#anyway a good chunk of the people who complain about the cameos

[marthamaewhovier]

I’m not even going to touch the rest of it, but I do need people to realize the cameos aren’t a scam. Like, literally, by definition, are not a scam. If you buy one, you’re getting exactly what you pay for which. Again. Means it is not a scam.

Now, you’re free to think it’s a waste of money. But yeah. A waste of money ≠ a scam

[clairebeauchampfan]

People who claimed they didn’t watch most of OL Season 4, and averred  they wouldn’t watch Season 5, are already complaining that Jamie and Claire won’t feature much in the Season they won’t be watching......duh!

anonymous  asked:

So let's see. Sam has to do Bloodshot reshoots in the summer. In September he will do the podcast with Graham. He will run a Marathon (imo, likely NYC) again. Cait will do movie promo. So you can already tell that Jamie and Claire won't be the focus this season. Especially with David Berry being in Scotland a lot too.

xxxxx answered:

You know I should’t care, at all but it still hurts that they are destroying the very essence of Outlander and no one seems to do anything to fix it. On the contrary, it keeps getting worse. As someone who read the whole saga in one seat so to speak hungy for everything JC, that skipped chunks of book focused on other secondary characters I didn’t care about with plots that added nothing to my couple, well to see how they have pushed them to the back and almost out the door hurts. I can’t believe S and C do nothing to protect their characters and fight for them to be kept front and center of the show.

We are gonna have everything but JC. With even more subplots that weren’t even in the books taken more screentime so maybe JC will have a cameo in a few episodes.

I don’t understand Berry in Scotland at all unless they are shooting season 6 at the same time too to be done with it all for good sooner.

yyyyyy replied 

“I can’t believe SC do nothing to protect their characters and fight for them to be kept front and center of the show” I believe that S&C in fact fought for them to have less on screen time therefore less JC time and they got what they wanted , we saw it clearly on S4 (I think there were at least 2 full episodes without any JC and a bunch of others with very little JC) and we’re witnessing it all again if not worse , SC are barely filming with lots of free time for traveling and other projects, David Berry’s presence is suspicious enough since LJG is not in TFC book , so they are filling the show with secondary characters since there will be a lack of JC or they are indeed filming S6 at the same time to get the show over with , hope so because it can’t get any worse than the absence of the leads, if they get to that they better cancel cause no one is interested in the Broger show🤮

zzzzzzz commented

I am of the same mind on the lack of screen time. They wanted more time to do other projects (Cait made a comment during an interview during S4 that spending more time on other characters would only be for the show’s benefit because it made it richer). They don’t understand that most people tolerate the other characters to get to the J&C parts.

#you couldn’t make it up #make up your frigging mind #Sam/Jamie and Cait//Claire do not HAVE to be in EVERY episode in order for you to enjoy Outlander # you complained that Season 4 didn’t follow the book (especially in the finale which you claimed you didn’t watch anyway) #if they DO follow the book you complain because the book isn’t just about Jamie and Claire #smh these people # so entitled 

[mrnerdteacher]

7 “Last Jedi” Moments that Struck the Perfect Balance Between Tribute and Parody

When I talk to my older coworkers about Star Wars, they often wax poetic about how game-changing that film was when it debuted in the 70’s. They had never seen anything on that scale, or with special effects and a sense of imagination quite so fully realized.

But this is 2017. In the age of movies like Pacific Rim and Doctor Strange, where jaw-dropping special effects cause little more than a smirk, Star Wars can’t fall back on the old melodramatic space opera rhythms that once made it so iconic (that’s what made Force Awakens such a predictable snore and Rogue One such a humorless slog). Yet at the same time, it can’t abandon the themes and vibes entirely without losing a huge chunk of its decade-spanning fan base.

Thankfully, director Rion Johnson has found the perfect sweet spot between “tongue-in-cheek” and “touching tribute.” Here are 6 moments that will make you subvert your expectations while simultaneously making you feel FORCEfully nostalgic (which is no easy feat, mind you).

SPOILERS AHEAD! LIKE, ALL OF THEM. SO COME BACK ONCE YOU’VE SEEN IT.

