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Trailer 2: not quite as strong as the first, but still fun. And Hugh being a git.

Puddles Pity Party - Friday I'm In Love On Thunder Road

Episode 2 spoilerage ahoy:

Ultravox - Love's Great Adventure

Pannonia Allstars - Imperial Reggae

Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again

Having watched through Ep1 myself... I know of LoU and have read much praise for it, but never played it, so I'm coming in fresh. This is A Good Thing. But if LoU players do show up here, please let us know about any in-jokes etc they've used. Now we go beyond the wall... SPOILER QUARANTINE ZONE AHOY!

Melbourne Ska Orchestra - Theme From Get Smart

US3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)

Black Gryph0n & Baasik - Insane

Sky - Toccata

So, Last Of Us is among us, and... it's apparently very good indeed. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64261582 Admittedly the writers had a lot more to work with than (and live up to) than most game adaptations. But well done. Well done indeed. Now if we could just pitch a City Of Heroes adap to the same writers...

Ah, more Pedro content. Excellent. If I had a comment, it's that this trailer is rich in pretty... and pretty vacant in content (unless you're as wise in the Mandalore and/or as much of a nerd as m'learned coll' above. But that's a good thing. They may have learned from Andor that not dropping every surprise in the damn trailer is better. Grogu made his choice to stay with Dad - whether or not that's wise, or whether other Mandos accept the little green guy... is more of a question. (And remember that Grogu is intensely Force-sensitive, so he will know.) Sackhoff hasn't done anything cancellable (to my knowledge), so theory of reuniting the remnants under Mandalore The Reforger (or Mandalore The Penitent?) and Bo-Katan not being on board with that stands. Guessing intertwined subplot of crime syndicate bid to "capture" the fledgling, unstable New Republic. Little on the nose for modern times but hey, metaphors gonna metaphor.

I can't find much on her outside the movie. So I guess with both her and Conrad, they've taken a relatively minor existing character and sketched in something new around them. Gives the writers and actors more room to play with, and you can throw the audience curveballs. Assuming you don't telegraph the whole thing in advance in press releases. (cf Arthur Harrow in Moon Knight, but Ethan Hawke still delivered. Also, Sharon Stone was in the running for this role, which is interesting but also telegraphs the plot - Sarandon would be pulling a face-heel turn at some point rather than being outright badass from the first reel.)

Madness - It Must Be Love (HBD🎂 @ Suggs)

Not sure Ted's actually in it much. He's not on the declared cast as yet - and I believe this takes place after his death, when Jaime acquires the Beetle. Then again, George can swing in with a few dad jokes of his own if you're missing out. BTW, Matt Reeves is meeting with Gunn & Safran to work out rules and boundaries for the bright, shiny DC-verse, versus the GRIMDARKPAINANDSUFFERING Bat-verse. Given Reeves' take had a lot of critical acclaim - and incidentally, pulled off a $770m take vs $180m budget during the pandemic downturn - it makes a lot of sense to carry on with that as its own side thing. And it's not like there haven't been multiple strands, styles and writers of the Bat at any one time in the comics.

It is known: Blue Beetle is likely the final release from the pre-Gunn era. Currently finishing up in post. Gunn himself has confirmed it's going ahead mid-2023, following the death of Batgirl. It was slated as another HBO MAX exclusive, but is getting a theatrical. How wide, I dunno. It's the Jaime Reyes version, played by relative newcomer Xolo Mariduena... ...and there's a whole extended family of Reyes to back him up, including veteran comic George Lopez as Uncle Ben Rudy. Obvious Bad Guy looks like your standard evil-version-of-the-good-guy fight, played by fine journeyman evildoer Raul Trajillo. Character is even called Conrad Carapax, which... seriously? C'mon. Do better. But with all these movies, the most expensive actor is usually the Boss Bad. And we have Susan Sarandon turning up as Victoria Kord - Ted's sister. Doesn't sound like my cup of alien space tea, but with a decent script and a Shazam-esque attitude, it could play pretty well.

That seems like depriving yourself of... a lot... of movies. Though I don't think I'm ever going to work through his collection of the last couple of years - he's been working like a man possessed. Some of it's fun (Mandy, Colour Out Of Space, and silly but entertaining FNAF-ripoff Willy's Wonderland), some of it... ...well, if anyone can tell me how in the name of rum'n'raisin fudge this thing got greenlighted, it would be relevant to my interests.

NGL, would watch.

It felt very Shaun Of The Dead to me - comedy, sure, but also horror, played by horror rules. And I have no idea if Nic can pull it off either, but it'll be a gloriously Nic performance either way. If anything's bothering me, they're going a little heavy on the comic book tones of the lighting, but it'll definitely have its own tone and style.

...and it even comes out on my birthday weekend. See you there, my darkling darlings.🖤

I did mean the DC Comics villain Gentleman Ghost: either the 40s trickster gentleman thief, or the one who obtains a terrifying artifact and becomes a ghost. Nice be careful what you wish for story in there, and it's always fun to have villains in the lead. And for Doc Savage, having him go from the 30s to the now would be fun for Dwayne and/or whoever took it on. (That's the origin story of one of my characters - the very Rocketeer/Rocket Ranger-inspired pulp hero Captain Thunder, who pursued Nemesis through a time portal and got stuck in the modern era. But being an electronics genius, quickly updated his tech, if not his sense of style...) Still waiting also on what the Blue Beetle movie is going to come out like.

Supes is going to be interesting to write for, because despite having very few physical vulnerabilities, he's... not all that much different to the rest of us personality-wise, and is mentally fallible to many of the same things. Despair. Rage. Depression. Isolation. Manipulation. Just putting him up against another lunk of equal power (hi Dwayne!) will blow your CG budget just fine, but there are more and better stories that can be told. And yes, I love the old-school heroes too. I still love the Baldwin take on The Shadow. I'm one of the few people who will unironically defend Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow to the death. The Rocketeer is still close to my heart and captures the tone and spirit of pulp beautifully. And beyond that, some of the actual 30s/40s pulp movies like The Lone Wolf. (Hey, come to think of it... if Gunn is lurking here - Gentleman Ghost movie please.) I'm not gonna give away the plot of the last Bond, but... yes, the Craig years end satisfactorily. Though, like every other damn franchise right now, they still have a villain problem. WRITE YOUR DAMN VILLAINS PROPERLY. There is a new series of books with no less than three double-O's - sounds interesting. As the reviews suggest, the idea of using 007's toybox with new toys lets you decouple a lot of the legacy issues while still using all that worldbuilding. Also, the world of spying in the UK has changed, since we now have at least a couple of hundred 00s, and I'd like to see SRR featured. (MIL / Bond fan nerd note: 007 does not work directly for River House. Actual spies are not allowed to carry weapons, except for self-defence where legal in that country, or do wetwork. However, there are people for that who can be brought over on secondment... like Commander Bond, RN, or assorted grunty Special Forces types in the USA.)