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19AprApril 19, 2023

The Dark Herald Recommends: The Mandalorian Season 3

This may be the last season of The Mandalorian. The season finale could certainly function as a series finale as well. Honestly, I hope they call it a day. It certainly can’t come back from this incredibly weak season. And the ratings for the first three episodes can’t justify a renewal for a fourth season given the expense of producing a Star Wars show. There is absolutely no Return of Luke scene this year. At the end of the day if you are a streaming...

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18AprApril 18, 2023

The Hermione Question

UPDATE: And Emma Watson just thanked the planet Saturn for changing her life. W-w-what do I even say to this? 'Want one, Granger?’ said Malfoy, holding out a badge to Hermione. ‘I’ve got loads. But don’t touch my hand, now. I’ve just washed it, you see, don’t want a Mudblood sliming it up.’While I admit to enjoying the shrieks of outrage when the new Harry Potter series was announced, (because Rowling will be directly connected with it), there is now...

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18AprApril 18, 2023

Jonathon Majors Has Been Dropped by His Management

Management 360 has dropped Jonathon Majors. This is pretty bad news for him. However, at the time of this writing, his Agency WME (William Morris/Endeavor) is still repping him.For the benefit of those who aren't familiar with the difference.A talent agency is supposed to go out and find work for the actor/actress/writer/whatever. The agents represent them to the studios trying to land them parts or if the talent is red hot and being pummeled by offers, sort through the best...

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17AprApril 17, 2023

The Prisoner Under A Glass: (Part One – Danger Man)

I will not be pushed. Filed. Stamped. Indexed. Briefed, debriefed, or numbered!-The PrisonerTV shows simply do not affect intellectual development. It just isn’t possible unless you are under the age of two and the pretty colors you are seeing are doing something rapid growth of your recently generated neural network. TV shows in all brutal honesty are mostly for retards. They are designed that way because they have to appeal to the lowest common dominator. Especially in the 1960s when you had to...

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16AprApril 16, 2023

Ooof… Guardians of Galaxy 3 May Be in Trouble

The initial projections are very weak.The Trades are predicting $130 million opening weekend. Usually the Trades (Variety, Deadline and the rest) will put their thumb on the scale for an opening weekend because that is what a studio wants to see. This means that either the trades think $130 million is the most sunny and optimistic projection they can come up with and maintain their reputations. OR they think that it will earn about that and they...

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14AprApril 14, 2023

Aliens – Footnotes

Typical Marine Corps first date.This post is a collection of extraneous minutia that I cut from the first post.One of the Aliens strengths is the design aesthetic. James Cameron started out in the special effects side of things building spaceship models for Battle Beyond the Stars and getting ripped off by Roger Corman for doing it. Corman can spot talent, you have to give him that.This background as kit-smasher has had a profound impact on the visuals in all of...

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14AprApril 14, 2023

RE:View – Aliens

Aliens is my favorite Eighties blast-flick, even nudging out Predator. For whatever reason, this is the one that speaks to me.What James Cameron got right was basically everything. It was massively influential in 1980s science fiction pop-culture. Aliens created an entire aesthetic template for the Space Marine that everyone who followed Cameron had to either consciously accept or reject. The Colonial Marines were up there with Starfleet. And Aliens set up a film that would hold the title of “most disappointing...

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12AprApril 12, 2023

Harry Potter Series Confirmed

To the surprise of Twitteristas if no one else. Warner Brothers Discovery confirmed today that a new Harry Potter show is going into production.Here's a teaser. Like any teaser there is no point at all in looking at it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o07u0uKkV_g Regardless, there are currently no plans to bring back the original cast in any capacity. This appears to be a remake/reboot starting from Harry's first year at Hogwarts and it is slated to go on for ten seasons. ...

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11AprApril 11, 2023

Blogs and Ends: Root Canal Tuesday

You get what you get and you don't get upset today. Because it won't be a lot.I just had a root canal.FIRSTHere's The Marvels' trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuk77TjvfmE Holy crap that was cheap. Firing Victoria Alonso is completely justifiable on the basis of that trailer alone. She was in charge of production, this was her department. This looks about as bad as Antman 3. The costuming looks cheap, the sets look cheap, the effects look cheap and this thing cost...

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10AprApril 10, 2023

The Dark Herald Recommends: The Super Mario Brothers Movie

Today gaming journalists display their abject ignorance and complete irrelevance by declaring this game should be embraced by gamers because its politics are mega-good think or that game should be rejected and reviled because the Hivemind has declared it so. The advice gets ignored either way by gamers.Seven years ago, gaming journos displayed their utter cluelessness and general disinterest in their own chosen field of ‘expertise’ by declaiming in lockstep unison that Nintendo was dead and it was only a matter...

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