I’ve been keeping track of the situation at CBS and Paramount regarding the Star Trek franchise, usually through the excellent work of the Midnight’s Edge team over on YouTube. It’s a very long story. Basically, when they split CBS and Paramount parent company Viacom apart the Star Trek license got split and a lot of annoying stuff has come out since because of it. Picard seems to be the only things fans are praising since the release of the trailer at Comic-Con.
However, just as Star Trek: Discovery seemed to borrow a lot of their ideas (and by “borrow” I mean “outright steal”) from a indie game called Tartagrade it seems the initial concept at least for Picard may actually be taken from a pitch by the man who created Discovery only to be kicked out and his ideas replaced by what CBS stole from that game. Here’s the latest news and rumors from Midnight’s Edge.
Douglas Adams wrote for Doctor Who. It kind of works.
Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy book series has been adapted into audio dramas, TV shows, movies, video games, and I’m sure there’s a comic floating around somewhere too. Now the internet is getting into the game with a new web series being made for Hulu. I’m starting to wonder if cutting the cord on cable/satellite really is cheaper if you want to see everything.
While a lot of people are talking (and spoiling) Avengers: Endgame and complaining about the mistakes of Captain Marvel I’m way behind in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I’ve been unemployed, I’ve been sick, I’ve been unconscious, I’ve been busy. Also it seems like every movie my friends and I get ready to see one of us gets sick or the weather’s bad. Sometimes we’ve had other problems but that’s been the big three: my lack of money, illness, or bad weather. So that’s why it took so long to get to Avengers: Age Of Ultron, the second movie of the Avengers series and I’m not sure how far into the MCU movies. I had to see this one on the USA Network (where they messed up the credits sequence because TV networks hate to acknowledge the people who made a show or movie these days) and even then I recorded it in June and just finished watching it a few hours ago.
Up to this point I’ve enjoyed the MCU movies although with two movies that came out after this but already reviewed in previous installments of Finally Watched, both Ant-Man and Spider-Man: Homecoming have had adaptation issues. (Mostly with the latter but in Spidey’s case it may have something to do with the weird issues with Sony.) It’s Ant-Man’s alterations that had an adaptation impact on this movie, but does it work out?
RELEASE DATE: 2015
RELEASED BY: Walt Disney Productions and Marvel Studios
RUNTIME: 2 hours, 21 minutes (3 hours on TV)
STARRING: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Helmsworth, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffolo, Jeremy Renner, Aaron Taylor-Johnson , Elisabeth Olsen, and James Spader
SCREENWRITERS: Josh Wedon
DIRECTOR: Josh Wedon
GROSS INCOME: $1,405,413,868 (worldwide) out of an estimated budget of $250,000,000
No, Mario’s not having a baby…as far as I know. Super Mario Maker and it’s current sequel on the Nintendo Switch, allows players to get to be game creators without hacking ROMs or violating copyright. It also allows the mundane a chance to be creative. We’ve seen hacks used for marriage proposals, so why not use an official game maker to announce the gender of your child? That’s what one couple did using Super Mario Maker 2. I love creativity. They even included the code so you can download and play the level yourself if you have the game.
There are songs I enjoy more for the beat and music than the words because I can’t understand the words when I’m listening to it. That was one of the inspirations for this article series. There have been times when what we thought a song was about thanks to a lyric or two, or what was in the video, is not what the song is about at all, which is why I try to use lyric videos instead of the actual music video. I’ve learned quite a bit about songs I’ve heard for years and their history, and this month’s installment is no different.
Off of their 1984 album Forever Young, UK group Alphaville only had one hit single, at least in the US. Based on the title you may think “Big In Japan” is about being famous in Japan. It is not. Based on the video and a few lyrics you may think it’s about prostitution or male prostitution. It also is not. So what is the song about? Would you believe…heroin? Oh don’t worry, if you really want a song about being popular in the Land Of The Rising Sun there’s a Frenchman and a Canadian woman who may have the song you thought this one was. I’m here to inform and be helpful. It’s a two-song deal tonight, kids.
