#THERE ISN'T ANY DVD OF THE REBOOT

[papysnek]

ducktales woohoo tried to emulate the Ducktales (2017) artstyle. i failed!! i'm joking, it's decent, it's alright. I watched the reboot in December and I absolutely loved it so while my first plan was to make good old fanart FOR ONCE, I eventually settled with my two sillies. that and i'm slow as hell so time is of the essence. also a late valentine's day post? I guess?? no day like any day to celebrate love, isn't it?

[honey-minded-hivemind]

Okay, so, a new au I'm going to be focusing most of my attention on for a bit (because for once, I have an actual plot!), takes a few traits from Rewind AU, Static AU, and Isekai AU... It is 💿Reboot AU...

The story involves Reader, a tired teen/young adult, who is in the 2000s and trying to make ends meet and working hard when they're.l not studying for their assignments or tests, who has a childhood they hardly remember and are estranged from their relatives. They live alone, in an old, shoddy house, with a leaking roof and creaking floors and a cold draft, and don't have a lot that isn't old or junk...

They stumble on an old set of DVDS or VHS tapes, labeled as a reboot of an old X-Men show, Evolution... They remember it vaguely, but don't remember any characters or names or faces... Shrugging it off, they take the videos downstairs, make sure their old TV and DVD player work, and pop in the first disk with the first few episodes that introduce the characters and their powers...

Reader enjoys watching the series, feeling a small amount of comfort and familiarity with it, thinking it's just nostalgia...

What they don't know is that the show is watching them back, shocked that their old friend, who would disappear later in the series, is there, in a strange world, amd doesn't remember them...

Reader finds that there are at least five seasons, at least half of the episodes involving some character that they don't think they remember in any other media, but who looks a bit like... them... They push their sense of unease down, simply trying to go back to studying and finishing sorting through the items to bring to the thrift store they work at...

All while eyes watch them, trying to figure out a way to contact their old friend and make them realize what's going on...

(So, yeah... This was an idea... But I really wanted to explore an analog horror/Rewind AU with X-Men Evolution, but wanted to switch things up a bit. So, I made the series Reader found a reboot, so a few plot differences, mostly the same character designs, a few extra episodes, and a new character who looks a bit like Reader... @sugar-soda and @thewickedweiner What do y'all think?)

[vintage-tech]

useful information: How to get a USB Blu-Ray player to work on your computer

Not a post about vintage technology, just an explanation of what you think might be simple to do but isn't: There are Blu-Ray players that plug into your computer by USB, and you discover that just plugging it in doesn't make it work* in the same manner that CD-RWs or DVD-RWs are automatically recognised and function. You will see "BR Drive" in My Computer and the name of whatever movie you have inserted, but that's as far as you're able to go.

*There is software you can buy to make a Blu-Ray (internal or external) function, sure, and if an internal came with your computer it's likely already installed -- but if you're like me you don't have that software, you're cheap and won't pay for software, and you want to use what you have installed already or find free solutions.

Looking in the Blu-Ray drive's package, there's not a lot of info about what you're supposed to do. The above no-name Blu-Ray player cost $40 from a popular website; name-brand ones can set you back $120 or so. Looking around online for those instructions, I never saw the whole set of directions in one place, I had to cobble them together from 2 or 3 sites. And so here I share that list. To keep out of trouble, I'm not linking any files -- Google will help you.

Get VLC, the free video player available for pretty much any operating system. Thing is, it doesn't come with the internals to make it work with Blu-Ray even if when you go to the Play Media menu there is a radio button for selecting Blu-Ray.

Get MakeMKV, a decoder for reading Blu-Ray disks. This had been totally free during the beta testing period but it's come out and has a month or two trial period you can work in.

Get Java if you don't already have it. Reason for this is, the menu systems on Blu-Ray disks uses this... technically it's not required, however it does mean you don't have options such as special features, language and sound changes, or scene selection if you don't have Java installed; insert a disk, it can only play the movie.

Get the file libaacs.dll online so you have AACS decoding. I am told it hasn't been updated in awhile so there may be disks produced after 2013 that won't work right, but you won't know until you try.

There's a set of keys you will also want to have so that the player knows how to work with specific disks, and so do a search online for the "FindVUK Online Database". There will be a regularly-updated keydb.cfg archive file on that page to pick up.

Got those three programs installed and the other two files obtained? Okay, here are your instructions for assembly...

In VLC: go to Tools, Prefs, click "show all"… under the Input/Codecs heading is Access Modules then Blu-Ray: Select your region, A through C. You can change this if you need to for foreign disks. Next related action: go to My Computer and C:, click into Program Files and VLC, and this is where you copy the libaacs.dll file to.

In MakeMKV: click View, then Preferences, and under Integration - add VLC.

Confirm that Java is set up to work with VLC by going to the computer's Control Panel, going to System Properties, and into Environment Variables. Click System Variables, and click New to create this key if it doesn't already exist: … Name: Java … Value: [the location of the Java 'jre#.##' folder... use Browse to find it in C:\Program Files\Java]

Let's go back into My Computer and C:, this time go to Program Data, and then do a right-click in the window and select New and Folder. Rename this folder "aacs" (without the quotes), and then you click into it and copy the keydb.cfg file here.

REBOOT.

And now you should be able to recognise Blu-Ray disks in your player and play them. Three troubleshooting notes to offer in VLC:

"Disk corrupt" -- this means MakeMKV has not decoded and parsed the disk yet, or that you don't have the libaacs.dll in place so that it can decode the disk. ...After checking the VLC folder for the DLL to make sure, launch MakeMKV, then go to File, Play Disk, and select the Blu-Ray drive. Now it will grind a bit and figure out the disk's contents.

