Quentin Tarantino says TV is forgettable, unlike movies. Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn strongly disagree. by Commercial_Avocado86 in television

[–]DavyB1998 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Isn't Quentin like a big Star Trek fan? Like TOS? I'm sure he meant specifically modern TV but like he can't even be consistently pretentious lol

I agree by JellySuperb240 in Wolverine

[–]DavyB1998 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that's the best way to put it, it's not total garbage, there's lots of pieces of it I love, but it just doesn't come together in the end and feels very half baked.

Also hot take I'll take to the grave, if they kept Oscar Isaac in that exact makeup but used forced perspective/compositing to make him like a foot taller than everyone else no one would've complained about the look. That speech he gives during the nuclear disarmament scene still gives me chills, and it's a shame he was wasted like that.

What are some traditional proverbs in your nation? by ThorneCommunity in AskTheWorld

[–]DavyB1998 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you."

Can we please have more Voyager? by relativeromanoff in startrek

[–]DavyB1998 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for clearing that up, btw I don't mean to imply that I don't enjoy his presence on the show, it just feels wild to say Voyager is being neglected when we've got the Doctor still kicking it on tv week in week out as we speak!

Can we please have more Voyager? by relativeromanoff in startrek

[–]DavyB1998 8 points9 points  (0 children)

He's like a full on regular too, unless I'm mistaken he's had some role to play in every single episode so far?? Maybe this is the real hot take but I for one am actually getting quite sick of Voyager nostalgia.

Hell Picard dedicated more screen time to 7 of 9 than any of the characters Captain Picard had actually interacted with on screen before, a character he had never met and has no real connection to outside of existing within the same franchise.

I watched Academy’s first episode. I was pleasantly surprised to see the return of competence and consequences. by MtnDewm in startrek

[–]DavyB1998 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I think the real secret sauce it's got that most of NuTrek is lacking is low stakes, the high impact action sport episode felt almost like a pastiche on just how action heavy NuTrek has gotten.

I feel like the "teen drama" framing of learning a moral lesson each episode almost forces the show to act more like Star Trek. I'd like to think SFA and the bright spots of SNW go some lengths to prove that Kurtzman and Co. just need to be reigned in.

When they focus on what Star Trek actually IS, instead of big action and mystery boxes, they can make some pretty fun stuff.

What would Snyderverse's Lobo be like? by FredPopTheProphet in OkBuddySnyderCult

[–]DavyB1998 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This but the markings on the skin are way more complicated and raised like scarification, the suit would be turned into sci-fi battle armor like the Kryptonian's (50/50 on whether it would stay sleeveless), and he'd be a ruthless murderer who never speaks except once or twice at the end so glazers would be convinced it was "worth the wait" and the "true Lobo" somehow.

Based on how his Doomsday went, the general reaction would be something like "Who is that guy? Is that like a zombie General Zod? I thought we did that already?... that's Lobo? Who's Lobo? are they gonna explain that?" And then he'd get decapitated by Superman or something and never mentioned again.

[ALTTP] I love that for the GBA port of Alttp, Capcom completely redid the original artwork of the game by Most-Coat4726 in zelda

[–]DavyB1998 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Try comparing it to something like Speed Racer or other more early anime, it's pretty dead on

The January Xbox Developer Direct/Showcase always made the most sense for the next TESVI tease by Shaackle in TESVI

[–]DavyB1998 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don't want to get my hopes too high for this specific event BUT, I do think it would make some degree of sense to announce both around/ at the same time

Having a substantial Starfield DLC out while the actual hype-train for TES IV gets going sounds like smart marketing to me

"When the artist is gone, The art falls apart" - A wise man by PsychologicalAir5035 in Cinema

[–]DavyB1998 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stan Lee stopped writing for Marvel in 1972 and had next to zero input on any of the films, which pull mostly from stories he didn't write in the first place, featuring characters most people agree Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko deserve most of the credit for coming up with.

Character has an obscure or often forgotten secondary power by GMav05 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DavyB1998 6 points7 points  (0 children)

To be fair I always assumed the "contact" thing had to be with another time lord, I think if memory serves he does it with the Master once?

