Greetings , pre - apocalyptic pen pals ! Today we ’re talk about when people will finally get sick of Star Wars , why the Legends of Tomorrow are so stunningly speculative at time travel , and the strangely awkward situation that may result when the Deadpool flick gets someone you sleep together into comics .
Pyramid Scheme
Charles E. :
How did idol of Egypt get made ? Obviously at some head someone call back it was going to be a liberal huge movie that made a ton of money . I even saw that it was supposed to start a franchise .
How is this potential ? This moving-picture show is awful , and it ’s always sound terrible and I ca n’t even conceive of someone pitching it where it would sound like a movie that would ever make money , which you keep saying is the whole point of Hollywood .
So how did this whitewashing pile of bullshit happen , Mr Postman ? Was it the cocain ?
It ’s a step - by - footmark process of decisions that Hollywood makes that may seem reasonable when examined individually , but when you impart them all together are totally mad and result in pic like Gods of Egypt . It happens a wad .
Say a Hollywood White House wants to make a Brobdingnagian summer movie , and does n’t have the right to superheroes or any name make . He decides to look at preceding summer movies that have made money — not if they ’re good , just if they ’re profitable — on the supposal that if he makes a interchangeable flick , it will also be profitable . This is reasonable .
This picky White House chances upon the 2010 Clash of the Titans , which made well-nigh $ 500 million worldwide . The White House wants to make money ! Whether people liked Clash of the Titans is completely irrelevant to him . puddle films that citizenry like is not his job ; cause money is . So he settle to make a movie like Clash of the Titans . This is , superficially , also fair .
The White House gives a cursory examen as to what is Clash of the Titans is about , and discover it ’s Hellenic mythology . So he needs to have something moderately much the same , but still a footling dissimilar — and the obvious resolution is to pick another mythology to base his blockbuster around . He ’s likely only even tangentially heard of Norse and Egyptian mythology , and since Marvel ’s kind of cornered the market on the former with Thor , he prefer Egypt . Besides , Egyptian mythology has deal of weird stuff that will probably look coolheaded in CG . If you were somehow forced to make a mythology - based summer blockbuster , then Egyptian mythology is a probably a solid call , right ?
Now , when it come to casting , he face for actor with good summertime picture show cart track records who are affordable ; both Gerard Butler and Nikolaj Coster - Waldau fit the account . He hires them . The fact that the movie is coif in ancient Egypt does n’t even enter his judgement as a ingredient . For him , they are two completely disjoined issues . He is unequal to of think conditionally , or that the picture show ’s setting should ever perhaps dictate cast . To him , it ’s a summer movie first and foremost ; it want popular , recognisable thespian . In his psyche , he ’s got a hit motion-picture show with major stars . That ’s all that could maybe count !
At no degree does he , or anyone else in assurance of making the film , appear at the heavy depiction and wonder , hey , perchance hire white guys to recreate ancient Egyptians is a high-risk thought . Nor did anyone inquire if anyone actually wanted to see an Egyptian interpretation of Clash of the Titans in the first plaza . At no point did anyone turn back and really think about what they were making , and suddenly actualize “ This is a dreaded melodic theme . ” At no item did they see Coster - Waldau , weary whatever the snake pit he ’s wearing in the picture up top , and require themselves , “ What on god ’s green earth are we doing ? ! ”
rather they just happily made the picture , sure-footed that not only that it would be a vast success but it would start an intact enfranchisement . Yes , Hollywood thought Supreme Being of Egypt was move to be a trilogy ! This is rabidness , and Hollywood does this all the metre . They spend tons of money on movies that sound awful and are terrible , and that you ’d have to be completely out of touch with reality to believe would ever work .
Every once in a while , though , they manage to get it right , and that successful moving-picture show makes enough money to pay for the next dozen terrible pic they think will be hits but wo n’t be . And the bicycle continues .
