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I've been listening to this now for a month or two on and off - it's great to hear your voice again, Teague, and I've really been enjoying the story. Some very strong choices were made by the authors and it's great to see prequel characters like Maul, Qui-Gon Jinn, Bail Organa, and Padme with the recontextualization afforded by this story. I already like the Jedi of this alternate tale much more than the canon version. Excited to keep hearing and reading!
My current (and for the last two and a half years) game obsession is Kerbal Space Program. Imagine LEGOs + Rockets + space exploration and EXPLOSIONS when the rockets don't go so well.
It's a perfect game in regards to trying and failing as failing is generally hilarious and success feels insanely rewarding! I remember the first time I docked two ships together (after about two hours of attempts) and the first time I successfully landed on the Mun (after eight or so tries). Felt like I had really accomplished something.
Here's NerdCubed giving it a shot.
I also just installed Star Wars: The Force Unleashed because I never played it before. Before that, I just recently finished the Arkham Origins story and The Wolf Among Us, both of which were great - Arkham had some gameplay issues, but the story it told of Batman's early years and Gotham transitioning from mobsters to supervillans was fantastic.
I have always been quite partial to Trey's "falling asleep in the water tank" story from The Abyss. And the whole Abyss commentary, really.
I also haven't been over here much.
All things must pass (but I don't want all of them to).
I cannot disagree with anything in this review.
And as much as I enjoyed Catching Fire, there was this little thing bugging me in the back of my mind, and you've put your finger on exactly what it was.
It really feels like there are only two worthwhile stories in the Hunger Games trilogy, and in order to make it a trilogy (because every fantasy thing's gotta be a trilogy these days, yo), Suzanne Collins rewrote the first story in the middle of the second (which is made up of Act One of Catching Fire and the remainder of Mockingjay).
And of course, it being a beloved book franchise, we can't make actual improvements to the overall story when adapting it, only patch up portions of the individual parts - which Catching Fire does very well, improving on the book in about every way I can think of.
There are two movies I'm thinking of that could make for really interesting commentaries:
Lost in Space - the 1998 film, I'd love to hear Trey's thoughts on another sci-fi series made into a movie a la the WAYDM of Wild Wild West, and I remember the movie itself having enough potential but also enough wasting of that potential to spark a truly interesting discussion. Plus, William Hurt and Gary Oldman!
From Hell - the Hughes Brothers' workable adaptation of Alan Moore's fantastic graphic novel about Jack the Ripper hits most of the plot points of the GN but misses out on everything that made it great instead of just good. Again, a lot of potential, and a lot of wasted potential, but I like it as a movie a lot more than I do Lost in Space. Eddie might be interesting to hear on this one, as well as ways the more metaphysical and existential aspects of the comic might have been integrated into a film adaptation. Plus, it's Jack the Ripper so it totally fits in with Scary Movie Month.
What a conversation was had in these pages, the long 18 months ago...
Anyway, I'm just here to leave this: Closet Cases of the Nerd Kind, a wonderful little parody of Close Encounters from 1980. I saw it on the same video as Hardware Wars, and HBO used to show it occasionally.
I think Episode 3 was a definite improvement. I really love the show runner (he created and wrote the Runaways comics, which you should all read) so I'm hanging on for him.
Wait, BKV is showrunning Under the Dome? I am now interested!
Yeah, that part was stupid and entirely unnecessary.
Yeah, the one Doc Sub read is the one I read. There's no gay Jimmy stuff, Luthor stuff is much better integrated, the whole Kryptonian plot is pretty well done. It really reads a hell of a lot better than Moriarty's review makes it sound.
I totally enjoyed it. Sure, Krypton doesn't explode. Whatever. Jor-El is still alive, and there's some strange and nebulous religious bullcrap all over the thing (and I say this as a pretty intense believer in Christianity), but there are some amazing elements. JJ's Lois Lane is a great character in her own right, as firey and passionate a crusading reporter as you could like, able to take care of her own business without needing a rescue all the time. The scene where she meets Clark outside a frat party that both of them are dragged to is amazing - it makes her the inspiration for his own journalistic career, and really shows how someone like Clark Kent/Superman could truly fall in love with someone like Lois Lane. Man of Steel took good steps in that direction, but I actually like JJ's version a little more.
And, call me a heretic if you like, I love that Superman's main adversary in all of this was his own upbringing (at least until the Kryptonians show up). While the Kents loved him and tried to raise him with that love, they also taught him a great deal of self-control, which when others taught him that what he could do was wrong, became repression and a crippling insecurity. That was pretty similar to Man of Steel, actually.
A lot of the beats of the Air Force One rescue mirror the scene in Superman Returns where Clark rescues the plane, and that plays really really well.
Anyway, sorry for topic derail.
I've been reading the JJ draft of Superman since you guys mentioned it. I am LOVING IT, and it is making me A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED that Man of Steel didn't INCLUDE more from it.
(that's actually how he writes in the draft, btw. all caps all over the place - at one point, during the final battle:
THE AUDIENCE WILL GO INSANE)
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