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Just some random thoughts

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Ray Park's Darth Maul and Temuera Morrison's clones army are the most underrated, underused and underappreciated cast in all Star Wars movies and tv series. I hope to see more of them. Would be cool to see Temuera Morrison as Captain Rex and any other clones. It's sad these two mostly been shadowed by their voice actors counterpart. Sam Witwer's Darth Maul and Dee Bradley Baker's clones army did a really great job.

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This is my pitch of concept idea for Krypton movie (if there's any) with some of my own twists and versions.

Setting and Characters: It's evolved around the story taking place in New Krypton before the destruction. The characters consist of Jor-El, Lara Lor-Van (Superman's mom), Brainiac, General Zod, Zor-El and Alura In-Ze (Supergirl's parents) and Kara Zor El as well as Tomar-Re, Green Lantern cop responsible taking care of Krypton.

Concept Ideas: 1) It start with Jor El on a trial witness by everyone on New Krypton (like the scene of Hari Seldom from Foundation series) on base of accusing Brainiac as a fraud and a liar. Jor El shows evidence of ancient books made by ancient Kryptonian he found stating that Kryptonian have the abilities to fly, superspeed and super strength, laser beam, cold breath etc but somehow lost their abilities for unknown reasons that can only be explain by Brainiac. Brainiac is immortal being from planet Colu fallen from the sky way back in Ancient Krypton and seen as an angel by Kryptonian where their civilization thrived with his modern technology with his guidance and all sources of history and knowledge cited by him instead of Kryptonian keeping it themselves. But the case against Brainiac has been dismissed for Brainiac side by the Krypton Councilmen.

2) There's also idea General Zod and Jor El would create a coup d'etat against the Krypton Councilmen and Brainiac only to be defeat and broken by Tomar-Re, Green Lantern assigned to protect Krypton. Jor El and Zod would have imprisoned as treason in prison facility lighted with Green Kryptonite. At one point, they break out and head to Ancient Krypton where they would discover their ancient powers after being hit with yellow sun on that planet. They also find that millennium ago via drawing and sculpture on the wall, Brainiac landed on this planet from planet Colu, kidnapped one of the Kryptonian to be an experiment thus creating Doomsday. This explain why the planet is unhabitable in the first place and why Kryptonian left the planet to live in New Krypton at expense of their power since New Krypton only has red sun. Over the years, Brainiac makes himself some kind of angel to Kryptonian since they had to adapt to new environment and has changed some history event to teach the new generation. All powerful Kryptonian in the past becomes fiction and myth.

3) Another idea is the existence of Kryptonite in New Krypton. Green Kryptonite is used as weapon like laser gun that shoots green beam that able to kill Kryptonian and also place in every lightbulb in Krypton as security measures implement by Brainiac centuries ago. Kryptonian wears Gold Kryptonite as jewelry and accessories for fashion without any knowledge that Gold Kryptonite absorbing sun from giving Kryptonian powers. Brainiac also has Pink Kryptonite all over his robes as accessories which have power to pursue anyone into his own will (Jor El also known and did went to trial to show everyone about this discovery only to be reject and debunk.) Red Kryptonite would be used by Brainiac to create Doomsday and also human experiment since Red Kryptonite are unstable for causing bizarre physical mutations.

4) Tomar-Re would have bigger roles as protector of Krypton. He would have working under Krypton government, saving people just like Superman on Earth and beats Jor El and General Zod's coup d'etat before fights against Brainiac and his cyborg. He would be the one using all his will power to protect the Krypton core with his Green Lantern ring all by himself to stabilize the planet before died. Brainiac sees him as competitor for the love of Kryptonian and harbours jealousy.

5) After almost losing love of people from Krypton, Brainiac uses pregnant Lara Lor-Van to take all his accusations to Brainiac and points it all to General Zod and his followers. In the end, Jor El makes a deal with Brainiac to leave the planet in exile with his family in exchange for his silence but when second coup d'etat happens, Brainiac only creates a small pod enough for a baby, Kal El. I like the twist that the rest Jor El only creates ship small enough for a baby is because he never did create it and it was all Brainiac as some kind of sick revenge. And I find it interesting that instead of classic story where Jor El warns the people of Krypton that their planet is dying, Jor El tries to expose Brainiac as a fraud which his action lead to the actual destruction of Krypton which if he just let go, the planet would still live but under the utopia lies by Brainiac. Anyway, Jor El keeps his memory as hologram and redirects the ship to Earth.