House of Lies
Maidstragedy :
Can we talk about Supergirl ( the TV serial ) ? I want to love it and for the most part I do — however , when it come to relationships the show seems to be channeling the very tough aspect of Silver Age Comics . James Olsen wants to be honest to his girlfriend so he has to severalise Lucy Kara ’s most of import secret . I ’m drab , but what ? ! ? Since when do your romantic relationships take into account you to denounce your ally ’s seclusion and faith ?
My coworkers have told me deeply knowledgeable and personal aspect of their lifetime and I neither feel that have to run home and immediately inform my collaborator , nor do I feel that I am hiding anything from her . What the heck is going on here ?
This is kind of a gummy wicket , because nine prison term out of 10 when citizenry on superhero shows refuse to separate each other something , it ’s stupid as hell . Oliver ’s refusal to tell fairly much anyone he was Green Arrow on Arrow ; Barry ’s long refusal to tell Iris he ’s the Flash even though at least dozen other people experience , some of them villain . Usually these lies are done to “ protect ” the citizenry in question , even though their ignorance never protect them from villains , and arguably reach it bad .
But I do n’t think this special example is knotty . James ’ aid of Supergirl was in reality negatively bear on his kinship with Lucy Lane . He was missing dates , disconcerting Lucy , and was being pull to lie to her . That ’s a sucky affair to do to someone you care about . And , because James is a good person , of course he does n’t desire to have to lie to Lucy . to boot , James is 100 % certain that Lucy can keep the arcanum . He may be wrong , but he has no clue if he is .
Most significantly , he knows that it ’s Supergirl ’s enigma and he ca n’t secernate Lucy without Supergirl ’s permission . He wants to tell Lucy , but Supergirl has to give him the okay . He went about this all the right style .
Of course , Supergirl also had every rightfulness to secern James no , which she did for a good while … until she saw how it was offend James , and then she changed her mind . Of course , if you saw this week ’s episode , it ’s all moot now .
For the record book , I do hope that your conscientious objector - workers ’ terrifying secrets do n’t affect your relationships negatively .
‘Pool Party
Brent S. :
My married woman has n’t watched a single superhero movie . No Avengers . No Man of Steel . No Captain America . So when she saw my chemical reaction to her ask if I was taking my Kyd to see Deadpool , she father confused . I show her both red - circle trailers , and she buy in . We went to see it opening Nox , and she loved it . ( I ’m sure her crush on Ryan Reynolds had nothing to do with it )
Here ’s the kicker – she ’s asking to read my old Deadpool strip .
Do I take this slim opening to kick in the room access and introduce her to the larger laughable populace as a whole , or do I take babe stride so she does n’t get overwhelmed ? I ’m leaning toward letting her stomach the comics I have and evoke something before she ’s finish , but , frankly , I ’ve been out of the comics game for a while , and would n’t know where to start . Squirrel Girl , maybe ? Thoughts ?
I would by all odds attempt to steer her aside from Deadpool to start with . I mean , do n’t be eldritch about it — if she need Deadpool , of course she can read Deadpool — but it ’s to everyone ’s benefit for you to at least discourage her first that “ There are n’t a ton of Deadpool comic strip that match the same levels of clowning , vehemence , naughtiness and heart as that movie . Also , a lot of Deadpool cartoon strip are passably bad . ”
If she trust your judgment — or tries Deadpool comedian and is n’t satisfied — I ca n’t recommend Unbeatable Squirrel Girl , Ms. Marvel , Batgirl and the new Black Canary enough . If she really digs the violence , then she should get DC ’s Midnighter , which is being canceled soon because we ca n’t have nice matter .
Rip Off
Jeff L. :
costly carrier of the post - merger apocalypse :
I ’ve been watching DC ’s caption of Tomorrow , and largely enjoying it . To be sightly , I ’m pretty sure I ’d enjoy absolutely anything that had Wentworth Miller ’s Leonard Snart in it . I bring that up because Rip Hunter … oh jeeze , Rip Hunter .
I ’m more than a little familiar with DC strip , but the Time Masters are new to me . I ca n’t help but question , are all Time Masters horrible at their caper ? Or is it just Rip ?
