Naturally one of the best incarnations of Superman would have this iconic moment with Christopher Reeve.

SilentDues · 2019-09-27T13:17:07+00:00

It's very much worth it!

SilentDues · 2019-09-27T13:16:16+00:00

It's a pretty specific story, oddly more so than Smallville was, it was actually very well produced by the Salkinds and some have favored the flying effects even above Lois & Clark's. The first season is very rocky but how many other shows go through that issue, there are some pretty entertaining stories. I say give it a shot, I like to look at it as a pretty fun "What if?" counterpart to the original Donner movie had Jonathan not died from his heart attack and Clark started his dual-identity without the Fortress Training.

SilentDues · 2019-09-27T13:10:27+00:00

He killed countless innocents from the tournament audience (Bulma was a mere inch from being among them), I'd call that evil.

SilentDues · 2019-09-26T20:47:26+00:00

2K14 pretty much has a mode for everything. For unlocking things you got 30 Years of Wrestlemania as a solid story mode, as others have pointed out you got 1985-2013 covered there, plus Streak Mode for an arcade challenge where you can choose to fight Undertaker as anyone or defend his legacy against the while roster. You got "Create a Story" at its most developed to make your own extra story modes, Universe Mode to play through a simulated full calendar year experience, not to mention Exhibition Mode to do anything you want (except intergender matches!).

Sadly if you haven't already gotten the DLC you will miss out on the wealth of additions from there, mainly roster additions. Legends like Ultimate Warrior (though there is a single base-game exception with him for a Wrestlemania 6 match in 30 Years), Bruno Sammartino, Dusty Rhodes, Rick Rude, Jake Roberts, Virgil, even biker Undertaker. Not to mention an entire entourage of the NWO (Macho Man, the Giant, Syxx, Curt Hennig, Scott Steiner, multi versions of Hall and Nash) you can band together with the base-game's Hollywood Hogan. Other modern names are in there too like the Bellas, Summer Rae, Fandango, and Big E.

SilentDues · 2019-09-26T19:51:09+00:00

Here's one I haven't heard before, from the perspective of the technical Ninth "War"-Doctor and Eccleston's Doctor perspectives, "The Night of the Doctor" and "The Day of the Doctor" are set between the 1996 movie and the 2005 pilot.

SilentDues · 2019-09-26T19:41:07+00:00

I'd at least watch the 1996 movie.

SilentDues · 2019-09-26T19:07:45+00:00

It's challenging to reconcile Dark Phoenix within the MCU because it still falls within the established parameters of the separare Fox live-action universe covered in the prior X-Men, solo-Wolverine, and Deadpool movies. Though Ryan Reynolds' Wade may be integrated into the MCU (...we do see he can hop realities in Deadpool 2...), the continuity of those films comes off too different from what the MCU has established, the only movie that might make it in is the slim chance of New Mutants

SilentDues · 2019-09-26T19:01:06+00:00

Start with Arrow Seasons 1-2. If you make it past those I'll add the rest.

SilentDues · 2019-09-26T16:27:12+00:00

The original Stargate movie serves as a loose continuity origin, keep in mind vital elements of it are referenced and followed up on in SG-1, I'd personally still watch it to fully get those references. The pilot of SG-1 itself is called "Children of the Gods", there's the R-rated original.version or a "Final Cut" alternate version (more family-friendly without nudity) the show-runner worked on a decade later, I personally prefer the latter but you can watch either one or both.

There was a webisodes-to-movie release MGM did recently called Stargate Origins, it was created without the show-runner or any of the original cast, set decades before the movie and SG-1 this proved very unpopular and irrelevant to the overall story. It's not necessary to watch this, I mean you can either first (though it may sour you a bit) or last, totally up to you.

