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The Dace Man
- Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Hey hey hey, Dacetacular Fanboys Nation, Chris Dace here bringing you some more geek news that's hot off the internet presses. When current CEO Steve Ballmer stepped down on February 4, 2014, the world of Microsoft was thrown into mystery.
Ballmer, who led the company as CEO after the nerve-wracking Y2K scare—and also the man who replaced Microsoft legend Bill Gates—announced last August that "within twelve months" he'd be calling it quits. Well, the day has come to announce his successor, and that man is... Satya Nadella. In the past few weeks leading up to this epic announcement, many believed the front-runner to the race was going to be Nadella, Microsoft’s former cloud and enterprise head. Nadella will be Microsoft's third CEO since the company's birth in 1980.
With the news of Satya's appointment comes the news that Bill Gates will step down as chairman of the board and take on a new technology adviser role to "devote more time to the company." And with him stepping down, the man who led the new CEO search, John Thompson, will take Gates' place.
Prior to joining the Microsoft family, Nadella worked with Sun Microsystems as a member of its technology staff. Before taking the mantle of EVP for Microsoft's Cloud initiative, Nadella had accomplished much within Microsoft's walls—President of the server and tools business; Senior VP of R&D for the online services division; VP of the business division; senior VP of the search, portal and advertising platform group; VP of development for the business solutions group and GM of Consumer and Commerce. In the press release regarding his appointment, Nadella was quoted as saying:
"Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized
the world through technology, and I couldn’t be more honored to have
been chosen to lead the company..... The opportunity ahead for Microsoft is vast, but to seize it,
we must focus clearly, move faster and continue to transform. A big part
of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to
our customers more quickly."
For more perspective from the new head of Microsoft, check out his first interview below as the CEO of Microsoft.
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- Tuesday, February 4, 2014
The Man of Steel is getting a new look. Justice League writer Geoff Johns will be collaborating with veteran Marvel artist John Romita Jr. for a new run on the Superman title, DC Comics announced in its first new "All Access" webisode of 2014.
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| DC Entertainment first look at new Superman |
The DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer and former writer of Green Lantern will form a new creative team with the "King of all artists," John Romita Jr., to take over the monthly Superman comics and "reset Superman and his universe." They will be joined by comic artist Klaus Janson, a frequent collaborator with Romita Jr.
Johns said in the webisode that "We've been talking about Superman now for quite a while and it's going to be a blast."
"For me, as far as the story goes, my tagline for the story is 'Putting the Man of Tomorrow' back in the Man of Tomorrow," Johns told IGN about going back to the core values, attributes, and strengths of Superman.
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| John Romita Jr. and Klaus Janson |
Marvel artist Romita Jr., best known for his extensive work on The Amazing Spider-Man, Uncanny X-Men, Captain America, and Avengers, admitted that he was "a little bit intimidated seeing how many great artists done his image before." He added, "This is not an easy thing to sail smoothly through."
Johns was excited about the official announcement and said he shared Romita's nervousness but has confidence about the pair up.
Romita Jr. has had a successful three-decade long run with Marvel and co-created Kick-Ass with Mark Millar. His father, John Romita Sr. also worked on The Amazing Spider-Man comic in the 1960s.
Johns said in an interview with IGN, "When you write for any artist, you want to make sure that you know their work. You have to tailor your style differently to everybody, and John's work is so beautiful and so epic and yet personal. One of the things I loved about his run on Spider-Man, for instance, it's just the personal moments were as powerful as the big action moments."
"I think working with somebody like John, who has ideas of his own, we'd go back and forth and amplify each other. That's really where I get my excitement about working on a project, is when I speak with an artist and we actually become real creative collaborators," Johns said.
The revamped comic will launch this summer.
Are you super excited for this collaboration? Let us know in the comment section below.
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Michelle Quillen
In the same fashion that BurgerTime may have enticed our earliest aspirations to be a home cook or Mario Kart gave us all Mario Andretti envy, present day gamers yearning to be maids and custodians now have a game to inspire them.
Released today on PlayStation3 and PS Vita, Capcom has announced the arrival of Dustforce, a momentum-based platformer that allows you to free your surroundings of filth, armed with mops, feather dusters, and brooms as--that's right--super janitors.
