SpaceChampion

yes, today.  It's also Eddie Vedder Day.

My Festivus grievance is that it's also my birthday so I have double the grievances!

There is nothing wrong with one story being like another.  There is nothing wrong with being like Star Wars.  There is nothing wrong with being NOT like Star Wars.  Neither one is a criticism.  It's a superficial observation.

Avatar is like Fern Gully, or Pocohontas, or Dances With Wolves, whatever.  But James Cameron know how to go past a thin story structure to create interesting characters with deeper themes around that structure.  Snyder doesn't.  He failed where Cameron didn't.  I looked for deeper themes but there wasn't any. 

that's "the sky is green in both so they're exactly the same" kind of criticism. 

50 minutes ago, Werthead said:

Archer Season 14 has dropped on Netflix UK.

Reminder, not a thread for content.  We have at least 3 of those already.

45 minutes ago, Kalbear said:

It literally was a star wars spec script floated by Snyder to Disney.

No shit.  That doesn't mean the result was anything like Star Wars.

Rebel Moon isn't Star Wars, that's just lazy criticism.  It's more of a fairy tale / Chronicles of Riddick / D&D campaign setting.

So is the Curator = 14 ?  Considering the Curator didn't have Tennant's appearance, but varied between 4, 6 and 11, perhaps 14 does have some residual regeneration energy that will allow him to do that?

The Curator also said his number was "extraordinarily high" so could be a similar splitting that happens way in the future post-15.

https://www.streamtvinsider.com/video/mybundle-ceo-hundreds-cable-operators-drop-traditional-pay-tv-coming-years

Days of the pay-TV on cable is reaching a twilight.

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Three small-sized cable television operators have announced plans to wind down their traditional pay TV services and push customers toward streaming cable-like replacement products. It’s a move that one industry expert says will become part of a much broader trend as cable companies shift their focus toward higher-margin broadband offerings.

Since the start of December, thousands of customers in Alaska, Nebraska, Indiana and several other states have received notices from their local cable operator that they will soon need to purchase a streaming cable replacement like Sling TV, YouTube TV or Hulu with Live TV if they want to continue watching cable news and certain sports in the future.

In Alaska, Ketchikan Public Utilities (KPU) said around 1,200 cable TV customers will need to find a streaming option to receive the channels they want by next September, when the company plans to shut off its pay TV product. In an interview with the website Policyband, a KPU executive said the decision to shut off cable TV was driven by a desire to save around $500,000 on replacement cable TV boxes and an uptick in the number of streaming cable-like services on the market.

I checked yesterday and out of thousands of audience score reviews for Rebel Moon only 5 were verified as actually having seen it.  So like a 0.05% verified rate or something like that.    Seems pretty stupid to allow the public to rate it before it's been released.  Brigading and review bombing has been a problem for years, so RT must think the "engagement" is good for them.  Its a wonder the studios don't try forcing them to fix that.

If the look doesn't matter bring in 40 different actors and let them all be Kang.  Say some unknown mysterious person (ie. Doom) made a counterstroke that altered all the timelines, and Kang is less of a threat and can be defeated, but that put control of the timelines into that person's hands.

They didn't recast Jeremy Renner, even when he begged them to. 

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Renner married Sonni Pacheco in 2014 and the pair had a daughter, Ava, before separating less than a year later, citing “irreconcilable differences.” Their divorce was finalized in 2015, with the pair agreeing to a joint-custody agreement. Then, in 2019, amid a custody battle (and following the downfall of the Jeremy Renner app), Pacheco publicly accused Renner of a series of violent behaviors toward her and their daughter.

According to ET, Renner allegedly repeatedly threatened to kill Pacheco and himself, even putting a gun in is mouth and then firing it into the ceiling one night while Ava slept. In court documents acquired by the outlet, Pacheco alleges that in a separate incident, a nanny overheard Renner say he was going to Pacheco’s house to kill her and then himself, because “it was better that Ava had no parents than to have her as a mother.”

The documents also claim Renner has an ongoing history of substance abuse and that he was under the influence around his daughter, in addition to having cocaine within her reach at his home.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/lord-of-the-rings-amazon-tolkien-estate-copyright-lawsuit-1235843726/

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Closing the chapter on this saga, a California judge has now handed down a costs order, instructing Polychron to pay $134,637 in attorney’s fees to both Amazon and Tolkien. In making the order, Judge Steven V. Wilson noted the “fantasticality” of the Polychron’s claim for copyright protection given his book is entirely based on characters in “The Lord of the Rings,” calling it “unreasonable” and “frivolous from the beginning.”

Jonathan Majors trial wrapped up:

* He was found not guilty of intentional assault in the third degree and not guilty of aggravated harassment in second degree.

* guilty of reckless assault in the third degree and guilty of harassment.  I think these are both misdemeanor charges.

I watched a lot of the evidence and it seemed to me a lot of reasonable doubt.  The jury asked for the charges to be clarified a number of times and I don't know if they got it right.

Speaking of LOTRs, The Return of the King was premiered in theatres 20 years ago on the 15th.

This article discussed how it "heralded the end of one Hollywood age—and the beginning of our current one" of chasing franchise IP:

https://gizmodo.com/lord-of-the-rings-return-of-the-king-20th-anniversary-1851090713

35 minutes ago, IlyaP said:

Isn't that whole plot point from The Towers of Midnight? The *ahem* *ELEVENTH* book?

13th.

3 hours ago, Rhom said:

mentioned the concept of people falling in love without really interacting. 

I hope mentioned only in the sense that the concept is stupid and love is more than feelings, but requires interaction.

5 hours ago, Pellert said:

Thom not coming back…?

He isn't cut.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy_DN7QseyT/

I couldn't find the instagram post but here is the photo on twitter

How did these clowns ever talk Harriet into signing over the rights??

Another name change.