Favorite Film and TV Characters

[brewster]

Tyrion Lannister

Currently skipping through the episodes in anticipation of 4/19. (Mid season 2 right now, going through each episode in about 25 minutes.)

Came in just to suggest Tyrion as the best fictional character ever. He at least deserves a spot on the ballot.

Sounds like a bad way to watch, it's just too rich a canvas. I think Peter Dinklage must have a personal God with a strange sense of humor. Make him a dwarf, followed by the cruel joke of making him want to act, but then send him one of the best roles ever written, that happens to be specifically for a dwarf. Old school God for sure.

Anybody watch The Expanse? Some of the best female characters ever: Chrisjen Avasarala, the potty mouthed, hard as nails, UN bureaucrat Indian grandma. Similar to Dinklage, a godsend role for Shohreh Aghdashloo, who has been a journeyman actor stuck in stereotyped roles. And Gunny Bobby Draper, badass Martian Jarhead. I loved that they resisted the usual impulse to cast a toothpick skinny model in a warrior role (Wonder Woman, Sarah Conner Chronicles) and cast a woman that looks like she can break you in two, just as the role was written.

[Smitty-48]

I'm a big Expanse fan, unfortunately I don't get it anymore here.

I don't care about female v male characters.

I just like science fiction which somewhat adheres to the laws of physics.

[brewster]

I just like science fiction which somewhat adheres to the laws of physics.

Amen Brother! My wife was giving me shit last night about hating on Marvel even though I watched Deadpool. I tried to explain that I can suspend disbelief for a specific thing, whether that's FTL or some guy can't be killed because he regenerates. But don't ask me to believe that mass and inertia doesn't exist in Marvel-land. Putting a chick in a glass coffin before she falls off a 200' high ship will NOT protect her! She'll be a pile of jam in the bottom. Black Panther cannot grab a moving motorcycle no matter how strong he is, unless he also weighs a couple of tons.

I'm the kid who actually thought about the fact that when Steve Austin picked up a car with his bionic arm and legs, his non-bionic spine should have crumbled.

[Smitty-48]

I like Marvel, because I was raised on Marvel back in the day, some Marvel is cheese, but some is good.

Deadpool actually cracks me up, Ryan Reynolds, Team Canada.

I even like Star Trek Discovery.

But it's not science fiction.

In terms of science fiction, my favorite is Alastair Reynolds.

But the Expanse universe has actually become my second favorite, it's in the same genre, no warp drive.

[Smitty-48]

Deadpool is simply the Millennial Marvel Superhero, it's ironic and satirical, doesn't take itself seriously.

But that is actually its charm.

[Smitty-48]

And in that vein, I fuckin' love the Antman reboot. Never liked Antman in the comics, love the new Antman tho.

It's even got TI, he can do it all, music, acting, and comedy which is the hardest of all.

[Smitty-48]

Logan. Logan blew me away, I was stunned how good Logan was, that was the best Marvel thing I've ever seen.

[Smitty-48]

Tee-Eye, let's go, baby. Feat Young Thug (Lil Wayne Clone)

[Smitty-48]

Whose the chick who plays the Wasp? I don't know her but I liker, she's a qt.

And Michael Pena, everything he touches turns to gold.

Antman is da bomb.

[brewster]

Deadpool is simply the Millennial Marvel Superhero, it's ironic and satirical, doesn't take itself seriously.

But that is actually its charm.

I just watched a few episodes of Doom Patrol, if you like Deadpool, you'll love it. Super satirical, self referential, and completely bizarre. As long as you don't expect SF, it's OK. And the gay test pilot flashback subplot is getting tiresome.

Discovery is starting to lose me, it relies too much on the lazy writing tropes: evil twins, amnesia, and time travel. The complete destruction of the idea of Saru's Kelpien "prey animal race" was lame, throwing away a good idea for a rote redemption plot in which the self righteous Federation totally fucks with a planet's autonomy.

Wasp is Evangeline Lilly, check out the pilot of Lost for a nice shot of her in wet undies. This is an example of Brewster's Law, which is an observation that any female lead will appear in her undies or equivalent in the pilot episode. Sometimes applies a male lead too.