I thought this was easily the best episode in a while, I even giggled out loud a few times which is an achievement because usually when I find something funny I smirk or even worse just blow more air out my nose but this episode actually made me laugh which is nice.
Of course Deadpool can't be too violent because of the children who watch Ultimate Sspider-man, I think that is the problem with Deadpool Because I would love for a Deadpool animated series but what could you do with it, Disney owns Marvel so the obvious option would be to air it on Disney XD with Spider-man and the Avengers but clearly you can't have strong langue, sexual references and gore but would you play down the violence and innuendo to the point where it isn't really Deadpool any more for the sake of toy sales.
(I think DC Nation had this problem on CartoonNetwork where The fanbase was mostly made up of teens who didn't want toys and they were less profitable than they had hoped, CartoonNetwork cut it's loses and cancelled Young Justice and Green Lantern)
Or would you make it darker and slightly more grown up for the sake of breaking him into the public eye to hopefully set him up for a movie franchise and hopefully make money that way.
Or do you just make some straight to DVD film/series and keep it fairly low budget.
Deadpool is a tough cookie when it comes to marketing, I'm glad they put him in an episode, he made a few cameos and I really didn't think it would come to more than that and I back their decision and the way he was represented even if he was tame in compassion to other incarnations.
Deadpool was voiced by Will Friedle who was Eric Mathews in Boy Meets World and Ron Stoppable in Kim Possible, Not everyone seemed to like him as Deadpool but I like Will Friedle (maybe I wouldn't have chosen him to voice Deadpool though).
Something that did annoy me however was that his origin story was changed, okay maybe a huge plot dump of an origin story would be boring and maybe it isn't the nicest origin story to be telling the kids but I don't think they needed to change completely, Ultimate Spider-man focuses on Nick Fury and S.H.E.I.L.D more so to involve the X-men and weapon X would could confuse the children and would take forever to explain.
It was cool to see howthe spider-man from the "Ultimate Spider-man" universe would react with Deadpool, because this spider-man breaks the fourth-wall like Deadpool in the comics and spider-man is pretty immature and this spider-man is pretty similar to Deadpool but at the same time they have very different views and opinions so that was fun to see play out.
I can't help get the feeling that marvel is trying harder to break Deadpool out of the comics recently with the Deadpool Video game, this episode of spider-man and he will also appear in the Lego marvel video game so hopefully everyone will be hearing a lot more about deadpool
Monday 8 July 2013
Sunday 7 July 2013
Gravity falls episode 19 dreamscaperers; who is bill cipher
In episode 19 of gravity falls we finally get to meet the pyramid guy and his name is Bill.
Bill first appeared in the opening sequence briefly and people have made theories on what the image means.
Bill first appeared in the opening sequence briefly and people have made theories on what the image means.
The theory is that the pyramid watches all the people that are being represented by the symbols using the Illuminati symbols as a way of watching everyone and from episode 19 dreamscaperers that theory seems true as he refers to Dipper as pine tree, Mabel as shooting star and Sooz as question mark and he says he knows a lot about everyone.
Any way I should explain the episodes plot now.
Gideon wanting the deeds to the mystery shack summons the dream demon Bill Cipher (or the pyramid guy)
to go into Stan's mind to find the code to the safe which holds the deeds, Mr Pyramid is indiacted to have some sort of past with Stan and he agrees to help gideon, Dipper, Mabel and Sooz follow bill into Stan's mind and they try and save the shack. (and Stan's mind.)
Through out the episode Dipper is feeling down about Stan giving him all the jobs and picking on him the most and so he is feeling insecure about why Stan treats him like that and he uses this an opportunity to find out what Stan thinks of him while Mabel and Sooz try find the memory about the code to the safe.
I don't really want to give EVERYTHING away because I think watching it is much better and can't recommend this series enough, it's just so cleverly written and witty but this episode is a very revealing episode, not in the sense that it tells you the answers to all the riddles or explains a lot about Bill, Stan, the shack or the books but it does reveal the identity of the pyramid man, it is more of a preparation for the next episode that will probably explain a lot more.
Because the episode was basically the kids going through Stan's mind and because Stan is so secretive we got cool stuff like Sooz stumbling upon a memory of the Stan revealing the secret thing behind the vending machine but because it was Sooz he moved on before the secret was revealed and I'm guessing that secret will be revealed next episode, but we also got to see all kinds of things like childhood memories to his date with Lazy susan.
