Downtown Khazan: Ice Cold Utopia

[Nik Hasta]

Here's a podcast about BlacKKKlansman for you lovely people!

[Noldere]

It's good to see Angel Densetsu getting some love in here. I just wish it had a proper length anime series to go with it.

[Gryphon]

Got my review copy of snk heroines today.....this is indeed a game

no spoilers but the story mode ending......wtf did i just see

[Len Ikari145]

no spoilers but the story mode ending......wtf did i just see

Now, I'm interested. I was already planning to get it, but your reaction makes me anxious to find out what craziness to expect (y'know, other than Terry getting magically genderbended into a chick).

[Guy1]

[The Dog]

One Piece:

Luffy, Zoro, and Okiku haven't been in town for five minutes and it's already partially demolished and on fire. And yes, both are Luffy's fault.

Poor Law. He never knew what he was getting into with the Heart/Strawhat Alliance.

[KingofPie]

The art for the Luffy vs Urashima fight was on point.

And now there's gonna be quite the stand off with Luffy, Zoro, Okiku, and Law and his crew against Hawkins and Holdem...who I hope is as strong as Hawkins.

[Beadle]

So... shingles.

Grrrr.

[Nik Hasta]

So... shingles.

Grrrr.

Aww **** dude, I'm sorry.

[master of read]

So... shingles.

Grrrr.

this is week is just sucking for a lot of people. i'm sorry, man.

[master of read]

One Piece:

Luffy, Zoro, and Okiku haven't been in town for five minutes and it's already partially demolished and on fire. And yes, both are Luffy's fault.

Poor Law. He never knew what he was getting into with the Heart/Strawhat Alliance.

all fucking hell has broken loose.

so a typical straw-hat adventure.

[master of read]

the more i see of the last jedi, the less i wanna see it.

[Hiromi]

If you could figure out a way to just cut out the entire Finn/Rose arc it'd be a much better movie, but I've soured on it greatly since seeing it and initially liking it

[Dark Soul # 7]

First time I saw TLJ I was iffy about Finn and Rose's subplot. Second time around it clicked for me what it was supposed to be and I loved the movie quite a bit more. The subplot works just fine in the movie's structure, shows off a different kind of scum and villainy in the galaxy, advances Finn's character development just fine and is a nice subversion of the "Get this badass maverick dude that can help us save everyone" trope. It works about as well as Han and Leia's subplot in Empire (they accomplished nothing significant and you know it).

Oh, and Finn's sacrifice at the end wouldn't have worked. He'd just die for no reason. Rose did not stop him from destroying the big cannon, she stopped him from committing martyr based suicide.

[Nik Hasta]

If you could figure out a way to just cut out the entire Finn/Rose arc it'd be a much better movie, but I've soured on it greatly since seeing it and initially liking it

I disagree myself. While that plotline is arguably the weakest segment of the movie, it's not bad by any stretch. It's nice to see Star Wars address the moral ambiguity of the arms trade and actually give a bit of a face to the downtrodden classes they are fighting to liberate which the franchise has shied away from in the past.

Boyega and Tran have good chemistry and are solidly written and it's a nice way to address the respective differing levels and interpreted forms of idealism within them both.

If anything, I'd argue it's a little rushed and could have benefited from a couple of extra minutes here and there to round out the corners.