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darth maul and padme amidala: discarded pawns

iain mccraig on doing concept art for the phantom menace / wookieepedia / james dillon / star wars tales volume 6 / paul mcdonald

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Lex and Clark in #Superman be like

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everybody say "thank you superman 2025 for bringing truly irredeemable villains back with lex luther!"

he is a cold blooded killer. he has pathetic tantrums and throws pens on the floor. he only wears black. he delivers a fantasically evil villain monologue. he cries pathetically when beaten. his motivation is not related to some tragic backstory, but is simply jealousy twisted into something so deplorably evil. he is bald.

this movie really is All That™️ and then some.

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Well yea duh

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James Gunn’s biggest strength is taking the most obscure and bizarre characters and making an audience fall in love with them. He literally brings out the worst in them, shows us why they’re the way they are and then rehabilitates them for the viewers by focusing solely on their life. It’s so unique.

I was wondering how he’d apply this method to someone as colossal and well know as Superman but he’s managed to use the same technique, making a character that’s too big and grandiose for an audience to relate to… relatable. And he did this without losing his “super” side. He just honed into his humanity, especially while he was in “super” mode.

The first gem of this working? The fucking intro. I sat up straight when it went from “3 centuries ago…” to “3 minutes ago, Superman just lost his first fight.” Wow. Finally. An unexpected beginning for a very predictable character.

Then? The scene between Lois and Clark. The sheer helplessness of someone like Superman against twisted words meant to goad and frustrate. Don’t we all deal with the exact same things on an almost daily basis? Not only is this Lois critical of Superman but also willing to tell him as much. Plus, she isn’t sure if she loves him while knowing that he, someone a majority of the world would give anything to be with, definitely loves her.

Then!!! They show him fight a Kaiju-esque creature with only the intention to knock it out. I mean, he sucker punches it and then rushes to stop it from falling on a building full of people… then he saves a squirrel. What in the Superman is going oooon 😭

THENNN!!!!!!! They show us his parents. His gorgeous GORGEOUS midwestern-ass, delicate lil normal looking parents in their tiny farm house calling their son, proud of his writing and terrified for his life. More than anything else, they made me see who Clark Kent was and why his Superman was so precious about every kind of life. This dorky, self-conscious, overthinking, frustrated, emotional, but-will-still-not-curse Superman is a gem. Clark is a gem.

Plus, David’s acting is phenomenal. Yes yes his switch up from Superman to Clark is cool but more than that? The frustration in every line of his face when he talks to Lois, the exasperation whenever Krypto is around, the sheer delight at writing his article and getting it published on the front page, the desperation to find his cousin’s pet, the agony of being around Kryptonite, the most genuine and wholesome earnestness that literally CARRIED the movie…

Sigh. I’m officially a Superman fan and it’s because of the writing, direction, and acting in this comic-accurate portrayal of Clark-you-clumsy-oaf-Kent.

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Little rant.

Gabriel said that Lando wrote him a congratulation text after getting his seat.

Franco said that Lando was the first one to contact him and that they organised a lunch with him and his manager to talk about what were Franco’s preoccupations.

Susie said that Lando frequently visits the F1 Academy paddock.

Multiple fans at multiple races or F1 events said that Lando went out of his way to greet them and give them as much time as he could.

As of recently, fans said he even went to the fans that were outside of the very expensive red carpet.

And the thing that I love the most about all of this is that it’s never Lando saying these things, that we always hear it from third parties. It’s simply amazing.

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The funny thing about Christian getting fired to me is that it either means Max signed with Mercedes or Max is getting so seriously close to signing with Mercedes that they felt they couldn’t let it go and I just love that level of chaos. Chaos begets chaos.

Sure, or it means Horner’s getting poached by Ferrari or it means the sexual misconduct lawsuit finally caught up with him or Geri’s divorcing him and he’s in a midlife crisis or Helmut Marko won the power struggle or he’s getting the sack for paying Checo Perez twenty william dollars to sit at home getting courted by Cadillac for a year or it’s just genuinely about the horrific results of this year or it’s about too many top people like Newey, Wheatley and Marshall leaving, etc. We don’t know anything, which is why until further notice I’m choosing to believe the funniest possible option: maxcedes gax teammates is a go.

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daniel wake up they sacked horner your curse came full circle finally

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ferrari don’t even whisper the name christian horner. don’t even THINK about it. don’t even breathe in his direction. i’m so serious

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As someone whos been watching F1 since redbull was founded I dont think many of you are grasping how big of a deal it is to fire the team principal.

I know Ferrari is fond of switching team principals every 3 or 4 years, hoping it solves their problems and many smaller teams like haas have done the same. But Horner has been present for 20 years. That's a very long time as team principal.

I've seen several jokes about how this is because redbull is now losing, and Max definitely won't win a 5th title this year. This is clearly way more than that. If that was the case, they would have fired Horner in 2014 when Seb left. You know their first WDC driver? Or when redbull was a midfield team during the mid 2010s.

They didn't though. This is something much more serious and something that's clearly been in the works for a while.

You can't just fire team principals in the middle of the season when they've been there for 20 years. After 20 years, exit clauses, severance packages, and financial stakes have all been created to protect Horner.

Redbull firing Horner is something that has most likely been in the works since before this season even started.

Something much bigger has happened, and it's not just the possibility Max leaving. Either the Sexual Harrasment case is way more serious than the media has been let on to or something else is at play.

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Look at what I found 🤣 (Sorry not sorry)

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a lando home race win, nico podium and now horner is sacked? this just keeps getting better and better