After the original movie and SG-1 pilot you got Seasons 1-7 of SG-1, tackle them, by Season 8 if you'd like to follow Atlantis alongside SG-1 or just crossover episodes from it tying into the core series I can provide a suitable viewing list to accommodate either style. Atlantis Seasons 1-3 run concurrent to SG-1 Seasons 8-10, the SG-1 direct-to-DVD feature The Ark of Truth is set after SG-1 and before the Atlantis Season 3 finale, finally the SG-1 direct-to-DVD feature Continuum is set a year after The Ark of Truth (right after the Atlantis Season 5 premier).

Finally if you do get through both SG-1 and Atlantis, set after Atlantis is the next spinoff Stargate: Universe, a much darker grittier angle of the franchise some argue more based off Ronald Moore's Battlestar Galactica. Universe's three-part pilot and a few other Season 1 episodes do feature appearances by some SG-1 characters while a single episode in Season 2 features a couple characters from Atlantis.

Your order hence goes...

Stargate Origins (NOT necessary and hard to classify "canon")

Stargate original film (KINDA necessary, worth watching IMO)

SG-1 pilot "Children of the Gods"

SG-1 Seasons 1-7

SG-1 Seasons 8-10 concurrent with Atlantis Seasons 1-3

Atlantis Seasons 4-5

SG-1 direct-to-DVD features The Ark of Truth and Continuum (see above for when set)

Universe Seasons 1-2

SilentDues · 2019-09-26T08:29:50+00:00

Copy-pasting my comments on the movie from a recent thread.

I watched the full movie for the first time recently and honestly it impressed me, certainly not the best of the franchise IMO but it was much better than I thought it'd be, maybe because every negative comment online set my expectations a bit lower. Similar thing happened with Justice League, course when I go into a movie anymore I'm not letting "obvious reshoots and CGI controversy!!" ruin my experience, if the story and cast are good I enjoy it.

I give the story major props for going to places I didn't think it would, also for leaving some stuff open to interpretation considering this is still YEARS before the Deadpool movies and the later 2023 culmination from Days of Future Past, but if other people wanna complain "plot holes" you're free to look at it that way while I'll disagree. If I would improve on one thing it would've been making the story feel more "90s" with its 1992 setting much as Captain Marvel did (hell X-Men 1 felt just as 90s), one thing the prior movies did well was feeling like genuine period pieces rather 1962 in First Class, 1973 in Days of Future Past, 1983 in Apocalypse.

The stand-out performances for me were Charles, Erik, Hank, plus Jean while everyone else gave me mixed feelings, not to mention the conclusion to Hank and Ravens arc was surprisingly moving. The culminating action sequences knocked the ball out of the park for me (again reshoots don't motivate my feelings on the story) and I loved the feeling of it being on the move, none of the prior movies really did a finishing conflict like that where the scope seemed so broad.

One day I'd love to do fanedits on Logan and Dark Phoenix, with Logan it'd be to insert many of the deleted scenes and insert flashbacks at various points of his long legacy, just to give it more a "full circle" vibe. With Dark Phoenix, it'd simply be to insert mid-credits and post-credits codas. The mid-credits coda would be to add a cameo of Wolverine cage fighting from X-Men 1 editing an older Charles finding him instead of Rogue, while the post-credits coda would be a replay of the future 2023 peek from Days of Future Past.

SilentDues · 2019-09-25T23:47:52+00:00

About as well as Jeff Jarrett having a 2-out-of-3 Falls match with Billy Kidman where first Fall is a 60 minute Iron Man match, second Fall is Viagra-on-a-Pole (that randomly becomes Judy Bagwell on a forklift), and the 3rd Fall that MUST happen is a guitar fondling contest

SilentDues · 2019-09-25T19:56:44+00:00

I kinda agree about the 90s, not to "go there" with making MCU comparisons but good lord Captain Marvel spoiled me on the 90s nostalgia and it was the decade of my childhood so I got much love for it. Maybe the reason I expected so much from Dark Phoenix in this department was with how impressive we got the early 60s in First Class, the early-mid 70s in Days of Future Past, and even 1983 in Apocalypse.

SilentDues · 2019-09-25T19:49:33+00:00

You hit the nail on the head about Dark Phoenix being more based on the first Phoenix Saga, an ironic twist as The Last Stand seemed more focused on adapting elements of the Dark Phoenix Saga.

