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Death Stranding Director’s Cut now available for Xbox Series, Windows, and Luna - Gematsu

Publisher 505 Games and developer Kojima Productions have released Death Stranding Director’s Cut for Xbox Series, PC via Microsoft Store, and Luna, the companies announced. November 8 marks the fifth anniversary of the original Death Stranding‘s release on PlayStation 4.

While the game will regularly cost $39.99, it is currently available at a limited-time 50 percent-off discount price of $19.99.

Additionally, Kojima Productions confirmed that the studio now has full ownership of the Death Stranding intellectual property, and will focus on bringing the property to more platforms and audiences. The property was previously a registered trademark of Sony Interactive Entertainment.

“It is my pleasure to finally announce that Death Stranding Director’s Cut will be delivered to Xbox players,” Kojima Productions boss Hideo Kojima said in a press release. “I would like to thank all the fans who have stayed connected with us as well as everyone in the Xbox community who have been patiently waiting. Kojima Productions (Death Stranding) will continue to connect more and more players around the world, so please stay tuned.”

Death Stranding Director’s Cut first launched for PlayStation 5 on September 24, 2021, followed by PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on March 30, 2022, and iOS and Mac on January 30, 2024. Sony Interactive Entertainment published the PlayStation 5 version and the PlayStation 4 version of the original game, and will also publish Death Stranding 2: On the Beach when it launches for PlayStation 5 in 2025.

Here is an overview of the game, via Kojima Productions:

The ground-breaking experience from legendary game creator Hideo Kojima, Death Stranding Director’s Cut also features the acting and voice talents led by a star-studded cast including Norman Reedus as Sam Bridges, Mads Mikkelsen, Lea Seydoux, Margaret Qualley, and Lindsay Wagner. Death Stranding Director’s Cut challenges players to reconnect a fractured society after the cataclysmic “Death Stranding” event. This has opened a doorway between the living and the dead, leading to creatures from the afterlife roaming the fallen world marred by a desolate society. Carrying the disconnected remnants of humanity’s future in his hands, players take the role of Sam Bridges as he embarks on a mission to deliver hope to humanity by connecting the last survivors of a decimated America. Director’s Cut is the definitive experience which also introduces a new ‘Ruined Factory’ location, a treacherous underground compound packed with fresh dangers. Sam also now has a wealth of new delivery assists, from cargo catapults and ramps, to a stabiliser which features thrusters that assist with cargo weight shifts and reduce the impact of landing when jumping from high areas. Melee combat has been amped up with the addition of more moves including a drop kick, whilst the new Maser Gun can stun enemies and short-circuit vehicles temporarily with electricity. Finding the perfect weapon loadout is now achievable thanks to the new firing range location, whilst the new Racetrack enables players to race and compete in time-attack competitions against other players who are connected online. Protagonist Sam Bridges can even ride Buddy Bots to traverse the wastelands with greater ease.

[vyragosa]

i think kojima explained death stranding to lindsay wagner in his 3 hours long personal pitch to her where they were both near tears in a way we will never get to experience in that he had to convince her of how profoundly empathetic this game was going to be but also how violence was a root that needed exposing, that needed to be revealed only to be able to trim it then (not uproot, as that would be impossible, DS2 is about this.)

and the fact she accepted to play in it as well and knowing how amelie ended up read exclusively and solely as a great evil, which obvious lindsay has no care for online animosity as our younger generation does, she also went through too much frankly. but regardless of that it does break my heart slightly, it does, i don't ask amelie to be loved

i just hope she will be understood, even if it needs a second game and a fan-favorite to speak it into existence

[hollywoodoutbreak]

At the time, it seemed like a bit of a stretch. These days, audiences might have laughed at the audacity of the premise. But in 1976, when ABC wanted to capitalize on the amazing success of The Six Million Dollar Man by introducing The Bionic Woman, the show was an instant hit. Lindsay Wagner, who originated the role on an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man as a back-door pilot, could hardly believe it when The Bionic Woman rocketed into the Top 5 of the Nielsen ratings during its very first season. Over time, though, she's come to understand and accept that overnight success; speaking at a fan event a few years back, she talked about why she believes the show became so iconic.

[xanadontit]

A Very Gen X Christmas

I’m so behind on my movie watching and movie “reviewing” and gahhhhh! Anyway, let’s get to it.

Falling for Christmas (Netflix): AKA “that Lindsay Lohan movie” Her full Christian name is Falling for Christmas and boy howdy did I fall in love with this. Could also be called Overboard at Christmas and I know that sounds awful but I fucking loved the original with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. 