Become one of the force’s cleaning-supply clad characters, each with their own fighting styles: vacuum-packing Dustworth has the highest jump hang time, default role Dustman masters the double-jump, and all the cast members can repel off walls and ceilings. Enemies won’t be eating your dust; the dust is your enemy. As a fan of the original Steam title, Fanboys Anonymous's Casey Mac lent his take on why this is a welcome addition to the console world. “I liked it a lot. The gameplay will translate perfectly to a handheld, so I think the Vita is the perfect platform for it.”
The new version of this indie hit is now available for digital download at $9.99 from the PlayStation network, offering PS3/Vita cross-play and save functionalty, new content and achievements, and online multiplayer for up to 4 people. For single-players, there are 56 levels, and 10 for multiplayer,
while more than 100 free downloadable maps will briefly follow the game’s release. The date for Dustforce’s debut on Xbox Live Arcade is soon, but yet to be announced.
Check out the new Dustforce launch trailer below.
Do the dynamics and animation style of Dustforce remind you of any other games? Let us know in the comments below.
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Fellonius Munch
Before we get onto my more professional Internet searching habits, I'd like to point out that Danny Trejo wasn't literally in space when he tweeted the following:
Because whenever Danny Trejo tries to disguise a hint like he's just shooting the breeze, or whatever, my Fanboy senses tingle, and naturally, I must then go in search of evidence to suggest that Machete Kills Again…In Space really is in development right now as we speak!
Of course, we know that the trailer at the end of Machete Kills was just a mock trailer, but then so was the Grindhouse trailer for Machete, and so was the trailer for Machete Kills at the end of Machete. Both director Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo must be doing the longest happy dance in history since Machete became a reality in 2010. Trejo especially.
The Mexican (as opposed to Mexican't) has been one of the most consistent hardworking character actors and "rent-a-villains" in film since featuring as a prison convict boxer in the 1984 Eric Roberts/Jon Voight escape film Runaway Train. To prove this, he's died more than Sean Bean!
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| "That was my only trophy..." |
Random Fact: Trejo got the small acting part in Runaway Train as a prison inmate in a boxing match after he was singled out on the spot for his mean looks. The director asked if he had boxing experience, and he answered that he used to fight in boxing matches when he was a prison inmate.
To further prove this, even though he's reaching the ripe young age of 70 this May, he's billed to appear in an astounding TWENTY SIX movies in 2014, including Muppets Most Wanted. Not one of those includes the Machete Kills sequel, though, so hold onto your pants for a bit.
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| Or Michelle Rodriguez's pants. Your choice! |
I also wanted to use this news as an opportunity to hail Trejo as this decade's Greatest American Badass (born in California, so suck it, purists). He has slugged it out for over three decades and reached amazing popularity with even the smallest appearances in film and television.
He may eternally thank Robert Rodriguez for getting him the credit he deserves with From Dusk Till Dawn and Desperado. His character, Machete, even came from the Sin City director's family movie Spy Kids. But it wasn't just his hardcore asskicker roles that got him so much love and adoration as a real-life ex-convict. Even comedy roles in the Jake Gyllenhaal road movie Bubble Boy helped to cement his reputation.
Random Fact: Twenty years before Steven Seagal played the lead villain in Machete, Danny played Seagal's first punchbag/victim, Hector, in Marked for Death.
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| Danny Trejo: A Household Name |
Fast-forward all these years, and Danny Trejo has lent his talents to Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad, Burn Notice, King of the Hill, The Young and the Restless, NCIS: Los Angeles…need to let my fingers rest for a bit. Case closed, Danny Trejo is one of America's most wanted, only this time he's not getting arrested for it. We love him, we can't get enough, and we cannot wait a whole year for Machete Kills Again…In Space, starring:
I just want this to happen so our favorite Mexican federale gets to blow the shit out of android Justin Bieber. This film has to happen. Why? Well, what makes Machete so awesome? Take a look at how deliberately bad these films are. It's Danny Trejo that makes them awesome, and not just any awesome, but the kind that most cult classic filmmakers and actors only dream of.
Saying that, Rodriguez also hinted that he'd like to make a Carlos Estevez Mr. President spinoff, which would immediately become the best thing Charlie Sheen ever did!
