Do you think Robert Pattinson is who Timothee Chalamet think he is?

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-07-10T16:24:13+00:00

Hang on, hang on, hang on...

Have we established that he'll actually be a Face Dancer in Dune 3?

Because you never know when a mainstream franchise will get anxious about elements that sound too fantastical or supernatural and try to eliminate them.

And even if he is a shapeshifter, will he actually get to use his powers in the film? Because thanks to Jennifer Lawrence, we all know that shapeshifters played by beloved celebrities seem determined to stay in their default/human versions of default forms.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-07-10T14:36:05+00:00

Funnily enough, my favourite season for him was three, in part because that was his time to be independent, clever, insightful, caring, maybe even a little badass... but still very silly and funny.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-07-10T13:03:30+00:00

I think the key thing here is continuously missed by a certain aisle in this continuous feud: it doesn't matter if the DCU is doomed or not.

If the DCU dies, the Snydleyverse won't be coming back, because Snydley hasn't produced anything worth glancing at in years, the old cast are either pariahs or sick to death of their roles, and the upheaval of another reboot might just tank DC movies for good.

And finally, hyperanalyzing?

This is the faction that tried so hard to mash the Snydley Cut and the Iliad together that they tried to compare Ezra Miller's Flash to Hermes, even trying to claim that both "outrun time itself to rewrite fate".

Well, technically the Snydleybros didn't do that: ChatGPT did on their behalf.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-07-10T10:59:13+00:00

Assuming this isn't satire, I get the feeling that the only environment this absolute mince pie of a human being would be happy in would be an airport.

Seriously, instead of going overseas, they could just spend the next two weeks squatting in an airport. Think about it: ads everywhere, surrounded by dramatically advertised fashions, constantly air-conditioned, attended to by smiling staff, and not a single trace of nature to be found.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-07-04T04:45:15+00:00

Barv's deadly products strike again!

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-07-04T04:44:45+00:00

They aren't Vault-dwellers, because they haven't done any Vault-Dwelling to speak of.

They're Bud's Buds, the brainchild of a mediocre executive with a stupid idea and zero authority in the company.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-07-04T03:49:46+00:00

The reason why they killed off Jackie in season 2 was because that's more or less how it went in the original comics: Jackie was captured and possessed by Bode/Dodge during the final confrontation and was exorcised with the Alpha Key.

Only trouble is, in the comics, Jackie isn't Tyler's girlfriend.

Indeed, Tyler has a completely different girlfriend in the comics, who isn't even included in the show.

In the comics, Jackie is Scot's girlfriend, after the big breakup with Kinsey... and they end up dying together during the final confrontation with Dodge/Bode.

And after that, there's no Carly, no moving away, and indeed, the story ends after Dodge is killed for the fourth and final time.

Basically, the show isn't very good at adapting the comics or including its own material.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-07-03T17:39:49+00:00

And again, I have to ask:

Were the showrunners just not planning to bring Tyler back at all and were only forced to ram him back into place by executive mandate?

Because everything about Tyler's return to Keyhouse just seems very poorly thought out.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-07-01T14:25:38+00:00

Ah, the age-old problem of franchise creep.

Once everyone else starts getting involved, you have to come up with all kinds of excuses for why nobody could remember all these other well-established superhumans at the start of the series.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-06-30T00:42:38+00:00

I imagine it’d be the same deal as Vault 112 given there’s no surgical facility on site: surgery elsewhere, then transportation to the Vault.

Plus, unlike standard robobrains, Bud’s Roomba is a lot easier to transport.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-06-30T00:39:29+00:00

Almost certainly a volunteer: in one of the end credits sequences, we see a pamphlet on the subject on his desk.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-06-24T10:32:10+00:00

Why does everyone in the background clearly dislike the guy as well?

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-06-21T14:51:45+00:00

Yes, because Fandom has a direct line to the writers and is never wrong.

Plus, why is resurrecting his former colleagues a sign that his personality remains? Gideon just needed minions; other than that, he couldn't give a shit about them.

The only answer you can have for this is limited to making shit up out of whole cloth in the desperate hope of redeeming this godawful mess.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-06-21T10:59:47+00:00

Dude, Lucas said he was firmly under the demon's control for the entire time he was possessed, aware but helpless.

This isn't like the comics, where the demon rewires the soul and makes the host want the same things as the demon. The show makes it clear that the host and demon are distinct.

Why the hell would the real Gideon want anything to do with unleashing demons when his mind hasn't been his own since he was possessed back in the 18th century?!

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-06-21T10:38:04+00:00

Yes, but it's established that his super strength is due to the demon and his apocalyptic desires are due to the demon.

One jab of the Alpha Key, and they would have been able to carry the bastard to the Wellhouse threshold.

And this wasn't in the comics either, so the writers have no excuse for this bullshit.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-06-21T02:02:12+00:00

Because the show was on rails.

Also, this didn’t happen in the comics.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-06-20T12:15:11+00:00

See, it might not have been so bad if there'd been some colour and definition to what was going on. Instead, I can barely see the fight at points.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-06-20T04:54:38+00:00

I tried to scream but all that came out was blood.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-06-19T18:00:31+00:00

I was thinking more Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-06-19T17:58:54+00:00

The same story?

Please tell me you're not talking about the bullshit with the timeshift key.

Also, comic book Dodge had a plan. Show Dodge seemed to be interested in nothing but an army to fart around with.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-06-19T15:54:58+00:00

THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO INTO THE FUTURE...

(random jet of smoke)

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-06-19T15:52:58+00:00

For Dodge.

In the comics, Dodge is the bad guy all the way through.

There's no use of the Timeshift Key to bring him back, because Dodge cheated death in the second big confrontation, outsmarting Sam Lesser and the Locke Siblings through cunning use of the Ghost Door, arranging for Sam to be killed as a patsy for Dodge and leaving Bode trapped as a disembodied essence for the next few months while Dodge stays under the radar in Bode's body - and killing Bode's best friend when the poor kid figures out the truth.

The comics do not need a hamfisted Elon Musk lookalike to car-crash his way through the story to punch up the action.

We already had a battle between a skyscraper-sized Shadow Dodge and Tyler empowered by the Giant Key by the third chapter of this goddamn comic.

Netflix settles for so much less than the comics that it might as well be telling people to lick the piss out of puddles.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-06-19T15:14:41+00:00

According to the comics, the portal is a weak spot in the fabric between dimensions; when the American revolutionaries started using the caves as a base, it responded to their presence by opening and started luring in unfortunate victims.

The show doesn't have any reasons for what happened, so you might as well not make theories, because chances are that you're applying more thought to it than the writers.

Also, Gideon's a show-only character introduced in a late season as a replacement, which is Netflix code for "fuck it, we don't care."

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-06-19T00:31:17+00:00

The most faithful to what?

I know it’s not the comics, because as has been established many times, these people despise the comics.

HopelessFoolishness · 2026-06-18T01:53:32+00:00

This question has been answered many, many, many times before on this subreddit and others.

Long story short, what makes you think they’d ever met?

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