A note appears when a movie starts saying there will be no menus, but the movie plays fine -- Java isn't running. ...Invoke Java by going to the Java Settings in Start: Programs. You don't have to change anything here, so Exit, then eject the disk and put it back in to see if the movie's menu now appears.

Buffering between chapters, making the movie pause for a few seconds? There is a setting for this but I need to find that info page again for where that is. (If you find it, tell me where it is!)

I don't claim to know a lot but if you have any questions I might have some answers or suggestions. So far I've watched "Office Space" and Disney's "Coco" without any issues beside occasional buffering.

[show-us-kaidenshenandoah]

i was watching the movie again and went "...wait a second" at the designs of The Gammas (or Gamma Mu Mu). i looked up trivia and couldn't find anything to confirm (or deny, i guess) my thoughts, so i guess?? this is a theory? (someone with a DVD/Bluray version, please check the Special Features for me to see if anyone mentions this. i have no idea) i'm surprised i haven't seen this parallel thrown around more but yeah, i think im onto something if this is a new thought in the Goofy Movies fanbase lol

sorry for the low quality of the image, ill type the transcript up in the post to make up for how blurry my text is. there just isn't a lot of pictures of these guys, period, much less that i could find of this specific scene so i could make my point

but yeah, my theory is The Gammas are all based off the classic villains in the Mickey-Donald-Goofy multiverse (plus Bigfoot, but i know many people noticed the redhead member of the Gammas is just "a shaved down version of Bigfoot" from the first "A Goofy Movie" lol)

(also, im a novice at learning about this extended Mickey-Donald-Goofy multiverse, im still new to the Carl Banks comics and havent seen all the media. so forgive me if im wrong at any point and please kindly correct me ♡)

so there's:

named: Bradley Uppercrust III — no idea if he is based off of anyone

named: Tank — based off of: Pete / Peg Leg Pete (but make him unrelated to PJ, basically) (hence, why he looks the least like his source, if im correct. he has a shirtless scene where he's revealed to have a farmer's tan, that i think you could argue is a very subtle nod that would have been slightly closer to a Pete-like coloration. but yeah, if im right, they had to make Tank's pallette lighter ao he wouldn't be mistaken as a relative of PJ's)

unnamed bearded member — based off of: the main Beagle Boys trio (Babyface) (Bigtime) (if you don't know the lore: there's a lot of Beagle Boys as the gag is they're a BIG family, but the main trio in the original "Ducktales" show is the first set of parentheses. the second set of parentheses is their names in the classic Ducktales comics. both the original "Ducktales" show and the reboot "Ducktales" show features both sets of the trio/s though. though the Carl Barks version of the comics preferred the route of "they go by their prison-numbers rather than their names". also, inbetween the two "Ducktales" TV shows, a lot of Disney media just merged the two trios into one kind-of-amorphous trio, as far as i can tell, like with "Mickey, Donald, and Goofy: the Three Muskateers". but still, they're part of a HUGE family who tend to be clones of said main trio. but i digress. they're a confusing family lmao rip)

unnamed member wearing sunglasses — based off of: the main Beagle Boys trio (Bankjob) (Bouncer) (i like to think his sunglasses (and i guess also the unnamed bearded member's glasses, but mainly these sunglasses) as a homage to the Beagle Boys' black masks lol)

named: Slouch — based off of: the main Beagle Boys trio (Bugle) (Burger) (also: im entirely banking off differentiating Bugle/Burger to Slouch and Bankjob/Bouncer to sunglasses-guy on how Bugle is commonly reffered to as "a hipster" and i personally associate fedoras with a similar type of crowd. i could have those mixed up tho, idk, neither of these guys even have any lines lol but i do like the idea that maybe the fedora is flipped like that as a reference to the Beagle Boys' billed caps? idk, that might be a stretch) (i would also like to mention i hc these guys are The Beagle Brats now in college-age, who are an unnamed trio that goes by "1, 2, and 3" in the comics but, from what i can tell, that the Beagle Brats in general (not 1, 2, and 3 specifically) were first seen(?) in the "Ducktales" original show (who also have a v small cameo in the reboot) that were meant to parallel the triplets Huey and Dewey and Louie; these specific ones im talking about the nephews of the general-amorphous-main-trio of Beagle Boys, but it is possible to call any Beagle Boy who is young a Beagle Brat. but, yeah, i have no basis for why i think Slouch and the other two are specifically the Beagle Brats 1, 2, and 3; that's entirely headcanon)

unnamed member that's a redhead — based off of: Bigfoot in "A Goofy Movie" (again, i know a lot of people caught this one lmao)

unnamed member that has black hair — based off of: Mortimer Mouse (who was once also known aa Montmorency Rodent/Rodawn, but they've been retconned into being the same character by now, but that'a a tangent.) (if you don't know the lore: Mortimer is a bit complicated to describe? but the tldr is that he's basically Mickey's love-rival for Minnie. to go more in depth though, uh, he's more wealthy, usually, and claims to be "in love" with Minnie Mouse but is also a jerk and she generally does not have any interest in him (well, unless the plot the writer wants includes a love-triangle). Pete is usually considered a more recognizable villain, so Mortimer rarely shows up, esp since Pete can be easily be written as also harboring feelings for Minnie. so sometimes shows re-write Mortimer from this personality so he is more distinct, sometimes as a toxic friend of Mickey's or overall bad influence but well-intentioned; so the character has some flexibility. but i know him best, as do many others, via his "House of Mouse" recurring role where he'd show up just to try to break Mickey and Minnie up or otherwise flirt with any female guests. i think he works well in competition wirh Pete, who has more of a Goliath-and-David relationship with Mickey when Mickey and Pete are antagonistic, as Mortimer is an antagonist that is just as clever and capable as Mickey (if not more so, since he is clever, competent, and generally wealthy enough to have more resources than Mickey) but does not have Mickey's sincerity or good intentions. though i dont mind how kid shows re-write him either, i think toxic friends and bad influences are good lessons for children to learn. i like Mortimer being a frenemy who has good intent but bad follow-through lol but anyway, thank you for allowing me this debatably-overexplanation of Mortimer since he's my favorite and also, uh, the only one here where #1 he isnt in the Goofy Movie series and ergo may not be known to others, #2 has a consistent personality beyond "bad guy in story" i can talk about unlike the Beagle Boys trio/s and their huge extended family of might-as-well-be-clones, and #3, again, he's my favorite if you couldnt tell lol) (also, i do think you could argue this unnamed character's quiff is a nod to Mortimer's mouse-ears tho, since there's a curve and all. and then the idea he has some stubble as a possible ref to Mortimer's whiskers is hilarious to me if my theory has water and he was intentionally designed after Mortimer lmao)

