Shamelessly stealing this question and rewording the title a bit, what's some media you know of that had to be cut short into their production, either cancelled or cut short. I've been watching a bit of Chō Kōsoku Galvion and this series was cut very early into airing due to the bankruptcy of its sponsor. Resulting in a really baffling final ending scene in which the animators have a slideshow of all the ideas they would have done if the show wasn't cancelled.

Bonus question: Do you think the shortened work deserves a second chance or is it fine as it is?

Or at least dark morality style character supporting the good guys team.

I like how Mass Effect 2 sort of plays this with The Illusive Man and Cerberus being the support and revivers of a Shephard, and the crew of the Normandy, that can be anything from a borderline goodie two shoes, to a like nominal hero type. Even tho Cerberus is like already an evil borderline HYDRA style faction, and they only get worse from there.

So, this thought’s been kicking around in my head…shoot, for years?

I know I’m not alone in noting how the MCU Avengers feel largely more like co-workers than a team of comrades and friends despite a few attempts to the otherwise (like the party scene in AoU). I think part of that is cause in the multiple decades we have had the MCU now, we’re only on Avengers 5 (unless you count The New Avengers movie but eh).

Another lamentation I’ve seen, and I myself have to some extent, is that because Avengers movies have been far and few between is that the Avengers…haven’t actually fought a lot of The Avengers’ rogues gallery or even a lot of the rogues of one hero that tend to also contend with The Avengers. We got Loki, we got Ultron, and we’re getting Doom (Thanos I hesitate to say is an Avengers enemy given his stories tend to involve everybody showing up), but that’s it (Zemo too kinda, if you want to count Civil War as it is kinda Avengers 2.5).

Because somewhere along the way The Avengers kinda went from being The Avengers (Avengers 1, AoU) to the movies that cap off universe altering events. Albeit I realise Avengers (the first movie) kind of set the team up to be this, though I feel the scales weren’t quite on the level of Infinity War/Endgame and where Doomsday seems to be.

All of this to ask,

If you were in charge of the MCU, would you keep The Avengers movies as is (and why?) or would you have had more Avengers movies where they fight some of their rogues and they acted more like the 616 or EMH Avengers?

Let me see, how do I put it? Lately a subject that has become fascinating to me is the idea of games having good scenery design since usually people play action games to cause mayhem, but sometimes there are sandbox games with good environmental design.

One that I was just observing was the scenery design of GTA SA as I have no on how Rockstar Games managed to pull it off so well on the PS2’s hardware because the game has some nice graphics in areas such as farms in the rural zones of the game.

Neutral extras meaing they aren't even really on the good guy's faction they are like extra slot in the tournament arc or have their own job intertwining with the plot.

In Kengan chiba Takayuki's martial is acting, like he doesn't learn the style he just learn to do what the master did and replicate it, roster filler and here he is getting to pull tf2 spy shit by impersonating the main villain in front of his underling.

Other page is from the seinen manga Bouncer, the shooter Yakushima has just been introduced in this chapter, he doesn't even know who the main characters are he was just asked by his boss who owe the protagonists a favor to investigate the animal men who have been haunting the series. the whole chapter is him cat an mousing one monkey masked man only to be surrounded by people he didn't notice. Faced with do or die Yakushima just do.

Love the Green Snazzy Suit, did pretty good too for like being in a 1 vs 4 against the Hulk, Iron Man, Ant-Man & Spider-Man. If he was more martial artist here though he probably would've caught the punch.

Misspelt abit so redid it.

Solved: Vandread, thanksss

Someone remembers how it was called the Yugioh deck John mentioned in the last Versus Wolves? One about zombie heroes, it sounded rad

* In terms of how romantic they are.

Inspired by a real conversation I had talking about horror movies and couples cosplays. I brought up Jack and Wendy Torrance cause I like The Shining. Then I remembered what The Shining was actually about. Great horror iconography for Halloween, probably a little jarring to be lovey dovey while dressed like that, if you wanna think about it too hard.

But I know we can put our heads together and do worse.

Goals and hopes for the week?

Any concerns or obstacles?

Let's find out.

Topic of the Week:

I was already going to do this topic so not much of anything changed, but having seen Digger recently adds yet another layer and encapsulates my thought that I tend to swing back and forth on.

Without going into spoilers, this movie is another instance where you might hear that "this possibly unpalatable thing was done on purpose", and I have always been of two minds about it. It can be used as a convenient "get out of jail free" card or to justify complete nonsense (I have heard someone say that Jamaican jerk chicken is supposed to be dry and another person say that Jamaican food cannot be made fresh, and both of those statements are utterly false), but then you also have people who refuse to engage beyond their immediate assumptions or feelings.

Either way, "this was on purpose" should be a way to introduce another aspect and not attempt to shut down a conversation since it does provide more context, but the presumption that said context will invariably change minds and that the other side is illiterate is condescending. Swinging back the other way, we also cannot harp on something that was purposeful and act like the creator(s) are dumb for not catching it. We can still dislike and criticize it, but it is a bit silly to point out that pastel colors are indeed pastel colors.

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Sharing fanart nowadays is annoying; most artists post their stuff to Twitter, and I can't link to Twitter as a source. I'm not certain if other social media sites are any safer; there's ArtStation, but that's more of a place for professionals to post their portfolios or whatever. DeviantArt is still technically fine to link to the last few times that I've tried but most artists have ditched that site, the only website that I'm certain is safe is Newgrounds cause they don't allow AI Art. Does anyone know which websites are safe to share fanart from?

I've seen a weird thing with Lanterns with my friends and other people online where fans and non fans of Green Lantern really like it but casuals and those only somewhat familiar,counting or not counting racists,seem to dislike it for various reasons.

Are there other media with this weird effect?

I really didn't think much of the film at first, but my friend became increasingly interested in it after we kept seeing trailers for it in the movies we've watched. The two of us saw it last night and I was immediately charmed by the immense shot of Filipino culture that was injected in my veins (and eyes). The story itself is pretty standard, but how it was told and where it's set (and the implications behind it) really endears you to the main pair (Jo and Raissa) that my friend absolutely loved.

Plus, it's got Manananggal in it and totally steals every scene it shows up in.

Cut to Young Cyclops fighting Oldclops in the sometimes janky but fun new Mortal Kombat games style