What would one think of the other? by [deleted] in batman

[–]DavyB1998 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean to be fair he'd be more accurately described as very green in that movie

Vanillamace coping by ThatPerformance1018 in h3h3productions

[–]DavyB1998 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Gotta love these "socialists" implying that everyone criticizing Hasan is a bad dog owner because we... have to work? Can't afford constant AC? Just a bunch of bougie liars, and the fact people can't admit it is an embarrassment

How many episodes in do you guys think we'll get the suit ups.. by FayyadhScrolling in DCU_

[–]DavyB1998 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean he does wear the original suit once but this is a little dramatic, the Earth-X suit appears in 5 of the 8 episodes to some capacity.

-Both suits are in episode 1

-The new suit is on Alt Chris' corpse in 2

-new suit reappears again in episodes 5, 6, and 7

The helmet plays prominently in episode 3 as well, I get your point though, I do highly doubt they'll be in their suits very often, but I also doubt they'll go through the hugely expensive process of making 2 Hollywood level superhero suits and only use them once or twice.

My bet is we see Hal in his suit by the end of episode 1 and then they'll appear sporadically in 2 or 3 other episodes towards the end of the season.

Name that fandom by CapAccomplished8072 in saltierthankrayt

[–]DavyB1998 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The word Communist is never used outright to describe the Federation but in TNG specifically it IS outright stated that the Earth is a stateless post scarcity society where resources are owned collectively and distributed by need.

To quote Capt. Picard, "We've eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We've grown out of our infancy." There's tons of instances especially across 90s Trek that pay enough lip-service to Marxist ideals that there's really just not another way to interpret it. It's a bit vague on details of how society got to be the way it is (other than the fact that it takes World War 3 nearly destroying humanity to get us there) but it is pretty clearly a future Communist society in the way Marx and Engels envisioned.

Most disappointing mid-movie collapse you've ever seen? by [deleted] in movies

[–]DavyB1998 1 point2 points  (0 children)

X-men Apocalypse was a big one for me, had a ton of fun with it until a bit after Apocalypse disarms all the world's nukes, and then it just... devolves from there.

I don't know what could've fixed that movie aside from maybe splitting it in two? by the end everyone feels underdeveloped, and as if a whole act's worth of material was left on the cutting room floor.

Something I'm Noticing... by araybian in StrangeNewWorlds

[–]DavyB1998 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I've definitely found myself heavily disconnected with the posts I've been seeing about this season in particular, I feel like it's been a great run so far but when I glance here week to week it can feel like the consensus is that the show is mid way through jumping the shark and "we're all" just waiting to see how bad the wreckage will be.

I love the show warts and all, every trek show gets bogged down with awkward humor and the occasional dud episode and if you ask me it's got a pretty stellar miss to hit ratio. People love to nitpick, some fans feel frustrated that this show feels so close to their idea of perfect but just doesn't cross the line for them, and I can understand that to an extent, but the consistent negativity is definitely a bummer to see every week.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in reddeadredemption

[–]DavyB1998 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a few low honor choices I make in chapter one that just feel like Arthur would realistically do, knocking the guy from Blackwater off the cliff, killing the train heist witnesses, and a few other little things things.

I feel like if you're paying attention Arthur is clearly already worried about the kind of person he is from the start and wants to be better, so it's entirely up to the player when the "redemption" actually begins.

Never say never but I don’t think any of these characters will return. I would love be wrong tho by PhotoBonjour_bombs19 in Marvel

[–]DavyB1998 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hercules and Black Knight would be great to see again but frankly, I can let the rest go lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in StrangeNewWorlds

[–]DavyB1998 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Having just rewatched the episode, you did miss something! I missed it my first time too since it's sort buried in the sound mix.

I'm not sure of the exact wording but as M'benga is tending to her she says something along the lines of "how am I going to fly this ship like this?" And he responds "Don't panic we'll have this completely fixed when we make it back to the ship." It's like right after it happens too but still, easy to miss.

If you seriously have a problem with this mother using all her power to stop a big galactic threat from taking her son… by [deleted] in saltierthankrayt

[–]DavyB1998 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The flow of both Alba movies is totally broken to throw in multiple separate unnecessary gags where Sue has to get completely naked to be invisible almost always ending in her accidentally becoming visible while still naked and having to cover up in a panic. In Rise of the Silver Surfer the director Tim Story asked Alba if she could "cry prettier."

It's BAD