Hello , apocalypteers ! Reality is a incubus , so get ’s head immediately into the sweet bosom of pop civilisation . This week , I explain the many ground why video recording game movies do n’t sour , the difference between Iron Fist and Rogue One ’s Chirrut Imwe , what the perdition the Super Friends cartoon is in the Arrowverse , and more . Take shelter !
Revenge of the Revenge of the Sith:
Another lost Rebel :
Dear Mr. Postman ,
One thing about Rogue One is that it makes us search at the original trilogy in different way . Now the exhaust porthole is a brillant piece of “ hump you ” to the Empire from Galen Erso . With that in judgment , I would assume the Han Solo picture is die to take spot timeline wise during the prequel trilogy . We do see the Millennium Falcon in Episode III on Coruscant . Do you think there is a agency for the Han Solo film to meliorate the prequels or put a dissimilar twist on something from the prequels ?
Also , I have a follow - up question to the reply you gave ConfusedRebel last week . If Jedha is destruct in Rogue One , where the crystal mines are , where does the Empire get the crystals for Death Star II ? Are there other mines on other planets ? If so then that makes Jedha pretty nonmeaningful , does n’t it ?
The Han Solo movie is n’t going to take stead in prequel time . It ca n’t , actually , unless we ’re going to some earnestly young Han Solo . While I do n’t believe anyone ’s age has been formally confirmed , at least in the new canon , Wookiepedia saysHan is less than 30andLando is about 30when A New Hope begins . retaliation of the Sith aim topographic point ~19 twelvemonth before Rogue One , which would make them both about 10 years old — too young to be navigate the Falcon . The soul in the Falcon in RotS is someone else , although we do n’t know ( yet ) how Lando got it .
That does n’t mean the Han Solo flick could n’t assist reframe some of the prequels just like Rogue One did for A New Hope . Maybe a neat but incredibly underused fiber like Aurra Sing could show up and really do something cool . Or maybe Han has to smuggle something to Naboo and key out it ’s decimated . peradventure he meets an elderly Gungan . aboveboard , if Han met Jar Jar Binks , who had stop being stupid and was still agonizing over the way he help destroy the Republic … that would be sort of bewitching .
However , the Han Solo movie in all probability wo n’t do this . There are a few reasons , the main one being that Disney seems to be brush off the world of the prequels as well they can . At least for now . I think they ’d at least see if the Han Solo pic goes well before determine to take a risk on something more straight prequel related , presumably a succeeding Side Story .
As for your Kyber crystal question , we do n’t know where the Death Star II got its crystals . However , it ’s a large galaxy out there . No one in Rogue One claims Jedha has the only Kyber vitreous silica mine out there ; in fact , they say Jedha has “ a ” Kyber crystal mine and not “ the ” Kyber crystallization mine , which point there are more .
As for other quartz glass mines on other planets , I do n’t think they make Jedha meaningless at all . It could be a convenient positioning — maybe the source of crystals close to the core royal area . Or it could be because the inhabitants seemed few and poor , and thus less capable to flee and/or tell hoi polloi about the Death Star . But a gold mine is still a gold mine . recover a second amber mine does n’t mean you should abandon the first .
Tomorrow Never Knows
Jason H. :
Postman ! I got ta say , Legends of Tomorrow ’s “ everything ’s on the mesa ” approaching to time change of location is a heckuva lot more play than , well , pretty much anything that does n’t have the word of honor “ Doctor ” in the title . Here ’s something interesting , though- when Dr. Haywood sound out he bring up the Legion of Doom after an old Hanna - Barbara cartoons , does n’t that entail that the characters on the show are fancied ? No one ’s gon na handle about the expiration of Wendy and Marvin , but it voice like Batman and Robin , Superman , Wonder Woman , and Aquaman are n’t in the Arrowverse .
Fun persuasion , though : if they are in the Arrowverse , then who the heck was on “ Super Friends ? ”
Batman and Robin , Superman , and Wonder Woman are in spades not in the Arrowverse . Or rather , it would take some seriously backtracking for them to suddenly say that any of those three live .
Remember , when Supergirl arrived for the crossover , everyone was boggled . No one said , “ Hey , it ’s like a female version of Superman ! ” or “ She might be able to take on Wonder Woman ! ” Without those two , it ’s pretty safe to judge that Batman is n’t around either . More tellingly , no one has ever bring up anything regarding these superheroes , and everyone in every DC / CW show has verbalise and acted as if Green Arrow was the first superhero on the scene , surveil by Flash . The only path to get DC ’s Big Three on the show would be to have them start their careers in the present , which sounds terrible . No one wants a world where Green Arrow is Batman ’s mentor .
