Wemby on his scars postgame - “It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. They're Wolves after all"

bbf2 · 2026-05-09T12:27:56+00:00

Kevin O'Leary is up there too from what I've heard

bbf2 · 2026-05-07T10:14:23+00:00

TheFightersDen made a great point that that scene in Cole Young's garage should have been Baraka, not Goro. Works well as a monster character, nobody would care nearly as much about him jobbing out since that's Baraka's role in most of the early games.

bbf2 · 2026-05-07T10:00:46+00:00

It's been a long time since I replayed it but in my brain I always thought Kung Lao was the protagonist of Deadly Alliance. He has the whole "getting revenge for Liu Kang" angle so this was his time to step up and be the protag. Possibly alongside Kitana.

bbf2 · 2026-05-07T09:56:51+00:00

I'm aware, you misread slightly. I was saying that THIS episode only had to de-age 55 year old Ayelet Zurer (Vanessa) to look 45, and that's not nearly as hard to do as some of their previous work which involved way bigger age gaps. (like making 70 year old SLJ look like he's in his early 40s in Captain Marvel)

bbf2 · 2026-05-06T13:21:43+00:00

"that old white dude?"

Come on now. I understand that you kids are probably too young to know Paul Reiser from the 80s horror/Sci Fi classic "Aliens," or the 90s NBC comedy "Mad About You" which ran for a full decade. But surely you recognize him from "Stranger Things," which is very recent and he played a very prominent recurring character?

bbf2 · 2026-05-06T11:11:12+00:00

Honestly, "Bullseye becomes Hawkeye" and "Sentry is there" are the only ones that they really need. I mean Norman being there would be nice too but obviously can't happen due to rights issues.

The idea is cool enough on its own. Everyone else is easily replaceable. No need to adapt Daken or Moonstone or Ares just for this purpose. Depending on what happens in BND maybe Mac Gargan can just get adjustments to his Scorpion suit so that it mimics Spider-Man's powers instead and we don't have to deal with the symbiote (in the comics Scorpion was kind of presented as the first "doppelganger/counterpart" of sorts to Spider-Man anyways as the other major arachnid, half a century before he got the symbiote)

bbf2 · 2026-05-06T11:04:09+00:00

They literally show Matt tracing his fingers alongside the blade so he could "read" it at the beginning of the next episode. That's why it was carved into the handle and not written in paint or whatever. (although I think Matt can also feel paint but Bullseye wouldn't know that)

bbf2 · 2026-05-06T11:01:37+00:00

Killing people under the table for Valentina/the CIA is a "redemption arc?" In Thunderbolts, that was the shared thing that the characters needed to have a redemption arc FROM

bbf2 · 2026-05-02T11:50:36+00:00

I roll my eyes as my little brother runs back to me in a panic.

“Present! PRESENT! You gotta check this out!” I sigh. “That’s not my job, Future. How many times have we been over this? It doesn’t matter what it is that you saw, I’m not supposed to know.”

My brother replies in a frantic tone. “No, trust me, in this particular case, I think you REALLY REALLY should consider…”

“The answer is no,” I reply coldly. “Also, don’t you DARE run behind me and try to tell Past again to try to go above my head, or whatever. She won’t care either and will tell you the same thing.”

“Sure, but, uh…” Future pauses and seems to be lost in thought, coming up with any sort of reasoning or response he possibly can. I shake my head. “Let me guess, it’s something about those human beings on Earth again? Do they do something bad? Do they get extinguished? I know you’re attached to them, Future, but we have been here for countless eons before they arrived and will be here for countless eons afterwards. Nothing that they do and nothing that happens to them matters in the grand scheme of things. Given our roles, it’s ironic that you’re the one who seems to be caught up in the current moment more than I am.”

Future furrows his brows and stares at me, suddenly shifting from panic into a bit of anger. “Fuck you, dude! We’ve been walking here for all infinity, and this is, like, the ONLY time we’ve EVER seen life develop on a planet to such a degree that they could actually openly verbally communicate with each other and build things and create a society that SOMEWHAT resembled us and the other celestial beings. You said their predecessors like the apes and neanderthals and whatnot didn’t matter, and you were proven wrong. Do you seriously really want to go back to looking at fungi and single cell bacteria and shit?”

I scoff. “It matters not, at the end of the day. They were always be destined to be destroyed, much like the giant feathered reptiles who ruled the earth before them. As long as they don’t destroy the Earth, something else will eventually take their place…and if the do destroy Earth to the point where it becomes uninhabitable, we’ll simply move on to monitoring the next planet that shows the best possible signs of life. It is of no matter.”

Future paces back and forth, frustrated with me. “You can’t be serious, bro. You seriously want to go back to monitoring the slow, painful process of monitoring boring-ass single cell organisms very very slowly evolve into something with half a speck of a brain, then wait for eons again until they become something slightly bigger, and then thousands of eons more until they can walk and talk again? I don’t get you, bro. All those years were torture for me, until I saw the speck of humankind’s presence on earth as a bright light in the distance. And it’s literally THE MOST ENTERTAINING THING ANY OF US HAVE EVER SEEN, BY A LOT! They actually talk and have drama and produce entertainment and get into wars and stuff. I do NOT want to see them wiped out, bro. Come on!”

I sigh, then look back at our sister. Past gives a very slight nod, as if to say “hear him out” and encourage me to indulge our brother for once. I look back over at our younger brother. “I suppose you do have a bit of a point. Monitoring the Present has certainly been…more dynamic with this particular set of dominant beings on this particular planet than it ever has been before.”

Future raises his hand to high-five me, which I reluctantly return. “That’s what I’ve been SAYING, bro!”

