I’m rewatching inuyasha and have no one to talk to about the fact that Kagura should have lived and by doing so the entire Sessh/Rin weirdness could have been completely avoided. Like I have trouble picturing Kagura pregnant but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen and half the time in fairy tales of all locales the kids pop out of the dad’s migraine or some shit and honestly they’d also make amazing godparents (or whatever the equivalent is) to a half dozen adopted mortals and their bloodlines. I’m mad about it and commenting on ao3 fics for this fandom is like screaming into the void.
Beetleborgs was better than Power Rangers.
Mario is better than sonic as both a game to play and as a mascot
By extension it follows logically that if youre Sega instead of Nintendo I hate you and everything you stand for.
As someone who grew up with both, I always found classic Sonic better than Classic mario. I guess that carried over because I like Sonic and Sega far more than Mario and Nintendo. Sonic is just too cool.
From the perspective of not having a dog in this fight that is an unhinged level of fucks to give about this and in the context of this thread I love that for you.
Intellectually I dont care any more and I understand its fucked from the beginning, but I was just old enough to engage in tribalism when it was kicking off and apparently its a permanent feature now.
To be clear, if I did have a dog in this fight, it would be the supertux games.
Sonic sucks.
The guy is supposed to “go fast” but the levels are absolute nonsense that inhibit your ability to “go fast”, and then once you play the game enough (which you shouldn’t) to memorize the levels (what a waste of brain matter) and “go fast”, the game ends quickly because you “went fast”.
Fundamentally terrible games. People who like sonic are weirdos.
Mazinger Z was awesome. But how come they could only afford one mazinger, well a few. The enemy always had a bunch.
Shmups are fun and should be revived as a genre. I’ve been saying for years that Nintendo should make Star Fox into a 2D scrolling shooter.
Though playing Megabonk earlier today made me realize that it and other clones of Vampire Survivors are like shmups in many ways. You gain powerups that you lose when you die, you have little to do other than move, and maneuvering around the level is a big part of the gameplay.
I have a tangentially related thing. I got big into steampunk decades ago when it was still young. Back then, it was a maker culture, a loosely defined idea of cogs and boilers that gave you a fun little world to practice your craft in. It wasn’t just form, it was function. Hammering brass to make functional goggles, learning the Victorian techniques to whalebone corsets, clockwork to accomplish something we only do now with variable controllers.
Now I look for my people and I find a rusting husk of I knew. Gone are the color and texture, replaced by brown on brown in cotton and leather. Where once gears and cogs were carved to spin and move, now they serve only to be glued to cheap accessories. The gleaming promises of brass and copper and steel, userped by soulless luster of plastics.
We should Never have let the world in.
Just update it to a genre subset: steamcraft punk (or functionpunk or some such)
Steampunk then: What if we combined real Victorian craftsmanship and tech with imagined advanced machines.
Steampunk now: What if I glued two plastic gears to a cheap vinyl corset.
The biggest sin is when you see cheap plastic goggles with gears and spikes covering one eye. The point if goggles is to protect the eyes, not obscure your vision and carry your trash.
Maybe you could help a new generation learn the value of intentional steampunk :) bring some of the passion back to the hobby, as it sounds like many just accept it as presented. Share it as a “when I got into this, we made this shit” and how you did it. I might be wrong, but I’m weirdly confident you’ll eventually find a cross section of steampunks that would be interested in the creative element
It’s not quite the same as you describe, but I do carry the tenets of that old steampunk to my modern crafts. Right now I’m making an electric hurdy gurdy cello out of a broken guitar, a kitchen mixer, and 3d printed models of my own construction. If steampunk taught me anything it’s that anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
I love that you didn’t give up the complex creations. Unlike the other commenter I have no idea what a hurdy gurdy is, but I can appreciate the value of overmaking stuff. Glad to hear that you didn’t let the capitalisation of steampunk kill your passion 😊
Oh you are in for a treat! it’s an antique instrument with a very distinctive sound.
I don’t know what it says about me that I already knew what a hurdy gurdy was lol
That you either passionately love or viscerally hate droning instruments.
Relevant song: Just Glue Some Gears On It and Call It Strampunk
Came to share this
I’ll have to listen to this after work, but I already feel at home in the comments.
No that’s valid tbh. Genres are 100% a part of fandom. I always admired the steampunk aesthetic but never had the resources to get into it. I’ve loved the bits that overlap with stuff like stardust though!
