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There Is A Lot Going On In The Transformers: The Last Knight Trailer!

Clearly Michael Bay has decided that if you can’t write a coherent plot you just need to cram the movie full of more stuff so audiences can’t tell.  In the first Transformers: The Last Knight trailer alone we got the Arthurian Legend, Unicron, Bad Optimus Prime, and a dragon that is probably Nemesis Prime.  I mean you spend thirty minutes with each of those plot lines and you get a two hour movie.  Will it make any sense?  No.

I can only hope that much like Transformers: Age of Extinction that none of the plot lines truly intersect.  Like the Robodragon from the Author timeline is a totally different dragon from the one they have to fight in the future, and that the Unicron killing sword has nothing to do with Excalibur.  Then when we are all scratching our heads trying to figure out what just happened, we will get Rodimus Prime because why else would Hot Rod be in this movie.  Plus he can put a bow on everything to get us ‘excited’ for Transformers 6.

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Westworld Actually Answered All Our Questions Before Getting Us To Ask New Ones!

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Most shows usually make us ask a bunch of questions, but then they never really answer them.  They know you will tune in week to week in hope that you will finally learn something.  Thankfully Westworld is not most shows.  No in Westworld’s hour and a half long finale it did its best to answer most of the audience’s questions before of course getting them to ask a few more just before the credits roll.

For a series that got a reputation for sex and violence, looking back it is amazing how restrained it was.  While Westworld did indeed show us just about everything, it was always shown as though we were the observer to some grim simulation.  It didn’t take us in first hand to titillate us.  It was always saying, “Look at what these terrible people are doing!”  Not until the robots started to come alive did the violence even start to register.

After the setup that this season gave us, next season should be crazy.  I am not even sure how they are going to fill ten episodes with what they teased.  That being the case its going to be over a year before Westworld season 2 hits, and it will be a long wait.  I was skeptical that a Sci-Fi classic needed a reboot, but HBO has done something special with Westworld, and I am sure Michael Crichton would have approved (though he always seemed to approve what made him money).

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I Need To Play Mass Effect: Andromeda Now!

I cannot wait until Spring to play this game.  It looks amazing.  I just hope that BioWare learned its lessons from the fan fallout from Mass Effect 3.  The only thing that concerns me are the rumors that the multiplayer will be hooked in to the main story.  I want to be able to play this game by myself.

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Hey Remember The Mummy? It Is Back And More Tom Cruise-y And Serious Than Ever!

Remember how The Mummy was fun in an old school campy adventure sort of way?  What if they ditched all that, made it serious, and then added Tom Cruise?  You are in right?  No…  Well, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, you are getting it anyway!  Man, The Mummy’s brand is already in the drain due to too many poor sequels and spin-offs, so this teaser does nothing to help it.  Maybe the real trailer will interject the fun this series needs so desperately, and for all Tom Cruise’s faults, he is a decent action star.  As of now though I am staying far, far away.

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Telltale Batman Episode 4 Is The Episode You Have To Play To Get To Episode 5

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It seems like all Telltale series have to have the ‘setup’ episode.  All they do is serve to set up events so the ending can knock them down, and Batman: The Telltale Series Episode 4 is that episode.  That is not to say there is nothing good in episode 4, there is, and I am very excited to see where all this setup leads, but it seems like it could have all been handled with a cutscene.

Though I will say their version of The Joker is very interesting, and the choices that you have to make in this episode are much less clear.  Which was proved at the end when I got to compare my decisions to everyone else’s because they were all pretty much 50/50.  Other than that though, Batman was spinning his wheels and ignoring pretty obvious clues and character motivations.

Despite Batman: The Telltale Series Episode 4’s flaws, I still enjoyed myself, and it is still one of the best Batman Year 2 stories ever made.  If you are on the fence about Batman: The Telltale Series, you shouldn’t be.  It is a great story that is a lot of fun to play through.  I just hope everything pays off well in Episode 5.