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I haven't watched JUSTIFIED yet. Started to watch it because of the setting (my dad grew up in Harlan County), but then found out it wasn't actually shot there so the appeal of watching it with my dad was sort of lost. Still heard nothing but good things so I'm sure I'll watch it eventually when I finish the usual trash that I watch.

I don't think observing that what a lot of people think of as Batman would not be in the public domain because its from later, still protected stories as 'problematic', ie making doing it difficult to do, but something that'd just make it less attractive to do. Perhaps this seems like splitting hairs? People will do it, I don't think it's going to have the major interest you do.

I never said it was problematic (if I implied it it was unintentional). I just don't think that when batman hits public domain there's going the bonanza to telling stories since many of the major creators already can (and some have) create knockoffs of these characters. It'll be like a year before the theoretical PD Batman author can even use ROBIN and JOKER when Batman hits PD. That's why I think, in many ways, the fight for extending copyrights that Disney has done alluded to in the Florida fights Disney is probably a bit silly anyhow. As you yourself mentioned, probably not a lot of people rushing out to create new stories based on Steamboat Willie.

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I wasn't necessarily referring to post-public domain use as 'knockoffs', but that people have been trading in knockoffs of these characters for years. I know he's quit comics, but if you want to see what Alan Moore's run on Superman might have been like (outside of the three famous stories he did write for the character), you only need to look at his Supreme run (Supreme being Rob Liefeld's Superman knockoff). I may be wrong - I am on a lot of things - but I don't necessarily see there being a big rush to do Bruce Wayne-who-still-can't-have-the-trappings-of-Batman-iconography-or-non-PD-continuity that is greater than the number of creators who have, over the years, already done their version of Batman prior to any Public Doman considerations (Shadowhawk, Nightman, Midnighter, Black Fox, Moon Knight, Nighthawk, The Fixer, Bibleman, The Confessor, Darkwing Duck, Darkwing, The Owl, Catman, The Black Lion, Black Fury, etc). There will be some, of course, but without the entirety of the continuity in the PD (something that is vastly different scenario to Dracula or Robin Hood), they're going to still have to forge a different direction for the character ... like the already existing knockoff characters did. At least with the PD Oz book uses, they have 13 novels to base their Oz books on, even if they can't have the later Plumly-Thompson or Neil books from the original run which is a substantial amount of Baum character to play with. It'll be something like 36 years or so after the first Detective Comics appearance before you can use the League of Shadows in your PD Batman stories and reclaim that origin for the character, and many Batman fans see that as a definitive aspect of the origin (particularly after its use in the Nolan films). Sure, a big name creator can do a knockoff version of that origin...but then they already could do that with their knockoff-Batmans.

Not really sure the appeal of Bruce Wayne, vigilante, but sure it can be done when Detective #27 goes into PD. It just isn't going to be titled "Batman", it isn't going to have the trappings of Batman (like the batsymbol, or Robin for about a year or many of the famous villains; Batman's origin will literally be "he was sitting in his study reading a book when a bat flew in the window"! so none of the League of Shadows/Ra's/Talia stuff - it'd all have to be new backstory material). Frank Miller if he wanted to could do that character already in all but name (and in fact he did when DC ultimately passed on his Batman: Holy Terror comic and he reworked and redrew parts of it to remove the Batman parts and replaced them). I don't think (and admittedly I may be very wrong) that there's going to be a big sea-change when the superhero characters hit public domain. Oh sure, someone will put their version out inevitably (just like PD Conan has a comic called "The Cimmerian"), but I don't see it being really a big thing since part of the appeal of Batman is going to be things a PD derivative can't really touch (the iconography, the 80+ years of history and ultimately the DC universe itself). I think what she's arguing isn't that desire to extend copyright is an act of a 'woke' company, but that the government shouldn't extend copyright if Disney asks because Disney is a woke company and therefore should be punished for corporate 'wrong think'. EDIT: I think the thing most people are amazed at is that a 'pro-business' Republican governor is threating to change legislation that would most likely effective run the largest employer out of their state because he doesn't like their stance on an issue.

IIRC the unique elements of the outfits (the Superman "S"-shield, the Batsymbol, the logos, possibly other unique elements) are all trademarked. You could have a Kal-El from Krypton, working for the Daily Star with Lois Lane (all elements of the first 1938 issue of Action Comics) but you couldn't advertise him as Superman from Action Comics #1 on the cover and would have to change his outfit so...not sure its going to be substantially different from the last 80+ years of Superman knock-off characters who had Superman in a different outfit working for a newspaper with a love interest (other than maybe having the characters not have to be part of MEGA-CROSS-OVER-EVENT-TO-END-ALL-EVENTS-EVER!!!! every couple of years as DC comics loves to do).

