u/DiegoBromfield

What if a sapotama randomly ended up in Adventure 02 timeline...

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Also if we use stupidity or cruelty or just poor leadership as the scale, how would you rank them starting from worst to best?

I just watched season 1 of the anime. Shinya was so stupid with the application of his power in a combat setting. He was acting like there are 0 ways he could use it in a fight. Nothing clicked in his head in all the years? Not even with the bucket scene? How about carry around some special syringes or needles or bullets or ANYTHING that can launch his bacteria at a target and then do the eye thing to confuse their vision while going in for an attack? Or develop a method to fight blindly or sense in the dark through years of practice, then after hitting an opponent with his power, put a blindfold on and get them to see something dark while he would be used to it?

I mean, I'm glad he lost and was terrible. But after a moment I couldn't help but realise he really had 0 combat applications for his power lmao. Just run and hope his opponent is dumb enough to get caught by a trap in a rigged building.

Bout you trying to fight. Thank goodness you got your best buddies Caraxes and Seasmoke there to save you.

But seriously as an owner of pets, including cats, Syrax reminds me of when a house cat for whatever reason goes to get in a fight with a wild stray. Get back in the house!

This whole sequence is undoubtedly the absolute best of the season.

Dude came through like "The hell goin on here? A bunch of no name fodders tryin to jump my bro?!!!"

Aegon: "Sunfyre, dracarys"

Sunfyre: "You aint have to tell me, FIYA!"

Sunfyre is one of the homies for sure. I love this dragon!!!

Imagine him waking up, wondering what is going on or why he feels different, then hearing his best friend talking in the distance and being happy. THEN hearing other voices and sensing his best friend/ brother/ partner sounding a bit in distress and the happiness turns to pure disbelief anger at their audacity. THEN burning shit down. Lol.

Or which one would you hope to see in Beatbreak but have not as yet?

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Not bad. I have heard for months how bad this movie was and some of the takes came from reviewers I previously felt were mostly spot on. So that + my lack of interest in 2020s superhero genre + As a Milly Alcock fan, I didn’t want to watch something from her I’d have to bash + the DCU mostly sucks + I tend to try and avoid potential trash films for better use of my time and mental balance = No plans on ever seeing this movie.

But believe it or not, a GIF is what did it for me. A shot that I never saw before from the movie that somebody shared in a subreddit had me like “Okay this is worth at least watching” and I am glad I did.

POSITIVES

>> There is a lot to like about the movie for me personally. The dystopian somewhat futuristic setting. As someone that is both a fan & creator of things within a similar style, I normally like seeing Sci-Fi stuff. Including when it has a post-apocalyptic/ young adult dystopian theme with the surroundings.

>> The brigands who are the group of space thugs and villains. The deeds they do or implied to have done, are some dark stuff that most superhero movies tend to not want to include in scripts. The movie established that these guys would be like if you took your worse neighborhood gang and hook them up with sci-fi gadgets and allow them to fly across planets.

>> Krem was also a surprise. Apart from a few of the die hard DCU fans, nobody was saying anything good about Krem. Based on what I saw being said online, they made it sound like he was just a goofy weak villain that is no threat at all. He was more competent than I expected. He knew that Kara, as a Kryptonian, was weak to kryptonite and green sun. He has enhanced strength. He is straight up evil. As long as you go into the movie not expecting some Thanos or Killmonger level villain in depth, you would find him as a solid villain.

>> The portrayal of Supergirl was well played and well done for almost all of the movie. We got to see why she is depressed, why she “celebrates” in the manner she does. The unique blend of her personality as someone that can help and will help but has so much crap going on mentally that she has to push through that first unless forced to act. Like with the robbery scene in space. Plus the fights and display of power was great. The scene of her taking off from out of the water was awesome. Yeah that was the GIF that caused me to watch it and also draw it.

>> The origin story was probably the biggest of all positives because I feel like the 2020s (or from late 2010s) there have been a shift where these directors and producers feel origin stories are unnecessary because they feel everybody has seen them. Who cares? We need origins in order to know what that version of the character’s anchor is. Origin stories act as a root for the character’s motivation later on in their life. Supergirl gave us that. It is different from the one I am more familiar with, but it is tragic and impactful. She knew her people, spent several years of her life with them and saw them dying. Was fully prepared to die with them as well.

