Open Bar #81 - She-Hulk Cancelled, Rey Movie Still Happening, Rachel Zegler In Star Wars?

[@AParticularIndividual]

It’s amazing how quickly it went from “Hey everyone, we’re making another SW movie starring Rey!” to “Everyone’s mad we’re making another Rey movie, but we’re doing it anyway!” to “We got an obnoxious activist director and y’all are just istophobes!” to “Yeah, the Rey movie is delayed indefinitely…” What’s it been? A few months? If they keep accelerating at this rate they're going to be announcing movies and cancelling them on the same day.

[@PerkulatorBenny]

"We are cancelling the new Star Wars movie." "What new Star Wars movie?" "The one we're announcing tomorrow."

[@Compassiron1]

@@PerkulatorBennyhaha. I was going to make the same joke

[@TheQuickSilver101]

I appreciate the accelerated process. Streamlines everything!

[@jessemockler616]

😂😂😂❤

[@0giraffe0]

They've already been doing that. That's the sad part. It's just an excuse to divert attention from all the issues until people forget, except people are paying attention now.

[@EyeOfMagnus4E201]

As someone who’s been a fan of She-Hulk for decades, the apparent cancelation of the She-Hulk series is the best thing I’ve heard all year so far. No more faux She-Hulk written by writers who aren’t even fit to lick John Byrne’s boots, who’s an actual professional writer who actually knows how to write a funny and entertaining She-Hulk.

[@Darthhusker]

😮3

[@AllanTidgwell]

What do you call a Scotsman who's half-drunk? The designated driver

[@ChazCharlie1]

Ackshually the drink driving limits there are incredibly strict, you basically cannot have any alcohol at all

[@cosmictreason2242]

@@ChazCharlie1in that spirit, i think in 2010 the USA passed Russia in being the number one alcohol consumption per capita country, primarily due to college binge drinking

[@mohamedbelkacem9889]

​@@cosmictreason2242 that's worrying

[@sakaaali]

Since Rachel Zegler has such destructive power, here's an idea: remake A New Hope, cast her as the Death Star

[@chasehedges6775]

PERFECT Casting !

[@mattp6089]

She's fairly petite though. Could you build things like tractor beams, planet killing blasters or detention blocks into her?

[@sakaaali]

@@mattp6089 I'm sure they have the technology to make almost anything... the exception being a good movie

[@zetterburger]

@@mattp6089Just wait until she hits the Wall. They all eventually start fattening and drooping.

[@Langley_Ackerman19]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@nhagan001]

Open bar 81 She-hulk canceled 5:55 Rey movie still happening 27:30 Rachel Zelger in Star Wars 1:02:10 1:11:15 Star Trek show about USS Kelvin Bonus funny moments: 30:56 proof that Mauler hates women (I joke) 1:28:48 Critical Drinker triggers Mauler 1:31:15 Critical Drinker gets triggered

[@idahomike4254]

45:40 - I think the reason that some believe that things need to be "dumbed down" is that we have sooo many choices now as to what to watch and the FOMO factor.It's getting pretty difficult to decide on which shows to dedicate our time to, so studios and creators need to come up with quick hits in order to capture our attention without having us actually think about what we're watching. Quite the dynamic, actually.

[@jonathangrey2183]

Its an odd social dynamic that exists today. On the one hand, tiktok. On the other hand, 9 hour podcasts.

[@lewishand3531]

Looking at all the announced Star Wars projects that have probably been abandoned I can't help but think about the old British political concept of Masterly Inactivity. The general idea is when you announce something and it's immediately hit with immense negativity you proceed to say nothing about it. You give no updates, when people ask you about the subject you give the most nothing or reflective response possible and you generally pretend that whatever was met with negativity doesn't exist until people have completely and utterly forgotten about it. Then in a few years, or however long it takes for people to completely forget about your subject, you come out with the most under the radar press release possible to say that the thing that was met with a negative response isn't going forward. Because everyone has forgotten about the subject at this point, most people won't hear this statement , and the rest will respond with indifference. This way you avoid having to do the thing that everyone would've hated, and you also avoid the negative press you would receive from cancelling it immediately. I 100% believe that this is the exact strategy that Disney is currently using. Just watch.