6) General Zod was betrayed by Jor El, sent to a special facility where criminals in Krypton will be exposed with Black Kryptonite which separate good and evil side. And somehow a fight happened between Zods and the authority which the good side of General Zod died leaving the evil version left to lead the army for a second coup d'etat. General Zod would have leftover of power he got from Ancient Krypton's yellow sun and proves to everyone Brainiac has lied to them by flying and laser his way to Brainiac in city of Kandor.

7) Brainiac finally snaps during General Zod's coup d'etat, decides Kryptonian are no longer matters, gets into his skull shaped ship and shoots beam straight to Krypton core after he shrinks city of Kandor and it's people as souvenir to memorialize. I honestly don't know where to put Zor-El and Alura In-Ze, Supergirl's parents into the story but according to comics, they would help Kara Zor El into the ship and perhaps somehow Kara would have her dog, Krypto and her horse, Comet that can fly. I don't know. Maybe Kara was somewhere far while the planet getting destroy and her parents did the same deal so she just racing to the pod with her horse and dog but when she arrives, her parents' pod destroy in all carnage and they just put her in the remaining pod. So anyway, General Zod loses all his powers and all his soldiers and himself are imprisoned into Phantom Zone by Brainiac.

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I just realized something. I remember a post back in the day that said Hughie and The Deep technically never met each other throughout the show. And...

...this is how they met for first and last time.

Butcher: You been crying?

Deep: Nope. Starlight? It was all a test. Yes! The universe is rewarding me for my loyalty just like Sean Connery rewarded Costner at the end of Robin: Prince of Thieves.

Hughie: Sweet...Jesus, you're a moron.

The entire conversation. 😂

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I been think this for a while. Count Dooku is singlehandedly the worst written character ever in Star Wars. I just don't get his story. I know his story but like? So he left Jedi Order because he sees Jedi Order no longer what it used to be, leads Separatist movement because Separatist are planet that mostly nonhuman that didn't get treat equally by Republic so they made their own league instead. That's the Dooku I love. The anti hero. But then, he happened to be Darth Sidious's apprentice and just dog follows orders, let the involvement of corporation to dominate world, has no vision whatsoever and the worst part is he's racist? Someone told me he envision world ruled by human and non human are lesser being? Wtf with 360° character change?

Darth Maul is what Count Dooku should have been. Darth Maul and his brother Savage Oppress lead Shadow Collective team consist of Mandalorian, Crimson Dawn, Black Sun, Pyke syndicate etc. He fights one on one with the best Mandalorian warrior and won the Dark Saber, making him the rightful ruler of Mandalore. And all that not by Darth Sidious order. He just HIM. He and his brother did it all for themselves.

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Hear me out, THIS but Brightburn 2. Brightburn has the potential to do what The Boys missed up upon. The real Scorched Earth. High dead bodies count. And with Cloverfield type of plot. Imagine a story continuation from first Brightburn movie starring the new main character in currently witnessing and running with all other people from a flying object lasering building and singlehandedly destroys the military. Just run and run until in the end, no way to hide.

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You do know Soldier Boy isn't a loyal type guy right? He literally flirt with Mallory infront of Payback team in flashback. It's not a retcon. He romanticizes the idea of Crimson Countess because just like Homelander, he's pathetic when he's helpless. He thought Payback and Vought gonna saved him from the Russian after all the things he did to them. He's clearly delusional. This is why people said "We are The Boys Fans. We don't watch our own show." Because of this. Think for a moment before speak.

Heck literally, LITERALLY all the things came out from his mouth are how many women he been tap over the years. Even the Legend confirmed it. And I think the same delusional Soldier Boy has on Stormfront. You could even see how Soldier Boy in certain scenes realized Stormfront is a weirdo but that delusion is the reason why he gave v1 to Homelander.

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Till to these days, one of the biggest fumbles in movie title history is calling this movie Regular Show The Movie instead of Regular Movie. 🤷

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I love Bombsight so far in The Boys series. But am I the only one expecting him having same power like Bomb from Angry Bird games and movies? His name is BOMBsight and his power is just flying? I thought he gonna fly at someone and explodes.

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The other day, we had an interesting conversation. Who is a better father? Omniman from Invincible or Homelander from The Boys? Reminder, this is only involving father and son relationship and nothing else outside it.

Hear me out:

- never left his son

- never had another kid

- this one is on thin ice but in technicality, Homelander just fight Ryan because Ryan lasers him first. He did try to reason with him. Omniman just want to straight up conquer the planet.

