New stuff I've seen...

[Bravo]

They decided to go with a design that would make Teela's action figure im-frigging-possible to make accurately.

CW cancelled STARGIRL...more of that channel's purge, to become a pure crap network by this time next year. I gave up on The Flash (this is its final season) and that leaves Superman and Lois, which they'll probably axe, too. They say the average views of CW is 58. Nah, really? 58 years old watch Riverdale (also ending) and All-American?

[Bravo]

Tales of the Jedi or what they really are prequel-prequels. Shorter than other animated shows, under 15 minutes each.
I've watched 4 out of the 6. Dooku and Ahsoka seem to be the focus, but the Dooku ones aren't too bad. Maybe a bit too retconny. The first Ahsoka one, well animated...but kinda Meh...Filoni loves Ahsoka too much.
Ian McDiarmid and Liam Neeson return to voice their characters.

The issues with the 4th episode, a Dooku episode

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He was already working for Sidious before Qui-Gon died, before Episode 1, before Maul died. The impression I had was Qui-Gon's death was Dooku's moment of breaking with the Jedi, but he already decided some time before due to years of dissatisfaction with the Council's methods. And only Jedi Master Yaddle suspected. Yes, they dig out female yoda to use. But this means Sidious never follows the rule of two, and grooms a replacement apprentice every time his current one lives. But for 20 years he sticks with Vader, where is Vader's in the wings replacement? And no, the chosen one thing doesn't matter...if anything that's more reason to dump Vader. If we believe the books, that I never read, Darth Plagueis was still alive at this the time of The Phantom Menace is killed by Sidious just around this time. It seems rather messy having 4 Siths running around, even if one is still technically a Jedi. [/spoilers]

[Swindle]

Yeah, that is all very iffy. Sith rules are iffy. Palp is iffy in terms of more and more and more info kind of destroying the myth quality the OT has.

Hmm... I heard Andor has flopped. It might be a bit too 'real' in terms of its format and not mass markable characters (Mando, Baby Yoda, Boba, jedi and so forth).

[Bravo]

So Tales of the Jedi episode 5:
I think Dave Filoni read an internet comment about how Ahsoka becoming a Mary Sue or something and made this just to say "See, she had training!" Ahsoka starts out wearing not her season 1 and 2 attire, but not quite her season 3 look while Obi-Wan and Anakin are season 1 and 2, but better animated. An excuse for yet another Ahsoka action figure.

Episode 6:
Pretty basic story, but we see Bail Organa and Ahsoka's connection. Ahsoka says Padme was her friend, but to be honest I don't remember them interacting much on The Clone Wars. The rest of the episode, just the cliche of the gunfighter/warrior/soldier hiding out but cannot escape their past. And hey, an excuse for another Ahoska action figure.

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I did like how easily Ahoska defeated the Inquisitor, because Inquisitors are lame. Not sure they should even exist.

So, 6 episodes, the Ahsoka ones were okay but mostly superfluous. The Dooku ones are a bit better, but still we cannot say much about him, other than he bends/breaks the Jedi rules where he see injustice...so he's like an older Anakin without the stupid? They both fall to the DARK SIDE(tm)
What a great lesson. Kids, always follow protocol or fall to evil. But you'll still get your own action figure.

[Bravo]

They showed the first episode(s) of STAR WARS: ANDOR on ABC, but I forgot and missed the first 30 minutes.
Great looking show, but it brought back Rogue One's biggest problem for me...understanding Diego Luna's dialogue. That accent.
Also, see why many people would get bored with it. It's almost not Star Wars, but in a matured way.

[Bravo]

Star Wars the Bad Batch season 2.

1- I couldn't find it to watch for free. Part one of something.

2- Part 2 of a story so meh that I could follow it without seeing part one. A failed heist to get the late Count Dooku's loot before the Empire hauls off to Palpatine's money bin (I guess). Omega does a "Can't the Grail go moment". Little of consequence happens.

3- Commander Cody appears in this Crosshair only episode. Because he's the evil one. Some planet refuses Imperial rule, holds Imperial guvnah hostage. Even though the Empire doesn't negotiate, they pretend to by sending clones...which the former separatists don't even bother to do anything but shoot them down, but a full scale Imperial assault wouldn't be a story for this series, so more squad actions, more battles droids. It's really a clone wars episode. And they do the obvious with Cody, despite him not questioning Order 66 and still having a bio chip in his head.

