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Daisy Ridley’s so cute, I want to kiss her on the forehead. For her and her alone, I’ll eventually watch TFA.
Hmm, a lot of posters here seem to be forgetting that AngryGinger requested books that would be appropriate for his/her eight-year-old son to read. Me thinks Splinter of the Mind’s Eye/Thrawn Trilogy/etc. might be a little too advanced for his age.
Ah, well, I’ve downed an entire (small) bottle of booze, so now I’m in the forgiving mood.
Let’s all live and let live, okay?
I watched the first season of Charmed over the last week. It’s a moderately entertaining show, and Marie Holly Combs is cute as a button, but the writing’s pretty vapid; I don’t feel compelled to watch any further seasons.
With that out of the way, I’ve now begun watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Suffice it to say, all the teenaged characters are rather annoying – Willow excepted – but Giles is a gas, and I love every scene he’s in. I think I’m going to be sticking with this series.
Yes, it was. Dark Horse even made a comic adaptation of it.
Making that book canon within the post-TESB SW Universe was probably the first warning sign that something was rotten in the EU (Well, after the Jedi Academy Trilogy, at any rate).
I’ve been a Superman fan since 1994 at the latest. I’m familiar with most major iterations of the character, inside the comics and outside, Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age, and Modern Age, in-continuity and outside-of-continuity. I’m familiar with the Superman who pines for Krypton and would toss his glasses in the nearest garbage bin at the first opportunity and the Superman who sees Earth as his one true home and considers himself a Kansas farmboy at heart; I know which of those two Supermen resonates the most for me.
So yeah, I certainly do know a quite bit more about the goddamn character than Frink does, so I don’t appreciate having my opinion cavalierly stated as wrong by him, especially since it’s not a new concept I just pulled out of my ass but one professional writers have been all quite eagrely working with for some 29-odd years.
I thought we all agreed that you were wrong?
I thought we all agreed you know jackshit about the character and thus any opinion you have on how he should be interpreted is next to worthless?
No, I can’t say I really like it now. I accept it for the moderately entertaining Trek knockoff that it is and pretty much ignore it from there.
I was a big fan of the show prior to 2006, though.
I think you hate TFA almost as much as I used to hate Stargate SG-1. Thankfully, I grew out of my less-than-rational loathing; it was mentally tasking and utterly unworthy of the effort.
Let’s just agree to disagree, shall we?
*diet sigh*
I’ve always attributed the clumsy, bumbling, cowardly, to him trying to hide any ideas that he’s Superman. He wants to keep his identities unknown, and his decision to be without a mask as Superman means he needs to keep people he knows from seeing through it.
So going out of his way to draw attention to himself with a Steve Urkel act is supposed to draw attention away from himself?
Sorry, but I’ve got a better idea; no one would suspect Clark is Superman because Clark is just so damn average in appearance and mannerism that no one would even begin to suspect that he’s the larger-than-life red-blue-and-yellow clad Kryptonian demigod.
In other words, he’d have no reason to “play up” Clark since Superman himself is already innately played up.
I’ve never watched the show ever. My familiarity with it begins and ends here:
Also, do you remember when Superman: The Movie and Superman II were made? 1978 and 1979 definitely happened before 1985.
Yes, they predated that year. Knowing that doesn’t make them better films. In my opinion, they still fall flat as films independent of Clark’s/Superman’s characterization.
And I’m also curious as to the way in which the things you’ve mentioned treated this subject. How was Clark Kent portrayed differently from Superman in these? etc…
Clark wasn’t clumsy, bumbling, cowardly, etc. He was assertive, competent, and athletic. Basically, he is who his parents – Jonathan and Martha Kent, that is – raised him to be.
It’s apparent you’ve never read any of the comics published after 1985 or watched Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman or Superman: The Animated Series.
I haven’t and I’m proud of it.
It’s apparent you’ve never read any of the comics published after 1985 or watched Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman or Superman: The Animated Series.
My main reasons for liking Superman III over the Reeve films is basically:
Cutting to the chase, I’m not a fan of any variation of the “Superman is the real person, Clark is the disguise” idea. For me, it’s a horrible interpretation of the character and flies in the face of everything the character represents to me. While it’s a stretch to say that Superman III makes Clark the “real” persona, the film does give a more nuanced approach to the character, presenting him as something more than a bumbling facade.
I enjoy seeing Clark Kent – the human side of the character – triumph over Superman – the alien side.
I really like Annette O’Toole as Lana. I find her a more likeable, compelling love interest than Kidder’s Lois.
And that’s about it. In every other respect, Superman III's no better than the other Reeve films.
I’ve read the Thrawn rumours. Honestly, my feelings on the idea are mixed.
I honestly wish there was a despecialized edition of the PT out there. Watching this
in motion and with accompanying dialogue would send my sides splitting wide open.
8yo: Is he going to get his red lightsaber now?
Wife: Not yet.
5yo: When does he get it?
Wife: I don’t know.
8yo: That’s disappointing. I don’t want the bad guys to have red lightsabers because it’s such a cool color.
Your eight-year-old has good taste.
What, no one’s mentioned Natalie Wood yet?!
Bunch of slackjawed maggots around here …
*sigh substitute*
I see the current wave of silliness as a means of compensating for the departure of so many once-regular posters from this corner of the forum. It’s our way of keeping off-topic from becoming a complete graveyard.
Still, I sympathize. I’d like to see the more serious discussions remuse, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BMgegut3UM
This is the best alternate George Lucas storyline.
I can’t believe that trailer has its own IMDb entry.
Oh, well – I guess the universe has to play fair once in a while.
