With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

It really doesn't... It makes you look like a tool following a prepared script...

 

Nah, that was too clumsy for a prepared script.

 

That’s not a problem. Being a tool is still a very human thing.

 

Funny thing is I am actually in China right now.

 

Thank you, corrected.

Paul the succupire. Once he was reasonably confident that the treatment was holding, Grayven adopted him and his natural siblings.

 

Paul in a polyamorous relationship with Jade, Connor and M’gann- set about 5 years later so the latter two are more appropriately mature.
Another ship idea I thought would be interesting is Paul and John Constantine, even before his ascension into a Lord of Chaos- their power disparity isn’t as big as Paul/Jade, though it’s hard to quantify since the natures of their powers are so different; their skill sets (hyper technology and magic) complement each other instead of one making the other fully redundant; they’re both pragmatic and willing to be ruthless when necessary, but are ultimately well-intentioned. Not all these traits are unique to the Paul/Constantine pairing, but it’s still an overall decent set-up, and story wise it would make things a lot more fun for sure, though I don’t think it’ll actually happen.
I’m looking forward to his return and the resolution of the Golden Boy storyline though; I thought he’d show up during the Silver City episodes since that marked a whole season since he’d been on-screen and was thematically appropriate too.

 

I'm rather concerned that none of Grayven's tactful maneuvering here had any emotional coloration. He has a good enough head on his shoulders to feel such emotions without losing focus. I guess his recovery from the Anti-life fragment is slow. Poor guy.

 

Why would it have a strong emotional resonance?

 

The comma breaks the parallelism that's supposed to make the sentence say "he knows that I'm happy to butt out". As it stands, it looks like you have an extra "that" in there instead, but I don't think that was your intent.

 

They've also got Weapon X and those mutant death camps, so they still don't have much of a leg to stand on.

 

Ok, you kinda got me there.

Department H - Creation and Training for Alpha, Beta and Omega Flights. Canadian Super Hero Teams, Prisons and Support.

Department K - Black Ops section affiliated with the Weapon X program.

Weapon X - International Super Solider creation program, spun off from Weapon Plus Program.

Weapon Plus Program - Starting after, and retroactively including Weapon I (aka Project Rebirth aka Captain America), a series of attempts to created Super Soldiers. Weapon X spun off from the 10th series in the program.


While Department K was a part of the comic book Canadian government, and the physical location of many of the Weapon X sites were in Canada, the actual people that ran the Weapon X and Weapon Plus thing has always been a lot more vague. Between 'The Director', Mr Sinister, Lord Dark Wind, Romulus and Johnny Sublime, and who ever bank rolled 'The World' I'm still confuses as to who and what actually 'owned' the Weapon X and Weapon plus programs. Not to mention folks that are ripping off their developments, like X-23, and Agent Venom being called Project Rebirth 2.0 .

I mean, if it WAS a purely Canadian program, why the hell are there so few actual Canadians with Powers?

 

There is a Canada joke somewhere there, but I'm too russian to come up with one))

 

You're or you've been.

 

Thank you, corrected.

 

No comments on Brightburn, or was everyone already aware of it?

 

Yeah I was kinda surprised no one commented on it either.

I've already seen the trailer, not the film though. Personally, I think it looks interesting, but IMO it'd detract from it a bit if the kid is just "randomly evil". And I somewhat doubt he started murdering dozens of people because he got bullied a little.

 

Most of us have read Worm. Superhero Horror is old hat for us.

 

Yeah, Skitter would take that kids’ lunch money after he got super powers.

 

I was thinking more along the lines of "I have been desensitized by the Slaughterhouse Nine." A Superboy that lashes out ain't got shit on Franken Fran getting brainwashed by Charles Manson.

 

The link was the first time I caught wind of Brightburn. I've never been big on horror, just as a personal preference. For the most part the films out there get by with gore, jump scares and/or psychological torment.

Gore in films never bothered me because I appreciate special effects, particularly practical effects. I can sit and Laugh through the opening of Saving Private Ryan because of that, where as a few moments of watching Dr Pimple Popper on tv is enough to make me a bit off my lunch. It takes a lot of work to get to suspension of disbelief when it comes to body horror in live action stuff, especially with folks that know even a little of how things work behind the curtain.

Jump Scares are just simple gag, and over use of them just irritates, same as using shaky cam or other cinematography tricks, like scare cords for the music. It can be done right, but seldom is.

Psychological stuff is hit and miss, you can get stuff is justifiably creepy, or something that just wants to to strangle the characters for being oblivious. Very much depends on your audience with that one.

Looking at Brightburn, I think it's actually closer to a Monster flick, then a horror movie....the difference being the focus on the one supernatural creature behind everything rather then any larger group of more vanilla horror goons and situations.

Which, given what thread we're in, should shock next to no one, in that those films always turn into 'ok, how would *you* kill the beast?" debates. Which leads to full on Lex Luthor-ing considering the powerset involved here. I think Zoat's covered a fair number of the "how mundane's deal with super's" in WTR, so it's not like we need to run down the list.

 

I suspect that most people who surf the internet for fun have already stumbled upon it. It’s had decent enough marketing for that, I think.

I might watch it after it comes out. Some friends of mine have expressed interest in it, so we’re probably going to make a thing of it. I don’t know, it does seem like a very, hm, important movie, if that makes any sense?

 

Military leader seeking a pact with an abomination wanting to enslave his race instead of searching for alternatives? Classic

 

...so this time Paul is the one who gets to topple a state ruled by secret collusion with demonic forces.

Fun times ahead.

 

If you're a space-faring civilization with power troubles in a universe where infinite energy is as simple as it is in this universe you're doing it wrong...

 

"Heavy lifting is why I'm here, isn't it?"

Spoiler: Commentary spoilered for length

<sigh> Typical blinkered xenophobes...

Flashback to Mass Effect 2...

The joy of clear past memories...

Always fun seeing someone realise just how bullshit Earth is...

The joy of being a periodically aggressively expansionist empire.

Missing orange on the closing quotation mark.
Also, the joy of being genre-savvy in a Universe running on comic-book tropes.

And the usual outcome: Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

 

So - Lead Isotope confirmed? The one thing that’s surprising is that it’s not ridiculously magnetic.

 

Brightburn is... an interesting idea. I like the premise. I like the existence of the genre. I think the fact that the movie exists is a good thing, and I like what it's trying to do.

Tragically, I cannot handle scary movies. At all. I'll read the wiki article to get the story beats and find out how the narrative played out, but I will never watch that movie. Mostly because it would be me paying $11 to spend half the movie with my eyes closed and the other half screaming.

 

Evil superman has been done before

 

Infinite energy generation, if you can stack enough Bleed Generators on enough shelves. Infinite transmission requires that magical superconductor that the Thanagarians lack the magical knowledge to make, though.