#1) Poe Dameron vs The Entire Fleet

We’ve seen this moment over and over again in Star Wars. A brave soul piloting a single, tiny fighter jet manages to blow up the entire Death Star / Death Star again/ Droid Command Ship/ Starkiller Base/ Yada-Yada-Yada. This moment usually comes at the end of the film, but Last Jedi opens with it. And rather than having everything in hinge on the pilot’s skill or luck (which is still impressive), the conflict is resolved in a much more interesting way; the protagonist outsmarts the villain. This hilarious scene literally sets the mood for the next two and a half hours, and I loved it wholeheartedly.

#2) Good and Evil are More Like Frenemies

One of the weaknesses of the Star Wars franchise, in my opinion, is the way in which it paints the universe in very broad strokes of good or evil. It makes everything too neat and tidy for the audience, and thus ultimately unrelatable. “Last Jedi” does quite a few things to redefine what exactly is “Right” or “Wrong”, but the most fun inversion of this trope is in the romantic/sexual tensions between Rey and Kylo Ren. Imagine if the entire original trilogy had an undercurrent of eroticism during every Luke and Vader scene, and you’re on the right track. It’s like fan-fiction on the big screen!

#3) Doubling Down on Adorable Critters

Star Wars has always had its background filled with iconic, imaginative fauna, like the looming Rancor or the ill-fated Tauntauns. However, Last Jedi really ups the ante when it comes to animals you will immediately want as your personal pets. Porgs, Fathiers, and Vulptex each have their moment in the sun, and they add a much-needed emotional connection between the audience and this otherwise foreign universe. If you have a cat or a dog and this movie doesn’t make you want to run home and cuddle with them, I pronounce you dead inside.

#4) You Will Never Find a More Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy… At Least Until 2017 Anyway...

For me, I can’t believe people are complaining about the subplot involving Canto Bight, the gambling city that holds the key to outrunning the New Order.

When Poe told the audience that this place is home to the most foul, evil creatures in the galaxy, we all pictured a Cantina-esque environment. And then we’re shown champagne guzzling aristocrats. Because these are the truly dangerous people in the galaxy; not the violent poor, but the cruel elite. Plus, the “Free Willy” side mission provided some of the most triumphant and touching moments in the entire story.

#5) Toying with our Expectations (and teasing us for having them in the first place)

Okay, go with me on this for a second.

The “Return of the Jedi” came out in 1983. After that, the next three movies were all prequels, so the audience knew, more or less, what was going to happen in the plot. Then came Force Awakens, which was such a slavish tribute to a New Hope that many considered it more like a reboot than a full-fledged sequel. And then finally there was Rogue One, which was, of course, another prequel.

I posit that this means “The Last Jedi” is the first piece of truly “fresh” Star Wars lore in almost 25 years!

No wonder it’s leaving a lot of fans with an uneasy feeling. However, I think that it is for precisely this reason that LJ is the strongest Star Wars film yet; because it keeps pulling the rug out from under you, and that is something that hasn’t happened in this series since Luke and Vader had their first father-son moment.

To wit, nearly every time a Star Wars fan knew what to expect, this film did the opposite.

Rey presents Luke his lightsaber, while John Williams booms in the background… and he tosses it over his shoulder like its garbage.

Supreme Leader Snoke, the ugly and fearsome Emperor 2.0… is gutted halfway through the movie. Turns out he was never really important in the big picture after all.

Same with Rey’s parents. You want to know who they were? Nobody, dummy. Pay attention to the character on screen, not the backstory you wish she had… This is really a Star Wars movie unlike any other…

#6) Making Us Think, Not Just Dream

Star Wars has never had any shortage of imagination, but resonance has never been its strong suit. Usually this series is content to tell the story of good and evil, and steers clear of any plotline that could ever be construed as controversial, probably to appeal to a wide-an-audience as possible.

This is why I was shocked to hear that the original 1977 classic was conceived as an Anti-American commentary on the Vietnam War.

With that in mind, “Last Jedi” is the closest film to ever achieve Lucas’ original intent of using the war as an allegory for real world issues. During the 2.5 hour run time, my mind spun around so many complex issues such as war profiteering, animal abuse, feminism, sexism, race, matriarchies, patriarchies, young love, old hates, and the list goes on. This might be the first ever “thinking man’s” Star Wars, and to me it is a welcome change.

