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[@radiumtheatre]

The fact that Sal literally calls out fascists who jump on pop culture band wagons to manipulate people is GOAT. I love him

[@lllSASlll]

say it Sal! Say it! Call them what they are

[@Bacbi]

@@lllSASlll Not disagreeing but isn't that assuming fascists couldn't also be nerds that were already on the band wagon? I mean girls started showing up at comic con because of twilight. Rather than thinking "I might have a shot at having a fun fling or possibly a girlfriend" there was outrage and gatekeeping. Sadly just like the GOP had to deal with the tea party in the 10 and 12 elections and never got back to normal, nerd community culture has it's own insane subculture.

[@MajesticFella]

This is the best type of Sal - giving him space to talk about what he knows about.....rather than talking about shows he doesn't like.

[@albertadache2572]

0:18 x-men rumors 5:47 DC fandome cancelled 11:12 black adam trailer coming out 17:49 amazon suspends user reviews for new lotr show 33:06 DC comics reveal the joker's actual name in flashpoint beyond #5 37:48 Batman day 40:28 dan lin declines being DC's feige

[@panduh_go_crazy-.-9957]

Need you on every video

[@albertadache2572]

@@panduh_go_crazy-.-9957 Thanks

[@Amber-tk8hd]

Thank you so much

[@albertadache2572]

@@Amber-tk8hd U are very welcome amber

[@ShatteredTrousers]

'The Gifted' was "that Fox mutant show nobody watched" and it was actually pretty good. I liked what I saw of it.

[@MisterKetch]

They were so hamstrung on what they could use and obviously budget wasn't huge for it either. But they really had a passionate team behind it and everyone worked hard. Personally I'd be happy if everyone came back to play those characters in the MCU. Especially the Cuckoos actress, the scene with the sisters reuniting out of that prison still gives me chills thinking about it.

[@Arclight-Arcanum]

I too liked that show. However, I knew Fox’s history with sci-fi (ish) shows and expected it to be cancelled. Cause Fox.

[@ProducedByMERC]

The Gifted was fire!! Felt the most like an X-Men property where mutants are hunted down

[@ShatteredTrousers]

@@Arclight-Arcanum Are you saying I should stop waiting for The Lone Gunmen season 2?

[@Arclight-Arcanum]

@@ShatteredTrousers lol! I’m still bitter about Space: Above and Beyond.

[@sollyswolly1623]

You guys had a really deep discussion today on media influence, I'm glad I got to hear it. I've had some similar feelings lately that I haven't been able to put into words as eloquently as you guys did, so thank you! 👍

[@Lsd1021]

Just curious, how much of the crew is gonna be at NYCC. Would love to meet you all in person

[@famousthaneus9810]

From what I've learned in the days since The Rock said he was at the test screening: it's not that uncommon for actors to be at a test screening for their film. The Rock just happens to be one of the few who made an announcement of it

[@doorsfan173]

Took a quick look, they're probably emphasizing Hush because issue 608 (Part 1) came out almost 20 years ago (Oct 2002).

[@Arclight-Arcanum]

We all know The Hobbit Trilogy was a corporate mandate. They were going to make it with or without Jackson, he just stayed on board to guide it from being worse than it was. The Hobbit is a 1 movie book. 2 tops. Hollywood did the same thing to the latest Matrix.

[@JimmiMiller1]

15:13 for Sals quick Tron reference ... I think lmao

[@Magnus1964]

I wasn’t a rabid fan of DC Fandome, but appreciated it. It was the spiritual descendant of the Saturday Cartoon preview shows that the broadcast networks used to run every late summer. They’d get some washed-up Golden Age comedy star or sitcom second banana to host & play clips of Jabberjaw or Scooby-Doo’s Laff-a-Lympics. 9/10s of the new material was crap, but the packaging was genius… DC Fandome could have benefited from some tight editing (and some washed-up old comedians working as hosts, who could at least hit their marks and keep things moving).

[@thealmightytruffles9622]

Amazon: Rings of Power was watched by 25 million people Also Amazon: we're gonna vet reviews, make sure its over 3.5, and not allow more than 3000 people to review it

[@MrEnKaye]

Re: LOTR:TROP I actually agree with Dan's take that if the reviews were terribly lopsided it would be disingenuous to hide reviews, as if to say "now you're just trying to make sure people aren't saying bad things". But the 10/10 reviews are MORE than the 1/10 reviews, yet those were viewable and the lower ones were not. That's what makes it feel disingenuous. I think they've made it all visible now, but IMDb being owned by Amazon and stopping people from seeing negative reviews on their multimillion dollar new franchise left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth. Sorry for the long comment, hope I kept it civil enough.