anyway, i apologize again if this idea has been discussed before. i really did try to google if anyone was spreading the same idea that The Gammas are just a fun College AU-Variant of these guys already

+ bonus, since i mentioned them, The Beagle Brats:

please let me know if you think the idea has merit, and especially let me know if Bradley is a reference to anyone (tho i can also fully buy Bradley being original to this movie!) thanks so much for reading ♡

ps. i am dyslexic so do forgive me for any misspellings. i am editing this unseriously from my phone ✌️

[itsclydebitches]

I honestly have no idea how they intend to greenlight volume 10 if it's not been greenlit already. They've announced the final season of Red vs Blue and a lot of early day fans are in agreement that the end of RvB is the signaling of the end of RT in general. It's their second biggest money maker next to RWBY. After this new season, it's over. What do they do next? Do RT really believe that RWBY is popular enough to coast on for another decade? It'll be a miracle if it lasts even one more year.

Their viewership has been on a decline since Volume 6, they've abused so much of their animation department that there's almost no one left, most of their VA talent for RWBY's popular characters aren't coming back due to all the controversies, any spinoffs or soft reboots or whatever keep going back to the Beacon era and don't really do much to help with the overall problems that are down to the roots of the company.

They even made their biggest ship that kept what few fans are left canon and put out half assed merch that sold out in minutes, and somehow they still haven't managed to find enough money to greenlight another volume?

If they somehow miraculously get Volume 10 made, it's probably going to be the last.

The last few years of RWBY have really highlighted for me how challenging it is to define "popularity" and "success" nowadays. Granted, a good chunk of that is simply my own ignorance about how the production side of things are run, but it nevertheless feels like there's this intense level of ambiguity that wasn't there in the past (or at least wasn't as obvious). Fandom itself has always been an unreliable source because depending on the corner of the internet you're in, you can get a wildly skewed perspective without engaging with everything that contradicts how "good" or "bad" you think things are going. As you say, merch sells out in minutes, yet neither the finances nor the implied security of that seems to be enough to land another Volume. There are questions about whether this could be a marketing scheme, wherein Volume 10's future is simply being kept under wraps to drum up interest. There's the question of whether popularity matters at all when we've got companies cancelling and pulling undoubtedly successful shows, all according to their own, long-term algorithms. On the one hand the information surrounding RT is all about the abuse of their workers, another scandal, how this might all tie into the strikes... and yet most of this is nothing new and RWBY has still secured movies, a soft reboot, comics, and books. I agree completely with your list above of all the ways in which the series is struggling (massively) and yet RWBY has been "dying" for half its run-time. So is this the final nail in the coffin—the inevitable ending that's been a long time coming—or just another year where the fandom unintentionally cries wolf?

I'm not so naive as to believe that things were actually simple 'back in the day'—that's the nostalgia talking—but it still seems like things were simpler in comparison to what we've got now. TV and its media equivalents used to be—or at least felt like—a fairly straightforward journey of airing, ratings, syndication, cancellation, renewal, and then (eventually) the viewer securing a copy for themselves via VHS and DVDs. Now it's like, "What do I do with the newbie webseries eventually bought up by a major corporation and moved from a free watch, to a company-specific streaming watch, to a different, more expensive streaming watch, all of which has led to a decade of success with various spinoffs, but apparently this webseries still isn't making enough money to continue? Regardless, it and everything else I love to watch is inching more and more towards digital-only copies, a status that is inherently nerve-wracking, which means that if it does suddenly crash and burn (given that this is one of two series keeping the original company afloat) circulating this story and maintaining the fandom will be that much harder."

I find that depressing and I'm someone who thinks RWBY is pretty awful right now. I can't imagine what that ambiguity and the state of streaming media in 2023 feels like to fans still in love with the show.

So yeah. Idk how they intend to greenlight Volume 10 either.

[dynared]

Random thoughts on the Earthspark cancelation and what comes next for the Transformers brand

What a week, huh? So, we got confirmation Earthspark was canceled, Hasbro put the absolute bare minimum effort into their 40th anniversary celebration leading to many people going to the movie theaters expecting Transformers the Movie and not DVD-quality episodes of the TV series with many demanding refunds, and some good news, Transformers from Skybound being nominated for several Eisner awards, the first time a Transformers comic has ever been nominated for the comic book world's Oscar equivalent.

So once again, the brand, the sole surviving Western mecha brand at this point unless that J-Lo movie next week somehow launches a new franchise (doubtful) is at a crossroads, especially with their enduring business partner Paramount in complete turmoil, with more senior executives jumping ship and an official NDA signed between Paramount and Sony yesterday which allows Sony access to Paramount's record-keeping in order to ascertain the value for a bid.

So with all that said, rambling about the franchise under the cut.

Earthspark is done after this season, and it's easy to see why. While many right-wing grifter types will point to the nebulous "wokeness", an ill-defined term at this point that means little besides "bad non-traditional thing", the reasons are pretty simple. Kids weren't interested, the toyline didn't sell, and the show, whether due to being distributed on a streaming service people only get for Sonic stuff and the occasional South Park special, had very poor ratings. If you're making a kids show and you bore the kids, you're done, no matter how "important" you think the stories are. The days of Ted Turner funding Captain Planet out of his own pocket are long gone.

Since Earthspark is dead, but another series is in development, it looks like Hasbro will not be letting the franchise rest for any set period of time. The most likely follow-up for Earthspark is a spin-off of Transformers One similar to what Tales of the TMNT is for Mutant Mayhem after the latter's box-office success. It's a pretty low-risk venture to boot, with the biggest issue being the usual problems with a movie spin-off (lower quality visuals, sound-alikes since you can't pay the celebrity actors to do the voices week in and week out) so long as the movie is a success. It also lets the franchise establish some needed distance from Earthspark's lack of success.

Now, the question of "What if One isn't a success?" definitely is one that Hasbro is contemplating. For all the ragging on Snake-Eyes GI Joe Origins as a box office bomb, Rise of the Beasts was widely viewed by Hollywood as a flop and the lowest-grossing film in the history of the franchise. While a lot of that may be due to the wishy-washy way the continuity has been handled and the inability to commit to a full reboot (Madame Web producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has been insistent that all the Michael Bay movies are still canon, even though that makes no real sense), if One isn't successful, the franchise may need to step back for a year or two.

Any other new concept for a series that fans have wanted is simply not feasible due to time and budget. With Hasbro joined at the hip with Paramount (apparently Hasbro board members own Paramount stock, hence their desire to keep the relationship going so long as Paramount exists), they don't have access to or funds for numerous studios. Studio Trigger have been asking to do a Transformers show for years now, hence all the shout-outs in stuff like SSSS.Gridman and even Panty and Stocking. Studio Orange's head took to the internet earlier in the week asking to be able to do a mecha show. Neither is getting the call from Hasbro because Paramount would rather use local Western studios and save money.

That of course leads to the final option for an adaptation, a 1:1 or similar of the Energon Universe. The problem with that is simply put, it's way too soon. While it would assuredly get a lot of attention just by putting down "From the creator of Invincible and The Walking Dead" in the promos, animation lead times mean that it would be impossible to do at this point without overtaking the entire stock of comics and either resulting in huge delays between seasons, or filler. Neither of which would be helpful.

So I guess tl:dr - Earthspark bombed not because of a non-binary owl, but because the kids were bored by it, with even the Fox News controversy failing to get the show any real positive attention with its main demographic of families. As horrible for Hollywood as it may be to see Paramount be sold for parts to Sony, it may actually be Hasbro's best bet at making its tie-in brands successful again on the big and small screens. And if One doesn't succeed, they are going to be in big trouble because nothing else is realistically ready yet.

[joyce-stick]

A work (in any medium) that has extra meaning to you because of when or where you experienced it?

Uh, literally everything? Too many things to count? Like, I don't know how you don't couch your experience of a piece of art in the time or place you experienced it in, even if it's something as simple as "oh yeah the last time I saw that I was doing x or at y or this age" and then it naturally prompts the other memories even if the piece of art itself had very little to do with that point in your life or the emotions you were feeling back then. Like, I remember the Transporter films specifically because we were like 14-15 ish when we watched them on DVD and our parents had them and now I'm remembering the time that the Transporter reboot came out and our mom wanted to see that, instead of watching The Visit, which was also in theaters at the time, because she thought the latter film would be lame, and like, I have nothing to say about the Transporter reboot! Refueled, I guess it's called. There's not really anything to these films, other than like, Jason Statham (and the other guy who replaced him) playing a guy who drives a car and punches dudes. And I mean I dunno the coreography is apparently nice? But yeah like this isn't groundbreaking analysis here, it's just, "yeah I remember those from that time".

And y'know, then imagine what I have to say when the art is more meaningful than a guy in a car punching dudes, and then you get our entire goddamned youtube channel

[nothoughtsonlytrance]

Wall-E Trivia: Eve Repair Ward Scene

So I know this isn't Dan and Phil themed lol, but Wall-E is one of my all-time favorite movies, and I thought I'd share some trivia that I thought was really interesting because my ADHD brain said to lol

So, if any of you guys have seen the Pixar movie Wall-E, you may know the rogue robots that basically help Wall-E bring the plant to the Lido Deck so they can bring the Axiom back to Earth. And I heard a lot of people have been wondering why when Eve was brought to the Repair Ward, she was turned off, brought into the Diagnostics Lab, and then turned back on again, like, why wasn’t she kept on the whole time? Why did they turn her off? And I have the answer to that.  (For context, I’m getting this info from the Director's commentary from the DVD.)

So when the crew at Pixar was developing the movie Wall-E, they knew they had to figure out a way to let the audience know that these robots were broken and defective ones. Sort of like the “lovable losers” that band behind Wall-E and help him in his plan. So what they did was they came up with these “red boots'” that the crew would call them, and they would sorta act like a boot that would be put on the tire of your car if you’ve been parked in the wrong zone or something like that. And they would basically help the steward robots (which are like the police robots) identify the robots from one another and say that these robots were ex-cons; they’ve broken out and need to be locked up.  

And not only that, but it also helped show that EVE herself was a fugitive because, again, we don’t have any dialogue or anyone saying, “Oh, no! You’re a rebel, and you broke out! We have to hide you!” Like, everything has to have a visual symbol to remind the audience of how the story is evolving and where it's at with certain characters' situations in the movie. 

And according to Andrew Stanton, the director for Wall-e, it actually ended up working out in the end because in a later scene, she had to be shut down by AUTO and then rebooted in the garbage disposal, and the crew wasn’t sure on how to do that.

And then they saw that there was a bright little yellow button on her boot and thought, “Oh wait, what if you could just press that, and it would turn off like you would with any other machine?” So they went back to the Repair Ward scene and then added those few shots of her being turned off, brought into the Diagnostics Lab, and then turned on again, just to show the audience that that was what that function did so that they could use it later.

Kinda a random trivia, but I thought it was a really interesting statement and just goes to show how creative the team at Pixar is!

[lo-diehards]

What Law & Order Thursday Could Look Like Next Season as Organized Crime Moves to Peacock

What Law & Order Thursday Could Look Like Next Season as Organized Crime Moves to Peacock

Could a Criminal Intent Reboot Be the Answer?

Coming off the heels of my recent post on the current state of the franchise and the news that broke earlier this week (via The Hollywood Reporter) - Law & Order: Organized Crime has a deal being made to be renewed to run a fifth season, exclusively on Peacock for 10 episodes, the first time an L&O series will air first-run episodes on a streaming service. NBC has yet to announce any plans on the 3rd hour of Law & Order Thursday, which begs the question is: what will Thursday nights look like next season as there will likely be a void in the 3rd hour without another L&O series in its place?

NBC's newest arrivals, Found and The Irrational could potentially be scheduled on Thursdays in the new season. NBC also has two dramas, Dr. Wolf and The Hunting Party, set for next season, with two more drama pilots: Suits L.A. (spinoff from USA Network's original series, Suits) and Grosse Pointe Garden Society — in the works. Meanwhile, NBC could also acquire rights to air Canada's CityTV's version of L&O, Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (10 episode 1st season) -- which hasn't been renewed for a 2nd season as of yet.

But from a Law & Order franchise/Wolf World perspective, this is a chance to see if there is another new iteration of the brand that can be in addition to the already robust brand as Wolf's worlds continually build themselves (the FBI franchise on CBS as well as One Chicago on NBC Wednesdays - which all are renewed for the upcoming season).

We all know pilot order spin-offs Hate Crimes (co created by Criminal Intent and SVU executive producer Warren Leight, originally posed for Peacock) and For The Defense (co created by CSI veteran executive producer Carol Mendelsohn) went to the back-burner and never became series. Also Wolf has the True Crime iteration (co creator L&O and CI executive producer Rene Balcer) of the brand that while isn't canceled in an official capacity, NBC hasn't shown recent interest in seeing it go on. Then there are 3 canceled former spinoffs; Criminal Intent (ended in 2011), Los Angeles (ended in 2011), and Trial by Jury (ended in 2005).

In interviews (one here via TV Line) and across social media, former stars Vincent D'Onofrio (Det. Robert Goren), Kathryn Erbe (Lt. Alexandra Eames), Alicia Witt (Det. Nola Falacci), and Annabella Sciorra (Lt. Carolyn Barek) as well as former executive producers Warren Leight, Julie Martin, Norberto Barba, and Michael Chernuchin - who all reunited as executive producers on SVU - have shown or voiced interest in a TV reboot of some kind. Star D'Onofrio stated on Twitter/X that the decision to reboot would ultimately be up to creator Dick Wolf but that he would love to reunite with Kathryn to do it.

The question is: would a Criminal Intent reboot be worth it for Wolf Entertainment/NBC to reboot and/or would it suffer the same fate as Organized Crime?

The answer? Yes. It would be totally be worth it for all involved. While stating the obvious, it brings our old favorites back into a new era of television and showing that element of the criminal mind and "why dunnit" in this new age that we live in, and of course the number of new jobs created as well as old jobs reopened; to this day Criminal Intent has something that Organized Crime hasn't, and that is syndication rights with a solid following still tuning in (even after the show has been off the air well over a decade)!

It is a factor that helped reboot the mothership series back in 2022 after NBC canceled it in 2010, the solid audience of syndication viewers (i.e. TNT, ION Television, WEtv), sales from home entertainment (DVDs/Amazon) and streaming services (Peacock) aided in NBC making the decision easy to reboot the flagship Law & Order series. And while the reboot isn't NBC's highest rated show, it's in the top 20 and performs pretty solid, enough to score a full 22-episode twenty-fourth (S4 of reboot), season next season. It also proves to be a great lead-in for SVU (renewed for S26), that comes on right after.

And much like the reboot and even SVU which has reinvented itself more than once over it's 25 seasons, not only could old viewers return, but this also opens the door to introduce the series to new viewers as well, especially if our favorites do make a return on screen.

What do you all think? With Organized Crime going to Peacock, could a Criminal Intent (or other spinoff) reboot help revitalize NBC Thursday nights as well as the franchise? Or is it time to try something new with the brand? Sound off!

[shunsellon]

would you believe me if I said there’s misogyny in the dvd releases? dvds 1 to 4 have the MCs boys on them but volumes 5 and 6 have montages on them. runo and julie don’t have one we can’t have nice things I guess

i would because that's how marketing with a male audience in mind works lmao i'm sure that if some of the dvds had julie in her all-pink girly outfit a lot of parents would've said no.

these are the western english dub dvds though. the japanese release has dvds with runo, julie, and alice with two versions for julie and runo and one for alice. all 6 of the brawlers get 2 each, with the exception of alice because she shares it with masquerade.

again it's just interesting to me how the girls were removed out of the western marketing once they realized how profitable bakugan was overseas, particularly to young boys. and as research has shown, parents of young boys are far less likely to buy their sons gender-neutral/feminine toys and merchandise than they would buy masculine things for their daughters (this was also personally true for me, as my parents were fine with buying me bakugan but they would never buy my brother a barbie). this eventually stretched into the show itself in writing off the original three girls in new vestroia and downplaying any feminine bakugan they already had. this is also evident in the video games (legacy series, not sure about the reboot) - you can't play as a girl in both the battle brawlers game and defenders of the core.

the economics behind bakugan plays a large factor into the show and the merchandise, because the show is basically an advertisement for the merch. it was created with selling toys in mind, and the toy industry plays into the gender binary as it's an important part of the psychology of our society. to say that bakugan was not written to be actively misogynist is incorrect, because it leans into misogynist writing especially in season 2, all for money. even season 1 isn't perfect even if it's objectively better than the rest of the seasons on that front.