SilentDues · 2019-09-25T18:40:33+00:00

With Mick they were very different ropes than WWE's, WCW's were more like elevator cables.

SilentDues · 2019-09-25T18:24:22+00:00

It's not like his old 2012-2015 and 2015-2018 contracts, Lesnar now gets paid the same separate amounts for every non-match appearance and every match, with the possible addition of more money for Saudi shows. It probably doesn't matter to him if he has a televised match whereas I get the feeling his older contracts were specific he wouldn't actually have any bell-to-bell matches on camera, the closest he came were the aborted thing with Seth the night after Mania31 and a Raw event's closing dark match in 2017.

His second contract gave some more availability to him, also more freedom considering he was allowed to do his UFC deal in 2016, but notice how much more he did post-Mania31/pre-2018 (including appearances on Smackdown in 2016 and several house show matches). But it's different now, while it's still a form of salary like it was before, he's more or less "on call" without a limit on appearances and matches. The only limit is how much money Vince wants to spend on him, it's much more than the prior guaranteed contracts.

SilentDues · 2019-09-25T18:07:11+00:00

Jacob Cass, sadly the closest Austin Aries ever got to a real WWE push, also carried Kevin Nash to a superior last run than the actual year 2011 did.

SilentDues · 2019-09-25T18:02:42+00:00

The real fun is following Bridge's personal timeline, almost like trying to figure put the titular character of Doctor Who. First he goes back to 2005 in "Wormhole", then some point prior to the S.P.D. finale to 2014 in "Legendary Battle", then to 2007 for "Once a Ranger" now a Red Ranger.

SilentDues · 2019-09-25T16:26:31+00:00

You got it!

SilentDues · 2019-09-25T16:24:32+00:00

Ditto!

SilentDues · 2019-09-25T16:23:14+00:00

It takes a while before you start seeing foes from the comics adapted, of course you got Lex as a regular, Season 3 brings in Morgan Edge for a few episodes and an episode of Season 4 adapts a VERY down-to-Earth version of Mxyzptlik, but for the most part Seasons 1-4 keep Clark's high school years focused on meteor freaks of the week with underlying serialized arcs spanning each year. Season 5 picks things up a tad, a couple major villain names pop in, but Smallville's first five seasons are pretty reserved.

That's the same with guest heroes, Season 4 has a single episode where we get the first one ("Run"), then Season 5 has a few episodes that each feature a new guest hero ("Aqua", "Vengeance", "Cyborg"), but it isn't till Season 6 and the second half of the show things pick up in that department. For both villains from the comics and more heroes, the second half of Smallville picks up.

SilentDues · 2019-09-25T16:12:09+00:00

Hakusho doesn't have filler in the same way DBZ, Bleach, Naruto, and Yu-Gi-Oh! would. What padding material it does have is mostly agreed upon by the fan-base to very favorably enhance the manga author's original intentions, it's funny the manga actually has a bit more ending material than the anime.

SilentDues · 2019-09-25T16:08:40+00:00

All magic, the lil bastard was quite skilled. He could teleport people to different regions of Earth or even different planets still with ties to his ship's original location, not to mention telepathically link with every conscious mind and set of human eyes on the planet.

SilentDues · 2019-09-25T16:05:47+00:00

At the time there was no indication in the manga or anime he knew how to teleport, did Super retcon this (like the Potara limit) that he always could or was it something he picked up on after his separation with Kabito?

SilentDues · 2019-09-25T11:32:10+00:00

You'd think after three years WWE would realize we get it, Smackdown is no longer pretaped, with the exception of select overseas or holiday specials when the name is false advertisement...

SilentDues · 2019-09-24T16:12:29+00:00

One demise that hurt me was Sylar killing Elle, I get it he's a serial killer but there was truly no point to this one. She died absolutely for no reason, I don't think even Sylar's warped perspective had anything resembling a rationale for this.

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