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  1. The series begins about a couple of weeks after the events of The Batman. Gotham is still cleaning up the flood water and is a metaphor for the events in the underworld now that Falcone is dead. There is a flood of potentials into the scene to take over the Falcone empire from The Penguin to Sophia Falcone (Cristin Milioti) to Salvatore Maroni (Clancy Brown).
  2. Then don't buy it. No one is pointing a gun to your head to buy this release. While I may buy this release, I'm not buying the Macross Plus set cuz I'm not paying $200 for stuff I don't want (yes, you can coupon it but it doesn't change the fact it comes with stuff I have ZERO interest in). I'm fine with that choice.
  3. $89.99 for Zero vs $189.99 for Plus. 🤨 Talk about a price difference....
  4. Consoles have somewhat started becoming more of HTPCs so some folks have opted to use them as more of "entertainment" console. That being said... I heard this PS5 Pro was coming. 67% price increase for what looks to be a minor spec bump or the equivalent of a higher spec SKU. Yikes. It probably makes no sense to upgrade if you already have a earlier-gen PS5. But even as a new-purchase, you could probably build a equal or better HTPC.
  5. 'Tried sitting through episode 1 of this season and that's the feeling I got. The production values are good but it makes it hard to sit through when the story is just, meh (it's not bad, but it's just not good, or I should say good enough).
  6. All good things... RTX 5000-series may still have considerable sticker shock seeing as Nvidia is king and essentially controls that market segment, even next year. We're coming up on holiday sales-time and RTX 4000-series cards have been seen with more sales of late.
  7. Streaming services have known about VPN-usage longer than you think. They're more focused on password sharing (i.e. free-loaders).
  8. Remember, studios, like Disney, are looking at the numbers. Always the numbers. The numbers tell the cold truth. Low word-of-mouth leads to less views leads to less subscribers. And with little chance that they will make a Blu-ray collection of this series that no one wanted to watch, there is no real way to recoup the cost. Again, watch Matt Damon's interview on Hot Ones. Before streaming, studios could recoup the costs by releasing collections to physical media. But with less and less emphasis on physical media these days (thanks streaming), there is fewer ways to recoup the cost of shows that do badly. So the bar to reach to avoid cancellation is now significantly higher.
  9. ‘The Acolyte’ Canceled: No Season 2 For Disney+’s ‘Star Wars’ Series (Deadline.com) If you look at the ratings on IMDB, it's almost a Bell-curve with episode 5 being the most well-received.
  10. Matt Damon went over how Hollywood makes money when he was on Hot Ones a few years back. https://fandomwire.com/i-would-have-to-make-100-million-before-i-got-into-profit-matt-damon-has-an-answer-for-angry-fans-who-trash-hollywood-for-not-making-good-movies-anymore/ Hot Ones, w/ Matt Damon; How Hollywood "gambles" on productions Hot Ones, w/ Matt Damon; How Hollywood makes money with the advent of streaming vs physical media releases
  11. I think it will be a good show for younger audiences. If it only touches the larger Filoni-era stories and be more self-isolated, even better. Me?
  12. Saw on post of r/macross; can any Aussies members confirm some Macross 7 is coming next week? Source: https://manofmany.com/entertainment/movies-tv/new-on-disney-plus
  13. Children, just be glad it's available for streaming...in North America. Worry about a dub later. Meanwhile, I'm just gonna wait till it comes out on physical media, where I don't have to worry that it gets removed from streaming like...tomorrow.
  14. Just as a note, this show was originally going to be on HBO Max, but thanks to the Guild strikes and studios drastically cutting back their output, I'm not sure how much this show suffered as it was shopped around until it found a spot on Amazon Prime. Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, Marc Bernardin, Halley Gross, Jase Ricci, Adamma Ebo were the writers. Rucka and Brubaker rings a bell. I've only read a story or 2 from Rucka but I never read Brubaker's stuff (kinda remember The Winter Solider-storyline but never collected it)
  15. Season 2 needed another 2 more episodes. Most of this season was setup for the next sequence of events and it's going to be very war-heavy on the front end of season 3. There will likely be some glossing over other battles in the show to get things moving.
  16. He's only EP. So his only purpose is to be sure the project doesn't get derailed monetarily and provide production services. Bruce Timm is showrunner so this is his show.
  17. Sounds like a "No". 🤷‍♂️ We need the Canadian D+ subscribers to confirm.
  18. Just reading around, sounds like Delta and Frontier are now available in Canada.
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