NEGATIVES

>> These are the only true major negatives that I found in the movie. #1 is the colour temperature within the cinematography. Full disclosure I watched the movie on my phone on 720p so I don’t know if this is any better on the big screen or at higher resolution. But the colours and tones on most of the things excluding Supergirl herself at times, felt a little bit too dull and washed out. I know what they were going for, but there could have been better balance.

>> The only other major critique I have, would be the ending where SPOILER (duh but… just in case) Supergirl kills Krem. The 2 biggest reasons I think this is a negative would be #1 Kara has been trying to get the girl she been helping out, Ruthye, to give up on revenge and that killing damages you on the inside. If she did not give any of those speeches to Ruthye, this would be fine. #2 Her origin story and everything she did prior to the final act of the movie, did not give us enough that would justify that her killing Krem instead of damaging him or throwing him in a cell or something, would be the better choice. And at this point in the movie she was fully recovered, in peak form, while Krem was already defeated by her. So stopping someone from killing him and then doing it herself without a legit reason that fits her character, was odd writing. This is Supergirl after all.

>> I saw a couple people bringing up some nitpicks. One said there was just a random assortment of aliens and “humans” on all the planets without much cohesiveness. But anybody that is familiar with Star Wars or similar type of shows, knows this is absolutely not an issue. I also watched Pitch Meeting a while before I watched the movie and he condensed a lot of stuff (of course) but also mocked (I guess?) the fact that the different suns were the biggest threats to Supergirl and not Krem. I like Pitch Meeting. But he made it sound like that happened a bunch of times in the movie or it was just actively showing up or getting revealed right when Kara was going to do anything important. Thats not the case at all. In fact, I would have liked it more if this was the case. The green sun towards the end of the movie was the only one used by the villains intentionally. And only used once, to their advantage, towards the final act. Either way, none of these things are negatives to me.

OVERALL THOUGHTS

>> Supergirl was fun. I think it is a good part 1. Problem is it came out too late and too early at the same time. Too late in the sense that people today grade almost everything as trash if it is not the greatest thing ever from their perspectives. 15 or 20 years ago, this would have been praised as a potential classic. Too early because the DCU have not had large success at this stage in order for any Supergirl movie to do well.

>> The marketing could have been better yes. They did the opposite in quality of what House of the Dragon S1 did with showcasing Milly. But there needed to be at least 4 legit bangers from the DCU before giving us this movie. Instead of the 0 bangers we had pre-Supergirl. I liked almost nothing in the DCU other than some of Creature Commandos stuff but that went to shit late in its 1 season.

>> Other than ZSJL it was the best live action DC movie I saw since the last Batman release. & one of the very few good DC LA films I have seen in the last 10 years. Is it great? No. But it is closer to being a great film than it is to being a bad one.

>> 7/10 score for sure.

>> Knowing everything I know now, would I have gone to see it in the theaters? Realistically no. The nearest theater to me in my city is still not repaired from the hurricane late last year & I am not taking 2 or 3 buses just to see a movie. But all things being equal or normal, yeah I would have gone to see it, now that I know it was SURPRISINGLY not bad.

When they ask me who is House of the Dragon's best, I'm picking Miguel. Show went completely off the rails after he left. It's like if you have a business or a family and everything is smooth, 1 leaves or gets pushed out, then a while later a bunch of random things that don't seem connected just start to fall apart.

You're like "wait, who is responsible for this? Who used to do that? This machine is broken. WHY IS EVERYTHING SO MESSED TF UP?!"

Answer: Miguel

If aura farming was a Digimon level, what level would Raito be at? I swear it feels like almost before every action on screen they have to have some buildup in place to let him aura farm. Armalizamon could have transformed further and take care of all those guys in this episode.

So this the little bastard who been a thorn in our sides for 26 years? 🤣 Don't let bro grow up! Keep him stuck at rookie level at the most.

Still... Myotismon & Lucemon are my GOAT villains. They're just bad in any iteration. You can never trust them.

Man came back from the dead, looking fresh, with a dragon, actual power and can now get you in a proper house, maybe an actual castle later on down the line. But no no no you would rather stay a captive where another random douche can assault you & cause more members of your family to die. You can't even at least be happy to find out your bloody husband is alive. And the thing is it is not like it was an either or situation. Hugh isn't saying "run away with me or choose your family."

Jeez what a bitch.

[Did not expect this post to get 5k upvotes what the hell?]

This is such a predictable outcome in shonen anime. It has become a cliche now. Soon as I was watching this episode of Digimon Beatbreak and heard "you are to investigate and nothing else" I knew shit was going to pop off lmao. I can't remember this ever going as planned in any action adventure type of anime. It is basically a guarantee a fight is going to happen.

