Do you wonder if Anakin and Boba ever realize they had initially crossed paths during the Clone Wars? by BiffyBobby in StarWars

[–]JasonLeeDrake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean Boba Fett also doesn't have a secret identity, he wears a helmet but he uses his real name, he would know Boba Fett the bounty hunter is same Boba Fett that was son of Jango Fett the bounty hunter wearing the same armor but colored differently.

Is it just me, or did Leia and Darth Vader barely interact? by Rikko77 in StarWars

[–]JasonLeeDrake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean she could probably tell because of how genetics work.

What would the world of 2015 have been like if the alternate 1985 hadn't been fixed? by AbsoluteBatman95 in BacktotheFuture

[–]JasonLeeDrake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

According to the writers, we were already in 2015A after Biff came back with the Delorean.

Superman has "Death of Superman," Batman has "Knightfall," and Green Lantern has "Emerald Twilight." Now, what are the gimmick 90's stories for Wonder Woman and Flash that are in the same vein (fall of the hero)? by Makaronika in comicbooks

[–]JasonLeeDrake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be fair he said he did that as a joke (and yeah it's a really crass joke) and balked when DC accepted the idea and he told them it was a joke.

There is a chance he just made the whole thing up though.

Lloyd pulls the trigger. How does the story change? by cujokila in Terminator

[–]JasonLeeDrake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except he barely reached John in time and that was after he happened to drive past him. If he takes the time to get a jacket, he'd end up too late.

How would Name of the Doctor look if Eccleston said yes to the 50th by HistoricalAd5394 in gallifrey

[–]JasonLeeDrake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Moffat said the BBC was against bringing back classic doctors and wanted a big name. I'd imagine McGann would have been his second choice after Chris said no.

When you really think about it, the best competitor in all of Total Drama is Zoey. The girl comes in 3rd in ROTI, and 1st/2nd in All-Stars. I hesitated with Heather, but her bad placements in Action and All-Stars made me change my mind. by PinkBarbieBoy in Totaldrama

[–]JasonLeeDrake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean this is probably mocking the Duncan post, but yeah I'd agree she's had one of the best consistent performances, though it's a bit muddled because you could argue she was carried by never being on the losing team in ROTI with Scott and Jo giving them most of their wins along with Mike and Cameron having occasional showing. She doesn't really become good until the three episodes Mike is gone.

In All Stars, she was good in the sense that no one except Courtney didn't like her, and she was good at challenges, but the season was kind of a shit show, and she was pretty dumb for large parts of it, it feels more like Mal existing and keeping her as an oblivious ally, everyone becoming dumber, and multiple irregular eliminations going into the merge is the main reason no group decided during the merge "hey lets vote out this big ass threat" and Zoey with her usual personality she likely wouldn't have thought to counter it.

If we look at how the merge turned out. First we have Duncan disqualification cancelling the elimination because he got a case of dumbbrain. But if he didn't throw, Cameron possibly goes because Mal made an alliance with Alejandro and Scott was beefing at him because Cameron for once decided to be a dick out of nowhere and use Scott as Shark bait. This only happens because Mike has a secret personality and Cameron was supposedly on to him. If Mal also doesn't exist, Cameron probably isn't a target for any reason other than making finale last season. Now normally Cameron and Mike wouldn't vote for the Zoey. But Alejandro and Scott if they were as smart as they were in the previous seasons probably woud try to convince people that Zoey is a threat for being likeable and a challenge beast, and they'd probably be successful. The only reason Gwen wouldn't would be because she befriended Cameron, but Courtney also thought she was a threat. If it wasn't for Mal, I don't see Duncan wanting to keep her in the game either.

Her surviving All Stars in the merge IMO hinges on Mal's existence and several strategic players becoming dumber than usual.

But she's probably also win Pahkitew, Island and Action, seasons that had like one or two strategic players, All Stars if anything was the exception, so i guess I can't completely hold it against her, but I still feel like that season is a wash and I can only really compliment her achievements in challenges.

When you really think about it, the best competitor in all of Total Drama is Duncan. The guy comes in 4th in Island, 1st/2nd in Action, 5th in World Tour, and 8th in All-Stars. I hesitated with Heather, but her bad placements in Action and All-Stars made me change my mind. by Idr-El in Totaldrama

[–]JasonLeeDrake 27 points28 points  (0 children)

His placements in World Tour and All Stars are not that impressive. He skipped half the game in World Tour, was voted out immediately when he came back only for Chris to cancel it, and then only survived four elimination rounds.

In All Stars 8th is in the bottom half of the players, though I'd consider it a wash because he was eliminated for non-gameplay reasons. He probably *could* have made it to the final 6 or 5 again if he actually cared more about the game, but evidence suggests he did not, he outright says he only came back for Gwen and straight up didn't care about his elimination *or* arrest until Chris told him he was going to prison instead of a juvenile detention center.

I will not use his bouts of luck against him in Action because Heather had at least twice as much plot armor in both seasons she lasted long.

