Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arthur Lipscomb Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-06-24 (Tuesday) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:53:12 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 112 Message-ID: <103i5ln$334qv$1@dont-email.me> References: <103gr67$2p9m9$1@dont-email.me> <103gvk9$2q4uf$1@dont-email.me> <1409348281.772560009.764323.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, 26 Jun 2025 02:53:13 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4f52923395bf1d553932257d999289d0"; logging-data="3248991"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Yjirbi08YdrvTlAho2VhYPcTFg2P3+XI=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:GNu1PaPQRBtmbmLjk27FUxTbmjs= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <1409348281.772560009.764323.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250625-4, 6/25/2025), Outbound message On 6/25/2025 9:31 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: > Arthur Lipscomb wrote: >> On 6/25/2025 5:48 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote: >>> On 2025-06-25 08:30:41 +0000, Ubiquitous said: >>> >>>> What did you watch? >>> >>> Nothing worth mentioning... except I stumbled upon some dubbed period >>> piece. I think it co-starred Isabelle Adjani. I may or may not have >>> involved werewolves(?). I think it may have been this?: >>> >>> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15413662/reference/ >>> >>> or this?? >>> >>> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110963/reference/ >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> I watched: >> >> Ironheart (Disney+) - The first three episodes dropped. As far as I can >> tell this is the origin story for how Ironheart becomes a supervillain. >> >> SPOILERS >> P >> O >> I >> L >> E >> R >> >> S >> P >> A >> C >> E >> >> In the first three episodes they introduce Riri Williams (Dominque >> Thorne) who when the show opens she is a student at MIT, except she's >> immediately expelled from school for selling projects to other students >> that they can pass off as their own. As security is escorting her off >> campus, she steals the Ironheart suit, which I'm guessing was made with >> MIT resources making it MIT property. > > As she flew off, her friend was yelling something about her making it on > her own time. Didn’t she have it in Wakanda which means it predates MIT? > > As I recall, she had a prototype suit, but when she went to Wakanda she used their tech to make it better. I think the Wakandans took their tech back when she left. > She then promptly turns to a life >> of crime by joining a criminal gang run by "The Hood" (Anthony Ramos) >> who has a magic cloak. > > Just to raise the funds to make more Iron Man suits and then she completely > rebuilds hers with no additional funds overnight. > > >> Within the first three episodes she willing joins a criminal gang. >> Helps them commit crimes. Then in the last episode the Hood's brother >> catches her with a piece of the Hood's cloak that she secretly stole. >> The brother then tries to kill her, but thanks to her Ironheart suit, >> she gets away and leaves the brother to die. Then to twist the knife a >> bit, The Hood asks Riri to locate his missing brother, which she agrees >> to do and reports back she found his lifeless corpse. The episode ends >> with The Hood's cloak doing some dark magic stuff, and I couldn't tell >> if *maybe* the cloak was revealing to him that Riri was involved in his >> brother's death. >> >> Overall, the show is off to an OK start. I skipped over some details >> like the Ironheart suit's AI being Riri's dead best friend and another > > In the comic, her AI was Tony Stark. > Yeah, but RDJ isn't in the Disney+ budget! LOL >> character played by Alden Ehrenreich who Riri blackmails into her. >> Which is another reason to think Riri is a budding super villain. But >> it's only three episodes in. Perhaps she will turn into a hero by the end. >> > > I stopped reading the comic a long time ago, but except for a couple of > character names this was completely unrecognizable. > > I gave up about halfway into the second episode. > If you had stayed you'd seen that Alden Ehrenreich's character has a very recognizable name. I just didn't want to spoil who he is since it's not revealed at first. > If she actually turns into a super villain, I don’t understand why Jim > Rhodes won’t show up and blast her into a smear on the sidewalk. > Whatever happened to Armor Wars anyway? ...Checking...Wikipedia doesn't have any news. It appears to be in development hell. > They showed how the suit has extenders for her arms and presumably her legs > so that she looks like a large man in it and not a little girl, but having > done that they spent the rest of the time making her look like a little > girl in a suit. >