7th Station ~TV, movies, games~

[Celedam]

A reminder that Season 2 of The Gifted starts this Tuesday, Sep 25…



So… Morlocks?

Turns out… yep, Morlocks.

This is what I'm watching right now, but I feel like I'm catching up just for the sake of catching up. It's not great, and I'm not enjoying it as much as I enjoyed Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which was notoriously cheap and often mediocre but still had a certain charm. In contrast, The Gifted is… well, Fred Savage said it best…

"It's like if The Beatles were produced by Nickelback…"

I feel like I'm watching out of morbid curiosity, just to see how it mutates (pun intended) the characters and storylines that I grew up with — for example, replacing Havok with Marcos/Eclipse as Lorna/Polaris's baby-daddy in order to avoid conflicts with the most recent X-Men movies.

EDIT: Also, taking a minor character from the comics (Erg) and turning him into a mashup of two major characters (Bishop and Callisto).

Mash, mash, mash… that's all Fox does.

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My previous posts about this, for reference…

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viewtopic.php?p=228104#p228104
viewtopic.php?p=230552#p230552
viewtopic.php?p=230664#p230664

[Celedam]

The beginning of the end…



Thirteen weeks from today. Mark your calendars.

[Nayoko-Kihara]

This is what I'm watching right now, but I feel like I'm catching up just for the sake of catching up. It's not great . . . .

I've been watching the show consistently and I more or less feel the same way. It doesn't quite feel like a chore each week yet, but I can't say I missed it while it was on break over the holidays. It definitely needs some reworking.

[Zunu]

Has anybody here ever played the open-source rhythm game OSU! ? I literally just heard of it a half hour ago, came across it totally by accident looking in vain for an instrumental version of a song I like (by coincidence named suki na uta) . Here's an example of what OSU! looks like in action:



The game seems to mostly have anime related "beatmaps" on its official site but there's a some jpop/doujin related stuff in there as well. Just wondering if anyone here has played it and found that it was fun (or not)?

[Celedam]

"'Sup, dickwad?"

[Zunu]

Dang, Zunu...you've got one rule....don't watch trailers for things you definitely want to see....how hard is that...
Marisa Tomei how is it even possible that you are 54?

[Nayoko-Kihara]

Marisa Tomei how is it even possible that you are 54?

She's what now.

[Amped]

The 42nd Japan Academy film nominees have been announced

Matsuoka Mayu (Morning Musume fan) is nominated for two awards for two movies :

Outstanding Performance by a lead actress : Tremble All You Want (Katte ni Furuetero)
Outstanding Performance by a supporting actress : Manbiki no Kazoku (Shoplifters)

Picture of the year, Director of the year nominees
Manbiki no Kazoku (Shoplifters)
Kita no Sakuramori (Sakura Guardian in the North)

if you remember, Bitter & Sweet and Sengoku Minami sang "Hana, Takenawa no Toki", the theme song for Kita no Sakuramori film. Upfront is credited for the original soundtrack in the movie poster.

Hello! Project sang the theme song "Hana, Takenawa no Toki" at Hina Fest 2018 and later released in the Hello! Pro All Stars single.
http://www.kitanosakuramori.jp/

Last year's Best Actress winner Aoi Yu (Angerme fan) will be the MC for this year's award ceremony
https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2127484/full/

[Celedam]

From last night…





As with Game of Thrones, this is the beginning of the end of Phase 3 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Spring 2019. Woot.

[resop2]

The previews for the new Super Sentai are out and BOSS♀ is not the pink ranger. On the other hand, the girl they chose to be the pink ranger looks an awful lot like Yokoyama Reina ...

https://streamable.com/g2w1s