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Post the exact moment when everything you loved about a franchise was destroyed.
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Yup, I lost all interest after that.
The 2nd Twist made me hate the game.
Again, I don't know how people can say this is where it was ruined when the Prequels and Special Editions already existed.
those. are. awful.
I definitely feel the prequels are awful save Reveng of the Sith which is just ok. I count each trilogy as it's own thing. In truth, nothing will ever stop me from watching Star Wars. Well the mainline movies anyway. I saw Rogue One years later and I still haven't checked out Solo.
And I can assure you that I am the real Seymour Skinner.
Obliterated in the most literal sense. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Actually, I take that back... it was the fucking CGI gophers during the opening credits. Knew that spelled bad news right away 😔
Actually, I take that back... it was the fucking CGI gophers during the opening credits. Knew that spelled bad news right away 😔
Fringe, season 4 episode 19
It's been years since I've watched Fringe. What's the context here?
lmao. A movie where literally not a single god damn thing worked
It was only downhill from there
While Donald Glover and the character of Troy brought something to that show that it never got back, I will say that season 6 truly gets back to the standards that the earlier ones were at in a different and unique way
I have no way of capturing the moment that Star Wars fans killed Stars Wars for me, but it happened somewhere between the release of The Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker. I just couldn't give 2 fucks about it anymore.
The original specifically said that the original Benders were the sun and moon, the badger moles, and the dragons and that people learned from them. We even saw a whole lost civilization that had the original form of firebending that worshipped the dragons and that wasn't bent on just destruction. In fact it was actually a major plot point for Aang and Zuko as characters in the final season because they both thought that firebending was just good for hurting people and wanton destruction.
In the sequel, bending was reduced to power ups.
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Kinda, basically any deck that can consintently spam monsters in the Deck or Extra Deck can be a problem.
Link Rules were marketed as a solution to that, but it was done in the worse possible way, by making it so that you could only use more than 1 Extra Deck Monster if you Summoned a Link first.
Konami spent almost a year without releasing any Links designed to work with specific decks, and many felt like the intention was to kill old Extra Deck heavy decks which led to anger. Players had to play whatever trash link they got access to.
And during that time most links were material restricted and could only be summoned with the brand new "Cyberse-type" monsters....Which no old deck had. So that meant you had like 2 playable link cards
But that's not all, Links themselves are Extra Deck monsters and their rules for summoning are so incredibly lax that you could basically pop them out of thin air, which meant you could easily spam a field of 6 Link monsters while a dedicated Synchro deck would be stuck with 1 at a time.
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL, Links also had a built in ability called extra link, which meant a player could arrange his links In a way that allowed them to steal the only Zone your opponent could use for extra deck summons, which usually meant game over.
AND I'M NOT DONE, Then it turns out the new Anime ace monster "Firewall Dragon" is so broken that it can build the above arrangement like nothing. And since the Anime MC uses it Konami refuses to ban it and instead starts mass banning any fan favorite card that dares combo with it.
And to top it all off, the Anime series, VRAINS has the rockiest production and then sucked. We're talking Shadow the Hedgehog leves of edgy trash...And the amazing Dragon that is so iconic Konami could not ban it despite it making the game a chore to play? It appears 4. Fucking. Times. in 150 episodes.
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Yesss this episode is sooo good! Season 6 may have a slightly different vibe than the first 3 seasons but it's humor is as wierd and wonderful as ever.
Another amazing moment:
I am incredibly quite and respectful in theaters. This part was so ridiculous I bust out laughing and made everyone around me laugh. It was RIDICULOUS .
So I read through this thread and saw not a single mention of Fantastic Beasts and the Crimes of Grindlewalt and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child......that makes me very suprised prised
Episode IX, Star Wars. Entire movie is just one "WTF is this shit" moment. A moment that would unveil that the franchise is shackled to its "canon" to the point where the phrase, "to its detriment" does begin to encapsulate the scope of the tragedy. Blessed be Rian Johnson who tried to steer the franchise away from the decrepitude of banality.
funny thing about this, this is what so many misguided fans wanted for Luke in episode 8.
This is the same scene from the Progressive teaser and the Progressive series.
WTF happened? Downgrade in art(the first shot looks like it could be from the original series), and completely different character(literally). The real disappointment set in with episode 2, but this in retrospect is the point where you realize something happened in series development that set things on a totally different course.
To be fair, this isn't the worst part about FLCL 2.
WTF happened? Downgrade in art(the first shot looks like it could be from the original series), and completely different character(literally). The real disappointment set in with episode 2, but this in retrospect is the point where you realize something happened in series development that set things on a totally different course.
To be fair, this isn't the worst part about FLCL 2.
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The techniques is what was achieved by people studying the spirits and animals. And you see Wan do exactly that, he's the one that came up with the firebending dance you see in that ancient temple because he studied a Dragon.
As for the Sun, that was retconned in he original itself, when they just casually say the first firebenders were actually Dragons instead. Which begs the question....why is their power tied to the sun then?