Sound off, Fanboys! Am I right? What's your favourite Trejo movie/appearance? Do you think Machete Kills Again…In Space could be the greatest yet? Comments below and thanks for reading.
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Fellonius Munch
Welcome, Fanboys and Fangirls, to my review on the recently released DVD The Colony. It's my pleasure to bring this movie to your attention for many reasons, two of which I can explain in a couple of words: overlooked and underrated!
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| Bill Paxton pissed that he didn't get goggles. |
2013's The Colony is a postapocalyptic science-fiction survival horror, to be specific; a classic subgenre that we don't see often, providing you don't dare count the myriad like-minded efforts that are frankly awful. Starring Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Zegers, Bill Paxton, and Charlotte Sullivan, its potential for success was ruined by a bunch of Internet buttheads who likely hadn't even seen the film. If I had to describe The Colony in the space of one paragraph…
The Day After Tomorrow walks into a pub and starts a fight with 30 Days of Night, while the barmaid, Aliens, looks on with a smile. Outside, John Carpenter's The Thing cocks its leg underneath the window, while Alive runs to the hills!
But don't take my word for it just yet. Please read on!
The synopsis is that the world has prematurely entered its next ice age, gradually leaving a handful of survivors living in underground colonies around the United States. They're so desperate that in the event of illness, you take a long walk in the snow or you eat a bullet. When a distress call from another colony leads a rescue party into a deadly trap, however, our heroes are forced to fight for survival with the prospect of extinction on their hands.
That's the simplified version. You can go find out the rest for yourself. From the opening scenes, this is a triumph of low-budget sci-fi horror with a penchant for punching above its weight. Do not let the DVD's menu screen fool you in the slightest; someone with a sense of humor did that, clearly.
The very first thing that caught my attention about The Colony: this is not a cheap movie. From the beginning, there are great visuals, a beautiful soundtrack, and a very effective cast of character actors who are all consistent throughout. I found myself thinking, what if John Carpenter had had this technology to work with when he made The Thing? The Colony was made on an estimated budget of $16 million, which is astounding when you consider that Blair Witch Project cost $15 million in the year 2000. What were they spending their budget on, crystal meth-frosted donuts and hookers?
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| Not looking awesome, that's for sure! |
I get the feeling the crew behind this movie made a note to use clichéd technical conventions to trick us into seeing what could have been an average sci-fi horror in a new light. Whatever do I mean? For a start, there's a very 70s/80s utilitarian kind of art direction happening, which is why I referenced the Alien movies. That sort of dark, dank, industrial-yet-sciency vibe is a favored look when we're not seeing The Day After Tomorrow from a unique perspective.
There's also a meeting that takes place in the early stages of the movie in the central room of the colony belonging to our protagonists. It's made to feel like some down-and-dirty dive bar from a classic film, but not so much by art direction than by toying with cinema conventions—the cameras' attention to detail, picking up the music of a record player, peering over shoulders, observing people hanging around like it's happy hour—all the while looking like the type of people you wouldn't hang around with for a pint and a chat. This trickery of cinematography is used throughout the movie to really make the most of what it has to hand, and it makes for enjoyable viewing.
The sense of how deep in shit the human race is begins with one of our protagonists, Mason (Paxton), going through the self-appointed job of shooting a man who has a cold, because they can't afford the germs. It's the rules. If you get sick and don't get better, you're a danger to society. Not many agree with his methods, and that's going to be a problem later. You just know it.
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| Stealing Bill Paxton's snowballs; crime punishable by death! |
In the labs, where they're failing to help the animals to reproduce, one of our leads, Sam (Zegers), has a conversation that ends with the amazing quote: "you know you're screwed when even the rabbits don't fuck!" It sums up a hell of a lot, but not the relationship between Sam and the sexy Kia (Sullivan) when he tells her "the rabbits aren't doing so hot" and she flashes him the briefest but most suggestive of smiles. Yeah, well, so long as we are…
The distress signal changes the dynamic of the group when the colony's leader, Briggs (Fishburne), announces a rescue party to the troubled colony across the other side of their snowbound city. Sam volunteers to go, as does the young and inexperienced Graydon (Atticus Mitchell). Briggs, a former army soldier who served with Mason, doesn't want him in charge, because Mason likes to think with his gun a little too much. Of course.