LL plays Sierra, a spoiled hotel heiress who is bringing her influencer boyfriend Tad “home” (to one of her dad’s ski resorts) to meet and spend the holiday with her widowed father (Jack Wagner of General Hospital and Melrose Place fame if you are into those things which I am). She falls off a fucking mountain moments after getting engaged and is found by another widowed dad (Chord Overstreet) who just happens to be the “competition” (underdog) for Sierra’s dad’s business. Cute Widower takes her home to recuperate and recover her memories. Sierra (now named Sarah by the widower’s daughter) discovers the satisfaction that comes with a job well-done and a knack for the hospitality industry. There’s a sub-plot about Tad and a local nutjob trying to find their way back to civilization after that has more chemistry than the two leads. 

This movie is perfect. It’s well-paced and stupid and everything is picturesque. I’ve watched it twice. No regrets. 5/5 Winter Coats

Christmas with You (Netflix): I was trying to figure out why this movie felt so familiar and then the Aimee Garcia character mentions JLo and yep: it’s like a Christmas version of Marry Me. Not exactly, but it’s got that “famous pop star with a famous douche ex falls for regular Joe whose daughter is a super fan of said famous pop star.” Look, the formula works so why not? I wanted to love this but it gets off to a slow start, and kind of hits you over the head with how OLD and WASHED UP Aimee Garcia is supposed to be. OK, we get it, she’s over 40 and disgusting! But somehow widowed (I want a series about what is happening to all of these young wives and mothers!) Freddie Prinze Jr sees past her cobweb-infested uterus and connects with her as a person and as a musician himself. Well, a music teacher who somehow lives in a gorgeous house that is decked to the nines for Christmas. And he’s throwing his daughter a gorgeous quinceanera, of course. 

What I did love about this is how not-white it is. There’s no protracted explanations of the food or quince as something odd or exotic. It all just exists in this world. 4/5 Winter Coats for the weird pacing. 

The common thread in all these movies, aside from DEAD MOMS, is NO FUCKING. Seriously. They’re so chaste. I assume to be able to compete with Hallmark and its ilk but Jesus Christ, would it be so bad (and improbable) that there’s some making out? Something? Let’s make Christmas horny again.

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Lynda or Lindsay: who was the first tv superheroine?

The 1970s ushered in many changes to the television landscape. It was the decade when the majority started watching in colour. It was the decade when increased use of the remote control popularised the channel flipping habit. It was the decade when affordable domestic video recorders started to appear. But most important of all, it was the decade when women in tv drama stepped up from being decorative eye candy or damsels in distress, to become powerful lead characters in their own right.

Tv's glass ceiling -- or should that be glass screen? -- had suffered many tiny cracks since the 1960s, but the 1970s was when it finally shattered. The result was several highly rated tv shows across the prime time schedules with women at their core, such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Charlie's Angels, and Police Woman.

But there are two particular shows from that era that are especially fondly remembered. Both were among the first wave of female-lead action/adventure series to really break through, and their origin stories criss-cross each other in the timeline, to the point that even their stars debate who came first.

We're talking, of course, about The Bionic Woman starring Lindsay Wagner, and Wonder Woman starring Lynda Carter (who FYI is surprisingly active and accessible here on Tumblr as @reallyndacarter .)

The sci-fi and superhero genres were not exactly renowned for their inclusiveness at the time, yet both of these female superhero shows drew big audiences in the 70s, and have attained cult status in the decades that followed.

But which lady deserves the crown of the first woman to lead a superhero tv show? Let's see if we can get some answers. But take a deep breath first, because it turns out to be quite a quest, and there may well be more questions than answers at the end.

Round one: Bionic brawn vs. Amazon magic

The Bionic Woman's timeline is pretty straight forward. As a character Jaime Sommers debuted in a two-parter during the second season of The Six Million Dollar Man, the first part of which ran on 16th March 1975. She then returned the next season for another two-parter on 14th September 1975. Finally, on 14th January 1976, The Bionic Woman was spun off as its own tv series.

Wonder Woman's journey on tv, meanwhile, weaves a bit more of a tangled path. Cathy Lee Crosby starred in a tv movie that ran on 12th March 1974, but the movie was inspired (very loosely) by Wonder Woman's powerless Diana Prince run in the comics, when she was more super-spy than super-hero. Many fans therefore have chosen to ignore this oddball pilot. The classic Wonder Woman we all know and love, in the guise of Lynda Carter, appeared thanks to a feature length pilot aired on 7th November 1975. Two regular length episodes were commissioned based on the pilot, and those two were then expanded into a truncated first season of 13. The first of these regular episodes was broadcast on 21st April 1976.

