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Reminds me of Andro from Tekkaman: The Space Knight (Uchū no Kishi Tekkaman)

My understanding was that homework was originally supposed to be a guide for what the student needed to study and then for the instructor* to see if the students were actually understanding what was being presented to them. I imagine the idea of grading homework came as a way to disincentivize not doing the homework and thus not giving the instructor a chance to correct or redirect lessons before tests. I was never a fan of required homework, but would often do some homework until I felt I understood the material. I still remember an instructor who not only wanted us to do homework but also required us to outline chapters the way she described and to hand-in the outlines. I can't learn from outlining the chapters, never have been able to, so I refused to do it as it would take me longer to complete for no benefit. She sat me outside of her class so I wouldn't receive instruction since I 'couldn't follow instructions' stating that I would fail her class as I was not getting her instruction. Then she got mad at me when I aced her tests every time. 🙄 She got her revenge later though... *remember that in small schools for many years, multiple classes could be in one room, and older students would assist the younger if not directly involved in the teacher's lesson.

Hahah, yeah. Not sure if it was the upload to Youtube or what, but I couldn't get a shot of Cobra from this sequence where Cobra and Lady didn't look really awkward. So I was torn between using that one or this one (where it looks like he's wearing the ball as a hat): Lady isn't animated for much of the sequence with Cobra goofing around with the Soccer ball. There's a slight head turn, maybe 2-3 frames when Cobra finally kicks the ball, but otherwise looks like a static cell.

I've moved the Batwoman discussion here from the funny thread since it was getting increasingly long in a thread it was off-topic to. The show pitch was an adaption of the comics Batwoman character, about Kate Kane an ex-soldier who, pulling herself from the wreckage she'd made of her life, decided to don a costume like her cousin Bruce. She is a lesbian in the comics, and this was transferred to the show. After the first season, the original star left the show. And so they brought in a new actress, who happened to be black, to take up the mantle of Batwoman as a new character (not a recasting of Kate). I don't see how that is 'progressive' signaling, unless you think swapping a white lesbian character and actress for a black lesbian character and actress is somehow a giant progressive move? YMMV, I guess. CW shows are hard to quantify for 'financial' reasons, as unlike the major networks they don't make most of their money back through their overnight ratings. For example, this season there were 7 shows that, in the 18-49 demo, had lower ratings than Batwoman - and they're all fellow CW shows. It was tied in this demo with 2 other CW shows. In overall ratings, it had better ratings than 8 other shows, all CW shows. It still was cancelled though, when some of those lower rated shows were not. If you mean the pending sale of the CW, that's because CBS and WB are divesting themselves of majority shares in the company (the report on the proposal with Nexstar indicates both will remain minority owners of CW if Nexstar buys The CW and its owned & operated local stations). Both have been re-organized recently, and WB in particular is cutting productions - like cancelling all of their TBS shows. Both are turning their focusing on their bigger streaming plans (Paramount+, HBO Max); continuing to operate the CW doesn't make sense anymore to either partner. I don't see this situation as a sudden change to CW's operation caused by funneling money into producing Batwoman, and CBS and WB wanting to keep a finger in the pie (presumably to reap back money for shows produced for The CW), indicates it wasn't the financial black hole that its critics have claimed it to be. The CW was always operated by different metrics for what kept their shows rolling - it wasn't profitable before the Arrowverse started, much less before Batwoman started. They usually made their money in other markets or venues. Dynasty, for example, was sold internationally to so many places that it was profitable before it ever aired an episode on the CW (and it has worse rating than Batwoman). Riverdale - which has been renewed - had less overall ratings than Dynasty (but better 18-49 demo ratings). You can't judge the success of CW shows the same way you can for ABC, CBS, NBC or FOX shows. If you want to argue that the quality of the show (writing, direction, acting, editing, production design, whatever) was poor, I'll not argue with you. I never watched Batwoman and the trailers made it seem less interesting than the other Arrowverse shows - and I'm not a huge fan of the Arrowverse anyhow. So I can't comment on Batwoman's artistic merits. But the Arrowverse has its fans, and running 3 seasons means that CW was getting something from it regardless of the actual artistic qualities of the show. I'm sure that's less interesting of a story than 'get woke, go broke', but its probably closer to the truth, IMO. If you feel otherwise, we'll just have to agree to disagree.

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...okay...? I was responding to a post which seemed to imply Batwoman was a failure because of its black lesbian lead. And again, what does success look like if a show with a three season run is a failure? 5 seasons? 10? Only shows that rival Simpsons, Gunsmoke, NCIS and Doctor Who for longevity? This is different thing to whether it was an artistic failure based on the quality of the production itself. As an aside, most shows are cancelled because of finances; usually after the 5th season contracts are up and only hugely popular shows can continue to make money when the cast contracts come up for renegotiation. Batwoman wasn't there yet, but CBS and Warners are looking to sell the CW and are cutting series orders to reduce obligations of the new owners when a deal is struck. Batwoman and Legends were very vulnerable (as was Flash, really).

He was just mostly dead, and had an itchy nose! 😄

Space Cobra Episode XX - "****ō! Suna no Umi no Kyōfu" aka "Death Match! The Horror of the Sand Ocean" Cobra and Lady go to take a break on a planet they're not that familiar with, and encounter trouble. A very nutty episode, but creative and full of action, if you like that sort of thing.

The latter half of the word is a derogatory slur for people of Far Eastern and Oceanian descent. Etymology suggests that wasn't intentional, necessarily, as it seems an attempt to imitate the sound of a turkey in its original use.