Aquaman , on the other script , could be introduce very easily — he could be a new character , or he could have been doing his crimefighting underwater to date . He does n’t have the same luggage of Supes , Bats , and Wondy .
It ’s also of import to note that thanks to Kara ’s chance mention of her cousin Kal - El ’s squad - up with a “ gadget - obsess vigilance man , ” we can reckon that Batman is currently operate in the Supergirl universe . And we can also guess Wonder Woman probably is n’t , because it would be weird for a distaff superhero with Kara ’s powers to arrive but for no one to ever fetch up Wonder Woman in compare , or even just conversation . Still , I ’m hoping that the “ convenience - obsessed vigilance man “ isBatwoman .
As for Super Friends , I always like to imagine that in DC universes only Marvel comic exist , and frailty versa . So the Arrowverse ’s Super Friends would basically be the Avengers , with the Legion of Doom consisting of their villains , contribute by Doctor Doom … because it ’s his legion . Boom .
The Game Is On
Cervertus :
Fuck it , I ’ll enquire : why do n’t you consider a good video biz movie is possible ?
( I always take account it when you guy wire need questionsI essentially asked you for . )
The main trouble with adapting picture biz into picture show is that video games seldom have the right kinds of stories . They almost never have something that can translate on the button into a two - hour movie , but the reasonableness why are myriad .
Sometimes the secret plan is too thin and screenwriters need to add ( or feel they need to lend ) unexampled plots and characters , like the old Tomb Raider and Resident Evil cinema , which fundamentally modify the holding . Sometimes the plot is wildly overcomplicated , and not never be the right way carry in a way that fans would revel , like most epic RPGs ( although Warcraft is unique in that it determine to prove to convey the MMORPG ’s jumbo amount of lore , which had the gist of being impenetrable to people who were n’t fans of the game ) . Sometimes a video game basically has no patch and Hollywood need to contrive one whole material , at which point it ’s not an adaptation but something that partake in a title , like Need for focal ratio . And then there ’s all the time that incompetent mass make the flick , which can be an additional trouble . Street Fighter : The Legend of Chun Li , Doom , Dead or live , all those Uwe Boll films … the list goes on and on .
And sometimes — and I think this is somewhat primal — is what citizenry love most about a video plot is n’t its story , but the history of their own gambling experience * . And that ’s something a movie can never , ever duplicate .
instance : I really have sex the Hitman and Assassin ’s Creed biz , but not for their ( progressively goofy , spiraling out - of - mastery ) plots . It ’s the undefendable world , the historic refreshment , the running like hell , the jumping constantly off tall buildings — and most significantly , doing the assassinate myself . I could watch Michael Fassbender and Timothy Olyphant assassinate people all day , and it would never give me the same satisfaction that I get while playing the games . I opine watching the great unwashed get scared in the Silent Hill flick is also not nearly as getting terrified yourself while play the games , too .
And although Uncharted and The Last of Us may have stories and characters that read better into movies than any other game in recent retentiveness , I mistrust fans would find them lacking something as well . There are spate of moving picture about action - adventure heroes and badasses traveling with modest shaver . What make the games limited is that there , you ’re the star .
( * This line 100 percent cribbed from Evan Narcisse . )
On Danny and Chirrut
Stellwolf :
Last week someone say Rogue One “ was gratifying even with the stereotype of hold an Asiatic character know soldierly arts . ”
Yet when Iron Fist was cast as a white guy this site settle that was racist too ? Is it always a drop off - lose ?
I know it seems like the same issue , but it ’s actually not .
The premise of Iron Fist is that he ’s a martial creative person . That ’s immutable . Him being a white dude is not . I know a major aspect of Danny Rand is also that ’s he an outsider who come to a strange land and becomes the best charming warlike creative person ever , but that same vista would be served exactly as well if Danny was an Asian - American .
Moreover , the character of Iron Fist is a schoolbook example of the White Savior trope , i.e. , the white guy who enters a strange culture and becomes or is automatically superior to the people really in it . The concept of Iron Fist is based on this racist trope . Marvel could have fixed that and help mitigate its stunning lack of diverseness by give Danny Rand an Asian - American , but they did n’t take it . So Iron Fist as a character is inherently problematic , but since the character was originally livid , it was n’t really racist to sick Finn Jones in the part . It was disappointing .
