@RogerRoger I’ve noticed some TV shows using The Sims 3 music like The Apprentice. Which is bizarre in itself but yeah, EA must just license their stuff out.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy that cameo was cringe. plus of all the music out there... Ugh. Still a surprisingly great series overall for me though.
Anyone else watching Hawkeye? I've just finished it and man, i really don't understand the zany hijinks tone they went with here. Especially with the addition of a couple fairly serious, intense characters. I don't get it but oh well I guess.
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@zupertramp Hawkeye’s tone comes from the comics it’s based on. I highly recommend that run, it’s basically everything the show was trying to be but just fell slightly short. I still enjoyed it, even if I do feel it was let down by bloody Florence Pugh who’s just rubbish in everything I see her in 😂
@nessisonett I suppose. Whatever the tone of this particular story in the comics, doesn't mean it can't be altered a little to fit the cinematic world it's meeting up with. I mean... corny musicals, LARPers, Russian "bros", swashbuckling boyfriends, Hawaiian shirts, skating rink scuffles... none of these are really a requirement and honestly they come off a little overindulgent.
Meanwhile Echo comes off dead serious, and is all the better for it, and we're welcoming a Kingpin that violently crushed a man's head in a car door - among other things. Not to mention Barton's clearly dealing with PTSD or something. Just seems wildly uneven.
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@nessisonett is he deaf at some point in the comics? Just curious. That seemed really shoehorned in to allow for an ASL heart to heart with you know who.
I also maintain that you and your entire family probably won't learn to sign if you experience some hearing degradation over the years but it's whatever I guess.
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@zupertramp@nessisonett if the missus and I can get everything squared away for tomorrow in time, we might start Hawkeye this evening. I’m a fan of the Fraction-run, so if it embodies that I’ll be quite happy.
@zupertramp He’s deaf in the comics yeah. Gets his hearing aid destroyed during the run it’s based on so I’m glad they included it, even if they absolutely ruined the point of him being a deaf superhero by just making it ‘wear and tear’. He’s literally a role model to deaf kids and Jeremy Renner’s done the whole visiting deaf kids in hospital and that way back early in the MCU days, so it felt like a bit of a disservice.
@nessisonett huh. I did not know that. Well, makes it a bit easier to swallow that they decided to suddenly drop it in. Still, like, why not have some reference beforehand at just about any point during this nearly two decade run of superhero movies that he's losing his hearing lol? Or maybe i missed a nod along the way.
@colonelkilgore yeah I've no problem admitting I'm hard to please so definitely keep that in mind. Overall it wasn't horrible but as usual full of a bunch of squandered opportunities. Here's hoping you enjoy it as much as nessisonett.
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@zupertramp Apparently Joss Whedon just hated the character. Which is why he’s completely short-changed in the first two Avengers movies. In the comics he’s a wisecracking idiot who’s one of the most notorious bachelors since Mockingbird was dead for 20 odd years. The character in the MCU barely resembles that character. So as much as it’s definitely a shift from the movies to the TV show, it just fits the actual source material so much more. I’m not the biggest Whedon fan at all, especially looking back on his stuff recently so I am harsh on his stuff even if Avengers was a big deal at the time. Just a lot of plot points that came out of nowhere and added literally nothing. Case in point, Hulk and Black Widow.
@nessisonett not a Whedon fan either. Kinda don't get the hype honestly. And yeah that hulk/black widow thing was just not it.
So i guess it's good if they're steering Hawkeye's character back in a more traditional direction, just would have been nice if we could have done it more subtly.
Still think the whole family Christmas movie vibe was wrong for the characters they brought in but to each their own. Thought Alaqua Cox was great and Steinfeld grew on me so there's that.
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