#7) Taking Time to Pat Old Timers on the Back

For as much as this movie insists on being its own creature (there is even a subplot about letting all the old fogies die off so the new generation can make some real change), this movie is careful to include enough knods to keep the dedicated fans smiling. From the use of the original Princess Leia distress beacon to a cameo by PUPPET Yoda, this movie is a love-letter to the franchise even more so than Force Awakens. And if you don’t relate to that final frame, then you have never known the joy of picking up a cardboard tube and pretending it’s a lightsaber, so really why did you go see this movie in the first place? FINAL GRADE: A

[i-just-like-commenting]

Game of Thrones s7e1 mini-review

I’m doing this in the style of my aborted first attempt at watching the show, which is to say that I’m dividing it up into sections.  Like this show always does, it had moments I loved and moments I wanted to beat up the writers for. Spoilers obviously follow.

The Good

Oh did I miss that opening theme song. Never any complaints about the music for this, Ramin Djawadi is a gift.

Look, the opening is ridiculous if you think about it too long (what exactly are Arya's powers, did they skip most of her training so that they could fudge on this for the rest of the series?), but I did love the speech Arya gives while posing as Walder Frey. In a better show this would be the sign of Arya becoming a new villain as she murders a huge number of people in cold blood, though maybe the lines from Jon about not punishing whole families for the crimes of some, and her moment of realizing the red cloaks are human are foreshadowing of her moving away from her single-minded revenge mindset and questioning her actions? We’ll see.

The shot of the white walkers and their undead army approaching. The show has always managed them well as far as I’m concerned, and I wish we would just get to the big final struggle because they’d be great at it.

Tormund eagerly volunteering to defend the Wall. “We’re the Night’s Watch now” -- very cool.

You know, some people are going to complain about the line about Ned and Robb making “stupid mistakes,” but I’m only going to half-complain because no, Ned didn’t, but Robb sure did, and he did so by not listening to the smarter woman nearby, i.e. Catelyn. There is a definite parallel there in Jon not listening to Sansa, who yes, was closer to the halls of power than he’s been in a long time.

Okay, the montage of Sam doing chores as an initiate at Oldtown is actually funny, come at me haters. It also shows Sam’s commitment. He’ll deal with any shit you throw at him - literally - if he can be a maester. I liked everything in Oldtown, honestly, and I hope they keep in the Big Final Reveal.

Sansa talking back to Littlefinger. Dear heavens, girl, just have Brienne kill him. She'd do it, and he's earned it, and if you tell them he killed Lysa you'd have the Vale's men. Is this just misplaced loyalty? Or is she trying to use him?

Most of everything with Beric, Thoros, and Sandor (see the exception below). It’s finally some course correction on Sandor’s characterization, though I wish they’d seeded it last season. Maybe have him obviously trying to cover a sense of guilt, express curiosity about Ray’s version of religion even while expressing doubts, etc. Still, I’ll always take characters acting more like themselves.

Dany’s arrival at Dragonstone was pretty great and suitably dramatic...but as a matter of personal preference, I don’t like “Shall we begin?” as an ending line. Something like “I’ve come home” would’ve given me way more feels. That said, most of my affection for Dany is still book-derived, as she’s basically as much a supervillain as Cersei is in the show.

The Odd

How does Bran having creepy knowledge prove that he's Bran? This speech is a non sequitor to Edd's question - though Edd  obviously brings them inside anyway because he's on Jon's side of "no more bodies for the wight army."

I'm putting this here because I'm going to have to see more, but right now I do not like what's going on with Jaime. We ended last season with him glaring daggers at her after she killed a mass of people with wildfire, i.e. the same thing he killed Aerys to prevent, and he doesn’t even mention it. I'd consider that Bad, but NCW is playing Jaime a bit like a man walking on eggshells, not sure of what he should be doing but pretty sure his sister has gone off the deep end. It's not how I'd write his reaction, but then again it was his reaction to her lesser crimes in aFfC, so as with Sandor it feels like a bit of a course alignment. We'll see where it goes.