4- Ah, the race episode. It's the best or worst part of TPM (depending on who you ask), redone...sort of. Cliche city as the robot racer of the Bad Batch's boss Cyd in a anything-goes speeder race, gets trashed so someone has to win the next race to save her...as if she's worth it. Surprisingly it's not plucky Omega who races but Tech. Every show that can does this silly "double or nothing" bet with a heel who has nothing to gain from taking the bet, but does anyway because despite being a successful criminal/cheater/whatever, they are stupid as hell. And of course, all the other rival racers suck and wash out/get blasted because they are droids, it's never a third party who wins in these things.

[Swindle]

My sis and bro, we went to see Scream 6.

Light spoilers:

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This movie delivers on the promise of Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan. The opening scene has a nice subversive kill to kick things off (Who gives a fuck about a movie is a great line). Neve Campbell priced herself out, so this one focuses on the characters introduced in Scream 2022 (Scream 5). I did enjoy the movie for the set piece of NY and there's some interesting fallout from Scream 2022, but I do have two issues with this movie... 1. It does pull its punches and 2. the final villain(s) reveal is a tad clunky. The Sam character really comes into her own and the two sisters are very rootable on the other hand. We also get a character returning from Scream 4.

3 out of 4 stars.

Current rankings:
Scream 1
Scream 5 (a great revival)
Scream 6 (only issue I have is it pulls its punches on certain characters)
Scream 2 (breaks a bit down at the end)
Scream 4 (the stakes feel very low, but some good new characters)
Scream 3 (enjoyable, but flawed as more a comedy)

[Bravo]

I never saw past 3 and am surprised how old Scream 4 is. I thought the 90's slasher revival was a thing that came and went, so it's odd to see the franchise keep going.
IIRC Scream 3 has that Hollywood jerking itself "making a movie in the movie" plot, right? Maybe that's why I forgot it.
Neve Campbell looked cute in Scream 2. It's weird she's 49 now.

[Swindle]

Yeah, Scream 3 is about Stab movie(s) and it turns out that the guy directing the upcoming one, Roman, is also the son of Maureen Prescott, making him Sidney's half-brother. She had him during her brief time in Hollywood. Before Scream 1, he tracks her down, she rejects him, so he creates a revenge plot finding out about her town slut/cheating ways and shows the footage to Billy kicking off him doing his stuff in Scream 1. By Scream 3, Roman wants to draw Sidney out to kill her himself and that's pretty much the trope of a 'trilogy' where there's a larger context than you thought you knew. Scream 3 has a bunch of very one note actors/actresses as cannon fodder, so it leans more into typical Freddy/Jason movies where you might just be rooting for them to die.

I did marathon through all the movies before Scream 6, so its all fresh in my mind. I would say this is one of the more enjoyable and quality slashers and I can point to several factors: Anyone can be Ghostface, there can be any targets, and there can be all sorts of motives.

[Felix]

I've seen a couple of them.

I think the moral of the story is,

if you cheat on your partner, don't be surprised when they go crazy and start stabbing you.


I watched a few episodes of Wednesday on Netflix. Adams Family spin off. Predictable boring woke agenda stuff.
Don't think I will bother watching the rest.

*Possible Spoiler Alert!!!!*








I think the monster in the woods is her roommate.

[Bravo]

Star Wars The Bad Batch season 2 part 2 (Who cares?).
Episode 5 "Entombed" - I just realize I hadn't watched this one. Oops.

Episode 6 "Tribe" - The Jedi wookie padawan Gungi from The Clone Wars returns and with the Bad Batch's aid, goes home and the forces of nature beats the bad guys, Trandoshans and Clones who can't think for themselves...yay? I mean, Gungi will still die in the next 19 years or so if Yoda's "The last Jedi you will be" is to be believed. 5 out of 10.

