Category: Rant

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Is Gotham About Owlman?!

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So this post will have some really minor spoilers about the mid-season finale of Gotham, but I have come to a conclusion.  Gotham is about Owlman.  Never heard of Owlman?  That is not too surprising.  He is minor supervillain, but his claim to fame is that he is the Batman from Earth 3 were all the DC superheroes have their evil doppelgangers.  Like the Mirror Universe from Star Trek.

Gotham has gone off the rails for awhile now, and been much more fun to watch because of it, but there is no way this is the Gotham that Batman grows up in.  I mean James Gordon flat out murders people, and he teams up with villains to murder them.  He is supposed to be the last good cop.  Not one of the ‘not totally evil cops’.  Add to that Bruce Wayne in the mid-season finale said his favorite animal is owls.  That’s right!  They are saying Batman’s favorite animal is an ‘owl’.  Not to mention that Alfred thinks slapping street children is an okay thing to do!

While I am sure that the show runners would say that this is not the case, but it all signs seem to point that way.  I can’t wait for Bruce to done his owl cowl!

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Let’s Go Back In Time And Talk About That Warcraft Trailer!

I was going to talk about the Warcraft trailer when it came out awhile ago, but I got distracted by a Pen.  I am very confused by this movie.  On one hand the CG orcs look pretty good, but on the other, the humans look like a bunch of guys doing cosplay (actually the cosplay guys may look better).  I get keeping the look of the game, but the armor is just odd looking when on real people.

I don’t know that I am on board with the story either.  I know that it is based on the first Warcraft game Humans and Orcs that came out in 1995, but it just seems odd.  Orcs invade the human world from another planet, and the two races square off.  Plus a lot of people know Warcraft from the MMO, but none of the other races are in this movie, so there are going to be a lot of disappointed elf fans, and the MMO is also sort of light hearted and playful, yet the tone of this movie seems deadly serious.

What I am getting at is that Warcraft looks like it is going to have a bunch of guys in goofy armor fighting alien orcs while spouting dialog like it is Shakespeare, and I am not sure that is a recipe for success.  Unless they are trying to get on the new MST3K series.

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It Is The End Of An Era: The Soup Has Been Canceled!

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I can’t believe E! did it!  They got rid of the one reason to watch their channel; They canceled The Soup.  When I got the news, I wanted to drive down to LA and yell at some studio executives.  To remind them that they extended Joel McHale’s contract through 2016, but then I was overcome with sadness.  The Soup has been part of my weekly routine for what seems like forever (12 years).  Having Joel make fun of all the absurdity on TV seemed to make everything okay.  Like I wasn’t the only person that couldn’t believe all of the garbage on TV.  Especially since the station that was putting out most of the garbage in the first place was also airing The Soup, so it let us know that they were in on the joke.

Regardless it was sad new to hear, and I am sure Joel McHale will land on his feet, he is on the new X-files for instance, but I will miss his hilarious thirty minutes of comedy perfection every Friday night.

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Why You Shouldn’t Be A Halloween Skipper!

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In the recent episode of The Simpsons titled Halloween of Horror, Homer uses the term “skipper” for the ever increasing number of people that turn off their porch lights and close their blinds on Halloween.  There are any number of reasons to skip Halloween: religious beliefs, agoraphobia, going on vacation, and so on, but it seems like the number one reason people are skipping Halloween is just because they don’t want to bother.  Here is why I think you should bother.  Halloween is the one holiday dedicated to meeting your community.

Think about it.  The big holidays, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter you spend with family.  New Years and the Forth of July (or whatever your local patriotic holiday is) you spend with friends, and the greeting card holidays, Valentine’s Day, Mothers Day, and whatnot, you spend the day with the person you bought the card for.  Halloween on the other hand is the day that you get to dress up and use getting/giving free candy and toys as an excuse to talk to your neighbors.  As your kid joins the sugar crazy hoard, you get to watch and hang out with the rest of the parents from your block and get the dirt on what has been going down on your street.  You get to see how excited the old lady down the lane is to see so many kids at her door, or interact with the imaginative scares the guy across the street came up with.  In short, you get to be involved in the place where you live.

Halloween is unique in its premise, and by skipping, you are opting out of your community.  I will also say this, if your religion is what is stopping you, I would ask that you reconsider.  I grew up being a lumber jack or fisherman more times than I can count because I couldn’t take part in the creepy aspect of the holiday, but I was still out there, and if God is all powerful, he can certainly sanctify a day meant to celebrate the darker forces.  Don’t be a skipper: buy a cheep bag of candy, turn on the light, dress your kid up as a garden patch, and meet the people of your neighborhood.  You will be glad that you did.

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It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown Is Screwed Up!

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While watching the Halloween classic “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” with Lil’ Shmee, I came to the conclusion that it is a screwed up show.  Now don’t get me wrong, I still love it, and I have never been one to get too mad at the Peanuts crew for being hard on Charlie Brown.  His resilience to his friends constant barbs is what gives him his charm.  No, there are two other parts of this short film that really got to me.

1: The neighborhood gives Charlie Brown rocks.  I said I was okay with Charlie’s friends being hard on him, and I am, but the neighborhood parents?  What the heck!  If some person gave my kid a rock they may find it going through their window.  Unless that person is like really in to rocks and gave all the kids little geodes or something, but that would be a special case.  Plus then all the kids would be getting rocks.  Cool rocks.  It just made me so mad that the adults were picking on the poor kid too.

2: Linus waits until 4:00AM for the Great Pumpkin.  This never used to bother me.  I mean the pumpkin patch is super close to Linus’ house, and they live in a good neighborhood (despite the rock thing), but now that I am watching it in HD I realized that Lucy doesn’t go to get him until 4AM.  Not to mention it is Lucy that goes and gets him.  So not only are the parents handing out rocks to kids with low self esteem, they are letting their kids sleep on the dirt in the middle of Fall, and they don’t even care.  “Don’t worry Lucy will take care of him!”  They could have at least given him a sleeping bag.  He is obviously shaking from the cold when Lucy retrieves him.

Oh well, it is a classic, and it is fun to watch every year, but if I could reach in to my TV and give those parents a piece of my mind, I would.  They may even get some of their rocks back.  See you at Christmas Peanuts gang!