Once the mission is just to be some undercover spying type deal, bet your life some fight going down and they will not just be spying

Have either of you ever seen the whole "investigate (or spy), don't start up trouble" plan go as is in this genre of anime before?

Or is it just one of the countless things that will go down in ASOIAF TV history as forgotten? This should have been the start of something that adds more weight to whatever trouble happens between Daemon, Rhaenyra & Mysaria. But with them behaving like this did not happen & does not exist, makes Mysaria's at times shady behavior towards Daemon feel off. Why did they leave this in if it was never going to go anywhere? Its like the Alicent feet thing.

Lets just throw this one random fan service thing on screen & forget about it completely next episode to forever.

Just started Beatbreak & it looks like we really are moving away from the MCs wearing goggles. This the first time we have two straight MCs not wearing the trademark goggles we are so used to. Marcus was the 1st one not to, for Data Squad, but we got to it right after that. But now it is back to back with Ghost Game & Beatbreak. I was thinking maybe they'd at least give another member of the group, but it is better this way. Either the MC wears it, or nobody wears it out of the protagonist group.

All these guys were great. But yeah, new era now for the anime side I guess.

Lets be honest now, did you ever really “like” how MJ looked in the MCU? How and why was it ever never explained why MJ looks like that? Behaves the ways she does? I think she’s Zendaya’s stupid impersonation for how a Gen Z-accurate Euphoria-fied (but still toned down to fit the PG-13 audience) version of MJ. How can Zendaya look so ugly in Homecoming? Why did she had to appear like a hobo? Is it because she seems mysterious that way? Mystical as in “knows he’s spiderman” kinda thing? Which was anticlimacticly used in Far From Home?

MCU MJ looked ugly. Sounded like how Zendaya acts when she thinks she wanna represent a “cool girl without putting effort into her looks and she’s beautiful when she puts the effort” BS.
It’s no

I get it, MCU MJ is less “annoying” than Raimi MJ, but at least, i think the movie did a good job of trying (and failing.. at least for me) to showcase how MJ is this mystical love interest of spiderman and also can be stolen by James Franco..

MCU MJ became a classical embodiment of the Spiderman love interest. She was always meant to be a “safe spiderman love interest. Especially in No Way Home. There is nothing of her that makes spiderman FEAR losing her. It was always what makes a good spiderman love interest: is when Spiderman has the same difficulty as fighting criminals as to fight for his love with MJ.. so the characterization of MJ. Has to be that of how she’s inherently hard to get BUT ALSO beautiful !.

Dont let me get started on Ned.

At first, it felt fresh, that chill friend who says “cool” when spiderman does smart shit.

I dont know why they created him. Why is he supposed to be smart when he has to be, and stupid in terms of almost everything he says? Why is Ned uninteresting. Are there Ned Fans? Like as in.. really? Ned Merch? But why isnt Ned some charismaric friend. Coz yeah they did that twice in Amazing Spiderman and Raimi’s storylines.

But is Ned really the best option they went for? Oh wait. I know the answer. Because he’s SAFE to write. Incredibly safe. Imagine you’re in the writer room: you have almost absolute free will to write what would Ned conveniently do or think. He happens to be conveniently able to do magic because only the plot said so and it was never a thing before No Way Home. He’s a “brainless character who happens to be inserted because Spiderman needs the loyal friend” but by extension: they make Harry Osbourne feel like the destined “best friend” for Peter… Where is arguably one of the greatest spiderman characters in the MCU? Is writing Harry as hard would be as writing all the stupid Jonathan Majors character swaps from all universes?…

Yeah. Lets stick with Ned and Zendaya’s weak rendition of MJ for yet another movie I guess.

This is kind of a 2 part question. The main part I am asking is, has it ever been done in any Digimon product before? I've seen all the main tv shows except the newest one & the last 10+ episodes of Ghost Game. But I haven't seen some of the movies nor played most of the games. I feel like this is the closest I have ever seen it got because the thought never crossed my mind before. In Ghost Game, the digimon Jellymon (especially her ultimate form) & Kiyoshiro, the digidestined/ human partner, does give off that potentially romantic love interest type of vibe.

And the second part I guess would just be in general, like within that universe, is it theoretically possible at all whether we have seen it or not.

This digivolution. This natural digivolution. Caught me completely off guard lmao. This is not the champion level of Hawkmon that I remember. Orcamon? How random 🤣. I was expecting Aquilamon or at least another bird type digimon.