Yep, quick and easy way to get their brand new account reported/blocked.

Oh, regular. I imagine IMAX is even more overwhelming 😳

Watched it on Friday with the more kaiju loving of my kids 👍 We both liked it a lot, though the junior felt that particularly Godzilla’s superfast regeneration during battle was a bit of a cheat. To be fair, that restorative superpower is a key plot point throughout the movie, but I agree that it makes things a little too easy.

The human characters have nothing but difficulties, on the other hand. And I enjoyed the scrappy ingenuity carrying over from Minus one. In the Hollywood wing of the franchise they’d have all of the armed forces mobilized and shouting tactical acronyms at each other within the first act. I like that there is less of a military perspective to this incarnation, even in the face of rather devastating destruction. Again, the post-WWII framing adds to the story!

And you feel the scale of both the monsters and the havoc they leave in their trail. I haven’t had the chance to analyse the techniques, but I’d attribute it to direction, camera angles and perspective. The film feels much bigger than its Monsterverse cousins, but we know its special effects budget certainly wasn’t, so my intuition tells me the sense of scale must be largely due to lo-fi cinematics, and all the more impressive for that. It’s not the bloody kaiju battle in itself that is memorable, it’s also the framing that feels like you’re ringside for a visceral MMA match.

The human side of the story still revolves around the found family from the previous film. It strikes me, having rewatched Minus one just before this one, how much of their relationship is communicated through the character of little Akiko. Fortunately they have found a child actor who can fill that part without becoming saccharine. I may be getting old and sentimental, but she sold me on every scene she was in.

Some viewers will probably clamour for a third movie in the series, but I think these two stand pretty well on their own. We’ve had some interesting points about Japanese history play out through the perspective of massive kaiju destruction over two movies, let this take on Godzilla rest before the good stories get drowned out by more routine monster fare. Now, isn’t it high time for a contemporary set movie with a fresh spin?

You’re just making shit up. Slandering the dead isn’t a good look, FYI.

The whole card shtick sounds kinda lame, but putting Armin Shimerman behind the bar is top level content 👍

…and with Annalee Newitz as editor in chief. This could be good!

Posted only two days ago, only linking to Hillebrand’s tenforward.social account rather than his blusskey one.

Ouch, weren’t he and Tom Baker just promoting some new Sherlock Holmes audios?

Honestly, branching the cold war narrative out is probably the more obvious way to streamline the show. It can’t be easy to juggle two plot lines, past and present, and have them reflect upon each other without becoming contrived and gimmicky.

But the late '50s part of the show feels more vital than the rest of the show, maybe for its heightened Indiana Jones feel. The bigger challenge IMO is to make the contemporary human characters seem relevant. Especially the twenty-something cast is given mostly filler to work with, against a backdrop of pretty dire kaiju fare.

Although I think that the best Godzilla movies have focused on human drama, I can genuinely understand if viewers of corresponding ages don’t identify with Cate, Kentaro, and Corah. They’re the biggest albatross around the show’s neck, even given the Rodan appearances.

Back from the dead, judging from the cover art. I’m trying not to pick sides in this matter, I can’t code in either language 🫣

Here ya go 😄

Rest in power, Captain.

I opted for “The Tholian web”, and it opens on Chekov. Maybe he’s not super prominent in it otherwise, but it’s a peak TOS episode.

Edit: Watching it now, he has some good away team scenes, and that great freakout on the bridge when Kirk’s fate is uncertain. Definitely a Koenig showcase!

Yeah, 27 years is a lifetime. Tbh, that movie is all I associate with the title, so I appreciate the info on the series.

Speaking of the nineties and wild west steampunk… anyone else remember Brisco County, Jr.? 😄 That must have come from nostalgia for the the same show?

…you do remember the Will Smith movie they made of Wild wild west in '99, right?

When they do Time tunnel, they really should get Peter Capaldi in for a cameo.

Get McAvoy, Tom Hardy, and Ed Speleer together for The Picard Dynasty. It’ll write itself 😂

I genuinely think X-files and specifically Fox Mulder was a huge factor bringing a lot of that conspiracy mindset into the mainstream. It was already there as an undercurrent, but having a hit show on the air weekly for so many years — that was tinfoil hat normalisation spelled large.

So having people of colour in the leads and as a show runner? Yeah, I think/hope it will get some wingnut viewers’ panties in a knot 😄

I’m very nearly over these non-news about things RTD might have done “if only”…

I always thought it had to be Strange New Worlds

I’ve struggled with SNW, and still do. One realisation made the latest season almost tolerable for me: They’re not doing Star Trek, they’re trying to do Doctor Who.

Say what you will about either show, but there are a lot more silly non sequitur stories in Who than Trek. The whole concept just allows for it, and that’s how it should be. But the same approach doesn’t work for me in Star Trek.

So yeah, Russell. It would have to be SNW because that’s the Trek show that airs “Reality war” level storylines.

The episode never ended, Eccleston was secretly incumbent Doctor all these years. Good job, Jagrafess!