[@SpectacularSpider-Nerd]

I love Mauler so much, I don't see a lot of people hate the Snyder cut and Interstellar as much as I do

[@sylance777]

Hollywood reminds me of my first job at a dive restaurant; the cooks hated their customers because it created work for them. Hollywood hates their audience and just like that restaurant, the product suffers because of the hate.

[@chasehedges6775]

Modern Hollywood.

[@paulware4701]

The destruction of the Enterprise in Search for Spock is one of the defining moments in cinema; it's so shocking, so totally unexpected, that at the time I genuinely thought Kirk had a trick up his sleeve to keep it from happening. The reaction of the audience in the cinema where I saw it (when it first came out) was total stunned silence. And Kirk himself gets the only line that can do the moment justice: "My God, Bones, what have I done?" End of an era.

[@bobhouses2036]

It's hard to believe I've been watching this show for 81 years

[@justin9744]

Go to bed, Rose. Jack is still dead at the bottom of the ocean.

[@FEDEXLuchs]

Starship Troopers CGI is top tier and holds up

[@justin9744]

One of my favorite movies of all time. Ages like a fine wine.

[@IdealX-fr4eg]

Love the movie I just wish they incorporated the mech suits like the book

[@Olebull93]

This dialogue is more thought out then the tv series The producers doesn't know how to compete in the new industry. They are the disastrous dinosaurs .

[@someopinionateddirt6561]

And those disastrous dinosaurs - knowing that they're not up with the times anymore - decided to pick young producers who were never in touch with audiences in the first place. A tragic case of the blind trusting the deaf.

[@NerdsNeverSleep]

Hearing Gary mention ColecoVision made me happy. I still have that and my Atari 2600. And the Atari adapter for the Coleco

[@andyward8430]

This ongoing narrative of how important representation is feels so backward to me. It’s more important that a person check a box than it is to be good at their job.

[@chasehedges6775]

Exactly. It should be about effort and doing a good job at your task.

[@cosmictreason2242]

It's not about improving the product. It's a deaph cult religion that wants to destroy your society. The whole goal is to weaken the youths morals by removing any aspirational role models for them

[@rapalbumdepot7648]

This inclusion B.S. is clearly a scam for studios to slash costs related to actors and directors

[@hulkfan97]

Its infecting every industry now. Look at United Airlines now theyre hiring based on race and gender not on qualifications

[@nabahmadi5012]

Look at how ESG scores work, especially in Australia...they basically extort companies for changes.....and "contributions ".

[@EscargoBay]

You guys didn't talk about the sequel we all know in our hearts we want to see: Star Wars Holiday Special Part 2.

[@chasehedges6775]

💯

[@danhat606]

I guess they moved over to Marvel and gave us Guardians of the galaxy Christmas Special lool🤣

[@chasehedges6775]

@@danhat606 Yeah and it was great

[@deviousdelibird]

I want to know if Bea Arthur's granddaughter re-opened the bar! :(

[@FeatherRanching]

What is it about Wonka that makes people think "I wanna see his backstory"?! He's a being who has been self-exiled with no human contact, for decades, in an enormous closed factory in the middle of a city. He is a global living legend, whose products have drawn the attention of the world's rich and powerful, yet even they cannot (or are afraid to) breach his closed factory. He presides over numerous ruptures in the fabric of reality including interdimensional portals, spontaneous generation of matter, gravity manipulation, and several other powerful magics. He is caretaker of an alien species he calls "oompa loompas" (though it is unclear if that is actually their name, or simply a phrase that bookends their songs), and whose culture and motives remain almost entirely unknown, except for their apparent casual disregard for human life. Whatever backstory they provide is guaranteed to be a disappointment. I always assumed he was a demigod or some other ethereal being who had chosen to do this for his own amusement.