The Moon is still where waterbenders got their techniques, by studying the movement it creates with the waves. The ability to Waterbend itself came from lion turtles granting a few the ability, Otherwise if it's something you can just learn, the existence of non-benders makes no sense
Expanding on a concept is not a retcon. If anything it makes the BS deus ex machina in Book 3 a bit more palatable.
I'm not a fan of defending Korra Book 2 but the whole Sun/Moon/Turtle thing was kind of a mess since the original, as most of the "explanations" in the north pole episodes came off as throwaway lines.
At least with Korra Book 2, with all its faults you can kinda make sense of the whole thing, since it shows the movement of planet and stars having an impact on spirits and energy , which was set up in the OG
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Man, what? Halo 2 and 3 were fantastic. 3 had a few moments where the story jumped the shark but the game was a blast.
It's an impressive acheivement to not only have a bad ending, but one so spectacularly bad that it ruined the entire premise of the show and retroactively ruined every single episode. Years later and HIMYM is still the worst ending I've ever watched.
This episode is set in the future where the Observers have taken over and Olivia's daughter (I think it's her daughter) starts a rescue mission to save Walter
This episode basically set up the final season
The season had no right to be as good as it turned out.
This season had no right to be as terrible as it turned out.
Halo, with Halo 4.
Let's take this mysterious long-gone race, bring them back and make them a generic villain oh and you won't know anything about them unless you read like 3 extended universe books.
Let's take this mysterious long-gone race, bring them back and make them a generic villain oh and you won't know anything about them unless you read like 3 extended universe books.
This was the weirdest thing to me. They had a blank slate to do whatever they wanted and their new game required a ton of extra material to get anything out of it. I had no idea what was going on with most of the story or villainsHalo, with Halo 4.
Let's take this mysterious long-gone race, bring them back and make them a generic villain oh and you won't know anything about them unless you read like 3 extended universe books.
Progressive never happened, we should all forget about it.This is the same scene from the Progressive teaser and the Progressive series.
WTF happened? Downgrade in art(the first shot looks like it could be from the original series), and completely different character(literally). The real disappointment set in with episode 2, but this in retrospect is the point where you realize something happened in series development that set things on a totally different course.
To be fair, this isn't the worst part about FLCL 2.
Alternative, though? Alternative slaps.
Halo, with Halo 4.
Let's take this mysterious long-gone race, bring them back and make them a generic villain oh and you won't know anything about them unless you read like 3 extended universe books.
The Didact was actually an interesting character. H4 didn't do him justice, but H4 didn't do justice to a lot of things.
Default sprint which ruined map design and the flow of the game:
At least in Reach in was a choice and could be taken out altogether. Once you make it a default ability in the vanilla gametypes it becomes expected and anything custom made that doesn't include it is doomed to fail to grab the attention of the majority.
At least in Reach in was a choice and could be taken out altogether. Once you make it a default ability in the vanilla gametypes it becomes expected and anything custom made that doesn't include it is doomed to fail to grab the attention of the majority.
No I loved those two. Both music and story wise...I'm glad they are back on track.
Ah, Alien: Covenant. That's a sad one I really wanted to like. There's a scene where they recite "Ozymandius" and they botch the meaning of the poem. Sucked me right out of the experience.
Bonus- I'm a college professor, and had been teaching "Ozymandius" the week the movie came out. I got an email from a student who also said it ruined the movie for her, too. That student got extra credit.
Bonus- I'm a college professor, and had been teaching "Ozymandius" the week the movie came out. I got an email from a student who also said it ruined the movie for her, too. That student got extra credit.
Almost everything they did with Halo after the first game convinced me that everything I loved about the first game was an accident. The feel of the combat, the slow pace of multiplayer matches, the indestructible vehicles, the elites as enemies, I could go on.
Brutes suck, dual wielding sucked, making the sword a usable weapon sucked, and the feel of the multiplayer once they plastered online onto it and introduced me to the other people that played Halo reallllly sucked.
Halo, with Halo 4.
Let's take this mysterious long-gone race, bring them back and make them a generic villain oh and you won't know anything about them unless you read like 3 extended universe books.
Please dont tell that's supposed to be a Forerunner.
Please.
I was going to post this. Star Wars is forever destroyed after this dreadful movie.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi - Directed by Rian Johnson. Before that it was Phantom Menace and the introduction of Jar Jar Binks. Lucas destroyed it first, then JJ revived it only to have Rian totally fuck everything up again.
Game of Thrones - Pretty much all of season 8.
Game of Thrones - Pretty much all of season 8.
I grew up only knowing about Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Vol 1, and I loved the hell out of that album but I was completely oblivious to the Amory Wars as a whole. So it was a huge surprise to find out about all of it like a year ago, right before Unheavenly Creatures came out.
I definitely find it hard for me to parse the story elements out of the songs sometimes, except Afterman which is why its probably my favorite, so I've been reading the comics as well. I'm not a huge fan of where the story went in Good Apollo Volume 1.
I personally don't mind Black Rainbow, there are a couple of good songs but I can also do without it save for those songs I like.
Im also bummed. I bought tickets to a Coheed and Cambria concert for May and its looking like thats definitely going to be cancelled.