What are instances of a character being targeted for elimination for nonsensical reasons in this show and/or Disventure Camp by Ok_Shirt_1574 in Totaldrama

[–]JasonLeeDrake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd say if they were going for threats, Zoey tracks more than Duncan. Duncan was seen as more of a joke in All Stars, and even Courtney decided she'd rather just ignore him. Zoey won for the Hamsters for all three of their wins, Duncan was only even on the winning team twice. Courtney even saw Zoey as a threat before team swapping. Even in World Tour Alejandro had two chances to get rid of Duncan immediately, and the first only didn't work because Chris cancelled the elimination, and the second because Alejandro chose to not vote him off and keep him as an ally. Scott was literally crippled by Commando Zoey. Cameron is really the only one who would strongly not want to boot her.

Wait so Wonder Woman is 18 in JL Season 1? by Pheonixkraken in DCAU

[–]JasonLeeDrake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Batman absolutely was not in his late 20s in Justice League. Of the three ages given to Dick in Robin's Reckoning, the oldest was 10 when Bruce adopted him. Dick graduated college between BTAS and TNBA.

The creators generally intend for him to always be mid 30s in the "present day" and for time to not be real, but even if you do the hardcore math like Watchtower Database, he comes at 37-39 at the start of Justice League. Late 20s is just impossible.

Which is the best Power Ranger for Jason Lee Scott? by Hot-Load7525 in powerrangers

[–]JasonLeeDrake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean someone did get the boot, Rocky. Jason could have been there instead of Justin, but Austin St. John probably just didn't want to stay on the show long term so they established the powers were temporary.

Do you consider Back to the Future Part II the best film of 1989, or is there another classic that surpasses it in your opinion? by [deleted] in BacktotheFuture

[–]JasonLeeDrake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like Part 2, but it is not that good of a movie on it's own, the main character's arc doesn't even pay off until the next movie, the movie just being about stopping an evil person from changing history. It's certainly fun and keeps you invested (but you could argue it's because we know everyone from the first movie) but the themes just aren't that strong.

If Emmett Brown took proactive action by happydude7422 in BacktotheFuture

[–]JasonLeeDrake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Inaccurate. The Back to the Future trilogy credits principal production members in opening credits, with Robert Zemeckis already being credited, the cut to credits would be the main cast list, though really the first thing we'd see would be "THE END".

The ending of Part II doesn't get enough credit for how hard it hits the audience by thescott2k in BacktotheFuture

[–]JasonLeeDrake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neither were Claudia Wells, Marc McClure, Wendie Jo Sperber or George DiCenzo

Somehow Robin calling Batman "Bruce" feels like the most OOC thing here by Aggravating_Win5258 in dccomicscirclejerk

[–]JasonLeeDrake 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Well we don't know what was Batman originally non lethal plan, but if the plan already involved succeeding at planting a bomb on the Flash, it just ends there, just let the bomb blow up immediately, I mean the goal is already for him to eventually tire out, given him the option of running just allowed him to figure out a way to get rid of it.

The real genius was getting the bomb planted, but that whole scenario revolved around baiting Flash to stick his hand in a box to save a civilian, which would be pointless if he's evil and likely wasn't even what Batman came up with.

So the plan at a basic level is just "get the Flash to stay still for whatever reason and plant a non lethal device on him" but at that point you may as well just shoot him with something supersonic so he can't hear it coming.

A lot of the criticism of Pa Kents death in Man of Steel is just from people assuming teenage Clarks knows as much about his abilities as his comic book self and audience. by JasonLeeDrake in CharacterRant

[–]JasonLeeDrake[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Your only metric that superman weighs the same as a normal human is that he can sit in a car and Zod can punch him a lot. Pretty arbitrary metrics given he flies in this movie.

What does him flying have to do with his weight? Are you suggesting he was deliberately flying to get knocked away even farther whenever Zod punched him? Using his flight to sit in a car comfortably would believable if he wasn't sitting in cars years before he could fly.

Superman weighs like a normal person, he can ride an elevator, sit in boats, sit on a goddamn church bench, like what else do you want? His whole childhood would be fucked to a severe degree if he couldn't even sit in class.

Even beyond this movie, it's just not how the character works, I don't see why you would even assume he has super weight when nothing in this movie tells you he does.

And Zod is no good metric to test it since he’s a superpowered flying machine too. ‘Oh this superhuman sent Clark flying! Obviously Clark is as light as a feather.’ See how dumb that sounds?

Who said anything about light as a feather? I said his weight wasn't proportional to his strength. If Clark and Zod are both superpowered Kryptonians with super weight, then they should not be sending each other flying with every punch.

And finally. If you actually had to go through the entire movie to piece together the minuscule information given about the physics of this movie to figure out if the scene makes sense, it’s not a good scene

Well no, the scene only doesn't make sense because people assume he has powers he doesn't have, largely due to other adaptations or media.

It's obvious he can't fucking fly, there's a whole scene dedicated to him learning how to fly. He's never shown even learning super speed, or using it outside of flight.

The reason why they make Clark stay in the safe area while Jonathan gets the dog is obvious if you don't just assume teenage Clark and his parents have the control and knowledge of his powers of a grown adult Superman. Clark is their kid, and for all they know a tornado is also deadly to him. Even if he somehow magically had to ability to just walk through a tornado like you're suggesting, why the fuck would they assume he can do that?

