Elektra Boogaloo

I went on the Bratz wiki to see what happened to Chloe's dad. I'm embarassed by myself.

Second thought (not done with podcast): Can we get an Etsy shop to repaint Bratz dolls into BIG BRATZ?

I don't know how I feel about the new logo. It looks better and I love everyone's faces. But I also miss the silliness of the old one. This is going to take me awhile to process.

I got Yasmin. I don't know what that means but if any man called me any of the nicknames on this quiz, I'd punch them. Why is Jon Voight in "Bratz"??? Oh no, that''s the show I'm going to. Now I have to watch it. Shit. I was hoping for Ladyhawke!

Definitely hoping everyone in Texas is okay! Better safe that sorry, evacuate if you can. The news tonight is dire. Very happy to see "Over the Top" is back up because you all know that is my anxiety podcast.

There should be a warning in front of that Bratz trailer. Avril Lavigne songs make me uncomfortable. For a hot second I thought it was going to be Jem. I'm guessing this is an in studio ep because this wasn't one they did at Largo the other night?

Still alive. 87 years young. Not allowed to die. I believe he still teaches at Johns Hopkins. http://krieger.jhu.edu/theatre-arts/directory/john-astin/ Patty Duke has passed though.

I'm sure we can expect more than one woman to be brutalized. Yay?

I'm just going to remain Elektra Boogaloo and annoy you with break dancing attempts.

Paul, Jason and June did some healing. ETA: Wanted to say, I used the sadface emoji because this made me tear up a bit. Love to Mackenzie and his father and brother and wife who all sound cool. Glad we don't have to add them to our enemies list like the Chopping Mall guy.

What about poor innocent Colleen???

I think there are a lot of problems with IF and it's not just that Finn Jones isn't as an experienced actor as, say, Krysten Ritter. sycasey 2.0 pointed out there was a problem with the show-running by Scott Buck. I don't think they had a real "take" on the character. I think they wanted him to be a "grittier" version of Iron Fist (since that's Netflix's aesthetic) but it didn't work. He sounded too silly spouting the Kun Lun stuff. And in order to do the whole "Danny learns that killing people is bad" arc they had to take away much of what is good about him in the comics, which I think Cameron H is noting, that he is pure of spirit. They also seemed to think the "Colleen was secretly raised by the Hand" would be a cool plot twist, but that was also really against her comic book character. There were a lot of bad decisions. Plus the NEVER acknowledged the problem of racism with the character, which was also a problem in DOCTOR STRANGE. They wanted another white ninja but never stopped to think, "Well what makes him not a pale imitation of Daredevil then?" Nor did I think Finn Jones responded to the criticism well which was annoying. Our friend Lewis Tan also pointed on in the Bruce Lee podcast that Jones didn't get to spend much time in the gym for stunts. He complimented Jessica Henwick's work ethic with the stunts, but said you could tell Jones wasn't really doing his stunts. And I also think THAT is a big problem. Because you have to BELIEVE that Iron Fist could take out a dragon. I am not sure if that was due to scheduling (it's difficult to do a lot of stunt training if you are in most every scene) but I think between seasons Jones needs to really work on that. And also acting. I mean when you see Finn Jones in interviews he seems like kind of a silly, happy guy. I don't understand why they don't lean into that.

Defenders Talk [spoilers] Cuz they knew I would've hunted down everyone involved in the show fucking Arya Stark style if they did that. [/spoilers]

So in an attempt to bring this back to Garbage Pail Kids (when doing the C&Os for this, Nate is going to wonder why so many of them are about the Defenders). If this is a world where the STATE deemed Abraham Lincoln "too ugly" and had him smushed, then is this a world where the Confederacy won the Civil War? Is this that HBO show? ETA: As if I weren't bummed enough I can't go in November. Damn my sister for having a baby.

