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resolved Mandalorian Memes Live Action TV
Some of these Memes.The Mandalorian entries have two bullet points each in the page source, yet display with single indentation. What messed up the coding?
- Mando doing sidequests.Explanation Jokes about Din being Railroaded into doing "sidequests" (or favors) in order to get the information he needs have been made.
- Mando making new friends every episode (or at least in Season 2).Explanation The show's frequent use of guest-of-the-week, especially notable in Season 2, where most of the episodes have Mando becoming Fire-Forged Friends with at least one new character.
- "I can help you, but first I need something from you."Explanation Season 2 can essentially be summed as a constant Fetch Quest, as Mando is constantly doing favors for other characters in exchange for something, only to then meet someone else who wants a favor from him in exchange for another thing, and so on. Most egregious when he finally did find a Jedi, Ahsoka, only for her to turn him away and point him to Tython instead.
- Din Cry Laughing after being told to go to another planet.Explanation The summer after Pedro Pascal finished filming The Mandalorian Season 2, he landed two roles in the Zoom-based "play" I, My Ruination, which starred Paul Giamatti as A Streetcar Named Desire director Elia Kazan; one scene has Streetcar writer Tennessee Williams (Pascal) experience an alcohol-induced mood swing, prompting a concerned Elia to exclaim, "Hey!" multiple times, before asking, "What's going on?" After "The Jedi", some Star Wars fans posted the clip with captions referring to it as Din's thoughts after learning he'd have to travel somewhere else to finish his mission.
- The Mandalorian on Omegle by Tiktoker cosplayer tokenasianfriend.
- "Okay, just... just give me one second. I'll be right back."Explanation ”The Mandalorian" meeting a stranger who doesn't like Star Wars or The Mandalorian, prompting Mando to awkwardly excuse himself before somehow appearing in the stranger's house to beat him up.
- "Okay Mando, show me your cock or the kid dies!" "Aw, fu—" Chapter 14: The TragedyExplanation A Boba cosplayer (or more accurately, someone wearing a Boba mask) having a Nerf gun put up to a doll of the Child, demanding to the Mandalorian on the other line to show his... penis or else he'll kill the kid. Going with the common joke about not wanting to be Mistaken for Gay, it's joked that Mando being forced to show his wang to another guy is just as tragic if he showed his face to a living being.
- "You're the guy from Fortnite!"Explanation One of the Omegle people in the same video joking that he recognizes the Mandalorian as a Fortnite character due to him having recently become a sponsored character in the game at the time of the video.
resolved Cattlemen vs. Shepherds: Fantastic Racism? Live Action TV
There's an episode in the 4th season of the western tv show Rawhide that involves Gil Favor and his drovers coming across a traveling shepherd named Ted Stone, and it revolves heavily around the very real enmity between cattle-workers and sheep-workers of the period. Whilst based on profession rather than ethnicity, the "coding" is very obviously racist. Aside from the insults freely slung between the professions, we have things like the shepherd being refused service at a saloon for his profession, the bartender both refusing to tell the shepherd where to find a doctor and attacking series regular Rowdy Yates for trying to insist on service - which triggers a bar brawl and has Rowdy thrown in jail by the town sherriff to keep him from being lynched, the shepherd warning Rowdy to not ask for a jury trial in cattle country despite being treated unfairly, the shepherd having to see the town vet because the town doctor won't treat him, the town vet noting that no hotel in town will rent them a room, and the shepherd ultimately reveals he narrowly escaped what was basically a lynch mob of 30 cattle drovers who beat a fellow shepherd to death.
Anyway, my point is, does this count as Fantastic Racism? It clearly evokes racist hostility, but is aimed at profession rather than ethnicity... but, on the other hand, this was a real phenomena in the time period that the show is based upon, so it's not "fantastic" in the sense of "never was a thing in real life"...
resolved I have a proposal for Complete Monster, where do I submit? Live Action TV
I have a proposal for a complete monster. It's Yuri from Girl From Nowhere, she fits all of the archetypes to be a Complete Monster:
- She had a mom, but after she got Nanno's powers, she has completely abandoned her and didn't give a damn to check on her, which foreshadowed her selfish and callous nature.
