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[silly youngster problems]

Today I go back to school for marching band practice. The show theme for this year? Suicide Squad. It’s… Suicide Squad. Our opening music is “Heathens”. Actual suicide seems like a better option. My senior year and I march to music from SUICIDE SQUAD.

Lord Haseo said:

Death Note - 9/10

Never thought Anime could be this good.

That’s because it can’t and you’re lying to yourself 😃

Tobar said:

BREAKING: Nicholas Meyer Working on Khan Limited TV Series

Writer-director Nicholas Meyer became a Star Trek icon in 1982 when he directed (and for the most part wrote) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the low-budget follow-up to the first Star Trek movie from 1979, which was a box office hit but which cost so much to make that Paramount elected to follow it up with a smaller picture produced by their television division.

Khan had everything 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture lacked: action, acting histrionics, and the warm and often amusing character interplay between Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and McCoy (Deforest Kelley). The sequel earned about what the first movie had, on approximately a quarter of its budget, setting the template for further Star Trek movies. Meyer returned to co-write the most popular entry in the series, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and he directed and co-wrote the final movie featuring the original series cast, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

More recently, Meyer has been involved as a writer on the new Star Trek series for CBS All Access, Star Trek Discovery. But according to two separate sources, Meyer is moving on from that position for a new Star Trek project, something he has hinted at in recent interviews. According to the sources, Meyer’s new project takes him back to Khan Noonien Singh, the “genetically superior” villain played by Ricardo Montalban in the original series episode “Space Seed” and in The Wrath of Khan, and by Benedict Cumberbatch in the J.J. Abrams-helmed Star Trek Into Darkness. Meyer will reportedly be developing a prequel miniseries, or limited series that would take place on Ceti Alpha V and chronicle Khan and his followers struggling to survive in the years between when Kirk dropped him off on the planet at the end of “Space Seed” and when the crew of the U.S.S. Reliant finds them early in The Wrath of Khan.

Hmm. I wonder who would play him?

Having been away from home for over 48 days, I didn’t get much Star Trek viewing time. I actually stopped my run through TNG and watched the first few eps. of DS9, which were good. Now that I’m home, I picked up TNG where I left off, hoping for some fun space romping.

The episode I left off on just happened to be Tapestry. I was not emotionally prepared for Tapestry.

yhwx said:

I haven’t had much to say about Star Wars lately. In general, I just feel less interested in all the goings-on around the franchise. Anyone else feel this way?

It’s seasonal for me. As we near TLJ, I’ll gain interest, and then after seeing it a few times*, I’ll mostly move on and continue my adventures through other fictional universes to distract me from my growing fears about the future, the lack of fulfillment I feel from my normal life, and the feeling that my life is but an inexorable march into hell. Then the Blu-Ray will come out and I’ll try to have a big Star Wars marathon, and ultimately fail due to unforseen curcumstances, and then move to other things until the next movie**.

* Assuming I like TLJ
** Episode IX, as I have nothing more than slight curiosity about the apparently troubled Han Solo movie and don’t see that changing

DuracellEnergizer said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

and worst of all, this guy from the old EU

I must be one of the few people alive on this Earth who actually likes ol’ Beldorion.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I’ll never read a single one of the Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson Dune novels. As it is, I already regret having learned what I know about those books through osmosis.

Wow, that bad, huh? Thankfully I’ve not learned anything beyond God Emperor, having fairly successsfully shielded myself from such osmosis.

joefavs said:

Maybe it’s just because I’m too young to remember a time before the conventions of the EU were well-established, but the idea that so many people seem to find the Hutts as a species controversial is kind of baffling to me. I always thought that the concepts of Hutt Space and Nal Hutta and Nar Shaddaa and all the feuding clans were some of the more solid stuff to come out of the extracinematic material.

I’m even younger, and I would probably agree if I had gotten into the EU sooner. Alas, jumping in to random books (after it’d all been Legend-ed anyway) like Planet of Twilight proved to be a fatal error as it gave me Beldorion the Dark Jedi Hutt (and a headache).