I’m much the same. When I got into it, the brass goggles forum required you to hand make and chare your goggles to be a full member. By the time I had the skill to do that, the forum had died and the fandom was a tag on Etsy for dropshippers.
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Given how Serenity turned out, firefly’s cancellation was probably for the best, making the reavers the intentional by-product of alliance experiments completely destroyed the nuances of the factions in the war of independence.
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Inuyasha ran out of ideas 10-15 tankobon in, and Takahashi just kept milking it for the money.
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Every fandom that accepts the “x is for everyone” motto is accepting enshittification and casualization with open arms. Air and water are for everyone, even bread has people who dislike it, for something to be unique it necessarily will have haters. The right word is anyone.
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Archer had a bit of a dip when Adam Reed left the writing team but it recovered and had one of the best endings possible for a series that long lived.
One of the writers of Freely (maybe Tim Minear?) did a blog post many moons ago where he outlined what some unresolved plot threads were and future episodes. You’re right that it was better off being cancelled. Even Nathan Fillion has said that the reason it’s so beloved is That it never had the opportunity to become bad.
Let me give you the example that stood out to me. Remember in the pilot where Inara gets out a syringe when she hears about Reavers being nearby? Everybody assumed she was going to kill herself. Nope. There was going to be an episode where they got boarded by Reavers and Inara was left alone with them. The crew move heaven and Earth to get back on board and when they do they find Inara barely alive, surrounded by hundreds of dead Reavers. The syringe was full of a Companion drug which kills anybody who has sex with you. So Inara killed then all by letting them rape her.
Mal would have been sweet and tender during her recovery, and that is what would have brought them together.
Probably for the best that one never got made.
Honestly the idea itself, as insane and barely disguised a fetish as it is, isn’t even that bad, to me.
It’s the planned aftermath that is pretty horrendous?
The idea that they would need that for their relationship to evolve in a positive direction when they’re already basically a couple by Shindig is genuinely sad, if they wanted that grim a story beat they should probably place it after they’re already an established couple and Mal has gotten over his shit about companions, then there’s some good meat on the bone in terms of character dynamics to explore.
I’ve just started rewatching Archer from the beginning. I loved it at the time, and I agree that it ended very well.
I hope Reed takes some time to contemplate another project to get passionate about, because I loved both Archer and Frisky Dingo.
making the reavers the intentional by-product of alliance experiments
They were the accidental by-products, so I think some nuance is still there for the factions, although still clearly the browncoats were in the right …
Right, I should’ve said “accidental byproduct of non-consensual experimentation on the population” but yeah, still beyond the pale.
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All the major character replacements on MASH were better than the characters they replaced. It’s not that I don’t like Burns and Blake, but Winchester and Potter were just so much more interesting. Trapper John was kind of a rapey creep even for the time, so there’s no question BJ was the winner there. Honestly as much as I love Radar, even Klinger taking over his position was an improvement. There was only so much more they could do with his Beaver Cleaver Goes to War shtick.
I agree wholeheartedly. I like the original characters enough, they fill their purpose. I’m a little sad when the changeover happens, but quickly fall in love with the new ones. A very well done show, infinitely re-watchable, in my family’s opinion. We grew up watching it, and we all rewatch it every other year or so.
In fact, I’m due for a rewatch right about now.
I have some very hot takes about the efficacy of the Sailor Scouts given exactly how much Tuxedo Mask does. This is why my ex-wife and kid, who only wanted to enjoy a magical girl show, stopped watching Sailor Moon around me (it had a good three or four beginning to end rewatches before that though).
I have some very hot takes about the efficacy of the Sailor Scouts given exactly how much Tuxedo Mask does.
How much he does? He throws a flower and talks.
There are so many times where the Scouts would straight-up die and/or Negaverse cronies would win the day if he didn’t show up, throw a flower and talk. Enough times to the point where I wondered “Hey, wtf is the message here exactly?”
The message is “we need a deus ex machina right about here.”
Yes, but in a show with major themes about women’s empowerment it’s a weird device to lean on that much.
As much as I enjoyed Firefly, the universe created was going to get very complicated and bad if it had been let to develop for the next few years.
They are going to have to explain a lot to justify that Confederate veterans deserved to be the heroes and I don’t think that Joss Whedon was up to that task.
