Blogs and Ends: The Dude Bros Edition
I can’t believe this is still trending on X. It’s been three days and the Sith Shipper Simps are still sobbing about The Acolyte being canceled. Normally I wouldn’t still be covering this but the latest line complaint is too funny to ignore. “The Star Wars Incel Dude Bros won!!!!”
Okay, ladies first of all it’s fundamentally impossible to be both an Incel and Dude-Bro at the same time. A guy is pretty much stuck being one or the other.
Also, there is no such a thing as a Star Wars Dude-Bro. I mean picture one in your mind. You can’t, can you? Because it doesn’t exist. You just don’t see that many guys talking about how they can squat 400 lbs in one breath, then talk about how amazing the Dark Forces remaster is with the next.
There is now an online petition with literally hundreds of people demanding that Acolyte get a second season.
I will admit the Sith 304s had a new reason to be upset. Disney has pulled Acolyte merch from the Disney Store”
Disney did that to Willow’s merch right before that unhappy series was imprisoned in the Iron Vault of Tax Write Downs. Given how much money Disney spent on it and how poorly it performed there is an excellent chance that The Acolyte will only live on in YouTube clips where the show is being dragged by Incel Dude Bros.
The behind the scenes story is that Disney was going to quietly let The Acolyte slide into oblivion with the usual promise of temporary delays.
The problem is that Leslye Headland was putting together a writers’ room for a second season.
She had pushed the first season forward by taking actions behind the scenes and then making the announcement as a fete accompli.
Iger heard about it and decided to just rip the bandaid off with a formal announcement.
Disney has decided to try and quiet this down by pushing Andor on X. It is trending out of the blue for no discernible reason, which means it’s being pushed. Hopefully, Kathleen Kennedy can claim Andor as the win she needs to go out on. I personally am fine with that and will happily pretend that Andor Season 2 is a work of beauty and wonder surpassed only by the Taj Mahal if it gets her out the door.
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Black Myth: Wukong
Sales records are being broken by the Monkey King. Black Myth: Wukong had 4.5 million copies moved on its first day. Granted, presales were heavy but that doesn’t change the fact that this game is a monster.
Journey to the West has the distinction of being (arguably) the first fantasy story that is an intentional work of fiction. This 16th century novel introduced the trickster hero, Sun Wu Kong. It is regarded by many as the most popular novel in the entire far east. So it’s not that much of a surprise that in a time of resurgent nationalism, the Chinese would rush out to buy a game about their version of Maui.
Disclaimer, I have not played it yet because I didn’t get a reviewer’s code and I’m not paying sixty bucks to get material for one blog post. Also I’m not that interested in Soulslike games to begin with.
Nonetheless, it seems to be getting flood of legitimate good reviews. It’s nice the know there is some hope of the AAA market even if that hope is no where to to be found where Sweet Baby Inc has pressed foot.
The silly part is the people who are acting shocked about the studio not allowing any posts about Covid, Feminism or LGBTQ/Trans issues on their official social media accounts.
Imagine that. A Chinese company trying to not piss off the Chinese government. Who would have thought such a thing was possible in 2024?
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Rumor Alert
Daredevil Born Again is Disney+’s attempt to revive the critically and fan acclaimed Netflix’s series of Marvel shows.
It’s not off to a great start. We first saw Netflix’s version of Matt Murdock being used as marital aid by She-Hulk and then doing an inexplicable walk of shame which Matt Murdock would never do.
We next saw him Marvel’s Wokest TV show ever, Echo. It wasn’t a terrible idea, especially since Disney/Marvel seemed to be going out of its way to avoid bringing Deborah Ann Woll on board as Karen Page again. However, making Echo her replacement love interest became impossible when Marvel committed itself to an actress whose sole qualification was being a deaf Native American. Alaqua Cox never acted before being handed this role.
Given Echo’s indifferent reception, Marvel reversed course on Deborah Ann Woll. they have also signed Jon Berenthal as The Punisher. This may not be a good thing.
The rumor is that Marvel has opted to go with the worst Punisher story in his entire 50 year history. It’s the one where the Punisher is going after racist cops who have dared to use his sigil. This story is as Current Year Marvel as you can get. In the comics they eventually resurrected the Punisher’s wife to humiliate and then murder him. Marvel Comics writing at its finest.
I was hoping they wouldn’t go with this story but it looks like they that’s what they are doing.
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Alien: Romulus has a strong opening weekend. Assuming the director isn’t lying about it, the budget was only $80 million, if this thing reaches $350 million we are looking at a sequel.
*sigh*
LAST
Five political lessons from that legendary civil servant, Sir Humphrey Appleby.
“It is necessary to get behind someone in order to stab them in the back.”
