Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-18 (Thursday) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:53:39 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 284 Message-ID: References: <3ddb2jh6fcnkv5imn6dqe1b9pt8sssq4ec@4ax.com> <407348378.735447041.947241.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <1386901634.735454447.323689.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <756467343.735734035.768838.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <216375880.735771679.971756.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 23:53:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bd6a30e75bd980f053ded4b2884c30be"; logging-data="3401032"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18bydsNr3FcDF6zBENUDQOfztkml7ZYOlA=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:6o30TzvmebFUJlMM7QoC78nAA4I= Bytes: 14185 On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:14:30 -0700, anim8rfsk wrote: >shawn wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Apr 2024 03:35:33 -0700, anim8rfsk >> wrote: >> >>> Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >>>> On 4/22/2024 12:33 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>>>> shawn wrote: >>>>>> On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:09:56 -0700, anim8rfsk >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> shawn wrote: >>>>>>>> On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 16:56:09 -0700, anim8rfsk >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> anim8rfsk wrote: >>>>>>>>>> Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2024 7:59 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> shawn wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 05:38:44 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" >>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> What did you watch? >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> I watched another animated flick JUSTICE LEAGUE vs THE FATAL FIVE >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> In this movie we have a trio of bad guys from the future travel into >>>>>>>>>>>>> the past to free two of their group that are trapped in a prison in >>>>>>>>>>>>> the time of the Justice League. A hero from the future also manages to >>>>>>>>>>>>> travel into the past to stop them but he has a fatal weakness. He >>>>>>>>>>>>> needs regular doses of a drug or else he tends to forget who he is. A >>>>>>>>>>>>> drug that doesn't exist in the JL time. So he forgets most of his >>>>>>>>>>>>> mission other than that there is a Fatal Five and that he needs to >>>>>>>>>>>>> find the Limelight before getting locked away in a mental institution. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Is it new that he’s insane? For that matter is it new that Jessica Cruz is >>>>>>>>> insane? >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I don't know. Not familiar with either of those characters. Perhaps >>>>>>>> they were introduced to the comics after I quit reading them. Much >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Star Boy has been around since 1961. :-) Originally he had all of Superboy >>>>>>> powers plus the ability to increase the mass of objects to get around the >>>>>>> duplicate powers rule. Somewhere along the line, he lost the Superboy >>>>>>> powers wiki says he’s gone through several incarnations and costume changes >>>>>>> and race swaps. Apparently he’s been insane since the 2006 version which is >>>>>>> well after I stopped reading the Legion. >>>>>> >>>>>> Hmm, don't recall ever having heard of him. If he was just in Legion >>>>>> books then that might explain it. >>>>> >>>>> Wiki talks of storylines where he visited the 20th century, but, yeah, I >>>>> only know him from Legion books. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I was never a huge comic book fan as >>>>>> I just didn't have the money to buy more than a rare comic book when I >>>>>> was young enough to really want to read them. Then as I got older I >>>>>> was more into reading science fiction books. So the only comics I've >>>>>> read in decades were those that JMS joined in on. >>>>> >>>>> OMG I am so terribly terribly sorry. :-( >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Jessica Cruz has only been around for 10 years, long after I stopped >>>>>>> reading the Legion. I was puzzled as to why I knew who she was until I >>>>>>> finally recalled that someone I know cosplay as her >>>>>> Good reason to remember the character. >>>>> >>>>> Yep. That was making me crazy briefly trying to figure out why I knew this >>>>> character, but couldn’t place her in any stories! >>>>> >>>>> https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSw1e254ZrKl9qrrM3cWT_WiOkdH3UTK-xMRPk067VrRA&s >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Wikipedia says that this was a fairly faithful version, except that it was >>>>>>> darkseid that Smashed her ring and killed her and the ring brought her back >>>>>>> more powerful than before >>>>>> >>>>>> So if the ring can do that why didn't it do it for anyone else? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The wiki is very confusing. But apparently in the original stories, the >>>>> character has a ring that isn’t a standard issue green lantern ring, but >>>>> either has a different source or origin, or has been changed by contact >>>>> with previous owners. So it was a one time thing for her that wouldn’t >>>>> happen with the standard power ring and doesn’t really make sense when they >>>>> grafted the events of another story and another ring onto this one. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> like with Hal Jordan turning truly evil in that other animated flick. >>>>>>>> That was never my Hal Jordan. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I actually remember that from the comics, but yeah, that was not my Hal >>>>>>> Jordan either >>>>>> >>>>>> So they actually did that in the comics? Nothing like destroying a >>>>>> beloved character. Guess that was a new writer pissing on the ground >>>>>> to mark his new territory. >>>>> >>>>> This is the classic cover >>>>> >>>>> https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b87cf569f4014f95ebbcdf5098db0cf0-lq >>>>> >>>>> This Wikipedia article explains it and who, and what was behind it, and how >>>>> they eventually tried to walk it back, and what animated movie to avoid if >>>>> you don’t want to see it >>>>> >>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Twilight?wprov=sfti1 >>>>> >>>>> Amazingly, I actually know two of the people involved in this and I didn’t >>>>> realize it until now. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> The story then proceeds from there as the trio of bad guys proceed to >>>>>>>>>>>>> do bad things. >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> I'll leave the rest of the story for your enjoyment when watching the >>>>>>>>>>>>> flick as it's a good story. There are some bits that didn't make sense >>>>>>>>>>>>> within the story like an axe that can cut Superman but doesn't cut >>>>>>>>>>>>> Wonder Woman's sword but it was still an enjoyable watch. >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Wonder Woman's sword is magic and blessed by Hephaestus. I guess >>>>>>>>>>>> Hephaestus is tougher than the Persuader. Nominally the atomic ax can cut >>>>>>>>>>>> through anything. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> As far as I'm concerned, *nothing* cuts or breaks that lasso. Period! >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I would watch this but once again nothing is free on Apple TV. $3.99 to >>>>>>>>>> rent, $12.99 to buy. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The gray web to the rescue! Thank you, Al Gore. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> This was OK. It wasn’t as good as the newer stuff that I’ve praised that >>>>>>>>> looks to be 3-D for 2-D. But it balances that out by having the older voice >>>>>>>>> cast. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I’m completely confused by the continuity. The justice league that had >>>>>>>>> Supergirl certainly knew about the Legion. But these guys don’t. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I take it we actually see the end of the green lantern corp in this movie. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> We don't know why it ends but they clearly aren't around in this >>>>>>>> future. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I don’t know who the Legion we see at the end of the movie is, but it’s >>>>>>>>> certainly not the Legion we saw the beginning. Jessica Cruz thanks for them >>>>>>>>> for coming to the funeral because the dead guy thought so highly of them. >>>>>>>>> But in fact, the dead guy never would’ve met these people. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> What do you mean? Those are among the people that he worked with. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> That’s a completely different Saturn girl/Saturn Queen at the end than it >>>>>>> was in the beginning. I wouldn’t even have known who it was if she didn’t >>>>>>> have the Saturn logo on her chest. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hell, one of them even asked him at the beginning of the movie if he >>>>>>>> had taken his shot and warning him that "You know what happens if you >>>>>>>> don't take your shot." So of course they knew him. >>>>>>> ========== REMAINDER OF ARTICLE TRUNCATED ==========