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| Run away! My finger wants to shoot you and I can't control it. |
Cue a lengthy trip through the modern-day ice age, and The Day After Tomorrow can go suck ice. Considering in some scenes you can tell there's a lot of CGI being used here (at one point they look warmer outdoors than in), in most scenes, it's so authentic that it had to be shot on somebody's ski slopes for sure.
After some manly camaraderie, and a healthy dose of suspense and atmosphere, we're introduced to the horror element of The Colony, which catches you off guard. Personally, I thought this was supposed to be a vampire movie, by the way it looked. One of the aforementioned Internet buttheads had called it a zombie movie. You, sir, are a complete tool!
All of a sudden, and in such a grisly manner, we're faced with an army of terrifying feral cannibals complete with body mods and filed-down teeth. Holy craptastic ice-pick swinging bloodbath, Batman! Our heroes are outnumbered and underequipped. You can take it from here, I'm not giving away when this happens or what happens afterward, but for what it's worth, The Colony delivers so much substance, quality, and bang for your buck.
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| "Now, son, this is how real men light a BBQ..." |
What also catches you off guard, though, is that you can't tell a "redshirt" from anyone else. Our heroes and protagonists don't all wear their hearts on their sleeves, but when they do, it's because they have a plan, not because they're eight days from retirement with a wife and kids. This is about all-out survival, and the best plan is to run (and be good at fighting).
Laurence Fishburne is fresher and more active than he's been in years. Remember Predators? He played crazy well in that movie, but he was a bit too…husky to have survived in that jungle for so long. Here, he seems revitalized and provides some uplifting moments. Kevin Zegers I haven't seen since Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake. He's not so wet behind the ears or gawky anymore, and he makes for a great, compelling lead. I hope he does well after this.
Bill Paxton hasn't just aged well, either, he's really matured as an actor, and it's so good to see him contribute his skills to the genres that made him in the 80s. Despite being a minor lead, he does really well with those scenes, the outcome of the film hinging on many of his scenes. Charlotte Sullivan seems like she'd secretly enjoy propagating the species with Zegers, but I also think she's a great young actress, aside from being pretty nice to look at.
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| One of few films to point out that the end of the world has no shampoo and conditioner. |
At 122 minutes, you want The Colony to have been longer, because it's a great little film, and great little films can never be long enough. However, there was also a scene in the film I felt could have done with an extra ten minutes, because when we get back to our cozy little colony to warn the others of impending cannibalistic doom, there seemed no time to soak up the atmosphere of what may be the last bastion of human civilization left. There was no reprise to the opening of the movie, and I felt that would have helped me feel more for the survivors.
The only other cons I really cared to notice were that the movie's cannibal menace (lots) were ferocious enough at fighting, but their leader could have had so much more screentime to scare the crap out of people. He's a bit like Highlander's The Kurgan, but quieter. Thank god, though, because he could have turned out a complete prat like Ghosts of Mars's Big Daddy Mars (ga-ga-gaga-gah)!
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| "I feel pretteeee... oh so pretteeeeee..." |
Not to worry, we get blood and guts and shotgun blasts to the guts and axe fights aplenty. It's grizzly and brutal and, oh my god, the poor chickens. Humanity has a lot to learn.
Sound off, Fanboys! If you haven't seen this movie, you need to give it a try. It is out on DVD in all good stores. If you have seen it, drop us a line in the comments section below and thanks for reading, once again. Toodle-pip!
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The Dace Man
- Monday, February 3, 2014
Hey, Hey, Hey Dacetacular nation, back again with another commercial break down from The Super Bowl! Remember how Bud Light has been teasing us for weeks with bits and pieces of their commercial campaign for the Super Bowl? Well, the payoff came, and it was awesome! So awesome I was extremely jealous of the random dude they grabbed to do it! Using the campaign slogan #UpForWhatever, Bud Light strung this man along on a night of epic proportions, including several celeb interactions with Reggie Watts, Minka Kelly, Don Cheadle, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and One Republic. Sitting in the Dacement I stared in awe at the screen as this lucky S.o.B. got to do all this for a few Super Bowl spots. Check out the entire collection below.