[thistaleisabloodyone]

Buying RMPG Stuff Outside of Japan

Okay, so this is what I have done, as someone from the United States. I have a pretty complete collection - all of their albums, a number of the singles, all of the Battle of Tokyo CDs and DVDs, most anything that came with a DVD or Blu-ray with a concert.

I've done this both A). To get my hands on the extra concerts that come with a number of the albums and B). Because I live in eternal fear of a streaming rights dispute that removes their stuff from outside of Japan. There isn't precedent for it happening with The Rampage, but there are other songs that you cannot stream outside of Japan, such as Pouring Rain from the Deep Squad off of the High&Low: The Worst soundtrack.

CDJapan - Almost everything Rampage I own, I bought on CDJapan. This is the artist page for The Rampage, I highly recommend ticking the 'hide sold out items' box. If you're looking at a listing and it mentions having a DVD or a Blu-ray, but doesn't specify what's on said extra DVD or Blu-ray, this is the Exile Tribe wiki. It does list what's on any extra DVD or Blu-ray, so just search for the album you're looking for to see what version you want.

If it can't be shipped outside of Japan by CDJapan - which hasn't been a problem for the Rampage, but you can't buy Exile's the best of compilation or Exile Shokichi's The Future album off of CDJapan outside of Japan. But if it can't be shipped by CDJapan, try Amazon - that's where I got my copies of Shokichi's album and Exile's Best Of compilation.

If you're looking for merch, instead of albums, try Exile Tribe Station Global - you do have to click on each individual item you're interested in to see if it's sold out, but I was able to pick up some of the merch for the newest tour from here. Specifically, I got Rui's coasters, Itsuki's Mars plushie thing, and Ryu's bracelets. I'm 90% certain the global website gets whatever's left over once the Japanese audience has finished picking it over, so a lot of shit gets listed already sold out (thanks a lot, guys), but it's better than nothing.

There are also occasionally listings for things on eBay, but for most regular albums or whatever, I would 100% try CDJapan first. A lot of the eBay listings I found for regular albums were, like, more than $10 or $20 more expensive than the CDJapan listing. If you're looking for a first press release that is sold out on CDJapan, yeah, you might end up at eBay - that's where my first press copy of Reboot came from.

[thessalian]

Thess vs "Think Of The Children"

I've been thinking about how to frame this for awhile, but ... okay, I think it bugs everyone - or at least, everyone that I associate with - that on top of the "the LGBTQ+ community is full of predators" bullshit, there's the softer-core version: "Oh, but children won't understand why Uncle Johnny wants to be called Aunt Jane now, or why Aunt Melissa has a girlfriend and not a boyfriend". I mean, obviously it's all bullshit, and that last is particularly bullshit.

And I know it doesn't have to be the way these jackasses would have it, because I remember understanding just fine as a kid.

I mean, TV. There was not a lot of representation in the 80s and early 90s, but I remember the show that introduced me to a lot of concepts that get, "Oh, kids can't understand that!" The show was called Night Court, and I think it got a reboot recently, and one day I will have it on DVD because it holds up surprisingly well. I mean, I probably watched it too young by most standards. Thing is, what with my mother bulldozing her way up the corporate ladder and working constant late nights and going to night school, she didn't get a lot of time to just sit down and watch stuff with me, and a lot of that was after the watershed.

(Um. ..."The watershed" is a particularly British phenomenon. I don't think it's necessarily a thing anymore given Watch On Demand, but for a very long time, anything deemed for mature audiences only - mostly nudity and swearing - was only allowed on TV after 9pm.)

Anyway, point is that we watched what my mother watched, and a lot of what she watched was MASH, LA Law, and Night Court. I liked that last best. And here are some of the things I learned about directly from it.

Homosexuality: I'm pretty sure I understood the concept before, but it came up a few times on the show. The one I remember best was the Resident Ladies' Man Letcher (who was actually more the butt of the jokes than the actual casanova, which was nice) getting an invitation to grab a drink with a gay man and going through The Gay Panic before getting stuck in an elevator with said gay man and figuring out that there's nothing actually wrong with being gay etc. Thing is, it wasn't just the "Lesson Of The Episode", that idea; it permeated the entire sub-plot. Because we weren't laughing at or appalled by the gay man trying to tempt this main character into depravity or whatever the fuck; we were laughing at this legend-in-his-own-mind asshole main character freaking the fuck out about what amounted to a simple question and an "Okay, fair enough" when he got turned down. The homophobe was the butt of the joke. This was in the mid-eighties, by the way.

Transgender people: Same guy (seriously, the 'ladies' man' was the perpetual butt of the joke in this show), looking forward to his old college friend coming back for a visit. Turns out his old college friend has transitioned into a woman - the kind of woman our ladies' man finds attractive, in fact. Cue more panic from our ladies' man. Thing is, he's not always the butt of the joke this time. The only times he gets "Laugh At Me; I'm An Asshole" is when he's doing the "is it catching / am I gay for being attracted to this person?" bullshit. The times the show frames him sympathetically is when they have the conversation about why she didn't tell him before, in any of their communication; when he actually started asking how she felt instead of focusing on how he felt.