Reminds me of the flap when they made a new Batwoman and she was presented as an out lesbian in the first place. Never mind that the original Batwoman had been killed off in the late 1979 in a comic few of the objectors probably read (and had probably never read an appearance of the original character). Never mind that all of time and space was rewritten for the "DC Universe" multiple times since that event. And never mind the fact that disingenuous types tried to fan outrage by confusing the public by implying it was the much more popular and well-known Batgirl that was being 'made gay" which if you were familiar with the original Batwoman you'd know wasn't the case. And after all that fuss, Grant Morrison goes and restores the original Batwoman 5 years after the debut of the new Batwoman because comics often have multiple versions of the same character running around and anyone who read comics knew the original Batwoman could come back at any time. 🙄

I think that wording would make euthanasia legal, which might hurt such a bill's chances by tying to highly divisive concepts into one (possibly there are other things this wording would make legal; that's why the language in bills is so over-crafted). Edit....Ah yes, it'd make it legal for doctors to theoretically approve medical marijuana for patients in states where marijuana is illegal (assuming that pharmacists are covered in the etc).

I'm guessing you skipped Kirk Jones as Blade in the short lived BLADE: THE SERIES?

FWIW, DC Comics has had a black Superman since 1990 (from Grant Morrison's Animal Man, Sunshine Superman of the Love Syndicate of Dreamworld) or if you don't think that one was official enough, Superman of Earth-D (Kal-El of the Justice Alliance of America from Wolman/Ryan/McLeod in Legends of the DC Universe: Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 from 1998). In general, Black Kryptonians were first shown in Superman #234 (1971) in a story that reads super-awkward in the modern day, as I recall.

Batwoman ran two seasons after the change when the lead left due to mounting injuries...is that failure now? How many seasons should it have ran to be considered a success? 🤔 Oh and the cancellation surely has nothing to do with the impending sale of the network who is cutting their renewals this year and everything to do with the replacement of a 'white gay woman' with a 'black gay woman' 2 years ago... 😕

Yeah, Katsumoto been pretty unlucky compared to the rest of the cast. A Magnum's not renewed for Season 5. They haven't gotten to the magic 100 yet, and ratings haven't changed significantly since last season, so I think the odds are in favor of its renewal. So I imagine we're not going to get a hookup this finale. Guess we'll find out on Friday.

Hahaha, you (and my brother) are sharper eyed than I - I had to go back and find the preview online and look at it after my brother and I talked. 😄

I think the show has waffled a bit on the "will they/won't they" between new Higgins and new Magnum, so they keep putting these short term relationships in their way. But Lia is an interesting character; my brother wondered if her and Magnum breaking up was going to set up her having a romance with Katsumoto, but I think right when they started breaking up Lia and Magnum (in a somewhat silly way), they also introduced Katsumoto's ex-wife and had the whole thing that seemed to semi-reconcile them. Of course it might also just be part of not being a series regular, and only being contractually in a specified number of episodes that make these side romances for Magnum and Higgins so relatively short (unless they start in the back-half of a season and continue through the front half maximizing the number of episodes the actor is contracted for without requiring them to be bumped to series regular). RE: This week's finale -

Prince Valiant (1997) - based on the famous comic strip by Hal Foster, the movie (directed by Anthony "Waxworks" Hickox) is a bit of a mess. Scenes are linked by comic panels and narration and I have a feeling that wasn't intended - it makes it feel like a lot of the connective tissue of the film was cut or never shot. Based on the credits, there are definitely scenes missing from the final film. Plot follow Squire Valiant who is tasked by King Arthur to escort Princess Ilene to Wales while Arthur's knights go north to demand the return of Excalibur from the Scots not realizing it was Vikings (working with Morgan Le Fay) who took it and framed the Scots. Valiant gets caught up in the larger story all while the better known knights are busy. Famously the director was locked out of editing the film by the German producers (and according to actor Warwick Davis, perhaps with cause). But its a fun enough low fantasy Arthurian run-around. Ron Perlman, Davis, Joanna Lumley and Udo Kier are all kind of wasted (ie not given a lot to do given their talents) but welcome additions to any cast. Katherine Heigl probably gets the best bits as plucky Princess Ilene while Stephen Moyer is appropriately square-jawed and heroic for the Valiant of the film. (Sorry, can only find the German version of the trailer, which kind of makes sense given in the US the movie hasn't had a release since VHS and sunk at the theaters). Space Truckers (1996) Stuart Gordon directs the story of John Canyon (Dennis Hopper), independent space trucker - one of the last independent cargo haulers in the solar system. Circumstances force him to take a 'no questions asked' haul to earth. Along for the trip are Debi Mazar as Cindy whose mom is having an operation on Earth and will do anything to get back there and Stephen Dorff as Mike a young trucker who just got his license who forces his way onto John's job. Gordon's Robot Jox famously got a threatening letter from the producers of Robocop over the name (it was originally titled RoboJox). But really this film is more in tone with Robocop in its satire of politics and big business and the intersection of same with the average working joe (in this case, long haulers as opposed to Robocop's police officers). Its a fun film considering some of the more lurid aspects of it that aren't dwelled on too heavily (particularly in the middle section). Lots of people to spot in the movie; besides Hopper, Mazar and Dorff, you get Charles Dance, George Wendt, Vernon Wells, Shane Rimmer and in a small role, Barbara Crampton.

I watched all the Short Treks. They were...okay? 15-17 minutes doesn't give a lot of time for good or bad, I guess. Probably not a recommendation though when the one that sticks out in my mind the most is the one that revisited scenes from TOS because of the nostalgia factor... 😐

Never seen the show, but you have to remember that while the US had 1054 fatal* officer involved shootings in 2021, that was for a population of ~332 million. When you factor in LA's population, LAPD would statistically only account for 9 of those. So odds are high Fillion's character wouldn't be shooting and killing people left-and-right. *couldn't find the number that included non-fatal shootings with officers, so the number of people shot would be higher.