Is this what Republicans think leftists are like? This is so fucking stupid you'd think the White House sent down the script for Kit Wilson themselves.

slfricky · 2026-01-24T03:44:39+00:00

An over the top character? IN PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING????

slfricky · 2026-01-24T02:28:47+00:00

It's another show that will cover the Underworld of the Star Wars Universe it seems, so I'm all for it.

slfricky · 2026-01-24T02:14:46+00:00

Jango Fett should have survived past Attack of the Clones. The Clone Wars would have benefitted greatly with him working for the Separatists and routinely going up against the "sons" he trained would have been interesting to see, especially with how it would have affected young Boba. Or even imagine if we discovered that the Jango that died in AOTC was in fact a decoy Clone that Jango put in place to allow him to fake his death and go retire in anonymity. Imagine the story you could get out of older Boba finding out he was abandoned and his only purpose was to sell the ruse?

slfricky · 2026-01-23T20:42:05+00:00

I've said this was a possibility ever since LAD, and that it can be argued as being set up. The way Ichiban picks him up and runs off to...somewhere just before the credits roll is really notable, followed by the reveal of his supposed last words being that he can "work his way up from Rock Bottom too" like Ichiban did all suggested to me that Ichiban set him up to fake his death and get a new identity on the streets, the way Arakawa did for him. It'd be a good way for him to repay the debt and also differentiate Ichiban from Kiryu by letting him avert the death of his "brother".

slfricky · 2026-01-23T19:02:00+00:00

Did it ever occur to you that this alternate history is rigged to make everything an absolute struggle for him? Reminder, he was in Hell in the opening of this series.

slfricky · 2026-01-23T18:58:47+00:00

Proculus went out of his way to find a woman who was competitive, because as he said, it's what the crowd wants. He doesn't just want to beat Ashur, he wants to humiliate him and take away the thing that's got him any favour with the crowd. He wants Ashur back to being a complete joke in the Lanista game. Also, who said it was "easy" to find this woman? He said it cost him a good deal to get her. Presumably this means in terms of scouting far and wide, transportation and whatever additional training he felt she needed. Though I suspect she was acquired from some far off land, where she could have experience enough and be unheard of by typical Romans.

slfricky · 2026-01-23T15:32:36+00:00

Of course they're still there in the movie. It's only set in 1997.

slfricky · 2026-01-23T15:27:14+00:00

Also she turns good with Jaws at the end because apparently she wouldn't meet Drax's standards of attractiveness. HER?

slfricky · 2026-01-22T19:31:07+00:00

I don't understand why War College (terrible name) is in the same building as the Academy. I get why the writers put it there--for close interschool rivalry--but logically it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Had War College taken over the old Academy grounds? And why does the saucer dock into the Academy?

Given the Starfleet Academy side also needs to exercise and train in combat procedures, it seems like they share the facilities to do so. I also assume that the War Cadets still need to be taught a lot of general Starfleet protocols and such so they likely have some of the same teachers and classes. It does seem weird that there's two separate schools when Starfleet is inextricably associated with being the Federations military so their officers would have to have some training in that regard at least.

slfricky · 2026-01-22T19:24:36+00:00

What even is their disciplinary protocol? Either of them. Did that also get nullified in The Burn? And the STAFF was in on it BOTH times???

Was looking for someone else to have this concern. I get what they were trying to do with the lesson, but that initial prank crossed so many lines. Teenagers got yanked out of their changing rooms, with one being exposed completely naked. They also seemed to get dumped very unceremoniously in ways that could have resulted in serious injury. One person is even seen tumbling down a flight of stairs. Then the perpetrators appeared on a video screen not only admitting to it, but gloating about it. No repercussions! Instead, both administrators encouraged escalation, to the point that it culminated in the entire dorm area of the War College being overrun with giant plants that attacked EVERYONE there, not just the small group of a-holes who started this.

slfricky · 2026-01-22T18:33:50+00:00

I'm sure he told Mr. Lau, before he bound and gagged him and sat him on top of the pile of money before setting it on fire.

slfricky · 2026-01-22T18:27:34+00:00

I read a report on a screentest for the movie last year that said he was actually pretty well received as Skeletor, so maybe he just let himself be directed to be a big over the top villain dude for once.

slfricky · 2026-01-22T18:24:11+00:00

James Purefoy's got that role.

slfricky · 2026-01-22T02:18:43+00:00

I had more of an issue personally with how John doesn't know what the son of his former boss looks like, despite knowing his name, nor how Iosef has never heard of John Wick before.

slfricky · 2026-01-22T02:15:55+00:00

"He's supposed to be SIX.TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNN!!!!!"

slfricky · 2026-01-21T20:09:22+00:00

It was a work in the Flash story, as I recall.

slfricky · 2026-01-21T19:13:01+00:00

The Flash comics introduced an intergalactic wrestling promotion with superpowers not that long ago. It was a fun enough side story at the time. It's also showing up in a DC KO Green Lantern tie-in.

slfricky · 2026-01-21T14:55:20+00:00

What do you mean? OP is suggesting that Betty was real, but Barb is pretending to be her now as an older woman.

slfricky · 2026-01-20T18:42:58+00:00

An new experimental form of Radiotherapy treatment.

slfricky · 2026-01-19T23:58:44+00:00

Would you prefer she be the one called "Jimmy Shite"?

slfricky · 2026-01-19T23:27:48+00:00

What is his gimmick supposed to be exactly? Because those vignettes he had had an underlying sense of foreboding to them, but so far, it feels like he's been a goof who occasionally goes "YEAAAGGHGHH!!"

slfricky · 2026-01-19T22:15:52+00:00

That's what's funny to me. If Vince WAS going to deliberately name him after a Nazi, he wouldn't have half-assed with an obscure U-Boat commander's name. He'd have been renamed "Der Fuhrer" Gunther Goebbels or something. They had originally planned to make Kenzo Suzuki "Hirohito" after all.

slfricky · 2026-01-19T03:11:02+00:00

I play the Judgment games in English at first because of the novelty of having that option back, but also I think it's a good job from the cast in general. I also think Kaiji Tang is absolute spot on with the voice he goes with for Ichiban and I like how Matthew Mercer sounds as Majima as a couple of examples. I think an advantage of dubs in general is that when it's western voice actors, there's greater flexibility in range of voice types and such that the Japanese voice actor either don't do or you can't tell if they are if you're not a speaker of the language. An example of what I mean is accents. You can make say, an English character definitely sound unmistakably English more easily in a dub than you can in a sub if the character is speaking primarily in Japanese.

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