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Z25

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Thor 5 should bring the story back to its roots a bit.

Here’s my rough pitch, thoughts?:

Have Thor as a parent now reflect on his past adventures.

Where he realizes these other gods have always been assholes yet he never did anything about it.

Hercules shows up and attacks his house, prompting Thor to round up the gang and head off to stop the gods plans. Stopping any attempt they make to harm earth or any other planet.

Along the way you could throw in other character tied to the cosmos or different realms like Beta Ray Bill. Thor becomes a true leader again and helps everyone with whatever their problems are by the end of the movie.

Becoming an inspiration role model for his daughter, but also for people across the universe, earth included.

After stopping at least some of the gods( they Don’t all stay bad maybe?). Thor realizes he can’t be everywhere to protect everyone. Knowing figures like Captain Marvel are out in space helping other planets, he realizes earth may still be left vulnerable as he hasn’t been invited to a new avengers teams.

Thor heads to earth, trying to find the other heroes and inspire them to return. Starting at the Sanctum Santurum, before he can enter, a TVA door opens and out steps Loki, who goes

“brother?” I a very confused manner, cuts to credits.

Post credit picks up where the movie ending as Loki reunites with Thor breaking down into tears. Explaining that an un-defeatable evil is on its way.

Off screen we hear a “what the fu….” As we see Sam
 

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Got a new laptop recently and discovered you can use Xbox controllers on it.
Playing Otto Matic on it and it feels natural.
 

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I finished the Doctor Who box set that I was watching, which covered the 9th and 10th Doctors. It's a testament to how much I enjoyed it that I've already ordered two more box sets - one covering the 11th Doctor and one covering a season from one of the classic Doctors. (the 4th Doctor)

Also, I saw The Meg 2; it was dumb but fun. (there are several moments where I went "why are they doing this?!" but Jason Statham is a reliable source of entertainment when it comes to action movies) I'm hoping to see Blue Beetle tomorrow.
 
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The upcoming TFS shorts are all meant to be apart of a Buu saga review video made by Totally Not Mark. I’m not sure how long the video itself will be, but there will be more than 1-2 shorts (confirmed by MasakoX, who voiced Goku and Gohan, had a 50 minute recording session). Should at least be long enough to satisfy the hunger of the fans while the next HFIL episode is being worked on.
 

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I dunno if I've ever said this but I only seem to find shinies when I don't actively look for them

Trying to hatch a shiny Bulbasaur? Nope
Mincing around in the Safari Zone with nothing better to do? Bam shiny Pikachu
 

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If only you started with the 2003 version. Can't get any better than that one

But 2012 is a second choice
For me the 2003 series is probably 3rd or 4th (switching around with Rise). Fast Forward dropped down many points (BTTS and Turtles Forever are mostly good), and the never ending music was unholy. It’s odd to think this since it was the closest to fully copying the Mirage comics.

87 Turtles got 2nd place due to a severe bias in the memes and money that came out of it...also a huge bias for their April
I like 2003 but I feel like the show loses it's goddamn mind towards the end. It's certainly fun though.

2012 stays more consistent imo. But like I said, they're both great. I'm not trying to start a show vs show fight lol
Only real down the 2012 series has is April being a ****. Karai was always better anyways
 

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The curse of desire.


Once one obtains the thing they long for, it suddenly becomes old news.
Yeah that's basically it.

Doesn't help that they made Mega Man X, one of my MWs, lame. I didn't even know it was possible to make him lame.
 
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Conspiracy theory. I think Bayonetta 3 was originally supposed to be about time travel with different Umbra Witches at different points in history. All the alternate universes are mostly just historical places with Bayonetta characters thrown in instead of feeling like true alternate versions of Bayonetta. And the Chaos gears being the McGuffins, with gears and clocks being a frequent time related symbol in other media. Plus Viola’s whole deal and the Homonculus are both very Terminator esque. Then late into its lengthy development they changed it to be about the Multiverse because that was starting to become a pop culture trend. That would make the cameo of the other two Cereza from the first two games at the end make more sense. . And the series has always been about time travel to a degree, characters are being thrown through history all the time in the first two games. So it would make sense for game 3 to go ham on the idea. And I don’t know about you, but a lot of things about the game and especially it’s Story make way more sense if you think about it’s development this way, even if for all intents and purposes I’m just making stuff up. But I can’t help it! I see the patterns!
 

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just do better than Love and Thunder please
I don't think I've ever felt so conflicted at a movie announcement.

Obviously I love Taika's films and also they teased Brett Goldstein playing Hercules so if they do that I'm pretty excited.

But you know exactly why I feel conflicted
They just need to reign in Waititi a bit.

He did great with Ragnarok. But L&T was far too jokey, and none of the jokes were especially funny.
Guess my best friend and I are in the minority with the opinion of Love & Thunder being a better film than Ragnarok. I personally don't get the criticism of Love & Thunder being "too jokey and not being funny" when I feel that criticism could be applied to Ragnarok.
 

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Guess my best friend and I are in the minority with the opinion of Love & Thunder being a better film than Ragnarok. I personally don't get the criticism of Love & Thunder being "too jokey and not being funny" when I feel that criticism could be applied to Ragnarok.
Ragnarok didn't have every single line being interrupted by a screaming goat :drshrug:

If you like it then fair enough, I'm not gonna argue with someone's preference. But personally I felt Thor 3 did great at balancing humor and serious moments, while being generally more goofy than the first two films. While 4 just kinda lost the plot.
 

