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Ah. Yes. James Woods. The only Disney villain to be voiced by an actual heartless person.

Can Disney drop him like the hot sack of shit he already is?

Sorry. Off topic I know. Just James Woods is someone I truly loathe.

I know what James Woods is like. I am talking strictly about the character he played.

And yes, I agreed that Disney should have dropped him like a sack of garbage a long time ago.

Edited by Nightwire on Jun 15th 2019 at 7:13:50 AM

Maybe when the nigh-inevitable Hercules Live Action Remake is cast?

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jun 15th 2019 at 7:19:00 AM

I've don't know much about James Woods, what did he do?

He's incredibly homophobic and openly insists that all gays are pedophiles. I think for sure he's specifically targeted Neil Patrick Harris, his husband, and their kids about this. He's SUPER Right Wing and kind of crazy. In general, he's also a heartless monster as he got into a twitter fight with someone who later died of cancer and commented that he hoped the guy burned in hell or some other tirade of angry screaming (I might have some details wrong as it's been a few years) and just over all seems like a nasty piece of work.

But he loves playing Hades and will basically do the role whenever Disney asks so he's still around and does the part.

I'll put it this way, the fandom rejoiced to have him in the Kingdom Hearts series back in 2004 and having the actual Disney cast in a crossover production was exciting. Come KH 3 in 2019... a lot of people were wondering why Disney still has him around and haven't just avoided the controversy of Woods and found a newer younger and less angry voice actor.

Edited by InkDagger on Jun 15th 2019 at 9:25:39 AM

Well... Fuck.

I'll just be glad that Finnish dub wasn't obviously played by him

In which Red discusses New York City and her opinions on it.

I'm going to say it, this might be one of my favorite videos on the channel, and that's a pretty high bar to clear!

Yeah, it's excellent. Seeing Red in full Genki Girl mode about her city is pretty sweet. It's also managing almost faster talking speed than Zero Punctuation.

It was a little strange seeing her avatar wearing a jacket.

Wait, she lives in NY?

Blue sums up the history of Hong Kong and protects himself from censorship by using Pooh memes :P

I really like the vid where he just dorks out over domes. He's such an architecture nerd it's adorable.

Red talks about Atlantis. Also for those interested in Atlantis related yugioh trivia, Atlantis was referenced not only in the Doma arc, but also in GX (Jim's Eye of Orichalcum) and seems to be the basis for the card "A Legendary Ocean" and the Mermail and Atlantean archetypes.

Yu-Gi-Oh actually has a lot of mythical, historical, and cultural references.

Indeed, but I felt the Atlantis ones were the more relevant. There are decks covering everything from Water Margin to the constellations to the Divine Comedy to Kabbalah now. And Egyptian and Mesoamerican myths were featured in the original series and 5D's respectably.

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jul 12th 2019 at 4:50:23 AM

Also Disney's Atlantis is more like the Atlantis that Plato depicted, especially the part about how it was destroyed by it's own hubris and need for empire building.

And they definitely look more Egyptian than Greek.

The bit with Blue was great.

Plato described them as foreign. And the Disney crew wanted to avert the same Greek influences seen in other past Atlantis designs. Their influences for the culture came from Southeast Asia, notably Cambodia, as well as the Mayan architecture found in South America.

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Atlantis_(location)

Edited by firewriter on Jul 13th 2019 at 12:00:29 PM

New Trope Talk!

Edited by darkabomination on Jul 26th 2019 at 8:01:28 AM

Red mentioned that the video was coming out a few days ago on the livestream, but I didn't think it would be out this quickly. Anyway, it's a gud video.

I wonder what she thinks of the Mandarin twist in Iron Man 3.

Personally I think the idea behind that twist is fine. It turns the plot, it recontextualizes things. Whether Ex-Nerd On Fire is a good replacement for the climax is another question. He was kinda anemic, but so would be any other guy in his shoes in terms of the movie's remaining runtime. So I don't count is as "less interesting than the nontwist".

Also on endgame I don't think no-spoilers policy was super wrong. The big hits of who dies aren't really casting a different light on the previous parts, they are just changing the future direction. They only have suspence of not knowing rather than suspense of working up to the event, so freshness is important.

(though I'm saying that as a guy that went for Wikipedia summary on day one because fuck cinemas and I don't want to hide under a rock for months waiting for dvds)

As Red points out, just because you know something ahead of time doesn't mean it's a bad thing. I really agree with what she says there, a good story will still preserve the tension if you know the spoiler. A bad twist won't.