Meanwhile , Rogue One had a blank slating . All the shew characters play minor function , so Donnie Yen could have played anybody ( or anything ) . They at once cast him as a warrior - monk , a role he ’s played a million times in both Chinese and American picture ; the only real remainder is that this time he was in space . Lucasfilm could have made Chirrut Imwe anything , but they choose the stereotype . It was certainly dissatisfactory , but it was also typecasting , which is passably anti-Semite .
Yes , casting an Asiatic - American as Danny Rand would in one sentience have been buckle under to the same sort of stereotype , but I would argue that adding diversity to a major enfranchisement — specially a lead persona — supplant that . At least Donnie Yen had the opportunity to play one of the leads of a Star Wars motion-picture show . Meanwhile , Marvel Studios seems to have a actual hard clock time not mould white fop .
Tradition!
Jeremy W. :
Every Christmas I re - record the Lord of the Rings trilogy . I ’ve been doing so every year * since I first record LOTR as a 15- or 16 - twelvemonth - quondam ( I ’m 42 now ) . Do you have any long - stand nerd custom ? If so , what ’s your favorite ?
( * I cheat on one year by watching the extended edition of all three pic on DVD . )
I used to have a bunch . I would always watch the original Star Wars trilogy once a yr , would watch over both Mystery Science Theater 3000 Christmas flick just before the holiday , and I say David Edding ’s Belgariad series repeatedly in my young .
As I ’ve gotten sometime and time seems to move inexorably quicker , it feels like I have less separation from these thing — i.e. , even a twelvemonth later , it feel like I just see those MST3 K episodes . So it ’s not as enjoyable to watch or read them again . I do n’t think I have any annual traditions any longer , although there are certainly things I care to revisit . ( I did just re - take the Belgariad , but it ’s probably been a decade since I last find fault it up . )
I ’ve sort of down myself .
I Have Mild Affection for the ‘90s
Eccentric Circle :
Good to know that you were n’t eaten by mutant crab monsters . We were disquieted .
Its no enigma that lots of people on the internet are very taken up about which 1980 ’s toon are go to get remakes as part of Hollywood ’s despairing effort to cash in in on all nostalgia ever . However , on behalf of all 90 ’s kids I ’d care to make the observance that sooner or by and by we ’ve set out to move beyond the 80 ’s . They ’re already remaking Power Rangers , if that does well could they perhaps resolve that color - taunt power armor is “ in ” ?
What I ’m essentially asking is will we one day get the live action Dragon Flyz movie of our dreams ? Or will they decide that the millennials are a more lucrative consultation and rise flat to progress to a blue and gritty reboot of Mona the Vampire ?
Sorry . Other than Power Rangers and Pokémon — both of which never in reality went away — nothing in the ‘ 90s strike the same level of cultural stash as ‘ 80s toy / toon / place Jagannath . I ’m not trying to be a smug ‘ 80s kid and say your stuff was dreadful , it ’s that there were few options for kids entertainment in oecumenical back in my day , so all those serial — Transformers , G.I. Joe , He - Man — all managed to pervade dad culture . So if you ’re looking for Tiny Toons , Freakazoid , or Gargoyles movies , you ’re going to be disappointed . Also , it ’s worth recall that of all the ‘ 80s reboots on Michael Bay ’s transformer movies have been successful , and that ’s because it jettisoned almost everything about the serial other than the canonic concept and some character name .
But there ’s more hope on TV , where the humiliated stakes allow Hollywood to take a chance on ‘ 90s properties . I imply , DuckTales is coming back . If it does well , and I sort of feel it will , I bet we ’ll see a few other ‘ 90 cartoons will get a revival . I would n’t listen more Animaniacs , in person .
With Great Power Comes Great Opportunity
gobbler :
Hello devout Postman ! I trust everything ’s all right in the awful spot - Revelation I dwell … also I hope you ’re fine , I guess .
Here ’s one for you : which of the canonical “ stock superpowers ” ( strength , velocity , escape , invisibility , impregnability , etc . ) could be used most effectively and efficiently to make a profit for the private exploiter ? get ’s say , for instance , The Flash baffle sick of agitate law-breaking and working as a CSI and hanging out with the SuperSTARs and want to strictly maximise his personal riches . How could he do that most effectively ?
Mind control . The Flash could peck a lot of pockets and rob a crowd of banks without being caught , but mind control one billionaire and have him pen you a halt and you ’d be set . practice your powers to operate the agent and the caudex market place and you could add to your nett worth ad infinitum .
Of course , if someone had the power to manipulate a billionaire ’s mind , I guess we could find more useful things for him / her to do at the moment .
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