This is from a year ago, before the recent flood of MCU failures, which MatPat went over in another video. This one was in the filler/Daily Video backlog along with other Game and Film Theory episodes. With MatPat moving away for other projects I want to clear those all out before the new hosts come in, to give them a fresh view as far as article material here goes.
In the last chapter we saw what’s going to bring the Enterprise into the events of the story, and that it understood the characters better than the current show writers and movie directors. And this is a non-canon novel.
Vulcan is possibly the second most visited planet in the Star Trek franchise, with Earth being number one. Outside of Spock I’m not sure how memorable it is. It’s a desert planet where the people nearly created self-genocide until the rise of logic. Vulcans do not lack emotions, or else they wouldn’t have music and other arts, nor would they get married and stuff. Those are emotion-driven. It’s why Data in the TNG timeframe can only imitate other artists but has trouble making his own art. He lacks emotions. Vulcans still create, still have feelings. It’s more about controlling emotions. They will act logical, but logical from their perspective, like the Vulcan member of the conspiracy in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country that I’m so glad wasn’t Saavik as intended. Her actions seem rather evil to us, but to her they were based on a logical, if not flawed, deduction. How can you say Klingons and the Federation can’t work together when the lies and murders your creating to put them into war requires you to work together? A discussion for another time.
With all that in mind, let’s see what’s happening on Vulcan at the moment. It’s a bit early for the murders, so I imagine it will be continued establishment of our cast for this tale.
Why Hardcase was fired from elementary school gym teaching.
Hardcase #1
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (June, 1993)
“Winners Never Quit”
WRITER: James Hudnall
PENCILER: Jim Callahan
INKER: Norm Breyfogle
COLOR DESIGN: Paul Mounts
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: Chris Ulm
Being “colorblind” isn’t about ignoring the sins of the past, or either the struggles or successes of black people (I don’t use “African American” unless they have dual citizenship in the US and Africa). It’s about saying the reason they struggled and the reasons their successes aren’t acknowledged more was based on something stupid to keep us divided. King wanted to unite us. My favorite line is about “little black boys and black girls joining hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers”, which as they get older leads to holding…other things. It means seeing each other as people, judged “not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character”, my second favorite line. These are the two that always stick out to me as a white dude tied of watching the race war being fought by people whose goal seems to be to fight the race war rather than end racism, or at least make it irrelevant.
Of course, here’s the full speech, which I post every Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Pretty much my point of view as well.
A week late, but the comic’s done.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I found the unfinished Zoid model and make the last category of comics for sale. Now I just need a better way to sell the comics. And the toys. And the novels. And finally add home videos and video games once I finally go over them. Plus there are more of the other categories coming, but now I have a list to start with. I just need a way to sell them.
This week it’s chapter two of The Vulcan Academy Murders for Chapter By Chapter, the “Spectacular” installment of The Many, MANY Intros Of Spider-Man, and beginning season two of the Beast Machines writer’s guide. Plus two days for whatever. Have a great week, everyone!
I’m not sure what to do for this week’s Showcase, so I’m using Mystery Science Theater 3000 to have something to post. You can’t go wrong with Mike and the Bots.
Village Of The Giants is a 1965 movie that will have you wondering if Ron Howard and Beau Bridges really needed the work that badly. Howard plays a child genius that only gets called “Genius”, so I’m assuming that’s what his parents named him. His parents are out of town, so his big sister brings her boyfriend over to fool around. Meanwhile, Genius is fooling around with chemicals as Howard pretends he knows what he’s talking about (mostly because the writers don’t know what they’re talking about). While doing so he somehow creates a “goo” that looks like someone overdid it making their milkshake, but causes anything that eats to grow. This could solve food shortages…if it wasn’t for the teenage delinquents (because 1960s) who use it to go on a rampage in the city. With questionable effects, you’ll be more invested in the MST3K subplot as Dr. Forrester fires TV’s Frank. Either way, enjoy…won’t you?
“That’s what I forgot. My scuba gear!”
The Blue Beetle #40
Fox Feature Syndicate (Winter, 1945)
You know, if this was coming out seasonally instead of monthly, you’d think they’d have more time to come up with better stories than I’ve been seeing lately in this series. That should go double for the ones actual kids were guest-starring in. You want to show your friends how cool it is that you’re in a Blue Beetle story and the story is just “hey, I’m going to grab a couple of kids and put them in danger when I told their parents we were just supposed to hang out”. I’m starting to guess what happened to Spunky, but we’re better off without him so I’ll give Dan the benefit of the doubt when it comes to his young blackmailer.
Not that it matters, because this issue doesn’t dox any real world kids to sent them on adventures, and with the serial finally over with there’s room for a better story. Let’s see if they take it.
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