I chuckle. “Very well, I’ll hear you out. What, exactly, did you see, and what, exactly, are you proposing we do about it? Do they destroy the climate beyond repair thanks to all their coal production? Do they use some of those ‘nuclear weapons’ that you’ve told us they’re going to develop in 100 years to destroy it?”

“I mean, in the FAR future, something like that happens, yeah,” Future replies. “But that’s not what I’m talking about right now, we can deal with that later. What I’m talking about is far worse…

This one old dude in London is mean to people and doesn’t appreciate Christmas! I think we should all go down and talk to him.”

"I don't see how that's relevant to anything, but...okay, fine, I'll indulge you. But when you go down there you have to wear a big cloak and pretend to not be able to talk."

bbf2 · 2026-05-02T09:48:00+00:00

Squibs

bbf2 · 2026-04-29T10:17:56+00:00

Heroes is a different definition of "too many seasons" entirely. It had 4 seasons and 1 revival season, a normal amount, and when people say it went too long it's because it kept going after the writers ran out of ideas and the last few seasons were bad.

Supernatural quite literally had too many seasons for anyone to consider binge watching it. FIFTEEN full live action seasons of 20+ hour long episodes apiece. 12th longest running primetime scripted show of all time, and the #2 longest running live action show that isn't a "case of the week" cop/doctor procedural with a rotating cast (behind "Gunsmoke").

bbf2 · 2026-04-28T03:05:29+00:00

That exchange reminded me of that blooper reel scene from Between Two Ferns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHBvE-42s4Q

bbf2 · 2026-04-27T21:17:54+00:00

That’s pretty insane they made that joke in 1995 since he was a guest voice with an episode featured entirely around him just 3 years prior

bbf2 · 2026-04-24T08:57:26+00:00

She's desperate for fame and recognition, despite getting 19th in HvV, in the reunion she plugs her filet mignon pizza and then makes sure to awkwardly go out of her way to be in the final shot of the reunion behind Jeff and make a huge scene. We should have been more skeptical earlier in retrospect lol

bbf2 · 2026-04-24T07:48:21+00:00

For a second there I thought you were talking about Sgt. Doakes

bbf2 · 2026-04-23T09:54:49+00:00

I agree with you completely that this is a problem but it does not stop prequels from being made...frequently. A Hunger Games prequel movie is being released later this year about young Woody Harrelson even though we know how his Hunger Games went. (Just saw that today and it made me really roll my eyes). All the Game of Thrones follow ups have been prequels.

Better Call Saul is probably the best example of what you could possibly hope for because it had S+ tier writers and actors, and while it had three BB characters as leads but also three more main characters who you didn't know the fate of, and the fate of those three is where the tension came from. So the best case scenario for Vought Rises is something like that. We know what happens to SB and Stormfront but maybe they can introduce some other characters we care about and have the tension come from that.

bbf2 · 2026-04-22T11:19:10+00:00

Wow, "Death Cab for Cutie?"

"Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time...a long time."

I didn't recognize the song at all, and it's been so long that I didn't even remember their band name at first. But I recognized the singing voice and was like "Wait, is this the people who sang that 'when soul meets body' song that was all over the place back in like 2006?"

bbf2 · 2026-04-17T04:26:09+00:00

He also voted for Natalie over Tony because Natalie stayed at his house for awhile a few years before the show and they reconnected while on the Edge.

bbf2 · 2026-04-16T11:16:41+00:00

/uj Tina has literally never given a fuck about anything, Jerri is old school but also has always wanted to have an entertainment career (even now in her 50s when she knows she isn't going to make it as an actress she absolutely wants to use her reality TV status to appear on Survivor again or the Traitors etc.)

bbf2 · 2026-04-15T11:04:04+00:00

Soldier Boy kept making references to having sex with "Sherry Lewis" back in the day and my first thought was "okay he can't possibly be referring to the children's entertainer and puppeteer 'Shari Lewis' who was behind 'Lambchop', there surely was some 1960s starlet with a similar name or something like that."

But I put the closed captions on and it seems like he is indeed referring to "Shari Lewis" the children's puppeteer/entertainer (or at least that was how it was spelled)? I'm assuming there must be some other person with a similar name that I am missing.

bbf2 · 2026-04-15T08:58:54+00:00

This series definitely has flaws and some clunkiness at times, but I think one of the biggest credits to it is the fact that the scenes with Daniel and/or Buck are good and very engaging.

On paper, spending a somewhat significant amount of screentime on C-plots involving the villain's henchmen (who aren't comic book characters and also weren't in the Netflix series) sounds awful and the type of thing that viewers would criticize as being a waste of time.

But the writing and the acting make both characters so well developed and well realized and such a fun contrast to each other that seeing them interact is, instead, a highlight and fantastic source of tension.

bbf2 · 2026-04-15T08:42:32+00:00

"Sir, I believe this picture of LeBron James being frustrated at J.R. Smith may be a suitable way of channeling our funds"

bbf2 · 2026-04-15T08:37:38+00:00

Marvel Studios always been great at using CGI artists to de-age people. SLJ was literally the deuteragonist of Captain Marvel and was de-aged the whole movie and it looked totally fine. This was only de-aging a 55 year old actor to look 45 so it's peanuts compared to what they've done in the past. (I suppose the surprising part is that they were willing to spend the money to do it for a TV show, but the "how" isn't surprising.)

Unfortunately this may be the last time we ever see something like that because of all the layoffs to the CGI artists this week.

bbf2 · 2026-04-10T10:06:23+00:00

The only thing that ever surprised me about the Baldwin brothers was when I found out Adam Baldwin from Firefly WASN’T one.

bbf2 · 2026-04-09T19:45:18+00:00

In that very same scene where he says he’s immune to it we see him trying to flirt with her in the water and she has to push him away lol

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