The Dumb

The Arbor Gold is red...that's just a simply mistake to fix, especially when it's voice-over.

Wtf is Euron wearing? That outfit looks straight out of Hot Topic, not the late middle ages. His entire performance is just hammy and over-the-top which...isn't completely wrong, so long as it proves to be a front for a personality far more sinister.

"Hands of Gold" sung completely outside of its context of someone taunting Tyrion for his relationship with Shae, by Ed freaking Sheeran in the most obvious, blatant stunt-casting cameo I've seen in a long time.

"Are you old enough to drink?" You had children drinking in earlier seasons, water purification hasn't been invented, this is the most anachronistic question you could put in their mouths. Something like "This might be too strong for someone as young as you" would have worked better.

Um, how is Gilly staying in Oldtown? They brought up how women aren’t allowed in, why is she there, with what everyone believes is their child, without any explanation? Give me some half-assed excuse, like they’re lying about her being his sister or something.

The Bad

How do we show our badass female character is badass? Stick in an unnecessary barb about how she's not going to be knitting. Also, acting like fighting is the only thing they will need to survive the apocalypse. That's poor planning, right there. You need people running supply lines, including making warm clothing so they don't all freeze to death. Sure, let the girls who are willing to fight learn to fight, but not everybody can and not everybody should, male or female.

Sansa doesn't deny admiring Cersei, she just says she learned a great deal from her - true, but given how badly she was treated in King's Landing, I'd like to have heard her add "but that doesn't mean I admire her."

Cersei magically knows everything happening in Slaver's Bay. How? Both of the people she could get intelligence from - Littlefinger and Varys - have defected at this point. Did Daenerys send out messages proclaiming her coming and all its details? Or does Cersei know because she's read the rest of the script?

Tormund leering at an uninterested Brienne, again treated as a funny ship tease, when it's basically him being a stalker.

The complete lack of consistency on snow. Arya-as-Walder says winter has arrived, but she travels only a bit south, only there's no snow to be seen. And Beric and Sandor should be in the same general area (the Riverlands) but there's plenty of snow there. I know they had issues with the weather (curse you climate change!) but it took me out of the story.

Beric: "Why am I here?" Me: "Because the showrunners cut out the enormous plot chunk that is Lady Stoneheart, you should be dead, Jaime and Brienne should have had their own separate plots that lead to them encountering Lady Stoneheart and basically the entire show would have been so much better."

[rantsaboutponies]

Season 8 Retrospective

This... Okay, Season 8’s final W-L-T score was 0-11-15, which means that, quantitatively, it should have been the worst season yet. But...I dunno, this season just kind of...came and went. It might partially have to do with the fact that this is the eighth season of a show that should have ended with Season 3, but I think there’s a bigger factor at play here. Yes, it’s that most baffling of poor decisions, the School of Friendship!

I still cannot figure out why they thought this was such a good idea to build the entire season around. Maybe the voice actors for the Mane 6 are trying to move on from the show and are minimizing their future commitments? If it’s just trying to sell toys of the New Mane 6, they wouldn’t need to focus on them so heavily (people will buy figurines of background characters, for god’s sake), but phasing out the original Mane 6′s toyline also seems like a dumb idea. I think it’s just that corporations still haven’t gotten over the collective concept that they all seemed to have in the 1980s that kids love school and will watch anything set at a school. You know which cartoons I watched the least (or just flat out never watched) as a kid? Recess! Teacher���s Pet! Braceface! You know, the ones that spent a large chunk of time at school! School is by far the least interesting part of any child’s life! If the characters were school-age, you maybe showed a scene or two an episode just to establish that, but that’s it! A good example is Kim Possible; sure, she went to school every episode, but the majority of each episode was all the spy shit. Because no duh! (For the record, as a kid, I was also incredibly bored by any show that was just about kids doing normal shit all the time, school-related or otherwise: Doug, Rocket Power, The Weekenders, Hey Arnold!, Pepper Ann, As Told by Ginger, every single live-action laugh-track Disney sitcom...come to think of it, is that all that late-’90s to early-2000s Disney Channel and Nickelodeon shows were? Jesus Christ, I miss when Cartoon Network was fun.)

