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Rick & Morty Fans Want Danny Devito & Charlie Day to Take Over as the Voices of the Titular Duo

Fans have chosen who they would like to see recast as Rick and Morty.

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[The Cat]

Rick & Morty Fans Want Danny Devito & Charlie Day to Take Over as the Voices of the Titular Duo

Fans have chosen who they would like to see recast as Rick and Morty.

movieweb.com

surprised no one suggested christopher lloyd for Rick

 

[Totenkindly]

surprised no one suggested christopher lloyd for Rick

ROFLMAO -- yeah no shocker

along with Jaeden Martell, looks like... again, yeah, sure.

 

[Totenkindly]

Finished the next batch of Vox Machina drops. I'm expecting it to be a better blend of humor and heroics (with actual moving experiences) than the D&D movie, which might not be bad but will probably at best just be amusing but not really emotionally impactful. I have experienced a whole gamut of emotions just watch episodes 4-6 -- shrill laughter, tears, pain, loneliness, longing, awe. It's rather impressive.

Team Keyleth. Despite nothing being overly original, I still cried and was like you go girl, when she grappled with her own lack of confidence and embraced the truths she wasn't sure she deserved -- and rose above herself in e5.

And then I was dyin' in e6 when there's a particular combat that SOMEONE needs to win... and I knew exactly how they were going to win it before it happened. I was cheering and laughing the whole way.

 

[The Cat]

Finished the next batch of Vox Machina drops. I'm expecting it to be a better blend of humor and heroics (with actual moving experiences) than the D&D movie, which might not be bad but will probably at best just be amusing but not really emotionally impactful. I have experienced a whole gamut of emotions just watch episodes 4-6 -- shrill laughter, tears, pain, loneliness, longing, awe. It's rather impressive.

Team Keyleth. Despite nothing being overly original, I still cried and was like you go girl, when she grappled with her own lack of confidence and embraced the truths she wasn't sure she deserved -- and rose above herself in e5.

And then I was dyin' in e6 when there's a particular combat that SOMEONE needs to win... and I knew exactly how they were going to win it before it happened. I was cheering and laughing the whole way.

that was epic inspiration eh?

 

[Totenkindly]

that was epic inspiration eh?

I was like dude, you KNOW what to do....!

I like how this season they are digging deeper into character backstory across the entire team and actually challenging the characters to grow/grapple with it. I felt like a lot of Season 1 was focused on Percy due to the Whitestone plotline.

 

[The Cat]

I was like dude, you KNOW what to do....!

I like how this season they are digging deeper into character backstory across the entire team and actually challenging the characters to grow/grapple with it. I felt like a lot of Season 1 was focused on Percy due to the Whitestone plotline.

Im crying my eyes out when Vax does the thing. Just because I know where it ultimately leads to...this series is gonna hurt so good.

 

[Totenkindly]

Im crying my eyes out when Vax does the thing. Just because I know where it ultimately leads to...this series is gonna hurt so good.

I don't know where it goes because I am not familiar with the campaign... but yeah that whole episode was dark and broody, and really choked me up when that bit happened and then where it went. You'd think it was supposed to have a happy ending but no, it was a real sacrifice.

And I don't know where this whole thing with Grog is going. Geez. Although I was laughing at Scanlon's watershed music.

 

[Totenkindly]

Been watching The Climb -- I forgot it was on for a week or two, so I'm on episode 4 while there are 6 episodes out right now.

Climbing is one of those things if I was in my 20's I would be out there doing, and especially alpine -- for many years I just didn't feel like I had the option and now my body is a wreck. But I have a number of books, tracked the annual events on Chomolungma (aka Everest), and just have read a ton. Climbers are always my heroes, it's like the most awesome solo sport out there, and it's as much a mental game as a purely physical one, in terms of both figuring out your approach as well as pushing forward through sheer determination (or knowing how to mitigate risk if weather isn't acting right).

Kinda cool to learn Jason Momoa is a rock climber as well, which shouldn't surprise me I suppose.

In E3, I discovered one of the contestants is a transguy, which I didn't really see coming. And he's pretty great, esp considering he is short and just doesn't have the reach -- I am so stoked to keep watching him tackle these challenges!

I like that they have a mix of climber types, genders, race, etc. It's too bad the oldest washed on the first episode (she was 53). She was great, she just finished last.

