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: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 01:51:02 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 263 Message-ID: References: <1145499069.735231138.694186.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <284127956.735425216.113250.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <1584834823.735435434.850962.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <3ddb2jh6fcnkv5imn6dqe1b9pt8sssq4ec@4ax.com> <407348378.735447041.947241.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <1386901634.735454447.323689.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 07:51:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="da0090202b9fe25e5ad9430200a4b680"; logging-data="3702960"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18vXuLd48z6NuO/RzKUPXBynBimySbIIxE=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:XRSWMlxGFapVjxccprsYt/tEXp0= Bytes: 12289 On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:33:18 -0700, 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 Again, good reason to remember. Cosplay being one of the few reasons I would ever want to attend one of the conventions. (Not a fan of so many people crowded into one place.) > >> >>> 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. Why does she as a new GL get a special ring? Oh, because the writer wanted her to have a special ring even though she clearly would have been a newbie and not worthy of special treatment over long time GL members like Killowog. > > > >>> >>>> 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. Yeah, I saw that movie so at least they did it right in terms of copying the comic. Not that it justifies what they did to the character. > >> >> >>> >>>> >>>>>>>>> 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. >>> ========== REMAINDER OF ARTICLE TRUNCATED ==========