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In which Rogue is beset with leadership; Psylocke’s telekinetic sword is narratively inconsistent; the Crimson Pirates are bad at their job; and you should not look to Frank Punisher as a role model.
X-PLAINED:
- Whether Dani Moonstar is still a Valkyrie
- X-Men #103-104
- Uncanny X-Men #384-385
- A crossover
- Tessa (somewhat)
- A test
- The Goth (group)
- Skulls
- The Crimson Pirates
- The mind of Tullamore Voge
- Something “rough trade” does not mean
- Visual representation of telepathy
- Kymri (again)
- The Goth (individual)
- Skycycles
- A ruse
- How to get the X-Perts at a convention near you
- What happened to the Massachusetts Academy
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Aren’t all Valkyrie technically working for Hela, what with her being the Norse gods generic death deity? We also have the “What If..?” story where she confronts Hela, and destroys her, being forced to take on Hela’s role as a result.
Remember how Jack Kirby created so many secret societies of superpowered beings that it seemed like you couldn’t make a three point turn in your Kirby-Krackling Ksomik Konveyance without hitting yet another “Hidden Kingdom” (Be it Eternals, Inhumans, Deviants, New Gods or whatever)?
Well, I think this is the Claremont equivalent. Create a half dozen teams of generically vague charatcers who are “Akin to mutants but not quite”. The Neo, Goth(s) and hope to heaven that ONE of them sticks
I wonder why they stressed Rogue got Kurt’s skills from watching videos. She’s absorbed his memories and powers more than once, so her callling up muscle memory of his moves might be easier.
Not a fan of Jean being able to have Beast access Forge’s powers with a mental link. Forge looking at something with someone else’s eyes should not have the same result as Forge looking at the same thing directly, it feels like cheating on how his powers work.
The Crimson Pirates are possibly a nod to the Burt Lancaster 1951 swashbuckling classic “The Crimson Pirate”, though there might be a nod to the Crimson Dawn with the tatttoo’s perhaps?
I ask this question respectfully, but did Jay mean to say Daniel DeFoe rather than Robert Louis Stevenson? I only ask because when I think “pirates”, I think “Treasure Island”, not “Robinson Crusoe”, but I haven’t read “Robinson Crusoe” in decades, so I honestly can’t remember how the pirates there spoke.
And again I am pleased to note that our minds run along similar enough lines that you mentioned Neal’s codename should be “Thunderthird” as much the same time my brain thought the same thing. 🙂
May I also add that I was a little disappointed at the lack of contribution from Jay’s offspring over the show, after the introductory build up.
If they don’t get their start in podcasting now, how will they rise to dominate the future as our (hopefully benevolent) digital download deity?
I don’t see Beast being a pirate guy, but I can see him getting really into ship engineering, and by extension, people who use ships.
I have to assume that the Crimson Pirates aren’t actually speaking English but are using technology-based translators of some sort. So presumably whoever made the translators programmed in a bunch of different dialects for different languages and they ended up with “pirate.” Could just have easily been South African or Singaporean.
Would like to hear your guys’ thoughts on FFmovie.
Dedicate 5mins of next episode to it, type of thing.
It has been argued that ‘A General History of the Pyrates’ from 1724 was written by Daniel Defoe, but my understanding is that this is disputed. Was Jay referring to this? However, mention of ‘Treasure Island’ means I can bring up Mervyn Peake’s drawing of Long John Silver as a very horny dude. The one where he’s leaning on his crutch with his head to one side…
Ooh, glad I came back to check this thread, I was not aware of of “A General History of the Pyrates”! Many thanks!
And let’s not forget “The Muppet Treasure Island” (aka the BEST version) which had Long John Silver played by Tim “My voice can make CONCRETE break out in a sweat” Curry, and has the memorable moment of Miss Piggy meeting him with a “Hello Looooooong John” with more innuendo than I had previously thought was possible from anyone, never mind a puppet pig.
F A N T A S T I C__F O U R
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SPOILER movie discussion
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I didnt catch this when i watched.
Did yall know its supposed to be set in an alternate timeline?!
WIKI:
“Earth-828 is introduced in The Fantastic Four: First Steps as the home reality of the Fantastic Four.[197] The Earth is a 1960s-inspired retro-futuristic setting.[198][199][200] Technology is vastly different, and the Fantastic Four are the only known superheroes within this universe. The designation 828 is derived from Jack Kirby’s birthday, August 28.”
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My rating:
5
Fucking loved that!
I recommend seeing this in IMAX b4 you cant.
How does the force of the Silver surfer, flying into the Galactus, a GIANT mass of material, compared to her scale, how does that have any forward momentum effect when she rams into that, to get him to go through the science portal?
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Is Galactus a living thing , or and inanimate material?
Mind-controlling all of that inanimate materials?.
He’s able to control that with his mind ,somehow defeating gravity etc ,why can’t he defeat invisible Woman’s mental ability over physical matter?
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We should make earth the spaceship, we construct something that gives it the ability to move to our desired position in space.
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No, that would only work if the sun maintained the same geometry away from the Earth.
Wouldnt there have been no sun for the earth even if Reed had teleported Earth?
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X-Related stuff:
So what was that sentence Reed said about Franklin?
“He’s not like us.
He is something new.”
‘new’ = MUTANTS?!?!?
THAT was exciting!
X-Related stuff CORRECTION:
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“He is something ‘more’.”
‘more’ = MUTANTS?!?!?
THAT was exciting!