O mais engraçado é que essa cena resume um problema do filme inteiro: quando ele simplesmente aceita que é Mestres do Universo, ele funciona. Quando tenta ficar pedindo desculpas por ser brega, épico e exagerado, ele tropeça nas próprias pernas. O Esqueleto do Jared Leto, para mim, segue sendo o melhor elemento do longa. Ele entra em cena, domina a tela e lembra o filme que ele poderia ter sido.

So there’s this common misconception that autistic people take everything literally. I’m autistic, so I can tell you… that’s just not true. The people who actually take things literally are kleptomaniacs. I just have autism.

Let's see, who's a better villain: The giant flaming eye that wasn't even in the book, who spends half his time muttering inaudible nihilistic gibberish at Elijah Wood, and the other half bed rotting in his eyeball penthouse, compulsively masturbating himself in a manner you don't even want to know about? (It does involve some kind of insertion into the pupil, though.) Or Nute Gunray, the scheming Viceroy of the Trade Federation, who was a mere hairsbreadth away from getting Natalie Portman to sign a treaty that would have given him complete sovereignty over her planet, as well as (we can presume) exclusive conjugal rights once she reached the age of majority? The answer of course is the stupid flaming eyeball, but only because Nute Gunray is a Chad who did nothing wrong, and Sauron is a repulsive failson gooner.

You are allowed to think that some things are better in Canon…and that other things are better in Legends/EU. Just because you like a few things from legends better doesn’t make you an anti Disney snob. Just because you prefer one or two specific things from current canon doesn’t make you a “Disney shill.”

He's a very fun character with a lot of potential, but I think the movie made two big mistakes with him, one more plot-critical than the other. First off, Din should have only had the first conversation with Rotta - The Mandalorian either should have been captuerd in Lord Janu's office through Janu charismatically disarming Din and incapacitating him, or agreed to be Rotta's final fight with no awareness of the upcoming foul play between Rotta talking Janu up and Janu's own charismatic conversation with him - and Janu NEVER indicates he intends for Rotta to die: Janu's arena gets the Mandalorian fight for Rotta's final battle, and Rotta and Din fighting each other means neither are in actual danger(Neither wants to kill the other), and it's an exhibition for the crowd. Win-win-win all around. In the actual fight itself, Rotta should absolutely BODY The Mandalorian, keeping up with and ultimately overpowering him, leaving him stunned and exhausted on the arena floor. Crowd's cheering for death, but Rotta's just flexing, so Janu plays to the crowd with an ENCORE, releasing the monsters into the arena. After a fair amount of time of Rotta just being a BAMF on the beasts, one tries to remove Din's helmet, bringing him around, and they're in the fight together. Din catches on that the monsters are intended to kill them, but it takes Rotta a bit to realize that they actually are going to die against the number of monsters sent against them once another batch is released while they're fighting off the first group (Then return to the movie as it is, with the chaos and escape) Secondly, and almost purely gratuitously, he should have had a big showdown with the dragonsnake in the Twin's palace. Instead of being saved by Grogu, all three Hutts should have fallen down, but Rotta's skill as a gladiator enables him to dodge the monster's attacks as the twins get eaten. He retrieves the two spears Din left down there from the Amani gladiators killed earlier to fight the beast. Din and Grogu try to find an exit, but only end up back in that chamber, to watch the bloodied Dragonsnake swallow Rotta, a spear dropped in a way that it looks like Rotta lost both (but keen observers can see that it was only one)... and after a moment, Rotta cuts open the Dragonsnake's gullet from the inside with the other spear, brutally decapitating it in a manner reminiscent of Hercules fighting the Hydra in the Disney animated movie, and the three are able to escape the palace through the same tunnel Din originally escaped through.