With out spoiling too much about what happened Gideon got the deeds to the shack any way and started destroying the it, the episode ended with a to be continued sign.
This must mean that Stan's secret room behind the vending machine will be revealed, right? it would be pretty obvious that there is a room under the shack when it has been flattened and they are left with a hole with a glowing green light radiating out of it.
Not only is the mystery shack being destroyed but now there is this evil dream demon on the lose, I wonder what will happen next?
Wednesday 3 July 2013
FallOutBoy Young blood chronicles part 4: Alone Together.
This video really started to pull things together for me but at the same time created even more unanswered questions, the video contains mild violence so be warned.
the video starts in what looks like an old hospital and a woman is walking around with the suitcase with the handcuff still attached (possibly to show that it is the same suitcase that was cuffed to Patrick's wrist and removed in the pheonix video.)
The woman hands the case over to a woman in a car with the number plate "RATATAT" people on youtube speculate that it could be Courtney love because Ratatat is the single off the album and it features Courtney, it would make sense if it were Courtney but we don't really know the contents of the case so we don't really know what these people want from FallOutBoy so it could be anyone in that car to be honest, but I'm thinking it will be Courtney.
I saw an interesting thing on twitter where someone said they thought the Young Volcanoes video was about the dark side of celebrity lifestyle and Patrick Stump replied that was a good representation of what they meant, after seeing Alone Together I thought some more about what they talking about.
If young volcanoes was about the horrible side of the celebrity lifestyle what about the other 3 videos, the first video (in the timeline) The Phoenix had Patrick with the case cuffed to his wrist which subsequently was taken away by some women and a creepy boy who capture the rest of the band 1 by 1.
I didn't under stand what the creepy boy's purpose was but I think I understand now, I think the children in the videos are fans or thought to be fans, the band often relate to their fans as kids in interviews
(probably because their fans are often younger than them)which would explain why patrick smiled at the boy because he thought he was a fan, this could represent what happened when they released the previous album where the fans booed the band when they played new songs, I also think that the other artists featured in the video and the women are like their peers.
Any way I think the Phoenix video is about them being liked and wanted but to the point where it is disabling, (like how fans stalk their favorite bands and when the fan girls throw abuse at their celebrity crushes girlfriends just like they do with harry styles.)
Young volcanoes is the part where things get even worse, falling victim to drugs, alcoholism while it effects your work and personal lives, I think its one of those things you don't realize is bad until you come out the other end, I think that's what that video means, it's like the start of FalloutBoys downfall.
The events from "My songs know what you did in the dark" looks like it it takes place after "alone together" (unless they fit another video in between the van leaving with the band in the back and 2chainz setting it alight in the forest) and I think that video is like the break up/hiatus what ever it was, so "alone together" is just before that, it is the actual break up.
When we finally see the band members they are all tied up in separate rooms, Patrick is in the hospital's chapel tied to an electric chair, Joe was tied up on a small stage, Andy appears to be in a living room with a tv showing live footage of himself and Pete seems to be in a red carpet set up.
All the rooms can be seen as representations of the things that ruined them, however I think Patrick's room represents the effects of all the other rooms on the band than it is a room that represents something that broke them down, does that make sense?
Patrick is like the heart or mind of the band, while everyone else is being mentally tortured Patrick is being physically hurt and grows detached and crazy eyed by the end of the video.
In Joe's room where 3 little girls throw fruit at him and mock him represents the band being mocked by fans , like I said before , children seem to symbolize the fans, the band members often refer to fans as kids, besides children as usually thought to be unaware of the consequences to their actions so maybe they are saying that maybe the fans didn't know what their criticism was doing to them.
I'm not sure what Andys room represents but because it looks like a living room I guess it represents home life, his face on the tv could show how their privacy was invaded.
I'm not sure what the purpose of the women in Andys room, If it was meant to signify a relationship break down because surely the woman would be angry, she seems to be behaving slightly sexually but I doubt it is meant to be temptation because Andy doesn't seem interested at all.
She could be a stalker of some sort, she seems to enjoy his presence and the way she behaves with the tv screen could suggest she is watching him and that could relate to the whole invaded privacy thing, but I'm not too sure what she's meant to be.
