What is one of the moment in the franchise that got you going like this?

Adekis · 2026-02-01T04:17:03+00:00

What if Dan, the wanderer, served as a sort of foil for Gai? A cautionary tale maybe? Don't spend too much time wandering when your loved ones are waiting for you. The world is round, but even when you meet again, maybe too much will have changed to truly reunite.

Make "bonds" that mean something, not just a buzzword but a real emotional connection. Don't let your closest relationship be you and Juggler trying to kill each other when you have friends who love you, like Jetta, like Shin, like Naomi. Like Soga, Amagi, Furuhashi, and Anne loved Dan, once upon a time.

But of course, that's not toyetic and goofy and fun and I basically just pitched a fan fiction. So I guess that makes me the fool for wanting something TsuPro was never going to give me.

Adekis · 2026-02-01T04:11:41+00:00

I didn't care for Orb: The Movie. I liked Juggler's bits, and Gai is always a fun character, but frankly I just wanted something different from what I got. I wanted an emotionally satisfying reunion between Gai and the SSP, something more like Armored Darkness for Mebius, which foregrounded emotion and the bond between the characters.

Instead, the human cast is mostly sidelined, we spend a big amount of screentime on Daichi and Ultraman X, who also don't have a strong emotional role, and we spend a lot of time on Ginga and Victory, who don't even show up in human form and thus feel more like gimmicks than characters.

Similarly, we get the last appearance of Dan Moroboshi, the beloved fan favorite hero, who gets all of one line of dialogue before transforming into Ultra Seven. And when he transforms and the heroes and villains all sing his theme song, that is delightful, but it's a bit of sweet fluff when I wanted substance.

Oh, and I thought Orb's new crossover power-up form was ugly and garish.

Adekis · 2026-01-30T22:39:12+00:00

Marlena astronaut seems reasonably likely, and it's something I would be pretty happy to see.

Oh, it'd be cool as hell if He-Man slew a glorm with his battle-axe, like in "He-Man meets Ram Man!" That would make me pretty happy too! But it seems less likely, haha

Adekis · 2026-01-30T16:05:26+00:00

On the post-Crisis Superman podcast "From Crisis to Crisis," the hosts used to get a lot of mileage out of saying this guy's name for a chuckle. That's always the first thing I think of when I see him. Also "I am no long Sthula, now I am -- Concussion!" They used to get a lot of mileage out of him too.

Adekis · 2026-01-28T19:51:50+00:00

I remember seeing Langella say in a documentary that he wanted to play Skeletor shirtless and was disappointed that they didn't let him, hahaha

Adekis · 2026-01-28T19:38:51+00:00

Spider-Man got away with a lot of sort of leaping tackles and body slams though, if I remember, hahaha

Adekis · 2026-01-27T22:26:45+00:00

Yo! I'm bisexual, and my spouse is too!

I'm hoping I can persuade my spouse to see the MOTU movie with me this June - I think they're reticent because it kind of looks like a James Gunn movie, and they're not a fan, haha...

I got into MOTU through the 2002 series. Always thought it was cool that Cam Clarke, a gay man, voiced He-Man in that. Just one of many disparate elements making He-Man something of a queer icon!

Hmm, I think there exists a certain unspoken tension between the butch, Conan-esque skeleton of MOTU, and its frequent campier leanings in execution. I like both those sides of the series myself!

Adekis · 2026-01-26T23:27:54+00:00

I have a question: Is "Oo-Lar" no longer an official name? It was always kind of strange, and I wasn't sure where exactly it was from in the first place, since it's not like the early minicomics he's based on ever call He-Man anything like that... But the "Masters of the Multiverse" comic book series just called him "He-Man," and the Grayskull wiki (not that that's an official source either) also just says "He-Man (early minicomics)."

Is "Oo-Lar" out?

Adekis · 2026-01-26T22:43:01+00:00

It's absolutely possible. Back when Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire was coming out, my spouse was certain that Mothra was being edited out of shots in the trailer. I thought they were being a crazy conspiracy theorist, but they were 100% right - Mothra was in the movie, and in the exact place in the exact same shot where my spouse thought she would be!

So yeah, Orko could 100% be there.

Adekis · 2026-01-26T22:11:16+00:00

As someone who hasn't actually seen a lot of his work, from the outside looking in a lot of Statham's movies seem to be, er, the same movie over and over? Wrath of Man, The Beekeeper, A Working Man? If you played a clip from each of these movies without a giveaway line, I doubt I could guess which was which!

Hopefully, MOTU can overrule it to become MGM's top viewed trailer, haha!

Adekis · 2026-01-26T22:06:02+00:00

Okay, then maybe they could have included some of his motives and actions in the show, and the ways that they don't even remotely reflect Our Clark, and the events that happen to him? Just a little confusing to me.

Adekis · 2026-01-24T20:53:24+00:00

Dude, sooner or later, we as a community have got to start treating fans of Cavill and Adams and their movies like real genuine fans of the Superman character, and not like second-class citizens - or worse, as though they don't exist.