[@stacyhamilton2619]

Oompa Loompa is not a simple thing to call yourself. Roman is pretty simple. Simply Greeks Simply Russians. Union of Soviet Socialist Republicans? Not so simple. The short life span Ocampa on Star Trek were pretty simple. Ocampa Lampas not as simple. If I was Wonka I'd simply call all those colorful midgets Bob.

[@roseprickett8303]

He's one of the Good Neighbors, perhaps?

[@matthewmcguire1953]

He’s an SCP lol

[@Fardawg]

Michael Arndt doesn't get the blame he deserves for setting up the Sequel Trilogy. People forget that Kasdan and Abrams were last minute writing replacements because Arndt failed to produce a complete script in time. It was Arndt who pushed Luke to the end of the movie because Rey kept being overshadowed by him when he showed up. Kasdan and Abrams had to work with that framework to get the movie made on time. Abrams was only supposed to direct the film, not write it, and Kasdan (who also doesn't get enough blame) was pulled off writing the Solo movie to work with Abrams on the script.

[@chasehedges6775]

I’ll never forget watching Revenge Of The Sith back in mid 2000s and 2010s after elementary school or watching Ewoks Battle For Endor at my grandparents house when I was little. Modern Disney has completely ruined the magic of Star Wars that George Lucas created.

[@lance134679]

I have to admit: making your fans the literal villains in your TV show is something I hadn't seen before She-Hulk. Ironically, fans would actually really like a GOOD She-Hulk show, not a hateful one.

[@erichtomanek4739]

IF, the Rey movie is made she'll have twins, one boy and one girl. The girl will be awesome at everything and the boy will struggle mightily at everything. He will be bitter and hate his angelic sister and go to the dark side of toxic masculinity and fight and fail against the good force, which is female.

[@GeorgHaeder]

Even worse, Rey's boy will run around thruout the whole movie telling everybody that he actually wants to be a stronk trans-waman and in the next movie he/she/whatever will become a full blown Sith tranny and demands to be called Darth Xir. He then will go and destroy whole planets because someone from said planets has mis-pronouned him/her/whatever. So stunning, so brave and everybody at Di$ney clapped.

[@Drawnartist]

And the father ....... is Rey herself!

[@hawkeye5955]

​@@Drawnartist: "Nooooooo! That's not possible!" - Luke Skywalker

[@Captain_Insano_nomercy]

​@hawkeye5955 search your feelings, you know it to be true

[@michaelwright3830]

I would add The Shield and Sons of Anarchy to the list of the "Golden Age" of television.

[@IRMentat]

1:43:00 I whole heartedly disagree with you here. Sheba is unable to punch boulders into lava with her puny noodle arms but does have far superior options in her alt-skins. Club Sheva with the clothes bands just off her back that cast arguable shadows made me ultra critical of most other games clothing systems for decades afterwards.

[@delcarsdungeon]

One of my favorite moments in The Empire Strikes Back is with Boba Fett when Luke is creeping about you see a very slight movement where Boba Fett knows he's there and as soon as Luke sticks his head up he damn near gets his head blown off.

[@Enigma75614]

Boba Fett was so underutilized in that trilogy.

[@1975CAMARO454]

At 1:20:45… couldn’t agree more… such a strong emotion from my childhood watching a few models move slowly yet keep you glued to a 11” tv, classic cinema.

[@TheCapedWanderer]

First game I ever 100%’d was Kirby & The Amazing Mirror, and it did have a percent for each of your save files. I got 100% in all 3, lol. Unlocking the black Kirby (“carbon” paint) in Candy Constellation was always my favorite, he looked so cool against the vivid colors of the background. Stellar music for each of the realms. I can play Cabbage Cavern on electric guitar, sounds dope as hell.

[@neserpico9773]

If Grogu is still basically an infant when he's 50 years old, how come that Yoda is so wise at 800 or even 400? Based on this math, he should mentally be a teenager when he dies..

[@gingerandbroke1402]

Boardwalk Empire, Homeland, Hannibal, The Expanse, True Detective, and Fargo just some of the other great TV shows during the golden age.

[@dacknostrum]

Open bar 100 should invite literally every podcast that’s willing to come!

