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[Evil gator]

so I follow period drama and craft things and probably some cats on FB. they just asked if wanted to join skaters over 50. FFS. someone had built a ramp in their yard. WTF.

 

[Juggs]

Over 50? I see women my age who list skateboarding as a hobby on dating profiles and I mentally roll my eyes.

 

[Evil gator]

yes, what an insulting thing to assume, esp when my activities scream nerd who doesn't leave the house.

 

[Fishon]

I'll have to check that out. I already finished Cobra Kai.

same. was hoping this would be the last season, but apparently there's at least one more coming.

Best stuff for me was

Spoiler

Johnny and Mike Barnes scenes; and pretty much any time Chosin was around

Worst stuff

Spoiler

obviously everything with Daniel's dauther is cringe plus pretty much every scene with Kenny Payne

Have to agree on both.

This show is funny and watchable in spite of Daniel San and his family.

The absolute worst of the worst in this entire series:

Spoiler

Danny defeating the far superior fighter at all, let alone with that stupid crane kick that never would have worked. Also, why didn't Chosin use any of those paraylzing moves he put on Danny in the earlier season?

Especially since ralph machio looks like he's never seen the inside of a gym. I mean actors change their bodies for roles all the time. He couldn't get a trainer to put on 10-15lbs of upper body muscle?

 

[52:20]

yes, what an insulting thing to assume, esp when my activities scream nerd who doesn't leave the house.

I’m sure most of the posts are comparing injuries

 

[Irish Mike]

Clerks 3.

Not bad. Some pretty funny parts, but it is mostly a love letter to the 1st movie with a bit of Kevin Smith's real life mixed in.

Actually had a bit more serious parts than I expected.

I'm not a View Askew guy. Only saw Clerks twice and Clerks 2 once. Never saw Mallrats, Chasing Amy, or Jay and Silent Bob, but I liked this enough.

My buddy is a huge View Askew guy and didn't really like it.

 

[Juggs]

Mallrats is hilarious and may be the best of them.

Where’s you watch it?

 

[Juggs]

same. was hoping this would be the last season, but apparently there's at least one more coming.

Best stuff for me was

Spoiler

Johnny and Mike Barnes scenes; and pretty much any time Chosin was around

Worst stuff

Spoiler

obviously everything with Daniel's dauther is cringe plus pretty much every scene with Kenny Payne

Have to agree on both.

This show is funny and watchable in spite of Daniel San and his family.

The absolute worst of the worst in this entire series:

Spoiler

Danny defeating the far superior fighter at all, let alone with that stupid crane kick that never would have worked. Also, why didn't Chosin use any of those paraylzing moves he put on Danny in the earlier season?

Especially since ralph machio looks like he's never seen the inside of a gym. I mean actors change their bodies for roles all the time. He couldn't get a trainer to put on 10-15lbs of upper body muscle?

I guess they wanted him to be the same wimpy guy he was in the originals

As funny as this show was, the fight scenes with the old guys were pretty bad. It’s like it was all slow motion.

 

[Irish Mike]

Mallrats is hilarious and may be the best of them.

Where’s you watch it?

Movie theater down in Boca. Some special event. I think it was only like 2 or 3 days. Shit maybe only 1 day.

 

[Juggs]

Listening to Shapiro break down the last ep of Rings of Power.

I wasn't paying attention during the scene where Galadriel and the Southland guy were in the cells. What he said, I didn't pick up on at all, especially not knowing anything about this period from the books.

Spoiler

He said, it's clear that the heir to the Southlands in that cell is Sauron and he's basically explaining how he's going to lure in all the leaders with the rings, in not so many words

 

[DocZaius]

Listening to Shapiro break down the last ep of Rings of Power.

I wasn't paying attention during the scene where Galadriel and the Southland guy were in the cells. What he said, I didn't pick up on at all, especially not knowing anything about this period from the books.

Spoiler

He said, it's clear that the heir to the Southlands in that cell is Sauron and he's basically explaining how he's going to lure in all the leaders with the rings, in not so many words

It wasn't clear to me at all. I mean, maybe he is - Sauron was known to pretend to be other people, but he could also be the guy who fell to earth in the meteor or the weird elvish leader of the orcs. I think they're setting up for a big reveal at the end of the season as to who he really is.

 

[DocZaius]

FYI, "Halbrand" was a character created solely for the show - there is also speculation that perhaps he will be one of the nine men corrupted by the Rings of Power - the Nazgul.

 

[Juggs]

FYI, "Halbrand" was a character created solely for the show - there is also speculation that perhaps he will be one of the nine men corrupted by the Rings of Power - the Nazgul.

That would be more interesting, although I kind of like the idea that Sauron saved Galadriel and was right under her nose the entire time, even to the point of her supporting his supposed claim. A nice twist of fate that she could help put the man she was hunting into the position to fill his plot.

You'd have to listen to Shapiro's explanation to see where he was going with it. I don't buy it completely, but I like the idea.

I don't buy at all that Sauron is the meteor man. Why was he falling from space? How did he get to space? It doesn't seem as rational as Gandalf or another majar arriving to the realm. Although this part is confusing. Gandalf is an angelic, God like being in human form. So touching down as a meteor would make sense. Except that the majar are from Valinor, which is basically the neighbor of the elves home.

