Geekly Daily 29 (Sunday November 18): Comics and Video Games aren't just for kids!

Now playing: Pokemon Lets Go Eevee 
Now Watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH7VPbgLAwc

Now Listening: Podcasts
Now Reading: Been reading articles on Pokemon, Hitman, and Fallout 76


When I published the weekly yesterday, I hadn't yet heard about Bill Maher. In fact I passed out half the way through his show, and published his spot on the talkshow showdown without seeing the end, or knowing all the details. Having barely paid any attention at all, I'd been so tired by that point. I missed the blog post he made after the show criticizing fans of Stan Lee. He sounded like Greg, the horrible manager that tried to fire me. Said Star Wars and TV stuff were all for kids, and not adults. Bill Maher took his stance, and really ran with it, saying that comic book and Stan Lee fans are to blame for Trump getting elected! I swear to god! Like how can he be so wrong, ignorant, and fucked in the head as to attack his own liberal platform. He sounds just like the ignorant conservatives he fights against. And I went back to watcht he second half of his show, and fuck him, he goes on about how we need to talk less about politics, and talk more about frivoulous things like baking bread and morning dew (Pulled from a book of 14000 things to be "happy" about). So we should talk about dumb frivolous things because politics divides the country, but if we talk about comic books we're dumb and frivolous and childish and we elected donald trump even though we are all liberal and comics are regularly attacked for getting too political, for being too SJW, for dealing too much with hard mature topics.

I don't believe that necessarily, that it's gone too far. But I think any story can be immature or very mature, and it doesn't matter the medium (Novel, TV, comic, Video Game) or even genre (Non-fiction, romance, sci-fi, fantasy). A good story is a good story, and if you can't tell that Moulin Rouge is a good movie because you wont give it a chance cause you hate musicals... well that means you're ignorant. Now if you can watch moulin rouge and say "I can see how this is well made, and a great musical, but I'm not a fan of musicals and I didn't get much out of this" that's another thing entirely. Going around saying "Moulin Rouge is the worst movie, cause fuck musicals." then that's bad. See the difference? Judge things for what they are, dont just trust your prejudgements of things. It only makes an ass of you AND me.

I think I finally have my life on track. For now anyway. Tomorrow I'm gonna try to write the next chapter of my book. Fingers crossed it goes well. I still haven't touched it for the month yet, and next weekend is the last weekend of the month.

Geekly Weekly TV Rankings ( ➤ for new ):

1. ➤ Supergirl ***** I'm sticking with my verdict that this is the best season of this show yet. I mean she fought a mutha-fucking dragon! On main street. For minutes! How did they have the CG budget for that? That was awesome! And Brainiac 5 was so good as well. He had so many awesome moments. I loved his perfect instant cover for secretly investigating the pamphlets, but then that fight scene was something else. Finally, I'm really enjoying Manchester. He's got a lot of charisma, but he's also very broken and brutal, and the show is really not holding back on him torturing people with sharp tools and electricity, or shooting down fleeing thugs in cold blood. I don't know what they are going to do with him yet, because clearly we're not supposed to think what he's doing is good, but damn is the actor fantastic.
2. ➤Doctor Who ***** Awesome episode of Doctor Who. Legitimately good, well written, intense. classic who feel. fun setting and plot, enjoyable characters played by good actors. Did I mention well written? I made an excuse for this show at the beginning of the season, that it always has charm but it's not always well written. Well we've had some serious actually well scripted hours of television this season, and this is another one. I didn't see the twist coming for who the villain is. I didn't mind the bubble wrap reveal though. I made a joke about never popping bubble wrap again, like how Blink is supposed to make you look at angel statues differently, or you never go in the ocean after watching Jaws. But then the final moment of the episode made me think that was what they were going for as well, which would be the laziest attempt at that ever, considering the reveal wasn't until the final 8 minutes, and it wasn't really used as horror at all. There was really just the one time with Kira where it mattered at all. But okay, as I said, laziest attempt at that sort of "meme" thing I've ever seen, but I don't think that distracts from an otherwise fantastic episode. And the true villain was another great metaphor to our current political climate, a working man feeling like he's being replaced, and the Doctor arguing that the system isn't always broken, sometimes it's the people abusing the system, taking advantage of it. The old man's line "I think the only part of the system that's broken here is you." So good.
   
3. ➤ Star Wars Resistance ****That was a fun, intense episode of Resistance. I really enjoyed it, and the action, and the character dynamics. I liked getting more time with the engineer, and I liked the way she sort of idolized Sinara. Everytime I hear the name Sinara, though, I think of Agents of SHIELD. And are we not allowed to shoot people in this show. Cause there were multiple times the leader dude could have just saved the main character with a well placed shot, there were so many chances he could have shot the pirates blatantly trying to kill them, and instead they were shooting the guns out of their hand, or dropping the gun to fight them hand to hand. Is there a rule in this cartoon that engineers like them need to have some moral stance about killing murderous pirates? Unbelievable.
   
4. ➤ Saturday Night Live ***A very average episode of the show. Not as bad as some episodes this season, but very far from the kind of episodes that make me laugh and laugh until I cried. There were things to chuckle to, but it was still largely uncomfortable barely comedy. Not the best season of this show so far, not by a long shot.
   

Geekly Weekly Talk Show Showdown:

1. ➤Vice News Tonight 
2. ➤This Hour has 22 Minutes 
3. ➤The Daily Show