šŸ¦‡ The sci-fi, fantasy and capeshit thread

Shhhhh…don’t tell @pap that…he’s just ordered a set. :lou_lol:

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Not really. It was a well established fantasy trope by then, so it’s less Jackson’s invention and more Jackson following convention.

A fantasy trope from sources other than LotR

I won a pint I bet myself as Wandavision picked up the pace this week.

I’m sure geeks will love the whole Sword thing coming to MCU but for me it just helped with time lining the show.

It remains encouraging from a story arc perspective and entertaining.

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I’m watching Battlestar Galactica : The Plan, it’s amazing how young they all look…

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It’s an adaptation which is already asking a serious amount of its prospective film audience. Pointy ears are simply visual short-cuts for audiences who already expect pointy ears on elves.

The whole point is to tell the audience ā€œhey! that’s an elf!ā€

Please don’t tell me you made a scene in the cinema by saying ā€œthat is NOT an elf!ā€ :smiley:

Hawaii 5-0 the Kurtzmann version is on telly here before the local news so we catch it most days.
It has a young Grace Park in it, often in a bikini.
Need I say more?

You lost me at Kurtzman.

Does it all end with them on the LOST island?

Nah.
Just used most of the stragglers from Lost

Hmm lucky old Dean Stockwell, he got to snog (and more) Grace Park and Tricia Helfer in the same film…

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I did not. I thought the films were excellent.
However I see way too many writers describing their elves as having pointed ears because of the films

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You should see if you can get it sorted by the National Elf Service.

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I have been watching Attack on Titan season 4. I love how awesome the ODM gear is and just the sheer imagination of the series. Season 4 is mainly set in a ghetto except instead of Jews they have people who are genetically predisposed to control titans.

Is the English language version out yet, my son’s been watching it but hasn’t got the patience for subtitles

I think its quite recently been released dubbed on funimation but you need to pay a subscription for that. I guess illegal streams ripped from funimation will be out soon if they’re not already. I’ve been watching subtitled on you tube.

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Internet nightmare today. So stuck with Polish TV who seem to be having an 80/90’s week.
Even with the bloke reading the script, it’s great watching Escape from New York.
The Tech. The graphics. Epic.
And still a great film & cast

So The Expanse, season five is complete, and I’m not sure what comes next. It’s a really dense episode, and probably not served well by it.

In a case of real life perverting fiction. Alex dies.
He doesn’t die in the books, and goes on to be instrumental in many of the big initiatives. It’s because the actor who play him has been a fucking naughty bot in the #MeToo stylee

It’s really an episode of two halves. It could really have benefited from being two episodes, but episode ten is episode ten.

I think they’re going to do the last three books in the next season.

Fam C_S had dropped behind a couple of episodes so thanks for blanking out the spoiler :+1: