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ketchup-monthly · 2 years

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Batfam members favorite sci-fi shows:

with the help of @space-specs

Bruce- Doctor Who (i vote he’s either a 12 fan or a 9 fan -ketchup)

Dick- Star Wars: The Clone Wars series (2D and 3D)

Babs- Firefly (just look at the cast.)

Jason- Babylon 5 (also probably a big Star Trek TNG fan)

Tim- Star Trek: Discovery (but grew up watching Voyager and is definitely a Harry Kim fan)

Cass- Star Trek: The Animated Series (has so many of the gifs and screencaps to use as reaction images)

Steph- Star Trek: Lower Decks (its so much goofier than live action star trek stuff and she really vibes with Beckett Mariner)

Duke- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (there’s so many complex interpersonal stories and also Commander Sisko is a badass and a fantastic dad that a kid who lost his dad would look up to so much)

Damian- Astroboy (just look at it. just look at it. like gently holds -specs)

Cullen- Star Trek: The Original Series (idk he just seems like he’d enjoy some really homoerotic-not-at-all-homoerotic space dramas)

Harper- The Mandalorian (just LOOK at the suit designs, omg -specs)

Kate- The X-Files (gay people. also badass hot redhead)

Alfred- The Twilight Zone (its a classic, and he’s a classy man. plus i imagine that when he has time off, he just wants to indulge in something wacky and lighthearted instead of all doom and gloom)

Terry McGinnis- Quantum Leap (i have no explanation except that i think he’d like it -ketchup)

Matt McGinnis- Cyberchase (”it’s so retro!~” -ketchup, as Matt)

Jarro- Futurama (it just is. look at him. then look at futurama. then look back at him. then look back at futurama. now look back at him. now it makes sense to you.)

Drake Winston- Westworld (he’s a batfam member in my heart and deserves to be here. also he just would be, and specs agrees with me -ketchup)

Carrie Kelley- Misfits (robert sheehan. -ketchup)(enough said -specs)

Jim Gordon- Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (yes it was a show. he’d like the books as well (all 5 of them), and the movie)

Bette- Lost (she just seems like she’d enjoy it)

Luke Fox- Battlestar Galactica (i vibe-checked it and it checks out -specs)

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amplesalty · 3 years

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Halloween 2021 - Day 3 - Minotaur (2006)

You mess with the bull, you get the horns!

So, full disclosure, this movie’s place on this marathon only exists because of the vast amounts of time I’ve spent playing Hades ever since it popped up on Gamepass a few months back. I’ve tried a couple of rogue likes before but never ever truly stuck. Spelunky I think I did a handle of attempts, Rogue Legacy had a few, Dungeons of Dredmor I played a little bit years ago. FTL is the one I was most into, even managed to be it albeit on the easiest setting. I think being turned based probably helped out a lot since I could use it as a secondary thing I was doing whilst I was watching YouTube videos or listening to podcasts. It’s kinda easier to split your focus when you’re not needing to use your reflexes to handle platforming and action combat whilst you’re trying to absorb something audibly.

Hades shares that same sort of addictive ‘one more go’ quality that I suppose is reflected in all rogue likes. That frustration of failing in a run but feeling the inspiration to go again straight away because you got so close and maybe things would have gone better if I’d taken this route or picked up this power up. It does poke at something I like in games, being able to incrementally improve your character so even if you are failing, you know that behind the scenes you are getting better in a pure numbers sense whilst also learning more on the mechanics and the levels of the game itself to help you become a better player. Hades is also wrapped up in a Greek mythology bow so you have something of a basic knowledge going into it from things you’ve picked up in school or general pop culture so it’s cool when you come across the likes of Zeus, Poseidon, Cerberus or Sisyphus.

Even leaning into the ‘horror adjacent’ nature of these moviefests I felt it was something of a stretch to try and shoehorn Jason and the Argonauts or Wrath of the Titans in here. Yeah, they might have stuff like the Kraken, Hydra or those cool stop motion skeletons but it’s more of a fantasy/adventure type thing. Luckily, I learnt that this movie existed and it’s listed as a horror movie. Plus it has Tom Hardy and Tony Todd, sold!

