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Spoilers What are your unpopular Sci-Fi & Fantasy Opinions?
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I actually really wanted to like Black Panther, but I didn't. I think part of it was reading reviews that described Killmonger as some kind of "deep" character. ( ie: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidi...reatest-villain-steals-the-show/#2ee12c0736d8)
So some kid has his father, who committed treason against his country and gets killed in an explosion he instigated, chooses to become a psychopathic mass murderer with a "goal" of taking control of a country with advanced technology and sell weapons of mass destruction to the highest bidder, is supposed to be some kind of "deep" interesting villain, compared to, say, Loki. Then, you know like any of us would, murder his way to the throne. Yeah, I can really relate to that and feel sympathy.
I actually did appreciate the depiction of a Black African nation with an advanced economy and technology, but the ease with which Killbaby was able to take control was ludicrous.
It wasn't the worst super hero movie I've ever watched, but at least Batman 1966 still gives me some laughs.
The movie had great effects and lots of action, but there are a lot better films I can get that from.
So some kid has his father, who committed treason against his country and gets killed in an explosion he instigated, chooses to become a psychopathic mass murderer with a "goal" of taking control of a country with advanced technology and sell weapons of mass destruction to the highest bidder, is supposed to be some kind of "deep" interesting villain, compared to, say, Loki. Then, you know like any of us would, murder his way to the throne. Yeah, I can really relate to that and feel sympathy.
I actually did appreciate the depiction of a Black African nation with an advanced economy and technology, but the ease with which Killbaby was able to take control was ludicrous.
It wasn't the worst super hero movie I've ever watched, but at least Batman 1966 still gives me some laughs.
The movie had great effects and lots of action, but there are a lot better films I can get that from.
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Unfortunately I didn't like Black Panther also. I was hyped for the movie with the trailers and the extremely good word but I just felt bored with many scenes feeling repetitive and dragged out. I remember I was feeling sick the day I went to see it and felt quite sleepy. Rewatching it later I still held the same opinion.
I think that it is an unpopular opinion. Lately, I've been running into loads of people who won't quit talking about how much they love Donna, even to the point where she got her own fan panel at Phoenix ComicCon a couple years ago despite the fact that she left the show a decade ago! Personally, I like Donna but that has less to do with the character and more to do with my residual good will towards the actress thanks to The Catherine Tate Show. (Also, I met Catherine Tate last year and she was very sweet and friendly.
)Like I said, Bill got the absolute worse shake out of any of them. But I think that Martha is the clear 2nd place finisher. In addition to spending a year traveling on her own during the Master's nightmarish tyrannical reign over Earth, she also had a few months of drudgery before that. First, she had to work as Professor John Smith's maid and deal with all of the casual racism from upper class twits in 1913. Then she had to work in a shop to support the Doctor while they were stranded in 1969.
Rose's fate was only a tragedy because she was separated from the Doctor. Given that I can't stand that romance, cry me a River! (Pun intended
.)It's a shame that Donna had her memories of the Doctor erased but that kinda seems like it's a greater tragedy for him than for her. (Although, if I had Donna's mother, I'd probably prefer to have my head explode.)
Amy & Rory might have been in rough shape getting stranded back in the 1930s but it's ultimately a happy ending for them because they were together.
Clara died, then got rescued by the Time Lords at the exact moment of her death. She currently doesn't have any biological functions (although that seems to be less of a bother for her than it was for Owen when he got resurrected on Torchwood) because her body has been frozen at the point between her last 2 heartbeats. In theory, her death is a fixed point in time, so the Time Lords eventually have to put her back, lest the universe blow up. However, she escaped in her own stolen TARDIS with Me. So now she's basically immortal and travels the universe with her immortal companion in a TARDIS that's stuck in the shape of a 1950s American diner.
I sure hope that she managed to get put back in her proper timestream before the Master destroyed Gallifrey. Otherwise....
Mostly, I just call BS on such an advanced culture determining their leader based on physical combat. Also, compared to most Marvel leads, T'Challa was just kinda there. He didn't have the kind of wisecracking screen presence that most of the others do. I actually found Shuri, Okoye, & M'Baku to be more compelling characters. I didn't think that Killmonger was a great villain but I at least appreciate that the movie had the wherewithal to make sure that the black supremacist trying to start a race war was depicted as the bad guy.
Disney's"Frozen" kinda sucks.
Agreed, but less than Frozen 2.
Even my 12 year old son yelled at the screen "Ice is just frozen water!"
Unpopular sci-fi opinions are deservedly unpopular because they’re, well, wrong. 
James Cameron has only made one great movie—The Terminator. The rest are pretty but mediocre, at best.
Man of Steel is the best Superman movie (and is better than any TV version of Superman).
Star Trek V is unjustifiably mocked (and Shatner is a significantly better director than Nimoy).
The Green Lantern movie was quite entertaining.
Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie since 1980.
Did I do this right?
(It’s late. This is all I’ve got for now.)
