Reverend Jax

2nd episode was good and played out how you'd expect things to. Was really hoping to see what the final scene was leading to, but of course it went to credits just as it was getting good. Next week can't come fast enough.

They are filming additional scenes with Loki right now to add to the movie.

Also, depends what you mean by 'average.' 'Average' among all movies, or comic book movies, or Marvel Studios movies.... I thought the movie was a decent amount of fun and I am happy to buy a ticket to see that cast in that world again.

A new international trailer.

It's weird to think of this movie has being less than a year away now because there are two more Marvel films that have to come out before it. We get the next Thor in 3 months, the next Cap 5 months after that, and Guardians 4 months after that, then it'll be almost a year until th next Avengers.

Yeah, syncing up with my iPhone would just be a nice bonus. If I find an affordable thing that allows me to input my weight and tracks my heart rate and calories burned, that's all I really need.

I bought a cheap recumbent exercise bike back in May.

I've been cycling 60 minutes most days (some days I do 90, or even 120 minutes), averaging about 22 mph. The bike tells me I do about 800 calories an hour, but it's not sophisticated enough to allow me to input my weight or age, so my weight and age are not taken into account. I get a wide range of numbers from websites with a calorie calculators, but most of them say I'm burning over 1200 calories per hour. I want to get an affordable watch or heart rate monitor for tracking my calorie burning, something that integrates with an iPhone would be great. Anybody here have a recommendation for a good product?

Mythbusters did a Breaking Bad themed episode, testing several the chemistry-based events in the show. I've downloaded it, but haven't watched it yet. I'll report back when I do.

ah, i worded it poorly, my bad - i've been doing 3 mile runs, but trying to keep an 8 minute mile average (so no more than 24 mins completed) has been kicking my ass at the pace i'm currently comfortable with - my times are typically closer to 25 minutes so far, and i'm taking a quick break at the 1 minute mile mark to do push-ups & crunches as well. i haven't really been pushing myself running, just kinda maintaining that aspect of cardio.

Ok, that makes more sense.

so gym's been pretty fluid, my runs are okay (3 minute mile but struggling to keep a consistent 8 minute mile across the board...),

Wait, what? What does that mean?

 

Also, for someone as smart as Walt is, I don't know why he can't see Jesse isn't buying his bullshit. You know Mike being dead is going to come back later on. Not sure why he wasn't just honest with Jesse. Is Walt just lying b/c it's second nature to him by now?

 

Watched The To Do List last night.

This is a hard-R, coming-of-age, teen sex comedy. The twist is that it's not a male coming-of-age teen sex comedy. I'm a big fan of Aubrey Plaza and she plays a pretty different character from Parks & Rec's April here. It's set in the early 90's because (this is my speculation at this point) there's a lot of the humor about the main character not knowing what certain sex-terms mean and not knowing how to find out what they mean, and that can't really work if the internet is available to the character. And it give the movie lots of opportunities for small laughs throughout poking fun at the early 90's.

Lots of supporting characters from some actors I really like, including Clark Gregg (Agent Coulson in Marvel movies), Bill Hader (SNL), Alia Shawkat (Maeby from Arrested Development), Donald Glover (Troy from Community), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin), and some cameos from Andy Sandberg (SNL) and Jack McBreyer (Kenneth from 30 Rock).

I thought the movie was really funny and sex-positive, and I would recommend it. A lot of the funniest parts are in the trailer, but definitely not all the funniest parts.

i mean yeah obviously you want that hook, but actually reading the source material before saying things is helpful here

Actually, in understanding why WB would want a TV series set in the Nolanverse, having read the comic provides absolutely zero insight, because WB is not interested in making a panel-by-panel adaptation of any goddamn DC books. Look to the Dark Knight trilogy and Man of Steel to see how much any DC books served as signposts for WB. They have the rights to use the name 'Gotham Central' and they have a wildly successful cinematic universe that they can't continue on the big screen, at least for now, so fuck it, why not start preproduction work on a TV series, and if Agents of SHIELD pulls in big numbers, they'll have already done the groundwork to move forward quickly on a competing series. This TV show (if it happens) will share a name with the book, and probably little else. If they are feeling generous, they will give their TV show characters, which will have nothing to do with the characters in the book, the same names as some for the book's characters. The similarities will end there.

no idea why it'd be set between those two films

Why the hell does it need to be in that universe?

It makes no sense. Hmmm......maybe it has something to do with the fact that TDK and TDKR each made over a billion dollars.

Was the world asking for a Batman TV show without Batman?

Seriously though, I would put money on Gary Oldman NOT being in this, and if that is the case, I cannot see a reason why I would want to watch a Gotham PD show without Commissioner Gordon, especially during a period that was described in TDKR as an period of low crime.

Seems to me that WB believe Agents of SHIELD is going to be a smash hit and they want to get a competing show out ASAP, so they are working to develop this so if it is a hit, they can have this Gotham PD airing by SHIELD's 2nd season. If SHIELD bombs, then they can just scrap this Gotham PD idea.

I think that's kind of the point. It's been about taking a character that you have loads of sympathy for in the beginning and slowly transforming him into someone you just feel more and more uncomfortable having sympathy for until you realize 'oh, wait, he's not the good guy anymore...he's the bad guy...when exactly did that happen?'

The first series was the only good one.

Looking on Wikipedia, I'm getting confused on this front, because it appears The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog aired from September 6, 1993 to December 24, 1996 (4 seasons), and Sonic the Hedgehog aired from September 18, 1993 to December 3, 1994 (2 season). Why were there two different Sonic animated shows, both made by the same US studio with the same producer and at least some of the same cast, both for US broadcast, that debuted within two weeks of one another?

I don't know if that's more or less strange than Urkel voicing Sonic the Hedgehog in the good Sonic cartoon.

Reasonable people can disagree on that particular point, but there's not doubt that both of those belong on that Cracked list. Seriously though, it is funny that the actor who portrayed the quintessential 90's symbol for uncoolness also played one of the 90's most iconic symbols of coolness (albeit, a very corporate-friendly coolness).

That list of 30 actor you didn't recognize didn't have the most freaky one of them all. Uncle Phil was the voice of Shredder in the first animated series.

No. 'Prised.' The word you actually typed.

It means "I'm typing this post on my phone, which tends to like to change words to what it thinks i want to say.". I know correcting people's spelling and grammar makes your ego's dick super rock hard but we've discussed this in the past.

Jesus, I was trying to determine which word you meant because I wasn't sure what you meant, not to correct you.