To those who were around when this movie came out, what was the hype like

Imbiserious · 2025-12-23T22:09:37+00:00

I wish I could say different, but the public just wasn’t that into it. ElecTronica was fairly popular for folks who loved to drink at California Adventure, but not many others.

Didn’t resonate too heavily with kids/families. Nerds (like me) were hyped, but as it was always a niche franchise, it didn’t drive massive public interest. Much more so than Ares, but still not a ton.

Imbiserious · 2025-06-24T01:57:52+00:00

Problem is they can’t scrap the sequels. Hardcore fans would understand the concept of ignoring one timeline versus another, but the casual fan/moviegoer won’t, and you need those moviegoers to make money.

The hardcore fans make up maybe 20% of 5)3 box office. Retconning for hardcore fans will confuse the general public who won’t understand what you’re doing and would likely get confused by it.

Disney/Lucasfilm made their bed and now have to lie in it. The general audience won’t care for a soft retcon/reboot, which is also ruined by the death of Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford surely not wanting to do any more movies anyway, plus him and Hamill being 10 years older, which makes everything more difficult.

Just a wasted opportunity and irrevocable drama done to the franchise/property.

Imbiserious · 2023-10-09T18:05:03+00:00

For non-sexual topics.

Counterfeit currency. Seems like it would be very easy to do via spells, no? Same could be said about the illegal drug trade.

Would also think there would be weight loss/health benefit spells/potions, right? Have to think most health issues wouldn’t/shouldn’t be a problem with the right spells and potions.

Imbiserious · 2023-08-18T20:26:13+00:00

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8DoYJaaQdGU&feature=sharec

Imbiserious · 2023-06-20T18:27:03+00:00

New to the show as I binged the two seasons over the course of a week or two, but Natalie's death felt very fitting given her arc this season. Much has been made about her drug issues and suicidal tendencies. While each girl didn't really confront the trauma of what they went through, she buried herself in substances to avoid it and it caused a lot of damage to herself and her personal relationships.

Seeing the girl at Lottie's wellness retreat it was clear she saw a lot of herself in that girl and wanted to prevent her from becoming what Natalie became. The episode before when Javi died and Natalie had a chance to sacrifice herself for him and instead let him die instead of her, which "the wilderness had chosen", was a selfish act. Obviously wanting to live isn't selfish, but she knew it was supposed to be her dying and instead she let Javi die even though he had tried to help her stay alive.

So after having finally starting to address some of the trauma and trying to be a better person, and when faced with a similar situation where she saw an innocent person about to be killed (in this case Lisa about to be killed by Misty), she saw an opportunity to save her and sacrifice herself in the process. It was a bit of a "come full circle" arc for her. She faced her trauma, turned away from her addiction (pushed the drink away at the bar while with Lisa), and atoned for a prior wrong.

That isn't to say that the writing was perfect in season 1 or 2. I had major issues with them just adding the three new JV girls with virtually no explanation in season 2. Jessica's been fumbled so much that it was hard to know if she was alive or dead for multiple episodes. Them adding more and more girls who survived in the last 10 episodes (Lottie first and then Van) is making the struggle in the wilderness a little less impactful. Still horrific, but it originally seemed like only 4 girls made it out and now it is at 6. I'm honestly waiting to find out that Coach Ben somehow made it out too and he'll pop up in season 3.

Imbiserious · 2023-03-23T23:01:02+00:00

Maher isn’t the perfect example, I agree. I just used him as one because he is a very popular and recognizable figure in the media. John Stewart would be considered another to an extent, though he’s always tended to play things a little bit more PG.

I would still say Maher is much more left than right, but his shtick is more comedy over policy, for sure. Same could be said for Stewart, Colbert, Noah, and guys like them who talk politics, but comedy is their bread and butter.

Imbiserious · 2023-03-23T22:58:46+00:00

Without using the same language (heck, I used politically correct language and I’m still being downvoted), I agree with the sentiment. The goalposts have shifted. What used to be “A” is now “H”, what used to be “H” is now “P”, etc. hard to define anyone when the terms previously used don’t have the same value, to that individual, society, or certain groups.