- Her freudian excuse of Nana and Tuptim having her raped by their goons for their snuff ring ended up being redundant because throughout season 2, we saw her become as monstrous as them. She outright said that she didn't care about justice but wanted to take over the business to hurt more innocents in order to get rich, which was the first evidence of her heinous nature.
- She kills a harmless dog to give students a reason to beat a former senior to death, even if it wasn't necessary, Nanno said it herself, which foreshadowed Yuri being a dangerous threat in the series.
- She gaslights and exploits an innocent girl's situation with her parents using her influencer life as a cash cow in order to further her cat-and-mouse game with Nanno and force her to go too far to make herself doubt her actions. Yuri then taunts her about it, happy that her first step to take down Nanno is complete.
- Her second step to overthrow Nanno is to make a psychopath Junko her henchwoman to do most of the dirty work for her as the world's new "god". She hatched a death trap for Nanno where she has Junko attack her mom and even goads Nanno into interferring, knowing what her weakness is so that it could lead to her "death" by Waan and later has the latter executed by Junko once she has outlived her usefulness in assassinating her.
- At this point, nobody knows why is Yuri so evil. Or has she always been evil before those mean girls tortured her. But all we know is she loves to cause misery and pain in her victims for her own amusement.
resolved Character Name Dispute Live Action TV
~glickmam and I are disputing whether Series.Hunter 1984 character Judge Unger's first name is Warrick or Warren. I found what appears to be an official outline of the show, and it lists his name as "Warrick", but other sources list his name as "Warren". I believe I heard the Judge being addressed as "Warrick". How do we solve this, thereby avoiding a potential edit war on either of our parts?
Edited by SkyCat32resolved Andor's Tough Act to Follow Live Action TV
Could I add something like this to YMMV.Andor, or does it seem too early?
- Tough Act to Follow: According to Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, Season 1 became the most-acclaimed live-action Star Wars TV series yet. This set a very high bar for the next one to air, The Mandalorian Season 3.
resolved Andor vs. Kenobi Live Action TV
From YMMV.Andor:
- Fandom Rivalry: Has developed one with fans of The Mandalorian and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Andor fans criticized the other shows for being too merchandise-driven and dependent on continuity references, while fans of those shows criticized Andor as dull and depressingly pretentious.
AFAIK, the number of Star Wars fans who prefer Kenobi to Andor seems pretty small, and includes some people who either didn't finish or didn't start the latter. Could I remove the references to it? (I previously removed a mention of The Book of Boba Fett under similar reasoning; because no one considers it the best Star Wars TV show)
resolved The Last of Us Edit War Live Action TV
scorpio44 and I got into one over whether The Last of Us (2023) casting Pedro Pascal and Gabriel Luna as Joel and Tommy constitutes a Race Lift of the characters, or the actors putting on a Fake Nationality. Even after I asked in multiple places for proof of the former, they put the questionable information back instead of heeding my comment.
Edited by dsneybufresolved Last of Us Memes Live Action TV
Does the Memetic Mutation section of YMMV.The Last Of Us 2023 look long enough for its own page now?
resolved Pedro Pascal Star-Making Role Live Action TV
The Star-Making Role entry on Creator.Pedro Pascal currently lists three performances; does it look excessive?
- Star-Making Role: Oberyn Martell widely exposed Pascal's talents to the public. The one-two punch of The Mandalorian and The Last of Us later proved that he could headline a successful show, with The Last of Us in particular helping him earn a spot in TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2023.
resolved Potential edit war Live Action TV
Troper Metal Max 1991 has been constantly re-adding Alternate Self to MCU: Benjamin Poindexter that connects it to the 2003 Daredevil movie even though those films haven’t ever crossed over or been connected so they’re not canon. Are they commiting an edit war?
Edited by MaxyGregoryyyyresolved Actor Referenced By... Live Action TV
Can actors have their own Referenced by... pages? TIL that Nicole Kidman has one.
resolved Inappropriate Ad Placement Live Action TV
When I visited Trivia.The Book Of Boba Fett, ad space◊ broke up the first sentence of the Production Posse section. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? Both of my attempts didn't work.
resolved Patu Live Action TV
If I added this to YMMV.The Mandalorian or YMMV.Star Wars, should it go under Epileptic Trees or Alternate Character Interpretation?
