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DC Doesn’t Know What to Do With Cyborg

I really hope that someone at Disney notices that every last drop of interest in ‘Wreck-It Ralph 2' has been in the one scene that features all the Disney princesses teaming up, hanging out, and wearing casual clothing. Because if this leads to a Disney princess equivalent to ‘The Avengers’, I am so fucking there.

While I think studios have gotten excessive with having older actors revisit the properties of their youth, I’d be so down with some hoary, grizzled old King Conan.

Technically I agree, but will provide a counterpoint anyway:

Arnold Schwarzenegger has had a fucking weird life and career.

No thank you. I would like more construction, and less deconstruction, please.

Jesus...why would anyone in their right mind want to give any creative property the “Last Jedi” treatment?

Yeah, comparing Luke to Picard is pretty apples and oranges really.  Luke had to learn about morality while Picard was the one teaching everyone how to be a better person by example. 

It’s garbage writing. Luke was an aspirational hero, a mono-myth, and Star Wars was always a fairy tale. Ruin my Johnson inserted his own inability and insecurity into Luke, making him a washed up old sock after a single failure. Heroes are better than us, and Luke earned his hero-card, but because nobody in their…

It’s like I said in another article: Nobody nowadays knows how to write a character unless they’re constantly in angst over something. 

There is nothing a “deconstruction” of Picard could do that hasn’t actually already been done by the show or the movies. Hell, there was nothing in the movies that hadn’t already been done by the show.

Here is the thing though. Picard pretty much represents the idealized version of what humanity can be in the Star Trek universe. If you “Skywalker” him then you sh*t on Rodenberry’s whole progressive vision of humanity striving to achieve their potential, which is pretty much the whole point of Star Trek.

Look, I’m fine with a Picard that has changed, or grown, but not a disillusioned Picard. 1) I don’t necessarily believe that’s really that compelling of a tale to tell 2) It would be nice to know that the character that you loved, respected, and admired doesn’t become just another beaten down old man.

My problem with Luke’s journey is that he became a man who gave up while the people he cared about had to deal with the consequences. He could have given Leia a lot of help during his years in exile (especially since her own deadbeat husband decided to hightail it into space.

Your mother’s greatest creation was you.

I loved it. They could’ve been lazy and just run off nostalgia, but they took the time to establish the characters in *their* movie and built up to them becoming heroes.

As a 36 year old man who loved the Power Rangers in my youth (“grew out of it” my Freshman year of HS), I was cautiously optimistic about the new movie, and while there are some things I was critical of (namely aesthetic things), there were times in the theater I was a kid again. Even aside from the nostalgia goggles,…

I’m just hoping they do the bold thing and make Tommi (spelling intentional) a woman.

“Hasbro will work with a film studio to develop a new Power Rangers movie as a follow-up to the 2017 release.”