Anyway, I don’t know what kids watch these days. Maybe they don’t even watch this show; I have no idea. I haven’t kept up. Why am I even still talking about this? On with the list!

#1. “Road to Friendship”: Like I said, this one was the closest to “good” we got this season. Starlight and Trixie tend to have good dialogue together, and this was no exception. Did anyone notice that Starlight was barely in this season at all, though? They really need to deal with their constant problem of adding characters to the main cast and then not knowing what to do with them in future episodes.

#2. “Sounds of Silence”: If not for Autumn Blaze being so goddamn annoying (and the moral being fairly lame), this episode might have been better. At least I now know why I’ve been seeing kirin fanart for a few months now.

#3. “What Lies Beneath”: This was probably the only halfway decent episode involving the New Mane 6 because it actually gave us a bit of insight into their characters besides “like the Mane 6, but children”. The Tree of Harmony’s way of thinking is still super fucked-up, though.

#4. “Molt Down”: Puberty episode? Sure, why not. Still better than Big Mouth.

#5. “Father Knows Beast”: This one goes right next to the other Spike one because, like all Spike episodes, it really left little to no impact. The fact that Spike is still being written to be dumb enough to fall for some random dragon showing up and saying that he’s his father is pretty grating, though.

#6. “The Break Up Break Down”: Miscommunication storylines annoy the shit out of me, especially since Modern Family became 90% “I heard a thing and I’m going to assume the worst instead of just confirming it with the person I heard it from” episodes. At least Discord finally got a couple funny lines again.

#7. “Non-Compete Clause”: I don’t know why Applejack and Rainbow Dash thought a rehash of “Fall Weather Friends” would be a good idea if they mixed in a bit of child endangerment. Thank god the kids turned out to be smarter than them.

#8. “A Rockhoof and a Hard Place”: Still hard to believe they couldn’t find Rockhoof any digging or demolition jobs anywhere in Equestria. I do like that the ending basically acknowledged that they still don’t know exactly what the point of making Twilight a princess was or what she even does anymore.

#9 & #10. “School Daze”: I was technically right. Neighsay did return to be a villain in the season finale; he just wasn’t the real villain. The fact that they could have arrived at the solution at any time and just chose not to was really annoying. Remember, kids love storylines about legal loopholes and technicalities!

#11 & #12. “School Raze”: Yet another episode that required everyone involved to be as stupid as possible to get the plot going. Nothing like going with your first assumptions and ignoring all evidence to the contrary, eh, Twilight?

#13: “Marks for Effort”: This was just dumb. Twilight wouldn’t let the CMC into the school because they already knew enough about friendship? Yeah, sure. If anything, the episode proved just the opposite. Cozy Glow intentionally failed the test because she thought it would get them in? Uh-huh. Given her secret ultimate evil goal was to make everyone friends with her, I can only assume that she did in fact think that that plan would work, since getting them kicked out definitely wouldn’t endear her to them.

#14. “The End in Friend”: I don’t think this episode accomplished what it was attempting to. No, Rarity and Rainbow Dash don’t have anything in common. No, they don’t have to hang out together if they don’t have any activities they both enjoy. No, that doesn’t make them enemies, nor does it mean they can’t still hang out with their other friends. Sheesh.

#15. “The Washouts”: More child endangerment! Why a dangerous stunt team was able to hire Scootaloo I still don’t know, but apparently no one in the audience had a problem with that. If the lesson was to teach children not to be so fickle about picking their role models, that’s probably a good idea.

I’m not sure there’s all that much difference between these two parts of the list, but whatever.

#16. “Fake It ‘Til You Make It”: Seriously, though, Fluttershy’s only mistake was not telling those raccoons ahead of time that she was going to be using different personae. It was working!

#17. “Grannies Gone Wild”: This episode beat out Book Club by a whole month for its message of, “Old people are people too!” The Wonderbolts are assholes, Applejack is an asshole, and everypony loses! Hooray!

#18. “The Mean 6”: At least Chrysalis was still kind of intimidating in “To Where and Back Again”. This episode just made her look like a joke who had no clue what she was doing (more than “A Canterlot Wedding” already did, I mean).