Their participation is probably the only things this movie has going for it so purely on that novelty factor maybe it’s worth checking out? I imagine it has a place as one of those movies that people check out in a ‘before they were famous’ sort of way. One of the top Google results for it is a review by Lindsay Ellis on themarysue.com. The mid 00’s I’d say is right before Hardy really started breaking out. Which isn’t to say he wasn’t in notable things before, to have your first film credit be Black Hawk Down is pretty good and I had no idea he was the Picard clone in Star Trek: Nemesis. But the late 00’s, early 10’s is when you truly start to get those bigger names: Bronson, Inception and, of course, The Dark Knight Rises. I wouldn’t say he did a bad job here or anything, he doesn’t really do anything to stand out but it’s a fairly non-descript movie so you can’t really blame him. He’s not a patch on the Theseus in Hades though. Kind annoying to fight with that spear he throws at you but he’s very theatrical and over the top in the way he greets you upon your entry into the battlefield. I don’t think I’ve ever really seen too much of Hardy’s work but presumably he gets better from here. I mean, everyone raves that Mad Max is the greatest thing since sliced bread, really should check that out sometime. And, tenuous link between him and Tony Todd, Hardy is obviously Venom in the Sony universe but apparently Todd is going to voice him in that Spiderman sequel on PlayStation. That’s going to be awesome.

Todd gives some socks as King Deucalion, a very authoritarian ruler that arranges for the abduction of eight youths from the Village of Thena every three years as a form of revenge for one of their people killing a royal Prince. Well, as youthful as a near 30 year old Tom Hardy can be. From there they are given as tribute to the titular Minotaur who roams in his labyrinth beneath the palace. It’s here that Hardy as Theo is set on going as a local witch type lady tells him that his lost love was not killed during her abduction some years ago and that he is to go the labyrinth to save her. Fair play to you if you manage to not only outwit the great beast but survive down there for so long.

Deucalion kinda has a vibe to him similar to King Xerxes in 300, both bald and showing a lot of skin. Has his own pit he likes to send people down too, though I suppose it was Leonidas’ pit in 300. Both Xerxes and Deucalion seem to be depicted as having hair and beards in historical paintings of them so not sure where this bald look comes from, maybe someone has an agenda in Hollywood to try and portray bald men as powerful in order to gloss over the stigma of losing ones hair.

The depiction of the Minotaur too seems a little off, spending all of it’s time on all fours. The Minotaur is generally depicted as bipedal, right? Like it walks around and it’s usually carrying some form of weapon like a hammer or polearm? Suppose with the Minotaur they follow the path of the standard horror movie monster by holding off on showing him until relatively late on, not that he’s much to look at with the time period, low budget CGI. Think they have some puppet work going on for the close ups though so that’s a bonus.

Budget clearly didn’t stretch to editing out the wires when people try climbing out of the pit.

The Minotaur doesn’t make for the most interesting or varied of killers though, just gores everyone the entire time and most of them are off camera. Either you just get the shot of the blood splatter on the wall or you hear someone’s screams of agony echo throughout the chambers of the labyrinth. I assume it’s blood anyway, maybe the Minotaur just stepped on a ketchup bottle.

They do kinda blow their load straight away though with one of the first kills where you this one girl talking to the group and all of a sudden she’s impaled through the back of her head and out through her mouth. Nasty!

Almost as nasty as some of the things going on in the bedroom in this universe. Aside from the incestuous relationship of King Deucalion and Queen Raphaella, you also have the origin story of the Minotaur which kinda doesn’t make sense. Like, the intro talks about how the people grew tired of worshipping a stone God and demanded a living one and wanted their Queen to offer herself to the Bull so that they could create the meeting of man and God. And we see her disrobe in front of one of the statues so...did the bull God manifest itself as a living being to impregnate her or did she fuck the statue? I mean, I guess it is a God so it can do what it wants so if it wants to make a statue capable of reproducing it can but how does that work? I know in the actual story it was a live bull that Poseidon used to punish Minos by having his wife fall in love with and mate with it. I don’t know why I’m dedicating this much thought to this debauchery. Feckin’ Greeks, they invented gayness.

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