Sex Work: It was a night court in New York City. They had a lot of people brought in for solicitation. And the main-character judge treated them all with decency and a certain air of, "Yeah, let's just give you the bare minimum because what you do with your body isn't really any of my business but this is my job, so ... $50 fine and time served". There was a whole episode where one 'regular' was so unused to being treated with basic dignity that she mistook it for the judge being romantically interested in her.

Neurodiversity: Again, night court in NYC. Lot of people brought in for some various disturbing-the-peace behaviours that required mental health intervention. Again, these people were treated with dignity at almost all times, and the audience encouraged to laugh at the people who treated them poorly.

Homelessness: Same deal - lot of homeless people just sitting in the audience seats for a safe place to sleep off the streets. Again, the only ones the show really wanted us to laugh at were the ones who refused to see these people as people.

"Illegal Immigrants": Two separate plot threads involved people trying to enter the US without the paperwork. One was from Russia - or, more accurately, the USSR, because this was the 1980s and we still had the USSR. He'd be in so much shit if they made him go back that he got desparate enough to douse himself in gasoline and threaten to light a lighter. Language barrier made it a problem and they couldn't get hold of a translator, but main character kept on trying with compassion, and eventually managed to help at least a little. The other was, "I was staying with a family in Vietnam and they had a daughter and she needs to be out of Vietnam so I'll do the 'marriage of convenience' to get her a green card and citizenship" and not understanding that said Vietnamese girl had been crushing on him for years. Thing is, they sat down and decided to stay married on paper but to try to build a relationship as adults. (Managed it, too.) The show didn't vilify either of these characters. Not for their nationality, and not for doing whatever they could to get someplace safe. (Also, the Vietnamese lady really loved using people's racism against them. It was always a delight when she'd justify any action she wanted to take with "It is tradition" and come up with 'whatever vaguely Oriental-sounding bullshit will best push this gullible idiot's buttons' to sell it.)

I grew up on this show. Most of what I learned from it is that however weird you seem to others, that's their problem, not yours. Unfortunately bigotry tends to make itself everybody's problem. Just ... if I could understand everything one kind of niche sitcom from the 80s was trying to teach when I was seven years old, the whole "kids won't understand" thing is bullshit.

It's not that they think kids won't understand, I guess; it's that they're terrified that the kids will.

[leopoldainter]

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[crisp-sweet-pink-lady]

Summer of Strawberry Shortcake: Play Day Surprise

As I've been rewatching the 2003 reboot, I've been trying to be lenient when it comes to the plots of the episodes, but then you get a couple of episodes like these....

Despite the theme of this DVD, these episodes were not particularly fun to watch. The first one felt especially tedious, as there isn't much plot beyond Angel Cake's efforts to be both a good player and a good sport, and her frustration with being neither, which, as in life, is something she has to come to terms with on her own. And why did she leave that cake outside for two whole days anyway? I don't know why that bugs me, but it does.

The second episode is frustrating because of how the lesson plays out. Peppermint Fizz cheats in order to win all the Strawberryland Games (since she tricked Strawberry into making her garden the grand prize), and even though Strawberry is made aware of it before the games are up, she decides not to reveal Peppermint Fizz's chicanery because she doesn't think that Peppermint Fizz will learn anything that way. I guess she was banking on Peppermint Fizz feeling the dissatisfaction of a win that wasn't earned, or at the very least realizing that all her efforts to cheat ended with her winning but also getting injured, but she didn't count on Peppermint Fizz's determination to get that garden being strong enough to block all that out. So Peppermint Fizz "wins" all the games, gets the garden, but then has a sudden change of heart after hearing Strawberry console Apple Dumplin' and talk about how putting your whole heart into it is the most important part. And given Peppermint Fizz's whole attitude both in this episode and the pet show episode, it makes no sense for her to not only give back the garden, but to actually admit her cheating and break down in tears about it. I suppose the idea is this shows she's not really that bad a person deep down inside, but I'm sorry, I just do not buy it.

Between this ep and the pet show ep, you really have to wonder why any of the kids listen to Peppermint Fizz when she starts talking about anything involving a prize. As a later incarnation of Lemon would say:

Fun stuff from the script: during the part in the first ep where Angel Cake is trying to escape the sound of her friends having fun, which the script describes as <distant laughter>, the directions of "still, the echo" keeps getting more and more dramatic, starting as (still echoing) and ending with (and STILL, the echo!).

One last note: Each of the season two DVDs so far has had a special feature profiling a couple of the kids and their pets, and this time Peppermint Fizz (and Huck) are featured. Each profile includes their favorite food, color, and hobby, and most of the time the answers are pretty obvious, but I was amused by Peppermint Fizz's favorite hobby: giving everyone her opinion!

[sol1056]

Look I know this isn't particularly realistic. I know you are right in saying retcon's are not particularly something to settle for. I also know that VLD has tainted this current line-up for me. I know if they do a continuation or reboot with this current line-up I will probably not watch. I know if they do anything with the Atlas or Galaxy Garrison I wont watch. I know I am going to make a more elegant post about this eventually for dreamworks and voltron. I will stay engaged, but pay nothing.

DW has multiple revenue streams: merchandise sales, toy sales, DVD sales… and Netflix viewing. If everyone tomorrow were to wake up and simply never watch VLD again, it wouldn’t matter how much DW was making elsewhere. Netflix wouldn’t be looking to renew for any sequel or continuation. It’s deadweight on Netflix’s listings. 

But if everyone continues to watch — even without buying a single bit of merchandise or toys — the agreement between Netflix and DW (and the rest of the series DW is supposed to deliver) will continue. Netflix will look at their private viewing numbers and determine the series is making its money back in terms of luring in new subscribers. 

