The New Testament

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 2:27 pm

Right, so it's a sequel written long after the original, penned by a team of writers who didn't work on the previous, and the central character is actually the son of the guy from the first one.

If that were a film, you wouldn't even bother would you?

Post by **Kaylee** » Fri Sep 17, 2010 4:31 pm

The Koran is the three-quel that retcons the previous two!

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Sat Sep 18, 2010 5:15 am

Found this online:

There are some shows that go completely beyond the pale of enjoyability, until they become nothing more than overwritten collections of tropes impossible to watch without groaning.

I think the worst offender here is the History Channel and all their programs on the so-called “World War II”.[...]

Anyway, they spend the whole season building up how the Japanese home islands are a fortress, and the Japanese will never surrender, and there’s no way to take the Japanese home islands because they’re invincible…and then they realize they totally can’t have the Americans take the Japanese home islands so they have no way to wrap up the season.

So they invent a completely implausible superweapon that they’ve never mentioned until now. Apparently the Americans got some scientists together to invent it, only we never heard anything about it because it was “classified”. In two years, the scientists manage to invent a weapon a thousand times more powerful than anything anyone’s ever seen before – drawing from, of course, ancient mystical texts. Then they use the superweapon, blow up several Japanese cities easily, and the Japanese surrender. Convenient, isn’t it?

…and then, in the entire rest of the show, over five or six different big wars, they never use the superweapon again. Seriously. They have this whole thing about a war in Vietnam that lasts decades and kills tens of thousands of people, and they never wonder if maybe they should consider using the frickin’ unstoppable mystical superweapon that they won the last war with. At this point, you’re starting to wonder if any of the show’s writers have even watched the episodes the other writers made.

Post by **Kaylee** » Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:44 pm

Slight aside, this just dropped into my reader:

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Sat Sep 18, 2010 3:31 pm

Gold!

(always believe in your soul)

IronHide · Post by **IronHide** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 12:20 am

That may be the best thing I've ever seen......

Karl.

Thank You.

Post by **Kaylee** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 11:05 am

No problem

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 1:47 pm

immediately went on my facebook page. I gave you proper thanks

Post by **Kaylee** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 3:14 pm

Yay!

Post by **Best First** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:13 pm

Saw this a few weeks ago. Love it.

Think the other factor is that Op is more relevant as he was made up more recently.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 4:52 am

80s beats the first century AD any day.

The Last Autobot · Post by **The Last Autobot** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:02 pm

Saw it a while ago

My only issue is that Christ died at 33.

Otherwise great

Jack Cade · Post by **Jack Cade** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 6:40 pm

The above image just got deleted on the IDW forum!

Post by **Best First** » Thu Sep 23, 2010 6:48 pm

yeah along with the recent poll on bringing back Furman.

modding there is dreadful.

I see Denton's popped up with his usual do as i say not as i do approach again as well.

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 12:22 am

Jack Cade wrote:The above image just got deleted on the IDW forum!

Wha? Got a link to the discussion thread?

inflatable dalek · Post by **inflatable dalek** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:52 am

Best First wrote:yeah along with the recent poll on bringing back Furman.

That can't be coincidence, Furman is Jesus!

Post by **Best First** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:26 am

please, he's higher up the hierachy than that

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:16 am

Best First wrote:please, he's higher up the hierachy than that

This might be completely random, but it just now dawned on me that I've had a beer with both Best First and Simon Furman. Granted BF wasn't drinking beer at the time, but still...

And to think, if I hadn't made some ignorant comment about Blaster a decade ago...

No. I don't want to think about it. I don't want to even ponder a world where, two message boards ago, I didn't start some stupid thread about "racism in Transformers" that spiraled into the above anecdote.

By the way. It was decided, A DECADE AGO, that such a concept as Transformers racism was ridiculous. Good thing it's never popped up again, right?

Jack Cade · Post by **Jack Cade** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:27 am

Shanti wrote:Wha? Got a link to the discussion thread?

Nope, on account of it's now been deleted, as has the topic I started asking why it had been locked!

Apparently, it was locked at the original poster's request though, as someone commented that they were mildly offended and he didn't want to kick anything off if he could avoid it.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri Sep 24, 2010 5:11 pm

Saw that. I am on the IDW board less these days because 1) I got tired of always watching what I say/having people complain that my comments are counterproductive and 2) Wreckers and Ironhide are over and nothing decent seems to be on the horizon. Thor comics sure are the **** these days, though, eh?