[@eatMY455]

They need to not bring back daredevil, because disney+ will just ruin what netflix did so well with his character. Just his cameos in the various shows ruins his character as it is

[@bellissimo4520]

Charlie Cox should at this point refuse to keep playing him. I understand that he wanted to join the MCU back when it was still great, but I think at this point, he can only lose.

[@eatMY455]

@@bellissimo4520 who better to play daredevil than charlie? What? We gonna get another ben affleck daredevil? 🤮

[@bellissimo4520]

@@eatMY455 I'd rather nobody play daredevil anymore instead of Disney ruining the character any further.

[@TheDarthSoldier]

Good example of a show having a great season 1 and bombing in season 2 is Altered Carbon

[@kirstys5601]

I actually liked Super 8 too. Sure JJ Abram’s was harken back to Stephen Spielberg but it was a solid movie. I think sometimes hatred of a persons work can cloud the genuinely good moments they had.

[@haldorasgirson9463]

Your Sisu review was a great hit with my sisters today. We are looking for a theater that is showing it. Hope it is streaming.

[@jakehunt4144]

Morgan Freeman as the Grogu voice🔥🔥🤣🤣🤣

[@Zac_Frost]

Gilbert Gottfried if he was still with us would've been great, too.

[@jakehunt4144]

@@Zac_Frost 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yes absolutely!!! Then Mando and Grogu can have the same dynamic and energy of Jafar and Iago 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@douglasstewart4790]

1:37:42 My only lingering problem with Predator 2 is the subway scene. As a kid it was one of the cool scary parts, but now it doesn't make sense. I get he was following Glover's team, and pounced when he saw a fight starting, but the subsequent slaughter is kinda silly. With a car full of people firing wildly in every direction did no one even accidentally clip the eight-foot tall alien who in this case can only move backwards or forwards?

[@walter_lesaulnier]

I saw no evidence that JJ Abrahms had ever seen a single episode of Star Trek. He did not do Star Trek, he did some weird new thing that was aimed at small children that are lead paint chip connoisseurs (like most of his movies). He should be taken to the Hague and charged with crimes against humanity.

[@PeterGreen700]

t's hard to believe I've been watching this show for 81 years

[@SkylerKPHDtrustmebroUNI]

Blew the budget, embezzled the budget, same same.

[@SoundwaveSG1]

I said Fuck JJ back in 2009! And people said that i was wrong!

[@chasehedges6775]

You were smart. They were probably eating their words after Rise of Skywalker

[@JohnDoe-sr1dd]

Let's not forget that Ironheart, another character no one asked for, just wrapped filming. I don't get the strategy - ignoring all the A list characters with popular series for Z listers whose books got cancelled after limited runs, or never even had a book.

[@zacharymcmillan2788]

Disney isn't hiring directors,they're recruiting activists;they're not passing the torch,they're torching the past. Welcome to the Fourth Reich;all of these woke movies,TV shows,comic books and video games are the 21st century version of Triumph Of The Will;Leni Reifenstahl would be proud. 🤨

[@walter_lesaulnier]

I want an r-rated Mondalorian series where the writer and director for Deadpool, plus Trey Parker and Matt Stone, turn baby Yoda into a foul mouthed murderous Cartman.

[@RecluseBootsy]

Using the song Crane Wife by The Decemberists as a reference/basis for this metaphor: Disney came across a wounded bird and took it into their warm, impregnable home. Disney nursed it back to health, helped it spread its glorious wings again and let the crane fly away. It came back bearing golden eggs, but this time, instead of nursing these new hatchlings the way Disney did before... he sells them to the nearest bidder. People who have no warmth in their hearts for these precious gifts, only a desire to make more money. In transit, these eggs have either been cracked to make horrifying omlettes or clumsily dropped to the wayside and lost. None of them have been brought to term and fully realized. With egg sales down and the Crane Wife no longer producing, what is Disney left to do but butcher the crane itself and eat its emaciated corpse. They were handed a perfect money-making machine, complete with blueprints of what and what not to do, by Marvel and they somehow fucked up at an accelerated rate with zero respect for the clear omens.