Just finished this today. Pretty exciting stuff to watch and covered a wide variety of climbs as well to determine the most rounded climber. I really love how there was such a diversity of climbers on the show, from all different body sizes, ages, and backgrounds, and it wasn't super predictable who would make it to the end and win. Although in terms of that, I found the ending very fulfilling.

I guess I should say Chris Scharma (pretty much a climber legend) was the host, and he just seems like a great guy all around.

Here was a good summary of the strengths of the show:

5 things I loved about HBO's The Climb

Chris Sharma, Jason Momoa, and an epic Spain climbing competition? Yes Please.

www.russellmaxsimon.com

 

[The Cat]

Meta Symmetry Achieved.
Your wish has been granted Mr. Roiland. With that our association must come to an end...​

 

[The Cat]

So I checked it out and this is pretty on point,
I didn't hate it. But Im dead inside. A shallow husk raised upon popular culture. Mindy Kaling is not unfunny. Velma is not unfunny. I remember about a decade back, reading cracked articles about how hipsters were the worst, but if we cant stand them, ruining the bars and nightclubs and social media with their hipster humor seemingly being based solely on you not being one and so on and how everyone didnt think they could get any worse for the human culture hive as a whole...iirc it was cody johnston who wrote that we aint seen nothing yet, wait till these hipster douches get their jobs in the entertainment industry and begin writing for television and movies, and how cynical and alienating the end resulting content would be, but it would be too late because by that point we'd be so deeply entrenched in the dystopia that all we could do is just make piece with the fact that this is life now, or go insane.

Good tv has never been about good tv. It's about putting butts in seats for the commercials. You know, what we're all born here for.
The only reason its called Velma is they want to solve mysteries and wear specific clothes while doing it. What actually surprises me is that more brands arent doing this kind of thing. Star Trek is doing it pretty well with lower decks, mark me one day we'll have star wars content like this, what i dont get are people getting upset about selling out there childhood nostalgia for this kind of self insert cosplay comedy...as though all the cartoons they're holding so sacrosanct werent based on toy lines.

Its not a bad show, its not a good show. It's not a particularly funny show, nor is it particularly unfunny.

When your entire fashion culture is built around what it isnt, and focuses on who doesnt get to be in on the joke.... this is the kind of adult cartoon show you make.
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“The shows are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the media whores and politicians will look up and shout 'SAVE US!'...and I'll look down and whisper 'No.” ​

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[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

So I checked it out and this is pretty on point,
I didn't hate it. But Im dead inside. A shallow husk raised upon popular culture. Mindy Kaling is not unfunny. Velma is not unfunny. I remember about a decade back, reading cracked articles about how hipsters were the worst, but if we cant stand them, ruining the bars and nightclubs and social media with their hipster humor seemingly being based solely on you not being one and so on and how everyone didnt think they could get any worse for the human culture hive as a whole...iirc it was cody johnston who wrote that we aint seen nothing yet, wait till these hipster douches get their jobs in the entertainment industry and begin writing for television and movies, and how cynical and alienating the end resulting content would be, but it would be too late because by that point we'd be so deeply entrenched in the dystopia that all we could do is just make piece with the fact that this is life now, or go insane.​

My rememberance of hipster humor from college was that it was based on them not being one, even though they were one. It was super annoying. Is that what you meant?

As for this, I always thought Scooby Doo was kind of dumb (often in an amusing way, admittedly), and I had zero interest in checking this out. Now I have even less.

 

[Totenkindly]

I watched the first episode of "Shrinking" on Apple, about a cognitive behavior therapist (Jason Segel) who decides to completely throw out his guidebook and start responding instinctively / against policy to help his patients. It was both funny and also touching, and the series could shape up to be something. It also has Harrison Ford, in great Ford form.

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Now I just realized Fast and Furious, the original movie, shares a lot of similarities with Point Break. Except racing cars isn't as interesting to me as surfing. The thing about cars is that I've already been on those. It's hard to go somewhere and *not* see them.

 

[The Cat]

My rememberance of hipster humor from college was that it was based on them not being one, even though they were one. It was super annoying. Is that what you meant?

As for this, I always thought Scooby Doo was kind of dumb (often in an amusing way, admittedly), and I had zero interest in checking this out. Now I have even less.

