A monition : Today ’s “ Postal Apocalypse ” hold back so much profanity . I ’m sorry about that . Not pitiful enough to , you know , take out all those curse lyric or anything , but I do apologize if it take a leak anyone uncomfortable . What has me roil up ? Read the first letter and see …
[ MILD humankind OF STEEL SPOILERS ]
Leanne C. :
Although I liked Man of Steel , I was really taken aback by Pa Kent telling Clark not to unwrap his powers when he ’s unseasoned , even if it mean letting people die . Superman ’s supposed to salve people , proper ? Why did DC make this change ?
I do n’t get it on . I do n’t make out why anything pass in that flaming movie , because none of it made a goddamn second of horse sense . I at long last saw Man of Steel last nighttime , and allow me recite you that when I left I was so angry I was actually shaking a little , and literally I did n’t fall deceased until 4:00 a.m. because I could n’t stop thinking how terrible it was . And I ’m by no means a major Superman rooter .
The specific matter you mention is just one of the film ’s most rank misunderstandings of the fundamentals of Superman . Pa Kent / Kevin Costner telling young Clark that hiding his major power is more significant than saving people ’s lives is not only contrary to Superman at his most basic level , but is tremendously fucking stupid . Superman save people ’s lives , he saves as many people as he can , when faced with an impossible choice of two evils , he find away around it to save everybody because he ’s Superman and that ’s what he bonk does . And Pa Kent is telling him BLAH BLAH YOU SHOULD LET A SCHOOLBUS FULL OF fry DIE SO YOUR LIFE ISN’T MILDLY INCONVENIENCED . That ’s something a fucking supervillain should say , not the guy who purportedly imparts Clark Kent with the morals that lead him to be the protector of Earth and the greatest hero of all time .
But it hardly count , because Superman let like a million people die in the movie anyway . ARRRRGGGH . Now I ’m furious all over again . Do not get me start out on fucking Man of Steel or we ’ll be here all day .
Tower Defense
Paul E. :
I love the Dark Tower books . I know Ron Howard is intemperate at work contract it produced . I hope we do see it get severalise . I was wondering though if you could pluck a web to have the tv series on what web would that be ? what team would you want to make it and who would you mold ?
I ’d love to see the squad that makes Justified tackle the Dark Tower . I think of they said Justifed has about two season left so it ’d be waste to not habituate that squad . Roland … I have no idea who I would cast in that purpose . I stand for if we could journey back in time and cast Clint Eastwood in his choice age then that be bully .
I think you ’ve serve your own question here . I ’ve been consistently impressed with pretty much everything FX is make now , from their dramas to their comedies . While I do n’t know if they ’d have the budget to do The Dark Tower judge — I ’m not certain anybody other than a remuneration channel like HBO or Starz would — FX is the best at hiring voguish people to make great goggle box show , and then not mess around with their vision with studio interference , focalise group testing , or whatever . See , for example , the staggeringly awesome Justified .
And as for the second part of the question you ’ve answered , if you ’re keeping the Justified squad , why not keep Timothy Olyphant as Roland ? He ’s a little honest-to-goodness , but he ’s got some sensation power , and the man was born to wear a puncher hat and shoot people in TV shows . And then you could have the equally phenomenal Walton Goggins as the Man in Black .
I just made myself a little lamentable that this casting well never find .
Hair Care
Gregory P. :
How does Wolverine ’s healing element sleep together how he styles his hair and facial hair ? He ’s had his whole cheek burnt off or damaged in some way , but somehow the healing factor does n’t grow a beard for him , but it will originate back the haircloth on his psyche and his body hair . What pass ?
Think about chest fuzz ( you could also believe about pubic hair , if you want to make this super - weird ) . After you hit maturity , you moderately much always have the same amount of chest hair , in the same place , at the same distance , and if you happened to plane it , it would grow back to that default amount / style / length .
That ’s what ’s happening with Wolverine — he has a default pilus position , and it demand gigantic muttonchops , stubble on his chin , no moustache , and a hair style that comes to two points . The existent question is how does Wolverine grow a beard after this point , because you ca n’t grow more chest ( or pubic ) whisker after you reach your default , unless you have a very , very specific mutant power .
Since Wolverine almost never has a beard in the comic strip , I say anytime he does have a byssus , it ’s a grievous misplay on Marvel ’s part . no-account , The Wolverine!You blew it !