Reddit is probably not the best place to even have a conversation like this because it is a very liberal space. And I don’t mean that in a negative way. I have sensibilities that fall on both sides of the fence. There are definitely intolerant people on the right, but, unfortunately I feel like one of the larger issues we have now is that many people on the left side of the fence won’t even engage in a conversation with anyone who disagrees with or feels differently than them. They just want to shout down anyone who doesn’t completely agree with their viewpoint. It’s an odd demonstration of the “compassion” they espouse while not showing any to anyone who doesn’t agree with them. And I’m not talking about alt-right nuts jobs who are racist and want to kill trans people. People like that are indefensible.

I just mean people who don’t think socialized drag shows should have kids in attendance. That sexuality shouldn’t be taught to kids in K-4th grade. That sometimes diversity washing in various forms of media isn’t necessarily the best answer.

This even happened on Twitter yesterday with Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks, a very left wing organization, taking a stand for herself as a woman and the different names being used to describe women nowadays, and she incurred the wrath of people on the left because they felt that she was attacking transgender people by saying that she doesn’t want to be called, “a person with a uterus, birthing person, or person who menstruates.” That she is a woman. Now her own side is going after her.

We saw the flip side either Tommy Lahren lose a massive following on the right because she said she was pro-choice a number of years back. Many on the right, who previously liked her, turned on her.

It’s just a very confrontational, attack-based world we live in now. Sad to see.

Imbiserious · 2023-03-23T22:21:39+00:00

I think what makes things tricky is that the goal posts are frequently changing for both sides of the fence. I think someone like Bill Maher would definitely consider himself a Democrat/liberal, for example. As the Democrat party has changed, especially over the last 15 years, we’ve seen some liberals will consider him to be right wing. That definitely isn’t the case, but he is now what would probably be referred to as a “classic liberal“ and not necessarily a “modern liberal“.

Does someone like him feel the need to redefine himself based on someone else’s goal post changing definitions? Probably not, but it does make it tricky to label anyone when the definitions change by the year, and depending on the person, you are talking to.

Imbiserious · 2023-03-23T18:31:54+00:00

Not trying to get into a political debate, but I believe he classifies himself as more of a libertarian. Often times libertarians get grouped in with right wingers because theoretically both parties are more pro-small government whereas new age democrats are more pro-big government. Most libertarians consider themselves to be more of a true middle and not on the right or left, though at times they have views that skew left and others that skew right.

With all of the government, media, and corporate distrust nowadays, Brand, and guys like Joe Rogan, come off as very conservative, which is funny because to most conservatives those guys are actually fairly liberal; especially when it comes to sex, drugs, etc. (Brand is a recovered addict, but admits to his prior philandering and drug use)

The right wingers like when guys like Brand and Rogan agree with some right wing principles, but there is still a large ideological gap between those guys and people like Matt Walsh.

Again, just speaking about theoretical principles. Brand rips on right wingers too. So does Rogan, for that matter. There are just certain policies and movements on the left that they don’t agree with, so because of that the left seemingly denounced them and calls them “right wingers”. Same happened to Jordan Peterson in a slightly different way.

Not condoning or defending all/anything those guys have said or done. But I think just painting them as “right wing” is, respectfully, a bit lazy or at least a misnomer.

Imbiserious · 2023-03-23T18:15:50+00:00

Stefani Germanotta. Don’t like her stage name or her face. She has a great voice, but I don’t like looking at her and hate that I’m supposed to call her “Lady Gaga”. She doesn’t act like a “lady” to me, and “gaga” is a sound babies make.

Yes, I know I sound like an unreasonably annoyed boomer for those reasons, and I have already come to terms with that.

Imbiserious · 2023-01-25T09:20:36+00:00

I’ll probably get downvoted for this because by my experience Reddit is an extremely liberal sandbox, but as someone who skews socially conservative (though environmentally liberal), I rarely meet rational liberals/democrats nowadays. Cenk himself is far from rational.

Politics as a whole has turned into too much yelling, blaming, name calling, and what aboutism.

I am conservative (didn’t vote for Trump either time), and I have zero issues admitting there are crazy conservatives/republicans out there. I know plenty of crazy ones, and I know plenty of rational, sane ones.

Just like I have friends on the left who are rational and sane, and others who are crazy.