What acting ability has Finn Jones shown?!? I also wished they do Heroes for Hire and agree these aren't really "the Defenders." They also never use that name in the show, so like, maybe just call it what you will. I really hope "Trish" can become Hellcat at some point. She only got to do that one cool fight scene in "Jessica Jones" and I loved it. I was like, "Scratch his eyes out!" The new Hellcat series has been one of the bright spots in a very depressing year at Marvel.

True story: One of my boss's clients was coming into NYC and wanted to go to Ninja. And my boss asked me if I wanted to come along and I said no. I turned DOWN free food, which is the opposite of my general aesthetic. I don't know. I liked that actress when she was on True Blood (confession: I stopped before things go weird.) But all they let her do is just like, cry and be afraid. She's there to cry. It's very unfair. I was actually kind of upset when I learned she'd be on "Punisher" too. Because I was like "Oh great what horrible things will she have to endure with TWO superhero male friends/possible love interests." I put up my non-spoilery review of THE DEFENDERS if anyone cares.

Those are the best parts. There should've been a whole episode about all the side characters interactions at the police station. The backstory I gave to my sister, who hadn't seen Iron Fist or Daredevil was "basically they want to to believe NYC is lousy with ninjas but I've never seen one and I lived here for 11 years. Also Danny Rand is the worst." It was stupid to decide to come up with ways that each character becomes involved with the fight. Why not just have the earthquake or some large event and everyone comes running? It makes the first episode (and everything up until the end of 3, I think) very choppy and slow. I mean, obviously I liked the Luke Cage and Jessica Jones parts best because I love those two characters but every time it cut back to Iron Fist I was like "damnit." If you don't like Iron Fist, like me,

The beginning is VERY slow. But now you have something to look forward to I guess?

I have to rant about this book for a little while because I really like the author and the premise is the lead character has the "bubble boy" disease that so often gets made fun of. And I thought, "How great to show what living with illness is actually like!" when I first heard about it. I have a chronic illness, not anything as bad as that, but like it's difficult to accept that your days are just never going to be like you see on TV or whatever. I'm excited to see Amandla Stenberg get a leading role but I wish it was any other book really.

This is more horrifying that my Gomez Addams thoughts. That man has a Pulitzer Prize. This feels wrong. I'm doing very well, Cameron! "Defenders" did come out today and I binged it all.

I have to say, Gomez and Morticia Addams are one of my favorite fictional couples. (They are both weird but they GET each other instead of looking for someone "perfect". And I also know the cartoon didn't have much personality so Astin invented much of what we know of Gomez from TV and the films.) The idea that Gomez Addams couldn't save his son from this makes me deeply, and profoundly sad for some reason. I mean, he's also Patty Duke's son and she was president of SAG at the time this was made. So where was she on this trainwreck?

I'm listening to this episode and enjoying it, but I'm quite happy that I didn't watch this movie. I'm really excited about how much everyone hated it. I said in the minisode thread I was excited to hear what June had to say, but since I listen to "Pod Save America" and "Lovett or Leave It" and know Jon is also fastidious (if you haven't listened there was a whole side story when they read the ads about John F. picking out suits for his wedding and Jon L. calling them "hetero-normative blue") So obviously he was a great choice for a movie so much about fashion. The Cyrus the Virus in the audience is the actual murderer from Con Air, right? eta: Oh! Tim is back singing the second opinions song. HI, TIM!

Pretty sure I had one of those stickers. But I also would've sworn TWINS was PG-13 so what do I know.

I'm really happy to know Jason drinks wine and June drinks Bud Light. (I picture it as girly wine.) The dentist lady should be my friend. I listen to the old podcasts when I'm anxious. I like when PFT goes on the rant about typewriters in "Lake Placid" a lot. I don't know why it always makes me happy. 8 is too young for THE ROCK. I'm pretty sure Nick Cage is having sex in his first scene in that? The first PG-13 movie my parents let me watch was TWINS. I think that says a lot about me as a person. My thanks to the guy who watched all those Sidaris movies. I think he wins the week. I will not be watching the Garbage Pail Kids movie. Interested to see what June thinks. If Paul got your name RIGHT the first time, I think you should leave.