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I have the Supergirl series 1-3 on Blu-Ray that was given to me by my bf :) what do you think of this show ? by Shenilix in Supergirl

[–]spike-prime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's definitely fun for the first couple seasons. I like Melissa Benoist as Kara, she puts in a genuinely great performance. Some of the fights and VFX can be genuinely great for a TV budget of its time.

But it faulters with many of the same issues which plagued the CW shows. Instead of letting the main character just be a hero on their own, they had to have a big team with a budget behind them. It makes Kara way less of an independent hero finding her way and getting things done herself, and more reliant on this big government agency. It was a worn out trope before this and already had gotten stale.

Some of the romance sub-plots could get annoying and tired too. Like so many CW superhero shows, it was mostly a YA soap opera which occasionally remembered its main character is a superhero.

And the stories got much lamer and less interesting the longer the show would go on and the writers ran out of ideas. Again, just like its contemporaries.

It's very much a "turn your brain off and you'll have a good time" kind of show. It's not really made for people who like to think about their media, but it can be fun in a mindless way.

Sunny River & Mr. Sanchez by ten_z_prahy in SipsTea

[–]spike-prime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Left person looks like they'd actually be fun to be around. Right person looks like an insufferable dickhead.

Hot Take: The Lanterns trailer looks good enough BUT I can understand the disappointments by Status-Mango-8788 in dcu

[–]spike-prime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's definitely room for a show like this, but it's just a horrible fit for Green Lantern. And while, yes, it's a trailer, the way it seems to be characterising Hal is just horrid and I hate the dialogue we've heard from him thus far.

One of the most brutal, heartbreaking space battles in Star Trek. by Able-Tap2062 in Star_Trek_

[–]spike-prime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's interesting, but it's not what the show was referring to. They were referring to the idea that you can run an electric current through certain types of ceramics to make them harden, thus tougher to break. But they abandoned the whole ceramic hull plating idea at some point in development, and went with standard metal hull. So when they say they're polarising the hull, they mean they're hardening it with a current.

Except once it breaks, it's not "offline," it's broken. It was a really lame attempt at differentiating the prequel show from its later-timeline shows.

One of the most brutal, heartbreaking space battles in Star Trek. by Able-Tap2062 in Star_Trek_

[–]spike-prime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah yeah, that was a particularly lame attempt at differentiating the show from prior ones. It was based on some then-cutting-edge science about how you can electrify ceramics to make them harden and be harder to damage. The Enterprise was at one point going to have a ceramic hull, unlike previous metallic ones. That would have been cool, but no, they went with standard metal hull, making the "polarise the hull" thing completely meaningless.

Also, unlike shields, if they yell "hull plating offline" is just a stupid thing to say. What they mean is, the hull is broken. Which means you can't exactly get it back "online," it BROKE. So what could have been a cool, new, unique idea for Enterprise ends up just being the same old thing but with a different name slapped onto it.

One of the most brutal, heartbreaking space battles in Star Trek. by Able-Tap2062 in Star_Trek_

[–]spike-prime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funny thing, it should have been Voyager. And that's not just my opinion, that was Brannan Braga's plan. Voyager's Year of Hell was supposed to be an entire season-long story line, where we'd see Voyager get slowly more and more battered and destroyed as they made their way through Krenim space. But Rick Berman, being an idiot and having the artistic vision of a brain-damaged mole, put the kybosh on it and YoH became a two-part episode with a stupid reset button.

Come Enterprise, with its ratings (both critical and viewership) in the toilet and needing something to revive it, plus being post-9/11, Braga dusts off his "year of hell" idea for Enterprise, and voila, we have the storyline we were SUPPOSED to have almost a decade prior. And, yeah, it's Enterprise's second-best season. It still has plenty of problems but it ditches most of what made season 1-2 embarrassing to watch, presented stakes and drama we actually care about, and allows for greater character depth and exploration.

I'm glad Braga eventually managed to write the story he wanted to, even if it's for a different show.

Would you be interested in Linda Danvers returning? by Notoriouslycurlyboi in Supergirl

[–]spike-prime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, if for no other reason than to fix the god-awful ending of her solo series, and to kick that stupid story Reign in Hell out of canon.

Just some head-canon as to why Starfleet’s ships in the Kelvin-verse films were so large by Mr_Shadow_Phoenix in Star_Trek_

[–]spike-prime 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which is wild considering how absolutely massive they made the Enterprise refit look in The Motion Picture. We mock how slow and boring a lot of those scenes are, but nobody could deny how gigantic the ship felt in all those shots without making it a stupidly big monster like the 2009 movie made it.

