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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
And then, people decide they want Daniel Bryant as Drax instead.
edited 3rd Dec '16 9:35:39 PM by HandsomeRob
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When Yamcha dies, he's brought back and lives a long fulfilling life as a professional baseball player. When Stannis Baratheon dies, on the other hand
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I'm liking how Baby Groot does seem to be an actual, well, baby and not just old Groot but smaller - Rocket having to be basically his big bro/dad figure has potential. Drax was also funny but I hope he's not going to be basically that for the entire movie, he worked very well as a comically serious type so making him a goofball instead seems a (potential) misstep.
(Also probably the funniest bit of Mantis' scene to me was Gamora's reaction but maybe that's just me.)
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."What is it with these sci fi stories about space exploration adding somebody with some kind of psychic power to the cast? River on Firefly. Niko from Galaxy Rangers. Andros from Power Rangers in Space. Deanna Troi from Star Trek TNG. the Jedi in the Star Wars Original Trilogy and Reboot Trilogy.
edited 4th Dec '16 4:53:48 AM by windleopard
So, I guess if Mantis becomes the Scarlet Witch of the Got G, we will need a Falcon and an Ant-man....and a Vision.....
I don't think you can go from 'Mantis = Scarlet Witch' to saying there should be Ant-Man and Falcon equivalents. Quite apart from anything else, there is no prior analogous roles - Quill is no Captain America, Rocket has the same tech skills as Tony and nothing else in common, Groot is about as nice and kind as the Hulk is a violent monster. There's way more differences than similarities.
"These 'no-nonsense' solutions of yours just don't hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel."You're right, this is a weird trend.
Psychicness is just a trope that happens a lot in sci fi because a lot of sci fi authors were fascinated by it
It's in Asimov's robot series, the Foundation series, Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Ringworld
There's probably an ur example that inspired or popularized it but I dunnae which it is
Forever liveblogging the AvengersNot quite sure what's so odd about it— it's just built into the fabric of sci-fi, like spaceships, aliens and robots. It's just that spaceships and robots get a little more plausible with each passing year, while psychic powers (and aliens, and time travel, and FTL travel) grow sadly more unlikely, the more we learn about the world. Early sci-fi writers didn't know what the future held. Now it's a part of the landscape, like elves, dwarves, and orcs— and magic— in medieval fantasy.
edited 4th Dec '16 12:24:04 PM by Unsung
I am going to thank James Gunn on Facebook for keeping planetary space opera fantasy alive. It's not common anymore to see Farscape, A Long Way To A Big Angry Planet, and Star Ocean type fiction on the big screen. Character based space adventure wackiness. Even the studio behind Star Trek tried capitalising upon this style for a more spirited film. So is the Dugeons and Dragon's one.
edited 4th Dec '16 1:51:58 PM by WolyniaBookSeries

Dave Batista da MVP in that trailer.
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