Pete'r room seems to be temptation, I didn't really get it at first but after watching the video I noticed the woman (who untied and kissed Pete) had a hook for a hand and presumed that it must mean she is a hooker, It makes sense she pretty much walks up to him and snogs him, I know that Pete divorced Ashlee Simpson but the reasons aren't made clear (which is fair enough really, If it were me, I wouldn't want everyone knowing about something like that.) any way this sort of thing happens to celebrities, men and women throw them selves at celebrities and because they are celebrities people can make money by exposing it which is shown through the red carpet and the mannequins with cameras so I guess Petes room is about temptation and having your dirty laundry aired for all to see.
I promise now I'll get back to the actual story now.
after the hooker untied Pete he hits her takes her hook and stabs her killing her and he tries to escape he first finds a room with flammable liquids, band equipment and memorabilia (prepared for the events of "My songs know what you did in the dark") and then an alarm is sounded.
It is at this point where Pete is being chased through hospital corridors by women the conditions of the other 3 rooms gets worse and Patrick is no longer reacting to being tortured, I has got to the point where he no longer cares about what is happening, the bands temporary split was a result of them no longer enjoying being in a band which maybe Patrick being unresponsive is meant to be when they decided they were better off apart and there was nothing left to fight for.
Pete finds Big Sean also tied up in a room, he features on the "The mighty Fall" track on the album, Pete frees him using the hook hand as a blade to cut the straight jacket and they go their separate ways, Pete finds Patrick alone in his room (Patrick's eyes are glowing which is pretty creepy) and tried to free him too but Patrick fights him off, the women comes back and dart Pete knocking him out.
At the end of the video FallOutBoy are bundled into the back of a van and it drives away ( ready for "My songs know what you did in the dark" ) and Big Sean is seen hiding behind a tree looking on in horror as the van disappears.
The fact that Big Sean was also being held makes me wonder why he was there and what the women wanted from him , I know he features in a song so he would obviously feature in a video but how does he fit in with the story, does he know something about the suitcase? or does he have something else that they want?
And if it really is Courtney in the car what makes her possessedly the bad guy and what does she want from FallOutBoy, Big Sean and anyone else who later turns up and if it isn't Courtney who is that woman in the car and what does she want, I have more questions after watching the video than I did before.
I'm looking forward to the next video and seeing how other artist who feature on the album will be represented like Foxes, Elton John, Courtney Love and Big Sean.
(If you are still confused see what I thought of the first 3 videos here: http://shmelley.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/fall-out-boy-young-blood-chronicles.html)
the video starts in what looks like an old hospital and a woman is walking around with the suitcase with the handcuff still attached (possibly to show that it is the same suitcase that was cuffed to Patrick's wrist and removed in the pheonix video.)
The woman hands the case over to a woman in a car with the number plate "RATATAT" people on youtube speculate that it could be Courtney love because Ratatat is the single off the album and it features Courtney, it would make sense if it were Courtney but we don't really know the contents of the case so we don't really know what these people want from FallOutBoy so it could be anyone in that car to be honest, but I'm thinking it will be Courtney.
I saw an interesting thing on twitter where someone said they thought the Young Volcanoes video was about the dark side of celebrity lifestyle and Patrick Stump replied that was a good representation of what they meant, after seeing Alone Together I thought some more about what they talking about.
If young volcanoes was about the horrible side of the celebrity lifestyle what about the other 3 videos, the first video (in the timeline) The Phoenix had Patrick with the case cuffed to his wrist which subsequently was taken away by some women and a creepy boy who capture the rest of the band 1 by 1.
I didn't under stand what the creepy boy's purpose was but I think I understand now, I think the children in the videos are fans or thought to be fans, the band often relate to their fans as kids in interviews
(probably because their fans are often younger than them)which would explain why patrick smiled at the boy because he thought he was a fan, this could represent what happened when they released the previous album where the fans booed the band when they played new songs, I also think that the other artists featured in the video and the women are like their peers.
Any way I think the Phoenix video is about them being liked and wanted but to the point where it is disabling, (like how fans stalk their favorite bands and when the fan girls throw abuse at their celebrity crushes girlfriends just like they do with harry styles.)
Young volcanoes is the part where things get even worse, falling victim to drugs, alcoholism while it effects your work and personal lives, I think its one of those things you don't realize is bad until you come out the other end, I think that's what that video means, it's like the start of FalloutBoys downfall.