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I had the weirdest dream last night. I was playing VS. Saxton Hale and I was chosen to be SH, but then I was Hale irl an was attacking actual people. But for some reason, I became Venom, so I was Symbiote Saxton. And then I had to attack a childrens playground but this 7 year old put up immunity to them all and I was singing Goofy Goober to the kids to scare them. But then I guess I wasn't SH anymore because everyone was fleeing from a potato squash that causes homicidal activity if it's looked at, so everyone was just terrified of this fictional veggie. Then I woke up.


Dreams are suppossed to mean something, right?
 
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Ragnarok didn't have every single line being interrupted by a screaming goat :drshrug:

If you like it then fair enough, I'm not gonna argue with someone's preference. But personally I felt Thor 3 did great at balancing humor and serious moments, while being generally more goofy than the first two films. While 4 just kinda lost the plot.
While I personally think the opposite, I'm not going to push it. Last time I did that, it did not end well. I was really surprised that my friend shared the same opinion as me regarding both films though.
 

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I liked Love and Thunder as a standalone movie, but as a sequel to Ragnarok, it is definitely much weaker.

Somewhat related aside, I find it really funny how the Russos set up the "Asgardians Of The Galaxy" and both Waititi and Gunn basically just went "No"
 

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I liked Love and Thunder as a standalone movie, but as a sequel to Ragnarok, it is definitely much weaker.

Somewhat related aside, I find it really funny how the Russos set up the "Asgardians Of The Galaxy" and both Waititi and Gunn basically just went "No"
Which is stupid because the guardians would have actually fit love and thunder perfectly.

-strongest family unit in the MCU, in a movie about family and what one will do for theirs.

-Peters Mom died of cancer, is the only person in the MCU who could relate to literally evert Emotional struggle Thor has and has had in his life.

-Mantis worked for a god, could have had really interesting reactions to Gorr’s mission and ideals.

-Peter is also technically another god and can show the humanity in them.

-Movie says **** all that and it only goes down hill from there

Instead we got “isn’t cancer hilarious, how quirky is mortality??? We forgot Thor had an actual system of Allies with unique stories and backgrounds, and isn’t Thor such a joke???”
 
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Now that I’ve finished Bayonetta 3 I can complain about it with authority. This game isn’t all bad but it left me on such a sour note that I can’t recommend it if you care about the characters or story at all. And it’s new gameplay elements (Infernal Slave, Jeanne’s Stealth Action, and Viola) make it not as fun an experience as 1 or 2. I don’t know how I feel about this series anymore because I truly don’t know where they go from here. Cause I mean, it’s Kamiya. He hates story to begin with and is super aggressive to everyone who talks to him online. He’s not gonna listen to feedback in the 4th game. If there even is a 4th game.

and I don’t care what it said at the exact tail end of that game, Viola is not Bayonetta and she never will be. A game all about just her would be awful.
 

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I had the weirdest dream last night. I was playing VS. Saxton Hale and I was chosen to be SH, but then I was Hale irl an was attacking actual people. But for some reason, I became Venom, so I was Symbiote Saxton. And then I had to attack a childrens playground but this 7 year old put up immunity to them all and I was singing Goofy Goober to the kids to scare them. But then I guess I wasn't SH anymore because everyone was fleeing from a potato squash that causes homicidal activity if it's looked at, so everyone was just terrified of this fictional veggie. Then I woke up.


Dreams are suppossed to mean something, right?
Damn, what drugs were you on, I want some
 

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I had the weirdest dream last night. I was playing VS. Saxton Hale and I was chosen to be SH, but then I was Hale irl an was attacking actual people. But for some reason, I became Venom, so I was Symbiote Saxton. And then I had to attack a childrens playground but this 7 year old put up immunity to them all and I was singing Goofy Goober to the kids to scare them. But then I guess I wasn't SH anymore because everyone was fleeing from a potato squash that causes homicidal activity if it's looked at, so everyone was just terrified of this fictional veggie. Then I woke up.


Dreams are suppossed to mean something, right?
Scream "PROPERTY DAMAGE" to make sure you're actually not Hale.
 

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I liked Love and Thunder as a standalone movie, but as a sequel to Ragnarok, it is definitely much weaker.

Somewhat related aside, I find it really funny how the Russos set up the "Asgardians Of The Galaxy" and both Waititi and Gunn basically just went "No"
considering Disney fired Gunn and Feige didn’t want to do a Guardians without him, I don’t think there was much of a choice
 

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Guess my best friend and I are in the minority with the opinion of Love & Thunder being a better film than Ragnarok. I personally don't get the criticism of Love & Thunder being "too jokey and not being funny" when I feel that criticism could be applied to Ragnarok.
I agree, I'm not going to defend things like the goats, but I can think of a number of moments where the humor interrupted a poignant scene like Korg with the destruction of Asgard, Korg interrupting a scene with Thor and Loki, or Thor asking Korg about where to go at the end just for a minute tangent on Miek (I'm starting to see a pattern here). Ragnarok I don't think was that great at balancing its humor and honestly, I'd hope the next movie does a better job than it.
 
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