#19. “The Parent Map”: Remember “Parental Glideance”? That was last year’s, “God, my parents are so embarrassing!” episode. This is this year’s. Joy.

#20. “Friendship University”: Someone was confused that I complained about Twilight apparently hating competition, even though she was trying to shut down the Friendship University because she clearly knew that Flim and Flam were untrustworthy. This person apparently missed the fact that Twilight was upset that somepony was opening a competing friendship school BEFORE she found out it was Flim and Flam who were running it, and she in fact went to the Friendship University specifically to find something wrong with it. That’s the part I was objecting to: the fact that Twilight is still so neurotic that she can’t handle not being in control of everything. In fact, that raises an interesting point. Has there ever been an episode where Twilight has had to learn the lesson of, “Other people are capable of things, too. Not everything has to be run by you first”? It certainly wasn’t this one.

#21. “Surf and/or Turf”: Hey, another episode where the conflict made no sense! And, as an added bonus, another one where just talking to the other people involved would have resolved it instantly! Huzzah! Old El Paso managed to make “Why not both?” the lesson of a 30-second commercial. I don’t know why this took so much longer.

#22. “Horse Play”: COM-MU-NI-CA-TION. “You’re a bad actress. You can have a surprise cameo at the end of our play to make the crowd happy, but that’s it.” Jesus.

#23. “The Hearth’s Warming Club”: What exactly was the message of this episode? “Don’t lie”? No, because they never told Twilight the truth; she just happened to be standing behind them when Gallus told the other kids. “Don’t wreck shit”? No, because Gallus never faced any consequences for that. Honestly, the lesson should have been directed at teachers, and it should have been, “Don’t try this shit. It never works; it just pisses everyone off, including you.”

#24. “The Maud Couple”: Worst new character of the season. Hands down. I hope we never see him again, especially if the only way we get more Maud is if he comes along for the ride. What a prick.

#25. “A Matter of Principals”: Speaking of episodes that teach the lesson to the wrong person... Remind me again why Discord wasn’t the one who learned the lesson here? Because he’s unteachable? Because he’s “reformed” and therefore has already learned all the lessons he needs to? Also, this is a rare episode where the characters do actually communicate properly (Starlight does tell Discord to knock his shit off), and they try to pretend they didn’t! Twilight gets mad at Starlight for not talking to Discord, even though she did! You can’t do this, writers! You just can’t!

#26. “Yakity-Sax”: Talk about not knowing what fucking lesson they were trying to teach. You know what? I bet this actually happened. I bet Michael P. and/or Wil Fox were practicing their electric guitar or drums or bagpipes or whatever for days on end at all hours of the night, and all their neighbors called the cops on them. This was their way of sticking it to everyone. “No! You should let me do whatever the hell I want! It doesn’t matter if it disturbs you! Fuck the system! It’s my passion! You can’t stop me from living my dream!”

There’s a holiday special next week, and near as I can figure, it hasn’t been aired in another country ahead of time! We’ll actually get to watch this one together! Yay!

[theinsanecrayonbox]

KP Watches MSM: Venom Returns

i know, i haven’t watched any episodes of this since the first Flash=Venom episode, but that’s because this series just doesn’t really appeal to me on the visual style or story telling levels, and i just have not been in the mood top purposely put myself through them (that and when i was they’d bumped the episodes off i hadn’t seen and i was not in the mood to hunt them down). but since this has Venom returning and i am at a loss for something to do atm, why not try to drive back into this. lets see if season 2 can make me more interested than season 1 did

ok Miles is Pete’s current sidekick....and Gwen isn’t? i know that’s me not having watched previous episodes....

and they’re hunting for Eddie as Venom??? O.o well that’s a new one, Flash is Venom first then Eddie is the second one. huh...now i almost feel like i should watch the previous episode...

you know what, screw it, i have become intrigued enough to do just that

KP Watches MSM: Dead Man’s Party

ok show, show me why this was worth going back an episode

wow who knew JJ paid so well if Pete can afford school and vacation tickets; why was he struggling when he was only selling photos and not video clips?