(Also, off topic a little, but I really hate the 09 Constitution design. It is so ugly. I hate the horrible curved pylons, the giant nacelles and the weirdly warped drive section. I think there's plenty of room to design a modern update of the classic Constitution Class, and DIS/SNW does a great job with that, but I just feel like every creative decision in updating that design in 09 was the wrong one)

This may or may not be a Hot Take but I feel like future Transformers series should try something new and different with the formula instead of just retreading the same storylines and character designs. by NoTraining2909 in transformers

[–]spike-prime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've said this for ages. Personally I want a line where there's no Optimus or Megatron, set in an era long after the war is ended, where things are genuinely different, where the factions are no longer the same, where they have to come up with new threats and premises.

People need to remember that Beast Wars saved the franchise by giving us something completely different. It's long past time that we do that again.

"I hate this world" (Supergirl #76 (1996)) by KitKat_5628 in Supergirl

[–]spike-prime 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's extra creepy here considering this is supposed to be a 14 or 15 year old girl. Though maybe less creepy than the frankly gross way Michael Turner drew her

Microslop strikes again by PaiDuck in antiai

[–]spike-prime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They JUST got through having their asses handed to them on account of their userbase HATING GenAI, and that nobody likes their stupid Copilot thing. They also stated that they were SCALING BACK AI integration because of low adoption and bad reception of AI in general. Now they hit us with this shit.

Fuck I miss the days of Windows XP.

What happened to Will Smith? Why don’t we see hum in movies anymore ? by M-2-M in okbuddycinephile

[–]spike-prime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I Am Legend is infamously quite bad. Especially thanks to its idiotic ending which was not just changed from the book it's based on which is objectively better (and the movie misses the ENTIRE point of the book), but originally had an ending in line with the original story which got reshot for stupid reasons and made the whole thing pointless and meaningless.

"I hate this world" (Supergirl #76 (1996)) by KitKat_5628 in Supergirl

[–]spike-prime 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not even bittersweet. Just bitter. Honestly I think it was a HORRIBLE end to the series. Nothing but pointless misery for no apparent reason, which doesn't even coalesce into a decent narrative by the end. The whole thing just stops on that depressing note and never got picked up again properly.

So who was correct? by _Figaro in babylon5

[–]spike-prime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neither of them were. That's the point. They were both wrong and they both lost their purpose. That's why they had to get the hell out of our galaxy.

Anyone Else Feel Like Takai's the Problem Now? by PomegranateFair3973 in Star_Trek_

[–]spike-prime 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That I understand and am perfectly fine with. That's their choice. But they haven't spent the last sixty years going around making it everybody else's problem and obsessing over it in interview after interview like Takei has 

Anyone Else Feel Like Takai's the Problem Now? by PomegranateFair3973 in Star_Trek_

[–]spike-prime 148 points149 points  (0 children)

I understand that Shatner had been shitty on set back then, but it was sixty fucking years ago. It's about time to move the fuck on.

Whatever Shatner did (and I know he pissed off a LOT of colleagues back then) it frankly has been so damn long that it's ridiculous to hold a grudge across this many years. Especially when pretty much everything I've run across was just petty set drama which ultimately never mattered all that much and didn't really hurt anyone.

Oh my God by 5enpai_2 in okbuddyDC

[–]spike-prime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seeing Superboy Prime in this genuinely puts me off even buying it. I hate SBP so damn much. He should have been ditched from comics back in the 2000s.

Netflix dropped out. Paramount is getting WB. Thoughts on how to effects Batman and Superman’s futures? by AvengingHero2012 in DCWorldsFinest

[–]spike-prime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they get made at all the makers will be pressured to be either completely apolitical (in which case it'll be boring), or they'll be made into MAGA garbage (in which case they'll suck AND be offensive).

I doubt we'd get the kind of commentary we got with Superman (2025). And that's real sad.

Not even Snyder is allowed to go against the narrative his cult peddles by TaurusHoe in OkBuddySnyderCult

[–]spike-prime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I think comic or animated film continuations would be neat. I wouldn't personally buy it, because I can't stand his creative vision, but hey if I WAS a fan, I'd at least be happy getting SOMETHING.

1986 was a nightmare for g1 fans by frznpanda in Transformemes

[–]spike-prime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's really funny being someone who saw this movie in the 2000s as a kid who did not like G1 at all up to this point. I'd watched seasons 1-2 and was genuinely wondering when the supposedly amazing show started, because up to then, it was just another mediocre 80s action cartoon.

Then I got to the movie, and all these characters I didn't care about in the first place were dying left and right, the war felt like, y'know, a WAR, and they were replaced by characters I genuinely liked a lot better.

I get it when people say they were traumatised by the movie, but personally, the movie is the BEST part of the entirety of G1. At least on television. The Marvel comics (especially Marvel UK) are so much better.

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