TNG "Journey's End" While I understand wanting to give Wesley a different fate than being an ensign again, why did they have to do so with such a terrible story? Why did Jean Luc's family from France suddenly become Spanish Conquistadors? Why did they not reference a specific tribe but just refer to the settlers as 'Indians'? Why did the Traveler disguise himself? Was there a point? Why is the Enterprise, flagship of Starfleet sent to do this task and what happened to Starfleet's ambassadors? Why does this kind of stuff keep being given to Picard? Troi offers no real insight to the proceedings, which is another missed opportunity to use her skills. And the biggie...why wasn't the option for the settlers to stay under Cardassian rule not ironed out as an option during the negotiation? It seem like a blindingly obvious idea that was missed by Starfleet. The whole episode's main story is pointless.

This may have been clear in the Anime, but I've seen people asking about it online. In the Glepnir manga, regarding Aiko, Honoka and Kaito... Re Shuichi and Claire's rededication At least that's my memory...going a few months between releases is killer, and I'll probably have to re-read the whole thing when it finishes...

Could be a stroke, but there are other causes as well. Sad to hear, but hopefully he'll have a good management and see improvements (but kinda dependent on causes and type of aphasia, as I understand it).

Yeah, I know but given that I keep misspelling it, I figured I'd go with blanket notice that I keep typing Rub Ball, so if you see it know I meant Rug Ball rather be doomed to an eternity of editing...

Dang it, i see I misspelled Rug Ball as "Rub Ball" again...

Well Big the Big was his favorite gun. He's hiding under the name in the Rub Ball roster. He's only supposed to be 9 feet tall (I think Cobra is 6 foot 6, but I think they still screw up the scale when they stand together), but only one of TWO human pirates that tall (according to the dialogue), and the only one with a gun he named Big the Big.

Came from a very non-huggy family so never had this problem as we never really hugged.

I didn't see the Matrix until years after it released. The trailers didn't grab me (and to be honest, I wasn't wowed by it when I did see it, I liked it but it wasn't as big for me as it was for a lot of people). I may try to watch the four films again at some point, though.

13 movies over 20 years - so not quite 1 a year. Mind you it really didn't pad out until the spin-offs started after the second cycle picked up. Also, Marvel's done 27 in less time so unless you're series is one character (Bond) you're probably going to rack up a lot of movies.

I'd go with - X-Men - good X2 - great The Last Stand - a huge disappointment First Class - great Days of Future Past - good Apocalypse - not so good Dark Phoenix - a huge disappointment Origins: Wolverine - mixed (some very bad elements mixed with some okay) The Wolverine - great Logan - great Deadpool - funny Deadpool 2 - funny The New Mutants - good, but also disappointing While New Mutants was released last, it was supposed to come out after Apocalypse and before Dark Phoenix. Parts of New Mutants, however, seem to reference the end of Logan which would put it chronologically last (and which just adds to the gibberish continuity of Fox's X-Men films). Deadpool and Deadpool 2 come in before New Mutants (but continuity wise, these three films share only tangential relationship with the main series).

Is "X-Men Origins", X-Men Origins: Wolverine, or since it seems like you missed the second cycle of films, do you mean X-Men: First Class? You saw the Deadpool films and New Mutants?

Supēsu Kobura aka Space Cobra Episode XVII: "Narazumono Chīmu" aka "The Good-For-Nothing Team" Cobra settles in as a Rug Ball player on Team 1. This was a really dense plot episode, lots of stuff happening to set up the Big Game Showdown next episode (possibly the next two episodes).

Movie - I think I posted the trailer here, but I might have forgotten...

TNG Genesis-we continue on the 'ST does horror' tour. Barclay's genetics cause problems when Dr Crusher 's cure backfire and devolves everyone. It's a fun 'crew turn to monsters and someone has to creep through dark corridors' run around with some nice monster suits. I did wonder if this episode is why Discovery went with the slightly more lizards look for their Klingons. Speaking of Discovery, I'm about halfway through season 2. I enjoyed the revisit to Talos IV, even if I found the differences in how the characters looked (outfits, Talosian makeup) a bit distracting (made more so with an episode launching with scenes from THE CAGE).