[@ArwenUndomiel406]

41:39 hear hear. For example in Kingdom of Heaven, the leper king is always wearig a mask. And he's an incredible character and protagonist. Only once his mask is taken off after his death. We were able to empathize and connect to his story , because he was written so excellently. This is just a lazy excuse, because writing has gotten so much worse over the last 20 years.

[@jameslightfoot1872]

Darth Vader was extremely expressive with his body language.

[@y2j1490yahoo]

This is the perfect group assembled for this.

[@peter_schomus]

57:49 the pikachu analogy is actually very interesting. Pikachu refusing to evolve. If he evolved he'd not be the iconic Pikachu that he is.

[@Frip36]

Echo Chamberlain is succinct and articulate.

[@macarahneil2154]

Have Ryan Reynolds play Grogu like he did Pikachu. 😂 I'm totally kidding, but it worked for Detective Pikachu.

[@chasehedges6775]

True. Detective Pikachu was good

[@cosmictreason2242]

@@chasehedges6775it stayed to canon better than most other adaptations :p

[@chasehedges6775]

@@cosmictreason2242 💯

[@Zac_Frost]

@@cosmictreason2242 Definitely. It was almost 1-to-1. They just added a bit, and regrettably half race-swapped Tim.

[@J.Hermansson]

Talking about the good old days and movies, I remember I was mesmerized by the opening scene of Bladerunner, when I saw it in the movie theaters back in 1982.

[@J.Hermansson]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, The Mandalorian, they could have done it sort of like the old western tv-series Kung Fu, with David Carradine. It was an American action-adventure martial arts Western drama television series. The series follows the adventures of Kwai Chang Caine, a Shaolin monk who travels through the American Old West, armed only with his spiritual training and his skill in martial arts, as he seeks Danny Caine, his half-brother.

[@Rogue66669]

Tyrone needs to speak up more when he is on these chats.

[@michaelferro9639]

I liked his takes!

[@StormtrooperFi]

Lucky enough to see Empire and Wrath of Khan at thr flix!

[@brokenclock77]

Your intro sequence is top notch

[@fartherdude5062]

45:34 Speaking on what the show runner for the sapronos said about studios wanting TV show makers to dumb down their shows it is absolutely asinine when you sit and think about it. One of the most successful and loved shows in recent memory was Better Call Saul. It is so hard to capture or even beat Breaking Bad yet the writers and actors were able to easily do it and not only did they do it, they created another staple in the culture and if anyone has seen better call Saul you know it is not a “turn your brain off” type of show. It requires you to notice every little detail, every piece of dialogue, and literally has multiple legal court scenes that even requires the viewer to do research on the side to get a full understanding and yet it was wildly successful. It was not successful merely because of breaking bad. It was successful because the characters were well written, scenes were powerful, the music was awesome and IT TREATED THE AUDIENCE WITH RESPECT. It is that simple. I cannot believe studios are this confused about how to make good TV.

[@ProfessorHeavy1]

They're claiming that the reason they're considering not having a Season 2 of She-Hulk is because of how cost-ineffective the first season was thanks to its visual effects. You've got to wonder where all of that budget went to, no way was it being allocated for those awkward VFX.

[@Fardawg]

In what alternate universe did Mauler see a trailer for "Into Darkness" and hear them "make a big deal" about Khan? They famously lied to cover up him being Khan, so it couldn't have been a trailer from before the film came out.

[@paulwade4058]

Rey movie is an interesting one. It seems like the rumours from last year that Kathleen was no longer in control of lucasfilm are semi true. They can't fire her, but they can take away her control. So there seems to be a civil war in lucasfilm where Kathleen is announcing shit and Disney (Iger) are refusing to fund her projects. Countering her every announcement with one of her own(Mando and Grogu). The next year is going to be very interesting.

[@diogenes7368]

Drinker, have you seen the Star Wars The Old Republic (the MMO video game) cinematics? They are incredible and tell better stories in a few minutes than the recent Star Wars garbage shows and movies can do hours. The one with the female Jedi and her daughter, and the two brothers are my favorite ones, they are so good!!!

