I remind you, the French development team who really needed to upgrade the only black guy in Japanese history anyone heard of. More crackers than a saltines box.
With everything that the creators of Assassin’s Creed: Shadows has done to tick off Japan and annoy the general gaming community and fans of the franchise, having one of them say that they don’t want to tell Japan their culture because they already know it is hilarious for all the wrong reasons. Spencer Baculi of Bounding Into Comicsgoes into the full statement and why it makes no sense when you’re actually paying attention to everything surrounding this game, including stuff I’ve brought up in prior posts.
I saw the preview for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, seen above if the embed still works. I’m not impressed.
I don’t have Disney+, and this gives me less reason to do so. Let’s count the failures:
For the second time in a row if you don’t count shows for five year olds (although I do) we have Peter going to a genius high school, like with Marvel’s Spider-Man on Disney XD.
Is May still Peter’s aunt? In addition to another deaged Aunt May we never see Peter call her “Aunt May”, just “May”.
Looks like we’re going for a time paradox or something interdimensional as Doctor Strange fights a symbiote victim of some kind by the looks of it.
The animation isn’t the worst I’ve seen but the aforementioned five year olds show was better.
See that kid at the school that looks like Flash Thompson and thus shouldn’t be at a genius school? He’s not Flash Thompson.
Peter will never be seen in the proper Spidey costume if all the trailers and clips are to be believed. It will, however, have a lot of cringe humor that makes Ultimate Spider-Man look hilarious in comparison.
Apparently “radioactive spider” was too much for this one so they swiped Miles Morales’ power origin from the Spiderverse movies. Which DID have the radioactive spider as Peter’s origin.
Peter’s social awkwardness issues in high school got turned up past 11 on this. Another thing they got from Miles and the Spiderverse, and I’m not the only one to notice this. I wasn’t even the first. Someone else mentioned it and after seeing the clips I have to agree.
Surprisingly it’s the series available on demand that brought back the intro, something that two of the three shows I just mentioned didn’t have. (Advantage: five year olds.) Even more surprising? Apparently the theme song cares more about Spider-Man than the animation and show. It was in the above clip, but let’s isolate and examine it.
I still don’t know why “Funnies” is in the name when these are pretty much serious stories. Odd? Well, this month we have a fairground based superhero battling a robot, strange worlds, a centaur crimefighter, and evil psychics, but this isn’t called “Amazing Mystery Oddities”. With new tales and ongoing chapters awaiting us, let’s dive in.
If something is changed from the source material, it’s the adaptation that’s wrong and the source material shouldn’t change to match the errors just to sell comics. If the adapters cared, and there are limits to how strict you can be with the source canon due to change in media and audience focus, they would get it right. However, Hollywood thinks they’re better than comics and thus what they want matters more than something lower on the media pecking order than the stuff they make and approve of. See also cartoons, video games, and anything nostalgic that they aren’t nostalgic for.
Filler video time because I needed a nap this afternoon after not so much a lousy night’s sleep so much as a lousy waking up.
Pilots used to be how show creators showed off that they could pull off the pitch they used to sell the network or syndicator on a project. It’s sort of a proof of concept, usually the same quality as the final show so they can use it as the first episode, but occasionally it’s a lot cheaper looking simply to show the network to pay for a proper first episode.
When putting out Knight Rider for NBC, Glen A. Larson put together a half-hour proof of concept pilot out of the footage he was putting together for a full first episode, the TV Movie/two-parter (depending on how it airs or is put on home video) we the audience got to see. While that video is currently lost in the halls of time (or possibly some dude’s basement), the YouTube channel Knight Riders Historians Official gave us an idea of what it might have looked like. I’m guessing that’s the official channel for a group of Knight Rider historians and not Universal actually creating a group to keep track of their currently unused franchise. That would be why we don’t get a proper recreation with surviving clips, as that would get them hit by Universal with copywrite strikes, but an explanation of what scenes they used and what was shot just for the pilot. Take a look.
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