ThaOGDreamWeaver

Fun fact: I was today years old when I learned Gotham doesn't have just one Batman. There's a whole team of them, and at least two at any one time.

Noted: Moon Knight helmer Mohamed Diab says there'll be no WandaVision S2... ...which, to be honest, is exactly as it should be and really shouldn't be a surprise. The story ran its course and served its purpose (establish Wanda as Scarlet Witch). I don't see how you could extend the TV / parallel universe gag any further unless you started spoofing specific shows, which... don't think so. I'm also pretty sure Wanda and Vision Mk II's story ain't over, but again, how you take it forward in the DS:MoM context is tricky. As much as people might want another helping of the good stuff, it's better to try a new flavour. Some things are best left as they are.

NoiseStorm - Crab Rave 🦀

Jim Walter - Choose Your Character

I'm from the UK and playing Excelsior. It's a little quiet in the mornings but plenty of folk around from about 2.15pm onwards. Which I guess is 9am Eastern when various East Coast companies' IT support have got through morning standup.

Kiske/Somerville - City Of Heroes Apparently @Impulse posted this before, but what the hell. It's good.

...terrifying, yet terrifyingly accurate.

Joe Hicks - Don't It Make Ya Feel Funky

Rezzing this thread a little: anyone tried any test builds for these concepts? I'm quietly building out Agent Atwell as a SS/Shield Brute and having a lot of fun as far as L14. (Though I was tempted by SJ on Brute, because combos.)

I believe there are indeed pictures on Google. I'd prefer not to verify that as I have to work today. However, I believe the phrase the kids use these days is glow-up. Because holy freaking shirtlessballs... ...ahem. I'm aware Matt Damon pulls off the boy-next-door/ultrabadass turn in Bourne and Keanu managed it in Speed and The Matrix, but Matt pulling Bond off seems a stretch. That said, Captain Britain?

Are we forgetting Samuel L Jackson his very badass self for a great, small moment? To haul this mildly back on topic, it's odd that AOS isn't considered "official" MCU since they reflected and interacted in small ways with the main MCU continuity. The biggest of which was... If you're getting technical, AOS identified themselves as Earth-616 - the main Marvel comics continuity - whereas MCU is Earth-199999. I think it's not so much to do with preserving canon as a straight fight for control of Marvel IPs within Disney - of which ABC is a part, but one was publically relegated to "legacy media" (ouch). That fight's been sorted out. Brutally. All Marvel IPs are now back under control of a central content management team, and the MCU is beginning to sneak in good bits and key actors from the other films and shows: Cox, D'Onofrio, and Hardy so far. So there's hope that the AOS crew could show up in new IPs or movies. Quake already has in multiple cartoons and games. Speaking of which... since Sinister Strange from What If? seems to be making a guest appearance in DS:MoM, I would love to see Super-Peggy and maybe Hydra Stomper skinny-Cap on screen (Atwell was extremely up for it, but was also filming a Mission:Impossible at the time.)

Side note... fandoms gonna fandom 😛

DAMN YOU SEXY EVIL FITZ! ...and yes, the Darkhold was introduced to the MCU proper in Wandavision (though the Thing Of Evil shown attached to the Doc, pixellated as it is, looks like the AOS prop rather than the one seen in the Wandavision tailgag). As per AOS, anyone reading it will go insane with lust for power (or anything - as per clip above, androids too.) Per the official lore, it's generally Bad Juju and Contains Knowledge What Man Should Not Wot Of And Attracts Nameless Wossnames With Tentacles. Always with the tentacles. I would love to see AOS get more love and more crossovers: the idea of the Multiverse makes alternate realities not only canon but encouraged. Quake has made several appearances in Marvel cartoons and games, as has Phil. I'd particularly love to see Fitzsimmons back running SHIELD tech ops, or an academy of some sort (under May?) as they rebuild. Tiny side note: Patrick Stewart's Chuck X guest shot is logged by IMDB as official now, so I guess the poor old guy doesn't have to lie any more.

I'm always amazed by how carefully Marvel guard their actors, then let commercial partners screw up. Quite often it's Lego, but this time it's Epic Games' Fortnite: the new Doc skin has him wandering around with a nasty-looking glowy book attached to his back by chains. And it's a fair bet we know what that damn thing is... ...or in other words...