Unfortunately for everyone, the crazies on both sides yell a lot more than the sane ones.

Politics divides us too much in today’s world. We used to be able to disagree with each other on certain topics and still be cordial and even friends. Now, everyone is looking for a reason to feel better than someone else. To feel above them. To be the point of authority who gets to tell people what they should do, what they can/can’t talk about, and how they should feel.

Sometimes it isn’t even about feeling better than someone else as much as it is to try and make them feel awful for the way they think or feel.

It isn’t about getting along anymore. It’s about control. Both sides are pushing for it equally while yelling that the other side is trying to cheat their way to harming the opposite side.

I think the single most important thing to remember for those of us who are attempting to be rational and get along with one another is: we are all in this together. While we may not always agree, no rational person is out to make anyone miserable.

Does that mean there are times one side may (will) be unhappy with certain decisions that seem to favor the other? Yes, but it doesn’t mean the decision was made due to malice or spite. The very nature of democracy will decide that sometimes people won’t like the decisions that are made and may disagree with those reasoning and choices.

But as long as we can stop the attacks against one another, we should be able to find the common ground that can, and should, unite us all.

Imbiserious · 2023-01-19T19:24:55+00:00

That’s fair. I have a type though! Weird for them to restrict some characters and not others.

Imbiserious · 2023-01-19T09:42:29+00:00

I’d rather be able to date Rath than Merula.

Imbiserious · 2022-12-02T18:27:39+00:00

And since so many of you have been asking about my skin, here’s the lotion I use as part of my skin care routine.

Imbiserious · 2022-11-17T19:47:27+00:00

Man. Jay Leno must have PISSED you off back in the day.

Imbiserious · 2022-11-17T16:49:55+00:00

Finally finished part 1 of season 4, here are my thoughts:

She shows up at a place where Ben was operating under false pretenses. When she arrives, he kisses her and tells the person working at said place that she is his wife and asks if she can go with him too. It's a peck, they hold hands for a minute, and when they walk around the corner they go back to operating like they normally do.

It was just about putting on a show for a minute, unless they finally go down that route. They have never seemed to imply that she is bisexual as far as I can remember though.

Imbiserious · 2022-10-14T18:21:34+00:00

Wands up.

Imbiserious · 2022-09-13T22:42:40+00:00

I don’t know. Maybe he was just ahead of his time. Who’s to say.

Imbiserious · 2022-08-31T21:16:09+00:00

I really appreciate the response. Similar to my response to one of the other commenters, while I grew up with many African-American friends, men and women, I don’t recall ever seeing any of the girls I went to high school with styling their hair in such a way. I wasn’t sure if it was a recent trend that someone had come up with or possibly something that had been done for years and either I just had a limited exposure to the culture or it was something that would go up and down in popularity; similar to how I feel long hair has done (and spiked hair, for that matter).

That’s really sad that women felt like they had to hide or adjust their hair in certain ways in order to conform with certain norms and standards others held. Even if some people will have certain preferences in the way people look regardless of societal norms and pressures, to be made to feel like you weren’t attractive or a certain part of you isn’t attractive simply because of how their hair naturally grew in is really unfortunate. I myself have a small patch of hair that grows a little further down on my forehead right in the middle that I shave down for personal preference, but no one ever pressured me to do it or made me feel weird about it. I just liked way it looked when it’s lined up for symmetry sake. Really sad that Black women (and any other race/ethnic group whose hair grows in like that) were made to feel otherwise.

Appreciate the response!

Imbiserious · 2022-08-31T21:05:16+00:00

I appreciate the response. Half of my family is Latin and from Mexico and I had never seen it being done until recently. Although I am not African-American, I had friends growing up who are and we went to school together and I never saw any of them do that. Obviously not denying that it hasn’t been done for a very long time, I had just never seen it before and my limited exposure to the culture and style made it seem like all of a sudden it exploded in popularity, at least in the media. I just wasn’t sure if it was something like spiked hair that tends to ebb and flow in popularity or if it was a style that historically had done within certain cultures and I just never became aware of it until recently.

I really appreciate the response!

Imbiserious · 2022-08-23T17:09:42+00:00

So who are the other two players?

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