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Heartofice

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  1. Ugh, just thinking about how it could have been masters of the universe bad is giving me the shivers
  2. Look we should all be happy that Arcane is as good as it is. It’s a video game adaptation and it’s on Netflix! Those would be huge red flags normally. That there is any level of moral complexity or social commentary is a borderline miracle as it is, but I don’t think it’s helpful to start acting like Arcane is a deep reading of society or making exaggerated claims of its greatness. That kind of thing will only make me start to dislike a show I was enjoying! So why don’t we all just agree it’s very good, much better than it should have been and leave it there!
  3. Because of her relationship with Silco, which seems not just fatherly?
  4. Agree, there is nothing really new or interesting being said in the show from what I've seen, on a political level. It's all basically the kind of thing I would expect from a show like this. Societies with 2 tier systems is basically a staple of sci fi storytelling.
  5. I'm only 5 episodes in and I do have slightly mixed feelings about it. Firstly, it is the most gorgeous animation I've seen in a series. Love Death Robots has some better stuff, but not over such a long period, those just being shorts. To get to this high quality for a whole season is an amazing achievement. Its not even that the imagery and painterly effect is beautiful, because it is, but the animation is often incredibly subtle and well done. Facial features and movements convey so much emotion that I'm taken aback by it quite often. On top of that I think there are a few characters that put in great performances and did some things emotionally that I wasn't expecting. I thought Powder's outbursts and emotional screams were pretty gut wrenching and her transformation as she grows up I found pretty interesting (certainly a lot better than the movie incarnations of Harley Quinn anyway) The story isn't hugely engaging for me though, it has taken me a while to get into it. Those first three episodes are a bit offputting, the YA nature meant I thought I wouldn't like it. But a time jump is something I always appreciate and find interesting.
  6. I’ve seen it said that most fund managers are barely able to beat the market and rarely out perform a simple index tracker. I certainly don’t think it’s wise for most individuals to be picking stocks, it’s really just a more respectable form of gambling unless you really have a ton of knowledge of what you are buying.
  7. Have to say, this is basically what I do. There are very few reasonable options for your savings here, and I don’t want to spend loads of energy and time managing my investments. So I just keep adding to my ISAs as best I can. Property could be considered a decent investment but I’ve always felt I’ve missed the boat on that one, and there is the mostly unlikely event that interest rates go to a more historically normal level. Some of my mates look at me like I’m an idiot for having anything in savings and not just shoving it into Crypto or something, but those mates also think Ivermectin is a better solution to Covid and Trump had the election stolen from him so I don’t see them as a good source of advice. There is probably a Venn diagram of people who are into crypto and people who are anti vaxx, it’s also most like if you are the sort of person who believes ‘the truth’ is only to be found on YouTube and Twitter then you fall for all manner of shit
  8. The internet is telling me I need to get into Crypto and NFTs.. and because the internet is so wise I do that.
  9. Amazon is also the most infuriating provider of content. It’s too concerned with upselling you paid content, even though you already paid a subscription. Im sure they will just hide this all behind a separate paywall and leave us plebs to trawl through their piles of garbage
  10. I think there are a few contestants who just don’t get the show, trying hard to think of examples now but there are a few who just do the bare minimum or the most obvious answer to a task. The best contestants are the ones who think outside the box and go completely creative
  11. The show is very good at creating an atmosphere where I’m allowed to like people who I ordinarily wouldn’t watch. That was my first introduction to Nish Kumar, who is painfully unfunny at the best of times but that kind of worked on this show because Greg could just rip into him. There have been a number of pretty sub par comedians who come out looking pretty good on the show, like Iain Sterling or Ed Gamble But at the same time the show has attracted some serious comedic talent, Bob Mortimor of course is a national treasure and should be on every show going! Think probably earliest seasons were the best? But then think the Phil Wang one is a highlight too. Depends on the chemistry between the contestants