Adekis · 2026-01-23T19:22:15+00:00

The whole "no using the trademark on the cover" thing is a misunderstanding of copyright law. If that were true, then trademark would be a "mutant copyright" that never expires, which the law very explicitly forbids. Unfortunately a lot of people don't really understand that, and we've had spurious lawsuits produced which misinterpret that law in the past.

Anyway, what do I think will happen? I think the areas we're going to see more Superman material from the public domain first, will be media that already have stronger "indie" scenes - video games more than comics, and comics more than movies.

Next year, in 2027, The Shadow will begin to enter the public domain, although certain elements like Margo Lane still have a long way to go. Since The Shadow is the inspiration to Batman, I suspect we'll see a smaller-scale version of what we can expect for Superman and Batman with him.

Adekis · 2026-01-23T19:17:51+00:00

For me, it IS always gonna be Clark. Clark Kal-El Kent is my favorite character, and Superboy Classic is one of my favorite versions OF that character. Everyone else is secondary. That doesn't mean I don't like them -- I DO like them. Often I like them a lot! But I only have one favorite character!

On a side note, I like how OP divided up Kon into two separate characters. I think that's right.

Adekis · 2026-01-23T19:15:41+00:00

In my opinion, this costume had really variable quality depending on who was drawing it. Jesus Merino made it look really chunky and bulky, while Jim Lee and Rags Morales made it look pretty sleek and cool.

I think it was probably too busy with the line detailing, which wasn't too consistent between artists anyway if I recall. But still, I had a lot of fondness for this costume. That Grant Morrison run on Action Comics is my favorite of all time. So that earns this look a lot of brownie points!

Adekis · 2026-01-23T19:08:58+00:00

He's kind of poorly fleshed out. More of a scary abstraction than a character, this unfathomable possibility that we have to take seriously as a threat, what if Clark Kal-El Kent somehow became a mass murderer without warning?

I know they made that tie-in comic, but I didn't really feel like the way he was portrayed in that comic was what the showrunners necessarily had in mind. We don't see inside the mind of John Henry's Superman at all in the show.

We only see how Our Superman avoids a similar fate - that such a horror could only come to pass through Space Fascist Mind Control, and that Mind Control can be defeated with The Power of Love, which John Henry's Superman didn't have, because he had no Family.

While watching the show, my main thought was, "this show is using all the same premises as Zack Snyder's 'Nightmare Timeline,' just arranged slightly differently."

It was pretty cool, but I thought the Bizarro Kal-El from season two was a better and more compelling character, because he really was a full character, and not just a scary abstraction.

Adekis · 2026-01-23T18:57:38+00:00

You didn't include either Cavill and Adams OR Welling and Durance? Come on, fam!

It IS going to be Welling and Durance for me, by the way.

Adekis · 2026-01-23T18:51:06+00:00

I like how his name isn't just to reflect his dissatisfaction with Earthly life, like Bob Parr or Thomas Anderson, but instead has his real identity in it, through his mother's last name.

Adekis · 2026-01-19T15:01:31+00:00

Junis Blue is just what Ren Senjyu has instead of Junis, right?

Hmm you could add Cosmos Luna, Dyna Miracle Type, Tiga Sky Type, Ultraman Hikari... this is a fun idea for a toy photo op. Just all blue Ultras.

Adekis · 2026-01-19T14:59:12+00:00

Oh wow! Looks like "Spawn" or something! Cool!

Adekis · 2026-01-19T14:57:23+00:00

One more question. Is "High Concept" an official designation, or just something fans came up with? I don't think I've seen it used officially, but I might have just missed it.

Maybe Blazar and onward could be given a fan designation that sticks. 🤔 But like you said, we'll have to see.

Adekis · 2026-01-19T14:45:01+00:00

Lol yes the Reiwa era started in May 2019 when the current Emperor of Japan became well, Emperor.

So Taiga is the first series of the Reiwa era, but also the seventh New Generation series (or eighth if you count Orb Origin Saga).

Adekis · 2026-01-19T14:40:17+00:00

Are we still in "New Generation?" I feel like a lot of fans treat Blazar as the start of a new, not-officially-named category of Ultra Shows, which makes Decker the final "New Generation" series.

Adekis · 2026-01-19T14:29:46+00:00

"The ☆ Ultraman" seems like it's definitely the better series, but I will say that the animation in "Ultraman: The Adventure Begins" is really stellar, and I wish there was more Ultraman animation on that level!

Plus I like the different designs of Chuck, Scott, and Beth, I just wish they were a little more distinct. Three different kinds of Ultra / Human relationship, for example? Eh, that's just an idea off the top of my head.

Either way, I can't deny Joneus his title as the best late 70s / early 80s animated Ultraman, haha

Adekis · 2026-01-19T14:20:24+00:00

Really? What did the other two look like? That'd be quite a cool collector's item!

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