ThaOGDreamWeaver

So, Daredevil Season 4 / Mouse Season 1 is happening. Maybe. There was a two-year contractual lockout between Netflix's cancellation and anyone making anything new with the IP. So D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk was the first character to make it back on screen after the lockout - deservedly so, though with production schedules and such Charlie probably filmed his tiny NWH cameo first. The show will continue on from Season 3 but within the MCU proper, rather than being a Multiversal fragment off to itself. Matt Corman & Chris Ord are attached to write and showrun. If they track with their previous work, would expect slightly more MCU-glossy, quite a lot less unnecessary gore, better one liners, and cameramen and editors who understand where the contrast dials are. TBH, I'd say that'd be an improvement. Big flashing warning to note here is the word attached, which just means their names are being punted around and/or talks might be happening. Not one word written or storyboard scrawled*. Also they could recast, though you'd be a fool to lose Cox or D'Onofrio, and not just from a fandom point of view. *As I've found out to my personal cost and may have mentioned 18,000+ times here, talking about things in Whollyodd or having an actual contract in your hand means nothing. Especially when it comes to getting paid.

Vangelis - Tears In Rain😢

Blues Traveler - The Mountain Wins Again

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

As other folks have mentioned online, if that's SHIELD's version of The Zig... big, innit? Just how many superfreaks are out there?

I'm realising at the age of [REDACTED] that I'm lucky to have been uncool / nearly craze-immune my whole life. Deelyboppers, space hoppers, Pogs, Pokemon, everything neon or plastic in the 80s/90s, rave culture, the works, all just flew over my head or off my radar. (Apart from a Discman, which is the single least practical piece of electronics I've ever owned.) Side note from this morning. My favourite tea brand, Yorkshire Tea, launched NFTeabags today as a joke. They've already been ripped off and listed on OpenSea, and someone registered their Ethereum name over a month ago. *Note to Americans/other aliens: this is the correct tea and the one you want, either English Breakfast, Gold, 'Ard Water or Biscuit, which sounds weird but is insanely delicious. If you can't slice it, it's not a proper brew. Aye, greadly lass.

I think one of the fun things I can see in the trailer is Jen becoming comfortable in both green and pink skin - something that I can very much relate to. Smaller notes: Frog-Man? Client, nemesis... love interest? Benedict Wong (not shown, but listed on the cast) seems to be the hardest working sorcerer in showbusiness... ...and if he's been portalling the Abomination out for fight clubs, he might be in a spot of bother as well. Any idea what the rather lovely Blade Runner-esque prison building is? Could be the Vault, but it seems a little expensive and full of easily breakable glass for a supermax full of supervillains. I don't think we've seen Titania/Jameela Jamil yet, but expecting giant-sized Mean Girling. With some glee. Rumours: the menacing group of Skuls in the early shot are perennial losers The Wrecking Crew. Good trainer punchbag villains for a low-level super. But it's not all fluff. From the mildly obsessive lookups I've been doing this morning, there's a lot that feeds into Secret Wars - which I suspect is the core of Phase 4 in the same way as Infinity Wars.

Initial thoughts: ohhh yes. Yes please. INJECT THIS RIGHT NOW INTO MY EYEBALLS. Deeper thoughts:

Kalush Orchestra - Stefania🇺🇦 (Winners: EuroVision 2022. And yes, one of them's a carpet. It's a folk magic thing.)

Having met* the sheep, I count them as poisonous predators too. Even trees are trying to kill you. It fascinated me that Aussie pine cones would make a decent murder weapon.** https://theconversation.com/bunya-pines-are-ancient-delicious-and-possibly-deadly-96003 Back to the topic in hand: Confirm that Stephen Lang is returning, as is Ribisi and most of the original cast. Lang has confirmed he's back up and running as Quaritch, and is the primary bad guy for the trilogy, though his character will evolve over time. Sigourney Weaver and Matt Gerald also back, despite both also having died messily. Who had the mass-rez power handy? I shouldn't have mentioned Winslet, as she's a key new character from the surfer clan Sully & co will run into. *been repeatedly butted, trampled and run over by **Admittedly one that's the size and weight of a bowling ball and covered in Wolverine-sized spikes.

Genuine UK enquiry here: are blue corn tortillas worth the time and expense to hunt down?

Thanks for the genuine LOL, and also the reminder that Vincent Price did some weird stuff in his career.

Thoughts: First time around, I genuinely thought Avatar was a beautiful, spectacular thing that I had to see, but left me almost 100% cold as a movie. Big budgets and great visuals don't make a movie on their own. You need plot, and character, and memorable lines - this is not a thing Cameron's delivered since The Abyss, or maybe True Lies if I'm being a bit generous. (TBF, I thought the same thing about Titanic. Pro-tip: I saw it in VF cinemas while doing teacher training near Calais, and Rose/Winslet is vastly less irritating dubbed into French.) Jake and the crew didn't draw me in emotionally, the plot pretty thin, and a couple of the characters were actively annoying. Lang deserved better writing, but Ribisi felt phoned-in and lazy. Despite all that, the story wrapped up neatly at the end of the first one. Barring maybe a major heel-face turn for Lang's character now he's gone native, which is possible, I don't feel a need to see where those characters go next. Yes, the new one is going to be just as endlessly pretty as the last one. But it's been a few years, I saved up for my own dinky home projector during lockdown, and I'll wait to get this on D+ to throw up on a bedroom wall. Or just watch it in bits as a test reel in home electronics stores for stupidly huge 4K TVs. To answer one major point from TW's thoughts directly: The Australian Tourist Board would like a word with you.

Not the whole thing. Tricky to work out when in the Rebels timeline Obi-Wan is set. Luke is shown as a kid - let's assume he's 9, which would be a nice writing callback to Obi-Wan and Anakin's meeting in Ep1 - and it's canon that Luke was 19 in Ep4. So, call it 10 years before. This could have been quite a lot of fun for the writers, as Kanan and the crew could well show up if they felt like it or at least get namechecked. However, Deborah Chow has confirmed she's aware of and working around some of Filoni's storylines - sadly, no Maul.

David Essex - Silver Dream Machine

Muse - Supermassive Black Hole

AC/DC - Thunderstruck

Just re-upping this one as Chris Walken has been cast in Dune Part II (as the Emperor). Well, he does know how to walk without rhythm... Fatboy Slim - Praise You

Thought on Techwright's thought:

Londonbeat - 9am (The Comfort Zone)

Hootie & The Blowfish - Hold My Hand

The Rembrandts - How Far Would You Go?

B52s - Topaz (Remastered)

Thoughts on Techwright & biostem's thoughts...

Unless it's got DEATH OF [Character Name] on the cover, or someone fancies an overextended Redemption Quest arc.