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    The Last of Us

    in Mystery Hondo's Theater 3000

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    I read a few pieces by TV critics from the NY Times, The Atlantic, and Wired. They were able to watch the first three episodes before they were released. They all said that the third episode was one of the best episodes they had watched in recent memory. It did not disappoint.

    Hondo's changes for 2023

    in Suggestion Box

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    On 1/9/2023 at 6:17 AM, alive she cried said:

    If a period of down time is required to secure our future, and afford us more control over the board in both functionality and look then it seems a justifiable trade off to me. 

     

    We still have discord to fall back on temporarily. Maybe it might be a good idea to have a private page on discord as well for when discussing personal topics.

     

    I also offer my services for artwork/design if needed.

     

    I completely agree.

     

    I really want to see ASC and Keth's artwork to be an integral part of what the forum will look like. That would be amazing.

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    Infantile Love For Batman Can Be Precursor To Fascism, Says Alan Moore – Deadline

    in The Fantastic Forum!

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    One of the world’s most admired comic creators has expressed his concern at the crowds queueing up to watch superhero movies in recent years, saying such urges can be “a precursor to fascism,” and pointing out the correlation with Donald Trump’s election.

    Alan Moore, who brought the world Watchmen, V for Vendetta and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen among his many titles, told the Guardian of his fears for the future.

    He said:

    “I said round about 2011 that I thought that it had serious and worrying implications for the future if millions of adults were queueing up to see Batman movies. Because that kind of infantilisation – that urge towards simpler times, simpler realities – that can very often be a precursor to fascism.”

    And he pointed out the time of Donald Trump’s election in 2016 coincided with superhero movies moving to the top of the worldwide box office.

    Moore told the Guardian:

    “Hundreds of thousands of adults [are] lining up to see characters and situations that had been created to entertain the 12-year-old boys – and it was always boys – of 50 years ago. I didn’t really think that superheroes were adult fare. I think that this was a misunderstanding born of what happened in the 1980s – to which I must put my hand up to a considerable share of the blame, though it was not intentional – when things like Watchmen were first appearing. There were an awful lot of headlines saying ‘Comics Have Grown Up’.

    “I tend to think that, no, comics hadn’t grown up. There were a few titles that were more adult than people were used to. But the majority of comics titles were pretty much the same as they’d ever been. It wasn’t comics growing up. I think it was more comics meeting the emotional age of the audience coming the other way.”

    The mask drawn by David Lloyd in Moore’s V for Vendetta has been adopted by those making anti-state protests across the world, something Moore greets with cautious approval. He told the Guardian:

    “I can’t endorse everything that people who take that mask as an icon might do in the future, of course. But I’m heartened to see that it has been adopted by protest movements so widely across the world. Because we do need protest movements now, probably more than we’ve ever done before.”

    Moore has just published his first collection of short stories, and says he is done with both comics and the huge global industry that he did so much himself to transform.

    He said: “I will always love and adore the comics medium but the comics industry and all of the stuff attached to it just became unbearable.”

     

     
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    The Munsters

    in Mystery Hondo's Theater 3000

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    1 hour ago, Jables said:

     

    As a kid who watched both as well I gotta ask: Did you also refer to the Addams Family as 'the thinking man's Munsters'?

    I totally did!

     

    I never said it out loud since I don't think I ever had an actual conversation with anyone about the shows. I mostly watched these shows alone as a child.

    Bill Burr

    in Sensible Chuckle

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    11 hours ago, Stilly said:

    Haven't watched it, yet, but I just wanted to gloat that I'm going on a hike to Red Rocks next week.

     

    This extremely localized part of my life right now isn't so bad...

    It's really pretty there. Enjoy your hike!

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