“Why did the captain get us CBS All Access?”
Star Trek: The Next Generation–The Modala Imperative #2
DC Comics (August, 1991)
“Lies And Legends!”
WRITER: Peter David
ARTIST: Pablo Marcos
COLORIST: Tom McCraw
LETTERER: Bob Pinaha
EDITOR: Robert Greenberger
I actually have a few links on this one. We have a couple on this site but the longer ones are for other sites, a news story and the YouTube channel the news is about. An extra bonus for my corona-captive readers.
Japanese studio Toei is known for copyright striking numerous YouTube channels. Taking down illegal uploads of their shows is one thing, but they go after clips, parodies, and reviews, the latter declared fair use in most other countries but not in Japan. So many tokusatsu reviewers and commentators found it a cathartic bit of payback when Toei started their own English-sub YouTube channel (finally using the internet to get their classic tokusatsu shows to the non-Japanese public) only to be hit by their own automated content bots. This is not the first time the bots caught official postings, as Lady Gaga can attest. It’s more proof that the current system to fight illegal uploads is broken, but I give Toei credit for finally using the system instead of fighting it.
Sadly I probably wouldn’t have known about the channel without this event, as finding TMS’s channel was years after it started and lucky on my part. So if you want to see what Japanese live-action superheroes look like that aren’t yet available through Shout Factory or Mill Creek Entertainment, here’s the official Toei Tokusatsu YouTube channel. NOTE: You will have to turn on the closed captions for the English subtitles. What else do you have to do right now? Be sure to check the full video list and playlists to see everything they have. There’s even the occasional anime as Toei is known for that as well.
Shockwave fan art by Zobovor
The everything for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee crowd continues to attempt to absorb all franchises into themselves, insisting that they have a right a version of everything that caters to their interests while throwing a fit if something isn’t catered to them. While of course insisting their version isn’t “for you” and often throwing a fit on the rare occasion something they like is turned into something someone else, especially kids, might enjoy. Now they’ve taken to altering beloved franchises that weren’t beloved to them while their pals push back against established canon and continuity for their own ends.
A recent example comes from the I/O9 site Gizmodo and a rant by James Whitbrook (he calls it that, folks) entitled Craving Canon Is Killing The Way We Discuss Movies And TV. (Although we’ve seen sites change titles before due to backlash.) In this piece Whitbrook rallies against the “evils” of canon in favor of re-interpretation…usually to a form that he likes from something he doesn’t I’d wager. (I don’t even have money to wager with.) I found this through a commentary on YouTube taking this thing down but the commentator gets distracted because she’s seen this #$%@ so many times and has rallied against it. I wanted to give this thing a more focused shellacking because this attitude is really at the heart of a lot of modern writers’ problems.
“You’d think I of all people wouldn’t forget to pay the electric bill.”
Iron Man volume 3 #67
Marvel Comics (June, 2003)
“Manhunt” part 3
WRITER: Robin Laws
PENCILER: Michael Ryan
INKERS: Sean Parsons & Rich Perrotta
COLORING: Avalon Studios
LETTERER: Randy Gentile
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Marc Sumerak & Andy Schmidt
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
Even if you aren’t a fan of this game series (I’m not) what’s important in my posting this video is the discussion near the beginning involving the concepts of canon versus continuity, which will play into my otherwise unrelated commentary tonight (in my time zone anyway). However, if you are a fan of the game or like me just find lore in general a curiosity, enjoy the game theory.
Catch more Game Theory on the Theorists’ YouTube channel.
I know we don’t want to think about viruses right now during the pandemic. Heck, I’m trying to figure out why people are watching movies about viral diseases ravaging the countryside right now but yet it’s happening. I guess that’s my mindset. However, we are stuck in a story in which a serum that turns people violent and could end up as a plague is currently in play. Also we have a mass murderer who is bonded to a symbiote that basically oozes itself like blood, so this is not painting a pretty picture.
And now that same symbiotic murderer is loose in New York thanks to stupid people being stupid (which is oddly not as redundant as it sounds) and it’s up to Spider-Man to save everyone again. Last time Spidey learned the doctor responsible for the serum was finally caught and now he’s ready to finally get some answers.
“I just asked if you wanted your windows washed.”
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
The Entitlement Of The Creators
I could have sworn I already posted this video but since I can’t seem to come across it I’m either doing this again with a commentary or it’s the first time and I’m doing this right. Frankly some topics come back up so often it gets confusing. This time the issue is the entitlement of the fans versus the entitlement of the creators. While there are certainly examples of the former there are also examples of the latter being ignored as the former because we have creators who know better than you and are part of the everything for meeeeeeeeeeee crowd, and that’s a problem.
The video comes from favorite filler video source Midnight’s Edge. In this commentary Andre looks into why fans who grew up with franchises like Star Trek, Star Wars, and Doctor Who have been turning away from formerly beloved favorites. In some cases it’s the nostalgia not being there, in many cases it’s the social commentary both in the show and by the creators against the fans who feel cheated. However, there are other factors I think the video misses out on, and I’d like to add this as well.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on April 8, 2020 in Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged Alfred Pennyworth, Batman, commentary, Doctor Who, Joker, Star Trek, Star Wars.
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