- he tries to involve Ryan with Vought from young age while Omniman expects Mark to just suck it without any true exposure to Viltrumite empire

- never bad mouth the mother of the child

Homelander is a bad guy, no argue in that part but between him and Ryan as father and son dynamic compare to Nolan and Mark, Homelander just better father. That's low for Omniman knowing Homelander raised without parents while Nolan did.

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Here's a wild take. If the main character is not favoured by their showrunners or writers to push the viewers and the audience to their sides, would you take their sides?

I recently have a conflict of morality because I just can't seem to side with the main character at all while the huge majority of the viewers seem to think the main characters are right (even tho they are not in my opinion)

I see the parallel here between these two shows recently and I want to talk about it. For Falcon and The Winter Soldier, the series try so hard to make us sympathize with the Flag Smasher even tho they basically just blow up many people in that one scene. Somehow the one we hate is the guy that killed one of the members with a shield after they murdered his friend?

For Invincible series, I can't wrap my head about why people like Omniman at all after all he's done. Weird enough, all those hate went to Immortal. Like him or not, think about it for a second. Omniman killed original members of Guardian of The Globe in cold blood, kills million when he fought against Mark on Earth where they held a ceremony to remember the tragedy and he singlehandedly destroys Flaxan planet on his own. Immortal is the first hand witness of Omniman actions. He died alongside the members and he's the only one revived while others stayed dead. First thing he did when revived is to avenge his dead friends (and of course he died). What is more interesting is, IF Immortal had killed Omniman, no one will die because of the fight ensues between Mark and Omniman after that. Some might say Immortal is a bum because how he treats Mark in early season, mind you he has more justification like Powerplex to actually be careful after the tragedy. But in the end, he makes peace with Mark. So with all that information, death of Guardian of The Globe, millions death on earth and planet Flaxan, why do people still like Omniman just because the "I think I missed my wife." Had Immortal been the central character instead of Omniman, would we still see things the same way?

People said the most unrealistic part is Debbie gets back with Nolan but honestly, I think it's this because Omniman clearly Robert Kirkman's favourite that he wants us to like him as well.

P/s On the side notes, why the new season tries to gaslight us into thinking Scrouge Virus isn't justify? "The children infected too" They killing each other the moment Great Purge started, they beyond saving. Oliver himself was a kid able to kill both Mauler Twins without remorse or if the story even bring it back up.

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Unlike other people in the fandom, I hate Legend of Korra solely because of how the writers wrote Amon and Kuvira as a character.

For first season, I get it. Republic City has this discrimination between benders and non benders. Non benders are oppressed by those with bending which lead to inequality and Amon to raise an army of well-trained non bender to equal themselves in fighting. The problem here is that even after the show tells us that Amon is fake and actually a waterbender who can bloodbend in disguise and only using the hatred to help archive his personal motives, it's still doesn't remove the fact that non-benders did in fact being wrong by people with bending abilities. I hate how the writers decide that "Oh let's have Korra pushes him out of the building into a river where he accidentally exposed himself to be fake and everyone will no longer support his cause." Yeah but they ended the story without answering if the non benders in the end did or did not in fact get their equal treatment they demanded in first place? I know it's pretty unrealistic to fix racism but the show make it seem exposing Amon somehow fix the inequality among benders and non-benders which is not true? The situation exist way before Amon shows up.

For the final season, I remember watching it with full hatred on Prince Wu to the point I low-key agree on Kuvira. Suyin thought HE, THE SON OF THE EMPRESS WHO KIDNAPPED AIRBENDER TO BE HER SECRET SOLDIERS would make a good ruler of Ba Sing Se? Wild take but Kuvira just like Amon had writers wrote them to the corners into bad guys because otherwise, they did have a solid point. Kuvira was right the whole time to dismiss Prince Wu and takes over as Great Unifier. But the writers knew this so they added bunch of stuff up like concentration camps and laser cannons (so it would look obvious who this homage is to), and the worst part is Kuvira's plan on Republic City.

There's absolutely no reason for Kuvira storywise to even do that in the first place. Because 1) it's dumb and unnecessary. Republic City in the comic are declared no longer part of Earth Kingdom and 2) it's a place with all people around the world stay which would lead to international conflict. I think the writers did it because it's cool but at expanse of the character's build up. I mean, giant Mecha suit and laser beam vs a bunch of characters. It's an epic big loud noises fight scene.

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If I could give my wild takes about Star War Original Trilogy, I'll say Return of the Jedi have two problems.