James Cameron has only made one great movie—The Terminator. The rest are pretty but mediocre, at best.
Man of Steel is the best Superman movie (and is better than any TV version of Superman).
Star Trek V is unjustifiably mocked (and Shatner is a significantly better director than Nimoy).
The Green Lantern movie was quite entertaining.
Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie since 1980.
Did I do this right?
(It’s late. This is all I’ve got for now.)
I keep meaning to do a proper re-watch of all of the Star Wars movies. There are some that I haven't seen since the Disney takeover. I'm very split on Rogue One. I never really got into the cast but I think that it's definitely the best looking Star Wars movie ever. I like how it's using expensive 2016 techniques to recapture that grungy, accidental, low-budget aesthetic of the original 1977 film.
I think I need to do a Doctor Who Rewatch, at least up to the Whitaker season, which I still didn’t like. I haven’t seen the first three seasons in a long time so my memory was Martha leaving the Tardis smiling. I knew about the traveling the world for a year but I was just thinking about their final appearance and how they left.
besides I think it would be fun to relive Doctor Who seasons 1-10 again. Heck I can really appreciate the River Song arc, since I liked how they did it with River starting at the end, the Doctor starting at the beginning and then they meet in the middle.
I have done a full rewatch this summer (of the 2005- version). Many episodes I had not seen since they first aired. It was cool watching the development of the smart phone.
I really liked the River Song arc watching it through knowing what was going to happen. River's reference are almost always written into future stories. She is one of the best DW characters ever.
As for James Cameron's movies---I think The Abyss was Cameron's best film and would have been truly great if he hadn't been strapped for the money needed to provide a proper ending.
I don't like Martha, but the reasons have nothing to do with her "not being Rose".
I don't like her because the writers chose to hang much of her character arc on an infatuation with the Doctor and also weren't consistent in the way they handled her beyond that.
Her having to follow both Rose and Donna didn't help matters, though.
I don't like her because the writers chose to hang much of her character arc on an infatuation with the Doctor and also weren't consistent in the way they handled her beyond that.
Her having to follow both Rose and Donna didn't help matters, though.
The Expanse, while a perfectly fine and entertaining show, is not the scientist's bible that everyone makes it out to be. Even if the do get more right than typical space opera.
She didn't follow Donna? Rose was seasons 1 and 2, Martha Season 3, Donna Season 4 with Martha back in guest spots for the Sontaran 2 parter and the finale 2 parter.
You’re actually both right. Martha was a regular companion before Donna was but Donna first appeared in a Christmas special (Runaway Bride, she was the title character) in between Rose’s departure and Martha joining the show.
My hubby is OBSESSED with The Expanse. He loved the show, went and read a few of the books, talks about it all the time...I even bought him a T-shirt with the title graphics on it and he loved it.
Me?
Yeah, it's OK. It's interesting, but I only like one or two of the characters---the rest are just...*there.* I watch it with hubby, but if it didn't renewed, OK. I'm not all involved in it or anything.
Admittedly, I didn't pick up on how rough Martha had it until after multiple rewatches since most of her suffering occurs during long stretches off screen. She was the only modern companion to leave under her own power, so she gets points for that. But because people mostly only remember that, it kinda makes her silent suffering even worse.
A re-watch certainly sounds like a good idea. Most of the episodes from Seasons 1 & 4 I haven't seen in about a decade. I was planning a Season 1 rewatch earlier this year because Eccleston was going to be a guest at Phoenix ComicCon before it got canceled.
I rewatched Seasons 2 & 3 about a year or two ago because I was in the midst of a Tennant rewatch but I got distracted by something else before I could get to Season 4. I try to rewatch Seasons 5-10 fairly regularly since Smith/Amy/Rory is my favorite TARDIS team and Capaldi is my favorite Doctor. I've still yet to make it through the entirety of Seasons 11 or 12. I've watched the first 2 episodes of Season 11 and the first 8 episodes of Season 12. But it's really hard. The companions are so boring and the show has lost that spark of whimsy that seemed to define the tone during the first 10 seasons.Yeah. I wasn't fond of that. Although, IMO, it had less to do with Martha's unrequited infatuation with the Doctor and more to do with portraying it like the only reason why the Doctor wouldn't look twice at her was because he was still hung up on Rose. Part of the reason why I detest Rose is because she refused to completely leave the show when Billie Piper left. First she's the unseen barrier between Martha & the Doctor in Season 3. Then Season 4 was all about teasing Rose's eventual return for the 3-part finale.
Yeah, but Shatner has the gravitas to pull off an over-the-top moment like that. Quinto is no Shatner.
Not sure if this is unpopular or not: Nearly every character on the new Battlestar Galactica is a contemptible asshole. Even characters that I started out liking like Chief Tyrol ended up becoming pure dickheads. (Although my opinion actually flipped the opposite direction for Col. Tigh. He seemed like a one-note alcoholic fuck-up at the beginning but I started liking him a lot better during the New Caprica arc in Season 3.)