What DW does not want, possibly above all else, is for people to say: “Well, I guess I’d rate VLD a meh.” There is no kiss of death greater than that of audience indifference. 

Hell, I can’t even name the number of series I’ve watched simply because a friend has told me it’s the worst trainwreck disaster ever and they loathed every second of it. I mean, someone gets that dramatic about it, you gotta go see for yourself. (In at least two cases, I walked away loving the story, so the whole ‘omg this sucks’ is very much a personal thing.) 

What you do (or do not) buy in merchandise is marginally important to DW. If you’re someone who normally would spend upwards of a thousand, then that’s worth noting. But you don’t have to spend a penny to use something far more powerful: your voice. 

It’s you telling friends, family, or complete strangers on the internet, what you think of a story. It’s called buzz, and companies can’t create that. Only fans. Companies would love to generate it, and they’ll try, but nothing they do will ever match the power of friends and friends-of-friends talking in excited tones about a new favorite story. And if the reactions mostly amount to, “well, it was okay, I mean, I guess if you’re really bored or home sick with nothing else to watch…” Welp. Not exactly a sterling recommendation, is it. 

If you want complaints to be heard, then I recommend explaining what would bring you back. Not for this story, because it’s done, and over. But for the next: does DW need to include representatives who can assist with writing characters from marginalized communities? Or do you need to see the head writer is of a certain caliber, with experience in the genre? Something else? What is something actionable that DW could do, that would make you consider watching their next story (in this franchise or any other)? That’s what’ll get the attention, because that’s what they can weigh as a possible fix. 

If, however, you plan to watch other DW productions, and it’s simply that Voltron itself has been scuppered for you, that’s a very different statement. All that tells DW is that otherwise they’re doing fine, and this one show was an anomaly. Which, hey, it could be. 

Just be aware that this is sending a different message. If your intent is to prompt DW to see the fandom as strong enough to warrant a better reboot or remake down the road at some point, then you do need to make clear what would lure you back, as well as the extent to which this one show has damaged the DW brand for you – if it has, that is. 

[delighttechnology]

[FIXEDToshiba No Bootable Device Toshiba No Bootable Device

If you begin with the Toshiba laptop laptop PC, it's likely to receive an error message like:

There is No Bootable Device Toshiba Laptop. 

Restart your system

Device is not bootable, insert boot disk, and then press any key

If you're experiencing the same problem, do not be concerned. It's a common issue, and you can solve the issue using bootable devices for Toshiba laptops swiftly and effortlessly.

Method 1 Reset the power on the Toshiba laptop.

While many issues with computers can be resolved by restarting the computer, it's not an unwise idea to restart this computer when you have a Toshiba PC. Follow these steps:

1.) Shut down your computer.

2.) Get rid of all other devices including USB drives, Bluetooth headphones and other devices. USB drives. Bluetooth headphones as well as other devices.

3.) Remove your AC adapter and your hard drive and also your battery (if the battery you own is removable). ).

4.) 4. Press the power button for 60 minutes, then let it go. The laptop may begin to boot, then close down at any time during the duration of the time.

5.) Connect to your AC adapter and the batteryback (if your battery is removable). ).

6.) 6. Hold the Power button in the same way as you normally would to turn on the power to the Toshiba laptop.

Check if your laptop can boot and not display an " No bootable device" error.

Method 2: Create the proper boot sequence

If you're experiencing " No bootable device" in Toshiba One reason might be due to the fact that your system isn't running in the correct order of boot, and the system isn't able to find the proper boot device when beginning. To correct the problem, you need to determine the proper order of boot.

This is what you need to do:

1.) Verify that your computer is not running.

2.) Press on the power buttonto start your computer normally. Continue pressing F2 and continue pressing the F2 button until the flash logo appears to display the BIOS setup screen.

3.) 3.) In BIOS Press the Arrow keysto open the Boottab.

4.) After that, you'll be able see the boot options that are available. Utilize the up and down arrow keys in order to select HDDas as the initial boot option.

3. Reset primary partition to active

The partition where the OS is running is referred to as primary. It should be in active mode to ensure that OS is successful starting. If it is inactive, it triggers an error message. The "no detectable boot device" problem to become apparent. Therefore, ensure that it is active.

Step 1. Step 1. Insert Step 1. Insert the Windows installation DVD into your computer , and then begin to boot up from it. Select your language, layout and style for your keyboard, and then select "Repair this computer".

Step 2. If you're running Windows 10 and 8 installation DVD, click "Troubleshoot" and then select "Command Prompt". If you're using an Windows 7 installation DVD, on the "System Recovery Options" screen, select"First "Use Recovery tools" to help ...", Windows 7 OS and select "Next". Select "Command Prompt" in the next window.

Step 3. Step 3. Step 3. In the Command Prompt window, write the following commands , one at a and hit "Enter" immediately following.

Select disk 0. The number is how many disks that reside on the hard disk of the system.

Select Partition 1: 1 represents the number that represents your computer's partition.

How do I fix no bootable device error?

Here are some solutions to consider: 1.) Review the sequence of your boot. 2.) Fix the information about your boot on your computer. 3.) Make sure that the partition is set to be active. 4.) Set your computer back to factory settings. It is necessary to go into the BIOS. Use the left and right keys on your keyboard until the boot menu appears.

What can I do to reset my laptop using a non-bootable device? a USB bootable drive?

The first step is to perform an accidental reboot, then unplug the battery. Finally, disconnect an AC power adapter. Press and hold the power button for around 20 seconds before trying to restart it. If it displays an error that is similar to the one mentioned above, as previously mentioned, if you're using a Toshiba laptop, then press and Hold down on the F2 button then switch on the laptop and it will boot into BIOS.

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