The events from "My songs know what you did in the dark" looks like it it takes place after "alone together" (unless they fit another video in between the van leaving with the band in the back and 2chainz setting it alight in the forest) and I think that video is like the break up/hiatus what ever it was, so "alone together" is just before that, it is the actual break up.
When we finally see the band members they are all tied up in separate rooms, Patrick is in the hospital's chapel tied to an electric chair, Joe was tied up on a small stage, Andy appears to be in a living room with a tv showing live footage of himself and Pete seems to be in a red carpet set up.
All the rooms can be seen as representations of the things that ruined them, however I think Patrick's room represents the effects of all the other rooms on the band than it is a room that represents something that broke them down, does that make sense?
Patrick is like the heart or mind of the band, while everyone else is being mentally tortured Patrick is being physically hurt and grows detached and crazy eyed by the end of the video.
In Joe's room where 3 little girls throw fruit at him and mock him represents the band being mocked by fans , like I said before , children seem to symbolize the fans, the band members often refer to fans as kids, besides children as usually thought to be unaware of the consequences to their actions so maybe they are saying that maybe the fans didn't know what their criticism was doing to them.
I'm not sure what Andys room represents but because it looks like a living room I guess it represents home life, his face on the tv could show how their privacy was invaded.
I'm not sure what the purpose of the women in Andys room, If it was meant to signify a relationship break down because surely the woman would be angry, she seems to be behaving slightly sexually but I doubt it is meant to be temptation because Andy doesn't seem interested at all.
She could be a stalker of some sort, she seems to enjoy his presence and the way she behaves with the tv screen could suggest she is watching him and that could relate to the whole invaded privacy thing, but I'm not too sure what she's meant to be.
Pete'r room seems to be temptation, I didn't really get it at first but after watching the video I noticed the woman (who untied and kissed Pete) had a hook for a hand and presumed that it must mean she is a hooker, It makes sense she pretty much walks up to him and snogs him, I know that Pete divorced Ashlee Simpson but the reasons aren't made clear (which is fair enough really, If it were me, I wouldn't want everyone knowing about something like that.) any way this sort of thing happens to celebrities, men and women throw them selves at celebrities and because they are celebrities people can make money by exposing it which is shown through the red carpet and the mannequins with cameras so I guess Petes room is about temptation and having your dirty laundry aired for all to see.
I promise now I'll get back to the actual story now.
after the hooker untied Pete he hits her takes her hook and stabs her killing her and he tries to escape he first finds a room with flammable liquids, band equipment and memorabilia (prepared for the events of "My songs know what you did in the dark") and then an alarm is sounded.
It is at this point where Pete is being chased through hospital corridors by women the conditions of the other 3 rooms gets worse and Patrick is no longer reacting to being tortured, I has got to the point where he no longer cares about what is happening, the bands temporary split was a result of them no longer enjoying being in a band which maybe Patrick being unresponsive is meant to be when they decided they were better off apart and there was nothing left to fight for.
Pete finds Big Sean also tied up in a room, he features on the "The mighty Fall" track on the album, Pete frees him using the hook hand as a blade to cut the straight jacket and they go their separate ways, Pete finds Patrick alone in his room (Patrick's eyes are glowing which is pretty creepy) and tried to free him too but Patrick fights him off, the women comes back and dart Pete knocking him out.
At the end of the video FallOutBoy are bundled into the back of a van and it drives away ( ready for "My songs know what you did in the dark" ) and Big Sean is seen hiding behind a tree looking on in horror as the van disappears.
The fact that Big Sean was also being held makes me wonder why he was there and what the women wanted from him , I know he features in a song so he would obviously feature in a video but how does he fit in with the story, does he know something about the suitcase? or does he have something else that they want?
And if it really is Courtney in the car what makes her possessedly the bad guy and what does she want from FallOutBoy, Big Sean and anyone else who later turns up and if it isn't Courtney who is that woman in the car and what does she want, I have more questions after watching the video than I did before.
I'm looking forward to the next video and seeing how other artist who feature on the album will be represented like Foxes, Elton John, Courtney Love and Big Sean.
(If you are still confused see what I thought of the first 3 videos here: http://shmelley.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/fall-out-boy-young-blood-chronicles.html)
Monday 1 July 2013
My brother's Nerdaphernalia.
Nerdaphernalia is the word paraphernalia and nerd combined, nerd meaning geeky things like movies, video games, comic books ect. and Paraphernalia meaning belongings or Items associated with an activity so simply put this is a Blog post about the nerdy things that belong to my brother that I secretly wished they were mine.