本日、マンダロリアンを観てきましたが、私もこちらと同じ印象。 ドラマや考察、どんでん返しであっと言わせてやろうという「賢い映画」ではなく、作者が遊ぶ気満々の「楽しい映画」。 ルーカスが初期SWやインディ撮ってた時の、20世紀映画ってこんなんだった。 コカコーラとポップコーンによく合う。

Not one specific thing, but I'd change how Jar-Jar is handled. Notably - when the bongo loses power in the planet's core, he'll actually get out through the person-permeable canopy to fix the damage, establishing him as mechanically competent and we know where he's coming from when he's curiously bumbling around the pod racers and droids on Tatooine later: he's someone trying to expand his knowledge and contribute his mechanical skills, not an ignoramus touching things he's absolutely clueless about. Having him get out also makes him a contributing member of the team, putting himself at risk to help the heroes succeed in the mission, instead of just being dead weight. Also, while he's out there, he has a communicator to talk to the two still in the Bongo to coordinate repairs and restarting, and when he does, he speaks "Normally" instead of using the ousa/eesa speech pattern, indicating that the funny honking is a result of their anatomy not handling speech outside of aquatic environments all that well. When they DO restore power, and have the Big Goober Fish reveal, the following chase has more tension because Jar-Jar has to hang on outside the ship - the fish doesn't need to go through the ship to get him, and he could lose his grip. Then, at the end of the movie, Boss Nass doesn't randomly promote Jar-Jar to general - he reinstates him as General, revealing that there's more to his past and character than we've seen. In the final battle, Jar-Jar is more proactive and assertive, in control and confident in his commands, even though he's also clumsy and his orders aren't always apparently tactically sound. Of course, Roos Tarpals isn't completely confident in Jar-Jar's command in the final battle, and there's friction between them. Most of the scenes in the fight are the same, but Jar-Jar's less of an idiot: in the scene where he gets his foot tangled in a bisected battle droid, we first see him dispatching another droid, THEN flailing about trying to get it off him while also fending off the advancing enemy. When he gets caught on the AAT, Roos tries to get him to jump to safety, but he demands a boomer instead - he intends to disable it, even if not QUITE as clumsily as he serendipitously managed to do so. He orders the retreat after the shield generators are destroyed, and deliberately opens the ammo cart... and then, at the end, he surrenders, and supplementary material can spell out that he did so to buy time for the others - it would take longer for the battle droids to figure out what to do with the surrendering Gungans than for them to stop chasing the retreating forces and killing the stragglers (And the Battle Droids DO accept the surrender despite orders not to because they're repurposed mall cops programmed to not commit warcrimes)

Battletech Clannerbargin Just had a terrible day and my mood is ruined. Anyway, here’s some (silly) drawings of Clanners.

Help I'm on the Left and I don't like this. This also applies to Battletech.

I just read something that referred to the Panther as "The Kuritan Fursuit" and I can't stop giggling.

This is an awesome Rathalos suit!

Finally painted my 3d printed wall mount bust of Bazelgeuse!

The greatest battle theme in all Monster Hunter. It's just so brutal, pounding, and epic. There is so much I could say about it.

Funny story about this. The only reason why the "Adventurer's Guild" trope exists is due to the video game Wizardry. Fantasy in Japan was not introduced through novels like Lord of the Rings or Conan. It was video games like Wizardry, which became a major inspiration for Dragon's Quest and Final Fantasy. In Wizardry, you didn't have a set party. You created your own characters and death was permanent, so it wasn't uncommon to create new characters. Swapping and "grinding" were essential aspects of the game. Before you went to the dungeon, you were town where you level up, get items, create new characters, and swap characters. Where did you swap characters? Adventurer's Guild. So now you know why this trope seems to be every anime. It's based on a video game in the 80s that still sways influence today.

I like how Great Jagras and Kulu Ya-ku don't use this theme, so when Anjanath shows up to crash your newbie hunts he gets Musical Go Time. The one weird thing about this theme is that it doesn't use the "New World" motif from the region's Quest Start, and the only motif I actually CAN recognize in it is an up-punched version the BBQ Spit theme. I guess we're getting cooked into a Well Done Steak fighting Anjanath and Rathalos if we're not careful.

This shit's why Rey Dau is the greatest monster in the game

And today, right now, I'm watching the credits to Iceborne after beating the game with my Brother, whom I got the game for last Christmas. We've been playing off-and-on all year.

These zealots are incapable of not being stupid

Let's be honest, we'd all be hyped to here this every day on our way into work: youtu.be/BW7n43gvOg4?si=-HSN…

World's greatest Steam boat.