[@Blu3-Fir3]

Just comparing Satele Shan to Rey or Ahsoka, there's a world of difference in terms of the writing. Or, Darth Bane to Kylo Ren.

[@chasehedges6775]

@@Blu3-Fir3 Or Cindel from Ewoks The Battle For Endor to….. any of the ST characters

[@tubeorip]

Sause question is KEY

[@Enigma75614]

39:27 I usually agree with these guys, but they’re just completely missing the point of The Mandalorian. Din Djarin is supposed to be a throwback to the old western heroes. He’s not supposed to be a super deep character, he’s just supposed to be a mysterious badass. 42:47 I think they’re blinded by nostalgia here. There’s not really a difference between Vader and Din Djarin when it comes to the audience’s emotional connection to these characters. I also feel like the first two seasons of The Mandalorian perfectly recaptured what made the original trilogy great.

[@ComradeCommissarYuri]

Michael bay 13 hours in bengazi or whatever it’s called is really good Also his production company made the last ship series which is also good

[@Burkuagh1]

Grogu should learn ASL.

[@robmartin525]

Age, sex, location

[@davidabulafia7145]

No surprise she Hulk was cancelled.

[@fastony9659]

Marvel really has forgotten that to build up a villain, you have to, y'know...BUILD HIM UP Not bring him down, wtf??

[@Frip36]

Viewers see the Mandalorian as Pedro Pascal wearing a helmet. So that should be helpful. He's not psychologically invisible.

[@erichtomanek4739]

Charade Bint Annoy, to direct Rachel Ziegler in a Star Wars movie: Daughter of Skywalker - HERo of the Force.

[@thewatchman1914]

"My God Bones, what have I done?"

[@thewatchman1914]

"What you had to do. What you always do. Turned death into a fighting chance to live."

[@Quidization]

I'm watching Mr Bates vs. The Post Office right now because of the information received in this KZbin video, well worth it.

[@skyemoviesF89]

Chariots of Fire! Fully agree Gary!

[@liquidemotionzz3232]

Been waiting for this one! Happy Saturday!

[@chasehedges6775]

Saturday has been amazing

[@michaelheeks5279]

Remember when shows like Iron Fist where publicly considered some of the worst that the MCU had to offer. If we're going even further back, remember when the Daredevel or X Men 3 was considered some of the worst the films Marvel had to offer? Damb! We had no idea how good we had it.

[@cande0861]

Baby Yoda but voiced exactly like Riley from The Boondocks

[@Zac_Frost]

Oh my God, that'd be *_PERFECT_* lol.

[@humble-l2x]

The Force Is Shemale

[@fireironthesecond2909]

As a F16 Raptor I’m offended by you only using she and male

[@SrenHolm-k3o]

Kahn is fine and all, but better than Empire? You're insane.

[@chasehedges6775]

Star Wars and The MCU may be destroyed but the age of The Drinker and Mauler will be glorious. ❤❤👍

[@leborhal7450]

I have a friend that says he literally audible gasped at loki season 2 - and in a good way. I honestly always thought he was a fairly intelligent person, now I'm questioning it.

[@michaelferro9639]

Pokemon Blue Mauler!! Same, although on the OG Gameboy.

[@deathabillypete570]

This was a great line up. The chat meandered so well and freely.

[@Blu3-Fir3]

No more She-Hulk? Oh well, nothing of value has been lost. Now if only the rumors about the Rey movie getting canceled were true... But I think that will be Kathleen Kennedy's one last kick in the balls to the fans and George Lucas. So, that movie is still happening even if they might have put the brakes on it for a bit after the massive negative reaction to the director's comments.

[@chasehedges6775]

Exactly

[@Enigma75614]

1:17:25 I’m shocked that JJ Abrams did the only good Mission Impossible movie.

[@georgelooney8949]

Now that I've heard it,I demand a stewie grogu series. 😂

[@pointeddown]

I’m trying to decide if it’s just studios not hiring anyone with real talent or there is a talent void right now. But wow movies have been bad.