1) Return of Jedi should not being back Death Star. It should have something equavalent of Battle of Corusant from Revenge of the Sith or final battle in Rise of Skywalker. An entire army of the Empire against the remaining rebels in one huge big battle that decides the fate of the Galaxy. Honestly, imagine Luke, Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine in probably some office or castle and the sky in the night is the entire fight in space. Bring back Death Star is just a bit lazy writing same like Force Awakens tried to do with Starkiller but I'm not trying to throw stuff in original trilogy. I'm just saying...

2) When I first time watching Return of the Jedi, honestly the reveal that Palpatine can do force lightning kinda came out of nowhere. It never been established. Yoda never done it. Kenobi never done it either and neither had tell that it's possible. So my first time watching it, it kinda felt goofy. But I think Prequel Trilogy established force lightning far better than Original Trilogy. They showed it multiple times. Count Dooku did it in Attack of The Clones for the first time against Master Yoda, Emperor Palpatine did it against Mace Windu and the final one with force lightning is Emperor Palpatine against Yoda. It doesn't felt like it came out of nowhere and it established only Sith can do it.

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(SPOILER ALERT) One thing I wish they change to the story is the fact that Nolan is Emperor Argall's son/descendants. It's weird. Because what do you mean this evil equivalent of Austrian Painter's blood relation is THE justification for Nolan and Mark to be Emperor? I hope Nolan just becomes Emperor because Earth changes his life and other Viltrumite life and they choose him willingly instead of Thragg to leave their old ways and for opening their eyes for their wrongdoings.

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Quick question:

When these two talking about that one time Paul and Debbie brought Oliver to a restaurant and Oliver felt "fizzy inside" when he saw the lobster. But he still ate it.

Is that meant from Oliver's perspective, there's a naked sexy boiled corpse on his plate and he ate it anyway?

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Have you guys ever felt weird about watching an average movies and then, found out one of the cast members is actually a really famous legendary actors in some movies people glazing about? These are mine.

1) I never watch Godfather (1972) until few years ago. But I know Al Pacino from his movie called Dick Tracy (1990) where he wore a tone of make up and played a ridiculous character ever. He seems enjoying his role so much.

2) I never watch Lawrence of Arabia (1962) but I recently found out Peter O'Toole is in Troy (2004) as King Priam and he voices Anton Ego from Ratatouille (2007) as well as Stardust (2007).

3) Just like everyone else, I know Robert Redford from Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014) instead of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969).

4. Never watch Dollar trilogy. I know it exist but I don't think I'm gonna watch it. But I know Clint Eastwood from Gran Torino (2008).

5. Leonard Nimoy famous for Star Trek franchise but I know him as Sentinel Prime in Transformers Dark of The Moon (2011)

6. Last one is probably Elizabeth Taylor famous for Cleopatra (1963) which I also never going to watch but she was however in The Flintstones (1994).

I am taking about like the feeling of never knowing these actors capabilities at it's peak but you appreciate their talent somewhere else in movies many won't mention when talking about these actors.

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Rewatching Omniman vs Immortal scene I want to say something

1) Immortal isn't weak. He is equal to Viltrumite (YES, EQUAL). He got beat by Omniman because he just got revived few minutes ago. He basically at the bad condition. If he was at his peak, he would have won.

2) People hating on Immortal cannot fathom that Immortal here fighting for his dead friends that 6 feet's underground now while even tho he himself was at the funeral as a corpse, he's the only one got revived. He basically has Survivor Guilt.

3) I wish Omniman and Immortal get to meet again one day. Compare to Debbie and Arthur, Immortal is the one Omniman did wrong the most. Immortal is the first hand witness of Omniman turns evil and sees all his friends died by this man. While everyone here forgave Omniman, everyone should remember what Immortal went through.

4) That one scene where Immortal thought Allen is Omniman, you had to give respect to Immortal knowing he's willing to fight Omniman in space knowing he also had to held his breath just like Viltrumite and he's willing to fight them at their own territory. All for dead friends he lost against one friend that once was.

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Something just tick in my head just now. Why is it the switch for bathroom and toilet lamp are on the outside of the bathroom and toilet? Alright some of you might think, "Oh because the water could hit the switch and cause an accident or destroy the wire." Okay but isn't the lamp is in the bathroom and toilet? And no one ever hit that? So why the switch on the outside?

You get me? Like did you have a house and the switch for the house is at the outside the house beside the main door? Did you have to turn on your car from the outside before you enter instead of the inside? Or do you have to go out of your room everytime to switch on the lamp and the fan inside the room?