I don't have too many nerdy things in my room other than actual video games and movies whilst my brother has all these cute little figures and what not and I decided I wanted to show everyone.
(I might make one of theses about the stuff in my bedroom too at some point.)
Star Wars Mighty Muggs.
I don't have too many nerdy things in my room other than actual video games and movies whilst my brother has all these cute little figures and what not and I decided I wanted to show everyone.
(I might make one of theses about the stuff in my bedroom too at some point.)
Star Wars Mighty Muggs.
I Just love these they are really cute, I think my brother a dad found these in Tesco years ago, they also brought a Luke skywalker Mighty Mugg but I haven't seen that one in a while, Darth Maul also came with the double ended light sabre but I think that also got lost, however Vader still has his helmet, cape and light sabre.
When my brother got these I had never seen them before but after a few years I found some Mighty Muggs in the local comic book shop and I also started seeing them on the internet but I still haven't come across any star wars ones (I'm sure I could find more on ebay if I really wanted to but the fact remains I haven't come across one unintentionally.)
Black spider-man (or is it technically venom?) Popobe Bear.
Like the Mighty Muggs Popobe bears are also made of vinyl and have different designs, My brother got this from Camden market when he went with my parents.
I had made plans with friends already so I couldn't go t Camdem and long story short I got locked out of the house and had to sit in my nan and granddads house alone. (My parents got me a CareBear Pobobe bear necklace for my troubles.)
I just like this because I think it's cute and cool , I do quite like super heroes and I also really love teddy bears.
Groudon and Kyorge figures.
This would be so much better if he had a Rayquaza figure too, my brother isn't very good at looking after his toys and poor Kyorge looks a little under the weather ("under the weather" get it?) My brother occasionally goes through periods of really like one thing and rotating through them (one minute he likes Pokemon, the next he likes Stars Wars then he will move on to something else) he seems to like something if it is currently relevant like if a new Mario game comes out he will be really into Mario until he either completes them game or something new comes out.
About the age of 9 when Pokemon platinum was out he really got into to Pokemon again but that time he really really got into it, he even had a Pokemon themed birthday party and all he wanted that year was Pokemon teddies and figures until he got bored of it again and I am pretty sure this is when he got Groudon and Koyorge.
I just like pokemon and for me the best generation so far was gen 3, I like all the gens but I think gen 3 put more on the table in the way or new feature's and better graphics (since first gen obviously. ) so I like these figures.
Deadpool and Wolverine Lego.
My brother has so many Lego sets but this is one of the coolest, Wolverine comes with the motor bike and Deadpool comes with the helicopter, I'm not much of a comic book person which is sad because I really like Deadpool and he isn't really represented out of the comics, I would love him to get a cartoon series or a film but that seems unlikely, even though the Deadpool script is supposedly being/has been written and Ryan Reynolds has been chosen to portray him the film still seems to be a long way off, I do hope they go ahead with it.
My brother isn't really a comic book person (he isn't much a of a book person in general) and I don't believe he has seen any X-men movies either but he is knows of them so I don't think he brought the set because he is a Deadpool and Wolverine fan but probably because he thought they were cool and I agree with him.
Lego Avengers
The avengers Lego is different to the Wolverine and Deadpool Lego because he has seen the Avengers, the Iron man films, the Thor film and the incredible hulk so he does know more about these heroes and I guess he must like the avengers, Lego Iron man, Lego captain america and Lego black widow would make this much better but its pretty cute as is.
I like Lego Hulk and Lego Loki the best and besides with the Lego marvel video game coming out I'm looking forawrd to seeing theses figures in the game and how they can be used.
Sock monkey
I know this in't very nerdy but it is adorable, very few things are better than a good sock monkey (am I right?).
My uncle gave this to my brother, when we went to visit my uncle my brother fell in love with the sock monkey and my uncle said that an ex girlfriend had made it for him but my brother was quite welcome to have it and it's sat on his self ever since.
I just think sock monkeys are cool, I would never know where to start if I were to make one my self and if I did work it out it would probably fall apart any way, I just think this is well made, It's kind of sad that a girl put a lot of effort and made this for my uncle and then they split but rest assured the monkey has a loving home.
P.s
The new FallOutBoy video comes out today so expect me to analyse that soon.
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