As always, check back regularly to see what Chris "The Dace Man" Dace is looking at (and no, not just porn), as well as all of the other bloggers here at Fanboys Anonymous. Remember keyboard warriors: leave your feedback! Until the next time, for the few, the proud, and of course the Dacetacular, grab a beer—and in this case…nope, just a beer will do, specifically Bud Light!—and check out what's going on here in the Dace-Sphere. See ya next time!
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Fellonius Munch
The time is nearly upon us, once again, to face the second half of the latest season of AMC's The Walking Dead. After so much happened up to the mid-season finale last year (so damned much), I put down my own predictions not only for the rest of season four, but also for the foreseeable future. Of course, I did that on Facebook, where none of you can see what I wrote, but then I asked myself: why not share these thoughts with the fans out there and see what they make of it?
So without further ado, I am happy to introduce Fanboys Anonymous's own The Walking Dead Seasons Four and Five Predictions. (WARNING: Some of the predictions ahead are based on comparisons between the graphic novels and the TV show, so beware of MAJOR possible plot spoilers ahead if you haven't read the series!)
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| Warning: Potential Spoilers Ahead! |
The makers of The Walking Dead have been throwing us curve balls and chucking spanners aplenty into the works since day one. It's what television producers and creators do to keep things original, especially if you watch this show because you love the comic series. Where's the fun in ruining everyone else's fun?
Don't answer that, I'm trying to appeal to the majority, here…
However, along with the occasional unexpected event (Frank Darabont being fired, Jeffrey DeMunn's character being killed off because he quit to show solidarity for Darabont), we've not only seen one character's dynamic change to replace another, we've also seen some of our favorite characters introduced long after they were supposed to have been killed off; characters who weren't supposed to die being killed off; and characters who weren't even in the comics becoming long-lasting favorites.
Love it or hate it for deviating from the source material, you have to hand it to these folks—they know how to keep you watching. Yet what of the surviving characters of season four? Where will they likely go from here?
The following are my predictions for the characters, based on speculation, the show thus far, and the path the comics have taken.
Poor Rick has been through the meat-grinder ever since the opening scenes of this show, but even taking a back seat when things become too much for him doesn't make him any less the lead star of the show. However, just because he's the longest-enduring character doesn't mean he'll be able to endure what he's just been through.
Losing Lori was bad enough to make Rick go a bit crazy; after now most likely having lost Judith, being beaten to a pulp, and losing the prison, he may be prone to another round of insanity. He was a sorry mess in season three, and he won't have as many distractions this time to keep him occupied. As far as he's concerned, he and Carl are on their own. Rick will very likely remain a broken man for a long time just as Abraham Ford comes in to take the reigns for a while. Expect a more passive yet unpredictable Rick from now on!
Having gone from a kid to a teen so quickly, we all saw Carl grow over some years unlike in the comics. He was troubled but still childlike then, but in the mid-season finale we saw him suddenly broken, as he too lost another defenseless member of the family and his livelihood, rendering him similarly helpless and broken. Carl will likely harbor resentment toward his dad for falling apart and being unable to keep his act together. As Rick gets weaker, Carl will not only grow stronger but also colder and more calculating.
Let's not forget that Carl's known for a long time that he will one day have to take over for his dad, or that at least he's expected to. That sense of responsibility keeps him level-headed and has done so ever since he killed Shane (or Shane's walking corpse, at least) and the boy from Woodbury. However, having already become accustomed to killing, it's inevitable that he will do so once again, and in the name of justice. I doubt he'll be much of a lead character over the next season or two, but he certainly won't remain in the background!
As the most significant original character who never existed in the comic series, Daryl's part in the show has been a phenomenal success, so it would be pretty stupid to kill him off. It's safe to say that a large number of viewers would actually stop watching if he bit the dust (and fan favorite Norman Reedus thus left the show). That's not going to happen, surely, because although his character's actions don't depend on anyone else, the other characters do depend on Daryl. He's also become a very strong moral center for the group despite being very (what's the word I'm looking for…) liberal?!
Expect most of the survivors to count on Daryl until Rick returns and Abraham Ford shows up. I also expect him to do a fair bit of traveling around until then, trying to band everybody together again!