Episode 7 "The Clone Conspiracy" - The Batch barely appears, but Rex does helping young brave female Senator Riyo Chuchi (Yeah, nothing current events about that)...come across as another "let's make whatever we want, not the show we were contracted for" episode. 4/10

Episode 8 "Truth and Consequences" - Part 2, but the Bad Batch appear and one leaves the team, the obvious one. And I still got bored. Did fans want more senate stuff? Even Ian McDiarmid back as voice of Palpatine isn't enough here. 4/10

Episode 9 "The Crossing" - A guest star free episode about going after precious minerals and the disasters that ensue. It was okay, but yet set on another arid, sparsely population Star Wars planet. 6/10

Episode 10 "Retrieval" - The Bad Batch must get their stolen ship back without any help from their stupid bitch lizard "boss" Sid. Aladdin An adolescent tramp took the ship the previous episode. He works in a mine with other human youths for a fat alien creep with droid goons. Where are their parents? I don't think it's mentioned. Someone called the baddie and Oliver Twist villain. Yeah, this is formulaic crap where the villain dies from his greed and stubborness. And then the adolescents take over the mine and all is good. Right. This could've been an episode of REBELS or The Clone Wars or Batman the Animated Series, oh, it kinda was. 3/10

Episode 11 "Metamorphosis" - Feels like it's going to be an ALIEN crossover, but it's just a monster from The Clone Wars. Which turns into a bigger monster and the Empire captures it to use for whatever. WHATEVER. We are introduced to an eeevil human Imperial scientist named Hemlock, because Star Wars is goofy crap. There's another one named SCALDER, too. 5/10

Episode 12 "The Outpost" - Another Crosshair episode, he still works for the Empire. Here he's assigned to escort a ridiculously hateful snobbish Imperial officer, who hates clones, to get some cargo stored on a remote cold world...another Star Wars cold world. There he meets Rex-light...I mean, a Clone Commander who reminds him that clones are cool and the Empire is bad. Why would an Imperial officer HATE the troopers who just recently won the war? An officer from a decade later, maybe, but the level of bigotry in this one-note-character is absurd. The reveal of what the "classified" cargo is makes little sense. And it's a predictable episode for the most part, but still decent for this show. 7/10

[Bravo]

Gotham Knights premiere episode - The CW's last new DC show. hopefully. I watch Superman and Lois, and it was on afterwards. SPOILERS (who cares)
Oh, boy, Bruce Wayne adopted some kids named Turner Hayes, never heard of him. We never see Bruce/Batman alive, because this is another "Batman show without Batman", the fifth live action show like that, I think. It's really stupid, because how are we supposed to care about his death? So 3 annoying burglar teens (the kind that don't wear masks) are set up for Bruce's murder, and the murderers knew Bruce was Batman but Turner didn't. And then it's set up that Turner paid them. And in between Turner stumbles across the Batcave entrance despite never accidentally doing so in the years he's lived at Wayne Manor. And his gal pal is a computer whiz.Also, there's no Alfred, some Asian woman instead. Guess Alfred is dead. And Turner's arrested and Wayne's lawyers won't defend him. And so he's got no counsel which is super absurd, along with the "one phone call" myth reused again. Turner is tossed in the same large cell as the three teens, yeah, that makes no sense. It's a coed holding cell with no toilet. Sure whatever. Some cops are in on the conspiracy which maybe explains some of the stupidity, but Turner and the teens (one is Joker's daughter) get away with a Robin's help, stupidly visit Bruce's grave, and now they have to SOLVE THE MURDER. Something-something Court of Owls.
I liked Misha Collins as non-Two Face Harvey Dent, that's about it so far. The problem here is that has to rush to set up the series premise, so we can be bothered to care about anything first. It not a good use of the tv series format. But this is the CW, so...

[Swindle]

Damn, I completely forgot about that... only Batman without Batman show I ever liked was Gotham for becoming wild and crazy as seasons went on and it did have young Bruce.

[Felix]

I forgot, I still need to watch Gotham season 2, yay I have something I can watch :-)

[Swindle]

Super Mario Bros Movie. My sis and a buddy of mine saw it this afternoon.
I enjoyed it. Had serveral things going for it:

* Mario and Luigi and their relationship.
* Mario and Peach, easy to see why they'd like one another.
* Peach kind of does a bit of Padme in the movie, several different outfits throughout.
* Toad is overly eunthustic and is always up for 'adventuring'.
* DK, excellent friendly rival to Mario, big strong show boat who might have a bit more in common with Mario than he'd like to admit.
* We got all the possible fan service and more.

Plot: Mario wants to get his brother back, Peach wants to protect her kingdom, so its a road trip. There's a bit of Mario training which is very much the video game itself, you gotta get good, yo.

I think and hope this could be a Rise of the Video Game movies and perhaps the end of comic movies (for the time being). Nintendo has protected their IP, so things like Zelda, Wario, more Mario of course, maybe Metroid? Its about time there's a bit of counter programing in family entertainment.

I give it 3 1/2 stars out of 4.