[@danieeljones8518]

Higher Todd McFarlane as DCs Keven feige 😂

[@micahfisher6125]

It's almost uncanny to hear Sal do a typical ad read with a promo code and everything lol. Note: Absolutely nothing wrong with him doing it though!

[@kristian7160]

It’s uncanny because it’s so straightforward and purposeful and yet not Dan

[@jacksonecklund630]

Dan and Sal again ! Whoo

[@Ducaso]

I found the first few episodes of the Lotr show disappointingly boring, which influenced my review.

[@nobodyexceptme7794]

good discussion

[@Ashguy733]

Lmao restaurant reviews are kinda hilarious though as unfair as they can be. Like I saw one where a guy gave a 1 star review of a restaurant cause his ice melted in his glass in the middle of summer.

[@LoneWolf-gz9mr]

New Mutants was "alright" (by today's standards) but it suffered from a MAJOR identity crisis.. It was a horror, cw(and everything that genre means), superhero, mystery film. But it COULD have been worse... It COULD have been a series.

[@bretts7072]

A shame that DCFandome was cancelled but I understand why. Still, I am glad we had two years of it as it was a lot of fun.

[@ytsi7505]

After he gave the joker a kid in 3 jokers this is not such a stretch

[@Halomasterchief16]

Alright, I'll bite. I think you guys are ignoring that people who have a complaint or objection are more likely to review than someone who was completely satisfied (notice I was motivated to respond to this and not the Rock at test screenings for example). Stopping "review bombing" is basically saying if the audience at large thinks it is bad, then it couldn't possibly be because the movie/show was actually bad, but must be because the internet is being toxic (also entirely possible, but not always true). Additionally, critics and audience scores tend to be at odds these days (could be shady dealings like a shiny new car for a good review, could be difference in taste). So the difference Dan points out as evidence of review bombing, is a weak claim. Look at Terminal List or Where the Crawdads Sing on RT and you'll see it goes the other way too (for TV and movies) where critics hate a movie or show that is well liked by the audience. Critics just aren't very representative of public opinion.

[@Halomasterchief16]

Quick caveat: Reviewers might also just be assigned to the wrong projects and not representative of the target audience. For example, if the LotR show is well liked by critics, but not by the audience, it might be because the audience might actually know more about the source material than the critics and might want it to be truer to source materials. Not sure in this case since I did not watch the show, but could easily see that happening if the show contradicted anything of importance from the books or previous movies.

[@rivwilson9330]

I don't know a lot about RT, but I was shocked to see Where the Crawdads sing's critic score, was so relieved to see the audience score was more in line with what I had in mind

[@Halomasterchief16]

@@Peecamarke Oh, I don't deny that it happens and is bad. I loved Godzilla vs Kong and was shocked it was bombed to hell and back. I just also think people are too quick to jump to that as an excuse for why reviews might be coming back bad (Godzilla vs Kong admittedly is not a masterpiece). If that is the timeline for Ring of Power's bad reviews, then fair enough. From wayback machine, all I can see is an audience score appearing for Rings of Power between midnight and 11am on Sept 2, when it released at 6pm on Sept 1. Certainly enough time for anyone truly interested in it to watch and review. My question is do Sal and Dan have a better timeline than that or are they assuming? My guess would be the latter.

[@chino19963]

It honestly didn’t help ROP when they started disrespecting Tolkien and acted like they were better then him, you know that gets fans kind of pissed off when you disrespect the creator

[@everettjohnson9374]

In what way were they disrespecting Tolkien? Now I don't mean you FEEL like they did and projecting that like it's true but did they actually do something that was disrespectful and showed that they acted like they knew better than him? Because I watched the show and I didn't get that at all

[@Arclight-Arcanum]

@@everettjohnson9374 they changed persons, places, and things. To update the story when it doesn’t need to be updated. It’s Tolkiens mythology for an ancient western Northern Europe. It’s like Mr Darcy from Pride and Prejudice saying Yeet and No Cap at every opportunity.

[@HollowGolem]

@@Arclight-Arcanum it's worth noting that there are a whole three lines of dialogue in the Silmarillian whence much of this is sourced. It was also written and gather together in a haphazard way, and Tolkien was not a particularly great novelist. Add to that the fact that adaptations need to happen to translate a book to screen, because what works on the page doesn't necessarily work in life action, and there were always going to be changes. There always are. But the backlash to this is so much more than the typical "they changed it it sucks" discourse that it seems very obvious certain people are stirring the pot intentionally. They've done this before with movements like gamergate where they use a pop culture issue that they actually don't care about to sheepdog normies into right-wing politics. That's how they operate, they've done it before, and I'm getting kind of tired of dumbasses falling for their schtick.