Carol really has to return to the show, and for so many reasons:
1.) I believe it will be revealed that she didn't murder anybody after all.
2.) She slowly took Andrea's place as the hardy survivor with nerves of steel, while Andrea strayed from the source material and became everybody's bitch before biting the bullet, and could very likely take Andrea's place permanently (Andrea is currently one of the most enduring lead characters in the comic, and the show lacks her awesomeness).
3.) Melissa McBride has flourished over the space of two seasons, going from abused wife and mourning mother to a popular, strong female character and an unlikely hero. Getting rid of her was not a dumb idea, it was just another way for her to have realistically survived recent events and an excuse to bring her back when she's most needed.
Expect Carol to return, is all I will say!
After surviving the nasty killer disease of season four and just barely surviving the Governor's last-ditch invasion, Glenn could be the primary source of family drama over the next season, and much of that will very likely come down to Maggie distancing herself after losing almost everything.
The Walking Dead has had its ups and downs in consistency over the past two seasons, and part of that is due to characters being killed off just as soon as they become our favorites. There's going to be a false sense of finality about season four, I think, because if you think you know misery now, you haven't seen anything yet. Glenn, for one, will have his hands full. Weakened by his illness, he's going to have some very helpless moments. However, I think we may see him taking up leadership responsibilities as Rick comes back a broken man.
Not only does Maggie count on Glenn more than ever, let's not forget the more recent young additions to Team Rick that will require his attention: Introduced to us over the last season, Lizzie and Mika Samuels (below, left) are not your average kid sisters!
(Duh, would you be normal if you were living in a disease-ridden prison while the dead were trying to break in and eat you? Well, shut your face, that's not the point.)
It was very easy for Lizzie to pick up a gun and shoot somebody during the mid-season finale, and it was even before then that I realized she and her younger sister were introduced to portray what would have been "Ben" and "Billy," Allan and Donna's kids in the comics—one of whom later became a psychopath and killed the other. I mean, who do you think was feeding rats to the zombies at the fence? Who do you think crucified the rabbit? What was with Carol's suggestive final pep-talk with Lizzie? If you read the comics, you know how it went down, and you know that Lizzie is a li'l psycho girl. Remember her casually tiptoeing in Glenn's blood and lung-butter near the end of "Internment"?
I think Carol took the blame for Lizzie murdering the sick couple at the prison. In the coming seasons we'll see Lizzie kill Mika as part of one of her psycho zombie experiments and Carl will blow Lizzie away—because nobody believes in abandoning or executing children in the Walking Dead-verse, even if they're murderers!
As adorable as Maggie Greene is, she is going to have a tough ride moving forward. I hope you still think she's cute when she looks like burned-out emotionless shit!
She's just lost Hershel, and it's a miracle that Beth survived, but that's only part of the problem. Maggie's going to be angry and lost after the events of "Too Far Gone," when she isn't hating on Rick, but there is some huge news coming, not this season but maybe the next, and it will be a secret that could push her over the edge.
Maggie may likely develop a complex about losing people who are close to her, while at the same time adopting the mentalist twins mentioned above. That'll give her something to hide behind for a while, but eventually nothing will hide the fact that she used to be the problem child of the Greene family, because that might come flooding back now that all but her and Beth are gone!
Nobody wants to lose Beth, we just want her to stop singing those songs, right?
A peculiar thing occurred to me a short while back. When Sophia Peletier became one of Hershel's barn family, it left Carl with no cute blonde girl to hug once in a while and to keep him becoming a detached, Shane-killing loon! Looking at his relationship with Beth, who is also quite an outsider for someone who is virtually carried through the show, it appears to me that Beth has become Sophia in her own strange way.
Apart from the fact that she's a bit too old to replace a child, Beth was virtually the only other kid in the group before Lizzie and rest came along. Sophia always stayed with Maggie throughout the comic series, so it would make sense—not be as depressing—to keep Beth around. In that case, I hope they do keep her, because otherwise she would just become another Amy!
Next, get ready for some Michonne-type crazy!
In season three of The Walking Dead, the sword-wielding ex-lawyer spent her hot summer days near Rick, wondering what was going on in his head when he was seeing and talking to Lori's ghost. A while later when he was feeling better, they talked it out and decided that it wasn't a bad thing, seeing visions and such. Why the hell not, right?
