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Mobian UFC isn’t as interesting as you’d think.
Sonic The Hedgehog #59
Archie Comic Publications (Jnue, 1996)
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
“Opposites Detract”
WRITER: Mike Gallagher
PENCILER: Art Mawhinney
INKER: Jim Amash
COLORIST: Lisa Ieraci
EDITOR: J. Freddy Gabrie
Tales From The Freedom Fighters: Princess Sally: “The People’s Princess”
WRITER/COLORIST: Ken Penders
ARTISTS: Manny Galan & Jim Amash
EDITOR: Justin Gabrie (might be the same guy but I’m not sure)
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Because I missed yesterday’s posting due to being under the weather, because I want to clear out my backlog of Film Theory episodes hosted by MatPat before we run out of MatPat, and because they’re both Star Wars related, here are two videos for the price of one.
First up, why don’t Force Ghosts do more to help out?
Video #2: The problem with TIE Fighters.
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I should really watch the classic era Doctor Who episode “The Talons Of Weng-Chiang” some time, possibly while Tubi has it up if I can’t afford the DVD. Despite cultural depictions of Chinese people that were out of date when the show aired (which is a plot point for the tale as it puts the Fourth Doctor and Leela in Victorian England), it’s surprisingly important to the show. It has the Doctor playing Sherlock Holmes going up against a stand-in for Jack The Ripper, not the real world killer himself thankfully, which of course involves time travel beyond the TARDIS team. We look at that in a previous posting from Dalek 63•88. It introduced two character so appreciated by fans that Big Finish has an audio drama series about the pair solving mysteries. It even got referenced in an IDW story starring the 10th Doctor.
Dalek 63•88 also went back to this story for a mystery of their own. Fans love to find old filming locations of their favorite movie and television scenes, or often used establishing shots. It’s just something cool. However, what happens when some of those locations no longer exist due to disaster or simple progress? That’s what happened to the shooting locations of “The Talons Of Weng-Chiang”, as the area used for some of the location footage is not what it was in the 1970s. So the team played Sherlock Holmes themselves to find the areas on Clink Street where the episode, including some lost footage, was shot. As I’m under the weather today (notice there was no comic review or daily quickpost), we’re going to go exploring with Dalek 63•88 as they hunt for those locations, using footage from other productions filmed there, Google Earth & Maps, and production shots from the episode as well as the footage that was shot there. Funnily enough, a movie with Sherlock Holmes tracking Jack The Ripper is one of those tracking sources.
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Chapter By Chapter (usually) features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as a read-along book club.
In the previous two chapters we checked in on Daniel after the mind meld and speculated he may have an admirer. Meanwhile, nobody knows how the bed shut down.
This week we just have the one chapter…or so I thought. Chapter 10 is only three pages long, or so I thought when I skimmed through it. Apparently two pages were stuck together and it was more like five or six pages, but it’s a bit late to change it back. I read it, I’m reviewing it. Chapter 10 takes place at the funeral and chapter 11 takes place after it, with the focus most likely focusing on the investigation, so I’m keeping 9 and 10 together. Also my book is starting to fall apart. I found two corners on the desk and the spine is a bit bent. Given that this is only my second reading I’m worried I’m not taking proper care of my books.
I’m still waiting to see when this becomes a murder investigation but it’s still nine chapters out of 35. I’m guessing we’ll get past the character development soon. However, while we all know Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Sarek if you’re a Trekkie, Lorrah has been introducing us to the rest of the cast, the helpers and the suspects alike. Everything has been needed. Still, I would like to get on to what we’re all here for. Perhaps this chapter will be the start of that?
The rest I’ll keep off the homepage as we have our first clue as readers, while the cast still doesn’t know there’s a mystery that needs clues outside of the stasis field collapse. So I’ll put that past the jump if you’re on the homepage or just joining us and don’t want to be spoiled. To start from the beginning, there’s a tag for this book in the article credits to start from chapter one. For the rest of us, onto to today’s chapters.
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“Next time, I choose the Saturday night activities.”
Mantra #1
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (July, 1993)
“Reversal Of Fortune”
WRITER: Mike W. Barr
PENCILER: Terry Dodson
INKER: Al Vey
COLORIST: Paul Mounts
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: Chris Ulm
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The Highs And (Mostly) Lows Of Hollywood’s Union Crisis
This article is not about Hasbin Hotel, because if it was…let’s just say I’d be talking as a Christian more than a critic, especially the Devil’s new and wacky backstory. However, the above video did inspire some other thoughts due to why it exists.
Hasbin Hotel started, like most shows, as a pilot, this one airing on YouTube. Creator Vivienne “Vizziepop” Medrano managed to get the show sponsored by A24, who got it on Amazon Prime Video. There was one change…actually a few changes from what I hear, but the one that matters here is that the entire voice cast had to be replaced. Why? It’s been suggested that A24 or Vizziepop herself wanted more Broadway performers and the like, the voice of the first character in the video stating so in the description of the video, which is hosted on his channel, but unions are also the chief suspect. The original voice cast were not part of a union, but A24 is one of those production companies who really like keeping their union pals happy, and so it could have at least been a factor, despite upset fans that the cast they already liked were replaced.
To their credit, the actors have been supportive, creating this song when they learned about the replacement but not releasing it until the show hit Amazon Prime and the A24 app. It’s a thank you to the fans who supported them and how much they enjoyed performing for the pilot and possibly even working with each other. YouTube animators don’t get to have their VAs in the same room like professional productions. They’re a class act in this regard, making their absence even worse (said the critic who hasn’t seen it because of religion and frankly this wouldn’t be my taste in shows anyway), but that’s Hollywood and the Hollywood machine.
It was the discussion of the unions that inspired this article, since it was the video being talked about in Literature Devil’s “Morning Nonsense” podcast that I first saw it, and unions were considered the party at fault. Even if this wasn’t the reason for the cast change, it indirectly brought the topic up, so I decided to just work it in, because I wouldn’t be discussing this at all either way otherwise. Unions are a part of our lives, for good and for bad. As of late in entertainment…it’s been mostly bad.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on February 21, 2024 in Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged commentary, strikes, unions.
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