Beetle talks???? not that i care, but that seems wrong.

oh hi you must be our Eddie Brock...carrying around a big news camera without any other crew....you should’ve just used a selfie stick, you’d’ve gotten better footage. is Eddie the old guy who’s gonna complain about Millennials ruining everything?

heh Miles is Pete’s intern. “quiet i can’t hear the voice in my head” good line, i give you that one show

again Eddie, you’re using a film camera? a digital one would’ve been easier to smuggle in...also you could take video hen instead of static photos. i get maybe it’s this way to imply you can’t afford digital tech, but just seem to make you dated...which i guess is the point really.

heh Miles is the bratty younger brother, ratting out Pete to May lol. ok i do like their relationship....would’ve worked a bit better with USM’s Pete just saying...

awww Flash only gets a mention cameo? boo.and lol teacher crashing the party; i know it’s just to exposition dump, but lol

wow Eddie really is the complainy old-man. i like the backtrack to spiel though.

Miles: hey look at my distraction everyone! lol

but so...Gwen and Anya don’t know/remember/still have spider powers then i guess? again, i know, i skipped episodes so that was probably explained there...

chess match to distract the super nerds at the party. oh wow ^^;;;

so the science tests “unlocked” the symbiote’s ability to communicate with its host...so either they augmented it’s intelligence, or  just taught i English inadvertently. that’s sorta cool...though one must wonder how it learned it could do that if they never let it bond before now. and experiments also made it loose it’s sound vulnerability, so it’s more likely that it augmented it’s intelligence. so...yeah, that’s actually sorta really neat. it’s like the science tests sped up it’s evolution because it had to adapt to what was being done to it. that is actually a pretty neat concept. ok kudos show. (it also would’ve been super cool to see that in USM happen, then we learn that the Klyntar do exist and that Venom is so similar they think it’s one of them so it has to make the choice to join them or stay with Flash and co)

but ok MSM, you win, watching the previous episode was indeed a good idea, i am even more intrigued now.

KP Returns to Watching MSM: Venom’s Return

ok so the call to Gwen to end the party makes more sense now with context

and the teeth around Eddie’s face when the Venom face retracts is still kinda creepy which is awesome

guys argue PR tactics after the bad guy’s caught, seriously ^^;

why is Eddie going after Gwen? because she was at his party? 

ok he has a digital camera, why was he using the giant one before then? his shadow didn’t have the giant camera on it.

oh yeah, stealing people close to Pete (cause Venom knows) and those that experimented on Venom, yeah that explains the Gwen taking

and May’s vacation wasn’t even a day? what’d she do, fly out in the morning, spend an hour wherever, then fly right back? that’s a sucky vacation...these episodes only looked like they took place over a single night with the whole Venom attacking stuff

Miles just go camo to get in there...just like you are doing....well thanks for the secretary scene i guess

oh we couldn’t see Venom catching Anya, but we needed to see everything else huh? sure makes sense

and huh, Venom saying Spidey’s Pete out loud in front of everyone Pete doesn’t want his identity exposed to, that’s great...oh wait they were on top of  building, so they didn’t hear any of that

STOMACH MOUTH????!!!!??? WTH???

AND HE DEMASKS PETE TO JJ????!!!

ah Miles, you are so on the ball, thank you for saving the day

wait the science guys made a gun to stun Venom off a host? so they were testing it’s bonding capabilities after all? how much does that guinea pig job pay?

Venom turned into a giant leech....man they’re really going the horror monster route here and i love it. Venom also have fantastic nails.

so the science guys are gonna try to split Venom from Eddie huh? can you can symbiote clones, as in they spawn from from chunks they remove and manipulate with other elements to try to find a way to break it down easily. yup, totally calling that as a future plot.

but ok MSM, you have actually surprised me; i actually really enjoyed these two episodes. then again, i still stand by the fact that the best s1 episodes were the Venom and Flash based ones anyways, so maybe that’s it. am i interested in the rest of the episodes i’ve missed; not really...i still don’t like the visual style or the writing i have seen. i mean, i’ve what...seen 15 episodes out of the currently 32 available, and i’ve only really liked 3 of them...yeah, not very good odds.

but just because this series isn’t for me, doesn’t mean others can’t enjoy it. so if you were curious, go take a look, because you’ll probably find at least 1 good thing you do like, if not more.