- Given that no official translations exist for Grogu's babbling, fans share different ideas on the meaning of "Patu!" Some common guesses translate it to "Papa!" or treat it as the sound Grogu makes when he wants to eat.
resolved Combative Editor for the Arrow YMMV Live Action TV
Hi, I need help with a combative editor named kyeo for the Arrow YMMV page. They've been deleting entries that are critical of the character of Felicity Smoak, even though the entire point of the YMMV page is to add widely-held audience reactions, of which the character has many of.
Edit History as noted by eagle108:
- kyeo deletes a large section on 09 May 2023 with the edit reason being "ok this whole paragraph is just taking felicity hate to ron the death eater levels; we can just mention the double wedding and leave it at that."
- They later edit this entry on 05 Sep 2023 with the edit reason "they were in like two episodes who cares."
- And then they delete the "Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?" entry later on the same day with the edit reason "can you please stop your felicity hate train."
- I re-added the same entry in a shorter fashion and with less critical language.
Afte readding the entry with less offensive and critical language, I asked kyeo to stop outright deleting entries just because they felt they were too negative towards Felicity in PM. They sent me an extremely offensive and rude response.
I've blocked them after this and didn't bother responding. Should I do anything else?
Note: Edited in response to replies added to this entry.
Edited by Nyameresolved Zero Context examples? Live Action TV
RippedFromTheHeadlines.Criminal Minds is basically a list of episode numbers next to a wikipedia link. There is absolutely no context. Mind you, that list contains practically every single episode in the series, but still.
Edited by Lermisresolved Can Live-Action TV shows with real people playing themselves have Character Pages? Live Action TV
Something like the ZOOM reboot. All the ZOOMers play themselves like Pablo, Keiko, Alisa, Jared, Zoe, Caroline, Kenny, etc., they don't play characters. Would it be appropriate for such series to have character pages?
From what I've seen on the forums, the answer is probably "no".
Edited by 773202lunaresolved Breaking Bad "Full Measure" Trivia page? Live Action TV
Someone made a Trivia page for the Breaking Bad episode "Full Measure". It solely comprises of this:
- Other shows with episodes premiering on June 13th include The Amazing World of Gumball (Episode 10 in 2011), Fraggle Rock (Episode 23 in 1983), Futari wa Pretty Cure (Episode 20 in 2004), Teen Titans Go! (Episode 53 in 2014), Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure (Episode 16 in 2021).
That is not trivia. Cut the page?
resolved What is the difference between an Alternate Company Equivalent and a Expy? Live Action TV
I tried asking this before and i got no responses, i hope it is ok to try again. But i tried to ask about about editing a profile from Kamen Rider Build, as i noticed some similarities between the big bad and Dio from Jojo. But i think in general i want to ask, what is considered an Alternate Company Equivalent? If it is on purpose, is it just an expy? How much intent one needs to apply to make a character/faction/other the ACE trope? Please i want some clarification.
resolved Requesting assistance with moving recap pages to correct locations Live Action TV
It was brought up here that the episode recap pages on The Twilight Zone (1959) from Seasons 2 to 5 have incorrect URLs, as the episode count doesn't restart at 1 for each season and simply continues to count in total episodes.
My question is, which would be the correct location to move one of them, for example, Recap.The Twilight Zone S 2 E 37 King Nine Will Not Return (first episode of Season 2)? Is it:
- The Twilight Zone S 2 E 1 King Nine Will Not Return (only episode number changed)
- The Twilight Zone (1959) S2E1: "King Nine Will Not Return" (that + added 1959 to URL)
The other revivals/series note (The Twilight Zone (1985), The Twilight Zone (2002), The Twilight Zone (2019)) have years in their recap episode page URLs, should the original 1959 series have that as well?
FYI: I made Sandbox.Recap The Twilight Zone 1959 so others can mend it, since I may be offline.
Edited by BlackFaithStar
In Kamen Rider.
On 20th Feb '17 5:55:07 AM, Ryulong remove fan-speak term from description with edit reason "don't use that it's stupid as shit".
On 21st Feb '17 5:40:54 AM, Wolf Thunder add it back and claim that Ryulong edit is rude.
Personally, I agree with Ryulong that the term doesn't make sense (I think Western fanbase of Kamen Rider is too small to worth noting their lingo). And while their edit reason is bad, it's direct at the term itself, not editor.
Too bad, checking history, this isn't the first time Ryulong remove it. So it is Edit War.