Anyway, I have no problem accepting Hutt as a species, but I take it in a Yoda way, in that I don’t know/care about the rest and they may as well not exist to me.

Jabba’s the only Hutt in my headcanon. Partially because I seem to remember an annoying baby Hutt in early Clone Wars episodes (or was it the movie?), then there’s this guy in the current Marvel comics

and worst of all, this guy from the old EU

So things are easier for me if I pretend Jabba is the only one.

TV’s Frink said:

darth_ender said:

yhwx said:

darth_ender said:

Pertinent to this thread: My morning sun is the drug that brings me here.

I cringed.

Joy Division references are cool but Joy Division’s successor’s references are not? At least someone appreciates good music.

New Order is far superior to Joy Division. I like a few JD songs here and there but mostly just meh.

I would disagree, except I haven’t listened to enough New Order to know really.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Radio Free Albemuth, Valis, and The Divine Invasion are all superb novels. They’re what made me a near-instant fan of PKD.

How closely connected are Valis and Divine Invasion? I hear they’re supposed to make a “trilogy” with Transmigration of Timothy Archer.

I’m slowly working through Children of Dune still (and so far I’m pretty much in agreement with Duracell’s above review), but I’m going to write about a book I finished a few weeks ago and never posted about.

VALIS by Philip K. Dick

I don’t think I understand a single thing about it. It’s also my favorite PKD novel (so far, anyway, I’ve only read five). Completely wacko in all the best ways, and at the same time it feels very honest. It’s a deeply personal work.

Okay, I’m terrible at literary criticims, but man I love this book.

Handman said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

yhwx said:

I’ve heard coffee is a good drug and it’s legal in all 50 states!

Sorry, but I’m not 18 yet.

suspiciouscoffee doesn’t drink coffee… that’s suspicious.

I never said I didn’t.

yhwx said:

I’ve heard coffee is a good drug and it’s legal in all 50 states!

Sorry, but I’m not 18 yet.

ray_afraid said:

Not as good. 4/10

SilverWook said:

We’re probably already at a point were people in their mid teens have never seen 35mm projected.

Unfortunately, you are correct. I’m 17 and, as best as I can remember, I’ve never seen any size film projected.

ray_afraid said:

I love the original and am very fond of Season of the Witch. Part 2 is tolerable on an October evening, but the rest of the franchise can rot for all I care.

I haven’t watched any of them in years, but I remember when I was 10 or so and I first saw 1-3 I loved the first two and hated Season of the Witch. I thought it was stupid. Guess I need to go back and rewatch all three this fall because I don’t remember them all that well anymore.

Taxation is theft!

ray_afraid said:

yhwx said:

Love is the ultimate drug.

suspiciouscoffee said:

Which is why it will tear us apart.

Joy Division for the win!

Calm down, man. Wouldn’t want you to lose control.

DuracellEnergizer said:

ray_afraid said:

I can see quite a bit of Peter Cushing in that Snoke pic…
Hope it’s coincidence.

New theory: As the Death Star blew up, the uncontained hypermatter from the space station’s destabilzing reactors formed a hyperspace wormhole, transporting Tarkin to a planet somewhere in the Unknown Regions in the span of nanoseconds – fast enough to save his life, but not fast enough to keep him from receiving horrible fourth-degree burns to 50% of his body.

I should put that up on YouTube.

Gimme a few minutes and I’ll make a video thumbnail for you.

EDIT: Grafic designe is my passhin

ray_afraid said:

Yeah. Spam.
(Can we get one more conformation?)

I can confirm it was spam. Which is a shame, because I was interested in buying a terrorism license 😦

Imo, DC’s been doing great stuff with Superman comics since last year’s “Rebirth,” aside from the trunk-ban that is still in effect, despite the creative team on the Superman book having begged to bring them back last year. But I think Metallo is doing worse than Supes himself is on design, because yikes that is hard to look at.