Its like Kelly From the Office, but Scooby Doo themed. Velma eats fries out of the garbage, as one does. Shaggy is a simp who doesnt smoke weed or like hippies because subversion of expectations. Fred is virgin who's afraid of his penis size not measuring up to his dad so he's over compensating with toxic masculinity, Daphne is a mean girl, everyone has been subverted, like the audience with its expectations. stupid audience. I'll bet they're all a bunch of adults who like cartoons, let's all make an L on our foreheads and laugh at them. its not anything you havent seen elsewhere. probably better. I know what kind of porn Charlie Grandy(the writer) is into, and if you watch it, you will too...

As softcore porn parodies go, Velma isnt terrible, but suffers from a lack of softcore fucking on camera, and since the max stands for cinemax, this is inexcusable, but then its also hbo who brought us real sex in the 90's so perhaps we shouldnt be surprised that its not what we were hoping for when we tuned in.​

 

[The Cat]

This is one of the more objective reviews that goes into actual reasons its not great that hold water imo

 

[Julius_Van_Der_Beak]

Its like Kelly From the Office, but Scooby Doo themed. Velma eats fries out of the garbage, as one does. Shaggy is a simp who doesnt smoke weed or like hippies because subversion of expectations. Fred is virgin who's afraid of his penis size not measuring up to his dad so he's over compensating with toxic masculinity, Daphne is a mean girl, everyone has been subverted, like the audience with its expectations. stupid audience. I'll bet they're all a bunch of adults who like cartoons, let's all make an L on our foreheads and laugh at them. its not anything you havent seen elsewhere. probably better. I know what kind of porn Charlie Grandy(the writer) is into, and if you watch it, you will too...

As softcore porn parodies go, Velma isnt terrible, but suffers from a lack of softcore fucking on camera, and since the max stands for cinemax, this is inexcusable, but then its also hbo who brought us real sex in the 90's so perhaps we shouldnt be surprised that its not what we were hoping for when we tuned in.​

I didn't hate that as much as I thought, actually. But I think making Shaggy not a stoner does seem blasphemous to me. I actually think subverting expectations has gotten a bad wrap because I think it can keep things fresh that are showing things of growing stale, but doing that to Shaggy sounds like overdoing it.

 

[Totenkindly]

Did I tell you guys I watched about 15 minutes of the pilot? I can never remember.

God, this was hilariously bad. Like, it not only didn't capture the spirt of Scooby Doo (which might or might not be a bad thing), but it was just kind of audaciously awful and felt mean-spirited and outrageous just for its own sake. It kind of started with two cockroaches dogging each other, then a bunch of naked coeds showering together, and just went from there with just crass dialogue right out of the gate, that wasn't really that interesting. Fred was a douche and so was Daphne.

Maybe 15 minutes wasn't a fair watch, but I got kind of bored with it and wondered WTF green-lighted this thing.

 

[The Cat]

I didn't hate that as much as I thought, actually. But I think making Shaggy not a stoner does seem blasphemous to me. I actually think subverting expectations has gotten a bad wrap because I think it can keep things fresh that are showing things of growing stale, but doing that to Shaggy sounds like overdoing it.

Shows like this are why people say that subverting expectations isnt funny. That's not actually true subverting expectations is VERY funny; but it relies on actually having something that you actually have to say otherwise its just a repeating pattern for its own sake that goes nowhere, its a parody with nothing to sayand thus becomes a farce, but everyone is in on it and there are no doors, so all you end up with is a dead body in a room full of flawed unlikable people, and everyone learned the wrong lessons from reality television. Existence alone does not a life lived make, nor does it make a story meta or subversive. this show is forced when it should be a passion project. Alas, passion like art is dead. Captialism killed it and life imitates a corpse.

 

[The Cat]

Did I tell you guys I watched about 15 minutes of the pilot? I can never remember.

God, this was hilariously bad. Like, it not only didn't capture the spirt of Scooby Doo (which might or might not be a bad thing), but it was just kind of audaciously awful and felt mean-spirited and outrageous just for its own sake. It kind of started with two cockroaches dogging each other, then a bunch of naked coeds showering together, and just went from there with just crass dialogue right out of the gate, that wasn't really that interesting. Fred was a douche and so was Daphne.

Maybe 15 minutes wasn't a fair watch, but I got kind of bored with it and wondered WTF green-lighted this thing.

IT should have been funny, but its like they took the sweet right out of the sweet potatoes, I should be mad, but Im just amazed. Its like cooking so bad, Im almost impressed. They had to be trying to make it not funny.