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Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-18 (Thursday) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:24:37 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 265 Message-ID: <v0eall$35tp6$1@dont-email.me> References: <UBI20240419@dont-email.me> <uvtokk$30crk$1@dont-email.me> <h9q42j5irt8554ub4jl3vuq83v7emo5vvv@4ax.com> <1145499069.735231138.694186.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <v039hq$br0g$1@dont-email.me> <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> <ujlb2j9b3j7815rgmrnr1pss7ta2htc2mo@4ax.com> <1386901634.735454447.323689.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <v0cug2$2s48l$1@dont-email.me> <756467343.735734035.768838.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 21:24:38 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="995bbf08d33c40a08d7251bda0cf67f7"; logging-data="3340070"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/JnlZWp8hQpOpuR3jdHpKRwB/WIVPs4eI=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:jtqMJX7zzVc8KJhQjSmPOlbt5w4= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <756467343.735734035.768838.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> Bytes: 13162 On 4/25/2024 3:35 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: > Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote: >> On 4/22/2024 12:33 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote: >>>> On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:09:56 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote: >>>>>> On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 16:56:09 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote: >>>>>>>> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 4/19/2024 7:59 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>>>>>>>>> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 05:38:44 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid> >>>>>>>>>>> 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 ========== REMAINDER OF ARTICLE TRUNCATED ==========