Let's review our timeline:

16th March 1975 : Lindsay Wagner debuts as Jaime Sommers in an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man, in a supporting role.

7th November 1975 : Lynda Carter stars as Wonder Woman in a feature length pilot movie.

14th January 1976 : The Bionic Woman, as a tv show, airs its first episode.

21st April 1976 : Wonder Woman, as a tv show, airs the first of two one-off episodes which become the basis of its first season.

So who was first?

Well, it depends upon on what you mean by "first".

If we're talking about the first appearance of a character then Lindsay wins, because Jaime Sommers appeared on tv before Lynda's Wonder Woman. But if the qualifying factor is being the title character in a show, then Lynda wins because the Wonder Woman pilot appeared before The Bionic Woman was spun off into its own series. However, if we exclude pilot movies and focus specifically on episodic tv, then Lindsay wins again because The Bionic Woman was the first to get a proper series. (Of course neither women win if we factor in the Cathy Lee Crosby movie!)

But wait! There's someone we've forgotten.

Round two: Who's that lurking on Saturday morning tv?

We've focused thus far on just two contenders, and even with just those two it is already difficult to know what factors qualify someone as being the first. We've assumed that supporting characters don't count -- but is that fair? Yvonne Craig as Batgirl was written as an equal crime-fighting partner with Batman and Robin, so why should she not count? But even when sticking to characters that headlined their own tv show, there's options other than just Wonder Woman and The Bionic Woman.

The first episode of Isis (aka The Secrets of Isis) debuted on Saturday morning tv on 6th September 1975 with JoAnna Cameron in the title role. That's two full months before Lynda Carter's pilot movie, and seven months before Linsday Wagner began in her own series. So presumably this makes JoAnna Cameron the first superwoman to lead her own show. Right?!

But wait again -- there's even more potential twists and turns!

We've only really been looking at American tv. What if we broaden our horizons a little to consider superhero tv in other parts of the world? If we do that, then we immediately see that Japan has two possible challengers to the crown.

The first challenger is Red Angel, who was a costumed supporting character added into the 1960 kids tv series Marine Kong (怪獣マリンコング.) There's little information online on this show, and only modest amounts of footage, but episode guides suggest the masked heroine was added in episode 17 and became a semi-regular part of the show thereafter. However she was, as noted, a supporting character, not the show's lead.

The second challenger is Andro Mask, who was the lead character in the 1971 kids series Suki Suki Majo Sensei (��女先生), aka We Love You! We Love You! Witch Teacher! The so-called witch teacher acquired the ability to transform into a costumed secret identity at the start of her show's second season, creating a character that is often considered to be the inspiration for modern series like Sailor Moon and the Toei Magical Girl series of the 90s.

These three new characters are from kids tv, not prime time, but they still count, surely?! So, let's update our timeline to add in all the new information:

24th July 1960 : Hisako Tsukuba plays Red Angel for the first time (we assume) on Japanese tv, as a supporting character.

12th January 1966 : Yvonne Craig's Batgirl is introduced into the Batman tv show, as a supporting character.

2nd January 1972 : Yōko Kiku first plays Andro Mask on Japanese tv, as the series' title character.

12th March 1974 : The Cathy Lee Crosby version of Wonder Woman airs.

16th March 1975 : Lindsay Wagner debuts as Jaime Sommers in The Six Million Dollar Man, as a supporting character.

6th September 1975 : JoAnna Cameron first appears as Isis, as the series' title character.

7th November 1975 : Lynda Carter stars in the Wonder Woman pilot movie, as the title character.

14th January 1976 : The Bionic Woman series airs its first episode.

21st April 1976 : Wonder Woman airs its first regular series episode.

The aftermath

A picture begins to emerge that is rather complicated. Do we assume that Lindsay's guest role on the Six Million Dollar Man qualifies, given that the character subsequently went on to have her own show? Or does Lindsay only count when she actually gets her own show? Do the Japanese characters qualify, or should we stick to just English speaking characters? Is a pilot movie sufficient or do we only count episodic tv shows? If pilots count, does the Cathy Lee Crosby movie win out over the Lynda Carter one? Should we really be discounting supporting characters, even when they play a very heroic role in a show?

Depending on the qualifying factors, the crown could go to either Hisako Tsukuba (who was first tv superheroine in the world, as far as I know, but only as a supporting character), or Yvonne Craig (who was first in the US, but only as a supporting character), or Yōko Kiku (who was first in the world as a lead character in her own series), or JoAnna Cameron (who was first in the US as a lead in her own series, but not in prime time), or Lynda Carter (who was the first in prime time as a lead, but in a pilot not in a regular series), or Lindsay Wagner (who was first in prime time as a lead in a regular series.)