[@everettjohnson9374]

@@Arclight-Arcanum Yes, they also did that in the peter jackson movies, they changed whole characters or removed them and put others in their place. This is an adaptation of his works and was NEVER going to be a one to one from the novels and I went in expecting that. So they weren't being disrespectful or tried to make it sound like they knew better than tolkien, that's how YOU feel when you watch it. Its artificial anger

[@Arclight-Arcanum]

@@HollowGolem Tolkien not a great novelist? What’s your standard for great? Cause history seems to prove otherwise.

[@iopohable]

joker already has a name; joker.

[@mafiamanveto3004]

Lol I've been watching hing through all the xmen movies lately via Canadian Disney plus .

[@StalxD]

Matt Shakman to direct Marvel Studios’ Fantastic Four. In theaters November 8, 2024. Imdb hides the low scored reviews for rings of power

[@yosh3490]

Member the show Mutant X??

[@yosh3490]

Yayyy dan and sal!

[@suranae]

How well did young animal sell? Gerard Way never stuck around.

[@Lanier2369]

They revealed the joker's real name. That's news worthy? That's actually important? Why would someone care if they did. First off like was pointed out in the video it's not like it's going to stick. Like anything else that was revealed about the joker it'll become nebulous at best if it's cannon after a couple years. Awesome off tho I'm not one to think that it's very important to keep the joker mysterious. It's cool that they do but if they find him a definitive name, origin, and reveal everything else about him I don't think it takes away from who he is. But that's a moot point since as I said I don't think the real name or anything else they might reveal will stick.

[@fowlowl7784]

People have an obsession with creators that makes them as fans believe they know what's best and what the creator really wants or means and unless the creator is alive to tell them they're wrong, they'll create their own narrative. When that new narrative gains traction and gets loud enough, the echo chambers begin to spawn. As for the DC Feige thing, I think the answer is in front of them. The animated movies and series have done so much better than the movies in recent years, they should just hire the people over the animated franchise and have them work with the Warner Bros studios to craft a real and stable DC movie universe.

[@Bacbi]

But not any one single person is responsible for and have worked on all those projects which btw as a giant fan of most of it. Is not at the level needed to compete with marvel. Berlanti would make more sense in that case, he at least starts good but quality dips once he jumps to another show.

[@mokeish]

Did Sal just replace Benny with Dan? lol I'm in either way. Most people never read The Hobbit or watched the Trilogy They just heard it was too long and followed along, like lemmings.

[@cretan320j]

The problem with RoP is that it uses LoTR as a skin suit. It disregards the setting that Tolkien created and uses the popularity of the franchise to force a political/social message that is counter to the one in Tolkien's work. If one uses the name of franchise then it needs to remain true to what was established in the original and if it moves away from it needs to do so organically.

[@HollowGolem]

Considering Tolkien explicitly said that he did not intend to have a message in his work, I feel like that's not possible.

[@karofy754]

whatt political or social message is the show giving?

[@Echo_heat]

No Dan. I respect you and sal but your take on the lord of the rings is off.

[@MrRobot1984]

Well Disney already trashed Rob’s/Comics Explained live stream so I don’t hold out any hope for it. #FinalSpaceSeason4

[@karofy754]

wat happen?

[@themutupoguy]

Yay!

[@langleymneely]

This aged badly. Lol

[@alfonzoc_Father_Misfit_Batman]

👍

[@grkpektis]

I’m not one of those bible humpers who cry and whine about everything being woke, I just don’t think Rings Of Power looks interesting. But since I didn’t watch it I’m not going to give it a review anywhere good or bad.

[@BlueCheeseLucci]

Respectable

[@chino19963]

Sal you should stop pretending that you know business and acting like WBD is going to keep kicked even though he’s a majority share holder and it impossible to kick him at this point lol

[@comicpop]

Chino, don't act like I don't know what I'm talking about just because you disagree.

[@chino19963]

@@comicpop but you don’t know what you’re talking about lol

[@darioactive-man3287]

the show is really boring in my opinion,..at least those 3 episodes available now,.. dialoges are dumb,.-so on and so on,...just my take on it,,,peace out,,greez to the crew

[@leonmosley2099]

Getting tired of Sal very flippantly strawmaning opinions he disagrees with and only addressing the most extreme examples instead of grappling with the valid criticisms people have. Love back issues but his commentary is getting old