Recent content by MarkB

In terms of actually resolving any remaining plot threads from the series and movie, a series set between the two seems doomed to failure. The only major ones left unresolved were Shepherd Book's mysterious past, which seems doubly dead and buried at this point, and the will-they-won't-they...

When I saw that one today I thought it was D&D go bang.

That is, perhaps, one of the only major aspects of the series that hasn't been seen in mass media at this point. Plenty of series have something of an arms race, but the sheer scale of going from battles between individual capital ships up to the point where throwing antimatter planets at the...

Depending upon how deep you want to get into the story. In the novels the Arisians are enacting a plan spanning millions of years intended to culminate in the creation of, essentially, their successors - beings of even greater powers than their own.

There is the sexism element, but probably the bigger issue is the pre-WW2 "eugenics yay" stuff built into the basic premise - the good-guy aliens are conducting a galactic-scale breeding programme to make the perfect beings.

Ooh, it's like walking on the sun.

I agree that a lot of them could do with simplification, but I really like their general implementation, especially the easy multiclassing. I always thought SWSE was only a few steps away from being an actual classless system - get rid of some of the class-based bonus progressions (that's...

Most of the wild variance in SWSE's math isn't down to the base d20 rolls, it's down to the weird differences in bonus progressions between different classes, and between attack bonus progression and skill bonus progression. A lot of the system's issues would be alleviated if it were reworked...

I was going to look for some other material to compare, but Googling "cyclops in movies" gets around a 95% ratio of X-Men to anything else. There was that overseer guy in the Fallout series who is basically just a normal guy with an unusual eye placement, but somehow that feels more unnatural...

And you don't really get to Winter Soldier without going through First Avenger. So much of Winter Soldier is built upon that foundation.

Gnome: The snack you can eat between meals without spoiling your appetite.

Captain America did a great job of making me care about that skinny little kid from Brooklyn who kept his values even after he 'grew up' and who missed his date by 70 years saving the world. Thor took the other route, finding his worth after his arrogance nearly cost him everything, but I cared...

Yeah, sorry, elaborating on those takes doesn't cool them down any.

I'm not sure there's a "these shows" equivalent to this one in the superhero genre. It looks to be skewing more adult than the typical WB Arrowverse type shows, something closer to Reacher or Justified. Definitely not the genre I'd expect to particularly concern itself with minding its language.