My thoughts after reading Ms. Marvel #5

First of all what kind of “bad guy” are you Doyle? Telling the hero everything. I will never understand that. (Shakes head in disbelief.) Well I guess what do you expect? Doyle is crazy. Not like in a dangerous way. 
 

Well sometimes not all together people scare me the most but that’s a while other issue that I have. (Okay I can’t leave that side rant unsaid. It’s like the zombie apocalypse. I would not be afraid of the zombies, I would be afraid of the people.)

Back to the point Doyle is not that kind of crazy. He is more like cat lady crazy. Well he does call those robots his kitties. And pets them? 

This time there was no Bruno angst. Not in a bad way, but are those two crazy kids every going to get it together. Although it was great to see some story building with Kamala’s courage and costume. 

Poor Kamala, sometimes you forget that she is just a kid. And then the writers remind you by including phrases like “As great as it feels to be powerful … I kind of want my mom right now. Or not.”

Kamala’s parents remind me of the parents from the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Well except in this case the parent roles are reverse. Every time I hear Muneeba say things “My—my beautiful daughter is destroying her life!” I hear things like, “Toula, Toula we never thought you’d get married.” I think these things, not in a bad way. Kamala’s parents are just traditional. But they still are parents. Take it from me, parents just don’t understand.

Remember regular TV?

Remember when they used to show that on regular tv?

This is a term my husband and I used often. Especially whenever we are watching a movie like The Karate Kid. After Saturday cartoons would come the big movies. And we enjoyed these movies, unironically. Regular tv to us were channels outside of cable, mainly local network channels. I wonder if anyone else uses that term? Hmm..

One awesome thing about regular tv is they would show the same movies every weekend. The Goonies, Gleaming the Cube, Rad, The Great Outdoors, Legend of Billy Jean, and John Hughes movies. Sixteen Candles, John Hughes? You know that guy? That guy. (Sorry, please excuse the Kevin Smith reference/rant.) The movies they would show on regular tv was pre on demand. This was before cable channels started showing movies that just got done playing at the theaters. Before Netflix and YouTube.

For those of you who do not remember, or do not remember Gleaming the Cube where Christian Slater plays a skater trying to avenge the death of his brother. And kids if you don’t know what the term, gleaming the cube means ask an adult.

Pretty much every movie that came out in the 80s that in my personal opinion should be part of school curriculum.

What else did they used to show, oh … Flight of the Navigator, The Last Starfigter, Enemy Mine, D.A.R.Y.L., Wizard (California, California). Speaking of Wizard, I used that word a couple of weeks ago and no one knew what the word meant. I think I need to make a campaign to bring back the word, wizard. You know what else they used to show on regular tv all the time? Solar Babies, Labyrinth, and Legend. It seems like all the movies back then, shaped who we are and what types of books and movies we will eventually fall in love with. …agreed that what really matter is what you like, not what you are like. Books, records, films these things matter. (Sorry, please excuse the High Fidelity reference/rant.)

Oh my G-O-S-H, I’m started to sense a theme here. Perhaps I watch too many movies. And then when I am not doing that I’m reading or writing. Is there such as thing as too much? (3 second pause) Nah. Otherwise who would ever understand when I say things like “Clever girl.” Or, “These are not the droids you are looking for.” And when I watch tv shows or movies like Supernatural, Farscape, and Fanboys, where would all that joy from laughing at ScFi, Fantasy, and just funny and relateable references go?

Farscape

This is my first time watching Farscape. So far I have watched Seasons 1-3. Can I just say I think the real romance here, is the bromance between Crichton and D’Argo. Ben Browder and Anthony Simcoe have great chemistry. Even though they are two different species, they are able to get one another’s jokes. (And it’s about to get real for a second.) Through their differences they learn they are the same, and share similar heart breaks like lost family and lost love. Back to the bromance. One of my favorite moments is when Crichton ask D’Argo how is doing before they try and trick the Peacekeepers, and D’Argo says… “I have to pee.”

Aeryn, Aeryn, Aeryn for a Peacekeeper she sure is a girl. Please don’t mistake my phrase being a girl as girls are bad, or acting like a girl is bad. What I mean is for someone who had never been in a “relationship” she knows what she is doing? No, wait I got it. She never gives poor Crichton a break. Nailed it! (Disclaimer, its only my opinion and thoughts when I am watching the show.) Like the time Scorpious was literally inside Crichton’s head and when he was controlling Crichton, Crichton killed Aeryn. Oh, what about that episode when Crichton/Crichton’s clone is killed and when Aeryn comes back to Moya she is cold and distant. All I can say sometimes is what about Crichton? He pretty much lost the only person who truly knows him, and the only other human around. Sometimes I am not sure how to feel about Rygel. Perhaps that is the way the show is meant to be? Sometimes I am thinking to myself, what a weenie. Then other times it’s like don’t mess with Rygel.

The most important character of the show are the Jim Henson’s puppeteers. The Jim Henson’s Creature Shop knows how to create such emotion. It’s amazing to me the animatronics The Creature Shops uses is timeless. I think technology is great for movies, but there is something wonderful about the size and creative of that kind of imagination. Now when I look at Pilot I forget that is a puppet. There are no words to describe it. Mind, blown.  

  

There is one episode that I could not get over, Eat Me. To me that was one of the scariest episodes because those people just lost it, and started eating the ship and their pilot. That poor pilot when he screams that they are cutting off his arms and letting them grow back, so they can eat him was too real. I guess I think it’s one of the scariest because The Creature Shop does an excellent job conveying emotions, and people losing it when they are in the middle of nowhere I believe. For a couple of episodes I could not look at Pilot.

I am glad that my husband and I started watching Farscape. As fans of The Dark Crystal, The Muppets, Fraggel Rock it’s so amazing how technics you see when you are little still can hold up in adulthood. I think I already used this word but that work is truly timeless. And in my humble opinion can match up against any computer generated effects. I also feel it’s important that we have more animatronics on shows and movies because it shows people that not all creativity and imagination has to be solely from a keyboard.