The brown
shirtscoats?? I think the point was they weren’t actually the good guys. The show kinda hits you over the head with that. Mal (which literally means bad) is the main character who goes out of his way to associate with other bad people, and do bad things. The show paints the Alliance as evil but if anything they’re just authoritarian and they’re up to some shady shit but 90% of the interactions with the alliance, Mal is actively breaking the law and has a reason to be afraid of them other than the alliance being evil.The Alliance is a simple allegory for the US. The brown coats an obvious allegory for the Confederacy which happened to spawn a bunch of old West outlaws that we turned in to folk heroes. The entire James Younger gang were confederate soldiers or their siblings.
The show also hits viewers over the head that there are morals that the crew won’t cross, like stealing medicine from that town. It is also in the opening song that, because of the war and his service, Mal can’t exactly settle down and be a good law abiding citizen, so he takes jobs of dubious legality since they pay better.
Mal is the same kind of bad that Han Solo was painted as in Star Wars. He’s not a nice guy, but more neutral than evil and will perform good acts at times.
The show also played up the Alliance as being more absolutely evil because it had to in order to justify Mal.
There is an unreliable narrator happening here. The source of most of the information about the Alliance is from the crew. Notably, Shepard and Inara do not share those views. Zoe and Mal have very strong opinions about the alliance and the Doctor and River help feed that narrative. But the things they don’t say out loud paint a very different picture. I think had the show gone on, the brown coats would gradually have become another villain and Mal would have had to contend with the reality of who he was fighting for.
especially when it was giving southern us more than other types of wars for independence
There’s no indication that slavery was a factor, only political self-determination
…that phrasing is not helpful to this argument…
We’re not told much about the Independant Planets, certainly nothing suggests that they themselves did anything wrong (other than secede). You seem to have a problem with their superficial resemblence of the confederacy.
Mal and his crew are thieves and smugglers, not pirates or murderers. The ‘Mal is latin for bad’ line another commenter mentioned was a red herring in an episode. They aren’t evil people intent on subjugation.
Community (2009): Annie was the (2nd) ass crack bandit and Abed took Troys cracking with a shocking amount of grace.
The third season of Forever Knight completely ruined the show.
Picard<<Sisko
I’ll go even further
DS9>>>TNG
I can’t say that in all honesty as I got a huge soft space in my heart for Data and Geordi. But quark is way up on my list too so it’s close.
Picard = best
To each their own.
But I like Sisko’s willingness to fist fight on occasion, while also being stoic and not forcing anyone into it.
Just my take coming from a violent background.
The"turn the other cheek" type ones tended to get walked over.
I love Picard, but see Sisko get results.
Sorry about the long windedness. I just feel some sort of way about it.
While I disagree with you, I appreciate your take. And the windedness is just right, if not short winded, for this thread.
I do like Sisko, I should rewatch ds9. I just grew up watching TNG so it’s burned into my brain, love it
¡Yo tambien! Tng definitely gets nostalgia points cause of my childhood, and Data, and LaVar Burton (reading rainbow was required watching in my pre k)
obviously
Stargate needed to develop a way to allow Earth to know about the galaxy. It might have even been an interesting way to spin off the show.
There is no way that the US government could hide the SG teams’ budget over years and that the US military wouldn’t have deployed off world technology during GWAT. Fuck, imagine the US Military deploying Zat guns to Iraq.
in the ALT TIMElines, the aschen they finally did it, but unknowingly accelerating thier own extinction. and then the alt-U version where the world became aware after anubis attacked earth. With the new series, 10 episodes if they are going for that doesnt seem enough for a scifi to develop properly.
oh god now I’m thinking about the whole disintegrating thing again
They made fun of that in the show.
RIP Willie Garson aka Martin Lloyd.
It was just a gas leak.
I’m still salty that the season 2 ending cliffhanger of The Sarah Connor Chronicles never got to go anywhere.
Well, it was revived and I refuse to watch the revival, but for Tiny Toons Adventures ( revived as something like Toons Looniversity or something like that IIRC ), I rather strongly dislike how they removed Elmira and made Babs and Buster siblings.
I’m especially not for the Babs and Buster change because if that’s cannon to the original show by proxy of the reboot, that would make any moment where Babs and Buster have feelings for each other or the maybe episode or 2 where they go on a date have an extremely incestuous vibe.
As for Elmira, I love how over the top she is as an example of how not to be a pet owner. Or how not to babysit in the case of the one episode where she babysits for a no name, single episode family. Or how in the Spring Break special she gets either government or military help to capture Buster by giving them Harrison Ford, IIRC, with him trapped in a cage.
wtf? “no relation” is an anchor for a few episodes!
