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It's a real tough one because the road is going to be very bumpy. There's an entire generation that "you turn the TV on and go to the sports channel to watch my local team" that can't get left behind here, and there's a big danger in that happening if the regional providers fail.
I shudder at the thought of trying to teach my mom how to get an oilers game on her TV if it has to be through a streaming service. she can barely get Netflix working.
I also do not find the antagonism between Lokis interesting in the least, it feels very contrived / unconvincing, and the Kangs we’ve seen so far remain utterly uncompelling.
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Yeah, the voices feel very am-dram
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At this point it begs the question why is this show afraid to go into the future, pop into 3000 AD Chicago or whenever he's supposed to be from, make your guesses about what crazy nonsense that looks like and have fun with it.
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It also provides the reason the TVA has to watch all of time instead of "just kill this guy in every timeline"
Not just the opening music. If you pay attention, all the music is era-appropriate. The chase music when Timely tries to escape his mark sounds like it come right out of a silent movie.
When he started talking for the first time and kept taking giant steps to the side, I thought he was doing a timey wimey bit where he'd activate his machine and everything would replay in a normal sounding way. Nope! Just a stutter, and yeah it got pretty old.
I guess I'm thinking it's time to move in from Sullivan, I don't think he's a bad coach, but the team is not playing for him and 9 years as head coach is pretty rare in the NHL these days.
But, at least with the drawings he showed in his manual, I think it was supposed to be clear that he absolutely understood the concepts and designs, but just couldn't execute with the limitations he had.
I'm interested to see if they play the character off as genuine or not in the next episode(s); because I like the idea of the character being given a choice, as opposed to just being duplicitous. His plea to Sylvie, if that was just a ruse to save his ass and not genuine; that'll bum me out.
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Feels like Bandai SMP is a pretty limited distribution line? Like, you gotta get 'em from arcade claw machines? 'Cause neither USAGS nor GP nor Newtype seem to really have many, if any, available.
EDIT: Actually, really in the mood for any toku. Suggestions?
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i remember people making a big deal about the color molding on the new blazar one
Their Ultraman kits of the mecha suits from the Netflix show are pretty good though. I built the Zero and Ace kits from that line and enjoyed them. They have stickers to get the full breadth of colors, but I painted in a few choice spots and it worked out fine.
SMP Sentai kits are indeed hard to come by. The only ones I've seen in a local hobby shop were the Megazords/Daizyujin and Dragon Caesar. But I'd kill for the Dairanger set.
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This is just my read and I could be completely wrong but I'm going to guess that it was sincere as this variant would have been mostly* harmless had it not been for a few things. 1) The manual. This gives him the ideas and knowledge well beyond his time period but he's still limited by the tech of his era. 2) Sylvie and the TVA. These people came crashing into his life, one of which is trying to kill him for something he may or may not have even done without outside influence. So yeah, the show looks to be continuing the 'are our choices our own aka free will vs determinism.'
I'm reminded of a Canadian show from 2012 called Continuum. It was decent enough. But one of the plots was the main character Kira, who was from the future, had a chance to stop another character before they became a mass murderer/terrorist. Spoilers for a ten year old show, Kira basically (temporarily) went off the deep end and kidnapped said character, tortured him and was going to straight up murder him because she was terrified of who she though he would eventually become. She didn't go through with it but there was a few episodes where she wondered if her actions had just created the type of person she was afraid of. I think there's a good chance that's what going to happen with Sylvie.
*mostly because he apparently did make a crude time stick.
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And the iris out scene transition - very old timey
But now I'm spoiled, and I want them to do music for a load of other timelines
Go 17th century and mix in some of the Marvel 1602 heroes
honestly if there is a s3 of Loki, going down the Legends of Tomorrow route and doing a cowboy episode and an old hollywood episode and a medieval episode and so on would not lose my interest in the slightest
Hmm, I have very little airbrushing experience, but I have been painting miniatures with acrylics for (checks notes fuck) over 30 years now. Have you tried any kind of retardant or other agent to break up the paint so it doesn't come out chalky? Forgive me if you're already heard of or tried it, but Future floor wax is like a magic potion that will smooth acrylic paint out. When I thin for base coats I do a 1:1:1 of paint:Future:water, not sure how that would translate to airbrushing though.
I did another round of help / asking folks about this today, and tried to really get to know my tools better. And not be afraid of what might happen.
I started the day around 20 psi, 0.5mm pistol grip airbrush, and my valves all wide open.
I tried turning things down... and still got here.
I then... well, calmed down and tried to think through why I was going through primer and supply so fast and getting this horrible consistency. And I made a lot of changes:
I did a 2:1 primer to airbrush medium mixture (in the pot, using backflushing to mix it because I didn't want to make a mess with a brush)
I turned down the adjustment knobs and the overall PSI to around 15psi.
This started to get things going, though the spray coming out was much thinner (as is to be expected). I observed how the airbrush behaved when I just shot into the hood... and I saw it splaying and splattering, which led to the biggest change:
I started wiping down the needle with a makeup sponge after every 1-2 sessions of using it, or whenever it wasn't going on like I wanted.
Overall, it came out much thinner, while still covering the part. It's not like "I can't see the raw plastic" but it should be enough. Dunno. We'll see. It just looks a lot smoother, and I didn't have any issues with spidering or clumping except for one spot where I left the airbrush on it for a little too long.
I'll let it dry overnight and then tomorrow start working on the base coat. Metal for the joints, a dark teal for the body.
Edit: This whole experience is helping drive home how much I need more desk space.
EDIT: This is using the Future floor wax mix I mentioned earlier.
Too bad it was the year 1893 and lighting up the bulbs at that world's fair was a huge technological marvel? Even 1925 would be stupid though.
We're talking he'd need to build the tools required to build the tools required to build the tools required to... x100 to make something with digital logic. The time loom prop being a complete hoax was nice, "oh good, he can cobble together some lightbulbs and wires that vaguely resemble the time loom but in no way functions" but then he had a completely functional, if somewhat bulky, disintegration rod.
There's just so much thought and effort and layers of industry into every little piece of a technological device it feels immediately and abruptly wrong.
And again, as the writers they had the option of picking any time and place. If you want to be dumbasses "hur hur in 3000 AD the Earth is probably destroyed" then fine he grew up on Tau Ceti Center or Neoterra or Jemison or whatever colony mankind settled, again it's a blank slate to just have fun with.
They cheat by using a voice actor known for awakening many of us over the years with her various characters heh.
I mean - you know you're talking about a series of movies that started with the main hero building an infinite power unit in a cave in the desert, right?
This is sort of the conceit of the entire MCU; and it's not like this is out of left field here, the first intro to Kang was that he's apparently the first being that invented a way to travel through time.
But he had several crates of high-specification parts and purpose-built components in that cave, right?