Well, what you haven't seen in the show was Michonne being weird (in the comics) and talking to herself, just like Rick. Only she started it. Michonne may soon start having doubts about the future and may want to hang her sword up for good. On the other hand, some potentially bad decisions on her behalf may force her back into cold killer bitch-mode, instead. Michonne hasn't really had the chance to open up yet, and we've haven't seen the woman she was before the zombie apocalypse. I'm expecting season five to be the beginning of that personal journey!
As for Morgan, the time will come to try to accept the past and lay it to rest. He will be back, that's a certainty. He'll still be chock full of nuts, though; maybe not stark-raving batshit loony nuts, but nuts all the same!
The survivors are going to be taking a huge road trip soon, and Rick, being a man of conscience, isn't going to leave Morgan to survive on his own when he has it on good word that a better life is within reach. Of course, despite his knack for being mad as a shithouse rat, this may help Morgan reintegrate into what currently remains of society. The question is, how quickly or how slowly is it going to kill him?
Tyreese is a tough one, because by all means, his character should have been dead by now. The events of the last episode saw Hershel Greene hacked to death by the Governor instead, and the guy who should have been in the show since season two has yet to really flourish as a main character!
What can we expect from Tyreese now? It's possible he might find and kill Carol, but I doubt it. I will even go so far as to say he'll figure out that the weird animal sacrifices are continuing even with Carol gone and whenever Lizzie winds up in the same camp, because psychos on telly eventually do it for the attention and not the learning experience.
Otherwise, he has so much potential, yet his time may be more limited than any of us expect. Perhaps he will finally renounce his anger and try to become a more peaceful man, which would probably get him or Sasha killed. If he got with Carol, however, initiating the relationship they had in the comics, that might spell some harsh times for everybody involved!
Poor Bob Stookey is between a rock and a hard place and has been ever since he showed up. Who hasn't, right? Those useless Woodbury refugees seem to pile up like Star Trek redshirts at a bargain basement TV character sale!
Not only does Bob have alcoholism to contend with, he also has Daryl's respect to earn after almost costing lives for a bottle of bourbon. He has also yet to really glue with any other members of the group, meaning that either his days are numbered, or he finds religion to combat his inner demons and eventually replaces the need for a certain Father Gabriel.
Look at it this way: with The Walking Dead TV series taking place over a matter of years, as opposed to the comic series' two brief winters or so, how the hell would a guy like Father Gabriel only now step out into the world looking for food without any understanding of what has happened? If Stookey is in for the long run, replacing the unrealistic and unnecessary Father Gabriel would be the way forward. They have quite a few similarities in personality, after all. So don't expect that we'll lose Stookey in the next season or so. He might even become the next original mainstay next to Daryl, for all we know!
Eeshhhh! Nobody wants to talk about Judith, am I right?
Finally, what will become of the aforementioned Woodbury refugees we last saw carted out of the prison on a school bus?
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The Dace Man
- Sunday, February 2, 2014
Hey, Hey, Hey Dacetacular Nation!! If you're like me, you don't really follow foozball, and the true highlight to the geek world for the Super Bowl is the flood of commercials that happens in between plays. One of the most talked about is the new Transformers: Age of Extinction trailer, which introduced the world to the Dinobots! So check out Michael Bay's latest explosion-fest starring Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Sophia Myles, Li Bingbing, T.J. Miller, Han Geng, and Titus Welliver. The fourth installment of the franchise will take place four years after the events of the Chicago invasion from Transformers: Dark of the Moon. The only returning Autobots that have been confirmed so far are Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, and Sam (Shia LeBouf) is out as well. What will the franchise have in store for us in the next installment? Will there be even more explosions than the last trilogy? And who will play the hot, dumb girl of the franchise that will eventually piss off Michael Bay and/or Mark Wahlberg? The film is set for release on June 27, 2014 so until then, check out the Super Bowl promo below!
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Hey hey hey, Dacetacular Fanboys Nation, Chris Dace here bringing you some more geek news that's hot off the internet presses. When current CEO Steve Ballmer stepped down on February 4, 2014, the world of Microsoft was thrown into mystery.
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