Either way, it seems they're playing fast and loose with the writing.

 

[DocZaius]

FYI, "Halbrand" was a character created solely for the show - there is also speculation that perhaps he will be one of the nine men corrupted by the Rings of Power - the Nazgul.

That would be more interesting, although I kind of like the idea that Sauron saved Galadriel and was right under her nose the entire time, even to the point of her supporting his supposed claim. A nice twist of fate that she could help put the man she was hunting into the position to fill his plot.

You'd have to listen to Shapiro's explanation to see where he was going with it. I don't buy it completely, but I like the idea.

I don't buy at all that Sauron is the meteor man. Why was he falling from space? How did he get to space? It doesn't seem as rational as Gandalf or another majar arriving to the realm. Although this part is confusing. Gandalf is an angelic, God like being in human form. So touching down as a meteor would make sense. Except that the majar are from Valinor, which is basically the neighbor of the elves home.

Either way, it seems they're playing fast and loose with the writing.

Oh, they're absolutely playing fast and loose. It's almost fan-fiction.

If I remember right, the five wizards came by boat? I don't remember.

But the only reason I even consider the meteor man as potentially being Sauron is because the old dude said something to the young kid about a starfall meaning that Sauron would be returning.

 

[Juggs]

If I remember right, the five wizards came by boat? I don't remember.

But the only reason I even consider the meteor man as potentially being Sauron is because the old dude said something to the young kid about a starfall meaning that Sauron would be returning.

That's what I read, yes. (by boat).

Interested, I didn't catch that. Some of what the old man said, I just couldn't understand him. Of course that could be simultaneous symbolism. Ying and yang type shit. In this case, the good guy shows and begins "forming" (he's still like an autistic adult at this point) coincides with the rebirth of Sauron. Or maybe it was just a misread prophecy.

Never know when they're writing whatever they want

 

[Juggs]

Looking at this map, holy shit. They really didn't cover as much ground as the movies make it seem

https://aidanmoher.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/A_Map_of_Middle-earth_and_the_Undying_Lands_color.jpeg

 

[DocZaius]

^ I had no idea.

 

[Juggs]

95% of the land is never even mentioned I'm sure it is in all the works. But Middle Earth, everything in the movies or shows is such a tiny portion. But it's interesting to see what the Southlands were and how it got divided up.

They talked about the trees of valar in the tv show briefly. Given the scale of the parts of middle earth we know, the elves have a long ass journey from the port to their lands. Although I'm a little confused. I thought the elves left Valar because it was destroyed and they took a part of the tree with them or something (per the tv show), so why do some go back and then Elrond and them sail back.

 

[Juggs]

Well shit. I was listening to a podcast explaining the history of Sauron and it completely spoiled Numenor and it's future for me

 

[Gatorbreeze]

I was disappointed that Disa did not have a heavy Jamician accent. We need some Rasta-Dwarfs in middle earth, since the harfoots seem to have Irish accents. I like the series so far, just finished the third episode. Bit slow moving.

 

[Irish Mike]

I was disappointed that Disa did not have a heavy Jamician accent. We need some Rasta-Dwarfs in middle earth, since the harfoots seem to have Irish accents. I like the series so far, just finished the third episode. Bit slow moving.

I bailed 1/2 way through the 1st episode. I may go back and binge it when the whole season is out.

 

[Juggs]

I was disappointed that Disa did not have a heavy Jamician accent. We need some Rasta-Dwarfs in middle earth, since the harfoots seem to have Irish accents. I like the series so far, just finished the third episode. Bit slow moving.

I bailed 1/2 way through the 1st episode. I may go back and binge it when the whole season is out.

It gets better with each episode. By a lot. The first one or two, especially anything with the harfoots is boring as hell

 

[DocZaius]

watched Grey Man on Netflix, entertaining enough, love the book series

Just watched it. Kinda mindless and throws reality totally out the window, but it was fun.

Good action, too much clothes on Ana de Armas.

Can’t wait for that NC-17 Marilyn Monroe movie.

Uh... this is not the kind of NC-17 I was hoping for.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/blonde-marilyn-monroe-inside-vagina-scene-b2172446.html

This grim drama takes us into the previously unexplored depths of Marilyn Monroe’s vagina several times across its astonishing 2-hour-45-minute runtime. I won’t “spoil” them all, but in the film’s first hour, we watch Monroe, played with distressing frailty by Ana de Armas, excitedly clutch her belly as the camera cuts to her glowing womb – complete with a spectrally backlit foetus. A few scenes later, we follow Marilyn onto the operating table, where doctors perform an abortion she hasn’t consented to. “Please, won’t you listen? I’ve changed my mind,” she begs, as her doctor inserts the speculum – a procedure that’s gruesomely depicted head-on, from the point of view of Marilyn’s own cervix.

 

[Juggs]

hmmm

 

[Juggs]

So in the LOTR show...

I've been listening to these videos on a YT channel, "Nerd of the Rings" who has videos on basically every character's life, deeds, and all the major players, etc.

The famous smith that Elrond is working with in the show....

Spoiler

The douchebag who falls into Sauron's trap, allowing Sauron in his human form disguise, to influence him and create the rings of power. Good job, douchebag. I have to assume the tower that he and Elrond are building now are where he forges the rings.