[@chasehedges6775]

It’s a combination of all 3

[@davidhenderson9707]

Simple answer. Those folk meeting in Davos right now also control what they want you to watch - they don’t want you viewing thought-provoking material, they want a reduced subservient workforce in debt to the state eating bugs and renting appliances.

[@cosmictreason2242]

They're suppressing good talent

[@Zac_Frost]

They aren't hiring creatives. They're hiring activists. That's why everything sucks.

[@chasehedges6775]

@@Zac_Frost They lack originality and creativity

[@persona2grata]

I know it's superheroes, but it always bothers me that she "restarted" the sun because THAT'S NOT HOW SUNS WORK! A sun isn't just a big candle you can blow out or light with a giant Bic. It either has a sufficient mass of lighter elements (e.g. hydrogen) and spontaneously begins nuclear fusion because of gravity or it doesn't. And once fusion begins you can't stop it until it burns all of it's fuel, not even by blowing on it really, really hard. Once it does run out of fuel it can't be restarted no matter what. People will sometimes say 'what if you added more fuel' and I suppose maybe that's technically possible, but you'd have to add a mass of hydrogen equivalent to something like 100x the mass of all the planets in our solar system combined so, you know, good luck with that.

[@soc8581]

hey Drinker, what's your take on "The Beekeeper"??

[@carolynsheean7399]

Silo is great 👍 Reading all the books

[@carolynsheean7399]

Hugh Howey Wool (Silo s1 is the first 3rd of the book) Shift Dust

[@michaellee8815]

Open bar posted on a Saturday?? What’s going on?!!? Don’t get me wrong it’s a thrilling and unexpected surprise lol

[@briang3598]

Other TV show that started strong and went off a cliff by its end- The Man in the High Castle.

[@Disavowedagent47]

WORST THING I EVER DID DRUNK: On my 29th birthday (I am now 41), I started the night off with a Martini as we had gone out to a hooka bar. and my friends all kept buying me drinks. 14 drinks and 6 shots in under 2 hrs, (so I was shown) I was black out drunk. i was shown a vid the next day of me singing (VERY BADLY) hitting on women at the bar, "Well enough to get three phone numbers, telling a friends now ex-GF something and making her swear to never speak of it again. (she still wont tell me what I said.) proposing to MY GF, getting sick in the bathroom and then drunkenly doing katas on my front lawn at 430 in the morning. then waking up the next afternoon with HALF my friend group cutting ties with me. and nobody will tell me why saying that I know what I did. when I have ZERO memory of the events after like the 6th drink (I HATE Washington apples now)

[@cosmictreason2242]

That's why drunkenness is a sin, kids

[@genmaicha.lapsang]

I take umbrage with the discussion at 1:32:42 American Hollywood is in decline but so what? For most of us Hollywood is as foreign as Korean Cinema. There is nothing wrong with finding beauty in non-western art. If that is where the quality is then so be it.

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

What's wrong is there being no beauty in western art. There ought to be an American film industry worthy of respect.

[@genmaicha.lapsang]

​@@SaltpeterTaffy "Ought" and "Should" are the most dangerous words in the English language. They lead to a lot of suffering and misery. If the main stream American film industry is bad then I will look elsewhere, it's that simple. How it "ought to be" is not important. All that matters is what is. Fandoms grow and change and get adopted all of the time. No one person and no one culture has ownership of "story" as a concept. Once it is out into the world, in a sense it belongs to everyone. So, it doesn't matter what the origin is.

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

@@genmaicha.lapsang Utter nonsense. You've latched on to a single word in my sentence and dismissed it wholesale on the grounds that you think it's a "dangerous" word? Spare me your philosophical waxing on my language. You are a coward in its use. The inverse of my sentiment is "There ought not to be an American film industry worth respecting." Do you honestly believe that? I hope not, because that sentiment is idiotic. As an American, I value my own culture. I wish for there to exist a culture of my people, and I wish for it to have value to myself and to others around the world. Imagine if those people whose cultures you import and consume did not have cultures of their own worth consuming. You wouldn't be able to have your happy little global a la carte. You want for them exactly what I want for mine. I want it for them, too. I don't know why you are so happy to watch my culture burn. I'll have you know I reject the death-of-the-author hypothesis. So there's no meaningful discussion to be had on that regard, since you seem to hold it as gospel. And no, the most dangerous words in the English language are not "ought" and "should." Those words save tens of thousands of lives every year in the form of OSHA regulations. The most dangerous word in the English language is "yes." It is the verbal transfer of power.