Green Card
Ross N. :
Regarding last workweek ’s Green Lantern doubtfulness , I ’m pretty sure you have to be a native of the sector you ’re being pluck . Since Superman is from Krypton , he could have been the GL for that sphere of the universe , just not ours . Also , I ’m reasonably sure as shooting the comics distribute with this age ago . I believe Tomar - Re was the Green Lantern for the sector of space that Krypton was in and was tasked with preventing the satellite from drift up , but failed .
So rather than charter the good person for the task , the Guardians bond to some kind of galactic Affirmative Action to the detriment of the citizenry they seemingly protect ? That sounds about right . Because the Guardians of the Universe are diiiiiiicccccckkkkkssss .
By the way , Man of Steel was worse than the Green Lantern movie . Just put that out there .
Binge and Purge
Scott C. :
I have n’t seen The Purge , but it sounds like a white-hot suburbanite fantasy of what would happen if there were no Pentateuch , for instance I ’d kill my neighbor that blasts Kreayshawn at 9 in the morning while he tricks out his Jetta .
But would n’t all suspension of law lead to chiliad of crew street soldiers blow undecided bank vaults and liberating members from the SuperMax ? Would n’t we wake up after The Purge to President OG LIl ’ Sleepy ?
For those of you who do n’t make out The Purge , it ’s a film about America declaring one night where laws are n’t enforced , and any crimes charge during it are n’t prosecuted . Predictably , people misplace their diddley .
But I would n’t worry about any of the events you ’ve mentioned from happen , thanks to free initiative ! bank , prisons , leader of the free world , etc . , would almost for certain stock up up on armed guards for that one night to keep those exact scenarios from occurring . They ’d have to pay a sight of money to acquire enough protection , but since they would n’t switch off those payroll check until after the Purge , they ’d ensure their employee ’ loyalty . Money trumps murder every clip .
Besides , I ’m somewhat sure that any provision you do prior to the Purge would still be illegal under “ conspiracy ” if nothing else . I stand for , you could n’t get a group of mass on Google Hangout and spend a calendar month discussing how to kill the President on Purge night . Because I ’m pretty sure the government would be appear extra hard for Purge Nox threats , and when Purge night rolls around ? You ’d get drone the second you entrust your house .
quiet as Silver
Drillpress :
Dearest Rob ,
I have asked this of nerd culture before , but I ca n’t get a neat response or I get conflicting answers . The Silver Surfer – is his skin silver or is he in some kind of cosmic silver suit ? In older comics , he is describe as having chrome skin and jade matching chrome briefs , but in more late comic strip he is not wearing the briefs at all , give away his crotch . If the atomic number 47 is his skin , should n’t we be seeing his intergalactic dong and paper bag or does his coinage not have external genitals ? I ’ve never read any Silver Surfer comics so I have no idea . Also , has the Silver Surfer ever had sex ? I mistily know that he and Mantis had a matter , but was there ever any cosmic boinking ?
We only get laid two definitive things : 1 ) That the Silver Surfer ’s tegument was transformed into ash grey by Galactus ’ disturbed - American Samoa cosmic powers , and 2 ) he no longer wear upon pants . Shockingly , Marvel has never revealed if this means that the inhabitants of Zenn - La — the planet the Surfer hail from — are all as bland as Ken dolls down there , whether Galactus wrap the Surfer ’s li’l surfboard up when he made him his herald , or if maybe S.S. has some kind of retractable penis in a sheath or something . Same with the sexual practice affair ; the Surfer has had family relationship with Mantis and the female Nova , and yet Marvel has yet to show him engaging in graphic penetrations with one of them . STOP BEING SO COY , MARVEL .
Ship Shape
Mike B. :
I was watching Revenge of the Sith and Anakin and Obi - Wan were taking ascendency of the separatist ship as it crash on Coruscant .
After they engage the brakes , the ship pull in half and they sort - of safely landed their half , but what happened to the other one-half ? You know the half with the engine raise on overdrive , the half with the hyperdrive and the half with the main merger reactor ? This is Coruscant , a satellite - panoptic metropolis . It had to strike on someone .
It probably settle on a whoreson - ton of someones , seeing as Coruscant has a population of one trillion people . It belike killed decade of chiliad , if not 100 of thousand , as it landed on building and crash through Coruscant ’s many layers . But , hey , when you have a trillion people , you could miss a million or so and still call it a good day .
This is still probably less people than Superman directly or indirectly killed during his scrap with Zod in Man of Steel , so Obi - Wan and Anakin have nothing to feel bad about .
Do you have question about anything scifi , fantasy , superhero , or nerd - relate ? Email[email protected ] ! No question too difficult , no interrogative too dumb ! Obviously !
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