawn” is thin. We also have Wes Chatham jumping ship from the Rocinante and getting a promotion - he’s now Thrawn’s new right hand Captain Enoch, and Eman Esfandi is confirmed as one Ezra Bridger. Steve Blum is not yet listed to return per IMDB, but there’s a bunch of actors we’ve seen who aren’t actually listed. I’m slightly wondering if Filoni threw Zeb’s guest shot into Mando S3 as a camera test, and also to gauge audience reaction. But if getting the band back together is what the audience want…

O-Zone - Dragostea Din Tei

Chrissie Hynde & David Arnold - Live And Let Die

So, finally home, and can post spoilery thoughts:

…the Filoniforce is everywhere…

New SNW trailer: It’s… not a great selection in there. Even the revolving-door gag manages to annoy canon heads AND not be funny. Slightly better: ”Surely you’ve seen these before?” ”Not in Starfleet.” ”But you’re from Earth.” ”I’m from Iowa. This is alien tech.” The pop song over the trailer also manages to annoy me (I refuse to recognise the existence of any pop after 2005). Not necessary. But my girls Ortegas, Uhura, and yes, Chapel are up there. And yes, they gave Uhura a lot more to do in the first season, including a key episode drawing on her musical and alien comms skills. and a decent arc about learning to fit in and feeling worthy. Officers’ quarters do look roomy enough to be TNG honeymoon suites. If there’s a “more realistic” take, it’s probably more Lower Decks’ racks and shared facilities for most everyone other than Pike, the XO and maybe Chief Engineer. It’s not a bad choice dramatically either, because that enforced lack of privacy leads to all different interactions. Also, I’m now gonna call Kirk & La’an Chandler and Monica, because that fits. 🤣 Oh, and in CGI, you can get any angle you like. For TOS, it’s how long Bob the cameraman can crawl across the floor without his back acting up.

The Who - Eminence Front

Deus Ex - GOTY OST

Still processing that ending…and I’m currently on mobile so I can’t use Spoilers. …but I’ve never been so happy to be wrong about almost everything and everybody. Concur with what m’learned colls say, other than one part: I think the handle of the Darksaber was used to light the Forge. One age ends, another begins. Also, this still IS an ending, and a very satisfying one, if this is where they want to leave Djarin and Grogu… for now. Safely back in the toybox, you might say. I have heard that characters from Mando will guest in Ahsoka (it’s only fair) so I suspect Mando and Bo may return as allies. If I have a disappointment, it was that there was no mid-credits Brainy Smurf reveal.

New SNW trailer: whadda we think of the style and how it fits expectations?

This is a normal moral justification for dark ops, both real and fictional, to which my normal rejoinder is "necessary for who?" Are these actions genuinely necessary to save lives and preserve peace, are they rooting out corruption (real or imagined), are they a power grab, or the accumulation of power and influence for S31 itself? I don't think you can do truly grimdarkjusticevengeanceNOPARENTS Trek, or a space version of RABBIT/HOLE, and I'm not sure I'd watch it if they did - certainly not shelling out for P+. You could throw them a lot of the moral quandaries that Sisko went through. Incidentally, this may not be classic lightside Trek, but damn if it's not one of the finest speeches and fourth-wall breaks that's ever been done on telly. Sir Pat was probably jealous.

Without spoilering the movie, Farrell is unrecognisable beyond the eyes - it's a full physical transformation in terms of body posture, attitude, absence of trademark tics. The prosthetics are... just fractionally back from being cartoonishly gross - I've met and had to bat off similarly structured guys realtime - yet allow him the full range of expression and movement. It's stunning work by both actor, crew and director, made richer by the fact that he's not the Big Bad of the flick - which allows him freer reign of possible loyalties and plot movement. In this trailer we see quite a lot of range in 90 seconds for this character, plus the ever-fabulous Shohreh Aghdashloo and yes, Clancy Brown. I have something to say... Per Wikipedia, the makeup has been adjusted to allow for even greater range of movement and definitely feels more firmly on the side of reality than the flick did. (Though from the before/after looks of things, if Pengy ever brought out a diet book, he'd never need to commit a crime again). It still weirds me out that the Bat-villains were all these top-name actors of their day - the regular crew, plus serious guest stars like Vincent Price - having a massively good time. It's like Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix and Sofia Vergara showing up on The Aquabats Super Show! or something (who, to be fair, HAVE had some fairly serious guest stars.) I also still want to know how this thing came about - presumably Burgess was late on set one day...?

A very tiny taster of the Colin Farrell series. Not sure if Oswald’s been on a diet since the flick, but this bird feels leaner and meaner…

SNW is pretty good from what I've seen, has introduced Uhura and Kirk as well-rounded characters (though JTK is off to one side at this point). AM and his fabulous hair show up well in the lead, and there's a fine supporting cast that the writers aren't afraid to kill when necessary (eg: Hemmer). Speaking of which, they play around with two classic pieces of lore - the Gorn get a fairly nasty upgrade, and Balance of Terror does the same for the Romulans. Also, were I younger, I would be attempting to date Ortegas. But probably both of us too self-doubting to do anything... If I've had a gripe so far, it's that they just had to have a comedy cosplay episode (which the cast clearly had an awful lot of fun doing, but felt a little early to let them indulge), and next season involves a Lower Decks crossover episode, with Quaid and Newsome in live-action. Frakes is directing, so it should be at least done well, but...? Not sure what happened to the Section 31 series that was mooted with Michelle Yeoh, but she's been everywhere all at once lately. Oh, and they should call it Dark Matters. (Which is both accurate, foreboding and a neat physics-y joke.) Oh, and if I had a gripe about Picard... there's so much fanservice rammed in and frequent deus ex lore-ia moments that it starts to get in the way of proper storytelling, but the asteroid to the FACE moment definitely worked. Which, in itself, may have been a nod to its distant cousin Galaxy Quest.

Heh. I’ll need to visit the tailor. Also: hideous recharge time aside, Spring Attack is a little piece of awesome hiding in the Leaping pool. Slotted with -RES and hitting Combat Readiness, then use that as the alpha, and follow up with Spinning Strike or Uppercut. Very on brand, hella fun and great for wiping out packs of minions at a stroke. You may also find this useful, courtesy of Solgar and @Herotu: /macroimage Jump_SpringAttack SpringAttackpowexeclocation target Spring Attack

NGL, I would be VERY MUCH HERE FOR THIS.