ALESTORM - Pirate Metal Drinking Crew (E)

The Sound Stylistics - Crisis Generator

Kept D+ - not just because I'm liking the content, but all the other quite odd bits that are turning up in there. I don't know who their movie curator is, but they've got my tastes well served. Dropped Netflix, and nothing they've announced lately is likely to tempt me back. Kept Amazon because it comes with free parcel delivery (and decent old shows - caught myself binging The Blacklist, which still makes me hopeful for either a Kingpin or Thunderbolts bad guy-oriented D+ series or movie. Bad guys and rogues are fun to write for and even more to play. And while I've got a whole other thread from a while back about the ludicrous range of streaming platforms, the only one I felt has truly done fans dirty is Paramount+. It's expensive, the non-Trek content is pretty limited, and in the UK it's only available through one of the Evil Empire's most expensive packages.

The Fabulous Guitars Of Dan & Dale - Batman '66 Theme

Still on the mobile games: picked up Mech Arena for casual robot toasting action. Fun, simple controls to learn, lots of customisation, tricky to master. Some P2W going on but surprisingly rare to see the epic weapons in game - and they're not guaranteed wins.

Muse - Compliance One for all the Nemesis Automatons out there...

D:Ream - Things Can Only Get Better

...ouch? Respectfully disagree with m'learned coll here, especially as they DID make two of those specifically (Caravan Of Courage and Battle For Endor, plus the cartoon series. They're all available on D+ now, should you be so inclined, though nobody has yet dared ask Lucas to upload the Holiday Special.)

So, as you may have heard from the howls of blood-curdling outrage from Certain Corners Of The Internet Where They Have Opinions At You, the Ms.Marvel trailer dropped today. And here it is... Stuff to note: The powers have changed a little bit to energy projection, coupled to what looks like a rather elegant quantum device of some kind. I suspect this is either going to tie up with Shang-Chi's rings, Photon and Cap M's energy powers, or both. I like. Easier/cheaper to film convincingly than stretching skin, certainly, and gives her a wider toolkit of powers. Iman herself looks pleasingly normal and more than slightly adorkable. (Teamup with Turning Red's Mei would be hella fun, as they're both Disney properties...) As you're aware if you've read my other threads, I'm a Level 47 Social Justice/Righteous Rage Armour Scrapper with a fully slotted Epic Wokeness set. Buuuttt... the trailer is ever so slightly too worthy even for my tastes. Was expecting more Parker-level wisecracking. Also feels a lot like a high-budget version of Disney or Nick's endless superhero/wizard-based teen comedies*. Half expecting a Mitchell Musso guest shot somewhere. (Would be quite fun if he turned up as a villain, mind.) Speaking of which, not clear who the antagonists are or why we should care about them. All that said, it seems there's a lot of love for the original books here - particularly that last shot of her on the lamppost. Packing everything about why you should be excited for a flick or series into 90 seconds is not easy. I'm not sure they've made the best choices they could here, but willing to give it a shot. *...though not the one where someone keeps three teen superheroes locked in their basement and feeds them limited info about the outside world, which is in no way a supervillain/Weinstein-level supercreep move and would not cause me to telephone la police/SHIELD if I found out about it.

Carly Simon - Let The River Run

Things I'd like to say about this movie: See it. There's an awful lot of fun stuff we've not seen in Pixar before, especially all the lifts in tone and style from anime. Oddly for a Pixar movie, while there are many, many feels, absolutely nobody dies in it... ...but you might suddenly die of embarrassment from recognising yourself in the [mumbles year range under breath]'s as the absolute alien dorkoid creature you were/still are... ...maybe wish you'd had friends as good and sorted as Mei's... ...and accept that no matter what age you are, accepting yourself and your imperfections is and always will be a work in progress, but it gets SO MUCH BETTER - and succeeding so much easier when you do. Oh, and don't go on the Rotten Tomatoes comment section, because it's a sausagefest trash fire - some kind of unholy hot dog barbecue, generally repeating rote anti-woke points that show they haven't seen the movie. It's not exactly PC, and if there are any parents reading this, it is a PG Pixar for a reason. Very, very much PG, there are things you might have to / not want to explain to younger viewers, and nudging up against the limits of what you can do or say in that bracket, let alone Disney. And all the better for it. Instead, read the assorted Twitter tags and the wonderful fan art.