  12. Has anyone seen the US version? I’ve heard it’s horribly misjudged.
  13. Love it. Haven’t watched it in a while because quite frankly some of the latest seasons haven’t lived up to many of the great contestants of the past. Rosalinds a nightmare with Bob Mortimer and Asling Bea is my highlight
  14. Getting through Immortal Hulk. It really is outstandingly good.
  15. Like I said, there are loads of highlights this season, but I have to admit it’s overall plot arc wasn’t that gripping and I feel like maybe there were just too many threads going on, leaving a lack of structure in its storytelling. I agree with the above, there were points where I wasn’t all that bothered about continuing or watching the next episode even though I enjoyed them.
  16. Er? He’s exactly the face type.. not that I’m recommending him
  17. I think whoever you cast, the movies need a clean break from the previous generation, so no cross casting.. no Judi Dench in Bond scenarios. Start again from scratch.
  18. I think the way to frame the story would that your average joe was ok with Superheroes, because they were there to save humanity and protect people.. well up until Age of Ultron and Civil War. Now most people are at the very least suspicious of superheroes. But Mutants are something else. If the numbers of Mutants started to increase then you start to have a paranoia from humans that Mutants will replace them and wipe them out. A Cap America or Iron Man is just a couple of supes, but if you start seeing a huge rise in Mutants than suddenly people get scared and over react. That is how I would frame the story and it would pretty relevant politically.
  19. I’d really like to see a proper attempt at the OT, with Angel and Beast as well. However I really think that ship has sailed, they’ve tried so many times to get the formula right and it’s always been subpar. I can’t imagine the horror of another Phoenix story! So yeah, it’s a good point, what is the differentiation for the X-Men, what makes them different to Avengers and Fantastic Four? Depends on what era really. The original squad were pretty much the same as FF in a lot of ways. I got into X-Men because it was a bit grittier, more adult and less silly, than most Marvel comics of the time. Right now I don’t know where you’d fit an X-Men movie. If they do Fantastic Four then that should be ‘fantastical’ and high concept and use the galaxy they’ve set up. You could use X movies to be more political and serious and more adult.
  20. Well actually the big question is, if you are going to do an X-Men movie.. which characters do you use? Is it the OT cast of Cyclops and Jean Grey etc, the Claremont crew with Wolverine and Storm, or do you use later incarnations? Or is it a messed up mix like most of the existing movies.
  21. Obviously not Devito. The Wolverine I grew up with was a short grumpy asshole, I’d like to see more of that.
  22. Whoever it is.. can we get someone short please.
  23. Avatar Last Airbender really is the wire of animation. I also mean by that it might take a bit to get into it ( that was my experience with both anyway) but once you do you’ll understand it’s greatness. It has some of the most thoughtful characterisation I’ve seen in an animated series anyway. Plus the fights are beautiful. Korra is skippable I think. I really liked it in parts but it doesn’t really come close. The setting is interesting though and I liked how it was an extension of the world created in the original show.
  24. Thanks, I made the mistake of starting the ‘House of M’ storyline and it was clear within a page or two that it was much much worse. So I stopped. As someone who grew up on Claremont it’s hard to ever see anything hitting those highs. Even the Grant Morrison stuff was only ‘pretty good’ in my eyes, and never got on board with Whedons run. This Hickman stuff was the first time I felt genuine excitement at an X title in a long time. So yeah maybe it’s beat to look forward not back
  25. I finished House of X / Powers of X and it rekindled my love of X-Men again. I loved the way it managed to combine a bunch of older story arcs together without really requiring me to have intimate knowledge of everything that had ever happened. The level of detail was great too, that I could skim through and also go back and really go deep on the knowledge added extra value. Think it also helped that I got to read the whole thing at once too, would have gotten lost if I’d been waiting or jumping around. Not perfect though, overall it felt like a prologue to something else rather than satisfying as an arc, and at times it needed patience to get a sense of where everyone was an when. But now I want to go back and read the arcs that I’ve missed in the past
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