[@cosmictreason2242]

@@genmaicha.lapsangyou're literally arguing "it ought not be the case that "What ought to be the case" should matter." Self contradictory nonsense

[@SaltpeterTaffy]

@therotten6152 Because when the cultural destruction happens to America it's totally okay. We Americans agonize all the time about genocide, we wallow in shame, but the rest of the world doesn't give a country fuck when it happens to us. Fucking xenophobes, man.

[@Jdl343]

For me I think that NYPD Blue kicked off the golden age of tv

[@Ladykyra101]

NO, NO, NO, NO!! Leave my BTAS Alone!! 😠😤

[@thesnazzycomet]

ITS OPEN BAR! ITS OPEN BAR! ITS OPEN BAAAR!

[@persona2grata]

Although Billy Mitchell did have his records returned to a Twin Galaxies historical records database and the article on Twin Galaxies accusing him of cheating removed, he was most definitely not exonerated. Basically a judge ruled that there was insufficient evidence to 100% prove he cheated because of the poor quality of video evidence from the time of his record submission. There is, frankly, an almost overwhelming amount of circumstantial evidence that he did, but things work differently in a courtroom/arbitration. So Twin Galaxies created a static historical records database for all records pre-2012 when the current owners bought the company that practically has the heading "take these records with a brick of salt". Mitchell no doubt considers this a win and has undoubtedly advertised it as a vindication to anyone who will still listen to him, but I don't think anyone will ever consider him anything but a cheater anymore.

[@tubeorip]

Btw Mauler is Goating a lot here :)

[@PakManMemes]

Love it when @tyronemagnus (Tyrone Magnus) shows up. The same excitement like when Batgirl shows up in Batman '66 show.

[@jekw23]

“Pikachu want another beer!” Was an underrated line.

[@stacyhamilton2619]

Who underrated it? What rating did it get? Do you mean under appreciated?

[@jekw23]

@@stacyhamilton2619 it got a “ha” when it should have got a “ha ha ha”. The rating system is covered on page 9 of “How to laugh at stuff”

[@zacharymcmillan2788]

Most of the posted comments are centered around one of two topics:how great old school movies from back in the day are,or how much entertainment sucks today in comparison to past endeavors. On this subject I recall a maxim from one of my favorite books:Hagakure,the book of the Samurai,that when speaking with someone who's endured defeat or tragedy instead of offering the usual sympathetic platitudes it is better to say,"Perhaps this occurrence is a good thing,as the situation may end up in your favor." I prefer that to wallowing in my own misery,because they're ruining beloved franchises,but there will eventually come a point where NOBODY cares about their next DEI project/push,and they find themselves irrelevant and powerless. The independent creators;on the other hand,are on the rise,as more and more people who are sick of these companies selling out quality products for ESG money clamor for new entertainment that doesn't focus on "THE MESSAGE",or throwing straight white male characters into the trash for "muh diversity." As Master Sun so succinctly put it in The Art of War,"Strike when you are empty,and your enemy is full."

[@hungchoonghow5857]

It's about time that someone quoted The Art of War in this unnecessary Cultural War in the West. It's obvious nobody from the left is reading it because it seems to me that they are just "Go straight at 'em" Oppa Gangnam Style...

[@DrBalthazar]

I made a video on Loki season 2. The world is not a better place for it's existence. Great show gentlemen.

[@amss6433]

1:04:38 Better idea maybe Rachel Zegler should appear next to Alec Baldwin

[@DavidA.-bv8xy]

"THEY blew it on the budget"? Interesting way to say "We blew our wad".