Who do you think should win? Make your case in the comments section.

[scifi4wifi]

Jeannie Epper, Wonder Woman's Stunt Artist, Dead at 83

I was saddened to learn of Jeanie Epper’s passing. Jeanie was the first stunt person to double me which was on the Rockford Files. I really enjoyed working with her. She was very talented and accomplished, kind and helpful. My condolences to her family, friends, and fans. -L🌷 pic.twitter.com/AySBayqJfW— Lindsay Wagner (@mslindsaywagner) May 7, 2024 Jeannie Epper, one of the most respected stunt…

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50 years of The Six Million Dollar Man

This past weekend marked 50 years since the iconic Six Million Dollar Man debuted as a weekly series. (A trio of TV movies preceded it). Steve Austin was my first TV hero as a kid and the show still holds up quite well. It was never meant to be Shakespeare: it was meant to be fun.

I also have fond memories of watching the early episodes, which aired on Friday night in my hometown in Canada. I had a ritual: I'd go to my grandparents' place and after supper CTV would first air a Canadian version of Swiss Family Robinson (set in the Caribbean, yet filmed in a park in Hamilton!), and then on would come the adventures of Steve Austin. It was a great time.

And even though I cheat a little on this as I have the DVDs, I still fondly remember many episodes from the show. Like the ones where Lee Majors co-starred with his then-wife, Farrah Fawcett, who despite being best known for the somewhat lightweight Charlie's Angels, actually played an astronaut in one episode:

And of course, Farrah was just the opening act for the franchise's greatest female character - and the very first female superhero on US prime time TV, Jaime Sommers, The Bionic Woman, a role that won Lindsay Wagner not only a generation of fans, but an Emmy:

Unlike other shows that over time lost me, I remained a fan of "Six Mil" through all 5 seasons, before the sad day in 1978 when it and The Bionic Woman, came to an end. An attempt to remake Bionic Woman in 2007 fell flat (though I liked Michelle Ryan, who starred in it a couple of years before her Doctor Who appearance), and they keep threatening to do a remake of the original (including once as a Jim Carrey comedy). I just heard they're remaking The Avengers (John Steed and Emma Peel version); I hope they leave Steve and Jaime in peace.

(Respect to the folks who made the gifs featured here and found through Tumblr's Gif search engine. Hopefully they are credited properly by the system).

[thewomanwhowatchedchristmas]

Falling for Christmas (2022)

I think this movie was made specifically for fans of LiLo in her prime who also loved the character of London Tipton and amnesia plotlines. Fortunately for me, I am in the center of that Venn diagram.

Sierra Belmont (Lindsay Lohan) is a hotel heiress, daughter of hotel magnate Beauregard Belmont (Jack Wagner) who is visiting the famous ski resort in daddy's hopes to find a position in the company for Sierra. Along for the trip is Sierra's influencer boyfriend, Tad Fairchild (George Young). When Sierra goes to meet Tad in the lobby, she runs into Jake Russell (Chord Overstreet), who is fleeing from a meeting with Mr. Belmont about getting an investor for his own hotel, the North Star Lodge. They are too busy cleaning up hot cocoa for any kind of introductions, especially since Tad has called security on Jake.

Sierra and Tad go for a trip out into the mountains for a romantic picture for all of Tad's followers. As a surprise to no one, Tad doesn't know what he's doing and Sierra knows even less, so they get lost and separated after falling quite a ways. Sierra gets found right away by Jake as he's giving a romantic sleigh ride to a couple staying at the Lodge, but she doesn't know who she is and Jake doesn't know where he has seen her before. Sierra goes to a doctor, but she still can't remember anything besides random flashes from early childhood, so she stays at the Lodge with Jake, his daughter Avy (Olivia Perez) and Avy's grandma Alejandra (Alejandra Flores). Avy's mom passed about two years prior to the events of this film.

If it's not clear by his name and job title, Tad is our comic relief. He stays conscious the whole time, so he never has amnesia, he's just lost in the mountains by himself. He discovers a small fishing shed with a man named Ralph (Sean Dillingham) who seems creepy, but Tad immediately loves him, so he is kind and takes care of Tad and gets him back to civilization. It's actually kind of sweet, the friendship between Ralph and Tad.

Sierra ends up staying at the North Star Lodge for several days because she told the staff at her father's hotel not to disturb her and Tad has also been gone, so the staff assumed they were on a trip together until Mr. Belmont gets back to the hotel on Christmas Eve and insists his daughter be found. However, Sierra is running a Christmas party to raise funds for the North Star Lodge (because of course Jake helps everyone and never asks for help himself).

