I just realized that I didn’t have a post on Friday. That was odd to me since I scheduled a post. Looking into it, I see that I accidentally scheduled the post for this coming Friday instead of last Friday. Oops. Oh, well. There goes my streak of posting once a week this year.
Or does it???
What if I backdate this post to make it look like I posted it on Friday? Nobody would ever know… well… except anyone who reads this…
Way back in the Playstation 1 days, I used to play the game Twisted Metal 2 quite a bit. I never really played the first one, and the third game wasn’t as good, but I used to love playing the second one. Driving around in cars, shooting and blowing other cars up? That’s all kinds of fun. Once I bought the original Xbox, though, everything Playstation got pushed to the back burner and eventually faded from thought.
So, when I was randomly scrolling online a while ago, and saw that Peacock adapted Twisted Metal into a TV show, it filled me with both nostalgia and dread. The nostalgia, obviously, is from all the great times I had playing the game. The dread was because there was a very good chance that they were going to mess it up.
Because I have kids, and there’s a lot of stuff in the show I didn’t want to watch while they were around, it took me a while to make it through the 10 episode season. I’m glad I did, though. Don’t get me wrong, it had its flaws, but overall, I liked it.
I don’t want to get into specifics, because I don’t want to spoil it for anyone who may want to watch it, but the finale definitely had the car carnage you’d expect from a show carrying the Twisted Metal name.
If you have Peacock, you should give it a try
Who is the lamest Batman villain?
Batman has had many villains over the years. Some are iconic. Some are laughable. Which one do I think is the worst, as far as having a lame power/gimmick? If I actually sat down and thought about it, I may have a different answer, but I’m just going to go with the first one to pop into my head.
The Ventriloquist.
Now, I don’t know if he was ever in any comics, but I only saw him in the 90s cartoon. He showed up on multiple occasions in the background at Arkham Asylum, but he was the main villain in at least one episode. His gimmick, like his name suggests, is that he commits crimes with a ventriloquist dummy. Only, in his mind, he’s a good guy, and it’s the dummy that’s evil, forcing him to commit these crimes.
If I remember correctly, which is a big “if” considering how long it’s been since I watched the 90s cartoons, he ditched his original dummy, Scarface (a 1930s style gangster), when he got tired of Scarface bossing him around, completed his therapy, then had something bad happen to him, and got a new dummy that was even more evil than Scarface.
It could just be me, but all of that is incredibly lame. It’s like they ran out of ideas and had to throw something together in five minutes. How this character appeared in more than one episode is beyond me.
Who do you think is Batman’s lamest villain?
I started to write one of my comic book question posts yesterday with the intention of finishing it up on my breaks and lunch at work today. Life had other plans, however. I’m not going to get into details, but I had to leave work while I was on my first break. Everything ended up being fine, though my blood pressure shot up a bit a few times.
Still, I wanted to keep my posting on Friday streak alive, so… here’s a post.
This past week has been hell for me, and I haven’t really had the time or the inclination to think of something to post about today, so all I’ll say is that I hate my job and I wish I could quit.
You never really pay much attention to your deodorant until you raise your arm halfway through your work day and realize you forgot to put it on that morning.
Which fictional character, from any medium (novels, comics, television, or movies), that died, or seemingly died, do you wish they never brought back to life?
This one wasn’t as hard as some of the others. I didn’t really need to think too much about it. The answer came immediately to mind. It’s probably the same answer that most Star Wars fans have: Palpatine.
Sure, there are other Star Wars characters that got brought back from their supposed deaths that bug the crap out of me (Darth Maul and Boba Fett), but those at least were done for a reason. Granted, it’s a real world reason, not a story reason, and that reason is money. Those two characters are popular. They had to be brought back so they could boost ratings and sell more merchandise.
With Palpatine, though, there’s no reason at all. Not only that, but I have yet to see anyone, other than Ian McDiarmid (the actor who played Palpatine in the movies), who thinks bringing him back was a good idea. Especially after they took so much heat for The Force Awakens being so much like A New Hope, why did they think bringing the main villain from the original trilogy back from the dead would be well received?
I was ok with the sequel trilogy until they revealed that he had come back. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t terrible either. Well, not to me, at least. Once he came back, though, I was done. Palpatine returning ruined the whole trilogy.
I think, from now on, I’m going to pretend that the original trilogy is the only one that exists.
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