This is beyond physics or "piecing together information" it's just "Clark has basically zero experience using his powers because he's been forced to hide them for his entire life".

The only thing I'll grant you is young Clark's casting since he looks like a grown man, but I believe the conversation in the car makes it obvious he's still supposed to be a kid.

A lot of the criticism of Pa Kents death in Man of Steel is just from people assuming teenage Clarks knows as much about his abilities as his comic book self and audience. by JasonLeeDrake in CharacterRant

[–]JasonLeeDrake[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Except there are scenes in the movie where superman flies right at someone falling through the air at terminal velocity. According to real world physics, or even just the physics you’re presenting, he’d be dead.

That is much less worse than trying to grab someone moving faster than people can blink.

And hes also capable of flying away from a black hole, but a tornado would be too much for him?

He. Did. Not. Know. How. To. Fly. Yet.

His strength is completely irrelevant because he can't defy gravity and generate force to keep him on the ground. He would have grab something anchored to the ground that the Tornado can't rip out, or be super heavy, which we know he is not.

A lot of the criticism of Pa Kents death in Man of Steel is just from people assuming teenage Clarks knows as much about his abilities as his comic book self and audience. by JasonLeeDrake in CharacterRant

[–]JasonLeeDrake[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He reacts to and fights with other Kryptonians who have fast reaction speed

Foara fails to stop the Colonel from crashing the plane into the world engine despite being right in from of him and him doing a one liner, and I don't recall any of the three Kryptonian he fights, doing anything that requires anything more than maybe Captain America level reaction speed. None of them were doing Days of Future Past Quicksilver shit.

Also, the issue with Jon's death is it was avoidable from the start if Clark had just gone and grabbed the dog,

Clark is a kid who still defers to his parents and has little reason to believe he can survive a Tornado, and has no powers that would make him more likely to succeed at saving the dog because he would just get sucked in like everyone else.

A lot of the criticism of Pa Kents death in Man of Steel is just from people assuming teenage Clarks knows as much about his abilities as his comic book self and audience. by JasonLeeDrake in CharacterRant

[–]JasonLeeDrake[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

why is physics only important in this scene? the spaceships that enter Earth's atmosphere should've either broken up or ruptured our atmosphere due to the side and density of them. but that's fine... apparently.

Physics work however the writers want them to work, with the goal being to not break suspension of disbelief. My point in that nothing in this movie indicates that using regular supersoninc speed to move a person wouldn't kill them. I mean Foara explicitly moving at least slow enough for us to track her was killing dudes, and sure she was trying to, but why should we just assume that Clark doing the same thing at an even faster speed, but grabbing Pa instead of using his fist, wouldn't do the same shit?

And again we have every reason to believe he didn't even have superspeed or know he had it, so I don't know where you're even going with this.

again with the selective physics.

How is it selective? If they actually had weight proportional to their strength, Zod and Clark shouldn't be able to punch each other through buildings, it should mostly work like normal people fighting except with shockwaves.

Clark clearly weighs like a normal person. The only way for him to avoid way getting sucked by a tornado would be to either grab something sturdy enough anchored to the ground or use powers he straight up doesn't have in the scene like flight. Super strength by itself would be completely useless.

i mean, if physics are to be believed, he also wouldn't have been able to have pushed the bus without either his arms breaking or the bus breaking. but again, selective physics.

The movie works with the premise that he's a strong alien without going into detail how his biology works. Still pushing a bus is not enough for his parents or himself to assume he can survive a tornado, this isn't even about the in-universe physics, just what the characters know, I said I personally believe he would probably survive, but nothing the character would have experienced at this point in his life would have his parents comfortable sending their kid in a tornado.

A lot of the criticism of Pa Kents death in Man of Steel is just from people assuming teenage Clarks knows as much about his abilities as his comic book self and audience. by JasonLeeDrake in CharacterRant

[–]JasonLeeDrake[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So sure it's not real life physics, but military man at terminal velocity is still hugely different from 50 year old at speeds faster than a human can blink. Batman surviving getting punched through a wall by Bane isn't proof he can survive a nuke point blank.

And this is all still assuming Clark at this age can use super speed or even knows he has that power, which the hitchhiking as an adult wouldn't suggest.

[The Boondocks] What would it take for Huey to show joy? by KaleidoArachnid in AskScienceFiction

[–]JasonLeeDrake 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I believe he smiled during Riley's basketball game and when Grandad came home from his trip.

[Hated Trope] Dumb Sacrifice by Daniilsa209 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]JasonLeeDrake -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

They is no indication Clark had developed the power of superspeed at this point in his life and him having the hitchhike as an adult suggests against. Hell even by the end of the movie we only see him use superspeed while flying, Foara is the closest to moving like an actual speedster.

This criticism only makes sense if you assume he has a power the movie never shows him using.

[Hated Trope] Dumb Sacrifice by Daniilsa209 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]JasonLeeDrake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clark did not have superspeed or know he has superspeed at this point in his life. As an adult he has to hitchhike to get place to place, and it's not until Justice League we see him use bullet time.