The most surprising part of this film is the use of "Up on the Housetop" as a song. I do feel like it is an underutilized Christmas song, so that was a nice touch. Everything else happens, more or less, exactly how you think it would. Which isn't a bad thing to me, I'm not looking for twists in my Christmas movies anyway. I didn't love it, but I did have a good time watching it. Overall, 3 stars.

[oasis-of-colors]

Death Stranding is my new favorite game because:

Beautiful scenery

Gripping story

The soundtrack is addicting (I haven’t stopped listening to the same songs since I got it)

Mads Mikkelsen

Moments of high tension followed by the most satisfying calm (especially when the music kicks in)

Norman Reedus

It made me realize that I need some peace and quiet, I need to slow down and get out of my own head

My developing crush on Margaret Qualley

The amount of love and detail that went into it

THE BABY!

All the fun little secrets in the game (poses, Sam’s sayings, getting punched by Sam, etc.)

The sense of accomplishment after a mission

It’s complexity and how simple it is at the same time

Norman Reedus

Scenery!!!

It’s pure ART!

In conclusion everyone should play this game at least once!

[celestial-raposa]

we’re stranded on the beach in our dream.

[sofiacarsonsource]

November 2, 2019: via Instagram Stories

[vyragosa]

lindsay is literally so glowing that’s crazy

i feel like elle fanning definitely has the same energy? maybe louise really is linked to amelie in a way because amelie is really just lindsay wagner herself “she is like a goddess to me”

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GAMING FAN ART: Death Stranding

GAMING FAN ART: Death Stranding

Death Stranding is the long awaited game from Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear Solid and an avid movie fan. You could probably tell the latter with actors like Norman Reedus (Walking Dead, Boondock Saints), Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman), and even a surprise appearance from director and visionary Guillermo Del Toro?  I’m still sad about the cancelling of Silent Hills which would have…

[queen-of-hearts92]

Guys is it just me or does Lindsay Wagner’s character remind you of another mysterious lady in a spooky place? I was thinking she reminded me of someone and I was like WAIT MARIA.

Fair hair, blue eyes (better look at Maria’s eyes), dressed in red, mysteriously appears to the main character. HM. Looks like some Silent Hill made it into this game afterall. 

*curiosity of this game intensifies*

[anotheruserwithnoname]

RIP Joanna Cameron

Numerous fan sites are reporting that Joanna Cameron, who played the very first lead female superhero in a television series (The Secrets of Isis), has passed away due to a stroke. At the moment regular media hasn’t picked up on this yet. The sites reporting this are reputable enough that this, sadly, probably isn’t a rumour. (EDIT: the source of the report is her former co-star Joanna Pang - pictured at left.)

Secrets of Isis debuted in September 1975 as a made-for-kids Saturday morning live action series intended to provide a female counterpart to the popular Shazam series, featuring the original Fawcett/DC version of Captain Marvel. Isis (a.k.a. Andrea Thomas) was created exclusively for TV. The show debuted months before Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman and Lindsay Wagner’s The Bionic Woman, making Joanna the first female lead in a superhero series (Yvonne Craig’s Batgirl was a supporting character on Batman; Cathy Lee Crosby’s Wonder Woman never got past the pilot movie). It ran for two seasons and included several crossovers with Shazam, predating the Arrowverse concept of a shared universe. Decades later, DC reintoduced the character in its “52″ mega-series, and a reimagining of the character, now played by Tala Ashe and named Zari Tomaz (later Zari Tarazi), is part of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow; in one of her early episodes, set at Halloween, Tala wore a version of Joanna’s costume from the TV show. The character is not referred to as Isis due to the name gaining negative connotations in recent years.

Joanna was also a popular guest star on shows such as the 1970s version of Amazing Spider-Man, and reportedly held the record for most appearances by an actress in TV commercials. Her bio also mentions she appeared in the film Pretty Maids All in a Row, one of the few projects Gene Roddenberry produced that didn’t have “Star Trek” in the title.

I was very late to the party when it came to Isis. I grew up in a city that never got the show, so I mostly knew it from the (better-than-you’d expect) DC Comic book spin-off, and of course I finally watched the DVDs. It was definitely made for kids - violence was non-existent and Isis, much like Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman, was pretty much restricted to pushing and harsh language when it came to dealing with villains. And of course every episode ended with Isis talking to the audience and hammering home the moral of each episode (this was pretty much mandatory for American Saturday morning shows back in the 70s). But all that side, it was a fun show, Joanna Cameron was charismatic in the part, and even though she had a long career in film and TV (before leaving acting to work in health care and marketing), it’s a groundbreaking role that she’ll be most remembered for. RIP.