In the DC Comics , the Time Masters are a small group of freelance time cops who protect the time stream . They have n’t done much other than get Batman back when he was lose in time being a pilgrim and such , so they ’re not at all like the radical presented in legend of Tomorrow .
Those Time Masters seem to be a large grouping of administrators like the Guardians of the Green Lanterns . Now , the Guardians are amazingly frightful at their job at hold on the galaxy safe(really , it ’s madness ) . We do n’t recognise if these Time Masters are as ugly , but we do know that they ’re cool with letting Vandal Savage murder / enslave most of the human backwash , so they ’re definitely assholes in that regard . All they ’re worried about is protect the timestream , which , as Rip points out , is kind of useless when most of human beings is dead at any rate .
That enjoin , Rip Hunter is a awful , awful Time Master . He cares about humanity , which is courteous , but I am not a Time Master and even I recognize you should n’t let a radical of superpowered spook rampage through various full point of the 20th C . They nearly break a demented Soviet scientist Firestorm powers during the Cold War . Captain Cold most save his own sister from being born . And this is all happening ostensibly on Rip ’s sentinel , and they have n’t even occur close to stopping Savage yet . There has no been a single trip-up where they have n’t irrevocably shift something .
9 reason Green Lanterns Are the Universe ’s bad Protectors
Shooting Star Wars
Ryan M. :
Hello Mr. Postman sir ,
We subsist through the brutal Star Wars merchandising blitz of 2015 and there ’s already a million - viewed Episode VIII “ tormenter . ” We ’re also run short to have more with the expanded / cinematic universe every year ( I presume around Christmas , because toy ) . I do n’t lie with about you , but that ’s too much Star Wars ! Do you think there will be some form of cultural implosion on SW film , and when ?
I do n’t think Disney require to concern about over - saturating the Star Wars market until after Episode IX at the earliest , which will be 2019 . Even if Episode VII , Episode IX , Rogue One , and the Han Solo picture show all suction , hoi polloi are go to go to them religiously , at least until the tale of Rey , Finn and Poe gets resolved . And if those four motion picture are n’t all terrible — which I think is pretty potential — people will happily keep seeing more Star Wars movies afterwards .
Really , Disney is only doing one SW movie a year , which is peanuts compared to what Marvel churns out ; and Marvel has plenitude of contend superhero moving-picture show to deal with , while Star Wars basically owns all of scifi cinema .
Even if people do commence to get burn out , all Disney will have to do is unload the stand - alone flick and concentrate entirely on future subsequence . And even if the continuation get bad , they ’d have to be systematically big for a very long time before viewers check give them a fortune . The prequels sure as hell did n’t hold on The Force Awakens from doing all right . Episode X could be Darth Jar Jar , and not only would most citizenry see it , I bet they ’d still be willing to watch Episodes XI and XIII before they decided to give up on the franchise .
Comic Crush Saga
Nathaniel K. :
Dear Mister Postman , sir .
I have note that I have a disposition to develop pervy crushes on random female comic playscript character reference , often dark ones who only in one effect , or during a particular run ; some examples have included Silverclaw ( from Kurt Busiek ’s Avengers running ) , Heartiac ( from the DC One Million 80 - Page Giant ) , and the Aquawoman of Earth-11 ( from Multiversity )
I ’m trying to figure out if this is A : weird , and atomic number 5 : knotty or not . What do you say ?
It ’s sure as shooting unusual , but it ’s technically no uncanny than fall for a non - dark mirthful character . Most people who are going to give your grief about having a pervy crush on a playpen - and - ink drawing are n’t going to give you more or less grief depending whether your object of affection is in one comic book panel or one million .
If multitude who also have pervy crushes on more pop comic book characters do give you grief , to infernal region with them . There ’s no pecking order here . They ’re not better ( or less weird ) citizenry because they ’re Power Girl fan . Now , it might be more frustrating or you , because you ’re never going to get a comic detail the adventures of Earth-11 Aquawoman , but if you do n’t have a job with it , then it ’s not actually tough .
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